rhythmofwar:

regalpotato:

-And you are?
-Jarva Slade, warehouse executive, your boss.

Alright, I was going to rant in the tags, but I can’t actually space them out properly to make sense and not constantly disrupt my train of thought, so have an actual thought up here instead:

I love everything about this gifset so much.

So much.

How she’s still her usual bubbly self in the first one, really excited and trying to be positive and make conversation, trying to defuse the situation by commenting on the clipboard. It’s just so unnaturally pure in the way she says it and keeps it innocent on purpose, because maybe, just maybe, that can be enough. Maybe he’s amused by her comment, his mood is better, and he leaves Kira alone. Situation resolved.

Then in the second one it’s a request, but at the same time it really shows that she’s the bigger person. She asks him to be nicer to her and the bubbly personality fades to the background. She’s polite about it, but also definitely serious, and it’s such a shift from the first gif to the second. She’s not joking now, and she won’t tolerate jokes about this now, because honestly, all she’s asking for is basic decency that Kira definitely deserves. 

And then the third. Dear god, the third. He feels undermined in his authority by her being nothing but decent and asking him to be the same. So much so that the threatens her with a warning for insubordination. And she doesn’t need to threaten him back, not even subtly, all she needs to do is show him that it doesn’t scare her, and she does that in such a great way. Because at first she’s right back to bubbly and excited, and then the innocence drops when she says she could add it to the collection and she just looks done. Because she’s really not impressed by someone giving her a warning for insubordination, she constantly breaks rules, she’s famous and infamous for it. And the shift in her expression is really all she needs to tell him that she won’t play his power games. She’s so done and annoyed by how he thinks he can get her to back off with that when all she’s doing is sticking up for Kira and calling him out on being a prick. It’s just the face of “go on, do it, I dare you, you absolute moron.”.

There’s so much more power and authority in her kindness and compassion than his need to control and I love her so much for it, I could rant about it for another week.