In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

[In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.]

philcoulsonismyhero asked:

If you could pick the characters for a show exactly like Legends of Tomorrow, but with actual decent representation and far more women than men, who would you pick? (Drawing from the comics too, if you want, since the TV verse doesn't have nearly enough women.)

batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate answered:

oh DUDE. bless you.

okay, so. let’s assume Rip Hunter still gets the team together, because plot devices and I want to keep the time travel shenanigans anyway, except Rip Hunter is now a woman and is played by Priyanka Chopra. Bam. 

Sara and Kendra stay, because I love them. Specifically, Kendra stays past the first season and actually meant it when she said she wasn’t going to get with Carter just because destiny says so. Non-Carter romances end in tragedy? Fine, no romance. Kendra has a timeline to save.

Tatsu is part of the crew, because honestly she seems like a prime candidate. A woman who’s lost her family, isolated herself from society, but still seeks to do good in the world? PERFECT. Not to mention highly moral, which would put her in conflict with A LOT of the rest of the team and create those Personality Conflicts we all live for. (Plus, how cool would the Japan episode have been if Tatsu was there to meet her ancestors and see the origin of her sword?)

I want Mari on board too. Amaya’s nice and everything, but her whole character seems like a lot of wasted opportunity and a really shallow attempt to replace Mari. (I could and probably will do a whole post about this honestly.) Plus they could actually explore magic with her and everything.

Let’s tap Hartley Rathaway in, because I adore him more than is, like, remotely reasonable and we have villain niches to fill. Plus he can cover Ray and Martin’s Tech Guy thing. He and Sara can rub their gay little hands all over history. Plus, again, jackass genius ego = Fun Drama. 

For a second villain… god, I would honestly love if Black Siren somehow got conscripted? Like, Team Flash and Team Arrow are sick of dealing with her and she’s doing fuck-all else, so she gets kidnapped to go Be Heroic? IMAGINE HOW COMPLICATED HER RELATIONSHIP WITH SARA WOULD BE. I have no idea how they would ever convince her to stay, but if they got Mick they can keep her, right? (Is her name Dinah or Laurel? I want it to be Dinah because lbr, moral alignment aside Black Siren is the Dinah Lance we deserved from the beginning.)

And for our second Token Boy I’m thinking… eh, who cares. One boy is fine. We’ve been dealing with Smurfettes for approximately all of history.