A blimp arc is the storytelling trajectory of someone who starts out reasonably, even admirably, and then — through years of comfort, status, or ideological calcification — gradually transforms into an insufferable, puffed-up reactionary who has mistaken stubbornness for principle. Borrowed from anime and internet storytelling culture, where an 'arc' describes a defined phase of character transformation, the blimp arc is a particular kind of fall from grace: not dramatic, not sudden, but a slow drift toward pomposity and closed-mindedness that everyone around them notices long before they do.
He used to be the most open-minded person in the office — watching his blimp arc over the last five years has been genuinely sad.
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