#* // ⌗ ooc : incoherent rambling.

[looksgold]

plots   /   vibes   i   need   immediately   (lms   if   ur   interested   and   i'll   hit   ur   dms   up):

-   best   friends   who   sabotage   each   others'   dates   until   they   finally   accept   they   should   be   together -   party   boy   x   innocent   girlie   who   he   corrupts   lowkey -   influencer   x   influencer   power   couple   who   look   perfect   outwardly/on   social   media   but   also   maybe   he's   toxic   behind   the   scenes -   secret   relationships -   rich   girl   x   poor   boy   who   doesn't   think   he   is   worthy   of   her -   drug   dealer   x   their   best   customer   who's   broke   but   offers   'favours'   as   payment -   honestly   a   messy   ass   black   mail   plot

[throwaway-yandere]

Idk why I find it very amusing that tumblr wont let me add more images in the dingleaf fic like aight, were there too many borders or something. Was it because i added a video there? Should I just post the images separately and link it lmao whatever, the fic is finished, "happy birthday dainsleif"

[habitual-creatures]

Y'KN0W...I STILL HAV3 N0 ID3A WHAT WAS G0ING 0N WITH TH3 H3ART THING. I C3RTAINLY F33L ALIV3.

~CHA0TICALLY, DISC0RD/🕕

What'sitlike- to feel alive? It'sbeen- too long for us to- tellanymore...

[sinisterness]

thinks of how katarina cannot escape the 'never a self-made woman' and 'lineage comes from the father' tropes. crushes the can in my hand.

[celestialtrolls]

Thinks about aelynn but not too hard because I have a headache

There are some body language things I always wish I could depict properly in her sprites but that would require drawing sooo much

She covers her mouth a lot when she talks to lowbloods because shes trying to seem less threatening

She stands pretty still most of the time by default but whenever she starts feeling an emotion strongly (either positive or negative) she moves a lot more and leans forward and shifts her weight around

(Vocali pushes this to the extreme and basically never stops moving)

She doesn't always actually have her eyes looking in the direction she's paying attention, and she's gotten a lot worse at eye contact since getting her vision powers but it's just because she forgets

She likes to have something to fiddle with for serious conversations or else she starts pulling at the hems of her clothes, she will take a wood block with her anywhere she thinks she's going to have a serious converstion so she can scratch at it (but she often forgets about it)

[voxiiferous]

**| Interesting revelations of the evening!

I’m not certain Vox has ever actually fired a gun. He’s certainly never owned one. Most of the time if he needs to cause pain his just sort of… goes zappy on them. Flesh doesn’t take kindly to massive amounts of electricity!

Hah! Now that I have drawn you in with fun hc there’s the more serious examination of themes. A consequence of when I started writing Vox is the fact that I could not turn off the university part of my brain that’s just like “if you were to write an essay for him what are the themes you would focus on? What DEFINES him???” And the answer was performance, because clearly right? He’s TV man.

And this had the unintentional side effect of earning him the “not as bad a person as you could have been” award because if he was a really bad boss, and I leaned more into the corrupt businessman aspects of him, then that core theme would have been less performance and more consumerism and capitalism. Which I decided was not thematically relevant and would have just detracted from the overall character I wanted to write.

If I had to pick his main three vibes it’s: performance in big bold letters (more on that in a sec), modernization (not capitalism or consumerism, but specifically that transition of technology and opinion), and a very sci-fi concern of what is a human? Is he still?

but but but going back to the performance. It’s so key to how I write him. Like there’s the literal performance aspect on screen, but it’s more than that. As Vincent he performs a veneer of, if not heterosexuality, than at least… not queerness. But otherwise he’s still very much him. Sure his charm was taught, but he made it a part of himself, it’s not a performance anymore, he has things he enjoys and doesn’t, and is, more or less, honest in that. Vox is… not that. It’s why in the 1946!Vincent content, the fun is forcing Vox to acknowledge himself. He has to step beyond the performance, he has to see backstage essentially. He has to be vulnerable.

And vulnerability is something that cannot exist in the Overlord Vox persona, which he is constantly inhabiting. But at the same time that’s not who he actually is, but it’s who he’s performing as, even to himself. He’s always on this knife’s edge of self reflection and juuust missing the point, because if he goes to close to the truth, the masquerade falls apart.

There’s this line from the song All for Believing by Missy Higgins that’s great here, and it’s “But I see you painted your soul into your guard”, and it’s super true for Vox. Overlord Vox is the face of every new product, he derides the old as outdated, he’s ruthless, and powerful and confident. Nothing gets under the skin of Overlord Vox, not even a broken screen, see him laughing in Voxtagram? Laugh with him. It keeps him safe, it’s the image that’s given him power and control and the successful end result to all the ambition that is still a core part of him.

Vox however??? Vox is a bit of romantic, and he loves swing music, and black and white game shows, he’s an insomniac and a bit of nerd. It’s not that Overlord Vox isn’t him, because like the lyrics says, it’s been painted into. Overlord Vox is the strongest parts of himself people take seriously and made into a living, breathing part of himself. It’s a shield and a half truth.

Money does play a role, but it’s a tertiary one at best. He has more money than God, he owns everything under the sun, great, great, it plays the role it needs to and is otherwise vague. What is he doing with his money??? Uhh, I don’t know, who cares?

The modernization works in with the performance, though that’s another post of its own. So please enjoy this somewhat rambling roundabout examination of why my Vox is, all things considered, not that bad a dude. It’s about the pretentious English major themes, and that being the least interesting thing to explore for me. (Just see his playlist, it’s basically all “look at me, look at me, look at what I’m showing you, don’t look over there behind the scenes).

[marinehero]

Thinking thoughts ab this messed up family again and thinking again about Garp wanting for Ace and Luffy to become strong - strongest - marines as form of protection because to him that's their best shot at staying alive.

While Dragon on the other hand was significantly different, I do think he was unexpected, because frankly Garp was and is not fit to be a parent ( having had no parental figure growing up ) nor do I think he would've really wanted a child. But he still loved his son and tried his best with what support he had from his peers and friends. He still wanted Dragon to be a marine, of course, but without the same kind of pressuring need as there'd been with Ace or Luffy, he'd be far more inclined towards letting things progress at a more natural pace.

He was still strict, more knowledged on being a soldier than father, but more lienient and more present in Dragon's early life. Present enough to complain and rant about restrictions and his anger towards the government and celestial dragons to or where his son could hear.

[demonsfate]

🔥 I had to~ I always appreciate your level minded takes~ I honestly don't think that Jin or Kazuya will ever get the redemption arcs they deserve. Thoughts?

unpopular opinions from the mun // accepting !

Most people say the point is Jin's not supposed to have a redemption arc in TK8, the point was him just moving on and learning to live with his sins. Which yeah, may be it, but most people still see it as a "redemption arc" when the Bad Guy is Good, and everyone's just friends with him now.

But you already know how I feel about Jin's characterization as a whole. When it comes to what he deserves, Jin should've never had to need a redemption arc to begin with. However, they definitely went about it wrong in T8. Which yes, again as I said above, technically Jin's story wasn't a "redemption arc". But we still had characters acting far too forgiving toward him when they shouldn't be. Jin asking, "do I deserve the right to desire life?" is sweet in the context of T8, but in the context of T6, it just makes you think "well buddy I'm sure those thousands you've killed also desired life, too." And again, you also find yourself questioning why this matters so much to Jin when it clearly didn't matter much to him in T6. I barely consider T8 to be Jin's "development" beyond him not wanting to die anymore, but instead just a return to basics (how he behaved in T3-T5) But Jin's arc of dealing with his T6 actions is over and I don't think they're really gonna revisit it again unless Miguel pops up and says "you killed my sister" and Jin says "sorry" and Miguel goes "oh right. Okay then."

As for Kazuya...

The problem is, I'm a very critical consumer. In fact, it's a surprise I haven't tried to become a more "professional" critic. I'm also a no-nonsense writer. When it comes to villains and if they're redeemable, I think there is a certain line they can't cross. Killing thousands of innocents, some potentially being children, is that line. However, clearly this works differently in Tekken. In Tekken, terrible actions aren't treated with the same weight that they're treated with in other stories or real life. Sure, nobody forgot what Jin did, but they also didn't exactly treat him like a mass murderer who's killed thousands, potentially millions. Lars doesn't act like Jin got his best friend (Tougou who?) killed, along with giving him and his girl PSTD, along with forcing his girl to fight her and "killing her", along with all the disrespectful, nasty things Jin said to Lars and the others.

I do think it's a high possibility Kazuya will be "redeemed" in T9, that we might see him and Jin make amends with each other. But I just don't think it's gonna be satisfactory to me. Canonically, both Kazuya and Jin's actions weren't worthy of a redemption that either didn't involve their deaths or them being virtual "outcasts" from society. I've had people try to argue with me, saying "but what about Vegeta from DBZ" - and it's like that's the thing. I don't really care for many animes or their tropes. Now, there are some animes I love. But... the majority of tropes and how it handles these villains is something I don't care for. So, if I watched DBZ, I'd probs be critical of that aspect, too, lol. Darth Vader is a character that comes to my mind because he was also a war criminal who killed millions, including children. He was redeemed, but only through death.

It's just hard to imagine Kazuya or Jin getting to live out happy, domestic lives after they've ravaged the world and ruined so many other lives. Of course, it's something I want more for Jin just because of the bad writing. Kazuya was always meant to be a villain or antagonistic character. He's been this way since T2. Jin, however, wasn't. Jin was only turned into this character in the 6th game after Harada insisted on it. But like, when the games tried to continue going with "Yah Jin did all that, what of it?" Then... yes, it is hard to imagine him living out a normal happy life with his only consequences for his many murders is just he felt bad about it and his daddy beat him up a few times.

T9's Kazuya will probs be a "slower" process than Jin, but in the end - he'll probs be redeemed by Jun's love, say "I won't try to kill our son anymore :3" and then help Jin defeat Reina.

So yeah. I just don't think neither will get a truly deep redemption arc, but honestly? It's about time where that much depth and consideration should be expected from the writing.

Also I guess an unpopular opinion of my own regarding Kazuya is that... I don't care if he gets redeemed honestly. As heartwarming as it is seeing the what ifs and him, Jin, and Jun being a happy family. I also just don't care if that happens or not. After all, not every villain needs a redemption arc. And with Tekken? We're at the point where they've been trying to convince us that Heihachi isn't that bad, and then they're trying to convince us that the motherfucking DEVIL cared about Jin and was actually good in a way. So like, not every character needs to be redeemed or needs a "oh wait, they're not as bad as you think!" As I said, it mattered so much with me about Jin because Jin should've never been depicted as a villain - it goes against his entire character and why I loved him. But Kazuya was always conceived as a villain. Therefore, the push for him to be redeemed just isn't as strong regardless of his tragic backstory.

And I mean that in all seriousness. Kazuya is a tragic character, but he's intentionally written as one. Not tragic because the writers did him dirty. Villain characters often are tragic and surrounded by tragedy. Because tragedy and trauma is what shapes many bad guys into the person they are. Not every villain with a tragic story needs a redemption arc - even if he does have loved ones, too.

Of course, this isn't to say I'm against Kazuya's redemption. I'm just explaining why I wouldn't care if it didn't happen.

[waxcasket]

Vibing especially hard w/ this ongoing vibe of pyro being tied to concepts of rebirth and my accidental slip into this idea w/ Auburn being the vessel of a god in process of rebirth / reawakening hrrrghgrgghrgh

[tvrningout-a]

y'all... new chiyo fc?? new chiyo fc :' ))

i've been iconing while i watch a.tsv and just!! she's so cute <3 and i'm so excited bc this is the closest i've gotten to a proper time-skip fc who matches what i imagine!! bc i've always thought that she'd stop dying her hair as she got older and let the brown grow out. and even the waviness of her hair matches up and i'm!! just really pleased uvu

[psyonicscream]

// btw guys my favourite shit to do on anon is to go into one specific person’s inbox at a point in time and post 3 or 2 really stupid asks and await patiently for the muses’s responses to my work of art if you enjoy this type of content be sure to tell me about your cool oc or something idk I tend to hyperfixate on random characters tbh

[looksgold]

hit  the  heart  for  a  short  starter  !  beneath  the  cut  are  a  list  of  FACE  CLAIMS  &  PLOTS/DYNAMICS  i'm  in  the  mood  for  !  i  will  come  to  you  for  face  claim  choice  and  plot!  <3

fcs:  sabrina  carpenter,  drew  starkey  ,  madelyn  cline  ,  jonathan  daviss  ,  madison  bailey  ,  jacob  elordi  ,  kaden  hammond  ,  vinnie  hacker  ,  sadie  stanley  ,  samantha  logan  ,  michael  evans  behling  ,  tyla  ,  melissa  barrera  ,  max  thieriot  ,  dev  patel  ,  brayden  bradshaw  ,  zendaya  ,  oscar  isaac  ,  pedro  pascal  ,  anne  hathaway  ,  nicholas  galitizine  ,  lily  -  rose  depp  ,  damian  hardung  ,  havana  rose  liu  ,  glen  powell  ,  tara  yummy  ,  aron  piper  ,  maia  reficco  ,  nicole  wallace  ,  evan  mock  ,  callum  turner  ,  hannah  dodd  ,  vanessa  morgan  ,  jennie  kim  ,  simone  ashley  ,  noah  lalonde

plots  /  dynamics:  best  friends  to  lovers  ,  enemies  to  lovers  ,  poor  x  rich  ,  fwbs  with  feelings  ,  ‘i  had  ur  kid  and  disappeared  but  now  i’m  back  whoopsie',  married  couple  ,  ‘you’re  my  brother's  best  friend,  we  can't',  ‘messy  exes,  stripper  x  drug  dealer  ,  drug  dealer  x  client  ,  bad  boy  x  good  girl  ,  bad  girl  x  good  girl  ,  hockey  player  x  figure  skater  ,  affair,  arranged  marriage  ,  boss  x  secretary  ,  bodyguard  x  celeb/president’s  daughter/rich  person/etc.,  ‘ur  partner  sucks,  let  me  show  u  how  good  i  can  make  u  feel’.

[technicalknockout]

In a steven universe community im a part of suf is still recieved as "TERRIBLE TERRIBLE WORST PART OF THE SHOW WHY DOES IT EXIST" and im just standing in the corner like. None of you understand

[risingsouls]

[Idk if this makes sense but I die for the dynamic of friends that feel like they should be/want to be more but the timing is all off or circumstances keep them from being together and/or having a proper relationship, especially if said circumstances aren't super cut and dry. 🫠🥲]

[nineliabilityrisk]

thinking abt how fredbear was most likely also designed as a springlock suit , one specifically for henry ...

henry likely didnt use it as often as will did spring bonnie — not even including the mans... extracurricular activities. still, he did, sometimes ; he was a little less averse to being in the public eye when he was in the suit. people werent looking at him when he was hidden behind that mask, after all, they were looking at fredbear. it was less personal, that way — he was less worried about what others thought when there was that slight layer of anonymity. he could focus on entertaining customers, keeping an eye on the kids during parties, etc etc. he could even enjoy it. a rare occurrence for a man so afraid of being perceived by others. he didnt use the suit often, but, when he did, he found a strange sort of comfort in it.

at least, he did until ... until evan. until he looked up at the stage and saw fredbears face — one he felt more connected to than his own, at times, as that was the one the public saw more often than not — drenched in the blood of the boy he regarded as closely as family. it makes him nauseous to even think about that animatronic to this day , a mixture of misplaced guilt and stomach-turning revulsion. he will never be able to get that image out of his head.

whether he was there when it happened — it was a party in his establishment after all, a party for the family that had accepted him as one of their own so readily. there was no doubt he wouldve wanted to attend one way or another — or if he was just sent in after the fact, left to be the one to clean up the stage and shut down the animatronic for good ... theres no way he wasnt left alone with fredbear for far too long after it happened. what that mustve done to him, the knowledge that fredbear — his animatronic, his creation, his second identity, the one he felt most comfortable in more often than not — had just crushed evans skull in its jaws. he wasnt as desensitized to death as he would eventually become, back then. evan was likely the first major loss he had experienced, the first death he had been close to, depending on what exactly happened with charlies mother by default in my canon [ which i still havent figured out yet, shhh... ] so... the fact that it was that gory, that traumatizing ... it wouldve shaken him to his core

evan. out of everyone it couldve been, it had been evan. hed loved that boy, loved him as his own — knew charlie saw him as her baby cousin and, god, she mustve been devastated too — and now, here he was, made to wipe the boys blood off of fredbears teeth, soak it out of his fur.

sure, maybe it wasnt entirely necessary — god knows fredbear would never be allowed up on stage again — but he felt like he had to. it was his duty. wouldve been disrespectful to them, both to fredbear and to evan, if the bot had just been left to rot in some storage room still coated in blood and gore. it wouldntve been right.

so he stayed, and he cleaned fredbear up. no matter how many sleepless nights it cost him — probably still costs him, haunted by the memory as he is — how many mealtimes he had to skip from how physically nauseated he was by the horrorshow shut away in his workshop, the countless hours he spent wallowing in the grief and guilt and swearing that hed never build something so inadvertently dangerous ever again ... he still did it.

even then, drowning in guilt as he was, i just know he wouldve refused to acknowledge that he was personally affected by the tragedy. no, no, the aftons were more important. what time he didnt spend restoring fredbear or trying his best to keep their company afloat throughout all this was spent consoling william. no doubt there was some amount of vitriol projected at him from the grieving father — if he blamed himself solely because his suit was the one that ended evans life, theres no way william didnt do the same to some degree. even if it made no sense at all, it wasnt like much did at that time. william was intent upon pointing fingers anywhere he could, first at michael and then at henry and then likely even at his own wife for not stopping it. that was just how he worked, how he processed his grief. everyone was at fault but himself. it wasnt targeted — henry just happened to be there to stick the blame on.

even if henry knew that, he would still end up internalizing the blame, i know he would — he would just take it as confirmation that the weird guilt he held, stemming from the strange attachment he held to fredbear, the entanglement of identities, was deserved. he and michael arent all that different in their responses to the bite, in that aspect, in the way the guilt eats them alive. god knows he would try to comfort the boy, if he could — if michael would let him, if william didnt see it as such a betrayal.

just . thinking about henrys reaction to the whole ordeal is so interesting to me . a tragedy he held no fault in, and yet he carries the weight of it in its entirety on his shoulders. deep-seated trauma that likely wouldntve hit him so hard if it werent for his constant need to take responsibility, to fix everything on his own. the loss that began the process of chipping away what few positive relationships he had left, yet he still somehow refuses to acknowledge that he has any right to mourn. evan wasnt his, after all. william clearly missed him more, right? william just lost his son. clearly that meant he needed to be henrys first and only priority, here. clearly henry didnt deserve any space to grieve.

[hexellent]

I know there are people who aren’t the biggest fan of Frontiers but honestly the story brings me a lot of joy.

I love the feeling of characters growing up with us, rather than remaining the same. I get to have the nostalgia of the old times while still feeling more relatable to, or at least more invested in, the growth and development of the characters.

That’s how I feel with SF. We see them reflecting on past experiences and deciding things have change, will continue to change, and they want that change for themselves. And the biggest factor in that is them being both inspired by sonic and separating themselves from him in terms of individuality and dependence.

And for Sonic, while his core hasn’t changed, his maturity in terms of his emotions and hero complex have grown. A younger Sonic would be almost optimistic to a fault, run head first without a plan and basically hope for the best. This one seems to be at least somewhat more level headed. No less willing to sacrifice himself for the world and his loved ones, but he at least considered his actions to a degree, and tries to form a general plan. He remains encouraging and positive without being dismissive of concerns.

Idk!! I think the characterizations in frontiers has a special place in my heart lmao.