#God forbid a girl be mean

[grlgogames]

ELODIE WAS MEAN ONCE AND YALL HATED HER

[ulteri0rm0tives]

Now.. I'm not doubting Johnny somewhat (?) loved Alt in his own convoluted and severely misguided ways but uh.. to call them soulmates? Did we uh.. did we not play the same game? Watch the same scenes? Because it's crazy y'all r saying that when we literally play as his actual soulmate

[egophiliac]

who is the pink lady with the hair

she's Truth from Ride Kamens! (...I'm not sure what the actual romanization of her name is. Torusu? 🙃) she's one of the villains, so she's still pretty ~mysterious~ at the moment, but so far we've been told that she's a Strong Female Cult Leader Executive who's super smart and super into herself (and who can blame her really) (her design is also more detailed than what I drew, I was just feelin' lazy)

just...look at her and listen to her voice lines and uhhhhhh basically I'm into in this Handsome Anime Man game for exactly the opposite reasons as intended

[langfield]

max ‘i allowed an entire town full of of innocent people to die in a horrific storm to save the girl i loved and i split apart the fabric of time and space so violently my actions erased a man from existence just so i could see the girl i loved again’ caulfield. she is NOT a red flag she’s just a very devoted lover ok. ignore the uh … destruction … and the frantic disregard for the laws of the universe

[m0thlegs]

maybe the real Viktor arcane season 2 character arc were the friends we made along the way

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Honestly in my head I’m always obsessed with thinking about Sasha Waybright as my personal favorite Mean girl in a long while. I mean she’s like a different type of mean girl from Amity or a Pacifica Northwest.

Sasha is such a wonderful character I love her so much. I love her as a villain, as a hero... my savior, my downfall I love the depth of her messed up behavior, I love how so many of the terrible things she does, she does them out of her messed up idea of love, I love how she keeps so many of her mean girl traits after her redemption while becoming so soft as well. I love how we get these two entirely different versions of the same character while she still feels always very much like her. I never got the idea that I was watching an entirely different character. I love how obvious it is that she loves her girls, even at her worst moments.

[jonathanbyersphd]

Anyways, if they kill Nancy I will consider that a GoT level of bad ending

[askblueandviolet]

emotional support frog is here with tiny boxing gloves ready to fight whoever gets near these 2 :3

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[seriousbrat]

Canon Lily does not have any character flaws though. We can argure it is because she was never fleshed-out character on her own in the books but neither was James and we got to see his good and bad qualities.

I disagree, I think we do see flaws in Lily even though they're fairly minor, as flaws go. (And Lily is more of a minor character than James imo.) Anyway, a character flaw doesn't have to be some HUGE abjectly terrible trait or behaviour like Sev or James might have. Most humans don't have some kind of obvious massive drawback to them lmao, most people are normal and their flaws/bad qualities are a bit more subtle than 'literally being a bully' and 'literally joining a fascist group.' When I say I think all characters should have flaws I don't mean they should all secretly be assholes or evil haha. There are ways to write realistic characters who are also good and kind people.

I have a post here about what I think Lily's flaws are. But I'll also add that the flaws she's shown to have in canon are the basis for the reasons people consider her to be selfish, judgmental, a bad friend, two-faced etc. It's realistic for everyone to have moments or parts of them that are selfish or judgmental, and it's realistic for people, especially teenagers, to be imperfect friends at times. The thing is that instead of people interpreting these flaws as fairly understandable and normal in a teenage girl, they jump to the worst possible conclusions and inflate them to a ridiculous degree, with a side of blaming her for everything the men in her life did.

If Lily wasn't shown to have those flaws, people wouldn't be able to jump to them in order to villainise her. It's so weird with Lily, either people believe she's a horrible irredeemable she-devil or else she's a way too annoyingly perfect mary sue virgin mother and badly written etc. It can't be both lol. Lily has a specific role in the story because it's told through Harry's perspective. Is it that weird for an orphaned boy to idealise his dead mother? No. It's not even that weird for a non-orphaned boy to idealise his alive mother. Personally when I read Lily's scenes in DH it doesn't feel to me that she was written as perfect, she just seems like a pretty normal, if notably kind young girl with normal reactions to things.

Her reading Petunia's letter from Dumbledore and using it as ammo in an argument seems realistic. Her telling Snape that he's being ungrateful because James saved his life seems realistic. Her blowing up at James during SWM seems realistic. Her remaining friends with Snape despite his actions, and falling for James despite his, seems realistic.

Is Lily the most developed character in HP? No, of course not, but that doesn't make her that criminally underdeveloped for her purpose in the narrative imo. She's literally dead for the entire story, why would she be as developed as someone like Hermione? It's true that because of her importance to the central mystery, we don't see much of her until the end. Yes that's a shame for fans of Lily, though I also think it works well for the reader (and Harry) to realise that Lily has more importance than we'd realised. Harry identifies with James because he's a boy, it's James he goes to follow in SWM, and the logical conclusion that his mother would also be there (he even sees her and just doesnt recognise her) doesn't even occur to him until she enters the narrative herself. Even then, she's an afterthought to the way Harry's feelings about James are bound up in his own identity.

It's meant to be that way, it's realistic for it to be that way, it's good foreshadowing for the way Lily later enters the narrative in an unexpected way, but anyway, I think even what we are given about Lily is enough to construct at least a rough outline of her character if you care to.

Nobody ever complains about characters like Grindelwald or Regulus being underdeveloped lol, because they're not actually present in the story, nor are they supposed to be, despite being important to other characters. I think there's some confusion since Lily is an important character in Marauders' era, but pls let's remember that all of this stuff that we talk about on here is just background to the main story of Harry Potter. Obviously there's characters who are going to be underdeveloped if you just take them as characters on their own, and yes, since I like Lily I wish we'd seen more of her, but also it makes sense that we didn't see that much because the story isn't about the Marauders' era lol.

Personally I think people judge Lily too harshly as a character. It's not that I think everyone has to like Lily at all, but I do find the standards she's commonly held to a bit ridiculous since they're never even remotely applied to male characters. If you're only interested in angsty dark mean men that's fine, if you're only interested in the characters that have more of a presence in the narrative that's understandable, but personally I don't think there's anything wrong with the mere existence of a female character who is a good and pleasant person haha

[painted-lemon]

Hi Magnus Archives fans

(we should really come up with a nickname)

Here is Nikola Orsinov because she is my favorite villain

Speed paint ⬇️ 🎭🤡🎪🔪

[lollyyon]

You’re telling me he can get sillier?

[honeybunchesobees]

it's bout to be 20-fucking-24, and we still out here discussing if chloe price is a toxic bad person or not. yall chloe haters just admit yall hate women and cant handle a bad bitch, and we can move the fuck on. cuz im sick a yall.

[ace-disaster-weeb]

People shitting on April 24/7 when Shredder's characterization can be boiled down to "incel with anger issues and no moral compass" will never not be annoying to me

[saturnniidae]

Mabel Pines did so much for weird autistic girls worldwide everyone thank her pls

[eloiscbridgerton]

🤏this close to deleting a certain gifset bc why am i getting hate replies (deleted and blocked mwah) on it saying im fucked and stupid lmao 😭 like i made that gifset 2 hrs before the la times article confirming it was helly and when i read it i was like ohh okay it's helly! and moved on like a normal person omfg severance fandom is hell. yall wont get a medal for being right lol

[quietwingsinthesky]

also when it comes to millie and sam what u simply must understand is that sam is pro-millie having a choice in things, sam is happy to be on millie’s side and listen to her contributions and pull her into the conversation. because he does really, truly believe that millie should get a choice in whatever they’re doing, or whatever she’s doing.

just. you know. up to the point where she’s doing something Bad/Wrong/Dangerous. and then he needs to find a way to Save Her From Hurting Herself. millie gets to choose what happens right until sam stops seeing her and starts seeing himself, and then she’s not allowed to make mistakes. like he did. for her own good.