#baku answers

[redwryvernwrites]

I know this isn’t part of the writer qna thing but I need to ask.

Do you have any advice on how to write interesting characters? What do I need to put in a profile to make them interesting?

I’ll be blunt and honest. 

I see so many people, no matter the fandom, just focusing on character profiles, their appearances and getting their personalities down in those fancy profile sheets which is great, it’s a good resource and reference BUT here’s the thing. 

You need to write them into scenes, even of it’s just a paragraph of something. You need to put them in situations and conflicts because believe it or not, your characters will surprise you. You need to write them to actually get to know them. 

The amount of times I’ve planned scenes out in my head and then when it comes to writing them in the story and realise: ‘wait, this character wouldn’t act like this, I need to change this to fit them’ is surprising. 

A profile is like a photo. You know what they look like, you know their history and personality but you don’t know who they are until you write them.

Writing a character is getting to know them on a personal level. You are after all, putting yourself in their shoes and getting to know them intimately. 

So please, if you are creating characters, write a scene for them, don't just create a sterile cookie cutter profile. Get to know the people you’re creating. If you do, they'll start to feel a little more real and convincing.

TLDR: Writing characters into scenes is far more important to developing them than character profiles. Write them not about them. A profile can't develop or imteract with the story/world you create.

[b4kuch1n]

hahaha wheee haha

[fcaruana]

alex and franco about each other 🫶

[lsdoiphin]

Hares, as you may already know if you've been following my better half @broncoburro or @forevergoldgame (if you're following neither, you're missing huge amounts of context for the setting!), are nothing like the hares of the real world. They are massive leporids from Northern Vestur and one of the few meurian animals remaining after a historic event known as the Great Hunt where humans wiped out most of the planet's remaining meurian species in order to harvest their meur for relics about 350~ish years ago. They are obligate carnivores and known to hunt humans when the opportunity arises.

The baku is a large, lumbering omnivore with a similar ecological niche somewhere between a panda and a regular bear. They're a rare species, endemic to a single far-flung region of the world, having only just barely escaped extinction. See, while the Great Hunt was headed and funded by the Tri-Kingdom, its reach spanned the entire known world - but the further from Vestur it travelled, the less discriminatory the hunts became. The local peoples who were paid to hunt on the Tri-Kingdom's behalf had little idea of what meur was and what meurian animals were actually useful, leading to mass to mass culling of "useless" meur-touched animals like the baku, whose unusual sleep-inducing abilities cannot be wielded by humans. Regardless of their uselessness, the damage had been done to the species, and only the mundane offshoot survives - though rumors persist about meurian baku.

Sphinxes are scavengers that can be found across the deserts and savannas of the mainland. Unlike their meurian cousin, the manticore, they never evolved meurian flame breath, and their 'stinger' is no more than a vestigial sickle buried beneath the fur of their flowing tails. Instead, they specialized further into human mimicry, using their ability to copy human speech to hunt domesticated animals, naive children, and drunkards.

Now you might be thinking: "why would a teenage girl want to own any of these as pets? None of these sound like animals that should be pets." Well, first off: you'd be hard pressed to find a young girl that doesn't want a wolf or a tiger as a pet, that's just how they are, c'mon.

Second, there are three primary reasons Rhea thinks this is a more realistic idea than it is:

Exotic "pet" owners among the upper class: While exotic pet ownership isn't big in Vestur as a whole, it has a notable presence among the Southern upper class, both noble and common. Rhea is the duchess of the Southern Kingdom so she is well aware of every instance of somebody paying excessive amounts of guilder to import something they shouldn't and stick it in their courtyard. As I've mentioned before, this is a sin Ancha is guilty of, having gotten swept up in a past "teacup baku" craze/scam some 4 decades ago. Unlike her peers, however, she kept her baku, Fig, even after he outgrew his alleged "adult size" of 1'9" at the withers. Others culled theirs once they became large enough to cause mass property damage. Ancha knows Fig is a massive, terrifying wild animal and does not recommend anyone repeat her mistake, but being raised in captivity he cannot be returned to the wild and so she's committed to caring for him for as long of his estimated 70~ish year lifespan that she's here for.

Haretouched Northerners: The "haretouched" is a strange phenomenon that exists in the North. Now, we haven't posted a formal explanation of what exactly being haretouched means yet - I'll save that explanation for Dan to write at a later date. In the meantime, to very briefly summarize what it means: occasionally, a hare will bond with a specific human. Those who have bonded to a hare are said to be "haretouched" - or more bluntly, cursed. The haretouched are treated as pariahs by broader society, though they are begrudgingly tolerated in the North itself and destigmatized by Northern nomad clans. While Northern nobility has done its best to keep the haretouched out of their bloodlines (save for the Lord of the Nomads, who is seldom acknolwedged, much less counted), occasionally a fluke will occur regardless and you end up with someone like Quincy or Lamonte. Rhea, of course, is just a Southern bystander who thinks the idea of having a murder-bunny for a friend would kick ass.

Captive beasts performing in circuses: Self-explanatory. Sphinxes especially are a popular choice for exploitative entertainment because of their mimicry abilities, and are often trained to have "conversations" or "sing."

[wejustvibing]

fun times ahead 😀

[its-all-papaya]

Omg Landoscar and I can’t remember the number but “in relief”, maybe one of them gets in a bad crash and the other rushes to the hospital/thinks the other is dead, thought they didn’t get to confess their love 👁️👁️

hi bestie, i fucking did it again. have 3.3k of honestly kind of ouchy landoscar? the relief is there, but there are other things too. it got out of hand.

send me a ship and a number and i will write a kiss

29. in relief | landoscar | 3.3k

Oscar’s in the garage when it happens. His engine’s acting up, and it’s a miracle they’ve made it this far into the season without a flukey mechanical failure, but it doesn’t save the frown he directs at his mechanics anyway. It’s free practice, someone is saying to him, we can fix it before tomorrow, and Oscar is halfway through crossing his arms over his chest like a petulant child when someone says oh, shit loudly from behind them. It’s worse than they realized, he thinks, he’s going to have to sit out qualifying and start P-fucking-20. And of course it’s his car, because it’s always Oscar’s things breaking lately – his rib, his engine, his-

“Jesus,” someone else says, and Oscar finally checks over his shoulder to see what the fuss is about.

The pit wall is gathered around a screen together, everyone’s shoulders overlapping, and there’s- god, he can’t quite see, but there’s definitely too much smoke to be routine. His brain is almost through sorting the chaos when he realizes, “That’s-”

“Oscar,” someone says, a hand low on his back, hooking around his waist, guiding him back the other direction, “don’t-”

“I’m not,” he says. And he’s not. His eyes are already squeezed shut, chin tucked against the high neck of his fireproofs like he can hide away from it. Because through the smoke there had been a lot of orange, too much to just be flames. And the only other papaya car is a foot to his left.

read it all on ao3 <3

[millionsknives]

5 n 6 for the end of the year asks 🫡

5. TV show of the year? DUNGEON MESHI‼️‼️ me and liz had a huge dungeon meshi phase in september/october. there is nothing like getting read for filth by the autism knight cooking show while eating an entire 9x13 pan of rice krispy treats made from the hermetically sealed 5 gallon bucket of marshmallows acquired from a junkyard

6. episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you? i can’t really think of an episode that would ‘define the year’ but i rewatched mp100 and the episode where reigen gets cancelled on twitter is genuinely one of the best episodes of television ever made. no i am not lying

[f1amboyant]

i need hours of commentators saying it wasn’t carlos’ fault asap. leclerc fans are already tearing him apart

Truth be told, I cannot say it wasn't Carlos' fault at all. I mean. He did close the door on Checo just slightly 🤏 But it was so close it was enough to make a big crash. They are probably both at fault, it's a race incident

But why would Charles' fans tear him apart? He probably saved Charles' 2nd place (with eliminating both himself and Checo who were both faster than Charles and could have overtaken him before the end of the race, no?)

Anyway. I'm still happy for my pookie Oscar 🥹

[celestiall0tus]

So, what weapon does your Baku kwami have?

you're the third person to ask today. Guess it's finallly time.

The weapon of the baku is a lantern, inspired by my dream defenses when I have an unwanted visitor. When a demon comes a knocking, I find myself in a lantern type house with large pane windows lining the walls.

And because someone is bound to ask, the jewel is a dreamcatcher amulet. Thank @gamerknight7310 for that one

[redwryvernwrites]

B and S??

B:  What was the first fandom you read fic in?  Which was the first you wrote fic for?

I want to say Doctor Who but I was doing stuff in fandoms before the reboot in 2005. I'm not sure, but i do remember smeaking into the school library and using the computers to read fanfics about Daleks because we didn't have smartphones back then.

First fandom I wrote for was... Yu-gi-oh. 🫤

S: How do you feel about fan art inspired by your writing?

This also applies to fanfics:

Gimme. I'll be all over that. I love that stuff so much.

[nekocrumbs]

I'M TRYING TO LIMIT MYSELF ON POSTING BUT I'M HAVING AN ACTUAL CRISIS HERE SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION, IS TOBI CRUSHING ON SHIRITAMA IN THE LIGHT NOVEL?! OR AM I MISSING SOMETHING?!

[baku-links-the-weirdo]

It's hilarious to just get a mention saying "happy New years you degenerates

Oh and core"

Happy new years core!

Oh and the rest of you degenerates, too

[nitronapalm]

Unprompted Asks

@heterochromatica asked:

"Bakugo, are we friends now?"

"Fuck no! Why the fuck would we be friends?" Ex-rivals. That was what they were.

[b4kuch1n]

I used to feel like very Eh on Leon but your art has made him (and Sonia and Raihan tbh) some of my favorite Pokémon characters of all time, I love him/them now, so thank you for that :)

haha thank you! I'm glad to be the gateway for some folks. I really love them so fuckin much

[sesshy380]

tiger emoji (no one has explained to me how to copypaste yet) - atem

🐅 - Characterization: character habits, personality, etc

Atem grew up playing a lot of games, and it was encouraged. Especially since many games, such as senet, required a bit of strategy to win. It was a way to train his mind from an early age to become the strategist he is.

As Pharaoh, strategy was very important. It allowed him to maneuver things of a political nature into desirable outcomes.

When it comes to making major decisions that can have an impact on others, he will quickly weigh the odds and determine which outcome will be the best.

However, ask this poor boy what he wants off the Burger World menu, and you will be there all day. Ask him where he want's to go just to hang out and have fun, he will stand there like a deer in the headlights. Leave him alone to dress himself and you will come back to the equivalent of a two year old that knows nothing about color coordination. This guy cannot choose for himself. He doesn't know how. As Pharaoh, he never had these choices. They were always made for him.

Ask game here

[thenightmareeatermilkman]

thoughts on seabunny?

"he's a pretty swell guy! A bit nervous but that's understandable seeing as he woke up in a place he's never been in before."