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[boomboxcomics-blog]

[rnurdercorpse]

my blog is emotional whiplash between harley and david kjdbgsljsdh

[character-library]

Kara Kilgrave - Marvel

Ariel - Marvel

Emma Frost - Marvel

Karma - Marvel

Ariel Masters - DC

The Black Queen/Jean Grey - Marvel

Duella Dent - DC

Arella - DC

Peonia - Pokémon Sword and Shield

Marinette & Chloe - Miraculous

[jessicajonesrp]

Rikarah’s revelation

Rikarah Pallaton was not a person who allowed herself to feel much depth of emotion. Emotion was weakness, mentally as well as emotionally. Emotion took away from clear, concise thinking and courses of action, breeding impulsive and often self-sabotaging outcomes. The only way for anyone to maintain full control of a situation, in her view, was to filter it through thought without feelings interfering.

 And so, she had not loved Phillip Jones, however many times they may have shared a bed or living space. She found him fun, interesting, and it was, of course, difficult to find a person who not only had her level of “special” ability, but also whose thoughts and choices ran somewhere close to the dark pathways that hers tended to travel. Rikarah did not love Phillip; she was fairly certain that she had never experienced love before, had neither loved or been loved by another person in her twenty-eight years of life.

 But she had liked him, she had enjoyed his company and his partnership in a life that sometimes seemed unbearably dull and beneath her at times. Phillip and his schemes had provided a new and exciting spark of engagement and intensity in what had become an almost overly routine and focused life she had carved for herself before making his acquaintance.

 Or maybe she was being overly harsh on herself. After all, before Phillip, no one had ever given her a second glance, had ever viewed her as any person of consequence, let alone a genuine threat. And certainly no one, not even Phillip, had fully understood the scope of exactly what she could do.

 Now, thanks to Phillip, Rikarah had been mere inches away from being apprehended by the FBI. Authority figures of any kind were to be avoided at all costs, this was the number one most important rule of her life from the time of her first murder, eleven years prior. And Phillip had not only attracted their attention, he had brought them directly to their door.

 She had tried to warn him. It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand his anger, his desire and satisfaction obtained from seeking out a sense of rightness in the world by setting aflame all those he felt had wronged him or his family. But it was the way he chose to do things- without enough planning, without enough discretion, without erasing all the evidence connecting back to him. No matter how she advised him or reminded him of keeping emotion from taking over, Phillip had, time and again, allowed it to be his primary guiding force. His emotion and impulsivity was the very reason that his new residence was the Raft- the high security, life sentencing prison for the supernatural criminal types of his nature.

 She was only fortunate that she had the good sense to keep her wits about her and play the bimbo girlfriend, harmless and clueless, and so very not a threat that the FBI themselves didn’t even notice her simply walk away from the scene. Had they actually managed to arrest and secure her, they- including Phillip’s PI sister, Jessica- might have eventually managed to connect her back to a very old, very cold case eleven years prior. They may have somehow made the connection between Phillip’s girlfriend, Rikarah Pallaton, and the disappearance of a teenager named Susannah Pallis, on the same evening that her entire family had been murdered in their own home.

 It wasn’t likely; enough time had passed that Rikarah had altered her image considerably with hair dye, multiple tattoos, and occasional use of colored contact lenses. But it was possible, and for that, she could not quite forgive Phillip for his stupidity. It was one thing if he wanted to throw away his own freedom- but to put hers at risk, that was another matter entirely.

 It was almost enough for her to feel some respect towards his sister, the woman that Phillip had talked about with fervent near reverence, almost as much as anger, almost nonstop for all the time that she knew him. Jessica, from what Rikarah understood, had now been responsible for at least two people’s deaths, and yet the woman remained on the streets, free and clear. That was more than she could say for Phillip, and he had nearly dragged her into a similar fate.

 She and Phillip had met by chance nearly a year ago. A casual hook up had become more intense as Phillip, obviously lonely and more prone to emotions, began to indicate trust and affection towards her. He began to slowly confide in her, and Rikarah began to feel just enough of guarded trust to confide a portion of herself as well. They seemed to fit- she, the woman who carefully researched and created the deaths of those she felt deserving of it, including her own family, and he, the embittered, tormented orphan, in search of reconnecting with the family that had been ripped away from him and punishing those he felt to be the cause of it.

 And yet it had become clear to her over time that what had seemed similar in them differed very much in actuality. Rikarah’s actions of causing death to others were impersonal, based on what she viewed logically as low risk to herself, equally balanced with high benefit to others and her own enjoyment. If she viewed a deserving person as overly high of a risk to kill, she left them be. Karma, too, had its role in life, and she could always reassess if risk had changed later on.

 Phillip could not seem to understand this. In his mind, a person deserving of death was deserving, period, and nothing and no one, certainly not risk or self-preservation, would keep him from carrying it out.

 That was his downfall, and her own saving grace. She could only be glad that she had begun to catch on to his flawed view enough to keep from sharing further about herself. Telling him that she had killed, to Rikarah, was far less of a risk than sharing her ability to bring the dead back to life.

 She could only imagine now what would happen, had she made the mistake of giving Phillip this information. Knowing him, he would try to talk her into going to a cemetery and just pulling people up and out of the grave, willy-nilly. He might have her kill people and then resurrect them, just to be able to threaten or control, and worst of all, he might ask her to bring back the parents that he still grieved with such ferocity.

 It had been a good judgment call, keeping this ability to herself. It was not something she used on command, and certainly not lightly. Too many people rising up from the dead in one area, in one time, would draw attention and interest, and if it could be traced back to her, she wanted no part of it. There had been exactly three occasions in which Rikarah brought the dead back to life, minus surgery, CPR, or any other medical means, and each time, it took considerable focus, physical energy, and a damn good reason.

 Phillip wanting to change his life hadn’t been a compelling enough reason for her to consider. But with his imprisonment, she believed she now had found a fourth subject worthy of this treatment.

 In the days after Phillip’s capture, she had taken the time to increase her research of his sister and her associates, expounding upon Phillip’s findings to draw together her own. He had, of course, told her about Jessica’s experience with Kevin Kilgrave, the man whom had captured her and controlled her for eight months about eighteen months back, and whom Jessica had killed, after extended personal torment and persecution from him and numerous murders he committed. The more she learned about the man, the more intrigued Rikarah grew, until an idea began to form in her mind.

 Perhaps she had been hasty in her involvement with Phillip Jones, a man who was still too much of a boy to be worthy of her time. But Kevin Kilgrave was older, more experienced, and certainly much more skilled in his ability, and the influence he could wield, with limited risk to himself or to her, was very high.

 It was a shame that a man with the potential to restore justice, as Rikarah saw justice, to the world had had his life so prematurely ended. But that too was not necessarily permanent. And as for his own ability- mind control, or whatever technical term it could be called- Rikarah was not worried. If she were to resurrect the man, his life force would be owed to her influence, and a piece of her own vitality would be entwined with his, binding their DNA in part. If the man could not command himself, then he should not be able to command the person who had brought him back into life either.

 Kevin Kilgrave, Rikarah came to believe, was far more worthy of her time. Perhaps with the proper attention, encouragement, and refocusing of the impulsive emotions that always seemed men’s downfall, he could be a partner equal or even perhaps above her.

 Kilgrave was a man worthy of standing at her side. And given time, she would make sure that he took his place there.

[mysticandskepticmuses]

RULES.

First and foremost: content.

I write a lot of characters that are dark and do very bad things: Joker, Kilgrave, Thanos, Joe Goldberg, Snoke, Palpatine, Vader, Kylo Ren, just to name a few.  There will be dark and potentially triggering plots here.  I tag everything I can think of and most anything that’s asked but content such as duvious consent (mind control etc), torture, mass murder, enslavement, prejudice, genocidal tendencies, misogyny and more will be present in interactions.  

Second, activity levels.

I am either here all the time or not around at all; you might get a reply in a day, or it might be ten months.  No exaggeration.  Patience is 110% key in plotting and writing with me.  You will never get consistent replies. This may improve once I am back in therapy & on medications for my physical health issues, my insomnia & adhd (among other mental health issues) or all the meds might kill my motivation entirely.  Who knows.  Please do not follow / interact if you are going to be impatient and get mad when I write w/ someone else or pounce someone else’s starter/meme/thread and yours is still sitting untouched.  It’s just going to make you mad and if you spout off at me it’s just going to piss me off for no reason.  This is something I do for fun.   I’ll write what my brain can, when I have time, when I want to, for who and what I want to.

Thirdly, zero drama.

Period.  Tag your clalout posts, your drama, your fights with other people, your anonymous hate, I have enough stress in my life to choke an elephant I don’t need it here.  You are welcome to come talk to me for advice but I will not get dragged into drama and or mediate and or anything of the sort.  What you say to me stays between us.  I expect the same in return.

Fourthly, characters.

I tend to add characters all the time.  My muse and interest ebbs and wanes.  I’ll hyperfocus and obsess and then not touch a character for weeks / months.  Sorry, it’s just the way it is.  You are always free to make starters or send memes for any character, and sometimes plotting and getting new things going helps nudge a character to life but again, patience is 110% necessary.

Fifthly, theme, graphics etc.

I made my own graphics & templates for the theme, I made all my own icons and promos and banners.  Do not take them.  Every icon I’ve made for use here is available on my resource blog @tuppencetrinkets as a base.  You are welcome to those.  Do not use my edited stuff.  End of story.

Sixthly, length & replies.

I can write one liners or novellas.  It all just depends on my brain, sleep levels, partner preference & so on.  Please feel free to let me know what you prefer for any given interaction and I’ll do my best to keep up / trim down to match.

Lastly.

I accept meta, headcanon & drabble prompts from anyone.  I prefer to keep in character interactions to mutuals only.  I don’t give a hoot about reblog karma.  Most of the memes that I reblog I also reblog over at @memesandmonologues though so if you want to reblog from the source or from that blog that’s fine.  You are always welcome to bombard my inbox with memes (ic for mutuals, ooc/headcanon for any or anon), send what ifs, plot ideas or whatever through the inbox.  Send as many as you want, ever.  I am slow as shit getting to them but they literally make my day so much brighter.

Personals are NOT ALLOWED to interact / reblog any of my metas, headcanons, roleplays etc. - doing so and not taking them down / not responding etc. or giving me attitude when I ask you to delete them will result in a block.  

RP blogs that constantly instigate drama will be blocked.  Anyone that makes posts condemning or ragging on people that write a character I write or the kind of content I write will result in a block.  

If you have any questions or I didn’t cover something you want to know feel free to drop me a line & ask.  You can also find me at @rykerelias and @prophecyread and @undcrworldawakcning and @alteredcarbonalteredegos from time to time.  This blog & most of its’ characters were previously found at tuppencetrinkets, comediking, tragediknight, dramaquiinn, shearedsaber, crimsoncored & others.

[quiisquiliae-archived]

Muses, described shittily (because tags were getting long af):

Ashe:  Tired nerd just wants to be left with her books.

Alaric:  Man who just wants to help unwittingly does anything but.

Billy:  Ex-marine who doesn’t believe in karma gets bit in the ass by it.

Brisco: Man seeking revenge stumbles across alien technology and a time traveler.

Eddie:  Broken hearted journalist finds love with an alien.

Kilgrave:  Local guy is the walking sense of male entitlement.

Klaus:  Junkie who sees dead people has to try and get along with his siblings in order to stop the apocalypse.

Logan:  Rich fuck boy gets more than he bargained for with the new Red Dead Redemption game.

Nick:  Centuries old vampire who’s tired of humanity can’t seem to stop himself from caring for them.

Talon:  Homeless assassin finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is forced to save the world.

Taliesin:  Grumpy butt who’s easily bribed gets dragged along on adventures.

Venom:  Goo boy from space fails at his mission and falls in love with a human instead of destroying Earth.

[kevinthompsons]

27.) Pick two songs that describe your character at two different points of their life, and explain why you chose them.

Every Breath You Take by Denmark and Winter reminds me a lot of Kilgrave during the show. It’s a song about obsession, literally about stalking (Every step you take / I'll be watching you). And the singer tells the subject of the song Oh can't you see / You belong to me, which is awfully reminiscent of Kilgrave telling Jessica that they’re “inevitable”. It’s just a really creepy song, and absolutely fitting of Kilgrave during the show, when he was obsessed with “getting” Jess.

Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift is perfect for Kilgrave post-resurrection. Besides the reference to literally coming back from the dead (Honey, I rose up from the dead / I do it all the time), bitching about the subject of the song having freedom (I don't like your kingdom keys / They once belonged to me), and complaining that the subject of the song “putting them into a role”  (The role you made me play / Of the fool, no, I don't like you) there’s a real sense of the singer swerving blame.

I read a reviewer say that the song sounds an awful lot like victim blaming. There are lyrics about getting revenge (Maybe I got mine / But you’ll all get yours), and the chorus is just a repetition of Look what you made me / Look what you just made me. Also, the theme of obsession fits really well (The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama / But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma) And all of that that just screams Kilgrave, who never takes the blame for anything, and overreacts in ridiculous ways. Also, here’s an awesome male cover it.

[fadedtoblue]

Overall thoughts on Jessica Jones S2

So how about that S2 huh? I finished it Sunday night but found that I really needed to take some time to sit and try to destruct all of the emotions I had over it. A good conversation with a friend the other morning helped me get a better grasp on my feelings regarding this season. Specific thoughts below the cut...

Clearly this season has been a divisive one amongst the fans...mostly that it imploded a lot of things / characters who were well loved and didn’t live up to what it was in S1 -- to a certain extent that might be true. I’ll say that I  understood what they were trying to do with this season but I don’t think they were able to bring it altogether with the execution. Nothing wrong with trying to do something different but when the final product doesn’t feel like the best outcome, it’s difficult to not be disappointed. Anyway, I’ll try to break down what I liked and didn’t like.

The good stuff:

Seeing these characters in this world again. Coming off of Defenders, I was most intrigued to see Jess, Trish, and Malcolm and well, if that’s what you’re looking for you get it in SPADES. Everyone plays a crucial part in season 2. 

Character driven stories to the max. If you enjoy character driven stories, then you’re in luck, as this is essentially the majority of JJS2. Any of the good stuff that happens is purely on the character level -- whether’s it’s shading in more sides of Jessica’s personality and messy internal conflicts, or showing Trish’s steady and frustrating decline, or introducing new side characters to drive home the crux of each character’s central conflict...this is where the show really made sure to take their time. Everyone has their own moment to drive the narrative forward, though some are able to do it with more purpose than others. 

Exploring new relationship dynamics. This will probably also end up being in the bad category lol, but generally speaking, I liked that they tried to show our primary characters in dynamics that felt different from last season. It made me feel like the world had continued moving, and the characters were growing, which was cool. And I realize I may be in the minority but I actually ended up liking Alisa and the surprise twist that she was Jessica’s mom actually worked for me?? I wasn’t sure what they were doing with her, as I found her to be frustratingly one-note when they first introduced her -- like, okay, she’s just going around killing people involved with IGH? What’s the point? But the reveal that she was actually Jessica’s mom made it all click for me. Sure, it still skirted the line a bit between drama and flat out soap opera but I think this was one of my favorite new dynamics. It was a hot mess in a lot of the moments, and it really shouldn’t have been one of the main drivers of conflict in this season, but I’m sympathetic to the messed up mother / daughter connection and seeing Jessica fall apart and not know what the hell to do about this woman. 

Malcolm. Special shout out to Malcolm who was truly the MVP of this season. He also goes through his own shit but he is probably the one who manages to come out of it in better shape than he went in. It was sad that the trust was so broken by the end between him, Jess, and Trish, but I think he needed to mature beyond the naive idealist who idolizes Jessica and find his own footing. 

The bad stuff:

Too much character focus, not enough of anything else. They threw a LOT our way for all of the characters. Jess dealing with her family’s deaths. Jess dealing with her trauma at IGH. Jess dealing with her relationships with Trish and Malcolm going down the shitter. Jess going apeshit on the competition and going on probation and to anger management. Jess dealing with her mom being alive and being a scary ass murderer. And oh wait, Jess also randomly kills a guard and has a dissociative episode where she imagines Kilgrave around every corner. And this is just Jess! It’s incredible that for all of the things I listed, which I think worked in that they contributed to Jessica’s gradual breakdown over the season, it really felt as if we were treading water most of the time narratively. Because every time something bad happened, or she made a bad decision, or whatever...nothing happened. Nothing got really resolved or truly broken until the end of the season. And the thing is, I 100% track with why Jessica keeps flip flopping around. I absolutely see that she’s barely hanging on and she literally can’t deal with it all and especially WHY she can’t deal with it. But it could have been more to the point and still driven us to larger, more important story details. This feeling of nothing happening also applied to Trish, who had a story line I appreciated on paper -- showing just how hard a person can spiral downward, especially someone who used to be an addict and now isn’t just dealing with street drugs, but ridiculous power-inducing shit -- but my god, this woman has this awful fall off the wagon, pretty much blows up her life, career, relationships, also nearly dies in her quest to gain powers from the mad doctor, but still manages to bounce back enough to snipe Alisa with a handgun from 50 feet and deal with zero consequences. I’m not going to list out every storyline for every character, but while these character building moments work to a point, the lack of balance and payoff make for difficult TV watching. Also Jeri’s storyline started out intriguing when there was still a connection to IGH but once that went out the window, it just felt like it should have been on another show altogether. 

Too many plot contrivances. This was a point of conversation I had with my friend and like, nothing wrong with plot contrivances to create moments for our characters to DO something but I think a better written show could have created these moments more naturally. And maybe the problem was that some of these moments felt contrived because things were getting dragged out and it was hard to ignore the moments when they happened. 

Bad overall plotting of the storylines. So the weird thing is that I pretty much got why everything happened the way it did. But literally every storyline could have been condensed by 2-3 episodes. It was as if this stubborn dedicated to driving the story purely by character also meant to the writers that they needed to slowly draw out each detail and reveal. No, not really. With each delaying tactic that kept us from getting to the next point in the story, it killed any momentum that was starting to build up. I have no expectations that JJ should be an action driven show, but if you’re going to go full tilt into the psychological slow burn, there has to be a balance somewhere. If it’s not going to be some overarching villain, then it should be a better mystery. You know?

Lack of payoff with IGH. Listen, I don’t know what’s up with TPTB and if there’s something preventing these creative teams from writing compelling shadow organizations or whatever, but we’re 0/2 now and that’s so majorly disappointing. To find out that IGH was ultimately just one somewhat well-intentioned dude who got a little carried away with human experimentation...really?! That was something that majorly deflated my sails as it could have been exactly the kind of grounded connective thread that could’ve being pulled across all four shows. This is where the separate but connected universe really bites these shows in the ass because obviously, they all exist in the same time and place and share characters but because they also need to stand as individual shows and be able to pursue their own creative agenda, the choices made by one show inevitably affect the others show that could’ve used IGH. 

Random stuff:

As much as Tennant’s Kilgrave (and his crazy good screen presence) was missed, I think it was ultimately the right choice to keep him limited to an episode. My husband was griping about how they could have integrated Kilgrave’s over the shoulder taunting throughout the whole season instead of saving it for the end, but I disagreed. The way they set up his reappearance made a lot of narrative sense to me -- that her accidentally killing the guard, on top of the incredible stress she’s under to take care of everyone’s shit, is what makes her temporarily dissociate and conjure up this vision of Kilgrave. The shtick would have gotten old quickly if he’d be present the whole season, and it would have severely undercut her progress from last season, at least the aspect where she was able to face her abuser and take back her life. I guess you could have done some version of PTSD and that’s why he’s in her head, but I think it would have been a distraction. 

Trish is an interesting pickle for me. I am not that emotionally invested in her as a character so for me, the shift in direction doesn’t devastate me as much as it seems to have done for a lot of people I know. And honestly, I think the point of her storyline was to make her this awful and unlikeable. There was already a kernel of the competition and jealousy that existed in her relationship with Jess, but her idealism and compassion for her sister usually won out. And I think it’s also worth noting that she was already pushing Jessica’s boundaries way too hard, even before she falls off the wagon, but obviously falling back into drugs  exacerbated a lot of the things that were already lurking under the surface. Also, I don’t think I was even bothered by the fact she’s the one who killed Jessica’s mom, but as I briefly alluded to earlier, it really bugs me that she didn’t reap the full consequences of her season long arc, especially since she still gets to become Hellcat at the end. That being said, karma has a way of coming back and biting you in the ass. If Jeri had to reap the karma of her craptastic behavior of S1 this season, then I fully expect Trish to face it in S3. Ideally we’ll see her attempt to be the hero she’s always wanted to be and crash and burn in spectacular fashion. There’s a reason why our heroes are the heroes and while I don’t think it means Trish will never get to be a hero, being a hero for the wrong reasons doesn’t make you a hero. And this is a tough lesson that I really want to see Trish learn. 

Alright, I think I covered most of it. Apologies for any errors, I try to edit my word vomit but I’ll usually miss something :p. And if you want to chat / vent about particulars, I’m all for it! Hit up my asks or send me a message!!