#( .charadev )

[newts-dusty-attic]

I actually didn't expect Thunderbolts to be good ?

They let Bucky grow older, he doesn't look like a model now, just a normal middle aged guy who's also buff. They didn't ruin their serious and emotional moments with "self-aware" humour. A big part of the movie wasn't about fighting an intergalactical threat but just getting out of a bunker, which was nice- and they talked about depression, drug use, bipolar disorder. Not in the subtlest way but still

Also there's a communist guy ?? 😭😭

[prayers-to-hyliarceus]

🫵

Autism

A-- What?

Autism? what's that?

And who is the hand pointing to?

And why is 'Autism' the caption? It sounds like a... concept. Or a philosophy.

Celebi, why are you laughing at us?

[violetnaps]

character development is such a buzzword lately. where did this idea that a character is only well-written if they go through a massive onscreen change even come from

[beyuwol]

the aftermath of next gen

the moment next gen concludes, with yuwol placing just one step out of bounds, he knows exactly what's waiting for him.

it only took a day for yuwol to be summoned to his family home, by nothing more than a vague phone call from one of the housekeepers. congratulations, she has said, and i'm sorry, she continued. he is expected to come by soon, and to pack for the week. yuwol suspects it might not be just a week, but he doesn't really say much in response ( there's no use, yuwol knows ).

a path of resistance wouldn't work out in yuwol's favour, no matter how many possible scenarios he runs through his head. signing up for next gen was, in part, one of those methods—but he's back here, on square one. rinse and repeat.

yuwol remembers visiting the family home during seollal, reuniting with the home he came to know for a brief moment, before being dragged around for every event his family had been a part of. it had felt daunting then, stepping into a cage of white walls that he never dreamed to step out of when he was a child. now, though, he realizes it's a lot worse returning, after tasting a smidge of what freedom could be like.

the living room is no better, simply a minimalist caricature of what could be a loving space. his parents sat on the larger sofa, leaving yuwol with the smaller one; perhaps to make him feel smaller by comparison too. they do not speak for a moment, allowing the silence to permeate. yuwol is familiar with this tactic too. they're giving yuwol space to think about the mistakes he has done, to ponder over everything he did wrong, send him down a rabbit hole he can't come out of, unless they call his name.

"yuwol," his father chooses then to speak. his gaze pierces through yuwol's soul, not a single hint of emotion within that man's eyes. yuwol thinks his own eyes look the same, sometimes. "you know why we called you over, don't you?" his father continues, asking a question that he requires no answer to.

despite knowing this, yuwol nods. he doesn't say anything.

"how could you do that to us?" his mother finally says her piece, unable to look at him—like yuwol had tainted the family name, smeared with dirt and soil. in their eyes, maybe that is the case. "we trusted you. have you forgotten? we let you have your own apartment, with the promise that you wouldn't slack off on your studies and your lessons. and instead, you chose to break that trust?"

his father cuts in subtly, placing a hand over his wife's knee, as if attempting to calm her down. but even her outburst is calculated, yuwol knows. "we allowed you to live independently, trusting you to know your priorities. but then we find out… you're competing in this… idol survival show?" his father lets out a breath, as if he had been holding back.

still, yuwol says nothing. he isn't given the chance to.

"there is nothing left to discuss," his father concludes, although yuwol was never an active participant in the aforementioned discussion. "you've broken your promise, plain and simple, yuwol. to think you'd be goofing off in such a competition… were you even able to gain anything out of it?"

another question, which yuwol doesn't need to answer. his father does, for him.

"clearly, not. because none of the companies signed you, and here you are. how many weeks did you waste? only to accomplish nothing?"

again, yuwol says nothing.

"you already know what will come after this, yuwol. we need you to prove that you're serious about your future, we need to know—definitively—that you aren't going to goof off just because we aren't watching you. you have to earn back our trust. do you understand?"

yuwol gives a nod, but doesn't say anything more.

"okay then," his mother picks up the conversation. "you'll be moving back home, and that's final. whether we'll allow you to return to your apartment or not is up for debate. right now, we have no plans for that. we can't trust you anymore, after all."

yuwol doesn't say anything—what can he say?

"you don't have to go back to get your things, we'll have the housekeepers deal with that. you already packed for the week, right? now, you're free to go to your room. we'll be discussing a revision to your schedule later."

and that's that.

"please forgive me for my mistakes," yuwol replies, short and sweet, an end to the taxing conversation. "thank you for allowing me another chance. i'll be going now."

he stands up, turning back, heading for his room. he can hear the two of them whisper amongst themselves, as if he wasn't there.

the hallway feels like a janky road, the walls around him feel like they will close in at any moment. if yuwol looks down, he thinks he'll see himself walking on eggshells.

he wants to throw up.

[prayers-to-hyliarceus]

I... don't particularly know what exact lore I would give about myself, but I can certainly talk about Gerudo culture. For example - no voe (male) is allowed in Gerudo Town. Most of us feel very proud of our womanhood, and we don't believe that traditionally masculine things should be restricted from women.

I find this label of "masculine" activities ridiculous-- they are activities that can be performed by any person regardless of their gender. After all, they are for anyone until people begin to gatekeep them based on how "feminine" or "masculine" they are. Who says that women are only allowed to cook and clean? When I heard about that for the first time, I was utterly baffled. I thought they were joking. They weren't. It was one of the most absurd things I'd ever heard. We find dueling and fighting and wielding spears and blades very feminine-- and the type may vary! We may utilize it as a dance, or for a ceremony; it is not so black and white as slaughtering foes as a form of assault or defense. Yet in some places (*clears throat.* Central Hyrule) only men are allowed to enroll in the army.

We also like to attach unique objects or meanings to our gender and femininity-- for me, I feel that thunder and lightning is a core part of my identity along with my womanhood. Some women make things complex as tales and folksongs or as simple as the desert sand a part of her gender.

In conclusion: Societal roles assigned to people based on their gender are stupid, and I am very proud of my femininity. No one can take that away from me or my people.

you wrote a whole speech.

Urbosa is just incredibly cool like that.

It's women's history month! every woman has to drop all of their lore now /j

[cosmosrival]

Since I've caught you limbus posting, who's your favourite sinner, and what's your favourite story so far?

RODYA AND YISANG ARE MY FAV SINNERS!!! i am eagerly awaiting for rodyas horrible downfall part 2 😈 once we're out of limbo SHE IS NOT SAFE!!!! yisang is just pookie however, his charadev in canto 4 is the most heartwarming of all. i love seeing him fight depression with love for his friends. sometimes its all u need...

my favourite writing moment would be canto 5's ahab fight. the themes of the canto are defined by ishy reclaiming her freedom and agency and it strikes a chord in me... also because ahab can easily be seen as a motherly figure despite everything that happened (to me at least it felt that way and resonated even harder)

i also loved every single heathcathy moment 😈 i love wuthering heights as a book so seeing project moons version of their awful toxicity was delicious. hetgem.

im ofc waiting for my french king meursault's canto i just NEED to see that man's brain in my petri dish study NOW!!!! besides meur's canto ig id love to see if gregor will really be the traitor or not...... it feels too on the nose but its even more on the nose if it were outis.

[valmoxium]

(reuploading, made a typo and forgot alt text teehee) update for PERSONAL DEMONS: character sheets for the main protags. carmara needs more than one sheet due to her complex sprite + her having the biggest changes in charadev

[wolexarch]

tagged by my oomflettttt @dogtreat

Are you named after anyone? apparently my name was derived from some soap opera and basically thats why my name is extraordinarily common and also very white

When was the last time you cried? 2 weeks ago

Do you have kids? no.

do you use sarcasm a lot? i think so

What sports do you play? be so serious rn

What's the first thing you notice about people? how they dress i think... style is a decent gauge for personality but this metric is a little more difficult for ppl younger than me bc shein access has made everyone posers

What's your eyecolor? brown

scary movies or happy endings? happy endings by virtue of me not typically finding scary movies very interesting

any special talents? art is probably the obv choice... more specifically i think im a quick learner and im adaptable (<- specifically within an arts context)

what are your hobbies? ummm drawing..... video games.... and listening to music 😎

Do you have pets? my doggy

How tall are you? 4'11.... :(

favorite subject in school? art (lol) but in terms of the main curriculum ive always taken to english/lit the most

Dream job? i wwanna be a games artist... im pretty open between like anything to do with characters, charadev & splash art would be really nice. rn though im trying to build on entering with character modeling

[prayers-to-hyliarceus]

Mm, same. You have good taste.

I also like women

Why do you look so ashamed of that? Women are good. Great, even.

Are we appreciating women here? Count me in.

i don't quite understand what you see but good for y'all?

I like women.

[prayers-to-hyliarceus]

Urbosa, have Link and Zelda been sleeping properly? I sadly trust neither of hem to be honest about this.

Mm, I understand.

Link, fortunately, is quite the avid napper. He can fall asleep just about anywhere if he's determined enough. I believe he has nightmares, however, and that may lead him to try to stake out several nights in a row.

I don't know how Zelda manages to keep the fact that she wakes up in the middle of the night so often secret, and I only know this from Link (though I could already guess, unfortunately). She's had a lot of terrible nightmares lately that have been, if I am understanding correctly, mailed to her by a Pelipper.

I worry for the two of them. For me, they were children not so long ago, and I am deeply concerned as to what occurred in that six-year gap. Even so, after all that's happened to them that I already know of... they did not deserve all those burdens.

[creator-from-hel]

And I'm carrying on with the chara designs with this one, more specific to Lysara : The queen of the Divine Mandate Lamia the Ist Frosilaen-Claro !

How her dynasty access the throne is

Complicated.

What to tell. That her mother had to step up as queen after the death of the royal lineage in place since the beginning of times ? That she was born of middle class Travellers and grew up in royalty months after ? That she probably had the most calm backstory of all the Queens ?

Let's start with a bit of history.

After Lina had to step up for the throne, she was promised a lifetime of peace and calm by bigger entities. Not gonna go into details, but that peace only lasted for 20 years and was

Not so peaceful.

However, Lamia grew up in a climate of tranquility in the palace since her mother was hellbent on preserving her children's upbringing. Her and her twin brother Korrin were sheltered from royal duties and had a happy childhood, Korrin being a silly prankster and Lamia a yet cunning but spoiled brat.

But everything changed when the fire nation- sorry, the principality of Lazzaro attacked. Lamia was around 20 (15 in the first version but I'll probably add years, makes more sense) for the infamous Four Nations Tournament and had a quick introduction to what it meant managing a kingdom. Especially succession, which was placed on Korrin by default since he had a girlfriend so could potentially produce heirs (spoiler alert, he's ace as hell)/default sexist line of throne.

Lamia basically had a buttload of charadev realising she had to take care of the people, the wars and avoid a massacre as the end of the tournament was. And since Korrin didn't even want to reign (and his girlfriend died), she became hellbent on reclaiming her place in the succession line.

She started studying politics, first in autodidact, then asking her mother to send her to Paper continent to study under the best politician she knew : Faloi Frosilaen, her cousin and first President of the Ink Republic. (Mother was reluctant because of paranoïa and a huge strain on her relationship with Faloi only she remembers. She ended up agreeing tho). She stayed there a long time, helping her cousin while studying and discovering quite the talent for politics.

She came back transformed and with lot of reform ideas, so much than a very impressed Lina started to delegate more and more tasks to her daughter, who basically became active queen like five years after her return. Including diplomacy and international treaties, making her go back to Ink Republic quite a bit.

Lina officialy abdicated right before her death but Lamia's succession was so well prepared that the crowning was one of the easiest and smoothest succession the Divine Mandate has ever seen.

She acquired the reputation of a stone-cold but caring queen, always seeing the hidden motive and managing to pass a huge number of reforms during her reign. She was the queen under who the technology skyrocketed, aided by treaties she made with Genos at a... difficult time for Faloi I must say (during Chifuniro Ecclesias, Genos' former Director's stay), and where the huge discrimination the Heir species was under calmed if not disappeared.

Overall, she is recognised as one of the best queens the Divine Mandate ever add, only after her mother, and her mother saved the whole world so it's hard to get on her level lmao

[hel-phoenyx]

tf is the Journal d'un Stalker, my fair lady?

My dear, that was a very, very, VERY old WIP I started a long time ago when I saw on Pinterest a very long post about a stalker that documented everything (and by that I mean EVERYTHING) about a woman at his workplace, in a very incel way as you can infer. Entries were PAGES and PAGES long describing what the woman was wearing, what she did and who she talked to, sprinkled by creepy incel fantasy about marriage, children, housewife, etc.

The poor woman of course didn't like that at all and changed jobs. The man had a whole incel crisis (documented in the diary) and I don't remember what happened next but from what I know he never went in contact with her again.

Of course I was creeped out and weirdly fascinated, you know how I am with obsession (even though this one terrified me) and since at the time Mairù was full stalker with Lina, I wanted to write a diary-coded novel on his point of view on the Chronicles, which was a very different story at the time. It started somewhere before they met and was supposed to stop after Lina escaped his sequestration (long story).

Still hadn't decided if he would get the charadev he currently has or just go full-yandere.

That WIP is kinda abandoned now but at times I wonder if I should do something in the same way to go with the Chronicles, but not titled Diary of a Stalker lmao, rather something like diary of a Fuck-Up (Mairù doesn't think highly of himself)

[prayers-to-hyliarceus]

that's good to know. much appreciated.

You are a... Champion?

[@prayers-to-hyliarceus]

Sure am! I have to mention it every few weeks or so to make sure my new followers are in the loop.

You're... yes, you're a Faller, so you wouldn't know.

Champions here tend to be the strongest trainer (or one of the strongest, anyway) in a given region. Exactly how one becomes a Champion tends to vary—sometimes tournaments are involved, sometimes you just have to beat the previous Champion, here in Sinnoh you have to beat my Elite Four and then me in a gauntlet, funnily enough no one's been able to do that yet—but it's one of the highest achievements trainers can accomplish, to be a Champion even for a short time.

Does that mean something different where you're from?

[soupedepates]

ok ok i need to talk about my blorbos in my project "A Nap in the Garden of the Hesperides"

aint they so silly

so there are two main storylines. - Dante and Aramis not having the time of their lives - Lucienne, Yousra and Candy being silly sapphics

Aramis is a great pianist, he is leaving next year to study music abroad in Vienna so this is his last year in the conservatoire. He comes from a quite wealthy family, and he avoids his parents most of the time (angsty teen much). He suffers from insomnia, this comes from the fact he was seriously sick as a kid and almost died in his sleep several times.

Dante was living with his father in Guatemala until they learnt his mother (his parents are divorced, his father is Guatemalan and his mother is French) has cancer. They came back to France to support her (his father respects immensely his mother, and reciprocally). Dante needs to be stimulated not to ruminate dark thoughts so he starts courses at the conservatoire : opera singing (he is a wonderful tenor), choral singing, music theory, modern dancing... and of course piano.

Dante falls in love with how Aramis plays the piano, and Aramis falls in love with Dante's voice. They learn to know each others through music and end up dating. But the point of this storyline is that this is the good person, but bad timing.

It ends so fucking bad. uwu

Lucienne is Aramis' best friend since diapers. They are almost always together, so much Aramis' parents think they are dating (spoiler alert, Lucienne is a lesbian and Aramis is gay). Lucienne lives with her girlfriend Yousra since she is 18 (Yousra is two years older, they met in high school) and they are very happy. Lucienne is polyamourous, and she falls in love at first sight with a ballerina she meets through Aramis : CANDY.

Candy too falls in love, but as soon as she learns about Yousra she backs down for she doesn't want neither to interfer nor to be the side-chick. After meeting Yousra, she and Lucienne decide to pursue a relationship but swear to never touch each other. They start an epistolary romantic relationship.

Yousra is her gf's wingwoman while being a nurse. She also is here to cut Aramis' or Lucienne's bullshit (and they need it), and helps Dante to deal with the possibility his mother dies. She needs charadev cuz she is such an interesting character but in the actual state of things she is but a support character.......

[fireblight]

001 ⋮ heroics.

Everyone has a heroic quality, though not always a penchant for heroism. Even Karin, despite her Neutral Evil alignment and her stance as an anti-villain, has, within her complex character, a great capacity to not only behave heroically but to feel heroic. Though, for her, the line between ❝hero❞ and ❝martyr❞ often blurs to an indecipherable point. Karin herself is an innately selfish woman, and insists upon it; she wants to be selfish, because being selfish protects her. When one prioritises the self, one is in control of everything. Among her many flaws, being a control freak is one of the most potentーconsider it the ground-floor for her fatal flaw, which is an almost obsessive need to protect everyone that she loves. Quite heroic sounding, isn’t it? Not too far from the monologues of shounen heroes and knights－a righteous and chivalrous oath. 

However, just because she needs to do it does not mean she always does it, nor does it particularly well. Prone to compulsive lying and an incessant need to consider herself as immoral and impure ( yet idolises her purity alongside it; nobody said people could not defy themselves ) Karin can often resort to lying to ❝protect others❞, and does not shy away from the more brute aspects of life. Even in a world where child soldiers are normalized, there are standards to be upheld; philosophies to be embodied. Karin, having internalized much of Orochimaru’s lessons ( and having been a ❝rotten girl❞ before Otogakure ), gladly desecrates much, if not all, of the standard shinobi beliefs, if she must. That isーshe is not Chaotic Evil, she does not always seek destruction of all that is beautiful and good for the sheer whim of it. Nor does she have a particularly reliable code of honour, or rigidity when it comes to what she will tolerate ( or do ) at any moment. 

So, when motivated by her heroic fatal flawーthough heroic only for the tropeーshe can and will do anything, beyond the moral scope of her peers, in order to achieve her goal. What separates villainy from heroism, in this case, is the division between egoism and altruism. Again, Karin is selfish. Selflessness has destroyed her, deluded her. Egoism is where Karin is safe. When she protects others, she is only doing insofar as what she believes is protectionーshe believes altruistically when she knows she is expected to or when the whimsy takes her, especially if there is some sort of reward for it. Does this lessen the love that she has for her loved ones? Of course not. Love, for her, is a complex animal. It consumes. It borders the sublime. Protecting a child she loves from bullies is not too many leaps away from killing said child to save them from a life she predicts to be traumatic and torturous. Better to let the innocent die innocent than to let the world break them on a wheel. 

(Sometimes, it is a good thing not to be loved by her. Not everyone should try to be a hero.)

[vcostaaz]

            ‘ evening, all ! i hate being late to the party, but whatever. click below for the 411 on 𝐊𝐈𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐀, also known as yoyo & yori by their close friends. the aspiring musician is a twenty-six year old grad student, majoring in musical production & engineering. underneath the cut is all you’ll need to know about them. so like i didn’t type up any plot descriptions, but i have an idea of what i’m looking for. so don’t be on that shy shit, hit me up or drop a like & I’ll come say w’ssup. ’

𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄.         ⸻      kiyora acosta / yoyo or yori

𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄.         ⸻     october 31st, 1996.

𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄.          ⸻     scorpio sun, sagittarius moon, cancer rising.

𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘.          ⸻      lesbian + she/they/them

𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍.          ⸻     albuquerque, nm and calabasas, ca. 

𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐒.          ⸻     innovative, skeptical, observant, easy–going, passionate, creative, alluring, optimistic, laidback, open minded, selective, sensual, stubborn. 

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍.          ⸻     studio engineer intern, lounge singer, and tattoo artist.

𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁𝐒.          ⸻     fashion guard & photography.

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐋𝐒.         ⸻     luca and slick (grown-ish) clay (all american)

 ‘             ཪ      ¹ ˛   𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.                            

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