#so when theres an emphasis on a body part? or hes doing a new expression? when hes showing just a teensy bit of shoulder? <--- Flashing straight back to that Mayoi scout where everyone went fully rabid about figuring out Mugi's outfit under the robes. Sir, this much skin?
ITS CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYYY ITS SO CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!! tsumugi is just so. modestly clad 95% of the time. so when he shows skin i cant help but gasp. But even then in his summer outfit its like
he has both his ankles and wrists exposed. This is like pornography to a victorian
and FOR SOME REASON we keep getting shit like THIS
(honorable mention:)
and then we also have shit like this
like how am i supposed to react. What do they want me to say. why are they doing this. why HIM of all people
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re: unconventional smiles, i’ve been building a folder for panels/screenshots of dc characters smiling w the goal of doing a smile study detailing the different ways certain characters will emote
but the project has fallen to the wayside these days bc, unfortunately, i have not been reading many comics where they have a reason to smile 😔
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i keep this picture in my wallet to show people when they ask who carmy is bc to me this is Carmy....no sexy arms. no slutty little t-shirts and waist defining aprons. no chain with which to dangle. absolutely no swag. big sad eyes. about to expirence the worst year of his life
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i think one of the quickest ways to make a character feel OOC is to use language they wouldnt use.
Characters, like people, tend to favor certain words depending on a ton of different factors (culture, upbringing, age, class, personality) and its useful to try and break down what words they tend to favor and how their language ~feels~ overall. It's tempting to just insert how you talk yourself but I am so serious when I say that it can make or break your characterization if you use language that that character would simply not use.
To start it can be as simple as noting which swears or pet names the character uses most often in canon. What do those words say about them. What's the vibe they give off. I'll give an example:
Character A's favorite pet name is Baby. this gives off a less formal vibe generally, and feels very flirty. Depending on the character's vibe otherwise this can come off as sweet, flamboyant, overly familiar, playful, etc. But overall it's casual, it's flirty, it's confident, generally speaking.
You can use this to inform what swears the character may or may not use. They'll likely use ones that feel more casual. Swears vary HEAVILY depending on your location so that's something to keep in mind here. For this example I would likely go with basic common ones like fuck, shit or bitch. I would likely lean away from something like damn/god damn it or hell because to me those feel a bit reserved sounding. (for a swear)
that's just a SUPER basic version of how i start to break down how characters talk but. i promise it does wonders for characterization to really stop and think hard about how they speak and what language they use. I know I personally make a whole mental (or sometimes written down!!) profile just on notes about how a character speaks, what words they like, which ones they never use, and how they tend to express different emotions. It's honestly also just fun!!!!
anyways thats my not so short post on not even the tip of my character analysis iceberg thanks for coming to my ted talk
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there’s something so alluring about the idea of living in a perpetual horror movie to me. like a time loop. specifically a paranormal one where you could never make it out alive. in the same sense of “heaven is a place where nothing really happens” (from the talking heads song Heaven), being trapped in a story where there’s only one ending and you suffer through whatever horrors are laid out for you (but they are laid out exactly as they are and always will be, and they are laid out for YOU) sounds like. morbidly peaceful. no need to worry what happens next, you already know. and you’ve done it a hundred times. of course you’re in pain but it’s intimately familiar and maybe you don’t even register your suffering anymore. and you’re not preoccupied by your performance in this dance anymore either— it feels like whatever you do, the same events occur, but you’re an actor in a story and you never had free will to begin with. anyways. it just sounds kind of nice 👍
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