#charecter development

[kosmocha]

Hamlet English project I got a bit too into

We had to do a creative piece about his character development, I kinda liked how it turned out, though :)

[vaggietheangel]

"Awwww poor bwitz! Finally having to own that his actions affect other people's feefees!"

"The worst part is you still make me feel like a bad person for being anrgy at you now."

Girl no. You have every right to hate him. He bailed on her and robbed her because she told him she loved him. Verosika deserves so much better. She desvers someone that loves her back.

Verosika was honestly the best person to give Blitz this wake up call. Realising how much he HURT her and broke her heart made him feel bad. He knows he needs to do better now.

Verosika was so mature about this too. A lot of people would have just slapped him, but she actually talked to him. She may not forgive him (she doesn't have to.) But she knows he's not evil, just an asshole. He CAN change. She won't let her hate for him stop her from making that clear in her conversation.

She's also a good friend to Stolas when he needed one. Love you girl. ❤️

[elliewilliams4eva]

some days you just gotta question your morals cuz how did i despise a man in season 5, literally wanted him DEAD just for him to "die" and come back with a new haircut and trauma and all is forgiven 🤨

[confessionsdiaz]

......me being a hater (bt mutuals ignore xxo)

[raynepigeon]

Pruaus wip

they're so gay

[teetertotterseesaw]

consider for a moment:

tsats isnt bad, u are

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[foxy-socks]

So I found that ive been having alot of bad art days which isn’t good but I managed to do a quick sketch of what i Think my character Tori’s hair would loook like

[vivziepopcriticalconfessions]

"The fact that helluva kinda only focuses on stolitz feels like the entire show is actually a 2014 beginner artists work. The reason I say this is cuz most people when they develop ocs also have favourite ships and when they write stories about their ocs they mainly focus on their main charecters and the other charecters are left discarded. Therefore why they are terribly written. This would be fine if it was a solo artist project like yk how beginner creators do. But VIVSIE POP here has a whole FUCKING crew, despite this the stories in helluva just down not make the cut, it's just.....meh."

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[m1sa-w1sa]

can I request self aware arlecchino if your requests are open if not please ignore.

(Okie dokie :p)

•When you started playing genshin pretty recently but trying to catch up with all the lore but it was so much! When you wanted to pull for a charecter you picked arlecchino, you thought the design was pretty so you went ahead and pulled! Surprisingly you got her on the first one pull! Lucky…lucky you..

•But when you got her she was fully built? Why? Was that normal? When you asked your friends that DO play they said that you were playing with them it was so confusing to you

•Later that day anytime you pulled it would just be Arlecchino, Arlecchino developed some lind of obsession..? Always thinking it was cute you seeking so worried when shes low health, your listening to her voicelines. Why would anyone else beed your divine presence it was alrecchinos anyways!

•After a fee months you slowly got bored so you logged off, days, months, then a year but you suddenly remebered that you HAD Genshin impact (when it says you have NO storage) so you logged back on but when you looked at your characters it was only arlecchino, the voicelines were saying

“Why did you leave?”

“You didnt need to leave..”

“You only NEED me..”

•Again maybe it was a glitch so you just turned off your computer then just fall asleep but feeling someone right next to you..

“You will be with me forever My sweet..”

(Done :3 if u want to ask for a pt 2 just lmk!!)

[the-tallest01]

DUDE

gerard way talking about "the umbrella academy" when it was still called "the umbrella brigade"

[stuckasmain]

Something that really separates Hal from the AI charecters he grandfathers is his ambiguity and his lack of want, allow me to explain. I’m sure I talked briefly about this before but it’s come back to me recently, it’s been said that what makes Hal scary is the realization he’s not human. The humanity is ascribed by charecters within the narrative and people watching the movie and depending on who you are you give more or less than what’s really there.

What differentiates him from other AI charecters is that he knows what he is and is comfortable with that. He takes pride in it. He is a 9000 series supercomputer. He doesn’t crave or find himself jealous of humanity but he’s also not entirely lacking in it. The audience and human roles are left to wonder how much of his personality is to make us comfortable and how much is programmed. If it were any other movie it would probably over explain him and make him more human than computer but not here.

The government ascribes him more humanity than he has by assuming he’ll be able to interpret the “no lies” order properly. For as complex as Hal is he isn’t capable of that sort of nuance (yet). While his very nature and manner of glitching also provides him humanity that goes ignored. It comes across more as developing a mental illness. He is made to learn and thus, picks up human behaviors and mannerisms as he goes along.

This is derailing a bit so I want to share my particularly hot take:

If Hal had been of a sounder mind I believe he’d go along with the plan to disconnect him.

How much of the “self defense” aspect of his murder spree is prescribing human traits and how much of it is actually him? Hal’s breakdown makes it hard for him to proceed logically, thus making it a greater threat to him and murder all the more logical (self defense also plays a much smaller part than audience likes to state, as it was mostly getting rid of those he’d have to lie to). If he hadn’t been caught up in the loop and more aware of the fact he was malfunctioning he’d probably agree that turning him off or rebooting the system would be the best course of action. And they’d explain to him what it meant, again midigating the “sleep = death” panic.

[bruhmityblight]

Just watched episode 4 and like... I really do think Nina and the bride are endgame. Like I think this is genuine setup for them to have a relationship at the end of the show.

Frankenstein's creatures whole motivation is having an incelly obsession with bride and a hatred of anyone she ends up with. Thus, logically as the show goes on he needs someone to fight that is dating the bride to continue his story. There hasn't been a single romantic setup with anybody else except she spends all her time with Nina. She fights someone to protect Nina. She explores her backstory with Nina. Like they are actively ignoring developing a larger group dynamic to specifically focus on the two of them, when the major other plotline is incel obsessed with her wants to kill

The bride is a lesbian in the comics, and after that backstory having her get with a man would make no sense whatsoever. She's either getting with Nina or by herself.

We haven't gotten Nina's backstory episode yet and that would probably be saved for last (when fishbride would be most likely to be canonized) so if there's anything in the backstory that would give her charecter arc reasons to be with the bride it would be then.

James Gunn has canonized queer ppl before. In peacemaker Adebayo, Amanda wallers daughter was a lesbian. Her reveal was similarly halfway through the show. The shows seem to get a lot less "don't put gay stuff in" than the movies and like the biggest DC show in terms of numbers is Harley Quinn, so like if the writers wanted to I feel like there wouldn't be much pushback.

Idk maybe this is me being too optimistic but I don't know why this seems to be being treated like a "oh what a fun pairing" and not a "there is a high chance this will be canonized" idk I guess we'll see

[just-existing-as-you-do-blog]

Virgil and Elwood content that is just Virgil discovering that he is gay in Elwood's direction.

(Also a lot of emotional moments and charecter development.)

[cl0wn-tim3]

The aa franchise treating 4 like it never happened will never not bother me-

It might not be objectively the best mainline game, but it's my personal favorite- and they introduced so many cool ideas there, which they just sidelined super hard

The daughter we gave phoenix?? Yeah we're only gonna mention her like twice, and when she's actually on screen, she's gonna be a shell of what she was-

Littraly any of the charecter development phoenix had?? Gone were ignoring it next question

Apollo- yeahhhhh, he's just got a fully different personality now that's basically a diffrent guy

[sokkas-therapist]

Ok so I decided I am going to post that “atla live action hot take” I mentioned

Click below the cut if you’re interested in hearing my take on the whole “taking away sokka’s sexism” thing

1) nobody is glorifying sokka’s sexism by saying it should be kept in the show. It’s quite literally the opposite. The original series did a great job using his sexism as a lesson; any time sokka made a sexist remark in the first 4 episodes it was made abundantly clear that he was wrong, and as soon as Sokka was proven wrong he admitted that he was misguided, apologized, quite literally bowed down on his knees to ask for forgiveness, and even asked to learn from the kiyoshi warriors, and excepted wearing their traditional uniforms, further surrendering his flawed perspective of societal gender roles. A wonderfully executed example of writers using their characters to teach viewers a lesson: which was, in this case, that sexism is wrong. Sokka’s sexism was not left unresolved, so why take away a valuable lesson in the show??

2) if you take away a character’s flaws…then they don’t have development. A character can’t learn and grow from their mistakes if they never make mistakes.

If a charecter starts off perfect and unflawed then they are surface level and lack depth or the ability for an arc.

And no, this is not saying that Sokka didn’t have many other admirable qualities like his intelligence and adaptability etc.. He 100% had those qualities. But one of the coolest things about the original atla series was their ability to flesh out side charecters and give them depth. A charecter who is simply smart then becomes smarter, or adaptable then becomes even more adaptable, lacks depth and internal conflict.

Sokka’s sexism was the starting point for his internal conflict. Sokka wasn’t just sexist to be sexist, or because the entire southern water tribe was misogynistic (and we know for a fact they weren’t, because if they were misogynistic, then Katara wouldn’t have been shocked when the North denied her waterbending training). He was misogynistic because being seen/accepted as a “man” and a strong warrior was all Sokka wanted after his father left him behind. In reality, we know his father was only trying to protect his son from the horrors of war. But to a young and impressionable child, Sokka internalized this as him not being “man” enough, so he dedicated himself to becoming the person he thought would make his father proud. He was always reaching for this unattainable standard he set for himself, which lead to him having a skewed and toxic view of masculinity that he took out on the women around him. He associated being a worthy warrior with being a traditionally masculine man, and leaned way too far into fulfilling the gender roles men and women are told to play in society in hopes of gaining his father’s approval. We see him do this by suppressing his feelings of inferiority as a nonbender, along with all the aspects of himself that he thought could be seen as “weak” or “feminine” (ex: his love for shopping and poetry and art that we see develop up until the literal end of the series).

So clearly, the vast majority of sokka’s charecter development that deals with internal conflict stems from the toxic view of masculinity and gender roles that he adopted after being left behind by his father, which caused him to outwardly lash out toward katara and Suki with misogynist comments. So taking away the sexism we see in the first few episodes eliminates important context that makes sokka’s character development throughout the entire series significant, not just an “iffy unnecessarily bigoted message”, because it was quite literally used to show that sexism was wrong.

I wasn’t going to say anything about this at first but seeing so many people display a fundamental lack of understanding for the premise of character development and the usage of charecter flaws to promote positive messages in media set me off. Just…WTF????

(Also I know I wrote a summarized version of this in the tags for another post but I wanted to expand upon it more and make this a separate post)

[zariahthewitch]

Okay imagine this - a JJK and Spy X Family crossover.

So where's everybody at? How does this work? I'll break down my idea by charecter(s).

Loid Forger / Nanami Kento

The two are twins, their father is a Jujutsu Sorcerer from Japan and their mother is a Westallis citizen.

The boys parents split when they were around 3 and their mom went back to Westallis. They visited her during the summer and she'd fly to Japan for their birthday/holidays.

As kids they both developed Curse Techniques- we know Nanami's already but Loid's is called Twilight (which is how he got his WISE codename). Loid's Cursed Technique allows him to create illusions and cursed tools with his cursed energy.. He uses it to create disguises when doing spy missions and the cursed tools are often guns or blades that are very effective against curses. Unlike Nanami he's never pulled off a Black Flash but he does have a domain expansion called The Spy's Midnight Gambit - his domain takes the form of any location he wants and will move or change as he pleases. Due to the shifting environment his opponents often become disoriented and are made easier targets for the man they never seem to be able to get a good look at controlling the space.

Both Nanami and Loid went to Jujutsu Tech in Tokyo - while there Loid jumped up to Grade 1 due to his efficiency and skill. Nanami took a few years to get to grade 1 but he and Loid never let the power gap get between them. After graduating Nanami left the world of Jujutsu, tired of the constant death. Loid stayed to try and make a better world where there were no Curses around to male children cry.

When war broke out between Westallis and Ostania a few months after Loid's graduation he left Japan to fight for his mother's country that he considered a second home. He was a strong and smart soldier, occasionally running espionage missions into Ostanian territory to collect new information. During the war he and Nanami communicated regularly through letters and the rare phone call.

After the war Loid I is approached by WISE - who were impressed with his skills and intelligence. WISE is also aware of the Jujutsu World and has Sorcerers in their ranks - meaning Loid won't be considered a Curse User if he uses his technique while working for WISE as one of their top spies.

Yor Briar Forger / Yuri Briar

Yor and Yuri were orphaned as children - Yor as a young teen having to step up to raise her brother. Both were children of Ostanian Jujutsu Sorcerers who died taking on a special grade.

Yor has no Cursed Technique - instead she has a Heavenly Restriction that makes her incredibly strong, fast and durable, much like Maki and Toji. Her Cursed Energy amount is low but not 0 - the golden Stabby things she uses are Cursed Tools that she can use to kill a curse. They can kill a Curse on their own but if she coats them in her Cursed Energy and stabs a Curse the monster will die as a thorny rose bush will sprout out of them, killing them from the inside. Thus Yor's assassin code name - Thorn Princess.

Yuri meanwhile has a Curse Technique called Thread Bare. The Technique allows him to create strings of Cursed Energy from any point on his body and control them. He can make these threads sharp to cut or slice things, harden them and wrap them around himself to make body armor or use them to tie people up in various traps. His Technique also has a second feature that allows him to drain Cursed Energy from anyone his strings are wrapped around - this includes non-Sorceres just bleeding their Cursed Energy out.

Yor took up assassin work for Garden to provide for Yuri - her Heavenly Restriction making her immediately very good at her job.

If I had the Siblings Sorcerer Ranks I'd say their both Grade 1 - Yor for her incredible power and ruthlessness and Yuri for his advanced skill and battle IQ.

Anya Forger / Bond

Anya is a Sorcerer born with a Curse Technique unique to her - Mind Reading.

Her suffering as a child caused her to manifest a very unique Cursed Spirit, a tame dog shaped Spirit named Bond. Ranked as a Grade 1 because of his future sight.

Operation Strix

For Opperation Strix Loid needed a family. The orphan he chose was Anya - he could sense her Sorcerer Status and immediately decided she'd be a good fit. Upon first meeting her Cursed Dog Bond his first instinct was to Exercise him but when he saw how tame and nice the Curse truly was and how much Anya cared for it he decided not too.

Choosing Yor as a wife also proved to be a good choice - he liked her company and she was good with Anya and Bond. Her Sorcerer status was a bit harder to tell for Loid from the start because of her Heavenly Restriction but he figured it out after a couple days and they actually talked about being Sorcerers, how their abilities worked and their level of training. (Yor and Yuri are both self taught)

Anya's friend Becky and her rival/love interest Daimen are both Non-Sorceres.

Getting Anya into Eden went smoothly - the first 2 seasons of Spy X Family go relatively the same. However things between Loid and Yuri are a bit less tense because of their shared Jujutsu Sorcerer Status and Loid has a few phone calls with Nanami, updating his brother on certain things without compromising the safety of Opperation Strix.

However things sprial out of control rather fast after that, identities and secrets are revealed and Ostania and Westallis go to war again far faster then WISE had been anticipating. Strix was a failure but the Forgers still stayed together. Despite the secrets they loved each other and would get through the chaos together.

The second war between countries was proving to be even more brutal then the last and it was worrying. Children from Eden were taken to safe countries away from the fighting by WISE agents - Fiona Frost (Nightfall) ended up with Becky, Damien and his older brother Demitrius in The UK. Meanwhile Loid took his family and Yuri back to Japan.

They met up with Nanami and re-joined the Jujutsu world just after the events of Jujutsu Kisen 0. Loid, Yor and Yuri took up jobs as Jujutsu Sorcerers and teachers at the school, often taking Anya and Bond with them to learn and be in a mostly safe/curse free location. Maki took an immediate liking to Yor - the two training together often and becoming a kind of mother daughter duo. Anya meanwhile looked up to the students, seeing all of them as amazing and older sibling figures. The students took to Anya in turn, doting on her and teaching her things. Megumi is Anya's favorite because of his shadow dogs, he'll summon them to hang out with her and Bond.

In the same building as the Forgers they have a young neighbor - Yuji Ittadori. He and Anya get along great and he's pretty much apart of the family by the start of JJK. Of course everything goes to hell when Yuji eats on of Sukana's fingers.

So what did you think?

Any thoughts on expanding the AU into JJK?