i recently finished rewatching all of brooklyn 99 and there's a specific sad feeling i get from it that is like... the characters in that show individually have huge flaws but they don't need to completely fix them because the other characters naturally compensate for them
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amy starts out neurotic and in many ways stays neurotic, charles starts out... uh... charles and in many ways stays charles, jake starts out happy-go-lucky and impulsive and actually grows up a lot but never completely loses that spark
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everyone grows into their strengths while balancing out each other's weaknesses. and i don't know that i've ever been in a social environment that i felt worked like this 😕
mostly because i think i congregate in places where other people have the same weaknesses as me 😅
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there's maybe something a little troubling about how the internet makes it very easy to spend all your time interacting with people who are as similar to you as possible. they understand you better, but the flipside is they have a harder time balancing you out
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my college fraternity is probably the closest i came to this. my best friend there was an extremely outgoing gay black man and he balanced out my shyness a lot in a way i really appreciated. went to a lot of parties with that guy 🥲
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Well, I mean it is fiction so the writer just greases the wheels. Another thing to consider is that often a character is a projection of an internal state. The characters in Brooklyn 99 might easily all be contained in one person (never seen it so idk)
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Kinda like how an individual can be both sleeping beauty and the prince
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Are you the guy who doesn’t have to work anywhere? Because a good team at work is like this. Of course everyone has their faults, but people pick up each other’s slack. And those skilled in xyz get their time to shine when that skill is needed—which is why they were hired!
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And a team that’s been together longer tends to know how to balance each other out even better. Can’t “fix” anyone’s personality quirks so just have to accept them. Which people should be doing, anyway!
It’s kind of nice when you are in such a team!
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Somehow finding the ingroup members who are exactly the same as me in every way except for our weaknesses