#taylor's traits

[brocktonbay]

Inktober Day 1: Dream

[cheatingtime]

DRAW BETA ZOE I BEG!!! I swear I ask everybody this but her design is my favorite ever..

^___^

[bi-chimneyy]

while I do think misogyny is a massive problem in the 911 fandom as a whole, I think relatively few of the people who hate buck and eddie's past love interests don't also hate tommy, sure the hate is slightly different (and realistically slightly less vitriolic) because he's a guy and "we finally got bi buck" but the amount of homophobia and biphobia being aimed at buck and tommy's characters is ridiculous... treating tommy like he's predatory (come on now buck is 32), claiming that buck's bisexual arc is "pointless" if he's with tommy, wanting buck to cheat (cheating storylines are whatever but lets be real none of you were okay with him cheating with a woman but now that it might validate your ship, you're suddenly fine with it), saying anyone who even remotely likes bucktommy is 'fetishising mlm relationships' and 'just wants to see two guys kiss', not to mention the purity culture surrounding the idea that a friends to lovers relationship is morally better than a relationship that starts with dating.

[junebugtwin]

everybody go look at @lakesbian 's post that inspired me to make this, because it is both funny, a little sad, and objectively Correct.

(ALSO should copy this and paste it onto ms paint or something to read it properly)

[mic-check-stims]

Walkshipping board for that one anon from forever ago who asked about my ships

X-X X-X X-X

[mispelled]

Ty I am saying it! He's also half demon . I present to you Hermie's full natural form

[popcornkwantum]

Swiftli week, day 1 (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧

Birthday / sleepover / movie night

All demons are very cat behaviour to me

[get-hockeyed-idiot]

me too kelly me too

[ace8space]

An Incomplete List: Things I love about RWRB by Casey McQuistion (and what it has taught me)

The tooth-rotting fluff.

The angst.

The happy ending.

The message(s).

The history, in general ("History, huh?").

Greek mythology references.

All the hidden queer stories, specifically.

The plethora of vocab words - extremely helpful to me as a writer.

So. Much. Joy.

Henry's passion for literature. I relate.

Alex's perfectionism. I relate.

The characters as a whole.

Queen.

David Bowie.

The V&A.

Tumblr. Tumblr, tumblr, tumblr.

Bake Off. It's so relaxing...

All the things I understand now thanks to Casey and Matthew and Nick and Taylor (and everyone else).

Love.

The fact that the fandom brought me to Tumblr. (I know I already said this, but I really, really love Tumblr.)

[delurkr]

Table of Locked Traits

Mainly for quick reference so I can see what traits are shared by different characters.

Checkmarks indicate default locked traits. I was going to mark pairs of traits that the wiki suggests are mutually exclusive (where a character can't earn both in the same run), but I checked some gameplays and I saw one of those pairs in the same playthrough, so I left the whole thing out because obviously there's more opportunities to earn the traits than the wiki has noted.

Some interesting things:

I'll do the counting for you. Andrew has 5, Angela has 6, Daniel has 7, Taylor has 8, and John has 9. (The mutually exclusive thing would be relevant to how many they can have at once. I'm fairly confident I've seen John rack up 8 by the end of more than one playthrough though.)

Andrew is the only one incapable of being aggressive 💙

Angela can clearly make fearful choices in the game like the others, but the universe doesn't punish her for it. The double standard is real.

They all have at least one unique trait, but Taylor's is just her default trait (Deceitful) and unlike the others she doesn't have any unique choice-based ones. (Girl, have some originality. Look at Daniel, out here plumbing the uncharted depths of utter cluelessness to earn his Baffled).

Also, I'm still waiting for Taylor to unleash that rumored deceitfulness upon us. Pics or it didn't happen.

Andrew's Resolute is just funny out of context. Like woah, Andrew has an opinion?? nah fam, can't be having that ❌❌ (He literally can't win because Uncertain is right there as another of his locked traits lol.)

But it's even goofier in context because not only is Resolute positive when John refuses the drink, I'm pretty sure John's normal Resolute trait can also increase if he does the same thing that gets Andrew the locked Resolute, which is just them each generally saying that Mary needs to be stopped. The double standard be doubling.

Similarly, there's the way Irritable is one of John's normal traits from the get-go, while Angela and Taylor get cancelled for earning it. The universe is just too used to him being cranky to make an issue out of it (see above statements about double standards lol).

Angela and Taylor are also the only ones who can have Resentful. Like mother, like daughter x2 💞

Shoutout to Daniel's Baffled once again, it'll never stop being funny to me 😂

[amoratearte]

Finally Vermax carried Jacaerys Velaryon to Winterfell, to treat with its formidable young lord, Cregan Stark. […] the Lord of Winterfell was but one-and-twenty when Prince Jacaerys came to him in 129 AC.

Casting news have just come out and I had to do this to cope and honestly, I see the vision.

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[sonic-rider-art]

My emotionally abusive ex made hating Taylor Swift into a personality trait so I started listening to her out of spite.

Debut is my favorite. Have some drawings I did before I dumped him <3

[Commissions Open!!]

[Do Not Repost My Art]

[torchickentacos]

21 and 22 for drew? or may if you’ve already been asked those ones about him!

From this ask game! LONG, under cut. Various off-topic musings included.

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

Ok so disclaimer for the few people who read what I write- this may or may not translate into my end product. I try to keep it in mind but ultimately my fics kind of write themselves and I have minimal input tbh. I'm not steering this car, I just put my foot on the pedal. I make it go but the characters are the ones driving with reckless abandon.

Also these are all just my opinions and if anyone hates them, please don't let me know.

Something that I like doing when writing Drew is leaning into how much he thinks. I enjoy leaning into his internal dialogue, his hang-ups on every little thing, his propensity to dwell (in my characterization of him, anyways, which is, ehhh, give or take maybe 85% taken from canon and 25% bullshitted. My math is wrong but I'm not changing it, there's just an extra 15% of my own bullshit and we'll pretend it was intentional).

When writing him, there tends to be a lot more going on internally than when I write, idk, May or Ash or whoever. Drew's always attuned to the situation, picking things up and filing them away. He's always formulating opinions and thoughts and emotions that rarely make it out of his head. He feels a lot of things but generally they stay inward, whereas when writing someone like May, if she's feeling it, she's probably also expressing it regardless of if she should or not. No filter vs too much of a filter for his own good.

I think that, in a related vein, he's always holding himself back. Both vocally and just... kind of in general? Maybe not career-wise, but emotionally, he'd rather get close and then dart away over and over again instead of making any leaps. He's careful. He'd rather balance on a tightrope than take the fall USUALLY *(this is how I write him, and other portrayals are ones that I love! this is just what I do, not what I'm saying is the right thing). We see it in canon- he gives May roses but hides behind excuses. He starts conversations but leaves just as quickly. He's mercurial and never builds up the bravery that he needs. He's careful to the point of cowardice- and not just ship-wise. This can be used for any number of things, which I find fun. He likes being in control, and if he doesn't feel like he has a steady grasp on a situation, he leaves. And you can't control people's emotions, so that's scary, so he dips out from emotional moments unless something stronger keeps him there. It's a constant push-and-pull between his own mind and emotions. One's always trying to rein the other in and break free of the other at the same time.

He likes certainty. This contrasts well with a certain someone whose entire battle style features assist and metronome, which is built in uncertainty. She challenges him. But that's for another post.

Something I dislike writing is leaning into how much of a jerk he actually is in canon sometimes tbh. Canon can keep that- I do enjoy it situationally but overall I leave that to writers who are better at showing that side of him without making him grating. I prefer watering it down some and making him be annoying in different ways lol, which admittedly does actually close off a few interesting avenues and facets of him. But I think given the tumultuous nature of rival ships and fandom's current... propensity for tossing out words like 'romanticizing' and 'idolizing' and whatever else, I'd rather just leave well enough alone with the worse aspects of him and avoid being called a verbal abuse apologist or whatever 😭 I don't want any avenues for some jackass to be like 'oh ew you write m/f relationships where the man is mean and dominant over the poor woman' or whateverthefuck. TLDR, I'm a people pleaser with worn-thin patience for rival ship discourse.

I also lean towards AU/slice-of-life stuff where his rival jerkassery is less applicable to begin with, anyways. I am FULLY guilty of watering him down and making him nicer, but I'm self-aware, so... there's that, I guess, lol. I also think he'd chill out as he gets older, anyways, leaning more towards 'vaguely prickly and sardonic' than anything else.

Anyways, it's kinda weird to answer these when I never actually share my writing on this blog, but oh well. That privilege got revoked after someone was mean about my writing around me without knowing that it was mine, lol. It wasn't even good criticism (which baffles me because god knows they had material to work with), it was just general bitching about ship fics that aren't as complex as War and Peace. God forbid some people enjoy fluff. Send me to the corner of shame along with the few dozen people who liked my writing and the people who left kind comments. Anyways, it's funny now, but I still won't share writing here. The best way to support me is to support writers in general.

So! General call to action. Go find a fic for your favorite ship (or just any fic in general but I'm being petty and saying 'ship' since the rude person seemed to take issue with shipping) and leave a (NICE. 🔪) comment. Just a heart emoji if you feel like it. Tell writers when you reread their work, just a 'Hey! rereading and remembering how much I liked this one :)' or something. It'll keep them going for a week, I'm telling you. I still think about and reread every single comment that I have ever received. I keep them all copy-pasted in a google doc. It's 24 pages long and 11.2k and it makes me cry (in a good way).

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?

This is going to sound so fucking backhanded but I LOOOOOVE reading fics where he has friends. I love reading him talking to Solidad or Gary or Ash or May as a friend or whoever else!!! Make him socialize!!!! it's fun! Lord knows that he doesn't do it enough and it shows. I like reading fics where he gets to interact with people that he doesn't talk to often in canon. So anyone but May pretty much. I love his horrendously down-bad tunnel vision where he only acknowledges May and literally nobody else, funny as hell, but also it'd have been so fun if he actually spoke to other people. I read a fic several years ago where he and Paul were sorta-work-friends, it was some 2014 assassin AU PS/CS/IS fic. but I remember that Drew would intentionally play coldplay songs around Paul to annoy him or something like that. They had a frenemies-bromance-coworkers thing going on and it was just DELIGHTFUL, if a little odd! That shit's hilarious! Let me see Drew bothering other people on purpose and joking with friends!

So. Things I don't like. I personally disagree with the early 2010s FFN portrayals of him as a casanova womanizer, BUT I also kind of love those portrayals for their sheer absurdity and the camp factor lmao. It's not even an ironic enjoyment, it's a genuine affection for that whole era of fics. It's the opposite of how I write him, but it's nostalgic to look back on old fanon. I also don't care for fics that break him and May up but that's obviously a personal bias that I've literally gone against myself on, lmao. It can be done well but sometimes it skirts into ship-bashing territory, usually at Drew's expense. Just because it's not a preference of mine doesn't mean that it's a bad thing to write! I'm just not the audience and that's okay, it's not a failing of the writer. I mentioned the person who disliked my fics and said so publicly, and that doesn't reflect on me. It reflects on their tastes. Same goes here. It's just not to my taste. It's subjective and not at all a statement on the quality or validity of a fic that includes those things.

[cookies-over-yonder]

i don't know how to say this, 'cause you're really my dearest friend

Five times Taylor and Link almost kissed, and one time they finally did.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | +1 | ao3

5. The fifth time, it was an impulse.

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"Taylor, truth or dare?" Scary asks, kicking her feet up on the couch's armrest.

This is the first time Taylor hosts a group sleepover, and somehow they've ended up in the living room playing this game.

"Mm," Taylor lifts his head up from Link's shoulder, cracking his eyes open. "Dare."

She raises her eyebrows and says, "Seven minutes in heaven with Link."

"Alright," Taylor grabs his cane and starts to stand.

"Wait, what's that?" Link asks, helping Taylor up.

Taylor begins to guide Link to the hallway with a hand on his shoulder.

"You'll see."

The others follow Taylor and Link into Taylor's room, where he unveils his closet. It's quite small, but fairly empty.

"Alright, I'm setting a timer," Scary says.

"Taylor, what are we doing?" Link asks again, a little more desperation in his voice.

"We go and stand in a closet for seven minutes. It's easy peasy."

"Just, like, stand in there?"

"Well, we can sit too."

"O—okay," Link scratches the back of his neck and looks quizzically at Scary. 

All she does is roll her eyes.

Taylor holds the door open and gestures for Link to enter. "After you."

"Yeah, okay."

Link steps inside, followed by Taylor, and Scary shuts the door.

"I'm setting a timer. Be back in seven."

Taylor assumes they're walking back to the living room when he hears the chatter fading away, and he assesses his surroundings. Well, there isn't much to assess since this is his closet, but there's a new addition, if one could call it that.

"Dark, huh?" Link says, standing in front of him.

It's not that dark. Not to Taylor. Over the past little while, he'd been getting better at seeing in the dark. At first he thought it was just his dedication to survival tactics, but after learning about his demonic family history… things started to make a bit more sense. A little disappointing, but simultaneously pretty killer.

"I guess," he says.

The closet and Link are painted in slightly greenish, yellowish hues. It's a little like a camera filter, but no camera Taylor's owned has had definition as high as this. Each and every detail of Link is clear to the eye, and Taylor runs his gaze up and down Link just to admire the effectiveness of his night vision.

Link is looking at him weirdly—no, not weirdly… more like… in awe? Towering over him a little, and gazing directly into his eyes, not shying away like he usually does.

This'll be an easy seven minutes. They're best friends, and they already spend so much time together—this is no different.

"Maybe to pass the time you can ramble to me about something," Link suggests.

Taylor smiles wide. "Really?"

"Yeah. You know I like listening."

You know I like listening… Taylor's brain takes a moment to reboot after hearing Link's soft and gentle voice remind him that he likes to hear Taylor's endless rambles.

"Okay. Mm, I've been watching more demon-related anime lately, 'cause, you know, I can relate. To an extent!"

"Mhm," Link nods, and oh, the engaged look in his eyes, and the way he tilts his head forward to listen, and the slight smile on his face…

"'Cause… 'cause like, I think I've started to notice… uh…" a flustered chuckle escapes him.

"You good there?"

"Yeah—" he clears his throat. "I've started noticing, like, cool demon traits starting to show up, and…"

"I've noticed too."

"You have? "

"Yeah," Link's gaze is more intense now. "Your eyes."

Taylor leans in a little… for Link to get a better look. Yeah.

"...My eyes?" he asks in almost a whisper.

"They're glowing," Link matches Taylor's volume, and hearing him speak so quietly and so close makes Taylor's heart skip a beat. "It's… it looks cool."

Link's eyes aren't glowing, but they might as well be with how mesmerizing they are.

"That is… that is cool."

Link doesn't say anything else for a while, but he doesn't back away, and he doesn't look away. It's like Taylor's eyes are the one thing keeping his focus.

And Taylor keeps staring into Link's eyes. He knows they're brown, but in this lighting they're tinted yellow and every detail is so clear. His pupils are slightly dilated, and the ring of colour around them is only slightly lighter. His eyes could pass for being jet black if Taylor didn't know them well enough. 

The length of Link's eyelashes catches Taylor's attention next. They're long, and when he blinks, and they move with his eyelids, they're so pretty. Taylor runs his gaze along Link's eyelashes, feeling very confidently that he could spend however long doing this in the closet and feel like no time has gone by at all.

Link's eyelashes drop lower—ah, he's looking down.

He's looking down?

…

He's looking at down at Taylor's lips.

Don't bite it, don't bite it, don't bite it—Taylor bites the inside of his mouth instead. The last time this happened and he bit his lip, Link looked away. Taylor didn't want that to happen right now.

Link's lips are tinted too. His upper lip is more greenish, and his lower lip is more yellow.

Night vision makes it very clear, but Taylor wonders how well Link can see. Are his dry and cracked and bloodied lips all too visible? Biting them was a habit he formed long ago, and he never quite broke it. Chapstick is something he always forgets about… but maybe the moisture from Link's lips would do the tri—

"You know—" Link looks back at his eyes, and Taylor is quick to follow. "I've never heard of this game before… I don't really get it."

It takes Taylor a second to process the sentence with how fast he can feel his blood pumping.

"It's… um, yeah," he barely breathes out.

"I mean, we're in a closet. What does this have to do with heaven?"

Seven minutes in heaven is a game Taylor knows. Had he ever played it? No. But he knows it. He knows what people… usually do…

"Yeah, I, uh," he mumbles, gaze flickering from Link's lips to his eyes every few seconds.

"I don't… uh…"

Taylor can't tear his eyes away from Link's lips.

"Mm…"

Taylor can't say anything. He's too wrapped up in his thoughts and his feelings and his desires, and a burning flame inside him that's bound to set this whole closet on fire.

And then Link says something else, considerate, concerned, and protective as ever:

"Taylor? Are you okay?"

Next thing Taylor knows, Link is pinned against the wall with his free hand.

"Whoa," a half-gasp, half-laugh escapes Link and he slides down the wall a little. "Are you okay?"

Link adjusts to sit down, and Taylor isn't sure when, but he dropped his cane, kneeled across Link, and put both hands on his shoulders.

There's some sort of haze that clouds his mind and pulls him in. It's something he's been feeling for a while now, but it's gotten stronger and more restless.

"Yeah," he says breathlessly, leaning in, practically hovering over Link.

The startled expression Link is wearing soon fades, and what's left is an amalgamation of the looks he had earlier, like awe, and… well… whatever look he wore while staring at Taylor's lips, because he's doing that again.

And then Taylor's hands slide their way from Link's shoulders up to the sides of his face, bringing his head forward, and tilting it up a little.

Taylor can feel Link's hands on his back now, pulling him even closer.

"Taylor," Link whispers. It's not a question this time.

Taylor doesn't know how, but they're closer than before, and Link's breathing against him, and he's breathing against Link, and for what is definitely not the first time, Taylor thinks this might actually be happening, but this specific instance makes him really feel like it's true.

Their lips are hardly apart now, but enough for Taylor to speak.

"Can I—"

"Yes."

And enough for Link to desperately cut him off, it seems.

And then they're being pulled together not by gravity, but by each other—well, maybe by gravity, if they're orbiting around each other, and Link's eyes shut, and Taylor is quick to follow, and the heat radiating off Link's lips feels safe and warm on his, and he can feel it getting warmer and closer, and it feels so right , like the stars are finally bound to align and—

"Time's up!"

Scary opens the door.

Taylor jumps off of Link as if he's been burned, and hits his back on the opposite wall of the closet. "Fuck! "

"Holy shit…" Scary gawks.

A rush of cold from the absence of Link overwhelms Taylor, and the sudden pain in his back doesn't make it much better.

"Le—let—let's continue the game guys!" Taylor shouts, stumbling out of the closet to face the witnesses.

Hermie is wide-eyed.

Normal's mouth is agape.

Scary looks like she's holding back a laugh.

And no one moves.

Taylor's legs ache. Shit, he doesn't have his cane.

So he turns back around, and walks back in, and sees Link.

He's in the same position as before, sitting against the wall, with a few fingers hovering over his lips and wide eyes.

Taylor leans against the back wall for support, and while part of him feels extremely awkward about interacting with Link immediately after what could have almost been, Taylor needs to snap him out of it.

"Link?"

"Uh—" he blinks a few times and looks up at Taylor, who immediately averts his gaze. God. "Right," Link stands up and hands Taylor's cane to him—Taylor forgot about that with his eyes too focused on Link himself.

"Tha—thanks."

Taylor's face is on fire.

Oh.

God.

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[torturedcoveydepartment]

She was deciding between Ballad of Lucy Gray and Should’ve said no. I just know it. Both songs are great for face slapping Billy Taupe with.

“yOU SHOULD’NT BE BEGGIN FOR FORGIVENESS AT MY fEET 👺 YOU SHOULD’VE SAID NO 😡 BABY AND YOU MIGHT STILL HAVE ME 👹”

[charmixpower]

Hello!! I drew me and my friends Winxsonas together 💕

Going to the right: I'm on top, @snarky-art aka Taylor, @parola-di-winx aka Nove, @giantratbf aka Bee, and @nymphietonkslupin aka Madhu

They're all wonderful, so definitely check out their blogs!! Talyor, Bee, and Nove also drew us all! So keep your eyes peeled for that!