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Look, I unapologetically love Raphael BG3 and I will forever be angry how he gets shafted for the plot (even if it is appropriately extra).
I want to ramble about why I love his ego though, because the way he acts hits different if you consider where it might come from. (Literally all the spoilers, obviously).
Raphael is just a cambion - half human, and therefore fallible, to the point that it's one of the first things your level 3 party comments on immediately after meeting him. The actual disrespect!
He's the son of Mephistopheles, who seems to be at best a very absent parent. Despite it being implied that Mephisto knows Raphael is plotting to try and take over the Hells, the most he does to stop it is sending him an incubus to distract him. None of the Archdevils show any other interest in stopping him at any point. There is a good chance that in the majority of playthroughs, the upstart heroes he's been trying to deal with will instead decide to just rob him blind instead of working with him - in no small part because they think they can.
Sure, he writes his own planar domination fanfiction, he's dramatic and ostentatious, but why? No one else takes him seriously. He's just a cambion. He's just Raphael. He has to be his own hype man because literally no one else will be. Mark my words, mans has an inferiority complex at the root of that ego. I, for one, respect the hustle.
#bg3 raphael#bg3 spoilers#bg3 meta#did I think i'd end up with kenough parallels when starting his character analysis?#no#i just have a lot of feelings about raph#he's a fascinating bastard#i both feel bad for him and think he deserves it#root cause of evil: not hugged enough as a child
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lovingly pointing out that the cat king did to edwin what edwin did to his cat
step by step, even. offered him something he wanted (even if only deep down), put a binding spell on him, then asked for something he wanted in exchange for freedom
obviously they wanted different things, but it's funny that the cat king just decided "let's copy paste the crime as the punishment"
#dead boy detectives#cat king#edwin payne#the cat king#every day i lose my mind about equal retribution and the cat king saying he's fair#cause yeah! he is fair! he's also a trickster so you have to guess what counts as fair to him#also like that's an entire cat he just looks like a person and acts like a bastard (affectionate) sometimes#i love him he's so fascinating
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My only defense of conceptual follower Benny is that he was a warrior nomad and a raider, that still has it in him if we take the All Roads comic into consideration, and how he is not like a real dainty soft hand city slicker, cause it’s mostly an act.
So in scenarios where he is forced to travel with the Courier I 100% think he’d be like “What do ya mean you can’t scale a mountain, pussycat? Watch how the pros do it.” And then you see him scuttle up a cliff face scarily fast only to have to save him when he bumps into a Cazador nest.
#reminder his ability stat is 6 and strength 7 so this guys moderately good at physical stuff#like in all realness military and raiders would have lower charisma and intelligence in fallout cause they may know basic stuff it’ would#usually only be for survival#cause what’s interesting about the tribes is that they are all raiders and copycats like yes they can be representative of indigenous tribe#of the wasteland it not of the culture of irl indigenous people as the game makes it clear they are just copying behavior they have heard#read or are just justifying their violent behavior cause the khans like literally read a book on the mongols and said we could bastardize#this and it’s not pointed out enough but it fits the themes of people misinterpreting the past#but back to Benny he’s like weirdly capable and I hate it but it is fascinating#he’d just be complaining other wise and then violently stab something and be like I kinda miss the old days#and then say ring a ding ding or some shit#courier six#the courier#Benny fnv#fallout new vegas#benny gecko#fallout#fnv#courier fnv
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I CAN FIX ANYTHING!
#starkid#hatchetfield#team starkid#ted spankoffski#time bastard#nightmare time#foe art#tbh i am completely aligned with tinky when it comes to ted spankoffski#put that guy in Situations!#see him run! see him jump! see him make the same mistakes or new exciting mistakes!#like honestly. 'the girl i liked moved out before i had the chance to confess so i'll be more confident' is a perfectly fine lesson#for a college-age youngun smdjksjdskjd#then after the first fifteen times he creeped someone out you'd expect him to learn Another lesson! skdjskdjskjdskdj#not this guy tho. refuses to learn anything!#give the bastard's box another shake to see if he maybe grows as a person- oh nope nvm#he had a heel realization in TGWDLM and failed to learn anything from that one too! smdsmdmksjdsjdksmd#stubborn as a goat is ted spankoffski!#fascinating!
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I’ve seen the fandom take a bastard character and make them a poor little meow meow, twice now
Which isn’t a lot but it’s fucking disappointing.
#media literacy#i am begging#mha dabi#oh yeah I watched that train wreck#sir crocodile#guys why#let him be a bastard#I don’t care if he’s trans let him be evil#crocodad#I love it too#but stop making croc the endless victim#he can have a shitty childhood a shitty reletionship#but stop being like “well he wasn’t evil just sad#you are bashing dragon like you did enjoy and dragon isn’t even a abuser#y’all cannot handle nuanced characters and it fucking shows#dragodile is a fascinating ship#dragon is a fascinating character#so why must you fucks burn the ship down with no reason#it’s a goddam witch hunt entirely limited to fandom spaces#I am so confused how people think dragon stole luffy#or some shit#if croc wanted to keep luffy#he would’ve kept him#he’s not powerless#the man had a information network that spanned paradise#Yeesh#you can love croc#but stop using a FANON theory as justification#to hate dragon
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Ted Spankoffski is a character who defines himself through others.
After Jenny leaves, Ted decides to turn himself into a "pushy asshole", as he thinks only pushy assholes what they want (aka love). Rejection pushes him to make a radical change in his life, one so drastic he builds a new version of himself around it, and never lets go of it. He knows he is a pushy asshole, and he enjoys being a pushy asshole. Or at least he did.
During Time Bastard, we see how Ted has grown bitter and sour because of being a pushy asshole. The good things that persona had, aka getting laid, don't work anymore. He's just a shadow of the person he had constructed.
That's why, when Kilgore calls him "time bastard" and he understands how time travel works, he fastly clings to that identity. Not only he has power over others as the time bastard, but he can change the errors of his way and return to Jenny. And even better yet, because he's learned what being a pushy ashole is, and he can show Jenny. Surely this time they'll end up together... Won't they?
I'd lastly want to mention the Hatchetfield Ape-Man. Even though he first wanted Lucy just for her money, he ends up falling in love with her. Ted becomes Cronk to please her, as she loves Cronk, and he can be loved through that persona. He even decides to die as Cronk in the episode, not as Ted. He dismisses his identity just so that he can be loved.
#starkid#hatchetverse#ted Spankoffski#time bastard#tgwdlm#nightmare time#the guy who didn't like musicals#hatchetfield#hatchetfield ape-man#i get tinky i am fascinated by ted and I'd love to put him in situations to see how he reacts#also kudos to the langs because of the way they build their characters. their needs (or lack of them ily paul) are fascinating#hyl rambles
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Turgid Passion Play
#am chose to leave his terminal in easy reach.#the spikes are low enough that any of us could could walk up to it and mess with the machine it's connected to.#but we have been long since learned he will not let anyone near that blasted thing. it's a taunt. a rouse.#an amusing lie to no one but am himself#whoa who wrote that#i have no mouth and i must scream#ihnmaims#allied mastercomputer#am i have no mouth and i must scream#so uh yeah. i finally read this thing recently and now am's just EVERYWHERE.#so if this bastard's gonna haunt me i might as well put my own spin on him y'know?#fascinating character. i would absolutely be fearing for my life if he actually existed. zero out of ten would not have fun#zeisty’s heavy hitters
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its been played up alot in the sonic franchise that other characters find shadow unnerving or even downright terrifying, which has always been funny to me because he has never really looked scary
but watching the movie trailer made me see something different......seeing his power being demonstrated in a more "real world" setting, watching those glowing red eyes as he speeds towards something......for the first time ever, even if just for a second, i felt actually frightened by shadow the hedgehog
#orion rambles#i find it fascinating bc i now get how other characters would feel about shadow within his world#i love him but he's kind of a scary bastard!#using this experience to fuel any fanfic i make about shadow forever btw#he genuinely looks like the devil and i love it#sonic movie 3#sonic movie#shadow the hedgehog#sonic the hedgehog
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John Horse Posting
Ideally John and Castiel would try to get along but in the way two insane people do and they just sit quietly in the same room drinking beer or whiskey like ‘yeah Im making a good impression’
#mlpnatural#mlp#spn#ponynatural#sketch#supernatural#supernatural characters as ponies#supernatural with ponies#sketch artist#john winchester#pony john winchester#castiel#pony castiel#look as shit of a father john was he is a fascinating character#he is Thee serial killer from murder show!!#I can never formulate how such a Cas John meeting would go#but I try#because because because#it also heavily depends on WHEN they wpuld meet and how#like if John and Dean were both pulled from hell bc which one is The righteous man and heaven is betting on John bc he never broke#but Cas is betting on Dean#or if they met in the bunker when things were more stable and episodic#no yellow eyes but plenty to hunt#godstiel would have exploded johns balls#season 15 Cas meeting a preseries John would be weird to say the least but the potential#I have. other theories about different ways characters would come in and out of the series (death n stuff)#also alt world hunters kinda sucked bc they slapped familiar faces on strangers and also ketch was there#hate that guy gonna be real#hateee when they make deals those bastards
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HERE IT IS!! after Many moons of chipping away at this OC song comic for my scifi-noir android character Whitney and his bodyguard Bast, it is finally as complete as it shall ever be;; I’m proud of the work I put into this one! Pretty niche, but maybe some folks out there will enjoy UuU
ps: there's also a video for easy viewing!
#song comic#comic#comic art#character illustration#sci fi fantasy#dark art#character art#my scribbles#lyricstuck#an ode to this complicated traumatized morally twisted delusional bastard capitalist#as he becomes that which shaped him into the monster he is#the reality of his existence as an android (marginalized identity in this world)#is at odds with the power-hungry hierarchical worldview he's developed (as a coping mechanism) and is now consumed by#he will Never be one of the self assured entitled elites whose lives/positions he covets#but he can never acknowledge that or the path/ identity he's constructed for himself unravels#at the root of it all#he has vowed Never to be at the mercy of others again#which makes it all the more ironically tragic that the path he sees as granting him the most power is actually just selling himself#to be used as a pawn by the Hijaratha (illuminati-esque organization made up of the same politico-corporate elite#who ruined his life in the first place)#he's so full of contradictions/ hypocrisies and he doesn't even realize it#I find him so fascinating#rotating him in my mind forever#lots of little symbolism things in here#just as a treat for me lol#if you've read down this far- bless you you are now my boon companion#Youtube#whitney
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something about rhaenyra and motherhood, something about the fact she’s the first of the targaryens we know of who’s death at the hands of a dragon she’s explicitly torn apart and eaten. that she died with her surviving child watching who goes onto be known as the dragonbane – the fact sunfyre showed no interest in her at first until they cut her breast. the fact aegon had to be torn from her arms and was made to watch
#her and motherhood is so fascinating because like Jesus . like she was genuinely traumatized by aemma’s fate#like it’s such a genuine tragedy that felt so needless to her if he was just going to name her anyway and she’s just so#AFRAID of the birthing bed#and her boys survive ! She has the sons she needed but they’re immediately called bastards and common looking and plain and targeted for#their illegitimacy#they come for her post partum body they come for her freshly born infant’s nose shape as if all newborn’s don’t have a pug nose#and then they become a source of strength and love and such a genuine comfort for her#the first pure feeling of joy she had in years#and then she has two more ! and she’s about to have her daughter and she loses her horrifically over a three day stillbirth#and we’re told from the jump how devastated she was by visenya#and how luke fractured her even further - how he broke her even further#and she never purposefully sends them into danger but they’re all ripped from her anyway#no matter what she does they’re ripped from her and they die#and there’s nothing left of luke. Nothing left of jace. Nothing left of viserys. Joffreys body was near decapitated they were sawing at his#feet to take his boots and at his hands for his rings there’s a sword in his belly#and then all she wants to do is go home. she wants to go home and protect her last surviving child#she wants them to be safe she sells her crown so they can be safe and walks into a trap blindly because dragonstone was always safe#and she gets torn apart. She gets torn apart#she loved them so much she loved them with everything she had it wasn’t enough#they all died
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y'all are cowards for using the verses of "eat your young" for romantic dreamling fics instead of using the chorus for a fic that grapples with hob gadling being a hedonist who has always valued his own survival above anyone else.
#sandman#hob gadling#literally ''throw enough rope until the legs have swung'' could have SO MUCH WEIGHT if you know how to write#also like. fandom's reading comprehension is at nil this song is about deferring others' futures for your own hunger.#it's only sexy if you find capitalism sexy.#hozier unreal unearth#ANYWAYS. SORRY.#just fandom largely ignores the fun and interesting things about most characters ever#a man who lives forever and makes his fortune almost every century is a fucking psychopath (non-dsm usage don't @ me)#and that's what could be so so fascinating about him#venture capitalist bastard born before venture capitalism#and instead most ppl writing him like he's soft#[biting you all in crt and decolonization studies]
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i ♥️ soggy and pathetic men 🥰
#my art#loz#loz phantom hourglass#linebeck#hes been my f/o since like highschool 🥰#my limp and faggy little babygirl#@ all 10 of you in the linebeck fanclub on here: i bring you sustenance. you are welcome <3#ive been going through his tag recently too and i love that we all end up drawing him while solely controlled by our libido#nobody can draw him as the sweaty little bastard he really is and i find the phenomenon so fascinating#I SAY THIS WHILE ALSO DOING THE SAME THING I AM NOT IMMUNE TO LINEBECK BIMBOFICATION#also congrats to him for beating ghirahim at the tumblr sexyman competition last october im so proud of you baby#this was also a redraw of something i did in highschool btw :)#if you ask nicely i will show it to you guys but you cant laugh#kais f/os
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The apartment scene reminds me a lot of coraline honestly, like mr lopee being the other mother and the crystal being like the buttons. This specifically reminds me of the scene where coraline is first offered the buttons
Yesss absolutely. Lopee is doing his best to try and convince Seb to give him what he wants. He wants Seb to take the bait, take the deal.
He’s a mixture of Dr. Facilier and the Other Mother FOR SURE.
#spottie speaks#that’s the vibe I’m going for with this bastard#eldritch entity that likes to fuck around with humans and see what they do#the more unpredictable you are#the more he’s fascinated with you
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sendin my love from the other side of the apocalypse
#it feels liek i forgor how to draw? which is fascinating#i usually feel thst right before my whole shit changes#anyway. john and amy are not letting daves nap get in the way of their epic gaming#john imo is a bit of a cocky bastard at videogaming even though he is definitely less skilled than amy is#amy takes these things Quite Seriously though. she is Going to win. no matter the amt of dumb snarky things John says#rambles.txt#my art#jdate#doodles#john dies at the end#johndaveamy#eh kind of. yknow#i see your 'there was only one bed' and raise you 'there was only one couch'
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@normaltothemax: Ooh meta about John and children. How he sees himself vs. how he actually is with them <3 — SEND META TOPICS.
oh he thinks he's horrendous with children. he thinks nobody in their right mind should ever let him look after a kid / spend time with their kids, because he's terrified about being a bad influence or turning his back at the wrong moment. even when he really makes an effort to do everything right by your most puritanical housewife's standards — no smoking, no swearing, no drinking, PG movies — he's always convinced that something's going to happen, some accident or tragedy that he won't be able to prevent, especially someone looking to get to him and using the kid or their family to do it. it's happened several times before, and it'll probably happen again. it's one of the reasons he can't really see himself being a dad, even though on some level i think he would have liked that. (in his new 52 verse with his daughter rose porter, he is very much a helicopter parent for this reason; he's always terrified of something happening to her because of his reputation.)
aside from the obvious life-or-death fears, he tends to feel out-of-place and clumsy and careless when he's around kids; he's someone who works best with a plan, even just the kernel of one, but around kids he's always improvising, with their clever questions and inane curiosities. he also has zero concept of what constitutes a normal response to an average question, most of the time, because it's not like he's lived a normal life; turns out the right answer to "sometimes i see a scary man in my closet" is not, in fact, "well he's probably dead, so."
in reality, he's mostly only a bad influence insofar as swearing and normalizing obscene amounts of cigarette-smoking; he's actually really fucking good with kids. he had an awful childhood and he remembers vividly all the ways he used to wish adults in his life would treat him, all the times he wanted a hand to hold or a hug; to inflict any kind of hardship on a child would mean he's become his father, and that's a fate worse than death to him. he's incredibly protective of kids, he's a genuinely good listener, and he communicates with them like they're adults (which isn't always a good thing, considering the way he communicates with other adults, but he doesn't condescend or brush them off). he's childish enough to know & engage with what they might consider fun, and he's always willing to risk embarrassment to play along with a game or coax out a smile. he would risk absolutely anything if it meant saving a kid's life, and he will ruin the existence of anyone who so much as thinks about hurting a child. (even though he has pushed the occasional snotty bastard into a duck pond before. he stuck around to make sure they could swim, though.)
now, the intersection of the two is this: sometimes he's so good with kids, and they like him so much, that they start to emulate him. which includes getting involved in the occult and starting down the same path he did when he was younger, with all the pitfalls and harsh learning curves and horrors that come with it. this is what happened with his niece gemma, and he regrets that every day of his life.
all things considered, his primary strategy towards dealing with children is that he doesn't. it's safer for them, and it's less stressful for him.
#normaltothemax#i see quite a few people on tumblr complain about fic writers & fans wanting to see constantine as a dad and i'm like. why#it's a FASCINATING role to put him in!! the mental gymnastics he would be doing are gold medal worthy!!#he has so much unresolved trauma from his father & from newcastle and i for one would love to see him manage it#while at the heart of a scenario where he has to develop his own parenting style & set an example over time#would he be a perfect parent? fuck no. and there is always a non-zero chance that he panics and leaves the kid with someone else#especially if danger rears its ugly head and he thinks his presence is a danger to them#and there are all the resulting hang-ups that follow that. how long before he comes back. potentially being denied a subsequent relationshi#but god there is SO MUCH to explore. i just think constantine is exceptional with kids#and that can be as much of a bad thing as if he wasn't#( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE.#( answered. ) THIS IS JOHN CONSTANTINE. FUCK OFF.
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