#and like I get if other characters said lame/wierd stuff

[localfanbaselurker]

YOURE TELLING ME HE SAYS THAT?????

[originaldanganronpascenarios]

Leon, Kaito, Hagakure, Maki, Akane, Mondo, & Souda who try to act brave & tough when watching a horror movie with their s/o, but end up having to be cuddled by their s/o until they calm down.

Ayyy I can't write for most of these characters for shit.

Leon Kaito Yasuhiro Maki Akane Mondo and Kazuichi who try to act tough when watching a horror movie with their S/O but end up having to be cuddled until they calm down

Leon Kuwata

He was allways up for movie night with you but you don't recall watching horrors together.

So when you asked him to watch some tonight he said that it's fine by him and if you felt any scared you could cuddle if it whould make you feel safe.

Leon wanted to impress you and he said to himself that whatever movie you whould pick he'd stay strong. Also he wanted to show you that he whould protect you.

But he didn't expect for you to be so brave... While he started to get caught by most obvious jump-scares.

Of course you noticed that and asked if he whould like to cuddle. For the beginning he told you that it was fine but he quickly changed his mind.

Now if you whould ever bring it up he whould do anything to avoid this topic and feel extremely embarrassed.

Kaito Momota

Together you often watched something but it was mostly comedy. It led you to this point where you were unsure if you ever even watched a horror with Kaito!

So you asked fast and simple if he wanted to watch a horror with you and even though he knew it was bad idea he said yes.

Since he already agreed on the beginning he said that you should cuddle entire movie to feel more safe.

The begging wasn't any scary so he felt relieved that is untill the real fun began. He flet his heart beat faster and got closer to you even though you were close the entire time. With each jump-scare he screamed as he covered his eyes.

Time passed but one thing is for sure he won't talk about what happened. Still if you wanted to watch horror he'd be up for it but you just need to pick something less scary...

Yasuhiro Hagakure

He didn't like horrors but he loved you and spending time with you so when you asked him he didn't think too much...

Since there was no turning back he decided to face his fate. Before it began he said that he will predict what is going to happen so all the scarry stuff won't be any scary to him.

It seems like 30% chance isn't enough... So he ended up shaking and you calming him down.

To be honest he didn't much care since he had seen this coming he just wished he wasn't right this time. Also your embrace was so warm and comforting!

Maki Harukawa

Maki didn't had anything against watching a horror to your surprise.

More than that she told you to not worry if you whould feel scared since she was there for you.

It was a bit wierd for her to say something like this but whatever it was nice of her to say something like that even though you aren't much afraid of horrors.

On the beginning she caught herself being quite surprised but this turned out into being scared and this to terrified... She didn't understood it but she needs to admit you had good taste in horrors.

She asked you if she could hug you and you were more than happy to accept her offer.

It turns out that she was watching horrors earlier but they were quite lame and it was hard to feel any fear... So it left her impression that horrors aren't scarry at all and there are just few people who are actually scared of something like this.

But she asked you to not tell anyone about it. It was embarrassing but when you brought it up in conversation between you and her she thought of it as a tease and playfully punched you.

Akane Owari

She didn't watch movies often but since you asked she was up for it! You were the one to pick the movie so you asked her if she was okay with  horror.

Taking it as a challenge she said that for her the horror will be just like a cartoon. But if you whould need a hug from her she is more than happy to help.

However there was one thing she didn't expect... The horror you chose was quite terrifying! She tried to stay tough but it was just too scarry!

She just couldn't stand it and she hugged you close.

But after it was over she acted like nothing happened. Still you were able to tell that she had fun.

Mondo Oowada

He couldn't say no to you! You were his soft spot but he didn't expect that you whould ask for something like this.

Still it didn't mean that he didn't wanted to. But of course he acted tough and tried to impress you.

Since there was no time to waste you started watching it together you held hands since the beginning.

Mondo tried to not get scared by anything but the movie caught him off guard few times that's why he hugged you and you could feel him shaking so you hugged him back and comforted him.

After this he couldn't belive that a simple movie proved how weak he was... But was he really? He watched whole movie and just was caught off guard few times. It's not like it was a big deal.

Kazuichi Souda

Since he often refused to watch horrors you finally asked him why was that and he came up with excuse it being not wanting you to feel scared.

Needless to say the excuse didn't work. To be honest after some time into the movie he was glad it wasn't that bad and he was enjoying it as it was pretty exciting.

But it was only on the beginning then hell started so you were the one to comfort him.

To be honest he didn't feel bad about it but he whould appreciate it if you didn't talk about this with others.

~ModChiaki

[maverick-werewolf]

Hey again, i was wondering if i could actually get sone advice on writing werecreatures? Ive got a weretiger character (hence my initial ask) but i was having a bit of trouble writing him as i dont want him to end up a walking cliche (he's already wierd enough as is). Are there any parts of overall werecreature mythology i should avoid? How can i do them justice?

Aww, I’m flattered you’d ask me for this. :D It means so much!

It’s really up to your preference. For me, what I look for in stories about any kind of werecreatures, is the general directions people tend to take them in today. I’m talking about a few major things. I’ll keep it general instead of specific to werewolves, since your character is a weretiger.

Note that a lot of these depend heavily on the setting and mood you’re going for, so I’ll be more specific in each section…

Things to Avoid

Stereotypical animal traits or jokes. There’s some specifics to this one, because depending on the setting and what you’re wanting to do with the story/characters/werecreatures themselves, giving them slightly more stereotypical traits of their particular animal might be fun or interesting. It can be done well, it just almost never is. Even the animal jokes can be done well, under very carefully controlled circumstances. I’ve, on rare occasion, made a few with a specific character who is crazy enough to do something like that (and they’re basically never actually true, so).

But, more often than not, when something starts dropping completely brainless dog jokes about werewolves (chasing things, dog-like scratching, “wet dog smell” jokes, fetch, can’t eat chocolate, dislikes cats, barking [I went into detail in a recent werewolf fact about just how painfully lame this is for so many reasons] the list goes on and on) and doesn’t have some seriously great reasons for keeping me there? I’m out. (But I am aware I’m often in the minority when it comes to that reaction.)

Overly obvious animal behavior. This goes hand in hand with the first section, really, but lots of things also like to make werecreatures that overtly behave like their animal side and can’t seem to stop it. Again, this can be done right and can be fun, but this is even more rarely done right than the things above. Usually it’s just so over the top and silly that it draws a lot of seriousness away from the character/creature/setting. With this, I’m talking about random compulsive animal behavior, like wanting to mark their territory (yes, urine, and yes things include that for some werecreatures), chasing things (for werewolves), licking themselves (for various felines), scratching themselves with their feet, panting with their tongue out… It’s hard to do that kind of thing and pull it off in a way that doesn’t just feel very “wtf?”

Dead giveaways. This is yet another thing that depends heavily on your setting and what you want to do with it, as well as personal preference. But I’ve personally always preferred the werecreatures that can pass as human (which was the case for basically 99% of folkloric ones as well; I know people will say “but werewolves had unibrows!” or somesuch, but in all honesty, the various silly “ways to identify a werewolf” is just cobbled together bits of random obscure wives-tales that people dug up and popularized on the internet because it was lulzy). Even if they might have, say, reflective/some other kind of oddity about their eyes, slightly sharper teeth, and whatnot (all of which I am guilty of in my own writing to some degree, so you won’t see me complain about any of those).

Rambling aside, what I mean by that is it kind of ruins the fun of the story (again, IMO) if the werecreature is so obviously a werecreature that anyone would immediately figure it out and ruin any mystique behind it. If they’re cool dead giveaways and that’s the kind of thing you’re going for in your setting, that’s one thing. If they’re absurdly silly dead giveaways (unibrow, hairy palms, etc), then it makes it feel almost comical.

Lack of intelligence. This is a serious pet peeve for me, and something I did a werewolf fact on not too long ago. The second something makes a werecreature of any type downright stupid enough to run headlong into a wall or something, I’m out. Part of what makes werecreatures terrifying is that they are still part human, and they are still very intelligent.

Things you should do, IMO:

Keep them scary/powerful. This is so, so, so, so important and I cannot stress it enough. Too many things right now make werecreatures weak, and this especially applies to werewolves. Hearthstone, the Warcraft card game, removes health points from worgen cards when they transform. They literally become weaker when they are in their werewolf form. That makes absolutely no sense, and no one can ever convince me that it does. Hearthstone is certainly not the only culprit, either.

I’m of the opinion that werecreatures should wholesale be physically superior to humans in every single way. Why? They’re monsters. It’s there on the tin. That’s what makes them scary, is that they’re so powerful. Media today portraying werewolves (this rarely seems to apply to other werecreatures, for some reason) as weak, sometimes even bordering on or reaching shambling-dead-zombie levels of weakness, is… Well, I don’t like it one little bit.

This also applies to their human form. For more info, see this post.

Keep them rare. This is almost just as important as the first to me. Today, we get werewolves that are little more than plague rats (i.e. the worgen starting zone in WoW), and we get phrases like “werewolf-infested” thrown around. That’s a phrase that should never be said. That makes them sound like a bug infestation, and bugs are tiny things that you crush with your boot or kill en masse with poison sprays. Werecreatures are not either of those things. Keeping them rare helps to maintain their aura of mystery and power, and it helps make them far scarier. Not to mention, it helps make a werecreature character feel unique, instead of feeling like just another victim of a zombie plague (as that is how lycanthropy is, unfortunately, often depicted today).

However, maybe you have a setting in which werecreatures are more common, and perhaps they’re their own race instead of it being a curse (or disease, like it so often is in modern media), which is fine too. That’s a totally different perspective on things.

Keep them serious. This is so integral to me when it comes to werecreatures, as I’m sure you already know. They aren’t jokes, and they shouldn’t be taken or presented as such. There may be a point in the story where someone gets werewolf cuddles, and that’s fine, and even that can be done in a serious way. But it needs to take time and buildup.

More than anything, refer back to the not making overly silly jokes with them. The second the jokes get out of hand, the werecreatures can’t be taken seriously anymore.

Modern audiences are so very ready to not take werecreatures seriously and see them as a joke. If you give them the chance to do so, they’ll take it and run with it and be perfectly happy to see them as a joke from there on out. That’s often an audience’s natural reaction to them. See a werewolf, make a dog joke. It’s sad, but it’s true. So writers need to tread carefully (and consider deeply each joke they might want to make in regards to them, and what character is making that joke, in what context, etc) to make sure that these particular monsters are taken with the gravity that they deserve, or else a serious story focusing on werecreatures will quite simply fall apart.

Anyway, wow, long post!

Those are just a few off the top of my head - hopefully at least some of them are helpful! I’d love to talk about werecreatures (and writing them) all day, so please don’t hesitate to send me more asks (or messages) if you want to discuss things more. :) I’d love to hear more about this weretiger. :D

P.S.: You said “walking cliche,” I noticed, and I must say - cliches are cliches because they are fun, people like them, and they work. Cliches aren’t always a bad thing!

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[critgemhero]

The very few things I disliked in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

After seeing this film twice, I’m now able to pinpoint the few aspects of it that I found either poorly executed, or just a little off. Anything I DON’T talk about here, I FRIGGIN LOVED AND HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT.

That being said, lets get into what I found to be bad or meh. Spoilers below!

THAT Milk Scene:

While Daisy performed Rey’s reaction wonderfully... just... no. No to that scene entirely. Point over.

Poor usage of Maz Kanata:

Poor, poor Lupita Nyong’o. This whole scene screams contractual obligation. Again, while her performance was top notch and I was super amused by her “Union dispute” bar fight (That jetpack was cool) there was VERY little reason given as to why she was the person to call of ALL people. Why the hell was it Poe’s idea? How does he KNOW Maz??? Was there any indication in TFA that she knew hackers or tech people? That SHE was a hacker? That a union dispute was more important than the entire resistance?? I thought she was just a force sensitive alien that owned a Cantina. 

Her overly specific detailed knowledge of convenient stuff (like the broach) seemed like a poorly executed plot point to me. It was fun to see Finn, Rose, and Poe work together and listen to her plan, but what a damn shame for her to be wasted. Why couldn't Maz just SHOW UP and help?? It was super lame.

DJ’s stutter, and his first scene:

I thought almost everything about Benicio and the role of DJ was pretty damn great. He added some great humor, and was super essential to Finn’s growth!!! His betrayal and philosophies are what drove Finn to be a rebel! But this is a dislike list, sooo...

His stutter was very annoying. It made it occasionally hard for me to understand him at all. I really liked his strange accent and behavior, but the stutter was a smidge too far and silly.  

What I also disliked was the prison cell scene. Just, the way it was filmed was really awkward and not very well executed. That, and WHY WAS HE IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE IF HE COULD JUST ESCAPE?? Maybe he was waiting to exploit a few new prisoners (which I guess worked), but it just seemed really contrived. One of the few parts of Canto Bight where I agree with the criticism. Which is what brings me to...

The flawed bits of execution on Canto Bight:

I must reiterate that anything I don't talk about here is something I loved about the film. That being said, here is the list of stuff I didn't like about Canto Bight

Inside the Casino, it looked too much like a normal Earth Casino. Wasnt nearly creative enough on the inside as it was everywhere else. No unique forms of gambling and the rich people’s clothing seemed too normal as well. Everything else on the planet I found beautiful and well established.

Too much setup time, not enough time inside. It was very weird to spend a lot of time with these long sweeping shots of locations, and for Finn and Rose to be thrown into prison very shortly after. It literally starts with location setup, BB8 being stuffed with coins, and then Finn and Rose claiming they looked everywhere when we saw them barely explore.

When they find “the broach” guy. This was already a barely established guy who was super contrived, only for him to be nothing but a Mcguffin and for them to be sent to prison for a friggin PARKING violation. Really? Kinda lame. I already said this earlier, but I just didn't like when they were sent to that prison and how that guy broach guy meant nothing.

The moments when the film would cut BACK to Canto Bight. I found that occasionally, it was just weird to cut back to Canto Bight right after some emotional stuff. Poor pacing in that regard. Still wanted to see more Canto Bight, but maybe choose different places to do so.

In conclusion, they needed to be there longer and add more dialogue scenes with Rose and Finn. Yes, this is a controversial opinion, but instead of just “cutting out” their entire role in the film (it was kinda critical to the resistance and Poe), I feel as though it would have been a lot more engaging and entertaining if this part of the film wasn't rushed and did the prison scene a LOT better (or just wrote it completely different) it would have fleshed out Canto Bight more and added more weight to the messages they were presenting. The second half of Canto Bight was super well executed with the Fathiers escape (the destruction was glorious, and their ship blowing up was hilarious) and setting up the slave children, and the resolution to DJ and BB-8, but the first half needed WAY more meat too it.

The one scene where Holdo refused to tell her plan.

After seeing the film a second time, I actually enjoyed the Poe and Holdo subplot even more! I went in thinking I was gonna be disappointed by a lot of stuff that I didn't notice the first time since by the time Poe realized Holdo’s plan it seemed ridiculous how everything went down. However, I actually thought it made a lot more sense a second time around and was better executed than people give it credit for. 

I liked that she didn't let him walk all over her. That she stood by her anointed position and was right to not always have to talk with him and let him eat up her time when she had plans to work on. He was the one that started disrespectfully talking to her, and she called him out on his demotion. At the START of this arc, her behavior made sense to me.

That is until it reached ONE glaring scene.

I’m talking about the scene where Poe notices the fuel being transferred to the Transports. There are people in the room who looked just as surprised as Poe does. He calls her out on not explaining the plan to all the troops. He calls her a traitor! He throws a damn HISSY fit and kicks over a bucket. And what does she do?

Nothing. Nothing but escort Poe away. She doesn’t even defend herself or explains herself. She just lets him throw his completely rational (if not childish) fit and tells other people to take care of it for her. At that point, it seemed like she cared more about Poe learning a lesson than the safety and comfort of those she is in charge of. It seemed like THE MOVIE cared more about Poe’s lesson than any rational sense. It was completely weird and ridiculous.

That said, I like that Holdo wasn't perfect. That she clearly wasn't quite fit for the position she was put into but was put there because of her close relationship to Leia (which is why I liked it when Leia blasted Poe. He hurt and betrayed her friend. He committed MUTINY. She had every right to). Poe WAS wrong to distrust Holdo’s intentions and letting his hotheaded “blow it up” attitude lead to such a ridiculous mutiny. But he was RIGHT to call her out for not being more transparent to her own damn crew. Everyone made mistakes, and I kinda liked that. 

However, the way this one specific scene was filmed, executed, and hell even WRITTEN just screams “Poe has to learn a lesson from this for the sake of the story” rather than it seem realistic or rational at all from ANY point of view. It was the embodiment of this gif.

Overall, the resistance acted pretty damn incompetent. That's kinda why most of them were wiped out. It was a little lame at times, as MUCH as I loved these characters and performances. The whole movie was about failure, and I loved that, but did they have to fail THAT hard from something so avoidable? Lol

Rose Kissing Finn:

Ok, so I actually loved how Rose saved Finn because I know his ship could NOT take out that cannon! The entire point of not destroying what you hate, but saving what you love, was a sUPER good lesson emphasized by Poe’s plit as well. Finn also finally deciding on sticking to his guns and not running away was also amazing

But then she went and kissed him and damn did that undercut it, and was really wierd and awkward. It did NOT work at all. Finn even looked like “WTF???” Instead of “wtf... oh shit wait that was special to me”. There wasnt really any romantic chemistry there at all, BOTH ways. Rose and Finn actually didnt talk a lot as you would think, and I actually found that it made more sense for Finn to like Rose than Rose to like Finn. She seemed kinda pissed at him most of the time but did find good in him, but enough for LOVE?? Hell nah.

It really made it stupid in my opinion... and now we have a shitty love triangle between Finn x Rey or Finn x Rose set up for Episode 9. Ugh...

Chewbacca shoulda ate that already cooked Porg:

He scared away all the porgs watching him. He was hungry. He should have eaten his cooked porg, but maybe looked super guilty about it? What a waste of food, Chewbacca.

Ok, that last one is kind of a joke, but not entirely. There are always little things I could nitpick (for instance, I forgot to say that I thought the Rey mirror scene lasted way too long), but I cannot stress to you enough that anything I didn't discuss here I friggin LOVED AND ADORED. I found the film profoundly deep and emotionally resonating, with phenomenal character arcs and twists and turns that were absolutely riveting!! 

For me, there is so much more RIGHT with this flick than wrong, but I made this list to show that just because I adored the film, it doesn't mean I forgive it for all its flaws. There is plenty of stuff I didn't like too, so my complete and utter shock in the pure hate and negativity in the fandom comes from the fact that people are so toxic about it rather than me thinking the film was PERFECT or something.

So next time you insult or dismiss someone for liking or loving The Last Jedi, remember that even THEY (yes THOSE “nimwits”) probably have some problems with the movie too. They just don't see them as that bad and as that movie destroying as you do. And that's OK!