#IM SURE I COULDVE THOUGHT OF MORE TROPE REVERSALS/MORE TROPES I LIKE

[chryzure-archive]

hmm what r some of ur favourite tropes to write about or to read? what kind of twists or smthing do u like for those tropes owo. FAVE THINGS TO PUT IN CHARACTER DESIGNS??? top 5 book characters….i like ur book opinions so much <3

EXTREMELY CLICHÉ, but i adore “trapped in a small space together” trope…. writing it is fun, reading it is fun—because you’re Stuck There!!! so it’s time to forcibly progress this relationship!!! BONUS POINTS IF ONE IS CLAUSTROPHOBIC, so the other has to think of ways to distract them!!! when it’s done right… oh yeah, it’s EXCELLENT.

also wearing the other one’s clothes… irl, it jst makes me happy when ppl steal my clothes (not in a romantic sense, jst more in a !!!!!! we’re friends and you trust me and i trust you!!!!!), so obvi i LOVE it in writing too!! i esp love chryzure where chrysi’s wearing azure’s sweaters and she’s so tiny in them!! plus vice versa, where azure wears chrysi’s oversized hoodies and it fits him nicely and she’s like “oh…….. that looks very nice on you………….” struck through the heart with an arrow!!! blame cupid!!!

oh, wait wait, more serious answer—writing and reading forced arranged marriage that slowly turns to love is also something i love. the mirror visitor series did it impeccably, but i ESP love when it’s like “i can’t tell if you actually love me or if the marriage made you change your mind” “who cares? we’re together now and i love you because of it. why deny ourselves this?” AHHHH, GOING CRAZY, GOING WILD.

okay hmmm, some fun twists i have on tropes…. suddenly, i have forgotten every story idea or scene snippet i have thought abt ever.

OH, OKAY, WAIT I HAVE ONE!!! so yk the trope where someone pulls their friend/lover off someone they’re beating up??? well, azure will pull chrysi off someone she is violently attacking (it’s deserved) and she’ll jst dangle in his arms like a blood-stained kitten. he doesn’t put her down. her feet can’t reach the ground :((( and then, similar to the second lilo & stitch movie, if the person makes a snarky comment that pisses both azure and chrysi off, he’ll jst go “actually.” and release chrysi to attack once more. he supports chrysi’s violence 🖤

another (less happy) one is the idea that true love DOES conquer all…. but there’s a price for it :((( so, YES, azure WILL save chrysi—he’ll defy all odds and fix everything!!!… but he’s gone for good now. he’s dead. he can’t come back and haunt chrysi—she doesn’t even get the relief of being able to see his ghost. that’s the case in the chrysigil story… azure breaks all laws of nature to save his chryseis, and that’s all he has the strength for. it hurts, but i love it. the love didn’t last, but it was still there! it mattered because it was beautiful and fragile and it was love—doesn’t mean it wins every time. stephanie simply couldn’t understand such a concept, smh

I ADOREEEE red eyes + curly/messy hair, DARK EYES, MY BELOVED!!!! all my characters all have some sort of freckle or mole or facial mark because i think faces are so fascinating…… i love having unnatural hair colors on my characters as well!!!! and SMILES, making them unique!! like a scar on the lip, or a freckle, or dimples. long hair is also something i LOVE. drawing long hair is SO FUN FOR ME.

ooohhh, top five book characters??? difficult! i’ll make it worse by not mentioning any of chrysi’s book bfs because that’s cheating. also, this isn’t in any particular order, it’s jst in order of who i recall!

lucy carlyle from lockwood and co. !!!! i think she’s such a fun protag, esp since she’s so coarse and rude and imperfect and headstrong!!! i love her, i want to adopt her :)

MISTRESS LUCK, WAIT, HOW COULD I FORGET HER…..: LOVE HER SOSOSO MUCH, SHE DESERVED MORE SCENES. FOR MY PLEASURE. DEEPLY UPSET…. I MISS HER :(((((((( finale’s only flaw was that there was not more of Her 🥰

sir percy blakeney frm the scarlet pimpernel because wow!!!! vigilante leader pretending to be The Stupidest, Most Vain Man Alive?????? the BLUEPRINT for chrysi and her vigilante shenanigans, esp in my 1800s zombie au!!!! everything he does is SO funny to me & i also love all the different iterations of him (i actually endorse both the movie and the musical, despite both being different from the book. i need to read the other books in that series so i can judge those as well!!)

tea & kalen frm the bone witch…. i cannot separate them. they are deeply in love. and they’re so adoring of each other that it makes me cry…. rin chupeco knew what they were doing + i think they should write more romances like that actually……… i do need to read their other books because i love their writing style sm!!!

………. now i know he committed so many crimes and everything he did was inadvisable and i think he probably deserved what happened to him, BUT i love my wet pathetic little meow meow augustine lawrence from the death of jane lawrence…… i will accept everything he’s done. i support his actions. the scene where he’s crying through the walls + begging for help??! the scene where he’s coughing + sweaty + feverish from the curse???? ALRIGHTY THEN. he’s such a little bastard, but he’s one step away frm bursting into tears at all times that it’s okay!!! i endorse it!!!!!!!!!! :)

THANK YOU ALSO, i was jst ranting to a friend abt my book opinions, so it makes my heart warm + happy that you like my book opinions 🥰🥰🥰 i will continue to have them :>

[jemmo]

ok i never fell down the gramblack void (thank god) but even im mad. the handling of this situation was just so messy. bc the thing is, they were trying to pull that classic ‘oooh you think the guy is in love with his best friends girlfriend but sike hes gay hes in love with the best friend’ thing and what, reverse it??? pull a ‘oooooh you think hes gay but sike nope straight as can be’???? nope, im sorry, but that doesnt work for me. narratively yes, sure, white mistook the note and the letters on the figures and thought gram liked black, and that in itself was supposed to be a whole ‘sike you thought gram was stealing black’s girlfriend and that could be something to do with black getting attacked, but actually gram likes black so nope, couldnt have been him’, like early on they were going with this storyline to fit with the whole todd telling white to be suspicious of the gang bc one of them could’ve hurt black. but nope, turns out gram actually was trying to steal black’s girlfriend this entire time. and this whole gay sike nope thing not only feels kinda queerbait-ey, but its also just not a trope i feel that can be applied the other way around. the sike im gay thing works bc its always been established that gay people have to hide their feelings, especially gay people pining after straight friends. but that just doesnt make sense the other way around, straight people dont have to hide their straightness. you could argue gram had to hide his feelings bc of being blacks friend but hes more than happy to get involved with eugene while her relationship with black is still rocky so i dont see how thats a problem. but more so, straightness being narratively hidden by gayness just doesnt sit right with me. and im not sure if its better or worse that it happened in this show, where queerness is so present. bc yes you can say oh there’s already 2 gay couples, you dont need another, not everyones gay, but when you’re being presented with two characters and the idea of them being together, or one of them having a thing for the other, you’re gonna believe it so easily and simply bc gayness is not an impossibility in the show. plus this isnt me being mad about gramblack not happening just bc i liked them and shipped them. as i said, i never fell into the void, gramblack and the whole thing with eugene has always been the part of the show i cared about the least, but i still dont like this bc it just didnt work right for me. you build up gramblack with all these hints, gram being touchy and flirty with black, the whole conversation with yok, the bit on the bike, gram helping out black after the fire and when he was strangled by sean, all of the protest stuff, and for what?? bc in this ep not only do you say sike no gramblack, but you’ve slowly been removing gram from the gang in scenes he should be in for no reason, now that black is back you dont show us any connection between them even tho yeah he may not have feelings for him but all that relationship build up at least implies theyre friends and he cares. when black walked in that room, or when he found out it was white not black this entire time, he couldnt have gave less than a shit, he was just... fine. yok made sense, yok we’ve seen has very little connection with black and its very in yok’s character to just go with it. but gram??? he is black’s best friend, they go to class together, theyre close, at least thats what i thought. but now gram’s either mia or just hanging out like nothing happening outside of group scenes has any effect on whats happening. you’d think he’d try to talk to black about his feelings for eugene, or act weird around him, but no we got none of that build up either. and worst of all, gram has gone from what couldve been a loveable, kind character to someone stripped of all personality that just pursues a girl who has already rejected his advances. there was no build up to their relationship, no chemistry, he’s trying to be the whole knight in shining armour that treats eugene better than black, but what she actually deserves is to not be messed around with these boys and live her life. fine, if gramblack was just a sike, thats fine. gram already wasnt acting like he cared about black was doing that much bc he wasnt fucking there, so i already kinda stopped believing. but when gram kept on going after eugene, what would’ve been better si for black to walk into that room then, and for eugene to be worried and hug him and kiss him and for gram to see that black may be shitty, but eugenes always gonna care about him and love him more than gram. hes always gonna be second best, and so he lets go, moves on. no one gets together, there is no mess, eugene lives her life, black burns society down and gram goes back to being in the gang where he always shouldve been. not me has done so so much right that im fine just ignoring this whole thing bc ultimately it doesnt rlly affet anything, but the unnecessary mess its caused is just... its such a miss. sorry.