#so seeing a ship dynamic that leans into that just straight up isn't appealing for most of them

[ryssabrin]

gonna be honest besties a big part of why rook/solas annoys me as a concept is that i'm literally just petty! i did not live through an actual real life decade of people criticizing solavellan for being "toxic," "manipulative," "demeaning," etc. etc. only for a new crowd to come along and act like a different ship dynamic with solas that is actually literally canonically all of those things and more? has more chemistry? and is somehow superior because there's no "false pretense?"

like i'm not your dad do whatever you want peace and love and light and honestly mad respect if you like rook/solas explicitly in a toxic mess, "they make each other worse" sort of way. that's fun! it's certainly entertaining to play around with solas as a character in that direction because he makes for an incredibly charismatic bastard. i get it! or if you just prefer rook/solas's enemies to lovers type dynamic over solavellan's "she could save him if he'd only just let her" vibe and it feels more empowering to you that's understandable! but i can't read another "i never really liked solas/got solavellan but he has soooo much more chemistry with rook" (while he's manipulating them as a pawn and literally never respects them) "than he did with lavellan/inky because he lied to them" ass take i can't do it.

[roostertuftart]

How's about a Kyle or Stan for rhe ask game?

Kyle's been done, here he is!

So Stan it is! And here's the original ask meme :)

Sexuality Headcanon: Stan is just a bicon, I don't think anything else can be said. Look at him. That is the bisexual character. That's who he is. Though tbh, I really like Stan being gay too, IDK, rare headcanon but I just find him dealing with comphet really interesting even if his feelings for Wendy seem very real to me.

Either way, I think besides Eric he's the one out of the main four that feels the least capable of being straight to me, I just- Can't really see it. Stan feels like such a queer character, idk lol

Gender Headcanon: Oh man that boy is not cis. Leaning that he's AMAB and just uses nonbinary but he feels like that's too vague and doesn't fully describe his feelings for his gender. But thinking about it too much stresses him the fuck out, so nonbinary it is. I think Stan has a really big feminine side and he leans into it a lot, and I think he uses the big three, she/they/he, though some days he prefers one over the others. Overall it's just something he really ends up exploring but also not his favorite subject, it's a lot to think about.

A ship I have with said character: Stendylenny as mentioned before, but for the more usual, Style and Stendy are like, my favorites for him, Style above all but Stendy is a close second. I used to kind of feel meh about Stendy on its own but I don't know, I've seen it done well and when it's done well there's such an appeal to it. They're pretty similar dynamically to Style on the surface but I think they're actually fairly unique from it, and there's something so sweet about the both of them kind of figuring themselves out together and putting in the effort to work on their canonical relationship problems. I like a few other Stan ships, namely stenny, stutters, and stanman feels interesting... I think I could get behind it anyway.

A BROTP I have with said character: Stennnyyyyy although I ship stenny a lot too :)) They're such goofballs together and get up to a lot of stupid bullshit. Stan and Cartman are really interesting too, their dynamic is so complex. Stan seems so unbothered by Cartman and I think Cartman kind of knows it and has a sort of respect for Stan. I mean, clearly he likes the guy since he let the pangolin live just because Stan was crying. That's so interesting to me, I need to explore it more.

A NOTP I have with said character: Stary. I don't know why. I have no reason for it. It bothers me soooo much for no reason. Not too keen on Staig either, though I mind it less.

A random headcanon: He has BPD and ADHD. Also he's a short, stocky guy, and pretty strong, especially from working on the farm! I think he still plays sports and stuff as he gets older but it becomes less of a core interest because boardgames take over, and I like the idea that he likes doodling a lot, and isn't that bad at it :)

General Opinion over said character: I love Stan so much. I need to protect him... Look at him. Little scrimblo. Baby.