#accurately portray a character

[bl-inkstone]

rambling in the tags for a bit before i go and work on smth else

[catihere]

Considering his upbringing as a Greek demigod with a relatively present godly parent and an apparently open-minded mortal mother, with only a brief part of his childhood spent in fascist Italy, Nico is not very likely to have what we call “religious trauma” or “catholic guilt”.

Will, born and raised in the south of the USA in the early 2000s, on the other hand…

[sonicexelle-junkary]

Ah, the sound of children’s laughter. Ain’t it just music to your ears?

[neostellarjpg]

a couple of older aradia drawings from my twt

[lostreverb]

kudos to evan for giving almost every one of his characters an accent (even if it's subtle) like he definitely could've gotten away with just using his regular voice for warren or peter but he doesn't! even jay has a certain cadence of speech that's not a part of the typical canadian accent. i really appreciate it bc i'm big on immersion in media and little stuff like this helps separate the character from the actor playing them (and makes the character feel more authentic too). so when you're watching it makes it a bit easier to not think "oh that's just evan peters in a silver wig" like no that's peter maximoff.

[pepperpixel]

Yadda yadda yadda jinx is generally seen as a loose canon, does whatever she wants type of character, totally unpredictable. When in actuality, up until the last few episodes all of her choices and actions r motivated by wanting to please someone else. Hell. Even in the last couple episodes, the very Last thing we see her doing is ENTIRELY MOTIVATED by devotion and love and grief for silco, she’s taking out her frustration at herself and the world, and also honoring his wishes and dreams. By shooting a fucking bomb at piltover, she’s ensuring his life wasn’t in vain, she’s honoring him. In that moment

Her entire, self!!! is centered around love and loyalty. Is centered around other people, She’s motivated by an insatiable urge to prove herself, to be useful to those she loves, to show that she can help them and be there for them and be WORTHY of there love. That they haven’t made a mistake in loving her. To prove that she can be as pivotal to them as they r for her. She goes to the ends of the fucking earth to do this. And it ends. Terribly.

She puts the people she loves on pedestals and supplicates at there feet, she has no motivations most of the show outside of making the people she loves happy… she yearns for connection and love and safety. For a home that will never leave her behind, or crumble under her feet, (an indestructible home, That she can’t destroy just by being her…)

Which is why.. it’s so. Interesting and intriguing. How now, she has no one on that pedestal to worship, no one to drag sacrifices and offerings to the feet of, no one to spiral around and build herself off of. She is a person so *affected* by her relationships w others, but there is no relationship now, no one is stepping up to the plate to love her. She’s too much. For anyone. The one person who seemed to have unlimited patience for her is dead, because of her. and maybe vi could still love her.. but. She’s already soured that relationship. Already broken that one too. Broken all her favorite toys that made her so happy. That were there for her. And scared all the rest away. (There is a limit to what vi can support and forgive to reconnect w her sister. And I believe terrorism is crossing that limit ghgh)

And maybe, jinx is cutting that part of herself out on purpose. To be stronger, she’s realized she just. Isn’t made for love. That she ruins it all in the end. That it just makes everything worse. Messier. More complicated. She’s better off on her own, but for what PURPOSE! Who will she be now! What choices will she make!?! Almost all of her actions in the show were for others, what is driving her now, now that she has this gaping void at the center of her being. Where love used to be… what kind of person will she become, Without a guide to follow… a sun to orbit around. it’s sad honestly ghghg-!!! like yeah it’s not healthy that she is this way but there’s no THERAPY IN ARCANE. THIS IS THE WAY SHE IS! And now. She’s alone… it’s rough. But also intriguing…!! And I honestly have no clue how she’s gonna act in season 2,,, or what sorta shit she’s gonna get up to. but I’m excited.

[let-roman-bite-someone]

btw i really really hope that janus's current characterization, with the wine and sass, is just there for the more light-hearted episodes, and that thomas hasn't forgotten the nuance behind his character.

[vividdreamer]

i've lost all respect for larian studios

[flaggermuser]

Do you ever get insecure that you don't write a character correctly?

I do. Mainly with Homelander. I'm always worried that I don't get his tone right or I make him too soft.

You think with all the fics I've written that I would have gotten him right. But you'd be wrong.

Insecurities at work today.

[wakeywakeyjakey]

maybe this is a dumb question because the answer is just “they’re cool” or whatever, but as someone with DID I’m so curious what draws non-systems to characters like Harvey Dent/Two Face, Moon Knight, etc. because like—I know why we like them (because we see ourselves in the characters, it’s cool representation of stories we can relate to, etc.) but I’m curious how that extends to folks who aren’t plural, where the interest stems from

also as a slightly mumbled follow-up question: Do y’all fully see the validity in their DID/alters and DID as a whole IRL? Because sometimes I wonder if the non-systems who like these characters just see it as a quirk, gimmick, part of their character that’s just as fantasy element as opposed to a real thing

[kesia-stupid-arts]

I believe I read through Maxwell's dialogues 10 times already, it's my pastime

[yuseirra]

children

[asexual-juliet]

outsiders book purists you are allowed to have strong opinions about and fundamentally disagree with the musical changing the way dally’s suicide plays out but don’t act like they did it for no reason like it is abundantly clear why that choice was made

[artistfingers]

just hangin out!!

[pangolin-404]

laios and marcille are #1 falin fans and yet they both seem to fall into the pitfall of mistaking falin's carefree nature and monotone for a childishness innocence or ignorance

they do this for different reasons (laios seeing her as a younger sister, a child to be taken care of, even if she is now an adult who can and has taken care of herself) (marcille being existential about short-lived races and her loved ones) but it's so interesting to see, and it's just as interesting how falin takes it. just. as I watch the anime and refresh myself on the plot and characters after reading the manga. the way falin brushes over her own confusion over literally not knowing what happened, because everyone clearly would rather coddle her. she lets marcille help bathe her even if she's back to full strength (as a naturally powerful magic user) and apologizes to laios for something she doesn't remember she did, to make him feel better. she's a really interesting character

[inanimationinsanitation]

Potential ideas for more TPOT 10 Nightmares:

Clock: Being forgotten - His teammates forget about him the moment they enter his head, they spend the episode trying to remember what they need to do

Snowball: Being armless/weak - Snowball doesn't have arms, TSTOE has to get through to him while he keeps getting more and more reckless trying to prove that he isn't weak

Donut: He doesn't have a canon fear, but I like to think the time he was factored with Four affected him more than he likes to admit - Donut gets factored with Four again and gradually loses control over their powers, his team either has to help him get control or to somehow remove Four from his body

Golfball: Having no control - She doesn't usually have control over everything anyway, but she'd probably really hate having no control at all, maybe put her in cage and have her unable to do anything while her team has to free her