#buttercup

Ela tem olhos verde limão e cabelos negros. Seu ingrediente especial é o tempero e sua cor de assinatura é verde claro.
Ela também já mostrou um lado ganancioso para o qual ela nocauteou os dentes com o único propósito de obter dinheiro. Porem, também tem seu lado suave por exemplo, ela tinha um cobertor verde macio com o qual estava obcecada, o que lhe deu a confiança para ser uma lutadora melhor, e ela é bastante protetora sobre suas irmãs. Ela tem um tremendo desdém por recorrer a beijar os meninos para eliminá-los, embora de bom grado beije o garoto.

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Referida como "a lutadora mais dura", ela é a “bombinha” do grupo e fica facilmente enfurecida. Às vezes, isso e sua agressão, a superam, tornando-a um pouco imprudente e teimosa. Mas ela consegue se controlar e não agir por impulso (muita das vezes).

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Ela possui uma sequência violenta e mesquinha que não é exibida por suas irmãs. Ela também é mostrada intimidando seu colega de classe Elmer Sglue, que se torna um comedor anormal hostil de pasta mutante, o que faz com que Blossom e Bubbles a forcem a se desculpar com ele.
O professor Utonium disse que a chamaria de Buttercup porque, como os nomes de ambas as irmãs, também começa com um B. Uma vez que ela ouviu isso, Buttercup imediatamente cruzou os braços e fez beicinho: "Hmph!" ; isso pode explicar sua natureza dura.
Buttercup inspirou as outras garotas a usar seus poderes para combater o crime e as forças do mal depois que ela derrubou Rocko Socko, que fez com que ela perdesse a paciência com um soco; ironicamente, ela inicialmente se desculpou profusamente por suas ações, pensando que teria problemas com todos.

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Sua maior antipatia é admitir a derrota, por causa disso, as Powerpuff Girls conseguiram alcançar a vitória contra os Rowdyruff Boys. Ela também afirmou em uma entrevista para o Powerpuff Girls Movie que, através das lutas difíceis, ela nunca se preocupa com lesões.

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Embora Buttercup não pareça ter nenhum superpoder especial diferente de suas irmãs, ela é fisicamente a mais forte das três garotas. No episódio "Speed Demon", também foi revelado que ela pode voar mais rápido de todas as suas irmãs. Sua habilidade especial mostra ser capaz de enrolar a língua. Outras habilidades de assinatura que ela exibe são:

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• Explosão de bola

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• Furacão Negro

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• Feixes Laser Verdes

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• Orbe de Energia Verde

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• Bola de fogo (esfrega as mãos até que a fumaça saia e forma uma bola, então ela a arremessa).

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Era mais um daqueles dias tediosos, a cidade estava em paz — não que isso fosse algo ruim — mas deixava-a sem propósito algum, afinal, não era uma garota comum, nem gostaria de ser. Sua vida girava em torno de Townsville e dos cidadãos que ali viviam, diferentemente de suas irmãs que possuíam hobbies diversos, como o esporte para Buttercup e moda para Bubbles. A ruiva era uma líder nata, era isso que gostava de fazer, liderar.

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Com um novo pensamento em mente, Blossom enfim fechou o livro de matemática e alçou vôo por uma das janelas redondas do quarto; seu rastro rosa era deixado para trás e aos poucos se apagava, ocultando o caminho que seguia. Já que seu tempo era livre por enquanto, não via obstáculo algum para treinar seu sopro de fogo, mas faria isso longe da cidade, por medo de algo ruim acontecer. Estava eufórica, ansiosa para começar logo seu treinamento, mas a falta de atenção no trajeto quase a fez colidir com outro ser.

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i think it has to do with "exclusivity" if that makes sense? ugh what a gross word to use. but like... bubbles also doesn't have the same hangups about her body that her sisters do. she's very social, she used to be a cheerleader, she presents more femme than buttercup and more fashionable than blossom. so folks are used to her presenting a certain way and it's nbd at the beach when she shows up in a cute bikini because Hey, it's bubbles in a cute bikini, obviously she'd be wearing a bikini! bubbles is also more gregarious and approachable than either of her sisters. that doesn't make her less attractive, it just means there isn't an air of ~mystery~ that surrounds her and people are more apt to treat her like a normal person.

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as for boomer not having any interest i mean when they first showed up his goal wasn't "get a powerpuff girl, aka a former enemy, to like me and thus incur brick's wrath" it was "i'm in high school and i want to do high school things and have a girlfriend and cool several girls are into me i will date one and have a fun time!"

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oooh, what a good question!

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so i think you could read this one of two ways:
1) she tried a hit once but felt absolutely nothing because the x immediately took the edge off the fuzzy high feelings (butch needs to smoke A LOT to actually get high b/c of this) and so the only sensation she really experienced was the smell, which left her all "this is a bunch of whatever and i don't think it smells nice enough to warrant me essentially throwing money down the toilet b/c of the chemical x constantly maintaining my body at its literal temple status"

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2) buttercup HASN'T tried it, is actually intimidated and kinda scared to try it, but saying she hates the smell gives her a convenient excuse that also avoids her being potentially ridiculed.

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bonus 3rd option you could combine either 1 or 2 with: prof u smokes/smoked a tobacco pipe and she doesn't like the smell of anything you can pull into your lungs

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bonus BONUS option that just hit me: buttercup's the best at cooking b/c she's actually developed a slightly elevated palate above both of her sisters, making her hyper sensitive to taste/smell and she genuinely doesn't like the smell, though this doesn't necessarily align with her being a disgusting gross kid in the ep down n dirty but maybe her palate didn't develop until she hit puberty.

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i don't think it has enough of an impact on her friends' behavior, it probably actually entertains her to see them getting real excited about food and waxing philosophical about all of nothing! and as for being around butch, maybe possibly there's an innate desire to be near him despite not being into the smell of weed maybe possibly depending on which option you favor

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maybe possibly

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hmm this is tough. i think his feelings for her are obvious to us but not necessarily to him. like, he can't acknowledge that his feelings are romantic or are feelings of love because he hasn't experienced something like it before and doesn't know what to call it. anytime he comes close to the realization he kind backtracks and settles on "i just want to spend time with her or be next to her." so it's not a full-on acknowledgement (e.g., boomer) but it's not really denial either (unlike with, say, brick, at least until recently). i think the most he's willing to admit to himself is that she's important to him. plus there's a little bit of fear there that if it moves in a direction that skews romantic then the relationship, romantic or no, will change and disintegrate entirely (see: ch11, or ch14 on ao3). IT'S COMPLICATED I GUESS?

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re: the bra, haha, i actually originally had a whole bit in there about her awkwardly putting it back on, but that was before the tone of the scene changed during my rewrites and it broke the flow up too much, so i cut that bit out.

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"It felt a little like she was doing a disservice to their friendship by almost whittling him down to just her hot friend (not even best friend!) who she has a trust bond with and who happened to be there at the time. I dunno it just feels like her feelings run deeper than that. Last thing! I gotta be honest, my love for Blossom seesaws like crazy and often I see her as annoyingly perfect (I know she's not actually, but it gets thrown in your face a lot ngl) but you made me realise how much I missed her this chapter and it was great to feel that love come back"

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I get it! I would argue that even though Buttercup clearly has feelings for Butch at this point, she's not allowing herself to acknowledge those feelings, and that acknowledgment needs to happen for her before something explicitly romantic (as opposed to something that she views as simply acting out of lust/physical desire like awkward groping in the woods) occurs between them. I think the reason it feels like she's reducing Butch to just being hot (which I was attempting to counterbalance in the scene itself by having her internal monologue largely focus on her trusting him and just being generally kind of horny) is because she's seeking out any reason to tell herself "this is okay" without acknowledging that she actually cares about him in that way. She's not ready to explicitly say she has romantic feelings for him; she's even suppressing the intensity of HER OWN feelings wrt Butch because emotionally she's not in a place where she can cope with that right now. The closest she's gotten so far is the cot scene and the scene outside of the manor, where the only thing she is willing to articulate even to herself is that she doesn't want things to be weird between them.

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also i'm glad the chapter reawakened the blossom love for you, girl deserves all the love she can get

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okay so i have opinions about this. first off, steak's a little fancy. i mean, it fits, b/c it's meat, and yeah, out of the three boys, butch would 100% be THE MOST carnivorous. but there's really a missed opportunity here to make it more interesting.

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i don't think butch would prioritize his taste buds in this scenario. instead he would prioritize making buttercup as offended and infuriated as possible. so he probably asks her to make the most disgusting things he can think of, like ham and tuna jello salad doused in mayonnaise or something. get where i'm going? like he probably picks up a vintage cookbook from the 50s at some point and goes "JACKPOT" and while that means he has to suffer through something like gelatinized steak instead of actual steak that suffering pales in comparison to the amount of times he got to witness buttercup holding back vomit multiple times as she endured the actual MAKING of the dish for him.

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anyway yeah, missed opportunity

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A totally honest, completely candid and upfront conversation about baggage that Buttercup's been carrying around for years? I'll be real, I think that's asking for a lot of growth from both Buttercup and Blossom in the next 7-8 months they have remaining story-wise.

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That's not to say it couldn't happen, but, like, nobody loves confrontation, and the type of breakthrough in their relationship is the sort of thing that requires not only confrontation, but much more self-reflection on each of their parts (recognition on Blossom's part that "Hey, Buttercup has a different way of communicating, and as a leader I should recognize and be receptive to that/try harder to communicate in a way that's easier for her," and recognition on Buttercup's part that "Hey, when I'm uncommunicative and not upfront about what bothers me that leads to misunderstandings and bottled up resentment that manifests in other, less productive ways later"). It requires a level of self-awareness that most ADULTS haven't mastered, at least, not without heaps of therapy.

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sometimes i wonder though about these questions about character & plot points that are, like... singling out specific scenarios and whether they'll happen in-story. anything could happen and change on any given day i sit down to write, but like in some cases would y'all stop reading if i flat-out said no :?

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maybe! i'd want to do something a little more fun with it, i think, rather than just "omg, so who do you think is the hottest" while buttercup barfs in the bg.

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Something like... the girls talking about what calendar props the boys would model with. Like they start off going Well Brick would obviously be cars and then Bubbles goes That's boring, he should be scowling on every page but holding a different puppy and Buttercup starts cackling b/c she wants one of Butch caught in the middle of massive faceplants and fails and then Boomer's would just be selfies of him at different pop diva concerts and meanwhile Blossom is quiet but then imagines a calendar full of Brick just wearing different pairs of glasses in different preppy school uniforms/suits and starts blushing furiously and immediately LEAVES BECAUSE SHE HAS A LOT OF HOMEWORK TO DO

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yeah something like that

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Hmm, I think I need more clarity from you on this one. Are you saying because Buttercup isn't into public displays of affection (which is not quite the same as feeling ashamed) she would have less interest in s*x? Because if so, I disagree!

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In the case of Buttercup and Butch, if they get to that point, I don't think her wanting a relationship with him suggests she's "giving in" to him. The way I see it, any sort of pressure Butch would exude on her for a relationship would be a joke to him, like, he would do it to deliberately make her uncomfortable and get a rise out of her. It wouldn't be done with the expectation that a relationship would actually happen. But I think as soon as a relationship entered the realm of possibility, he would retreat because he himself isn't entirely comfortable with being open about his feelings. He's not used to nice things. He doesn't know what to do with nice things.

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I mean, in the context of TEF, and to some degree the way I characterize him personally, Butch being a perv is to mask some deep-seated insecurities he has about actually being loved. If he acts repulsive and gross all the time, it provides an easy excuse for why someone wouldn't like him or be romantically interested in him. If he didn't do that, and people still didn't like him or want to be with him, he wouldn't have that safety net to fall back on.

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Okay well Butch (in Buttercup's body) would immediately go for the boobs, which would make Buttercup (in Butch's body) knock him out flat, thus inspiring a moment of "Oh SHIT I just seriously fucked up my face God damn it Butch GOD DAMN IT"

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Brick would definitely curse and Blossom would definitely get on his case immediately which would only make Brick curse more which would only incense Blossom more and then she would get a stroke of genius and retaliate by going out and doing the most charitable things she could think of while in Brick's body like saving a cat from a tree or helping Habitat for Humanity while Brick flips a shit about it because he is a giant baby, and then before he can retaliate Him swoops in, squees over Brick-as-Blossom, and drags him away to go brush his pretty pretty hair and dress him up in pretty pretty girl clothes

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Boomer would go "Oh my God no wonder Dad wears skirts, I feel so free" while Bubbles would quietly sneak a peek at the goods, thus inspiring all her sisters to surreptitiously sneak peeks of their own because Hey, when life gives you lemons, right?!

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This question is way easier applied to the Girls than it is the Boys. I read Bubbles and Blossom as bi and Buttercup as het, which may surprise people. For me, Buttercup's orientation stems from internalized sexism re: girls and women and her general attitudes about "girly" stuff - her rejection of that stuff is so severe that she doesn't even possess any desire to be WITH another lady. (This is not to pass criticism on those who read her otherwise; I don't consider my interpretation of her more or less canonical than those who read her as lesbian/bi/trans!) For the record, I do see her as growing out of this bad attitude eventually.

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As for the Boys... man, they're just such chauvinistic shitbags by default that I've never really interpreted them as anything beyond het. I could probably spend some time justifying why they might be otherwise, but the more I do that in my head the more disingenuous it feels. Jury may still be out on those three.

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