#also the voice acting is PHENOMENAL

[cyndrastic]

i’m making a new au

idk if anyone has actually seen Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, but it aired on Disney XD in the early/mid 2010s and was one of my all time favorite cartoons.

If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a synopsis linked here

if you wanna watch it for yourself, here’s the first episode (this link definitely doesn’t also lead to a trusted website where you can watch the entire show for free along with a ton of other cartoons, movies, and anime’s and definitely isn’t how i watch South Park without having Paramount + 👀)

if you don’t feel like either of those here’s a link to an out of context video that i think will be easy to understand without having watched the show and that shows character dynamics well.

anyway here’s the characters:

i’m gonna add a cut here so if you don’t feel like reading/watching something to get a feel for these characters, i’ll explain them (also it’s kind of an excuse for me to rant about how this show takes traits from common media and twists them perfectly to still have identifiable character types while having the characters be unique and mix well together in the show)

Kyle will obviously be Penn Zero himself, part-time hero, who’s the main character. I mean, come on, even the main guy has curly read hair! It fits too well. Penn also has some established anger issues, and sometimes has a hard time putting his personal emotions and morals aside for the sake of a mission. He’s snappy, witty, and good hearted but sometimes he can lose sight of the right thing when he gets in his own head.

Stan and Wendy will be Boon and Sashi, Penn’s best friends.

Stan is Boon, part-time wiseman. He’s a stereotypical dumb best friend, but he’s pretty philosophically mature when he needs to be. This is actually the only show I can think of where the “dumb best friend” trope isn’t annoying as shit, cause normally I hate characters like this. But here, Boon never feels like a burden to the episode and him being a little slower never makes him less capable than his friends. No one ever complains about him being too stupid and his best friends never belittle/infantilize him for not being as smart. He’s a great moral booster for the team and it’s clear how much his friends enjoy his company care for him despite him being kinda dumb. I don’t understand how no show since this one has been able to get this trope right.

Wendy is Sashi, part-time sidekick. She’s a total badass, having more fighting and strategic skills than the boys. She’s also the one to keep the mission on target and is willing to do whatever it takes to win the day. However, she’s never the stereotypical “i’m the responsible one so i hate fun” or “i’m a girl who can fight so therefore that’s my only character trait.” Shes aloof, isn’t the best at social ques, highly competitive, and shows her love for her friends by being fiercely loyal and protective of them. Even though she can get annoyed and tired of the random antics her friends cause, she never talks down to them. She also takes her role of sidekick very seriously and even though she’s a much more skilled fighter than Penn, she listens to his instructions and never undermines what he says unless what he tells her to do will lead to them failing. She’s a fiery spirit and can and will kick your ass if she sees fit.

Cartman and Butters are Rippen and Larry, the Stendyle trio’s part time villains.

Cartman is Rippen, part-time villain. Rippen is a very stereotypically evil guy. He doesn’t really have a motive, he just wants to win. Does he ever? No. Is it his fault that he loses most of the time? Also no. He’s a genuinely good villain but it’s often the people he works with or some Deus Ex Machina for the heroes that keeps him from getting to victory. Despite being a good villain, hes also pretty aloof. He’s a hilarious character simply because of how annoyed he is with everything all the time (especially his henchman Larry/Butters). Despite this, he does genuinely care for some things, like his stuffed animals and his co-villain (though he’s hard pressed to admit it). In the show Rippen is an art teacher who hates everything, but in this au Cartman is just gonna be another student who loves to mess with Kyle.

Butters is Larry, part-time minion. He works under Cartman and honestly sucks balls at being a villain. He’s silly, doesn’t really know how to take a situation seriously, gullible, easily distracted, and very kindhearted. However, he is incredibly loyal to Cartman and will do whatever he says without hesistation, he’ll just usually do it wrong or twist it so it’s a nice thing to do. Most of the time Butters is just there to stand by Cartman and do his own thing. It’s also a running gag in the show that Larry will just ramble on and on about literally anything and it drives characters actually insane, and Rippen will sometimes use that as a weapon, which is a very Cartman thing to do. In the show Larry is principle of the school Stendyle attends, but like with Cartman, i’m just gonna make Butters another student. However, in the show, Larry is also rich as fuck, which is really funny so i’m keeping that. Like, it’s rarely brought up, but there are some episodes that take place in his mansion and it’s great. (“Cartman, you know what i’d do if i had a million dollars?” “Butters, you do have a million dolla-“ “I’d buy everyone in the world a portrait! I did that once in my neighborhood. my neighbor said ‘you shouldn’t have!’ and I said ‘no worries Mark it’s my pleasure happy birthday!’ and he said ‘it’s not my birthday and my name’s Tyler’…” <- actual character interaction from the show almost word for word, tell me that doesn’t sound Cartman and Butters coded)

[jessmalia]

Mal's Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch: Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters 3.19

[one-more-guy]

When I try to convince people to listen to tma I feel like a real estate agent trying to sell a house, but since the fandom is the magnus archives it immediately makes me think about our dear real estate agent Helen Richardson. Which distracts me and completely derailing my sales pitch (which she’d probably like, being of the spiral after all)

[fvturum]

I'll share this here too because I have been brain rotting about this recent accident. I dont know what sorcery the anime will do so they can tackle the origins of Koraidon and Miraidon (especially in the Scarlet timeline) so I just want to cope.

[whimsicmimic]

Hi so I read your trigun transistor au and I got the game and I can’t not think it’s Wolfwood talking and I’m playing Vash

THIS IS MY POWER \o/

nah though im super super super flattered that reading my fic lead to you picking up the game!!!!! Its so good. Its SUCH a good game. God knows when I was playing it, I was thinking the same damn thing, LAUGHS

something abouuuuut Wolfwood, a dehumanized living weapon becoming a Literal Weapon. and the fact that he could never get Vash to go anywhere that Vash didn’t already plan on going, but Vash’s refusal to leave him behind nonetheless. And the fact that both the punisher and the transistor are both Big Clunky Weapons with a Lot of heft to them, and i LOVE a big clunky weapon So Much.

And the Boxer’s voice, and how he’s completely and utterly smitten……..and Red, and how there is So Much Rage in her heart…………….much to consider

[steamedlotusroot]

lady bone demon’s design when she was possessing the host girl is so simple but so pretty it’s forever engraved on my brain

[mytyldotwav]

Finished Fire Emblem Engage!!!! The combat mechanics were refreshing and they put a twist on a series I love. really fun! However,

[maxghoulfield]

i love her 😭

[mekatrio]

disco elysium is such a delightful little treasure so its also simultaneously a shame and a blessing that it isnt as popular as it could be, lacking the necessary amount of streamers and youtubers needed to market it, since no big names would wanna stream something this Political to their audiences

[rigelmejo]

i’m listening to a random audiobook i found called 我是凶手 (I tell you what it SOUNDS cute, it sure does Not sound like its about ‘i’m a murderer’ so far lmao). and they keep playing this slow harmonica sounding music clip that is screaming to me ‘final fantasy vii soft warm emotional moment’ and it’s absolutely giving me whiplash lol. I’m like ‘oh yeah okay so gay possibly enemies? wait WHY is cloud crying in the countryside in my mind rn’ 

I think.... this is what the novel is? https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5301119  我是凶手作者：千若 but... i don’t think that’s right, what i’m listening to has 180 chapters as far as i can tell... not just the 5 I’m seeing on jjwxc... this is what i’m listening to, except i’m listening on bilibili. https://www.ximalaya.com/sound/615931684 what novel am i even listening to...? i just clicked whatever bilibili’s been recommending me since it regularly gives me danmei audiobook recommendations and this looked ‘crime’ genre and i do love that.

[scurvgirl]

Saw Across the Spiderverse today and I gotta say - wow. Just wow. They are really changing the animated movie game and I am so here for it. Also, it is really cool to see a movie made today with an intentional sequel. Highly recommend it.

[breqvendaai]

well my sister and I caught up on the new EoD/living world update (I have to double-check what they’re calling those updates now) and thank you Nolan North (male human PC) for the emotional devastation

[funforahermit]

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[vote-for-eggman]

What’s so weird is I think Seth macfarland is incredibly talented, it’s the just the shit he’s most known for I think show off the “worst” of him.

[softgrungeprophet]

I am watching the FatT LP of 999 and —

Taliesin Jaffe as Snake, Nick Kroll as Simon the Devious, and Jonathon West as Idiot Doom Spiral all have the same type of vibe to me

actually Simon the Devious might be the odd one out here in sounding even more perpetually drunk than Idiot Doom Spiral but the vibes are still very similar to me

[vagueiish]

seriously, how am i supposed to compete? i can’t do nothing, ahhh….