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I think it's very interesting that Zoro lost:
One parent to illness (like Usopp and Sanji)
The other parent to pirates (like Nami)
One of his best friends to a confusing, senseless death he had to hear about secondhand (like Luffy)
And yet, he is the only member of Luffy's core crew from East Blue who doesn't let personal problems push him away. He is also the only one of the original five who never doubts his place in the crew or Luffy's abilities
Obviously each character has their reasons for their own crises. But Zoro is so much more well-adjusted and centered than people give him credit for
#this includes luffy#who had a major (and v. understandable) crisis of faith in his own abilities after marineford before jimbe snapped him out of it#the reason zoro doesn't have a rescue arc isn't because oda likes other characters more#or b/c oda doesn't know what to do with him#it's because zoro is THE pillar of stability within the crew#who can weather any storm#not just for the characters' benefit#but also the reader's#cause believe it or not; steady dependable characters who are always where the MC needs them to be#DO serve the story#roronoa zoro#one piece#my meta#text post
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Black and White Period Piece Old Lady Boring Movie BillStan >>>>>>>>>>
#Oblivious idiots who hate eachother and are online best friends with roleplay benefits#having far too much fun making a duchess approves character line up. Got the designs down just have to colour them#and once again Stan having a canon self insert brings me so much joy <3#BillStan Fanfiction Buddies AU#Stanlarius Pinesworth x Lord Oglebottom <3#gravity falls#Fan art#Bill Cipher#Stan Pines#Fanart#Stanley Pines#Grunkle Stan#billstan#the duchess approves#artists on tumblr#My art
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I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.
I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?
The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.
#anya is not a character i see taking agency or indulging in cathartic behaviors#not knowingly like i see her as a character trapped in her head and maybe in the scenario she's cruel to Curly she is envisioning Jimmy#in his place but its not a story about justice or those deserving of punishment and those not like its the opposite of people projecting#their issues on the wrong people and saying things to the wrong people and doing things they shouldn't but anya uniquely falls out of it as#she is subjected to a lot of it but it is also not something she wants to subject another person to like you are doing what Jimmy does and#placing ur rage into another persons and viewing their actions through your eyes like she'd more likely yell at him than do harm or#cause him more pain like at least make it in character#but also she clearly doesn't want to see jimmy or curly in the same light and doesnt because she still repeatedly goes to Curly for comfort#and protection and god there's like concepts that need to be applied to characters individually and then the story as a whole#we can not view the game through only one themed lens less we forget to inspect the compounding factor of Anya is so much more than girl#that needs to be allowed to go off but a woman that simply wants right to be done by her and no more harm like she doesn't want to be aroun#the suffering like idk but some of yall would just benefit from like understanding that people are inherently grey with the capabilities of#black n white thinking or actions#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#anya mouthwashing#i like her the most but then again i am defensive of all women in media and hate when people change the way the character would take agency#for themselves like yes I want her to tweak out but she just wouldn't and I like seeing realistic depictions of a woman suffering the way#she is like shes not the type at the end of the movie to have a one liner but feel a shallow freedom cause she needs to realistically heal#idk but its just like there is an obbsession forming with making her character her pain and not how she handles and navigates the issue
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It really is so true that you never know what someone’s going through behind closed doors. I’ve made being gentle and kind my default bc I’ve had super put together friends disclose the most harrowing time of their lives to me and it’s like oh?? You were going through that???? I would’ve never guessed
#It’s easy to reduce people to side characters or caricatures but you never know. You truly never know what someone’s going through or what#Could push them over the edge. Cruelty will never be worth potentially causing someone permanent damage#I’ve realized this after having a conversation w a friend of mine who sailed straight to med school#Tons of leadership roles#Thriving social life#Yet she just told me her hair was falling out from anxiety. Never in a million years would I have guessed that she was struggling#But she was and lots of people play things close to their chest like that#I really wanna be kind each time I can and to also come from a place of compassion#Bc ik I’ve been misunderstood by people before who reduced me to a caricature or just didn’t know what was happening in my life#I want to actively work on extending the benefit of the doubt to the same people I would want to extend the benefit of the doubt to me
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I've been seeing some discussion about Overwatch's new characters and Kiriko on Twitter following the MHA crossover event and, as someone who's not totally in the loop of OW lore anymore, what does Kiriko... do. Like, what does she contribute to the story of Overwatch and Talon and the Omnic Crisis, how is she involved. I know she trained with the Shimada brothers when she was a wee embryo, but what's her connection to... Overwatch. Girl, what are you doing here.
#personal#delete later#rant#friends and i were talking and agreed she really does just feel like an attractive filler character to do skins on#i'm giving the benefit of the doubt and trying not to be cynical though#cuz i know a lot of people's first impulse is to say “shes just there for gooners”#which. after juno yeah probably tbh
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As an eligible young noble of no small fame, Ambroys had a number of arranged courtships and suitresses in his youth, but any nascent marriages always fell through.
It's not that he didn't try; he certainly knew how to court a lady (perhaps too well, according to many fathers and husbands), and when he lacked knowledge on the affairs of womens' hearts, he sought counsel from a young woman who was a dear friend of his (perhaps too much counsel, according to his own father). Nonetheless, all he garnered for his efforts was separation after separation.
Ah, well. Maybe it was for the best.
#been working on this for a while... was just struck by the fact that I don't have much showing Ambroys' character in his “normal” “everyday”#so I wanted to do something “short” and “quick” to try to highlight some of his... quirks#and to contrast the loverman persona I think he's garnered#like yeah he's good at romance but also he's so fucking bad at it#just like he's good and bad at everything to do with interacting with people really#no matter how well you mimic dance steps it doesn't count for much when you don't know what the music is#or something like that...#also wanted to draw Lou (the goat) his girl best friend (with benefits)#who is actually quite important to him and his history but who I haven't drawn actually speaking or having a face yet#comics#my draws#amaranthine#ambroys#anthro#fantasy#unicorn#etc
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I've never been able to get over stories where the abused becomes the villain. True of any media that has this trope, really, but especially true of Sephiroth. He makes my heart hurt.
Created to be nothing but a weapon, abused and manipulated and experimented on from childhood. Sent to go fight Shinra's wars for them, desensitized to killing from a young age, but still managing to hold onto his kindness somehow. They made him into a legend larger than life for their propaganda, while simultaneously de-humanizing him in the worst ways, isolating Seph to the point where no one around him, not even his closest companions, even realized that he needed support. There's hints that no one around him really knew his background by the things they say - the only one who was aware of the extent of his mistreatment was his abuser. He was a high functioning individual - who would be arrogant enough to assume that The General could need help? Who would dare?
And I don't blame Angeal or Genesis or Zack for not realizing. Along with them simply not knowing there was an issue that needed addressing, Sephiroth probably kept it from them on purpose - whether by choice or necessity or outside influence or self preservation.
Sephiroth just wanted a normal life too. He didn't like having his picture taken, but endured because he had to, and because other people wanted it of him. He didn't really care to compete for the title of hero with Genesis, even though Genesis didn't seem to believe it. He took care of his troops, and we see in that one cut scene where he failed to save a soldier, that he still got upset over stuff like that. All those years of killing and losing his men to Shinra's missions and he hasn't truly become numb to it.
And then nearing the end, after first being told he's a monster by one of his former friends, and then later spending a week in that library not eating or drinking or sleeping, left alone to his devices because who would assume that the most competent general of their time can be in a vulnerable state, and shouldn't be left alone right now?
After learning the "truth" about his origins, and after a lifetime of systematic abuse, no longer believing he's even human anymore. And then the only person offering him a hand in his darkest moments is the one he shouldn't have taken. But at that point - could you blame him? Whether or not the post nibelheim Sephiroth is truly him or just a puppet for Jenova I'm uncertain about, but the end result is that from start to finish - Sephiroth never manages to break free from the whims of those who wanted to use him.
And because he gave into his worse demons - he won't receive a happy ending. He won't be saved. There's no comfort for him, no opportunity to rest and heal and grow. His childhood wish to live a normal life will never come to pass.
Watching Sephiroth's story unfold is like watching someone drown in front of you while surrounded by a crowd of people. And the one drowning doesn't even scream for help because he's been conditioned to believe that the suffocation is normal.
I will NEVER get over him. It doesn't excuse what he did after Nibelheim, I'm aware of that, but I can't help but remember that people only ever had praise for him while he was burning villages down in Wutai on Shinra's behalf.
It doesn't excuse his actions. But I will NEVER be able to forget all the ways the world failed him first.
#final fantasy vii#sephiroth#this is why i obsessively read fixits for Sephiroth#i say i'm a sefikura shipper but to be honest i have very little tolerance for the seme/alpha type personality a lot of ship fics give seph#no. i want him to be saved. i want just one person from the future to have the benefit of hindsight to go back and stop all of it#the most likely candidate is Cloud. but i would take anyone.#i just want him to have a fighting chance#i just want one person in his life to have realized and been appalled enough to try and help in a way that mattered#I just want one version of Sephiroth's story where love and support was enough to stop all of it#just one timeline where someone had given that child the love he needed and deserved#Sephiroth is my fav character for a reason#i know a lot of people assume it's because he's hot#no. i simply will never be able to get over his story and that's why#ff7#angeal hewley#zack fair#genesis rhapsodos#sefikura#ff7 spoilers
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I think Freminet has some of the most interesting dissonance in his self perception of any Genshin character.
Like, of the Hearthlings we know, he's one of the most emotionally mature and intelligent. Lynette might still have him beat, but after playing her hangout... I dunno. I think they're tied. Lyney is Crumbling, Alrecchino is. Well. Arlecchino. Everyone else is a deeply traumatized child or adult and Freminet seems to pretty regularly be people's emotional support. His character stories talk about getting his vision by saving a bunch of other kids on a dive that went bad. The Selkie event literally had him being a therapist for a grownass woman, citing his past experiences with all the other Hearthlings that have died or killed themselves. And he handled that situation WELL. Yeah, he seems to live in a fantasy, but goddamn he's alive and a lot of people in his position aren't so clearly something is working.
Either his or Lyney's character story talks about the time Freminet had reached out to Lyney to try to ease his burdens, which resulted in Lyney blowing up at him. That probably contributed to Freminet thinking he's not good at it, but I think the reason Lyney reacted so badly was BECAUSE Freminet is actually a good support. He can't allow himself that from the little brother he's supposed to protect.
Freminet seems to both cry and dissociate often, but like... Kiddo you are in fact the only person in this family actually processing your emotions. Lynette dissociates 24/7. Arlecchino. Lyney lies and tells everyone he's fine and would literally rather die than admit otherwise. In comparison, Freminet is doing FANTASTIC
Freminet also gets a lot out of helping people! Like anyone, he needs to feel useful and needed. He seems to be an excellent mentor to the younger Hearthlings and perfectly competent on his own, but when you put him in a room with Lyney and Lynette who baby him and insist that THEY take care of HIM, he withdraws into himself.
Like, Freminet by himself feels like a young man and Freminet with the magician twins feels like a teenager. I have no idea how old he actually is. Logically, he would be OLDER than them! He's been with the House much, much longer and his experience shows. I think it's fascinating that they love him SO MUCH and yet, they just Cannot let him help them. Which is hurting him.
(Lynette is much better about not babying him and that is probably why their relationship is so much better than Freminet and Lyney's. Also why she keeps having to mediate between them. Because Lyney charges off trying to Fix Everything and that just makes Freminet feel useless and he doesn't want to get in the way and- you get the point)
Idk. It's hard to tell what things the previous director said to him vs what Arlecchino has said to him. I'm inclined to think our Arlecchino was the one that said he cries too much, but in a "crying in front of your enemies will get you killed" way and she herself is too fucked up to realize how "you cry too much" could be damaging.
Also I try not to consider gameplay stuff when it comes to story, but Freminet also has some of the most BRUTAL animations. He SMASHES HIS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT METAL PENGUIN INTO HIS ENEMY'S FACE. He doesn't think he's the most amazing fighter, and by Fatui standards he probably isn't, but he is winning fights against most grown men.
Tldr Freminet thinks he cries too much and is a burden and isn't good at helping people when he's actually the most mentally stable Hearthling send tweet
#freminet#genshin#house of hearth#character analysis#this is all over the lplace bc I'm on my phone#many freminet thoughts today#I don't wanna talk about trailer spoilers but also#this young man is a physical MONSTER#he's so similar but so different to Kaveh#where a lot of people Do perceive Freminet as a little... off#and he is#but he is a beacon of hope for all the other fucked up kids that are lost and alone#and I just think that's neat#kiddo benefits a lot from helping others#you can see how he lights up#even the hydro dragon hydro dragon don't cry#I'm sorry#this kid is comforting GOD#i think that says something
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Fellow neurodivergent ppl, do you ever get shocked at how fucking autistic you are
#I just spent like half an hour tracking down and downloading an old PBS cartoon I used to watch as a kid (Redwall)#so that I can eventually clip out sections of my favorite character and scenes that I can watch when I feel like it#this will take hours and will have little overall benefit except for me feeling a lil dose of nostalgia#honestly I really do think all my data hoarding and archiving is just an extension of my autism lmao#personal#actually autistic
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Aroace culture is accidentally writing all your characters to be aspec because you have a hard time writing romantic and sexual relationships.
#for example#every dnd character I’ve ever made is aspec#yes even the one who had a child#(she was an ace lesbian who made a mistake when she was younger)#even the other one who was married#(he was asexual demipanromantic)#(we’re pretty sure he got married for tax benefits)#(he’s the kind of person who has his husband’s name in his phone as (Name) Husband)#there was that one who might not have been aspec but truly didn’t gaf about relationships because he didn’t have time for it#the rest are just full on aroace though#it’s hard to write something you don’t experience or fully understand#aromantic#asexual#aroace#aroace culture#aspec#aspec culture
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the poor little meow meow-ifictation of saionji in this fandom has got to stop i can't take it any more
#he is an interesting character yes and i like him but some of you act like he is eternally and exclusively a victim which is not true#yes he is a victim of akio and of the narrative (like every other character. he is not perticularly special in this regard)#no he is not a victim of the patriarchy (he in fact benefits from it directly at the cost of the girls around him)#no he is not a victim of wakaba (??not sure where this even came from) no he is not a victim of anthy (watch the first episode again maybe)#some of you are at all times 2 steps away from becoming the next misandry in the utena fandom person#“erm the way he is punished by the narrative for failing to live up to the masculine ideal of the prince-#-is basically just as bad as the systemic abuse he participates in putting girls through“#good lord i do not want to hear your takes on any real world feminist issues#m#bad takes#(should probably remember to use that tag. even though this isn't really about anything super specific)#and it's not about any of my mutuals to be clear. you all know how to actually be critical of how much he sucks#AND write good nuanced analysis. shockingly you can do both. actually i don't think one is possible without the other
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what i would give for a ghost based cod campaign. can you imagine if they pulled from the comics and had roba come back and want to get revenge against ghost for destroying his empire? the 141 slowly learning about simon riley and banding together to kill his ghost?
ghost being so certain he killed roba to set up an unreliable narrator; taking this unfathomable soldier, the nightmare of the 141, and realising he bleeds humanity. playing as ghost through flashbacks of mexico and his torture under roba but in the current time, little details break down; little inconsistencies of enemy numbers or base layout or what people look like, things that you can't be sure if you the player just missed something or if it’s really ghost seeing things that aren’t there
ghost starting to question how much of his memory is real, both what he went through with roba and what he’s currently experiencing; if it's his trauma bleeding through or if he's breaking for the last time. he doesn’t know if he can trust himself ("just make sure you can trust yourself. start there") and he has to reckon with completely trusting the 141 when he realises he can't
i need a sequence of him just losing his shit; hearing roba's voice in his head, his taunting “english” telling him he never left his compound, seeing the dead prostitute and his father laughing, always laughing, the tear of the meathook between his ribs and sting of the scorpions in his flesh, the coffin and the rotting stench of the dark and all of it culminating in ghost almost accidentally shooting soap when he tries to talk him down
whether it ends up being someone pretending to be roba or they just change it to roba still being alive, either way i need a ghost based campaign with personal stakes and character depth
#i know the campaigns are just to sell the multiplayer#the campaigns are always these big world ending stories that are ridiculous in their scope and convolution#but imagine a smaller intimate narrative#its just the 141 and roba; just the uk and mexico#no big world ending threat#just one man’s past coming back to haunt him after he stripped himself of his own humanity#ghost let simon riley die#and now roba wants to violate his corpse#with how liht the mw games are on character growth and even just characters themselves it could really benefit from a campaign like this#we know nothing about the 141; nothing about their pasts barely anything about their personalities#this would let them explore how they act when one of their own is struggling; when something personal threatens them#and it woukd fit the grounded tone they went for in mw19#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#we’re a team. ghost team#cod mw2#simon ghost riley#soap cod#john soap mactavish#ghost cod#soapghost#ghostsoap#ghoap#task force 141#john price#captain john price#kyle gaz garrick#gaz cod#manuel roba#ghost comics#cod modern warfare
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more demon king laios + evil kabru because i can make them so awful and twisted
#thinking. so much about them#dungeon meshi#art#fanart#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi fanart#delicious in dungeon#laios touden#kabru of utaya#labru#labru except im examining their characters under a microscope and getting rid of all their good qualities#dunmeshi au#kabru is totally giving laios advice thatll only benefit his cause#but laios is just going along with it cause “yeah my boyfriend is usually right”#we dont talk about how much i obviously struggled with kabru's face in image one
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Sanemi and Obanai have the most important character dynamic in KnY to me right now and I so badly want to write queerplatonic saneoba fic but I feel like my writing style depends so strongly on dialogue that I just can't do it because it would 100% be an unsaid thing. Like I envision their relationship would be something like...
'I hate everyone, but I can tolerate being around you. I might even. I might even LIKE being around you, actually. But there's no way in hell I'm gonna admit that, so we're just gonna pretend it's a coincidence we spend so much time together. We just happen to be in the same place all the time. But I'm not attached to you and I don't get worried about you or anything like that. At all. Ever. That would be stupid, so don't get any wrong ideas (but god just please be careful I don't know what I would do if I lost you.)'
You know. Like cats.
#i had this goofy idea for a fic where it was like#saneoba friends with benefits except instead of sleeping together it's literally just 100% innocent sfw sleeping together in the same bed#since they're both crazy touch-starved yk#maybe it started with them having a mission together high up in the snowy mountains and sleeping together to stay warm#and then they just.#kept doing that.#without ever talking about it once.#but i decided that was a little too silly and idk if i could keep them in character so#it only exists in a couple snippets i wrote in my notes app lol#demon slayer#kimetsu no yaiba#demon slayer fanfic#obanai iguro#iguro obanai#kny fanfic#sanemi shinazugawa#shinazugawa sanemi#saneoba
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the result of asking myself "what's a tf2 level of bullshit for a medic wife explanation"
#team fortress 2#tf2#myart#mad scientist and vampire marry purely for the benefits more at 11#she technically isnt a tf oc i just happen to be designing her when i thought of the joke#then again is it an oc if its a rendition of a public domain character#uh#shhhhh#tf2 medic#tf2 demoman#miss pauling
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as much as i enjoy legacy of the force and overall don't mind its retcons of previous boba fett media, the one change that i just can't stand is a tiny alteration karen traviss makes to boba fett's childhood as told in the junior novels. in the junior novels, jango keeps a pet eel in his apartment, which needs to be fed live rodents known as "sea mice." boba does not like the eel at all because he empathizes with the feeder mice, to the point where, when jango tries to make him feed the mice to the eel himself, he starts feeding the eel his own food and trying to smuggle the mice to freedom. and when the eel is eventually killed in the story (not long before jango's own death), boba's only thought is "good riddance."
yet, when karen traviss retells these events in legacy of the force, she says boba was fond of the eel, not the mice. which is just!!! such a huge missing of the point!!! like, yes karen, making boba fett fond of the predator in the equation rather than the prey makes more sense on a surface-level reading, but it totally eliminates all of the tragic, ironic weight of that contradiction in his childhood: that this little boy, who idolizes his bounty hunter father, can't stomach the thought of an animal killing something else to live and despises that animal for it. the point is that he's naive and doesn't fully grasp the horror of what his father does and what he's being raised to do, the point is that we know that this is boba fucking fett and that this innocence tragically will not last, and the point is that one of the most notorious killers in the galaxy started out as a kid who literally could not even stand to harm a mouse.
like for kark's sake, karen, how's it feel to be out-nuanced by a novel for nine-year-olds
#i was nine years old when i read those dang books and even i understood how fucking sad and poignant that detail was#sometimes i wonder if karen traviss just straight up forgot how the story went#bc i cannot imagine how the conscious choice to change that detail benefits fett's character arc at all#boba fett#karen traviss#legacy of the force#boba fett junior novels#boba fett meta
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