#at least william as an antagonist

[variousqueerthings]

the thing about spike is that he's such a rat man, such a pathetic, horrible freak, but james marsters is so charismatic that even when he's at his worst, he's got something interesting to him, and then of course at some point spike's development is such that he'll say things like "made a promise to a lady" in order to explain why he's helping the good guys at high risk of death and it's so very casually heroic and chivalrous, and he'll collapse to the ground and sob into his hands when buffy dies, and you can see how that was there the whole time, but twisted by all his anger and a lifetime with drusilla (who herself was twisted into her shape by angel), so you just can't help but root for him to become a hero of some kind

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Building & Revealing Characters

You’ve assembled a great deal of information about your characters: You can see them, you know what they’re thinking, and you know what they want.

But conveying this information to your reader is its own unique challenge.

Character-Building

Just as you can’t rely on mere exposition to explain what happened before your story, you can’t preface your story with an interview with your character.

Character is something you build throughout the course of your story.

Recall that major characters, like your protagonist, are ones that will change during the course of the story; who they are in the beginning is not who they’ll be in the end.

Revealing your Characters

That said, you’ll want to give the reader an impression of who the character is at the outset of the story.

Example: Fitzgerald uses the first-person narrator, Nick Carraway, to gradually reveal information about Gatsby; the reader learns more information about Gatsby as Nick learns about him.

You might use minor characters to reveal information about your character if you’re writing from a point-of-view that is not the protagonist.

Likeable

The protagonist must also be likeable (at least to an extent).

If your reader cannot identify with your character, cannot picture themselves in the character’s shoes, then they may not want to read on.

While fiction is plot-driven, the reader might not care about your plot unless they care about your protagonist.

Make the reader root for your character; we want them to succeed (most of the time) e.g., Gatsby.

Character Flaws

This doesn’t mean that your character should be perfect—quite the opposite, actually. We don’t want to read about perfect people; if a character is the most beautiful and talented person in the world, and if they have everything they want, there’s no story there.

Example: Every character in William Shakespeare’s plays has a “fatal flaw”: a personality flaw that will cause the character to fail, that Achilles’ heel that the antagonist will exploit.

When you are building your own characters, think about what sort of flaws they have. The flaw should make sense for the character — it should be related to their background/beliefs.

You can’t assign flaws arbitrarily—the flaw should arise from the circumstances of your character’s life, where they are, who they know, how they were raised and how they’ve been treated.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

The problem with "somehow, Palpatine returned" isn't that it's dumb to have a dead villain return for the finale. This is Star Wars, who gives a shit? It doesn't have to be grounded in anything, we're just playing Laser Space Wizards here.

The problem is that *the movie itself* seems bored by it. We're taking our cues from the text, here! If the creators really thought this was an exciting twist that was going to gin people up because of our decades of investment in Palpatine as an iconic villain of the franchise, NAY, of the genre itself, they'd have played it up. Made a reveal out of it! Leave clues, build suspense, and just as we're going "no, but...but it can't be...can it?" then kapow, hit us with his face coming out of the shadows and a big John Williams crescendo. Get those gasps in the theater! BRO, NO WAYYYYY!

They didn't do that because they didn't give a shit. They laid it out like the laziest, least experienced high school Dungeon Master -- "okay, for this adventure you gotta know, Palpatine is back from the dead." Oh, okay. That guy's pretty bad. Let's go, I guess.

It's so emblematic of how, in spite of all the posturing about the brand-- I'm sorry, the *legacy* of Star Wars, there was no one involved creatively with Rise of Skywalker who cared about or believed in Star Wars, even enough to consider what the story impact of these choices would be. Not in terms of the narrative drive, and not even on the level of enabling them to generate *cool, memorable scenes.* They just chucked it in with no sense of meaning or drama, because it's the end of the trilogy and it's probably too late to get anyone interested in a new antagonist.

[hello-im-not-a-possum]

Who do you think is the most despicable?

Fnaf's william afton bendy's joey drew or mouthwashing's jimmy?

Jimmy hands down, without a single doubt, bastard's literally made to be despicable.

While despicable can be a synonym for evil, vile, villainous, etc. Its specific meaning of 'Deserving hatred and contempt' seals the deal for Jimmy winning the rusty dagger award.

William is the most evil of these men, but he's the least despicable because he's the most honest (to the audience) and charismatic out of the three. We meet him in series as a rotting corpse in an iron maiden fursuit trying to kill us, he's the reason why we were hunted down by every other spirit, we set him on fire multiple times, he goes to hell in canon, he may or may not have escaped hell to haunt the living once more, and it is both horrifying and hilarious.

Joey is more despicable because he's Walt Disney in all his best and worst traits amplified. we don't meet him as a corpse trying to kill us, we meet him as a dreamer, an artist, a man who wants to change the world, and later we find that he is a liar, a con artist, a man who had not changed the world in the grand scheme of things, but who had ruined the worlds of so many people.

Jimmy is the most despicable for a variety of reasons; Everything non-capitalism-hell related is his fault, he's a useless, cowardly, self-centered misogynist who directly and indirectly kills everyone on the Tulpar because he couldn't handle the responsibility that came with both the crime he had done and to a lesser extent the job he coveted. And what makes him even more hateable is that WE play as him whenever we don't play as Curly, so we have no choice but to sit in and stew on how horrible what he did and continues to do under our control.

We as audiences are used to likeable and good protagonists and expect our antagonists, especially our horror genre antagonists to be the ones bringing the horror, so the inflicting horror coming from the protagonist catches us off guard and makes even the pettiest reason to hate him so much more potent. And I think that's great. Good job Wrong Organ, you go take advantage of the lingering effects the Hays Code put on American literacy.

[cookie-de-baunilha]

OUTLANDER SPOILERS (episode 7x12, book 8, predictions)

Pushing the dubcon thing aside (wouldn’t be outlander without consent issues, would it?), I really liked the chemistry between William and Jane. It’s a shame that she is going to die. I feel like Diana really dropped the ball with that one because Jane would’ve been the perfect endgame for William, instead of just being a device to move William’s storyline forward and the object of his man pain.

Now (because apparently the only character allowed to be chronically alone is the gay character, so yk, William who, unlike John, is straight, NEEDS to be paired up with someone 🙄) we are left with Amaranthus and… well, Frances. At least in the books. I’m sure they won’t push William/Frances in the show because they know how fucking weird and gross it is. But Jane is definitely dying in the show, which they could’ve changed if they wanted to. As for Amaranthus, we got to wait for s8 and see, but I think they will keep her as some kind of antagonist who is just using William, maybe spying for Richardson. I mean, slay. Queen behavior. But they have 0 chemistry in the book and they will probably keep that in the show. Or maybe I could be wrong and they will change everything, who knows.

Anyway. Diana fumbled it so bad. Jane deserved better.

[elderly-scrolls]

tfw you pass your least favourite coworker on the stairs and he says "watch your step" in the most ominous voice imaginable and you're trying to figure out if that was a genuine threat...

my piece for Mirror Image, a zine focused on reimagining artworks in the Dimension 20 universe! 🎨 I was inspired by Frederic William Burton's "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs".

sometimes you just gotta take an incredibly romantic painting and make it antagonistic! 😊

this zine was created for this year's @d20zinejam, a pay-what-you-want zine bundle with all proceeds going to the occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund. please check it out! 🎉

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[el-hijo-de-hernandez-27]

So I'm rewatching Taskmaster from the beginning and I just realized Greg was rather protective of Alex or at least wasn't that antagonistic to him like on current seasons.

What I'm getting at is that I cannot wait for Tom Gleeson and Jeremy Wells to evetually demean Tom Cashman and Paul Williams and put them down on the ground where they belong as personal assistents.

[miyagi-hokarate]

Having watched all episodes of The Equalizer now, it's amazing that so many guest stars were such recognizable faces, either up-and-coming or already well-known, including:

Christian Slater

Dennis Christopher

Steve Buscemi

James Wong

Stanley Tucci

All of those, yet The Equalizer didn't have ONE episode where Ralph Macchio is the guest star. You're telling me they had William Zabka playing a reoccuring character and NOT include at least one appearance of Macchio alongside? You could even have him be the antagonist this time, task to target Robert McCall and/or Scott in some criminal cheme or something COME ON

[redfoxdude07]

If Andrew was Spring Bonnie, that would be super narratively satisfying imo

Like, it would explain why Cassidy is so attached to his character. She's literally the Freddy to his Bonnie. Not to mention how Andrew's connections to alligators seem relevant to Monty and Freddy's relationship. Freddy sees him as a friend while Monty sees Freddy as an obstacle. Apply that to Andrew and Cassidy, and then you'll get an explanation for a lot of both of their behaviors. Hell, if they were both springlocked like some theories say, then it just makes the parallels between them make even more sense. Not to mention how Cassidy is shown to be kind and actively trying to free the spirits while Andrew is so focused on revenge that he actively keeps the children stuck just to torture Afton.

They're literally opposites in every way, but they're so interconnected that Cassidy wouldn't move on without Andrew, at least not until OMC told her to. The fact that Golden Freddy is shown to be shaking, refusing to die, tells me that Cassidy isn't stopping without trying.

Not to mention how the first game that actively depicted Andrew without any other red hearings is Into The Pit, the game where a monster that looks like Afton but very clearly is not, is the main antagonist.

Andrew is simultaneously the opposite of Cassidy but also the MCI version of William. He's not only torturing William in UCN, but the other children are stuck just the same. Stuck in between afterlife and purgatory, just like Afton has been doing to them for almost 60 years. Keeping them all stuck in a prison of never-ending hunting for the man behind the slaughter, even though they might have been able to move on ages ago if it wasn't for Andrew.

Andrew isn't a bad person. He's an angry child whose final moments were hell on earth. He was locked in the backroom for years on years without the others for comfort. The reason he's so separated from the others is because he literally was separated. He wasn't turned into remnant. He wasn't refurbished. He wasn't fused into Ennard in order to free roam the world once more. He was left with the cruel man who barely passed being human before he even died. He was left with his killer alone, and once he was finally freed from the backroom, he even wasn't in control of his new body. It was William yet again, taking his only chance at happiness, or at least contentment for his physical form. It only got worse once William started taking parts from the other animatronics for Scraptrap's body. He wasn't even alone in his torture anymore. He had everything taken from him since the beginning, and I don't think William even remembered he killed him. William thought he was in control, and he was, until he was hurt. Andrew wanted William to feel the pain he's felt for years, stuck in a hell hole while the others were able to walk into heaven.

I haven't read Fazbear’s Frights btw, I just think there's enough evidence for Andrew through other mediums that denying his existence is futile atp. Not to mention how him being Spring Bonnie just really fits his role as the forgotten one that was always there. That one that even the other MCI didn't know about until the end. I have evidence for Spring Bonnie possessed by a kid too btw I just didn't feel like sharing it here lmao.

[thealchemistsfantasy]

It may be a controversial opinion but I am not opposed in the slightest to William Afton having more nuance in his characterization and not being one dimensionally evil. God forbid anything ever forces you to think critically about a villain beyond "he is evil." I am also sick and tired of having to defend this stance when confronted about his actions. Yes, they are bad and undeniably evil and unforgivable. I should not have to put "murder is bad" as a disclaimer every time I attempt to give depth to a serial killer. I don't understand why so many are opposed to the idea of him harboring a spectrum of emotions and having more emotional complexity than simply "I love being evil and I hate everything good and all I love to do is make everyone miserable for no reason." I'm not saying he has to adore his family or anything, he is very much abusive toward them but there exists potential for more intricate characterization in that. Him not being one dimensionally evil and being abusive are two aspects of his character that can coexist. Him being an awful irredeemable person and three dimensional aren't mutually exclusive, yet many prefer the latter because it's more comfortable and because their critical thinking skills are stunted. To me, him always being evil and hating everyone makes him boring.

It's exhausting having to give everyone a disclaimer that I don't sympathize with Afton. Having to hold the hands of everyone to make sure that I don't make them uncomfortable or force them to think about anything that challenges their perspective and hurts their feewings.

I am sorry for the antagonistic rant; it's truly not my intention to genuinely upset anyone by this post. He's just a fictional character after all, but this series and this character mean a lot to me on a deeply personal level and I care about how everyone in this series is depicted and characterized. I love this series as much as anyone, I just want people to acknowledge that it's okay for a villain to have depth without being sympathetic or at least acknowledge that there is nothing wrong for someone characterizing him this way and it doesn't mean he is good or deserves our forgiveness.

Some of the greatest villains of all time are ones that underwent transformation, going from one way to another over the course of their respective origin stories. There was something that happened to them that changed them. This is where the problem lies for a lot of people where they find difficulty reconciling this perspective with the actions the antagonist takes. Walter White for example. or even Homelander (somehow.) You understand how these characters became the people that they did, this is even foreshadowed in the beginning when Walter begins talking about how he views chemistry as the study of change. The whole show is about chemistry and therefore, as Walter puts it, the study of change.

What brought all of this on was a comment I saw on a YouTube video in regard to Afton. The comment said, unironically; "He's a serial killer, he doesn't need depth." It wasn't ironic, it wasn't them making fun of anyone, they were genuinely serious. Understanding why people are the way they are is part of what makes us human, empathy is so fundamental to our humanity and being able to consider the perspectives of others and understand why they are the way they are. It's so utterly human, and yet many people deny it because it makes them uncomfortable, and they find it difficult to reconcile.

The ability to understand and share the feelings, thoughts, or perspectives of others—is deeply embedded in human psychology, social behavior, and even our biological evolution. This isn't even mentioning all of the many serial killers who experienced nightmarish abuse at the hands of their caregivers. The notion that murderous characters don't have to have depth is objectively false because the reason why they are murderous is because there is depth to who they are as people.

It speaks to a deeper issue with society as a whole, not just in regards to how people view William Afton. It speaks to a deeper issue with our souls, and how we are uncomfortable with confronting the uncomfortable and finding reconciliation in the irreconcilable. Everyone good or bad or anything in between, they all come from the same place. They are all born as people, as human beings. They all come from the same place, and they all deserve to be treated with love and compassion, but few do with the results you see.

To conclude, no you do not have to think William Afton was ever a good person. I wouldn't even disagree with you for thinking he never genuinely felt real love for his family. He might have felt some version of love, in his own way. I'm not even asking for you to think of him as anything more than an evil dude. You can do as you please. All I ask is for you to understand, try to understand. Don't just read the first paragraph and come to write an angry essay. I ask you to try to understand, not just fictional characters but those around you as well. Please, understand.

[classicanalyzer]

What If Season 3 - What If... The Emergence destroyed the Earth? Thoughts

"Let's begin near the end. The final act of a tragic story. When you've seen as many wars as I have, you get used to it. The hard part is watching worlds fall that don't need to because a hero can no longer rise to meet their moment. But I swore an oath. And so I watch. In every variation of this universe, Riri Williams is its last best hope. But in every one I've watched, no matter how hard she fights, and how long she struggles, she always fails. Always... Welcome to Earth. What's left of it anyways." Uatu

This might be the most emotional episode of the entire season so far. Yet again, another peak episode and my personal favorite episode of the season so far. It’s a testament to the team this season and further shows how much of a shame it is to see What If end (for now). This episode's Riri Williams is a great focus character and I can't wait to see her in her own show in 2025. Even in the bleakest universes and situations destined to end in tragedy, all it takes is one bit of encouragement to break through and emerge to bring hope.

This is a pretty bleak setting and it's all because the Emergence just so happened to take place before Etenrals. The Iron Federation feels like a corrupted dream of Tony Stark with the Iron Legion suits around the world (or in this case the remnants of the world). There’s concept art released for What If S3’s promotional material which suggests Strange was able to save parts of Earth.

Riri Williams continues to fight even in a universe where everyone she knows and loves is dead. The fight is all she has left. It's hard for people to still try to hope and fight when even the few survivors you connect with perish. Even with her wit and sass in the episode (they did a great job of capturing that from her depiction in the movie), you can tell she's barely hanging onto hope for a better world. However, as Uatu will showcase himself, all it takes is to show someone they're not alone.

I hadn't expected Quentin Beck to be the main antagonist of a universe like this but man it was such a great idea. I really love how this episode really showcases how much of an egotistical narcissist asshole he really is to the point he would let himself die quicker by putting all those Nanites in his body. Peter and this universe's Riri really need to interact at some point and bond over dealing with Quentin Beck.

Also, I really hated Sharon Carter after she's been revealed to be the Power Broker, so it'll be nice to see that she got karma in at least one universe.

It's really nice to see Ying Nan again and I can't wait to see Shang-Chi once again in the next episode which hopefully will be a lot more lighthearted than this episode. I love this episode but I need a bit of lighthearted plot after the bleak story of this episode.

The Alliance mook deaths caused by White Vision are very brutal and disturbing to see. I was not expecting the disturbing and bloody imagery of the deaths of Riri's team at the end.

Tony Stark would be proud of Riri Williams for building a weapon in less than 7 minutes capable of killing White Vision. She built this in a broken-down ship... with a box of scraps!

Whoever came up with the idea of Riri Williams to go against Quentin Beck deserves a raise. It's a great idea to pair someone who has the intellect of Stark and creates Iron Man suits to go against Mysterio.

I really love how Riri's new suit is basically making her the Vision with Iron Man/Ironheart suit aspects of her universe.

They reused Infinity Ultron's theme (fittingly with Beck's monologue of how he controls the tech of White Vision and the specific track is Fascinating) and some footage of the Red Room Task Force in Episode 3 (They used the same models and animations but they changed the background with one shot at the very least). Brock Rumlow also appeared in the episode during White Vision's attack, so not sure if that's just reused footage or simply they reused his model.

The contrast of the Watcher between S1 Episode 8 and this episode is massive. Two equally similar bleak scenarios where no matter what the heroes do, it won't be enough to stop Ultron or in this case Quentin Beck both of which use and are made up of Stark tech. For Infinity Ultron, the Watcher treats it like yet another sad scenario but one he cannot intervene (until Infinity Ultron becomes a Multiversal threat). But here, he makes it clear how fucking tired he is of seeing the same outcome and is tired of not being able to do anything...so he intervenes by giving Riri encouragement to fight. The Watcher's character arc really presents itself here as a Multiversal cosmic being becoming so attached that no he can longer just simply stand and abide by bleak scenarios where they repeat endlessly.

The imagery and cinematography in this episode go so hard, especially with Riri forming the Avengers symbol at the end becoming a literal light in the darkness that is the post-Emergence Earth. Bravo to the artists of this episode and the season.

The three Watchers, the Eminence, the Incarnate, and the Executioner have stacked voice casting: Jason Isaacs (Admiral Zhao and the Grand Inquisitor), D.C. Douglas (Rayvis), and Darin de Paul (Who also voiced Zeus last episode but also Ardyn of FF15) respectively. It's going to be interesting to see what finally causes the three to finally try to put an end to the Uatu's interventions.

This is definitely one of the best episodes and emotional ones as well. A peak episode in short. It really showcases how even in the darkest of settings, one person can truly still bring a little light back to the universe. It also showcases Riri's character in a new light given the change of settings and circumstances. It's a strength of What If: we get to see characters act or change with their different circumstances. It also showcases how the Multiverse Saga needs to spend more time with the characters it introduces rather than just introduce them and then not use them until years later as we learn more about the case in the episodes than in the main MCU right now. This episode is what Marvel Zombies should've been in my opinion. They also really need to release the score of every episode like S1. Laura Karpman and Nora deserve all the praise for their work in this episode, the season, and the show as a whole.

Note: Unfortunately, this episode does break the huge creature or person towers over someone trend of the last four episodes... however, we did get Tiamut's emergence so technically it might count.

"I see through your reality... And I'm shutting it down." Riri Williams

"I am the master of illusions! I can make it like your little victory never happened. The people will never know." Quentin Beck

"They will because I'm going to give them a vision of the future." Riri Williams

"With what?" Quentin Beck

"Hope." Riri Williams

[maskedjolo]

You know, Springtrap should REALLY be in Dead By Daylight. No, not because he’s popular with a certain fanbase and whatnot… just because he fits the bill perfectly to be a slasher killer.

What makes a good slasher killer can be easily defined by what we’ve seen already. They need to have an iconic design or a feature that we can easily identify them with such as Michael’s white Halloween mask or Freddy’s Fedora (etc.), they need to have killed people (obviously) but in gruesome/gory ways, they need to be the main antagonist of their respective franchise, they need to have at least some kind of implication of supernatural abilities and they need to never stay dead even after they’ve supposedly been killed. That’s 5 traits. If a character meets at least 4 of those things, then they can be considered some kind of slasher character.

So let’s see what Springtrap/Afton has going for him…

1 - Iconic design: Yeah, he’s iconic enough. His signature yellow rabbit design is fairly distinguishable as well as his colour association, that being purple, yellow and sometimes a more sickly green. He’s even got a mask to go with it.

2 - Murderer: Oh, you better believe it. He’s even decently gory, like other slasher killers. Like, Springtrap is arguably the most gore we see in FNAF ever, that being that his fleshy remains are visible.

3 - Main villain: Ask any FNAF fan ever and they will tell you that Springtrap/William Afton is the main antagonist of the franchise, at least in Scott’s game saga.

4 - Supernatural abilities: This guy is an immortal zombie trapped inside a mechanical suit. Whether he’s still slightly alive or if he’s haunting his own suit doesn’t matter, that stuff ain’t natural. Sooo… yeah! Supernatural is a check!

5 - Doesn’t die: … come on, do I even need to say it? Okay, but seriously though, look at almost every horror slasher ever. They NEVER DIE. You could say they ALWAYS COME BACK. I mean, look at Chucky the Doll and how many times he supposedly gets killed and then comes back every damn time one way or another. Springtrap definitely fits that trope of always being brought back.

Anyways, that’s all. Don’t take this post too seriously, I’m just making this for fun and pointing out to people that Springtrap does actually meet that requirement to get into Dead By Daylight. Hope you had fun reading this! :D

[vannysarcade]

What is your Fnaf Au about?

It's kind of hard to explain or define simply. It's mostly just a rewrite/reinterpretation of already canon events (at least up until security breach when it becomes less of a reinterpretation and more of its own story...kinda.) Everything starts out the same. William kills Charlie, CC gets bit, Elizabeth dies, the other children go missing, and Michael has to clean up the mess. However in Security Breach things sort of veer on a different path. Rather than having a traditional Glitchtrap or Mimic, there's a different character who takes up both those roles....It's Vanny! Rather than having her be a subordinate I wanted to make her front and center stage for my AU. She is the main antagonist of Security breach, and she's the one in control. Vanny is NOT a human or a possessed Vanessa. Instead, she is a brand new product Fazbear entertainment has created. V.A.N.N.I, an "Entertainment system" Which serves as both a video game console, computer, phone, teacher, caretaker, and companion all in one, powered by AI. What could go wrong? (Unfortunately everything.) Vanni is not simply "AI program turned evil." She's something more than that. She's made up of pieces of the past. The horrible tragedies and grief that William and Freddy's caused. VANNI serves as a vessel for all of this agony and pain, because Fazbear Entertainment Won't let Freddy's just die. And all she feels is pain. A pain she's felt since the moment she was born. And she wants everybody else to feel that too. Vanessa is one of the main developers of VANNI and of course this is all going on unbeknownst to her. VANNI forms a strange and incredibly strong attachment/"friendship" to Vanessa, and everything pretty much goes downhill from there! I need to properly write this all down cause I'm sure this doesn't make complete sense and comes off very rambly. I also wanna let you know that fnaf 1-6 is just as important as help wanted-security breach in my AU, I just didn't know how to describe the first part of my au without just retelling the entire story of fnaf with some differences and my own headcanons LOL Ultimately my FNAF AU is about a lot of things. It's about grief and the pain that comes from it, and how that pain can become so powerful it ends up destroying everything else around it. It's about that ache you feel when you feel like you don't belong anywhere. It's about so desperately wanting to be loved you'll tear others open just to see what it's like. It's about what comes when you fail to acknowledge your mistakes, when you pretend the past never happened, and the consequences that can bring when that ultimately leads you to repeating the same thing you tried so hard to avoid. If you have any questions about my AU feel free to ask! I call it "Paracosm" ;)

[skeletoninthemelonland]

Will anyone from springdads past come back, or be a lil antagonist

it's not like I'm planning to make a movie or anything, but

If the Springdad AU was a trilogy of movies, the first movie would have an antagonist and the main villain. The antagonist is the director of the orphanage Mike and Evan used to live in, while the main villain is the hunter who shot Springdad's ear when he was a kid.

Some details are missing because I didn't have time to think about them yet (plus there are other three stories in development).

The director must be a character prone to redemption. He is rigid and cold in his methods, perhaps acting for a good cause but later realizing he was doing more damage to people than actually helping. It would be interesting if he was non-human too.

Then there's the main villain, The Hunter. She's there to represent That One Fear. She is the past haunting William as he tries to forget it.

Pretty sure this wasn't mentioned before, but Springdad wasn't all sweet and caring before as he is now. He was the grumpy and scary neighbor or at least wanted to seem like it. He wasn't necessarily rude tho, just avoidant. He blames himself a lot for what happened to his family and didn't want to cause any more harm.

Remember when I said the orphanage caught on fire? Though that was an accident, it directly ties back to William's trauma. He fears fire or perhaps fears what he saw in the flames that day.

[superstarzolar]

16, 19, and 8 for William Afton

16: whats your least favorite ship for this character?

willry, but thats probably because in athazagora they are half-brothers... in other situations its cool to see but. its obviously not for me and my narrative...

19: a relationship that this character has in canon that you don't like?

his relationship (or lack thereof) with ms afton... their relationship is barely even mentioned (if at all) .... like .... if fnaf is a family robot drama then wheres the family

8: whats something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

oh my god oh my god OH MY GOD

the blorbo and vindication is so fucking abysmal. like yeah its funny to joke about him being a little teensy weensy British child murderer but then it gets to a point where he ain't even the antagonist of fnaf anymore he's just somebody's twink oc. especially with how they treat him in regards to his relationships with major female characters... like not to be that guy but i swear some of this demon child cassidy/elizabeth rhetoric comes from people hopping on Williams dingaling all the time

[bizlybebo]

Because its on my mind Im sending this as a "Ramble about it here when you get to X episode" ask. When you finish the episodes titled black, white and grey please rant about them here. They are great and I want to see your opinions

hahaha. hi endy.

the staring at the wall evolved into falling asleep and randomly waking up at 4am, still processing these episodes.

i wrote down. some of my thoughts now having experienced the full thing and got kind of carried away with um. 1.4k words of rambling :3

it’s not even all i want to say but i. ough. fuck these episodes were so good but so. auugggh.

it’s like 5am now im posting this and gonna try to go back to sleep but. holy fucking SHIT when i get you bizly.

(i don’t at all expect you to read this behemoth of a ramble!! just. need to put this somewhere as well because my brain’s still exploding after these episodes)

When season two started I thought it marked a lot of stuff for, y’know, how the show was gonna get darker. I mean, episode one, people were getting killed by a chaos demon in that prison.

I was entirely expecting all the ugly, gory bits of season two to be… external shit. Stuff that other guys, the actual antagonists, did.

But William felt pressured in Black. And suddenly it sets off this chain reaction, and suddenly one of our protagonists is no longer doing heroic things. Suddenly William is effectively torturing a guy psychologically in an attempt to save thousands more with David’s medical research.

He fell into the crux of a lot of villains: “It’s for the greater good”.

There was no going back after he stabbed Tide with the syringe. Tide, who never even had his guard up around William because despite everything, he trusted him and had immeasurable faith in his boys.

White is probably my favorite and least favorite episode, simultaneously, to ever come out of jrwi. The emotional, symbolic, and hell, even cinematic effect it has is insane.

I could fucking scream forever about Willian’s actions in White. About Vyncent’s inactions and the way he was torn about everything— about the fact that in season one, Vyncent was the “violent” one.

But Mark and Dakota fucking hit me in the heart to an insane amount.

Dakota. MOTHERFUCKING. Cole.

I said this before, but:

It’s the fact that Dakota still has optimism. He still has hope, at the very least, that Mark can change; turn over a new leaf for his kid.

“I think he should turn over a new leaf, like, with a new hero name, like— Soundwave, or something.”

He still thinks, or at least thought, that Mark can change. This was after he saw what he did to Lightspeed. He saw the worst of Mark’s actions but he still had faith and hope that there was a good person in there.

This shows so much fucking growth for Dakota’s character. The entire development of his morals, especially over season 2, is insane.

But Mark tries to kill Dakota. Several times.

He shoots at him, unleashes hundreds of bullets, and even tries to stab him. He couldn’t predict that Dakota would be incorporeal, and yeah, sure, you could say that he didn’t know Dakota forfeited his powers (and even without him he’s still significantly stronger than other kids his age). But even with his powers, Dakota would still have taken significant damage from the attacks.

Dakota and Mark’s rivalry is something I could pick apart and think about every little piece of forever.

They both have overwhelming love for Ashe, but it manifests in different ways.

Mark says it himself, “I am what I have to be.” He’s bringing home his kid by any means necessary. Ashe doesn’t have to like him, she just has to be safe and alive.

Dakota’s entire screaming match with Mark is engraved into my brain forever. It felt so real to witness, and the emotion in it was insane.

Dakota’s entire proclamation gets me. He’s so well spoken throughout despite shaking with how angry he is.

“I have been killing myself trying to train hard enough to save her.”

“If you were doing this for Ashe you wouldn’t do things that she’d hate you for.” But Mark is what he has to be.

Dakota never stands down. He keeps getting back up, and back up, and back. Up. Okehrjwjr I’m actually going to start crying thinking about this again.

When he was searching for Lightspeed and following Wavelength’s tracks, he kept asking himself: What would William do? Because he had faith in William’s decision making and investigation.

But at the very same time, William was wondering what Dakota would think about what he’s done.

And GOD don’t get me started on William and his brother.

In a sick, twisted way, I loved their dynamic. I loved what it meant for William narratively when David congratulated his work of defeating Xavier, even calling him “little brother” as a term of endearment. I was on the edge of my seat for their entire conversation in the meeting room.

David gave William his first drink, like older brothers do. William tortured a man because of his brother. David had apple juice sitting on hand because their mother told him to, just in case William ever showed up. William wanted apple juice. He killed somebody.

Cantrip’s been FUCKING me up. I couldn’t even write the word “death” after her name. It doesn’t feel real.

This can’t be the same show in which Jade was sitting on Xavier’s shoulders during mario kart, nonchalantly offering no help as he fought for his life to win like. Second place.

I mean, Jade was such a candid and real character. She was a teenager, just like the rest of the Prime Defenders, and she tried to take a turn for better things after leaving the fighting ring. She went from villainy to vigilantism, and sure, her morals were kind of skewed with how she seemed pretty okay with Alan killing the Bell Tech employees, but her motives were good, in a sense.

(“It’s all for the greater good”. It’s the same thing William was thinking, except William was directly dirtying his hands by torturing Xavier, while Cantrip was just accepting that Alan killed some people.)

I think there’s something to say for how William creates a vision of Cantrip out of smoke, distorting her into some monster, and how that’s the last time we see her image at all before learning of the fact that she’s. Gone.

The last time we see the real Jade, she’s just trying to escape. She doesn’t even talk, if I remember correctly. She just tries to get out. She gets shot in the arm but still persists.

And William ends up being the one who pulls the trigger; who injects the memory loss shit into her blood.

He’s the one who kills her, despite not knowing it at the time.

And David still masquerades as an innocent man, going as far as to relax at his apartment with him and William’s parents as though the events of the previous night never happened.

It fucks me up how the last words that Will and David exchanged before the confrontation in the apartment was:

“Don’t turn into a supervillain while I’m gone.”

“You either.”

William was starting to believe that David was a guy with awful methods, but good intentions— and William felt as though he was the same way. He saw himself becoming David, but David manipulated him into thinking that, hey, it’s awful, but at least he wouldn’t be… alone, I guess, in being a horrible person.

William and David finally saw eye to eye on the worst thing.

And David. Still. Lied.

Lied by omission.

And Jade was the one who took the fall for William’s actions. Jade, the girl who made fun of William for his crush on Vyncent. Jade, who had a sister she cared about, even if she scoffed about her love of heroes— despite the implication that their parents died because of them (likely caught in crossfire or casualties of battle). Jade, who painted her nails and placed bets on William kissing Vyncent, saying he’d be too pussy to do so. Jade, who found herself in a fucking fighting arena of all places but still found friends through it.

Jade, who was the first one to trust William with her actual name instead of Cantrip.

William, who killed her.

And. Fucking Christ.

Vyncent’s monologue at the end of episode 33 just. Fucks me up.

For the entire greyscale series, he finds himself suspended in inaction, too scared to do the right thing and too scared to stop the wrong thing.

But he finally faces it. He looks at William, certainly with fear after knowing all that he’s done, and even still, Vyncent dances around the morality of the subject. He accepts if William wants to flat-out lie to Dakota’s face about what happened at Bell Tech, though he does warn him of the significant damage it’ll do to their friendship.

And when William asks Vyncent to leave the room at the end of the episode, Vyncent finally takes a leap and becomes no longer caught by his indecision between apathy and guilt.

He looks at William, thinking he’s on the edge of something he won’t come back from, and he takes his hand, and pulls Wlliam back from the metaphorical cliff’s edge. If William does fall, then they’re falling together.

His entire proclamation, starting with “I’ve had so many opportunities to do the right thing”, fucking guts me.

God I’ve been typing for like. An hour now but the greyscale series really fucked me up holy shit.

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