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[pyrrhicraven]

Me pleading with my Muses to just let me finish a fic for once.

[jadeoxfordrose]

Thea - Break and Future

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

The collapse of House Bastien. Losing Della (either due to her dying or emotionally, if she were to go all in with Sylvestri + Rowan). Jules (her brother) being killed. Her mental state feels very precarious right now I won't lie, especially given the moral gymnastics she's been having to reckon with. I'm not sure what this version of Thea looks like fully broken in spirit but the old Thea? That was bad. Tino and Hamelin bore witness to some of that and I think it was very much a dead woman walking - very checked out with periods of lucidity and feralness - before she was able to rebuild herself.

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

Aside from the one that appears to be rushing towards the coterie lol. but seriously, the machinations of the conspiracy to make the Lord the religious figurehead of the city, with the conspirators in the top seats of power given who these men are as people? that is the nightmare scenario and there is no telling just how far reaching the consequences of that would be. thea feels *excruciatingly* aware of this possibility and just close it might be to coming to pass and is trying her damnedest to stop it.

From oc asks: not-so-nice edition

[snailcubezz]

fandom wiki simulator

[mobblespsycho100]

touden stare down

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

[chessb0r3d]

Analysis so bad you don't even know what it's talking about anymore.

[eastgaysian]

[ruushes]

had some very specific things i wanted to work on this weekend and got possessed by the specter of undercut lae'zel instead 🤦

[sabertoothwalrus]

young stan & eda but it's sapphic

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[tiger-grace]

Interviewer: as a father of many adopted kids from different social backgrounds than your own, what do you have to say about the concept of nature vs. nurture?

Bruce Wayne: well I love all my kids dearly and I’ve tried my best to see that they grown up responsibly so let me tell you-

(News plays footage of Dick swinging on the chandelier at a gala last week)

Bruce: let me tell you I’m just about nurturing a fucking headache at this point

[jadeoxfordrose]

Thea - wound and secret

(From the not-so-nice OC questions)

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

*ugly sad laughter* So, the thing about someone nearly successfully killing you and going through a spiritual resurrection/rebirth of sorts following that event and the abusive relationship that proceeded it has left Thea with some...baggage. As a forged in the dark character, one of her XP triggers is addressing a challenge through recklessness and she is upsettingly willing to put her personal safety on the line.

Arguably she has dealt with worse wounds since the attempted murder (she is significantly stronger now - party tank is gonna tank) but that is still her most significant wound - especially given the psychological weight it carries. The scar around her neck and the one on her cheek are the markers of her old life and the one that was taken from her, and the person she might have been.

She's very much a 'walk it off until you can't' type, I picked up the triage move for her let lets her effectively reduce the severity of a wound until a job is over and then it has to be dealt with. Her body is something to be used (it's no real surprise that she has been a sex worker before moving into this more violent ine of work, as much as she doesn't relish in hurting other people) and her physicality is something that often catches people by surprise (short round woman in her mid-30s, will kick anyone and everyone's ass who tries their luck)

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

This one is harder to answer - I'm not sure if she really has any secrets that aren't known by at least one person, much to her frustration. I'm definitely gonna think on this one some more though because it feels like she should lol.

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[factual-fantasy]

If you ask the neighbors which one of them is the funniest, most would say its Barnaby.

If you asked Barnaby who's the funniest neighbor? He'd say its Frank XD

[butchfalin]

[lottieurl]

hyperfixations are so scary like yeah this could be a month long thing or i might be thinking of it everyday seven months from now. no way to tell