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[inkedmoth]

Heard you was making characters 👁️👄👁️

I was just gonna reply but then I got SO SO carried away so here’s a reblog with far too much of an info-dump 😅

The basics I like to start off with are:

Name – could mean something, could ref something, could be a generic name that fits

Age – Could be a precise number could be a “mid-thirties” or if they’re an elf “old as fuck”

Physical Build – Things like hair and eye colour are a must have for me. But then for their body type, I like to try and take into consideration what their job is and how that would affect their appearance!

Dress Sense – This is also fun to think about in terms of how their job affects their fashion! (and also fun to look on pinterest for ideas!)

But for personality this often takes me a bit to figure out, over the years I’ve come up with a quick way to get a feeling for the character, and usually in the process of writing them in the story I can develop them more as I go.

KEY TRAITS!!!

I pick three prominent traits, 1 positive, 1 neutral, and 1 negative(ish), for example if I use Rhosynel: Protective – Flighty – Reckless

Protective means that she forms bonds with those she spends time with a little too easily, but once you’re her friend, she’d go to the ends of the middle earth for you!

Flighty means that she tries to avoid both danger and responsibilities, she’d much rather flee from a dangerous situation than engage, this can translate into restless energy when anxious.

Reckless, so for this one, I’ve chosen it specifically because it’s like the EXTREME of her positive trait, protectiveness can be pushed further and further until a once flighty and avoidant personality ends up snapping and becoming incredibly reckless to protect those she cares for.

(Also these traits might help or hinder them in their job which is fun to consider! For Rhos being protective was great when she was a Ranger, but being reckless got her injured multiple times trying to protect others, while being flighty means she avoids danger on her messenger runs!)

Some more fun positive to negative links could be things like: Determined > stubborn, outgoing > loud-mouthed, caring > overbearing, knowledgeable > know-it-all, honest > blunt

But once I’ve got a few key traits, I can build her up from there!

Backstory! I’ll be honest with you I made Rhosynel’s backstory up on the fly and then had to backtrack and edit chapters 😂 BUT I knew I wanted her to be an ex-ranger, and to have a bird, so then it was a case of figuring out who-what-when-why. And then it snowballed from there and now she has a family tree and distant cousins and aaaaaaaaa.

So for backstory depending on how much it affects stories, you could keep it somewhat simple, or you could spend time coming up with familial links, friends, old/past jobs. OR you could live it simple and see what develops on its own!

Other things just for fun:

A pinterest board!! Can be face claims, outfits, weapons/tools, animals, or just general things that vibe with you for them.

Themes and motifs! For Rhosynel I knew she was birds, feathers, storms, and flying, which I can then occasionally reference!

A colour pallet! Same as above basically, does your character trend towards wearing a specific colour, does it reflect anything about them, is it their fave colour, or just the one they end up wearing most??

Face claims, can sometimes be easy, but most of my guys remain as mildly-human-shapes until I get a bolt of inspiration 😅

I think that’s enough of a word dump for now, I just get very into making characters which might explain why I have 300+ for my own worlds 😅😅😅

GOOD LUCK and I can't wait to meet her!!!!

I feel like I'm this 🤏 close to having a proper OC in mind following some of my recent writing.

She almost has a name, she just about has a backstory and a link to canon events in LOTR.

Butttt it's the first time I've come up with a character of my own. If you have any tips and tricks for developing good OCs please hit me up!!

[egophiliac]

the lovers, reversed

(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

can you draw L and Light doing work together I think it'd be cute and relaxing

L says the overhead lights stay off

[codenamethebird]

More Hades 2 rambles from me! Though this time round it's a continuation of a point I made in this post.

Specifically, that I think the final boss of the Surface will be a living human mortal.

A couple people on that post disagreed that it would be a human, mostly just because of boss fight mechanics. Which I do get, but this is my not so little refute of that idea (all in good fun of course, I very well might be wrong! I just have thought a bunch about it since then and wanted to ramble about it).

I'll be getting into later how the game could have a hard mechanically satisfying human final boss later, because first I want to talk about how it would make sense naratively. Not because anyone remotely argued this point, I just think it's interesting haha.

So let's go back for a moment to Hades 1, and it's final boss, Hades himself. On a mechanical sense, it makes total sense, Hades is the god and master of the underworld Zag is trying to escape. He would be the final obstacle. But what really makes Hades work as the final boss, is the story and emotional reason he's there.

The plot of Hades is ultimately about Zag's messy relationship with his dad. And that final boss fight is an ongoing conversation with him. While irl you and your questionable dad constantly fighting to death is not a great way to fix your problems, these are weird bound to underworld greek gods. Death is their weird love language for like half this cast haha. There is a reason Death is one of, if not the main love interest.

Okay now that I've established that, let's look at the one final boss we do know from Hades 2, Chronos. Now it's Grandpa's time to shine. Unlike Hades 1, he fits a lot cleaner into a more traditional villian role. The monster who literally takes over your house and takes your family hostage.

In that way, it is a personal fight for Mel to save her family, but Mel lacks a specific personal connection to Chronos himself. Obviously there's the whole Grandpa thing, but she wasn't like raised by him or anything. He is a convient big bad she can hate simply and wholeheartedly. While he does try to challenge her beliefs at times, Mel will never listen to him because of the whole family kidnapping thing, and Gramps equally doesn't want to engage with her either. He just wants to be a dick to her.

While I'm a firm believer in the "We (the gods) are actually the bad guys" theory, I don't think Chronos is secretly an angel. He did you know eat his kids and that entire scene with Hades and him just reeked of shitty dad vibes. While Chronos might be better for humanity, I think he really is using them as a prop and doesn't genuinely care about them. (This is a derail, but I do think the human army side of things including Prometheus will turn on Chronos at some point. Specifcally that they are already planning to).

But yes, basically, while I adore Chronos as a villain, you get none of the character growth from either party that you got between Zag and Hades in the first game. Obviously, we are still in early access, so there's more dialouge to be had. But from what we have seen, those two are not changing the other. So this is my roundabout way to say that must mean the Surface boss is the one that is going to be all about Melinoe's character growth.

I don't think I need to explain why fighting a human would be a fascinating place for character growth for humanities #1 hater Melinoe. Mel's the Hades equivalent in this game (not the Zag), who will not listen to anyone who disagrees with her. Getting beat up by a human might actually start to get it through her head.

But also I want to dig into why I don't think the final boss will be another Titan. I've seen Atlas thrown around a bunch as a possible final Surface boss. Also Typhon... I'm certain there are others. But I don't know what they would add to the narrative, especially as a final boss? I think there's more evidence for Atlas, so I'll focus on him.

It would make some sense, he was the leader of the titan rebellion and much like Prometheus, in certain versions of the myth he was also freed from his punishment by Heracles! Which considering Heracles suspicious lack of dialouge so far, and the dialouge he does have being a god hater, I do think he's the one who freed Prometheus in this game.

But other than those connections, what does Atlas add to make him an interesting antagonist to Mel? He's not particularly tied to humanity, and while his punishment sucked he did lead a rebellion against the gods (and traditionally the reasons have nothing to do with humans).

Mostly, in my opinion, if the game was going to have a titan also be the final boss for the Surface, it wouldn't be Atlas. It would be Prometheus. He's the powerful titan who has a legitimate gruge against the gods and who can engage with Mel in interesting ways, challenging her stance against the gods. But they have already used Prometheus, I don't know how they could write Atlas (or whatever titan/god) in a way that would be more interesting than Prometheus, and rival the Hades boss fight for thematic weight. Also, it would be 2 titans in a row, which isn't nessisarily a bad thing, but still.

I've also seen people throw around it might he Ares, which I will admit would I would be way more excited for that another titan. Theres some interesting ideas to be had with an Olympian who has betrayed the gods. But we already have dialouge with Athena where she says how Chronos' armies motivations wouldn't line up with Ares'. And I feel like going from a dude only obsessed with war to someone fighting for some kind of higher cause would be a jump in character. Not impossible, but a little weird.

And ultimately, I just think that a Human would serve the purpose better as an antagonist to Mel who would shake her worldview on living mortals in particular. A fight with Ares would mess with her relationship with the gods, but not as clearly with humans.

Okay now that I've talked about themes, how about what people actually had an issue with lol, how would a final boss with a human make sense from a boss fight perspective. I have three main ideas, that don't really contradict each other and could all exist in the fight.

1st idea: multiple enemies. We've heard that there are human armies, the final boss could possibly be a leader of them. We could have hords of enemies, could have select recognizable commanders that have different skill sets, etc. None of the Surface boss fights have multi bosses in them (they have random mobs but none like the sirens or Theseus and Asterius), so I don't think it would be strange to have it. And while stretching the definition of a human boss a bit, these other bosses could be ghosts and other kinds of beings (I just think the main boss should be a breathing human).

2nd idea and tbh my main one. Have them be a Witch! Or some other kind of magic user. I feel like this should be obvious, but a lot of the theming around Hades 2 is witchy/magic stuff and it's wild we don't have a major witch enemy yet (other than obviously Hecate, but for obvious reasons I don't count her).

I'm thinking some kind of High Priestess of Chronos kind of character, we still don't know exactly how Chronos was revived and this could tie in, but there's a bunch of ways you could spin a magic user! I think it would be a prime place to put a narrative foil to Melinoe. A fellow Witch whose family was stolen away by the gods who is looking for justice. Maybe when finally looking into a mirror, some of the stuff Melinoe's been told will finally breach her thick headed skull haha.

I don't think I really need to get into the technical about how a witch fight could be cool. But one idea, tying into my first point, a magic user could have mind powers and compell powerful beings to fight for them. This could be the Zag boss fight of borderline crack theories or even maybe the aforementioned Ares who maybe got captured during his war path. A magic fight doesn't need possessed enemies, but it could be cool.

And finally, my 3rd idea. You might be going, but how could a human be more powerful than Prometheus? Well first point magic, but more seriously, just have them be boosted by Chronos and/or other allies. I mentioned a theory about a high priestess sort of character (the power of God and ani--), but more specifically, if they do go the route of a foil to Melinoe, she has her boons from the gods. Much like Theseus in Hades 1, the final surface boss could gain the boons of Chronos/Prometheus/and the like. Maybe even a Chaos boon, they have already aided Chronos once, and there's a decent chance the humans might betray Chronos at some point so Chaos might be chill with them. This could also be a way to introduce more titan characters and the like without needing to make models for them haha.

But yes, tldr, magic human gives us both the thematic weight of it being a human, witch stuff to parallel Melinoe, and just cool powerful magic fight as a final boss (and it could parallel the Hecate boss fight, the first boss u fight and the last being magic based).

[spkyart]

I didn't expect this cosplay to be a full blown success but I am so happy about it

[froggtogs]

get pranked

[dreamlogic]

love how i always feel like i need to don a full psychological hazmat suit to talk to my mother.

[wintaebear]

okay but for real great did nothing wrong and i will die on this hill. he is not the best person and he has his flaws, but most of the bad things he has done were done in situations in which he was running on panic, legitimate fear for his life, trauma and/or not knowing what the fuck was going on + we know that if he actually knew that a bad thing was going to happen he would be trying his damnedest to change the outcome. even in the og version of events he still goes in to try and find nan. he still stands up to his family and wants nothing to do with them when he learns about their crimes. he's a fucked up person making fucked up decisions in fucked up situations, not the scum of the earth that a lot of people seem determined to paint him as

[teamcapwasrightandishouldsayit]

hello, lu fandom. i've got... a thought experiment? i suppose?

the short explanation is that i'm outlining a fic where the chain defeats dink in post-totk hyrule but no portals arrive to take them home, so they're just stuck in wild's era forever. i want to have at least one of the chain form a new relationship in the botw era (besides wild, who will be with flora), but i'm having trouble thinking of who would be interested in who.

so, thought experiment. if you had to ship each member of the chain with a botw/totk character, what would your ships be and why?

[pineappical]

wish ted wouldve sang more in the show because jason sudeikis can SING and that video of him singing patience is ahhm.. 🫣🫣

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

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[intotheelliwoods]

I present to you a little timeline :)

I have been having dreams about this story since way early march and im so happy I finally have the guts to go through with it all lmaooo no matter how wild it is

"hey ell what happened to this being a hurt/comfort comic" can you pretty please trust me when I say that everything comes full circle, the hurt comfort comics will return! I just want to have some fun first!

Anyways uhh expect a time skip next update!

[000yul]

there's this this unsettling blink-and-you'll-miss-it section of the new event trailer here.... where the camera lingers on viviana's unease before we get two rapid fire shots of arturia then viviana again - but this time she has a vapid head-empty smile on her face

the entire schoolyard section is crazy actually. viviana's watching the students, and then suddenly arturia is there, and then viviana's suddenly one of the students herself? did they cross paths in leithania, or (crazy baseless theory ahead) is this hinting that arturia is fucking with viviana's memories...? rewriting them even...?? (we don't see a young arturia to go with young viviana.. but who knows how sankta age.) i wouldn't put it past her to do so, i just don't know if her arts allow her to do something that extreme

when it comes to leithania and the witch king storyline clearly the writers are willing to play around with memory, so who knows?? time to find out in.. sob.. half a year

[theskymother]

animal jam is a lot more fun when you're rich

[trillscienceofficer]

Star Trek: Voyager 2x15 “Threshold”

[brightdeadthing]

if you would like, a web weaving on changelings?

jean-paul sartre / blue kid / holly black / clarice lispector / @a-story-of-atoms / andrés cerpa / natalie wee / silas denver melvin (x2) / the amazing devil / ada limón