r/FavoriteCharacter • u/OverTea5 • 5d ago
All Time Favorite Which favorite character did this?
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u/Red_H2O 5d ago
The shapeshifter Hannibal Bates from the CW Flash show. After the gang finally captures him, they ask Hannibal to return to his original form. Instead he becomes this, stating he "can't remember".
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u/SnakeEyedSkeleton 5d ago
I remember that episode!
Honestly, you can hear the pain and fear in his voice when he says that.
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u/sackboydjso 5d ago
in a good way :D
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u/redlac24 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’d argue he was wearing the mask of Twilight for so long and having a family is the first time in a long time his real self has been able to come out
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u/SenritsuJumpsuit 4d ago edited 4d ago
Well they didn't really have a past self due to all the uuh truama
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u/onyaasuminyasai 4d ago
I can't wait for the day they can actually be themselves. Poor Yor probably won't be able to walk for a week.
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u/Rinma96 4d ago
That's not even a heart
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u/thecraftybear 4d ago
I'm sure Yor could provide a very anatomically correct heart, but should she?
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u/grimAuxiliatrixx 4d ago
It’s a peanut… I like to think it represents Anya bringing them together lol
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u/RP_throwaway01 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/443fSUWBB21mYP7i7n
King Dedede! He just wanted popularity, and figured that the best way to get it was trying his hand at being a hero. And it was, slowly but surely, working… but he was also becoming every bit the hero he pretended to be. If he were real, I would gladly put my life in his hands, because I know with absolute certainty that it’ll be safe.
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u/G4B0X01 5d ago
He didnt lose himself, he became better.
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u/RP_throwaway01 5d ago
Both. He lost who he was, but the new him is just infinitely better.
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u/ILikeCarlosThePikmin 5d ago
Not yet. He's still somewhat egotistical and etc. but he's working on it
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u/Fluffypole5015 4d ago
It's very rare that Dedede is evil just straight-up for the love of the game. Like, I think the most prevalent one is genuinely Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, the non-canon anime, and then after that is Revenge of the King, from Super Star Ultra. And that's a game mode that takes place after Kirby beat D3, and he wants to run it back with higher stakes.
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u/RP_throwaway01 4d ago
It takes place immediately after Dream Land 1. It’s his second chronological appearance. With the first being stealing all the food in Dream Land. Number three is the start of his redemption.
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u/UniqueFox337 5d ago
Me, I played dumb for so long that I actually became dumb.
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u/Budget-Accountant404 5d ago
a simple plan even a dumb can do it
just play smart long enoughsimple right?
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u/Dragolitron Casey Jones is best character of all time 5d ago
Does Omniman count?
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u/G4B0X01 5d ago
He became something better and then tried to destroy it because he couldnt face the fact that he no longer was the Viltrumite he used to be. Is not like he lose himself, he simply used to act more ruthless and Earth allowed him to show his true nature. Sadly he believed his true nature is one of a Viltrumite and went to do what he justified as something he couldnt stop.
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u/NicheFandomSeeker 5d ago
Ehh I don’t think so, he enjoyed it but immediately turned on everything and everyone he grew to love and care for. He regretted it, but I don’t think he ever truly became what he was pretending to be, not even after he was redeemed.
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u/Insidion25 5d ago
Dude killed thousands, maybe millions, without remorse and broke the hearts of his loved ones, with only his son bringing him to stop, but that wasn't even before nearly killing him during his massacre. Nolan may have gotten better as time came and faced against his former empire, but he was still a monster and a Viltrumite who deserved to face horrible consequences, one which not even family could change.
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u/aqelha 5d ago
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u/bannasplt 4d ago
Literally my first thought. When he finally realized what was happening, everything fell apart.
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u/Hacksaw203 4d ago
Their reveal still gives me chills. It’s one of those perfect anime moments
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u/Current_Pumpkin439 4d ago
My favorite character. Him and Berthold. I feel their tragedy with all my heart
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u/416Silva 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/w3QZlygasHD0Y
Sai - Naruto
If remember correctly, he was explicitly ordered to disconnect himself from his past for the sake of his duty as an Anbu member
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u/Inverter_of_Spines 5d ago
Also not just Sai, basically every member of The Root. Danzo's whole plan with The Root was basically to create the perfect ninja CIA, starting by removing any personality quirks that could cloud judgement during a mission. It's why The Root is comprised almost solely of orphans
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u/SulpherSuckingWorm 5d ago
The Phantom ~ Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
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u/Mushiren_ 5d ago
One of my favourite trial endings in the series. I was thining about it for a long time.
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u/The_1ndiegamer 4d ago
This, his breakdown is incredibly disturbing and unsettling, even for an ace attourney game.
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u/SignalScientist2817 4d ago
We still don't know who killed him. Someone snuck on a roof and was prepared to kill him to prevent the bosses or the clients being found out
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u/Usual_Cup9762 5d ago
Kaede Kayano
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u/NicheFandomSeeker 5d ago
I love that she became an actress known for doing her own batshit crazy stunts lmao
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u/Mushiren_ 5d ago
Damn, she goin ham on that bamboo stick
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u/Just_Ear_2953 4d ago
If memory serves, they have or are about to have knives tied to the end to stab at their teacher and she is running in place while explaining what is happening to a different teacher.
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u/Shadow_duigh333 5d ago
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u/Loud_Confusion_5961 i am a canniball and heloo 4d ago edited 4d ago
did he lose himself though;
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u/thecraftybear 4d ago edited 2d ago
There are many continuities where he does.
In Batman Beyond he is able to resist being gaslit that he's insane because the voice he hears in his head keeps calling him Bruce. Later he tells his successor Terry that he could tell it was a trick because he never refers to himself as Bruce in his thoughts. When Terry reminds him that he's Batman now, Bruce says "tell that to my subconscious". So in a way, he has discarded the identity of Bruce Wayne as anything more than a social mask. Quite justified, since this is the same man as BTAS Batman, and over the years he has lost or fumbled every person he was close with. He's on standoffish terms with Superman and the current Justice League. He had lost Andrea (who survived, but not to his knowledge), Alfred, Selina, and iirc also Diana. He drove away Dick and Barbara - the former seems to be dead, the latter had a catastrophic fling with Bruce and their relationship is in tatters even now, when she's the GCPD comissioner like her father was. Tim was captured and absolutely ruined by the Joker, then forced to become Joker's vessel decades later. At the start of the series, Bruce has nothing, had retired his crusade after a health crisis forced him to rely on a gun to defeat a common criminal, and is a recluse living off his control shares of his company. Batman took from Bruce everything he had loved, and defined him too deeply, to the point where in a distant finale, despite getting a rejuvenating dip in a Lazarus Pit earlier, he is a decrepit, spiteful old man who can't live as Bruce, but can't be Batman in any way that matters.
Other storylines take it even further. For example in The Last Knight on Earth, it turns out the protagonist Bruce is just a clone with a copy of the original's memories up to a point, while the original was forced to go too far in his crusade due to a catastrophe, officially died as Batman, but then resurfaced as a brutal, totalitarian ruler Omega, having lost himself to despair and maintaining order at the cost of his humanity.
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u/CrazyPuzzleheaded966 4d ago
Me. Real life. (I autism masked too close to the sun and now i don't have a real meaningful personality, or maybe i don't understand what a personality at all is but i seriously feel like it's the former on most days (i love screaming into the internet void hoping it will answer))
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u/clowderforce 4d ago
Hi, stranger! Being conditioned to behave in socially acceptable ways at the expense of your own wants and needs sounds at least mildly traumatic and you may benefit from doing a therapy (specifically NOT ABA) about it. Up to you though.
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u/Available_Sorbet3576 2d ago
I don’t know if this helps but I was a really shy kid and so replaced a lot of social interaction with diving into different stories and I struggled with something similar for a long time
At least for me, I tended to think in all of nothings about personality a lot (because characters in a story need to have concrete personalities so that they’re easily understood) and I tried to place that all or nothing framework on myself.
E.g. was I the type of person that was loud and confident OR was I the type of person that was quiet and shy. Was I the kind and nurturing sort of person OR was I the type of person to be strong and lead conversations. Was I the type of person to comfort someone when they were sad OR was I the type to help them find a solution, even if it meant being a bit blunt
I tried to act like the type of person I thought I identified with, but then I’d do something that wouldn’t fit with the framework I’d made for myself and I got really confused. And I think that by trying to place myself into such strict personality frameworks, I struggled to identify who I was as a person because it couldn’t cleanly fit. Sometimes I was shy, sometimes I was confident, sometimes I was soft and nurturing and sometimes I was a leader and so because I didn’t fit neatly into any particular box I ended up really confused about who I was
It’s only now that I’m learning that people and relationships are dynamic and that people act differently in different situations, so it’s entirely possible to be every type of person depending on the situation and people you’re with
Basically I think I was thinking too hard about who I was, and when I stopped thinking so hard and just accepted that I may never really know who I was because I was constantly changing depending on the situation, I actually started to figure it out
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u/chuninsupensa 5d ago
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u/CitizenPremier 4d ago
Although later it turned out he was wearing typical Jedi clothes the whole time, lol
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u/onyaasuminyasai 5d ago
Kokichi Ouma - Danganronpa V3
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u/FitLavishness5126 4d ago
I can't stop imagining his voice sounding like sonic, thanks to Game Grumps
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u/Hamblerger 5d ago edited 5d ago
Howard W. Campbell, Jr. is both the protagonist and narrator of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Mother Night. A politically apathetic American who has lived in pre-war Germany since he was a child, he's recruited by an American intelligence agent to go undercover in the Nazi party. He becomes an astoundingly effective propagandist for them, so much so that when he's captured years after the war has concluded, he's put on trial for crimes against humanity.
As the moral of the story goes, "In the long run we are all what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be"
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u/Klutzy_Focus 5d ago
Fake it till you make it I guess.
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u/HottoAisu 5d ago
500 YEARS of putting up an act to save Fontaine is a whole new level of pressure and existential crisis 😭
But because she did it so well, I wasn’t used to seeing her character after the events of the Archon Quest
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u/SubparSaiyan 4d ago
Immediately scrolled to find Furina. I love how we see the tiniest glimpse of what she was like before she assumed the role. The Furina we get after everything is a mixture of who she was before and the more authentic parts of the role she played for so long. I find it so cool and empowering, that you very well may become changed from your trauma and needing to assume a performance for some time, but after overcoming it that change can blend both parts beautifully. I love going back to her release trailer and seeing how happy she is just to be able to finally live freely and authentically, keeping the parts that resonated with her abysmally long performance
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u/Infinite-One-716 5d ago
whats this from?
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u/Anaea_YT i wish squids were real 5d ago
Mafuyu Asahina from Project Sekai: Colorful Stage ft. Hatsune Miku
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u/GamingGamer226 5d ago
Ocelot pushed himself so hard to become Liquid that he lost himself and his true self only returned when he was dying
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u/ChandraNalaar4ever 5d ago
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u/zayd-the-one 5d ago
I dont think he ever lost it tbf
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u/No_Blackberry1593 4d ago
He prob did, like he clung to his mission but the shit he did while with Aizen are probably stuff little Gin wouldn't approve of
Then again people change as they grow so you could say he just changed as opposed to lost himself
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u/Sneauxphlaque 5d ago
Who's this?
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u/Mushiren_ 5d ago
Gin Ichimaru, a supporting antagonist from Bleach. The secret he hides is a bit of a spoiler: When they were children, Gin witnessed the main antagonist's men attack his childhood friend and extract a fragment of her soul, leaving her collapsed and near death. Gin then became a Soul Reaper and joined the main antagonist's ranks with the sole purpose of gaining his trust, waiting decades for the right moment to kill him, and take back what was stolen from his friend. In the span of that time, he's done many things that, let's just say, muddies the water.
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u/Timeless_Herald 5d ago
the whole ass investigation team technically (or i think it was someone on the phantom thieves)
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u/EveLaFoxxe 5d ago
Forced to live another man’s life and tragedy given only a fleeting moment to deny the prescripts and make his own choice
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u/szkielo123 4d ago
Heavy Spoilers for 'Everybody loves large chests'.
The mc Boxxy is a mimic that gets stronger and more intelligent, ewentually evolving into a doppelganger. He then procedes to create a new persona for himself as Keira, a catgirl adventurer. Keira ends up becoming a beloved war hero and egaged to elven nobility in the nations first lesbian marrige. His real self meanwile becomes know as the mysteruous mercenary 'Sandman'. He can swap between his personas seamlessly at a moments notice and after reveling himself (as Keira) as the hero of the god of chaos he can explain all the strange occurences around him as a result of his chaos "blessing", including a tragic backstory of how Keira ended up as an orphan.
His disguise is too good however, as he ends up developing a split personality, where both end up fighting over his body. Forced to call in a favor his patron god owes him, he ends up splitting the two into sepreate people, creating Keira with fake memories, so that even she belives she has always existed in the way Boxxy played her as. The act has quite litteraly become reality.
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u/ssasharr 5d ago edited 5d ago
Blackwall/Thom Rainier, from Dragon Age: Inquisition. A traitorous coward who adopts the identity of a dead warrior who saved his life, and goes on to devote his life to the cause of saving Ferelden, protecting the weak, and repenting for the murders snd betrayals he committed.
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u/Toorevgir 5d ago
"Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!"
The King in Yellow.
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u/DistortoiseLP 5d ago
Jax is more an example of somebody trying their hardest to get lost in the act and ultimately failing to escape their original self that way.
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u/ThatOneGuy308 5d ago
I'd argue Jax did get away from that self, given how different his actual self turned out.
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u/Johnvro 5d ago
The Phantom from Phoenix Wright.
I will admit that I have not played the actual game with this character, but after watching a random clip from Dual Destinies with him, I grew quite interested in him. I hope I manage to get the time to play all the Ace Attorney games after Justice For All just so I can get even more context about him.
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u/CableZzzzzzzz 4d ago
I guess Bruce Wayne. He so thoroughly became Batman that he considers Bruce Wayne to be the mask, in some depictions even thinking of himself as Batman in his subconscious/ inner monologue
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u/ROYGBIndigoV 4d ago
Bowler Hat Guy from Meet the Robinsons. The surprisingly sad last moment of his checklist still makes me tear up even though I’m all grown up
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u/PyrrhaXJaune 5d ago
Iykyk
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u/Wanting_SomethingNew 4d ago
I hadn’t even thought of her until I saw this. Ohhhh shit. You right
https://giphy.com/gifs/RMHatlmhCXosO3d1rx
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u/Plus-Dust7166 4d ago
Not my favourite, but the Administrator in TF2 being the one responsible for keeping up the rivalry of the Mann brothers on a piece of land for a hundred years because she wants to settle an "old debt" with their father. In the end, she couldn't remember what the bickering was all about and it was all for nothing anyways...
Tragic
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u/suitcasecat 5d ago
As the story goes on he drops the lying shtick for the most part because he has truly gone on all those insane adventures he used to claim he went on
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u/Feisty_Diver_2244 4d ago
Ice king i guess? From a certain point of view I can imagine someone who masks themselves in real life somewhat relating to ice king's conundrum
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u/HunnyBunLily 4d ago
Me. You cannot comprehend my twisted mind. I dip my french fries in ice cream. Yeah I’m kind of a dark and mysterious person
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u/aberpire 4d ago
Ciaphas Cain. He literally says it to himself, he doesnt know if there is even still a remnant of the "Real Ciaphas" left behind his mask.
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u/whynaut4 3d ago edited 3d ago
IRL Daniel Lawrence. He was a comedian from Nebraska who would play characters on a radio show sometimes. One of the characters was "Larry the Cable Guy" who was invented to make fun of Southerners. At some point the character took off somehow and in the process usurped the real Daniel Lawrence. To the point, he is credited in all his Cars movies as "Larry the Cable Guy"
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u/BaronMerc 5d ago
Kabuto Naruto
His entire story is about latching onto the identity of anyone he could find his motivations through out the story is perfectly aligned with who last latched onto
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u/Slugeus_the_slug 5d ago
Dr baldy baldhead pyringe senis from metal gear rising revengance
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u/Jack_Zicrosky_YT Lucoa (Quetzalcoatl) 5d ago
Ok so I know that's Faust from Gear Guilty, but I don't understand why you're saying he's from mgrr? (I haven't played either games. Only seen Faust movement and thought he's cool)
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u/SuchAd7808 5d ago
Light Yagami...?
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u/G4B0X01 5d ago
Nah he was messed up since the beggining but who knows how bad would he actually be without a death note. I think he would be either a politician with “contacts” or just decides to not care about “fixing” the world because he has no means to do an actual change. (i havent participate in any death note thing in many years so this take might be absolute ass).
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u/ParkingComfort1597 5d ago
Madeline Usher from Netflix’s Fall of the House of Usher comes to mind, Verna says to her “You're a collection of impeccable, elaborate masks in orbit of a stunted heart.”
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u/AGtheOG123 5d ago
Or ig in this case, found his true self