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[hunter-sylvester]

Pride month may be over but I'm still gay as fuck so. hcs ig

Hunter Sylvester - Metal Lords / Zakk - Deathgasm / Turo Moilanen - Heavy Trip

[key-to-everything]

Sometimes DSBM songs are really just atmospheric black metal but the atmosphere in question happens to be depression.

[metalsylvester]

GW2 idea

Pronoun titles.

Hear me out.

Nobody would HAVE to use them. The way I'm thinking they wouldn't even have to affect anything about the in-game dialogue or UI. (altho it'd be awesome if it did but that's a bigger commitment, whereas I feel like the title idea is VERY low commitment for Anet) They'd literally just be there to communicate your identity to other players/project your identity. I think even something as basic as just giving every player access to titles that say "he/him" "she/her" "they/them" would be really cool. (any additional options would be encouraged tho)

And it'd be using a system that already exists! The most obvious benefit would be to non binary people. Because a binary trans person like myself can just play the gender they are but there's no NB option in the character creator. And by making it something like a title you also wouldn't be stuck with any set of pronouns for a character. (which could be cool for genderfluid people for one, not to mention the fact that this game has been around for 10+ years and I'm sure I'm not the only person who's pronouns have changed in that time.)

For myself, while I play pretty antisocially in any mmorpg I play, I think it might make me feel more at ease playing fem-presenting characters if I could just have a little he/him under the name. (femboy vibes??) GW2 is one of those games where sadly the male characters can lean a little potato while the female characters serve all the cunt. I might be a man but I'm also gay, and I like to kill monsters ✨fabulously✨

I do realize there's a harassment risk here. But I feel like that's kind of covered by the fact that nobody would be obligated to use it. Anybody could just use ANY OTHER title. For those that feel comfortable displaying your pronouns publicly, it'd be there. For those just want to fly under the radar, they still could.

[milkhorns]

Happy new year (2008!)!! 🥳🎉

[unicornlovers10]

Hunter sleeps holding his Sprig plushie, and he's done this since he was really little. Lilith gave it to him by putting it in the crib next to him, as a gift from one of his predecessors.

(In the Canon!Timeline, it was last seen at Gus's place. Locked in his toybox for safe keeping. Once it was found again, Hunter kept it on his bed. Occasionally bringing it with him to sleepovers.)

(I'm debating on whether it'll be too big for him to hold as a baby. But I'm imagining him as smaller than the plushie for scale. Also the eyes are soft, so it would be safe for an infant/toddler under 3.)

[mekanikaltrifle]

does anyone want to see the various hunter arts I've been doing as I ponder some shit

[dingbingbats]

just like me fr (i have no clue what is going on half the time at this point)

[sarcoptid]

holy shit i'm in love with these thangs 💖💖💖💖

STRONGLY considering reworking my troll druid to be darkspear or zandalari instead of farakki and giving her this as her main form (why change her, you ask? well you see. i'm an anal retentive freak and my druid forms have to match my character's color scheme and there's no yellow or brown ones. so.)

[dudelynxx]

he/she hunter toh (crowd cheers)

[hunter-sylvester]

Skullflower is Autistic: A Breakdown.

Buckle the fuck up.

Disclaimer: Don't take any of this too seriously.

Also all of this was written over a year ago with only minor edits. I'm just posting it now cause it's been rotting in my drafts and, like, fuck it.

I've wanted to try and make a comprehensive breakdown like this for a while just because I love these characters and very heavily interpret them all as autistic (with ADHD as well.) But this is just the perspective of one guy. And I probably overstate it but the fact that we can all have our own very personal interpretations about media is what's great about analysis & fandom.

Hunter Sylvester.

Yes I'm doing Hunter first, what do you think I am? Unbiased? Please.

Autistic Perfectionism. Hunter's autistic perfectionism is something I've mentioned before and somewhat struggle to describe satisfactorily. But to me the most obvious example is his inability to deal with the idea of Emily joining Skullfucker as a cellist. Obviously, there's the queer angle to this but I think two reasons can play a role at once. He's in love with Kevin so he doesn't want a girl that Kevin picked to be a part of their band. Additionally, I'd argue that he can't deal with the idea of having a girl cellist as their bass player because it in NO WAY fits the mental image that Hunter has in his mind of what he wanted Skullfucker to be. It doesn't match the perfect idea that he's dreamed of, that he holds onto for dear life, so he can't deal with it.

Hyperfixations. "Hunter's been into a lot of things since I've known him but he's stuck with metal longer than any of them." - Kevin. Need I say more? Well, I will anyway. The guy hyperfixates. I think the closest thing we have to a canon confirmed hyperfixation is Dungeons & Dragons. Because of what in my mind is a combination of Autism and ADHD in Hunter, they don't fully leave him. He still likes and plays D&D, but he's not as obsessed with it as he used to be when he made his dad buy him the most ridiculous game terrain that fucking lights up.

Special Interests. I think one of the easiest claims to make is that metal is a special interest for Hunter. He entrenches his entire life in it and reaches for it when a stressful situation happens to try and make himself feel more okay. (getting his hair cut off by Skip and relating his new look to Jason Newsted) It's clearly something that comforts him, having been obsessed with it ever since his mom left. Which, regardless of the specific circumstances, is a horridly stressful situation for any 12-13 year old.

Struggles with social interaction. He doesn't seem to have a lot of friends. He gets along with Robbie, Kevin (obviously) and the people he plays D&D with but that seems to be it. Especially whenever the situation gets very stressful, Hunter's mind immediately reaches for his comfort interest to try and make it through (or to lash out). He can't easily just be comfortable in a strange social situation. Or a strange situation in general.

Stims. Hunter stims by playing guitar. That's it, that's the whole point. And there's this little move:

Kevin Schlieb.

Neutrality. The way Kevin just takes Hunter and Emily as they are feels autistic to me.

Struggles with social interaction. And he clearly wants it to be easier for him. He wants to connect to people but he doesn't know how. It's not like he doesn't understand people. He does. He understands Hunter better than Hunter understands himself. "sometimes he's not so nice to people when he's uncomfortable" "You are afraid of everybody" "you treat everybody like shit and you make them hate you" But that understanding of how people think and work doesn't translate to his direct interactions with most of his peers. Maybe because he understands other neurodivergent people but not neurotypicals. The fact he does have a decent read on, at the very least, his best friend could also be indicative of the extra work Kevin has had to put in over the course of his life to try and understand people to begin with.

Directness. A lot of Kevin does feel direct to me. I suppose in a 'what you see is what you get' sort of way. He obviously has the whole protagonist thing going on which tends to end you up with pretty neutral, earnest and open characters.

Stims:

Emily Spector.

Gets overstimulated. Emily's outbursts could be attributed more to a struggle regulating her emotions. It's not a huge stretch to assume her mystery medication is a mood stabilizer. However, the idea of it being a combination of being overstimulated and then no longer being able to deal with her anger on top of the distress she's already feeling feels apt to me. This is a stretch, but, we only ever see her have outbursts at school. A nightmare environment for the stimuli sensitive. Emily is by far the character out of the main three we spend the least time with, which could easily explain my previous point away. We hardly see her out of school to begin with. But I think there can be merit in taking it as a part of the story, rather than an incidental effect of her being left by the wayside.

Black and white thinking. "So first you tell me that I should hate him, and now you want me to help him?" - Emily. No, he didn't say you should hate him, Emily. "You have every right to be mad- especially at Hunter!" - Kevin.

Directness. I mean she literally calls up Kevin to ask him if he wants to go fuck in a parking lot and more power to her. But it is very direct.

Struggles with social interaction. And apart from Skip & Co. having a particular hate-boner for Hunter, Emily might actually be the most widely ostracized for her lack of social finesse. Which would check out because society is brutally cruel to girls. Kevin is shown to have some positive interaction outside of the other two main characters, so is Hunter. And, yes, so is Emily. But it's only with the janitor of the school, who she is implied to have had previous interactions with. Having your only friend at school be the fucking janitor is not a neurotypical experience. I know I certainly got along easier with a handful of teachers than I did with my peers back when I was at school.

Whatever this is. Fam, I've BEEN there...but it's not neurotypical:

A 'little' note to end on: I want to state that I love all three of these character very dearly. I don't pretend that I don't have a favorite, but they are all amazing. There's various reasons why Metal Lords is such a comforting movie, but a big one, is that the characters act in a way that feels incredibly familiar. They act like me. They act like my autistic friends. We make weird facial expressions, we understand the world and each other through our interests. The way all of them talk feels so close to home. (The swearing is actually part of that. A lot of real people swear and over-censoring of that tends to bug me but that's kinda beside the point lmao)

[key-to-everything]

No, you don't understand. I need 11 hours of my day to listen to metal.

[metalsylvester]

Harley Poe - Time Of The Month // Motorhead - Love me Forever // Bo Burnham - All Eyes On Me // Mudvayne - Happy // Bo Burnham - All Eyes On Me // Candlemass - Bewitched

I'm going on t really soon and I'm having a lot of feelings so I made this stupid thing out of spotify lyrics.

[moist-n-creamy]

I fucking love that there was no redemption arc for neferpitou just death and gon’s plot armor

[tricksteroftheheart]

hey btw since youre hunter this means you're australian by proxy. Die /J

im going to look up 'what is the most deadly slug in australia' and im going to race towards your current housing as fast as my scug feet can take me. this is a warning

UPDATE: found out eating slugs that carry disease makes them deadly. and i am carrying every disease. who will die first /j

[unicornlovers10]

Hunter was so sleep deprived that he accidentally called Lilith mom once during one of their lessons. It was embarrassing for everyone involved.

[dingbingbats]

fun game time for my mutuals and followers :)

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