How Megamind falls in love with Roxanne Ritchi.
pre-movie, canon-compliant, T rating
Megamind is prepared to stake out the entrance of the KCMP station building for at least a week before finding the perfect time to stage his planned abduction of Miss Ritchi. He wants this to go smoothly, unlike his first disastrous and embarrassing attempt to take her hostage mid-battle, and he’s never actually…done this kind of thing before, so it will obviously easier to pull it off while Miss Ritchi is alone.
As the station employees all tend to arrive and leave the building at approximately the same times each day, he naturally assumes that catching Miss Ritchi by herself will be difficult.
That part of it, though, is actually surprisingly easy.
Plan: Success!!!
Honestly, I completely love Roxanne fighting back with the coffee, I spotted that the second I read she had it.
I’m rather terrified of how she will react after waking up to being – well, pretty mucb assaulted from her perspective (no precedent, and far from a graceful spray of Knock Out Gas…). We shall see…
Good detail with the crowd, in all honesty I an’t blame them (if you only see the villain side Megamind would be terrifying), but you can also see how much they’ve LET themselves be lulled.
EDIT: Also, hints of Roxanne’s loneliness. It makes sense given she’s still an intern at the station at the moment, but it’s also obviously consistent with how you portray her.
IRL: I hope an effective treatment for your bronchitis can begin soon!
If you’re ever questioning your symptoms, write down everything you THINK you are experiencing. Then, read the list as though it were a FRIEND asking if they should go get help.
If you’re encourage a friend to get help, treat yourself with the same love.
I also struggle with self-doubt, anxiety, and repeating to myself “Nah, it’s not so bad…” A lot of the time, though, when I have a chance to tell people exactly what I HAVE been experiencing, though, they’re generally “Um, no, that was bad.”
Sometimes it does help to get an objective opinion.
Thank you!! :DD
LOL I’m so pleased you enjoyed the coffee thing; I had so much fun writing that part!
Yeah, if you only saw the villain side of Megamind, he could be scary, and in canon, Roxanne says to Bernard!Megamind “I’ve never seen anyone but Metro Man stand up to him like that!” about Megamind, so I wanted to show that in this story–that the people of Metro City don’t fight back against Megamind, both because they are scared of him and because they’re in this mindset of “Metro Man will handle it; we don’t have to do anything”.
The people of Metro City feel themselves to be audience members to Megamind and Metro Man’s fights, and this attitude is kind of understandable, considering that, when Megamind challenges Metro Man right at the beginning of the movie, and draws Metro Man to the fake observatory…Megamind could easily have sent brainbots to attack the citizens still standing in front of the museum, and hurt a lot of people while Metro Man was preoccupied with rescuing Roxanne.
But he doesn’t.
And later, when Evil Overlord Megamind calls out Titan, he’s dressed in that giant destructive battlesuit, full of weaponry…the citizens still gather around in a crowd to watch, because they know Megamind isn’t going to attack them. Because they’re the audience, not participants in the action.
They view Megamind as dangerous, but know that, as long as they stay in their place as audience members, he won’t do anything to them.
When Megamind grabs Roxanne during that first battle, he brings her into the action–something he hasn’t done with anyone else before, and the reason he does it with her is because she doesn’t run and hide. She’s not in the proper place for audience members.
He brings her onto the stage again in this chapter, because, with that “Megamind isn’t scary” interview of hers, she’s once again deviated from her place in the audience.
So he pulls her onto the stage, so to speak, like a magician taking a volunteer from the crowd, and even when the magician puts the volunteer into the box and proposes to saw her in half, none of the audience members are going to intervene–because she’s on the stage, now. She’s no longer an audience member; she’s one of the actors.
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