#char: ritalin

[coolerdracula]

I've also been thinking about systems with introjects with sources that are "problematic" in prominent, all-consuming ways, and the main thing is that you can't choose what you introject, but you can choose how you portray it to the outside world, and how much you communicate how comfortable you are with the actions associated with the source character. and that can say things

[ravenkinnie]

'what archetypes do these characters fit' >>> 'what is their purpose in the story, what is the function that their motivations and actions are meant to serve' is fr really the best way to approach character discussions in arcane and i wish every part of fandom understood this.

like i remember when i was on arcanetwt (which is months ago. maybe the place changed recently idk) ppl obsess over the characters' morality or just clearly perceive them based on morality and it creates the most reductive takes ive seen of silco jinx vi and all the chars really.

lets see whether or not that changes in s2 lmao

tbh arcane fandom especially on twitter tends to either skew younger or be 30 year olds desperate for those 19 year olds to form personality cults around them. so you have people who either are YA demographic or just aged out or simply never graduated to adult media by choice. and also many people probably have to pop a ritalin to read anything longer than 280 characters cause none of us have an attention span anymore so you have an absolutely asinine environment to have any conversation in

and this isn't me shitting on YA as a genre, this is me saying you expect younger people to have more black and white thinking in how they approach the world, other people, and themselves so YA tends to be much more focused on those dichotomies, on the good vs evil divides and less so on asking open-ended questions

the way people talk about media literacy you would think it's an inborn thing but that's absolutely nor the case, an innate thing is your ability to engage in a narrative and feel a story emotionally but understanding a story is a different skill, it develops over time and experience. language of media is its own language, it's centuries of a cultural code and symbols that you will learn eventually if you engage in varied forms of media but you are going to have some stupid ass takes along the way

arcane has this very fast pacing and snappy voicy dialogue that appeals to that demographic but, while it's not like so complex an average human with an adult brain won't understand it, its somewhat more complex in themes and characterisation than you would expect from that YA/NA skewing story. like that's the fun part about stories and about people, no one is that simple. the worst person you know probably has a wife that would die for them and you just cannot comprehend how the fuck that's possible. so you go and write a book about it, that's how it works

I think season 2 will make people worse because vi will be a cop </3 which yeah league has been cribge about it over the years but by now its also kind of the point of her character </3

[you-will-never-be-satisfied]

I lit a candle, painted my nails, didn’t finish but made through the act 1 of mean girls. Janis is my fav char btw. I’m not very productive, even on 20 mg ritalin lol

Time to starve! Things I’d like to do:

- Watch mean girls musical (I don’t remember where I left it)

- Maybe re-paint my nails

- Finish the fucking chic diet already!!!

- Get work done

Let’s see if we can all do them today. I’m counting on my candles for this

[chilltouch]

mults of 7 if i havent sent yet!

7. is the fastest?

Answered this one! My kalashtar kensei monk Ishtar (they/them)

14. lies the most?

Hmmm, this might be a tie for either Ignatius or Iris if Iris was younger. So current OSW liar is Ignatius.

Counting my non-OSW/past characters, I think Adam (he/they), Ritalin (he/she/they), 'Lucky Chance' (he/she/they), Grove (they/any), Tala (she/her), Val/Bedlam (he/she/xe/ae), 3-G0/Danielle (ze/zem/zeir), Hiss/Etheria (she/her) All lie, however, most of their lies is a consistent one about either hiding their identity and/or regularly faking an identity to evade uhhh usually the government tbh. the one consistent character trait here is that they all commit crime,

But Grove commits to lies the Most bc they have a Range of fake identities, so Grove wins this one

Grove also has a secret fian- (I am shot)

21. is the best cook?

listen, not a single one of my current characters, ncu or not, can cook well. however, my Past characters Praden (he/him) and Pandora (they/them) Have survived with just ingredients from nature and Know plants is the thing,

28. is the most competitive?

S-POR is, really really competitive. However in this party full of jocks, as a full ass druid, do You think they are winning here,

35. is the funniest?

S-POR again. They play up their snarky deadpan monotone voice for Laughs and/or pull their littol pranks, and it's Just for them and the one person in the room who Gets It

There are some who come as a close second, but it's more like their situation/vibe is funny rather than them deliberately being funny

42. is the worst leader?

hm, there's a list but for OSW characters it would be yuyu, younger Iris, and Maybe Ves but I haven't Thought too far with ves.

Current non-NCU characters are like the past version of S-POR (they did some character development), past life!S-POR, LUC-A (😔), Torne, and Maybe Val/Bedlam Now since he got trauma,

Ishtar (they/them) is the only one of my past characters that would suck as leader

49. is or was your favorite to roleplay?

S-POR remains to be my top fav to play, Mycena has their moments, but LUC-A really shot up to the top recently in text-rp, you go girlxe

Torne is a fun honorable mention, the second I yelped ooc and claimed it was actually in-character is when I cemented his character really

Praden was super fun to play, utterly heartbreaking to be in his head at times but fun

yuyu feels like xe is gonna be fun to play, honestly excited to do a deep dive into xeir character bc I haven't Found it yet,

Ignatius is also really fun to play bc of how quickly I can go into impromptu rp fun flirty bestie mode with the other player who is my bff in that game. Torne is like the platonic ideal (emphasis on platonic) of Ignatius but also, they are a good person,

Bedlam hits a similar line to Ignatius but is not necessarily evil and I also lowkey started having less fun when she gained xeir first trauma bc I started to worry if I'm not playing to it enough 😔✊

Onyx Sicat/Gloomtide in my Glitterhearts Christmas-based oneshot was super fun to play. Fully a Cody Walsh but a less shitty person, and Also A Teen. Nash Sornk was also fun to play, fully incomprehensible in any other ttrpg system I think

For the short time I played her, Rhodonite (she/her) was fun to play. Knew what she wanted (her fucking mountain back from the miners) and went outside for the first time on an island so far from her homeland to get someone to buy it back. girlboss

Pandora was fun to play bc I could do knife bird bits, but I feel neutral abt rping them, same with Adam

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[chilltouch]

Sometimes I still think abt my pirate wizard and how I had to Hard pivot on the personality I originally gave them of being cheerful and jokey to Anxious and Depressed bc in my fugue state where i wrote my longest backstory ever for a character (at the time) I killed off half their crew which forced them into a position of leader at 16.

And then made them abdicate that position bc the weight of leadership was weighing them down Too Much

[chilltouch]

Organizational Things

tag list

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9, 25, 29

9. is the oldest? the youngest?

Answered this one! Oldest is Etros (They/Them), my god of Death and Judgment from my Godsend twoshot followed by Iris and [redacted]

Youngest is a weird tie between a former 12-year-old named Adam (he/they) and Rha, my 10-year old-adult aarakocra

25. is the most likely to charge right into battle?

hmmm good question, I'm more cautious so it tends to bleed over even my more reckless of characters but on the top of my head it would probably be Ignatius or Praden for different reasons.

Praden would rush to protect someone, Ignatius would rush to stab someone then BA disengage

Oh Chad and N3W.WAV would also charge into battle, both are very reckless

Outside of dnd, Z (they/them) would charge in SO fast bc they Love the thrill of the fight, Duma (They/He) would bc of Bloodlust™ and is just generally very good at combat, Beris (they/them) for the same reasons

Duroth (he/they) and Valur (they/them) would both charge into battle bc their battles are usually in the middle of war,

29. is the most girlboss?

Sigh, Iris could've been girlbxss if he committed to taking the promotion for himself rather than giving it away 🙄

Dahlia (no nouns) wants to be girlbxss (Archfey) but hasn't succeeded yet

Mycena isn't a girlboss.

Amastacia (she/her), a character I have yet to play, was girlboss before she got killed when adventurers tried to stop her ritual. She is no longer girlboss when she reincarnated,

Bellicrose (he/she) is Studying to become girlboss, so he hasn't gotten there yet,

sigh, Caligula is a girlboss

i stg she better not be the most girlboss out of my characters but I don't have high hopes,

no wait, Robusta is girlboss actually, way more than Caligula, whew I'm safe

Ritalin has girlboss moments but isn't a girlboss overall

Setraline could've been a girlbxss if not for being swamped in college debt to the point of making a pact with a fiend,

WAIT I FOUND THEM, THE ULTIMATE GIRLBOSS

WHO IS MORE GIRLBOSS IF NOT A GOD (it's Etros)

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9, 17, 39, 50

9. is the oldest? the youngest?

out of my current characters Iris is the oldest easily (WAIT A MINUTE IT'S [REDACTED]), with the youngest i guess it's yuyu.

However, lemme tell you that the youngest character ive ever played differs depending on if we're talking chronological age or maturity. Youngest overall is either Adam who I started playing as a DM PC at 12 years old OR Rha (they/them) who is an adult aarakocra at 10 years old. I played both characters with the same friend group. They exclaimed why i continue to either play birds or children

Now my oldest character overall is probably my god of Death and Judgement in my Godsend twoshot named Etros (they/them) but that feels too easy of an answer so im gonna focus on my dnd charact-

oh wait there it is it's the same answer as above so true Iris and [Redacted]

17. has killed the most?

ngl it's prob Mycena if im doing dnd only but i think it would be fun to think who else would be the first/second, sooo

hmmm, it's likely Etros as an alternate highest or my demigod in the Godsend twoshot named Beris bc Beris is an Incarnation of War

my Karanduun character Duma who is a Sitan martial disciple of the Sibat, the bamboo spear that slays anghels/angels, could work as a distant second [Karanduun is a ttrpg system that focuses on killing god(s). You get to attack and dethrone god in this combat-leaning system and it's fun to fight; pbta inspired iirc].

OR my character Valur (they/them) [no origin ttrpg system for them bc the creator of that system who i used to go to college with is homophobic/transphobic] who is a spirit/ghost/elemental? creature summoned in the middle of war by forces unknown to serve as a neutral party that fucked up soldiers going after innocents/non-combatants and therefore killed Many before the war ended.

OR Duroth from Big Gay Orcs who killed so many people in his last stand before dying

OR Val/Bedlam who is part of the assassins crew and likely has racketed up a kill count since starting a life of crime in Duskvol

hmmm gonna focus back on dnd characters now bc there's Still More to this list that can count as if not a distant second a close third

Gurra (he/she) and Iris would kinda tie for similar reasons of killing bc of orders from higher authority, as would LUC-A honestly but instead of for orders (derogatory) it would be bc of loose orders/missions from higher authority (dad who is her god) that eventually turned into "i will kill you bc im filled with righteous fury at the injustice here" and That happened a lot more often than either her or their dad expected adlnaldn

fuck me Kiran (they/them) ALSO falls in line with the above bc of their past as a soldier while serving under their god bc that's what they were raised to do as a protector aasimar who grew up under their god's church,

Ignatius and Opuntia Robusta (she/her) make it up to here in the kill list for criminal reasons. i think if the two ever met they would not get along (also fire with a plant person is 😬)

Ritalin and Ishara (she/her), the spirit tied to the kalashtar Ishtar, have an honorary mention bc those two killed in self-defense and also have a lot of deaths tied to them by association tbh but they Do exhibit murder vibes

(s/o to that one time where Ritalin asked their party member with an abusive/evil brother if she wants him dead bc he'll Do It, and the abrupt silence on that character versus the shocked laughter of the rest of the group made it into the highlights doc)

39. is the best with animals?

Mechanically it's Pandora bc shepherd druid, but emotionally, it's, hmm, actually idk if any One character i have is good overall with animals

there's like Ritalin who is good with birds, yuyu and Praden who makes regular friends with the sea life, S-POR theoretically is good with animals like wolves and ravens :] but is more of a plant person y'know

Kaius is my underwater warlock who can also make friends with sea life but idk if Kaius would since that's not a character ive yet to play after leaving the group this PC was for

50. is or was your favorite to play in combat?

For #healer/support rights it's S-POR bc of the combination of being to help people and access to AOE's. I can't wait to play S-POR in CoS as level 14 with the condition immunities and unable to get crit damaged on lovelove

For battlefield control, it's LUC-A bc the combo of spirit guardians and spiritual weapon is lovelove and I Also get to heal though emotionally it doesn't feel as necessary in the middle of combat

For damage output and tank rights, it's Praden during that level 15 oneshot where I had 24 AC with him and then nearly killed someone in one hit with a crit smite :)

Ishtar gets a special shout out for having a vorpal sword in that high-level oneshot i played them in and critting (decapitation) in the final boss

[chilltouch]

Besties I have made a new record in character with the longest name in dnd since my first year regularly playing

It's Andy "Andromeda" Gael Sinagtala Barrietos