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OC questions that helped me with characterization:

On a scale of “is occasionally forced to bathe” to “Instagram model with sponsors to hoe for” how involved is your OC’s Skincare routine?

What are your OC’s food preferences (flavors/textures/spiciness/calories/ when and how they eat) and how did they get that way?

What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?

What’s your OC’s response to being asked for money by a homeless person?

Does your OC get lost easily? What do they do when they do get lost?

What would STOP your OC from Doing The Right Thing in a tense situation?

Realistically, could your OC (in their normal circumstances- i.e. at thier own house/battlecamp/spaceship etc.) keep a small child alive for a week if they had to?  A Dog?  A Houseplant? A rock with a  smiley face painted on?

If your OC had to take the S.A.T. tomorrow with one night to prep, how would they do?  both emotionally and academically.

What would cause your OC to chose to do something petty/pointlessly cruel?

On a scale of “Complete and Justified nervous breakdown” to “Conquer The Entire Galaxy and become an Immortal God-Emperor”, how well would your OC handle being abducted by Aliens?

What song is 100% garunteed to get your OC beyond turnt and will be sung loudly and emabarrasingly, either in public or the shower?

What perfectly-normal-to-them-thing does your OC do that confuses/pisses off/terrifies thier neighbors?

Under what circumstances would your OC appear naked in public?

What thing did your OC’s parents do that your OC wishes they had a better explanation for?

How often does your OC “zone out” or do things on autopilot and how severe have the problems that have arisen from that been?

How strong or weak is your OC’s Impulse control? What’s the worst thing that happened becuase of thier Impulsivity or inability to be so?

How does your OC sabotage themselves? 

What’s the trashiest item in your OC’s wardrobe, when was the last time they wore it and why do they still have it?

How Dehydrated is your OC right now? Are they going to fix this?

What’s your OC smell like?  no, not that “Vanilla and Anxiety” evocative stuff, realistically.  Body odor? what have they been touching all day? When was thier last shower? Did they put on any kind of artificial scent?

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#you ask why we care so much yeah I wish I didn't have to

I fucking wish I didn't have to

God I wish elections in the fucking US wouldn’t affect literally every other country in the world

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peak butowski

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I'm not exactly a writer but it's crazy to me that like 40% of my knowledge of writing and character making comes from lily crit community. Like imagine being this horrible of a critic that your points are the opposite of what considered to be good writing. This is actually impressive on lily's end.

Also let's be honest

Breaking bad would deep fry lily's brain

Lorch is being confusing about writing conventions again.

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Just because people tend to use villain and antagonist interchangeably doesn't mean they mean the same thing in a literary sense. So in order to demonstrate a protagonist can be a villain, that an antagonist isn't necessarily a villain and a villain can have a valid point lets go to the Breaking Bad universe!

Walter White

Villain. Protagonist. There you go.

Everything bad that happens to Walter after his cancer diagnosis is the consequence of his own decision making. He doesn't have a good motive. He keeps telling himself "I'm doing this for my family" but it's really for his own ego. An ego that grows and grows out of control as he fails upwards through the drug trade only to have it all justifiably come crashing down on him in the end. He's bitter, angry, full of unwarranted self-importance and only accomplishes ruining the lives of his family and everyone around him before his death.

Chuck McGill

Here's a complex antagonist for you. I was impressed when I first watched Better Call Saul that they managed to make a even pettier narcissistic manbaby than Walter White. But he's also more nuanced than Walter.

Chuck is a highly respected lawyer in his field. He's suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, a psychosomatic mental illness that is borne of his own controlling nature and pride. It is real to him and he's really suffering from the effects of it. He has always resented his brother Jimmy (Saul) for being the more personable, charismatic brother. He liked when Jimmy was just a burnout loser running schemes and getting arrested for public indecency because he at least had his success and his devotion to the law over him. But when Jimmy decides to get his life together by following in Chuck's footsteps? Chuck gaslights him, sabotages him, does all this underhanded shit while shaming Jimmy for doing the same.

But was he wrong about Jimmy not being able to resist falling into his baser instincts to circumvent the rules? Would Jimmy had gotten as bad as he did if Chuck had just supported him, or was this always going to be in him?

Gustavo Fring

The villain with a point.

Gay icon who played a 20 year long game to murder the Salamanca clan and the cartel leaders to avenge his boyfriend. Legend.

Gus is unequivocally a villain. He has devoted his entire life to this one thing and doesn't give a shit about anything else. His street dealers can kill kids for all he cares, he'll slit a minion's throat to intimidate Walter, he'll threaten Nacho's dad to keep him in line as a forced double agent. But he's also taking out dangerous criminals. He also runs a legitimate restaurant business as a front for his drug empire, takes pride in the food quality and treats his employees there well.

I think Lorch of all people would definitely argue that Gus is pretty damn justified to desire revenge when Hector shot his lover through the brain right in front of him. Have fun with that one, asshole.

Bonus round!

Mike Ehrmantraut

How the FUCK do you even classify best girl Mike as a character? He was unplanned, added to the show as a fluke, a stand-in character when Bob Odenkirk wasn't available to film, and became one of the most fascinating, well-written characters across both shows.

Is he an antagonist? A protagonist? A hero? A villain? He's been all of these things at various times.

To Lily "has a point" only has to be "expresses a correct or valid idea" so there you are. Chuck and Gus both have valid points. Walter doesn't. And Mike is a medley of I don't even know what the fuck.

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Glad that I got to expirience Fopanw fandom relationship change with devzel

Like you could see that post "new dev-elopment" people were like "awwww cute kids! Wanna see more of their friendship!"

Like there's cautious "I lowkey wanna ship them but I need to see where this goes first"

There was steady but somewhat slow growth of interest in that ship even after "birthday takeback"

Then "Multiverse of Jenkins" happened and that was the moment Devzel started actually getting a lot more attention and quite quickly

It's just fun to expirience in real time. It's also really funny how the episode that technically got devzel more attention is the one where Dev says that Jenkins, another guy, has a crush on Hazel

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I'm probably just salty over the ending but holy shit

Spoilers below

"Your trauma is not an excuse to be in a rage mode 24/7!" And its an emotionally neglected 10 year old who thought he had nobody to care about him and rightfully lashed out because of it + immediately switched sides when someone just told him "I care about you!" genuinely

HE IS 10

HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO PROCESS HIS FEELINGS ABOUT BEING NEGLECTED CORRECTLY

THE FACT THAT DEV SWITCHED AFTER PERI TOLD HIM THAT HE CARES IS LITERALLY HIM NOT USING HIS TRAUMA AS AN EXCUSE TO KEEP BEING ANGRY. ESPECIALLY WHEN HE KNEW THAT HE WILL BE PUNISHED

I don't blame anybody in universe (except Dale, fuck Dale) but taking Peri and his potential friendship with Hazel from Dev and insisting that he deserved it is just horrible

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It's Dimmadover

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Seeing Ashleigh Hairston (Co-Executive Producer of A New Wish) retweeting fanart of Hazel and Dev being friends is the only thing that keeps me going before the finale tbh

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Dev (Extremely happy): Hazel Anthony Wells! ✨🥰🤗💘 Hazel (Extremely angry): Dev Dimmadome! 😠💢💥🔥

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I like to believe that Dev somehow wasn't affected by whatever was happening with the timeloop and everyone crushing on Hazel BUT not because I want to believe he genuinely loved Hazel, but because he saw the craziness and how much trouble it was causing Hazel and decided to jump in

I love you Dev "Definitely will cause problems on purpose" Dimmadome

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If Hazel and Dev don't become friends again after the finale, I hope at least they would stick with "Dev being annoying little prick for no reason whatsoever to Hazel" dynamic

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I swear, Hazel befriending Dev for a bit just for him to become an antagonist again is VILE

More of this pls

(Give Dev lemonade and therapy too pls)

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So

Y'all think Dev kept the shoes?

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Okokok I wanna just ramble about Peri and Dev

So people joke how Peri hates Dev. It's a joke, but I think the reason why it ev3n exists is because Peri and Dev haven't bonded yet. Dev doesn't see Peri as a friend like Hazel sees Cosmo and Wanda. Dev is a spoiled rich kid, ofc he would tire Peri with his demands, but also have you seen how Peri reacts? He complains and snarks back most of the time. "I wouldn't be tired if you didn't spend all morning wishing for the perfect cupcake!" "My job is to grant your wishes. Not to read your mind!"

Peri refers to Dev as his job. Yes, it's true, but Dev is a troubled neglected kid who haven't had meaningful connections before Hazel. Of course he wouldn't warm up to Peri, who is there because it's his job, not because he would want to make Dev happy.

I kinda hope that that "test" for Dev and Peri that Jorgan planned was going to help them form a bond or at least push them to a right direction.

So yea, Peri and Dev haven't formed a bond and its partially Peri's fault. Peri is inexperienced in that regard and he also doesn't want Cosmo and Wanda helping him. I want to believe that if Peri didn't insist on doing things his own way, Cosmo and Wanda would at least tell him that besides granting wishes, his job is also being a friend.

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The fop reboot is so crazy for peri bc I saw his birth. I saw him grow up. Wdym he grew up with me, he's an adult too?? WHAT he's so cool, he has a job. An icon for this generation for that alone. He has transgender swag