#actually i dont think any of them would like me

[stealingpotatoes]

@arunicdeath suggested bode/ trilla should be a thing yesterday and then i went completely and utterly insane so have a doodle of them

if the doodle doesnt convince u then here's a copy/paste of me frothing at the mouth last night in the cal server CRAZY MAJOR JEDI SURVIVOR SPOILERS DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED IT:

the awareness u have both been made to do horrible horrible things for the empire that killed your people. that trilla had no choice and was barely more than a child but bode sold his integrity for his daughter's safety. how they deal with that when they help each other deal with their traumas that trilla was part of the actual group that killed his wife!! (i wrote a fic where she was the one that killed his wife but i dont think thats realistic) she probably trained with that inquisitor, had meals with them, was allies with them. she has caused so many tragedies just like his. yet is he any better self recognition through the other (derogatory) yeah okay im obsessed w this now thanks especially w the bode giving up his morality when trilla's was taken from her bc she wouldnt be able to understand that!!!! what do you mean you just handed yourself over1!! what do you mean you just walked into the den of your enemies and said here's my heart i'll do as u ask!!! TRILLA HAD NO CHOICE IT WAS RIPPED AWAY FROM HER ON A TORTURE TABLE. SHE BROKE YES BUT FIRST SHE ENDURED but then coming to understand that bode's head was his own torture table that he endured his order's death then his wife's death and all he had left was his daughter! he had a choice but it was HIS DAUGHTER'S SAFETY and the goddamn empire was his best bet the empire broke him as much as it did her it was just in a very different way!!!! AND THEN THEY HAVE TO DEAL W THE FACT THEYRE BOTH FRIENDS W TOP TEN JEDI EVER CAL KESTIS (who wouldnt have even turned to the dark bc this requires bode being alive which therefore requires cere being alive and so cal wouldnt go ape) WHO WAS YOUNGER THAN BOTH OF THEM AND YET NEVER TURNED TO THE EMPIRE OR THE DARK AND NEVER GAVE UP THE FIGHT. and sure its not as simple as that BUT IT WOULD SEEM THAT SIMPLE IF U WERE IN THEIR POSITIONS COMPARING URSELF. HE WAS LITERALLY A BABY WHEN IT HAPPENED AND YET HE'S KEPT THE LIGHT BETTER THAN U!!! ow!!

[thewertsearch]

JOHN: now that you mention it, i'm pretty beat. JOHN: also… starving!!! JADE: woof! JADE: whoops

"i cant really control the woofs :/"

JOHN: [...] one of the last things rose saw before she died was me dying… JOHN: i wonder if she knows i'm ok? JADE: im pretty sure she knows a ton of things now JADE: considering she is a fully realized seer of light

Not that we've been told what that actually means.

Rose herself believes that Seers of Light are cognizant of 'the big picture', but can't see fine details. It sounds like a 'fuzzy' sort of clairvoyance - an ability which supplies her with some basic facts about a subject, but not the nuances.

Her God Tier self presumably has the same ability, but with greater scope. I'm imagining it as the ability to read a Sparknotes summary of any subject in existence, including the current status of her loved ones.

Our newly-minted goddess of Light probably knows the essentials of John and Jade's situation - that they're alive, unharmed, and travelling to the new session - but can't actually scry on their conversation.

JADE: if you go i dont think i can bring you back JADE: i cant bring anyone or anything to here from there!

Thought so. While it would be cool to unite all these long-distance-friends for good, keeping them apart will make for some nice drama. Besides, their reunion will be even sweeter after a three-year wait.

JADE: if theres a way i havent figured it out yet JADE: i am still kind of new to this omnipotence thing after all :\

Yeah, and there's one particular facet of First Guardianhood that's going to hit you like a train.

Intelligent first Guardians are near-omniscient.

Now, Jade doesn't appear to have unlocked this trait yet - but she's a smart cookie, and no one said it had to happen instantly. If I'm any judge, she's got a big storm coming.

JOHN: what is with all these rules! [...] JADE: maybe to somewhat limit the power and reach of omnipotent beings?

Hilarious sentence. No notes.

JOHN: if there are limits to your powers, you can't exactly be OMNIpotent, can you? JOHN: more like… JOHN: semipotent.

...and you'd better believe I'm stealing that one.

JOHN: so, the dog ears… JOHN: is that a permanent thing now, or what? JADE: i think so JOHN: i like them. JADE: i do too! JOHN: you are like a furry now, but not really the weird kind that people on the internet like to have sex with in their imagination.

How the fuck do you know about those? You're like, the poster child of sheltered upbringings!

...it was Dave, wasn't it.

JOHN: hey, can i at least send a message through? JOHN: like a note or something?

[randomwriteronline]

btw still not over @crystaltoa 's whole post on narrative and destiny and bionicle characters being aware they're characters but not in a common fourth wall breaking way. Random thinks too hard two electric boogaloo

Like. The Matoran Universe is a fictional universe within the already fictional universe of Bionicle. Like the more realized version of a book in a book. It's a completely artificial manufactured cosmos where essentially nothing is real - most elements are replaced by protodermis, animals and plants are produced, the inhabitants are engineered and built via assembly lines, their sapience was installed post-completion - and the awareness of this is None. Like Crystal mentions in the original post, the characters know they're following Destiny like it's the rough draft of a play and they're actors of the Commedia dell'Arte, taking on certain archetypical roles and adhering more or less closely to their traits and clichés, but that's where the self-awareness ends because to them this is a performance of life, not a pantomime. The nature of the Matoran Universe naturally prevents any knowledge of or contact with the wider "real" universe, so they remain ignorant to how fictitious their existence is and continue to perceive their own reality as the only possible one (ITS THE FUCKING CAVE AGAIN).

Keep this in mind for later.

Now back to Destiny. MU beings seem to have a tendency to conflate or heavily associate it with Mata Nui ("the will of Mata Nui" being used as a synonym for it, the Order of Mata Nui working to ensure it), to the point where it would be fair to assume that the two are one and the same, or that at least Mata Nui has some agency on Destiny; however, while it's true that Mata Nui is heavily tied to Destiny to the point of seeming its incarnation, he just as submitted to it as the rest of the MU beings are, if not possibly more.

In the narrative of Destiny, Mata Nui is at once playing both the Objective and the Ultimate Hero - not in the sense that he's the platonic ideal of the role, but that at the end of the day he is the proper main character, if not the ONLY proper character for it. The concept of Destiny with a capital D is after all a creation of the Great Beings, whose principal concern and endgame is eventually* healing Spherus Magna: since Mata Nui is made for this specific purpose, Destiny exists to ensure he actually follows through with it; since Mata Nui needs to be functional in order to succeed, the narrative of Destiny converges around him and works to compel the MU beings towards keeping him alive. Thus, as mentioned, he is both hero and objective, protagonist and macguffin.

*dont fuckin talk to me abt the great beings and how they provoked the entire plot of bionicle through their tendency towards inaction and apathy. perhaps ill elaborate one day but the jist of it is that i need to bite them in the ass

This duality intrinsic to his character is made explicit by the constant if sometimes faint separation between his soul/spirit/essence ("him" proper) and his body (a "thing" he only inhabits) - causing him to oscillate between being a person and being an object, with the latter often winning over the former especially while he was commanding the Great Spirit Robot. His exile from this incarnation of fiction into the "real" world doesn't unshackle him from the narrative, which is too far above him from him to be escaped just like that, but it does allow him to take a detour outside of it and come into his own self in a way he's been unable to experience until now - because he hasn't exactly been a character at all, let alone an active player. He is first and foremost a tool, a means to an end; he's less reciting/living a part and more doing the job he's been built to do, and this singleminded and utilitarian approach to his identity seems to have been at least part of the problem in how effectively he could perform his task as it prevented him from noticing the problems which then led into the main conflict of Bionicle. By being forcefully exiled from fiction and having to become "real" he finally surpasses this obstacle and gains the mindset and skillset of a proper protagonist, finally realizing his heroic potential to a point where he can put it in practice.

Teridax, on the other hand.

Crystal has said it before because it is true and correct and right, so it's worth saying again: Teridax loves being the Villain. He's enamored with the role to such a disgusting degree that he essentially hoarded it for himself the moment he found out it was an option and nearly everybody else had to be declassed to Lackey or Antagonist in comparison. It's more than a role or a calling - it's a lifestyle. He makes it his whole personality and reason of being, completely abandoning his original purpose as a Makuta (in direct contrast with Mata Nui, who instead focused exclusively on his purpose at the cost of neglecting his role). He revels in the clichés, the monologues, the manipulation, the cruelty, the ominous laughs, the stark shadows, the drama and theatricality of it all. He likes it so much that it literally makes him stupid.

Teridax runs The Plan in tandem with Destiny in order to usurp it, replacing it with his own design in the same way he aims to replace Mata Nui with himself in the role of Great Spirit. In his mind, these are equivalent pairs: Mata Nui coincides with Destiny just like Teridax coincides with The Plan, so by replacing one you replace both, and he gains power not just over the universe but over the story itself.

Of course, as explained above, this is completely wrong: while he can and does run The Plan as parallel to Destiny in a way that makes them effectively overlap, and he does succeed in gaining Mata Nui's power, he remains a character subjugated by a narrative which is completely out of reach for him and continues to influence how the consequences of his actions will ultimately play out. This is immediately obvious to the reader the second he decides to get rid of all his problems by shooting them into space, completely unaware of the fact that the narrative has already made it so that Mata Nui will have the means to reach his objective, get another physical form, and eventually find a replacement for the body he needed for his quest, rendering the Great Spirit Robot mostly obsolete (which will be part of the reason why, again in tandem with Teridax's need for gratuitous cruelty, it will eventually be bested by the technically much worse Prototype Robot), all while Teridax is too busy learning the commands and terrifying his blood cells to realize his genius idea is going to get back at him and curbstomp him into the surface of a moon in roughly a couple of weeks.

But there's more!

Because the Great Spirit Robot is in and of itself a sort of physical manifestation of fiction as the container of the fictional Matoran Universe, it's effectively the most gargantuan vessel of Destiny available in the Bionicle Universe. As such, it is intrisically tied to the rule that dominates both of the stories centered around it: in Destiny's case, that Mata Nui will always succeed; in Bionicle (a story for kids)'s case, that the Villain will always fall to the Hero.

Teridax proudly, confidently and without doubt turns himself into the embodiment of his inevitable defeat.

[lily-claw]

First of all, im sorry if you took it as something rude because just because i mainly ship bkdk doesnt mean i dont like izuocha and i believe izuocha deserved better than this.

You actually said it on your own, Ochako had/has feelings for him and she deserves to be someone she likes. Yes, i agree but not in a rushed way, trying to make them look better in a chapter looked bad and she deserved better than that.

We can comment on an art as long as we do not act rude so i find it funny🤡 I think the way you say "THIS MEANS NOTHING" is way much more rude and its not only to other shippers but also for the artist bc wdym by"this means nothing?"

I think its like bnha's last chapters in a nutshell thingy but in one art lmao

Did you see Ochako's page in final fan book? We didn't see anything new about her program. The way horikoshi made it look lile her program isnt even close to bakugo and todoroki's remedial class is even worse. The only thing we saw was her trying to help a child to use his beaming(?) quirk to shot Lemillion' s butt💀💀 I've never said "i want her to be a lesbian for her dead lover so she can be happy" just how are you reading my comments? 😭😭

Also how does she not daydreaming about toga? We saw her seeing toga in her dreams, we saw her talking about toga with tsuyu, we saw her seeing toga giving a push to her when she was with izuku. Do you really mean that those were nothing or that was real? 🤔

And you know what, im gonna add toga deserved better tag there too since hori actually thought about letting her being alive. She deserved better too. She just died bc it was a way for her to take punishment. I dont understand how this would make anything better.

And also where do you know that bakugo never wanted to be with him? Or Izuku also has feelings for Ochako? Did horikoshi told you? Bc i remember him saying "imagine it" (sorry izuocha shippers deserved vetter too, he lowkey roasted you💀

Bakugo literally said "for the rest of our lives" thingy, and just after deku starting to be back in top numbers he got in top 5🤡🤡 even if he doesnt love him like you think, i dont think that he hates him bud🫠

I think Bakugo deserved better bc he looked so depressed in chapter 431. He was number 4 but just because his loud mouth, he became number 15. Then how the heck Endeavor stayed as number 2?? What actually changed in the system? Was he actually acting out of his place so he become number 15?? (and the way he become number 5 was also a lil bit weird lol did he just shut his mouth so he'd be more close to deku?? It doesn't feel good enough.)

Also weve never seen them having therapy ofc they deserved better than this ayo they all need therapy before anything 😭😭 according to psychology, the grieving process is an average of one year under normal circumstances so-🥴🥴

I really wanna know why you needed to say to me stop being delusional bc i genuinely thought that picture is funny

Also anyone can ship whatever they want as long as it doesnt harm anyone. We can joke about the ship situation as long as we dont actually try to hurt each other in any way. It really is not that much of a serious thing, you know? 🫠🫠

I dont think that i was trying to belittle izuocha, if you understood it that way im sorry that i hurt your feelings but the way you write this post doesnt look kind either. I hope you can write something like this in a more kind way if you are gonna write again because you dont look like you have any respect to me either.

I will also take out izuocha tag out from there if any izuocha shippers can give me an actual and kind comment about how it disrespects the ship.

The fact that noguchi cencored this bc he thought its sensitive... Guys, I think he is trying to cope while being known as Horikoshi's assistant.

It looks like that meme where deku asks "does your gf has to be here?" and uraraka responds as "does yours?" lmao I can't take this seriously...

[ohagiyoo]

HATES chess

brain rot user no.1

posted one of those “top 10 girls you should NEVER date”

sets up a shit ton of mistletoes and stands under them incase a girl passes underneath it (karasu spoils his fun and takes down the mistletoes right infront of him or just straight up makes it so he and otoya r the only people under said mistletoe to spoil his plans)

uses abbreviations & words like "dude, chat, vro" while texting CONSTANTLY

talks to chat when he's alone "chat is this fr"

avid emoji user

def has a snapchat

snap score of like a billion

if his partner asks him if he's cheating on them, he wont try to lie or anything and just tell them that he is. idk i dont think he's the type to lie since he doesnt think it's actually that big of a deal

used to have an account where he would post thirst traps

searched up him and karasus ship name and tormented karasu with the poorly written a/b/o fanfic of them CONSTANTLY

lactose intolerant but continues to consume any and all dairy products (me too, otoya, me too)

for valentines day, he gets a shit ton of chocolates and since i hc him as hating chocolates karasu ends up eating half of them while yukimiya takes the rest

notes ;; wrote a karasu one so now im burdened with doing an otoya one smh. also i fear i might start liking him 💔

© ohagiyoo 2025 — @mikageecorp — dividers — m.list

[dobbysimp]

James, Sirius, Peter, Remus and Lily in the common room at 3am, nobody else there

Lily is convinced they boys have a secret feral pet somewhere because she keeps finding mud tracks, half eaten raw food and fur everywhere

————————————————————————————

Sirius: for the last time, we do NOT have any illegal animals, Petal

Lily: dont “Petal” me right now Sirius Black, you’re all hiding something, I know it

Remus, on the ground with a hand over his eyes: yeah, THEY are, but can you yell at us about it tomorrow morning? actually, just yell at them, preferably with me out of the room

Lily: so you admit it?

Peter, throwing a pillow at Remus: snitch

Remus: aww wormy you think i’m golden? a good catch?

Peter: oh shut up will you?

James, chuckling: that joke is never not funny

Sirius: you’d say that

Lily: stop getting off topic! Secret! Now!

*The three of them just staring at each other in silence*

Remus: just tell her for fucks sake i want to go to bed

James: well um, okay. Lily. Love of my life. Non criminal love of my life.

Lily: oh god you broke the law

Sirius: just a smidge really

James: it’s easier if we just… show you.

James, gesturing to Sirius:

*Sirius transforming into Padfoot*

Lily:

Lily: YOU LET SIRIUS BECOME AN ANIMAGUS?

James, gesturing to Peter: well no… not just him

*Peter transforming into Wormtail*

Lily: oh my fucking god, why would the two of you-

*James transforming into Prongs*

Lily, staring for a minute before slowly turning to Remus: I swear to fucking god if you-

Remus, still not having moved a muscle w his face under his hand: I have enough with the full moons, I have no desire to be more of an animal. ever.

Lily: you still allowed them to turn into- into- what even are you? a fucking reindeer?

Remus: Stag, but close. besides, you’ve seen James run, he already looked like that in human form anyway

Lily: and Sirius is just a dog that needs a bath? is he the reason there’s mud everywhere??

Remus: ironic right? pure blood and dirty fur

Lily: and Pete is- wait where is Pete?

Remus, STILL not opening his eyes: shoulder

Lily, checking her shoulder: wh- JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Wormtail: *squeeke*

*Lily faints*

Remus: oh right, probably should have mentioned she doesn’t like rodents

*all three of them transforming back*

Peter: you think??

Sirius, leaning over her: she took it relatively well I’d say

James: Remus what the fuck do you mean I run like a reindeer???

[fanfic-lover-girl]

So I was thinking about Percy some more after I wrote my post about Percy not really fighting for change and how Percy is not actually better than Luke for not being willing to fight the gods because it would cause others to be hurt.

I know that Percy never connects with the unclaimed demigods. He only interacts with claimed demigods like Clarisse, Charlie, Silena etc. He also never connects with the children of minor gods. Every time I reread Percy's wish to the gods, the scene feels more and more hollow and unearned. I wonder why I was so hyped about it.

And it made me think about Percy's fatal flaw.

Like OP said, Percy's flaw is not challenged in any real way. But you know how Rick could have done it?

Make one of Percy's closest friends end up as a traitor and join the TA.

All the TA characters mean nothing to Percy so he is never forced to deeply acknowledge the pain they go through and their motivations. Even in TLO, Percy just saw them as brainwashed. Or he outrights mocks them like Ethan. It says something that Percy never considers the minor god kids until book 4.

Luke could have been this figure for Percy but they never knew each other for long before the betrayal so Percy never has to deal with the pain of fighting a dear friend.

While I think it's cool that Annabeth's bond with Luke saved the day and I dont want to take that away from her...Percy and Luke would have benefitted from Percy having Annabeth's bond with Luke instead. If Percy loved Luke like Annabeth did, his fatal flaw would come into play every time he encountered the TA. Especially if Luke never betrayed Percy like he did in canon.

Luke's relationship with Percy is a hot mess so it would be better to have this friend be someone else. I just wish Percy's fight with the TA demigods felt more personal. Because as it stands, Percy does not feel like a good protagonist concerning all these issues brought up in the books. And as a result Luke's potential as an antagonist is never fully realized. This happens a little in HOO but it goes nowhere.

The main problem with Percy's fatal flaw is that Rick was so afraid of portraying it through conflict, at least in PJO. His personal loyalty and his heroic quest lay along the same axis every single time:

tLT: Saving Sally and preventing the war aligned well.

SoM: Saving grover and the golden Fleece aligned together.

tTC: Saving Annabeth and Artemis aligned.

BotL: Saving Nico and the Daedalus maze catastrophe aligned.

tLO: Over here, Rick could've used the opportunity to create a conflict, but that didn't happen.

All in all, Percy's fatal flaw remains an informed trait for multiple reasons, and deducts heavily from his characterization.

@rosabell14 @my-pjo-stuff thoughts?

[nyxi-pixie]

HIIIII I was wondering if you had any ideas on what music would bsd characters listen to?? all i see is people saying dazai is a msi listener HE IS NOT it makes me wanna rip my nails off

PLEASE. msi mention in the big '25 this is a horrendous world we live in. now i honestly dont have specific answers but i willlll gavel to wood judge their general vibe. i had entirely too much fun with this started doing everyone😭

for chuuya its canon he likes rock, so his tastes probably close to stuff like granrodeo. reckon the sheep were into some really cringe fake edgy stuff tho and chuuya thinks hes really cool for listening to it. when he went to beat people up for them, shirase would be behind him somewhere so chuuya could say something embarrassing like 'hit it! i need something to get my blood rushing🥶🥶🥶' and shirase would play dogshit out of a busted speaker. hashtag my cringe fav!

dazai obviously listens to jokey stuff to be disturbing (suicide song). i do think the stuff he listens to to be annoying he does genuinely enjoy though, such is often the nature of dazais lies. for the most part i dont actually think hes very picky about it. listens to anything if its on, will judge other peoples taste despite not really having his own😭 i can imagine a slight preference for instrumental when alone if only bc mori seems like a classical music guy and i imagine that rubbed off a bit. also real to me that he intentionally got into various bands chuuya was into and did a lot of 'i actually like this more than you. youre a fake fan bc you dont know the bass guitarist pissed himself during the recording of this track and they kept it in' and such like when they were teens just for the purposes of pissing him off.

for the rest of them. the akutagawas are into old school goth music that sounds kind of silly unless youre also into it, like some real 'she liiikes the darkkkk' type shit😭 atsushi has the worlds most extensive taste ever. comes out of that fuckass orphanage having heard like 3 songs in his life and has zero taste. thinks every song is the best song hes heard. higuchi listens to the most pop pop to ever pop and then just a lot of breakup songs that she imagines dramatic scenarios to. sat in her car looking out the rainy window and everything. kyouka probably says something like 'the only music ive heard is the screams of the 35 people who i was forced to murder' and you go okay kyouka would you like to listen to this silly pop song. look heres the band wearing bunny costumes. and she becomes their no.1 fan <3 yosano exclusively listens to female artists, says she cant listen to male singers bc their voices annoy her (hashtag my favourite misandrist) she prefers stuff with a little edge but can get down to some real basic girl shit for messy club going. in another life shes in the trenches defending her favs on twitter, doxxing people about it and all. tachihara is obsessed with saying hes 'discovered' an artist and keeps trying to get the black lizard on to some shitty soundcloud shit where 90% of the song is just a repeating producer tag. hirotsu insists the only music he listens to is live music in a smoky bar, but is in fact secretly hooked on one of higuchi's sadgirl breakup songs. kunikida googles 'music to better my health' and listens to the first thing that comes up. fukuzawa says he listens to classical to focus on his work and sometimes he does but usually hes got earphones in and hes listening to a cat choir.

[westbifire]

I really believe that if the TS characters existed at least one of them would hate me. No clue if anyone else feels this way, so I made a poll!

[dreamsy990]

drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy

[soranker]

tomorrow :)

[dukeofthomas]

I find the fact that the confrontation at the end of UTRH is often summarized as Jason asking Bruce to kill the Joker for him fascinating.

Because that's not what happened.

Jason holds a gun up to Joker's head, gives Bruce another, and tells him that if Bruce doesn't do something (shoot Jason), he will kill Joker.

Jason doesn't give the gun to Bruce so that he would shoot Joker. He isn't expecting Bruce to pull the trigger on the clown. He's asking Bruce to do nothing. To be inactive. Because that will still be a choice, and despite having done nothing, everybody clearly agrees that Bruce would still, at least in part, be responsible for Joker's death.

...And to me, this moment is a kind of- microcosm, of the rest of Jason's point. Because after being captured and carted off to Arkham, the villain will escape again, and will kill more people. The only way to truly prevent that from happening would be to kill them; Bruce refuses to do so, and I respect his right to choose such a thing for himself, but it is still a choice, and if we agree that Bruce's inaction during the confrontation would leave him at least partly responsible for the Joker's death, then we must also agree that his inaction in permanently preventing the Rogues from killing more people means he is also, partly, responsible for all of those deaths.

[ghostinhouse]

ok here are a bunch of 'yao e zi on langjie' au headcanons that are going to make me sound kinda crazy. disclaimer i dont watch a lot of langjie so if it's like... wrong, then imagine this is how langjie is going to be in the future?? idk

yao e zi would get invited to langjie several times but only agrees to the offer like on the 3rd time or something. she'd be one of the youngest in the season (32-35yo when she joins) but give off a more mature vibe bc of her calm (first impression at least) demeanor.

first solo performance? one of her hits definitely whatever that is. one standing mic, opera gloves, long flowy dress, showing shoulders, hair down, dark butterfly mask. people expect her to "subvert expectations" and dance but she doesn't do that for the first performance. she does what she does best and she does it flawlessly.

she doesn't volunteer to be leader. she gets sought out for teams that want to do a vocal-focused performance for the first round, and she'd probably say yes, but starting round 2 she would join like the sing/dance groups. right... right.... and it's gonna be one of those choreography like 佳人

i think she would fit these types of performances best: sad vocal performances; coquettish & sensual sing/dance performances with traditional elements.

she tries to avoid the fast and snappy choreography stuff, but also any "cutesy" song, she feels like she can't pull of the cutesy demeanor (she's wrong).

expect a lot of clickbaity posts about her removing her mask after the show airs. like "YAO E ZI REMOVED HER MASK IN THE LATEST SISTER MAKES WAVES EPISODE" and then in the actual episode it's just her walking out of the bathroom wearing like a moisturizing face mask with a butterfly print

she seems like the type that doesnt go on variety shows after her initial debut on a singing show; like she's been focusing on concerts and producing music. so ppl will recognize her as "the butterfly mask singer" that stuns the nation years ago but otherwise not won't be too familiar w her discography/story

so her participation in the show would re-spark the public's curiosity with her appearance "under the mask". her fandom would have to come out and be like "yeah give it up no one knows. also you shouldn't care to know. also she has really beautiful butterfly mask designs focus on that instead"

the show itself will secretly feed that curiosity (m*ngotv behavior) but at least doesn't deliver false promises of showing her under the mask—because she+her team wont let them lol. the show protects her identity well but mostly so that they can further play up her mystique

anyway not all of her masks covers ALL of her face but her mua is pretty good at doing make up that makes her look completely different (a 爆改 expert). as the season progresses the public thankfully refocuses their attention onto her mask designs, which is regarded with fondness among her fandom, not unlike how shengmis treat zs's microphones.

and while she has her own set of masks that the fandom are familiar with prior to the show, yao e zi gets a new & custom butterfly mask every she's in for the duration of langjie (she uses her regular ones backstage/rehearsal/etc).

due to her identity she gets her own bedroom which is not rigged with cameras. which spiked a mini-discourse about the show's bias toward her, which show producers responded to by showing yao e zi's bedroom (with her permission) which is pretty small compared to the shared dorm, then the discourse died down. anyway it doesn't even matter because she's literally only there to sleep like she spends most of her time awake in the communal space rehearsing or sth

idk how to explain it but if xiao tangyuan goes on other variety shows they Could take the mask off but yao e zi would always keep the mask on

i was in my yao e zi stan era

[lyxchen]

SOMETHING JUST HEALED IN ME BECAUSE CHARLEY AND YURI KISSED AND IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND THIS IS GOING TO FUEL ME FOR MONTHS!!!!!!!!

[cent-scratchnsniff]

something bad did indeed happen to that man. spent abt 25 minutes trying to find a better picture of that one (1) offical piece with his eyes open that wasnt compressed or tiny

[dreamersdwell]

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