#THOG JUST A GUY

[gorbo-longstocking]

oooo yay its my bday i just hit the big two four!!! so if you see my age in bio change you know whats up. uhh book update for the five people who are interested, i hit 33k words a few days ago and im having a blast writing it!! i still have a long way to go before its finished, i estimate the rough draft alone will take about a year to finish. but yeah the purpose of this post is to do a small poll—

i was thinking, that mayhaps, i could share a scene or two that i particularly liked or made me laugh every chapter to few chapters or so on this account? i wanted to ask before i do it because i know yall followed me for fanfic and i dont wanna clog anyones dash. however, it would be a way for me to share parts of my writing still (not doing so is making me insane ill write a scene and want to paul revere it so bad because i love it sm) and remain active on this account

[sracha]

lol

[endersdead]

white knuckling this bipolar episode trying to stay so cool and nice

[sheetzking]

no old man is safe from my greasy paws <3

[low-poly-leon]

Woah, slow down babe!

[just-some-guy-joust]

i do wonder how many of the the guy who didnt like musicals fans are actually reading the post. if they simply don't care about the possibility of a tie that's fine, but sometimes i wonder. like. your blorbos can move on together if you work together. it says so in the post

[windrunner]

i know i keep offering help and an open ear about more serious or practical things like legal shit/vpns/paperwork/safety/whatever but also.... truly if you just need to shoot the shit with someone to destress, i am here. frankly i think this is the perfect time if you've ever gone "damn i wanna talk to that guy about xyz" because i would love to talk about literally anything. if u need a friend i am just Here

[zfedraws]

wip i wanted to do for mermay but idk if ill finish it....

[cinnamnt]

one piece my behated

[devicecontact]

I hate that true lab gaster amalgamate theory video so much never talk about alyphs that way again

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

Remembering the brief period in my life when i was obsessed with ashido, the only filler character with rights bc kubo originally planned to include him in the manga but had to cut him for time

[beepbeepinthecorner]

Hey everyone meet my new Thrilling Intent sona/oc! He goes by Bal because Borbal is a hideous name. He’s pathetic. He relies on people mistaking him for a wizard so that they’ll be really surprised when he starts throwing knives.

I’m still futzing with his backstory but the basics is he is Alarani, got fucked over by the Alarani, fled Alaran, and is now trying really hard not to get his shit kicked in.

I figure If he met the gang they would fight initially so we could have the funny moment later where Markus Gregor inexplicably consider him a friend after fighting him once.

Conversations I have imagined him having, if you will indulge my cringeness:

-Gregor: “Do wizards normally throw this many knives? I’ve fought a lot of wizards and I feel like there’s usually less knives.”

-Bal: *sweating bullets and bleeding profusely* “They’re warning knives, better not stick around to see what terrible magics I have..!”

-Markus: “Really very common wizard tactic frankly I’m surprised you don’t recognize it Gregor.”

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-Ashe: “So you’re… NOT, a wizard..?”

-Bal: *forlorn sigh* “No… I just dress up as one in hopes that people won’t mess with me…”

-Ashe, visibly doubtful: “Does that… actually work?”

-Bal: *with shame* “Better than you might think, but hardly enough to make it worth it.”

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-Ashe: “That sounds… kind of depressing.”

-Bal: “That’s life in Alaran. You get beat in the streets for your diminutive size, so you pretend to be a wizard and get beat slightly less.”

-Gregor: “I’ve been there buddy. -Not really the dressing up as a wizard thing, but the beatings in the streets thing. It builds character. :o)”

-Bal: “Yeah, this guy gets it.”

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-Markus: “My gods, what a cowardly and deceptive strategy!” (/pos)

-Bal: “I was raised in Alaran, all I have are my wits and my cowardly deceptions!”

-Thog: “And an almost impressive amount of debt to Meadshire.”

-Bal: *deflated* “That was.. mostly beyond my control..”

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*After getting on good terms with the gang, about to meet some of their friends*

-Bal: *spots Thog and immediately ducks behind the nearest objects to hide*

-The gang: “???”

-Bal: *hissed whisper* “OH MY GODS. You didn’t tell me you’re affiliates of Meadshire!!”

-Ashe: “WH-“

-Bal: “I am at least 80% sure you legally have to disclose that..!!!”

[despazito]

We got caught in a storm and just had thunder that literally shook the floors yet despite being a sensitive little guy thog don't caare

[sewer-sermon]

can i ask about my guys. wimble or gabby. alternatively: sanf

ill do ya one better friend ILL DO ALL THREE! will be splitting it up into 3 different posts tho if ya don't mind 🫰

JIMBLETON FIRST! WHY NOT!

HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS CHARACTER:

Objectively Funny As Fuck Guy. i sincerely hope we never find out what's wrong with him. i don't think i could fix him but god i could make him so much worse. and at the end of the day, isn't that what love and the power of friendship is all about? he's also genuinely very compelling i think his Thog No Caare attitude is interesting as FUCK

ALL THE PPL I SHIP WITH THEM:

Oouhh let me pull up the list. tricky, sanford, deimos, cpot...Nevada's Most Wanted, for sure! (im not a multishipper btw these all just coincide In the exact same canon. to me. Hank has a lot of hands) (also no 2bhank, sorry y'all :( i think they're funny in the right circumstance but i am Not a fan of how the majority of the fandom uses it to reduce Hank to a mindless beast! and I just don't get much out of it as a dynamic LOL)

MY NON-ROMANTICAL OTP:

hmmmmm. toughie 4 sure. is it enough to say his dynamic with the auditor absolutely captivates me? how much auditor cares, how much he Doesn't? i think they're hilarious. im watching them with a theater monocle and a bucket of popcorn you must envision

MY UNPOPULAR ONION:

idkkkk Idkkkk i think ppl are kind of fucking weird and annoying about giving hank character agency. "he's a construct of the employers" "he's a mindless beast" "he's basically an animal as a MAG" all irritate me very badly. like i think the objectively funniest and most interesting way to look at hank is to view him as a regular ass person, bc that's what he is at his core- just one that's been granted a very dangerous loophole around dying.

ONE THING I WISH WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM IN CANON:

dude when the fuck ISNT stuff happening to this guy. i think there should be an episode where hank struggles really hard to have a Regular Day Without Violence. that's all

[stunted-boars]

Inien and Thog's views on Friendship+The Gang are so interesting (taken from ep 113)

Inien on Friendship: "Friends don't exist out[side] of direct convenience. I've seen you guys try to stick together despite stratifying slightly, and that, frankly, terrifies me in this day and age." (The fact that Inien has no frame of reference for friendships that exist beyond what is convenient at any given moment is DEEPLY ALARMING. Did she have no normal friendships growing up? Did she not see her peers pursue friendships? Was her family equally cutthroat? Was this viewpoint something she was taught, or something she pieced together herself? Why is she terrified of people choosing to stick together?)

Thog on Friendship: "Doing right by your friends is like the hardest shit in the world. [...] Cooperating with people, it's difficult as hell! [...] you're gonna fuck up all the time, probably forever! People are hard!" (He's not wrong, per say, but Thog's idea of friendship brings to mind his role of "middle manager." He's the guy who would have to keep probably multiple higher-ups and underlings happy—interpersonal relationships are mostly negotiations, deals, bargains. His ""friendships"" have probably been limited to "coworker I don't actively hate" for at least a couple years now.)

Inien on The Gang: "In the future, if I ever went on some... titanic voyage into my own self-psyche, could I count on you guys to come after me? Is that what you're telling me right now?" (Inien is still struggling to come to terms with people who will care about her when she's not literally right there being useful. The easiest way for her to frame the gang and her relationship with them is "people who will stop me from breaking myself if I go too far." Remind you of anyone else? *cough* Ashe *cough*. I also think its interesting how she deflects by asking if that's what he (Gregor) is saying to her. It's not her OWN views! She's not putting herself in a vulnerable position by asking them to come after her! She's just saying what he's thinking!)

Thog on The Gang: "All of you value different shit—I just want to make money, goddamn it! Here you come with your morals, complicating my freakin' brain! God! [...] All I wanted to say is, we're a business, we're a team, we're in it together." (Thog's interactions with other people has been limited to Meadeshire for years (and, before that, Alaran). That is to say, a very money-centric environment. He's still having a hard time coming to terms with people who care about stuff beyond that, but he's able to justify his own involvement (to himself) by reasserting the business/team aspect of The Gang's relationship (both businesses and teams can create environments where you work with people you might not care about). Jokes on you, you depressed bastard, you're part of this found family now and there's no getting out of it.)

...these two are going to learn how friendships work wether they like it or not

^ The Gang is doing this to them

[simcardiac-arrested]

sep is just so gender . to me. and by that i mean they don’t have a gender. their gender is nothing. but no actually their gender is Something. they will just not tell u what it is. tch. you could never comprehend. you could never fathom. they would never explain it to you. but just know that he can be your girlfriend if u want. he can be just a guy. he can be nothing. thog don’t caare. perceive him however u want and you will always be wrong but thog don’t caare. He’s just here to confuse people