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License to Kitty.
#dungeon meshi#izutsumi#marcille donato#chilchuk tims#I still stand by my tags on the Izutsumi character study piece I did in January - but I will repeat myself on a few lines here:#I *really* love this character. I love that all of the dungeon meshi crew are complicated and have difficult to love components.#But Izutsumi is a particular kind of hard to love. I foresee a lot of people being turned off by her abrasiveness and lack of teamwork.#She is very self-centered and openly goes against what the party agrees on.#She's a picky eater in a story that is 50% about eating good and healthy food!#It is in part about her growth but admittedly even *then* she remains rather true to her self-centeredness.#Even though she isn't as nice or funny or compassionate as the others...Izutsumi is still someone worth loving.#Even the more difficult people are someone worth loving.#And those people in turn are people who have something and someone they love.#She may be a girlcat but she is the most human of them all.#I hope that if you are an anime only watcher and are feeling put off by her at the moment; you'll give her a chance.#By the way: *yes* I worked very hard to draw that skateboard pose. It was worth it.#EDIT: HAPPY 500th POST OF POORLY-DRAW-MDZS!!! What a comic to commemorate the milestone with!
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Headcanon: Deep down they both want to be their fairy godparent/godkid again after losing them, but don't believe they deserve each other and feel like they aren't worthy to be their companion anymore
They both need counseling and therapy as a whole package
#fairly oddparents#fairly oddparents a new wish#peri#peri fairywinkle cosma#dev dimmadome#fop a new wish#peri fairly oddparents#a new wish#periwinkle#the fairly oddparents#dev#my art#fanart#I like how both Peri and Dev is the type who prefers not directly express their feelings because they want to be seen as cool/independent#and be loved by the people that they care of#in other words#a tsundere//hit#jokes aside I like to think another reason why Dev cried during that scene is because-#he realized he's doing the same thing that his dad has done to him but on Peri#and yet Peri still cares for him despite his treatment towards him#like how Dev still loves his dad despite being a terrible father#and just..want to do everything right by him to earn his dad affection#man#Also ngl I have a hunch that Dev might still remember since Hazel's ''no rule'' wish was pretty vague#so maybe he counts in that wish?#plus he was wearing sunglasses before the memory wipe which maybe that won't affect him as well?#you can see I'm coping rn#I do hope this is only temporary and we will see them being back together in season 2 tho#giving them both some time to reflect and growth#because Peri clearly needs more experience in his job and Dev needs his character development for season 2
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sukugo is a crack ship TO YOU. to me it's a perfectly legitimate ship, held back within the canon universe principally due to adherence to classic genre structures and not by lack of character compatibility
#sukugo#not to be a crack ship definition purist. but it doesnt qualify as a crack ship if the characters are totally compatible#and if a major reason that the ship is not canon is just because the characters aren't main characters and thus not the focus of the story#what i mean is that jjk has a pretty normal structure for a coming of age martial arts story#it has the young protagonist who is the focus of the story#who has a wise teacher who is killed by the villain to provide the protagonist with more motivation to defeat the villain#gojo and sukuna were both doomed by the narrative in that the narrative followed this classic structure. so long as yuji is the protagonist#and main character then gojo needs to die to allow him growth and focus#and sukuna needs to be defeated by yuji#sukuna and gojo's relationship could only develop to a limited extent within their fight because its only setting the stage for the final#fight between yuji and sukuna#BUT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY MANY EXCHANGES BETWEEN GOJO AND SUKUNA THAT DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE COMPATIBLE AS A SHIP IF THEY HAD#TIME AND SPACE TO DEVELOP THE STORY IN THAT DIRECTION#“teacher and villain set up to be on opposing sides but finding understanding and an equal and love in each other” is totally legit dynamic#thats the premise of tian ya ke/word of honor#what im saying is that sukugo are very compatible as a ship#but to have a ship like sukugo be believable in canon. their relationship needs to be given time to develop#more time than jjk is able to give it within its structure without more genre subversion and without them being main characters#jjk
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for my money, labru is head and shoulders above other ships involving them simply due to the unmatched yap potential, i imagine them feeding off each other's energy like they're slipstreaming in mario kart until they start going fast enough to break the sound barrier
#dungeon meshi#dunmesh spoilers#labru#the Compounding Yap Effect#thinking about kabru wanting to understand the value of monsterhood despite how much pain they caused him ...#laios wanting to understand the value of humanity despite how much pain they caused him ...#none of this even mentioning how much kabru needs a person like laios to spur his character growth#kabru is a schemy schemer who schemes and it's one of his best qualities#but it's also what gets him killed over and over again in an attempt to get closer to laios and co when none of his usual tricks worked#it took until the absolute 11th hour where kabru HAD to choose#between potentially unlocking the secrets of the dungeon or giving it up to the canaries and losing his chance forever#if kabru had fallen back on what he knew he would have killed laios then and never got what he wanted#laios forcing kabru to be honest with his feelings#(a feeling kabru had buried so deep he was barely aware he had it in the first place)#is what finally gets laios to stop and listen#and he finally gives kabru enough of a reason to trust him and make kabru stop the canaries and give the party time to escape#and it's ONLY then that kabru is able to get what he wants#legit i cant imagine a more fulfilling ending for kabru than getting to directly engage his interest in a way that directly helps people#with someone who both needs wants and sincerely appreciates his skills#literally riding off into the sunset gay ass ending im#im going to be sick#day 28 being normal about them
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been wanting to remake axyl’s ref for a bit, and also give them a new design, so I did both!!
#mfb#mfb oc#beyblade oc#axyl de la cruz#oughhohhhgihoygh#they mean a lot to me#I’m very insane about this redesign I cannot even begin to go into it#I was inspired by how a lot of mfb character refs show the characters personality very subtlety thru their poses#and so I decided to give them a slight change in their pose for the fury design to show their growth and change in personality 🥹
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It’s very tragic to take Barry, a character that is defined by his inability to put himself above anything else, and rip away his choice to retire.
#I don’t like his retirement in the new flash comics#if we have to retire him#idk#give him a story where he finally gets to choose it for himself#let him have some character growth#because recently he’s been a mess#very sad to see them rip his atonomy away when he’s going through his depression arc#the flash#barry allen#dc comics
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Thinking of Cass and Damian got me thinking of the New 52 and how the dynamic between Batgirl and Robin there is even more proof of the travesty that was Babsgirl. She's been the longest running Batgirl to Damian's Robin, has witnessed most of the events of his life as Robin and yet their dynamic is just... A nothing burger. She's there in batfamily group reactions in the New 52 as the most heinous use of the Smurfette Principle I've seen in a long while. Tim isn't Tim, Dick isn't fully treated as Bruce's son, Jason exists mostly to say funny one liners, and yet despite the shallow characterisation there are still moments and events you can point to and say look. This happened. They interacted with Damian and it meant something. With Babsgirl? Nothing. How can there be anything when they're shoving a grown woman into a role she's outgrown for years now and forcing her to be the Batgirl of a preteen Robin? Her original Robin gets his own mantle, gets to be an adult with a legacy. She's shoved back into this role she doesn't fit in and because they know damn well she doesn't fit in it and they're just doing it for misogyny, they don't even try to make Batgirl and Robin a thing. Any interaction they had during the new 52 was so unremarkable and flavourless, devoid of character and heart, that I've never seen a single panel of the two of them in my 16 years as a DC fan.
Steph had a 24 issue batgirl run where she interacted with Damian a few times. Cass got even less than that with a six issue miniseries to bond with him. And yet the characterisation, writing and dynamic created in those stories was interesting, entertaining and impactful enough to last in the fandom for YEARS when Cass and Steph got erased. When you think of Damian's big sister you think of Steph, Cass, Maya etc long before you think of Babsgirl.
It's just infuriating to me. All those years of potential Batgirl and Robin stories wasted on a duo with as much cultural impact on the Batgirl and Robin team up as the James Cameron Avatar movies had on the word Avatar. All so they could erase the women of the batfam and reduce the sole one remaining down to The Girl Bat. Yeah whatever she was there in Damian's life when Steph and Cass weren't why am I supposed to care when her standing there gave me nothing to work with emotionally compared to a single conversation Steph or Cass had with Damian back in 2011. Compared with them or even Oracle Babs, I care about Babsgirl and Damian's dynamic and bond as much as DC and it's writers do. Which is to say, not at all.
#dc#batfam#Sorry for the rant sometimes think about the new 52 and how it treated female characters and I get furious#Babs will always be Dick and Jason's Batgirl. Steph will always be Damians.#If you want to argue its Babs give me panels of them talking as compelling as Steph and Dami from batgirl 2009#Hell give me one as compelling as Oracle Babs and Batman Dick mentoring the new batgirl and robin#Anti Babsgirl#Dc rambles#Genuinely if someone ever said Babsgirl mattered more as Damains batgirl than Steph I wouldn't know how to take that other than Steph hate#And refusal to acknowledge that batgirl 2009 was good and impactful enough to remain a part of how fandom saw these characters#For years. Something the new 52 failed to achieve with Babsgirl and Damian. She had no development during his four years of growth#He barely even acknowledges her she's just a random family friend who's always there. And you're telling me that she's his batgirl not Step#Yeah OK sure. If you like the worst most boring and poorly written parts of canon and ignore the actual good stuff#I guess that can be true
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In-ho: Player 456. I told you that no one would ever stop the games. When will you learn to stop putting so much trust in people who will only disapoint you? Gi-hun: First of all, you also told me that the games can be stopped, but only if the world changes first. Second of all, I did learn not to put my trust in people who will only disappoint me. Namely, I no longer trust anything I'm told by you.
#squid game#squid game s2#hwang in ho#seong gi hun#'gi hun trusts people too much!'#'gi hun didn't have any character growth because he still trusts people he shouldn't!'#Wrong#Incorrect#gi hun doesn't trust people he shouldn't#he gives people who haven't *proved* that he shouldn't trust them yet the *chance* to prove that he should
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Still blows my mind the disparity between the Eng and the JP localization of Sonic Frontiers
So in the og English Tails expresses that he needs to part ways from Sonic so he can grow into a hero on his own, right? That he can't grow by being with him?
But like. The director of the game, who worked with Ian Flynn, worked on the JP localization and it's like. You're telling me that when they localized that scene for the Japanese audience
That it was about Tails learning that there are things only he can do? That instead of concluding that he needs to part ways from Sonic and become a hero, he just comes to realizes the ways in which he and Sonic fill each other's gaps? He learns that he already is on equal footing with Sonic. The two of them are just heroes who save people in different ways?
#sonic the hedgehog#sonic frontiers#tails the fox#miles tails prower#unbreakable bond#personally I think that jp localization story fits Tails and the two of them better than rehashing out the 'tails neeeeeds to split from#sonic and become a hero' again#It gives us the confirmation that they're partners who are already growing together and individually#it gives us a better resolution to Tails' character song too#It recognizes that they don't need to be the same kind of heroes for Tails to be a hero in his own right. It recognizes that Tails doesn't#need to be exactly like sonic to be by his side#which again follows up his character song better#Ugh what I would have given to be a fly on the wall during the story work of Frontiers#this is also not the only character story that's completely different despite being on similar topics between these two versions for#the record#It's just. God watching jp frontiers makes me wish that THAT was what they wanted to present to the english speaking audience too#Tails to me doesn't need to be the guy who is never allowed to achieve his goal and finish his growth#Especially since we had years of games with Sonic and Tails as the main protagonists‚ I think at this point Tails has earned his spot at#Sonic's side#He doesn't need to forever chase being exactly like Sonic. Even in the Sonic Adventure games he wanted to grow on his own‚ knowing he#couldn’t stand beside Sonic as a partner if he only pursued being exactly like him#He wanted to get out of his shadow#and to me jp Frontiers recognizes that he already has. it has him and sonic come to a meaningful conclusion#Eng frontiers just tells us he needs to try again.#It's fine if you like eng frontiers for the record I just think Tails deserved better than that#i just be ramblin#Also this is not an opening to talk to me about how much you dislike Ian Flynn. Though I don’t like the story of Eng Frontiers I don't blame#him 100% for what we got
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Zachariah torturing Dean:
5x03
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Zachariah torturing Jack:
13x14
(Script 13x14 via @spnscripthunt-inactive)
#jack and dean#zachariah's recruitment tactics#another little nugget of a parallel#zachariah can't break jack or dean#jack specifically picks up on the game immediately#spn 5x03#spn 13x14#spn the end#spn good intentions#jack's deepest insecurities were his earth dads burning to death in the bunker#and his authority figure aligning against humanity#but jack turned against his fake heaven father's fake authority :-)#just as dean in the end rejected what he saw and balked at zach's authority#this is deeply in parallel to dean's insecurities of losing his family 4x17 and then in the end 5x03 of becoming a nihilistic john#plus dean's fears of bobby's weakness/death and of cas becoming like dean while dean becomes like john and sam becomes like lucifer...#dean was also anxious that cas made a choice and got STUCK with them: we see zach!cas say wistful things about heaven being a *better club*#in some ways i feel like the rejection of cas-as-dean is a bit a rejection of his siren nick in 4x14 which is ALSO a dean-doppelganger#it's a growth of realizing what you think you want isn't actually what you want and as you grow up you look outside yourself#and learn to see people as they are and not simply as reflections of yourself or a mix of all things familiar in your life#ANYHOO#i just love that zach's mind games are connected to two introspective characters who are full of heart i/g#in both cases zach's worlds are drawn to get the characters to make a specific decision - dean to give his body over and jack to open a doo#UNRELATED/// the end was one of the reasons that i thought perhaps dean had fallen in love with cas subconsciously quite early#dean early ideas of love (1) familial (2) white picket fence (3) the siren which was a mix of all things safe/familiar john-dean-bobby-sam#on (3) dean thought perhaps that love meant being understood meant a coworker mean SOMEONE JUST LIKE ME#and cas confused him because cas is definitely not SOMEONE JUST LIKE ME#so when dean's brain tries that out? tries to label that? tries to make cas JUST LIKE ME... it balks because that's not what love feels lik#dean's brain then settles on accepting how DIFFERENT cas is from him#ergo he doesn't want cas to change to meet the idea in dean's head or to be LIKE dean himself (esp not a smoky hedonistic caricature)#instead dean embraces how weird and scary an unexpected cas is as an individual... cause that's what love actually is it's RISKY and SCARY
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what they did with jj maybank, is the same thing they did to tory nichols. they give each character more bullshit to deal with each season, whether it’s an abusive parent or a sick parent or assault and they amp it up to 11. so us as the viewers focus on their experiences and not their blatantly obvious faults and don’t hold them accountable for the many things they did wrong.
because in the end they don’t want the character to grow and instead make them look like they cannot do anything wrong.
#jj maybank#JJ maybank had no character development.#tory nichols#tory had hardly any growth#obx#obx rants#ck rambles#ck#ck spoilers#it’s exhausting because people will give them so much grace compared to other characters
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if bioware do make a dlc for veilguard i will only accept a mass effect citadel style one. Rook and co can't go back into the fade so the inquisitor gifts them skyhold and the entire dlc is just inviting every single one of dragon age's previous characters to a massive party
#dragon age veilguard#i need all of the companions to meet#lucanis and zevran where lucanis is just glaring at zevran who is grinning like a maniac#lucanis and alistair bonding over food until he finds out what alistair did to stew and never speaks to him#anders: you're an abomination and you get along with your demon?#lucanis: what like it's hard??#dorian and emmerich oh my god the academic discussions#book club with bellara as well#shale meeting dwarven inquisitor or amell warden meeting hawke#fenris having a headache from all of it#iron bull and taash bonding over dragons and taash meeting krem#sera and taash would be too much to handle#warden actually found a cure for the blight and giving it to davrin but mostly just to pet assan and bug him into giving them a griffin#who is killing oghren first though#iron bull 🤝 emmerich: having a weird but loveable spirit son#lucanis 🤝 anders: not having a moments peace#alistair 🤝 anders 🤝 blackwall 🤝 davrin: planning the wedding when the protagonist first flirts with them#warden 🤝 hawke 🤝 inquisitor 🤝 rook: forced to live in a world where polyamory doesn't exist#hawke finding out cullen went through character growth#bioware said decisions don't matter so whatever happened to any character wouldn't matter in the dlc#vivienne 🤝 neve: being needlessly hated on
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Your art is so poignant and skillfully executed. I'm always excited to see what you create, and all the various influences that are revealed(or hidden) in each art piece.
That being said, I was not prepared for the sudden influx of Sad Dog x Bright Dog art you've been sharing recently! Machete having the potential of being loved and enjoying tenderness despite himself is one of The Best reveals of 2023. I enjoy how you express his relationship and struggles just as much as i enjoyed the stand alone pieces you've shared.
Thank you much for sharing the broader stories and pictures of your characters 💓
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#aw dangit you're making me all emotional#thank you! that was such a lovely comment#sad dog x bright dog art has been the theme of this summer that's for sure#and I'm really moved by the overwhelmingly positive response my dogs have gotten#people genuinely seem to root for them and wish them good things#not to sound too sentimental but Machete has functioned as a misery sink for me for so long#I've spent years putting him through the meat grinder over and over again and while it has been cathartic in itself#it feels almost like a healing moment to give him some hope and happiness and someone to be with#and it's very rewarding to notice that this hasn't gone unnoticed by people who have been following my art and characters for a while#character growth#answered#anonymous#“having the potential of being loved” broke me just a little bit#like yeah who knew
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director at rehearsal said they tried to watch mash and didn't fuck with it. conversation moved on before i could ask did you get past season 1 queen because if it's the misogyny that you couldn't handle, that gets betterrrr
i will interrogate later. tell her to watch specific episodes maybe
#what episodes of mash do you recommend to someone who hasn't watched it.#like a lot of the really emotional ones are that way because of the character's growth or arc#which episodes are good without knowing the characters#and ones that aren't bottle episodes or divergences from the normal tone and structure because you want them to get a sense of the vibe#so like you wouldn't put on say the interview or dreams would you?#i don't know. maybe just a fun one? like notice 5 o'clock charlie or Bulletin Board?#or a slightly more real one like Carry On Hawkeye or Aid Station? nothing too sad though I wouldn't introduce someone to Dr Pierce Mr Hyde#idk give me recommendations#mash
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I, personally, feel that two ships could coexist in the same fandom using one of the characters for different partners if some of the fans weren't such entitled bitches and comment shit on post that have nothing to do with say ship.
in order to coexist in a fandom, you have to be respectful of others people HC's or ships. like you can't consistently shit on someone ship and expect for people to not talk shit about yours. it's all about being respectful - I don't believe writers/artists (or editing) enjoy consistently receiving underneath their work comments like: "oh this is so beautiful but i prefer (ship name)" or "this (ship name) doesn't make sense, but nice writing".
I've seen people comment on others blog post, shit like, "I don't agree with you, but nice try." there shouldn't be a need for such a condescending comment. If you don't agree, cool. Stay quiet, and mind your business. If you don't ship two characters, than cool, stay quiet.
and there should also be no need for someone to send anonymous hate to someone because they don't particularly like a ship or they use their blog to talk about about their dislike. If you don't agree with the person, just unfollow them.
Coexisting in a fandom is about being respectful and just enjoying the content without it becoming some fan war or a ploy to make someone feel like crap for not enjoying the same ship as you.
You could most definitely like a different ship and still be respectful to the people in the fandom. Like for an example, I absolutely love Bartylus and I am moots with many that prefer Jegulus & Rosekiller - but I take the time to enjoy my moots content and writing and see their POV of how say ship works for them. They respect my post about Bartylus and we coexist in a fandom.
It's that easy. <3
#i just did the weirdest rant#i recently started to think and realized like a month or so ago#i was being an entitled bitch about my ship#but also come to realized I could enjoy content even if I don't ship Jegulus#I have my own reasons why I don't ship them#but it doesnt mean i'm going to spend half my time shit talking them and just making people upset like in the end#we are here to escape and talk about silly characters#i call this self growth LMAOOO bc i was giving hater vibes a month ago 😂
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The pokemon anime subreddit fascinates and frustrates me on equally deep levels
#smiling and blinking innocently. long tags ahead :) being normal :)🌸☀️☘️✌️💐#i'm such a 'minding my own business' person in fandom. i feel like my usual reaction to seeing takes I disagree with is#'well. people probably hate some of my takes so whatever'. perhaps even the ones i'm about to share#but. man.#it's like a portal to 2010 forum discourse but goh and serena are there this time.#deeply fascinated by the repetition of old ship wars too????#what do you mean we're still having legitimate 'but drew and gary are mean' discourse 😭#i mean by all means they should keep arguing because mostly i'm just glad that the wider pokeani sphere remembers drew at all#but that being said i wonder what kind of rivalry these people would have wanted instead?????#because there's other rivalries we could point to where they weren't air-quotes 'mean'. but we have those and people ignore them lol#because they're-imo- usually less engaging and dynamic. except for dawn and zoey who have never done anything wrong in their lives.#like we COULD give everyone the supportive happy rival experience a la may and grace or whatever but that's just not the SAME#and augh. taking psychic damage and trying to be normal but that's the THINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG OKAY#are Gary and Drew needlessly mean in early episodes? yeah lmao. i'm not arguing on that. they suck ❤️ completely insufferable.#b u t#there's that line. right. the line where it slowly slides into backhanded compliments too and giving that motivation-#-for their rival to work harder and the fact that they want that reaction and attention from this one person so badly.#like shipping aside I really do think that the friction of the Gary/Ash and May/Drew rivalries is what made them GOOD.#and yeah sometimes it was out of line but also that's just how the dub is as a whole tbh. they just said whatever shit they could 😭#AND BACK TO THE BEING NICE THING. Ash and May both got growth from their nice rivalries but not what they got from Gary/Drew.#it's different types of growth and lessons and they needed both kinds from different sources. I'd argue the rougher rivalries taught more?#regardless of your opinions on the characters themselves you can't deny that Gary/Paul/Drew/Harley/etc- the rivals that pushed A&M-#had the biggest impact on their growth over the rivals that didn't push. note that 'friends' and 'rivals' are different categories for this#I'm pitting. like. gary and paul against morrison and ritchie and not against dawn or pikachu or brock or whatever. different convo.#but it was growth out of spite to be better than the jackass rival at first and then that CHANGED INTO MUTUAL BETTERMENT#AND WANTING TO BE BETTER ✨FOR✨ AND ✨WITH✨ THEIR RIVAL. OKAY. (re: gary and drew specifically)#and as a result of all of this. drew and gary did get better to be fair!#well gary did kind of just start picking on goh instead gjkhsdkfj (joking) but ykwim.#DAMN IT I'M OUT OF ROOM AND IT DELETED A WHOLE ASS PART 2 THAT I HAD TYPED OUT#fine. i'll make this its own post at some point because i yearn to yap on about it
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