homunculus-argument:

The absolutely funniest dynamic between characters is when the antagonists are racking their brains over trying to figure out what the fuck the protagonist is doing, what is this scheming mastermind’s ultimate plan, what game are they playing. There is no way that someone is so oddly connected to all these Significant Incidents by chance, and survived all of it. What cunning machiavellian genius is this person, who mocks us with their false modest “I’m just a normal person idk how I’m tangled into this either”. Lying right at our faces to taunt us just because they know we haven’t caugh them.

Meanwhile the same protagonist is in the middle of another problem they got tangled into, they have no idea what they’re doing and they’ve got no plan at all. And they have no idea how they end up getting into so much dangerously stupid nonsense either, not to mention continuously surviving it.