#joe hardy
This guy has the same energy as the guy in Skyrim who wants you to think less of yourself despite being the literal dragonborn.
Like dude. It’s me. NANCY FUCKIN’ DREW
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I’ve said this before, but maybe if I change how I say it more people might like it. Games!Ned does have a personality.
But he does suffer from something that affects a lot of characters throughout the games, especially in the later ones. Lazy writing.
Really Frank and Joe actually suffer from this too. I don’t remember enough about Bess and George in the later games to say this totally applies to them as well.
Anyway, I was talking about this with some other people in the fandom a while back but I just remembered to make a post about it. Something that all three of the boys suffer from is having their personalities be reliant on another character.
Joe’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on him being Frank’s kinda goofy younger brother
Ned’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on being Nancy’s boyfriend
And Frank’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on being a tired older brother to Joe and being awkward cause he has a crush on Nancy
All of us noted that in the earlier games this really isn’t the case. All three of them have fuller, independent personalities that disappeared or got weaker over time.
All of those things their personalities became reliant on are often things that fans made clear they associated with each character.
But I also don’t think that it’s like entirely a blinded by fanon issue. I think that HeR just got like a little lazier or whatever better/more descriptive word could apply and just focused each character on another character they’re meant to be associated with.
Like it’s extremely easy to focus the Hardy Boys’ personalities with each other and how the other reacts to it. Frank is a tired older brother of a guy who’s kinda goofy, sure. But that’s not it. It’s also really easy to write the main thing about the protagonists boyfriend being that he’s her boyfriend and nothing more. When that’s not all Ned is.
I ship Biff and Joe, I am slightly apologetic about it, they just make me laugh
