#the villain of this story ( ooc )

[gideonisms]

Well idk it is like, I have a high tolerance for people writing things that are ooc as long as it's still fun, interesting, or amusing. I'm not too strict about canon in that I think if you want to use it as vague inspiration for your own ideas that's great. There are just certain ideas and tropes I don't enjoy and ones I do. Like if you make gideon ooc but she's still got something weird going on and she's consistent in the world of the fic I will read it. And while I do think we could all stand to at times examine what tropes automatically pop into our brains related to different types of characters, I'm also not going to like be mad if there's some ooc fluff going on somewhere

[gemscales-and-tea]

I am begging people to learn: Loose and Lose are two different words.

[ardenssolis]

Bastard(Bad).

You're that one character that everyone very impolitely wants dead. You're a constant cockblock, you try to stop the characters from saving the world, you insult the lovable ones in increasingly creative ways. You're not the big bad, but the fandom treats you like you are.

picrew / uquiz .

[yoakenouta]

ive been playing this super niche jpn trpg and im considering on rping some of the NPCs but their entire existences are like dead dove as in theyre all legit horribly people and mentally insane LMFAO

[aetherceuse]

Pokémon Masters: Lusamine is redeemed now

Also Pokémon Masters: We gave her a Sync Pair with Dusk Mane Necrozma, the space parasite that wants to kill everybody while it jams out to dramatic, evil organ music. Because she's redeemed.

Make the decision make sense to me.

[neverendingparable]

Problematic muses aren't just "sexy villains who push boundaries a little in a flirty way".

They can reflect ideologies the mun doesn't have, like being sexist / homophobic / abusive, or hold an extreme or radical political view

They're not just muses who have risky kinks or come from controversial fandoms.

You have the right to decide if you don't want to roleplay with a muse whose personality or story triggers you, but you have to let the mun play them as they wish because its their character and they don't have to make them digestible for you.

[askliamevans]

Liam, any roles you’re rehearsing recently in your plays?

I've been taking on roles where I portray a man who's in love with a woman he can't have. I've been able to pull it off, but will you cheer for me?

[quietautumn]

apparently this is a hot take but i don't think the p5 adult woman confidants are bad characters just because you have the option to romance them. keyword is option because you can literally play the whole game without getting with any of them and they just treat you normally. something something you control the buttons you press

[magnusmodig]

||. practicing self restraint is REAL DIFFICULT when a post spits fire and states absolute fact.

[hvbris]

"Why did they make young Snow hot?" Me, who thought Donald Sutherland was hot already:

[scorching-passion]

Rebirth Spoilers under the cut.

I haven't completed the game yet, but I've passed the battle you have with Roche in that wall of death style arena. I completed that mission with all 5 of my infantry friends still alive and the speech Roche delivers after Cloud had cleaved his bike in half actually made me a little misty eyed.

And the reason for that is mostly for the fact that it becomes apparent here that the Remake may have lead us to believe that Roche doesn't play well with others. Well that entire crowd seemed to adore him, in their own way maybe, perhaps they were just following his orders (let's not forget, he may only be a Third Class SOLDIER, but he is still SOLDIER and therefor out ranks the infantry) but they all seemed to be having a blast watching this battle take place.

And at the end, I'm shown that Roche has a sensitive side.

He loves people. He loves the aspect of being social. Of caring for those around you, for those beneath your lead.

And he KNOWS what Cloud is, he KNOWS he isn't a member of ShinRa, at least, not any more. He KNOWS he's affiliated with AVALANCHE and he literally commended him for taking care of the infantrymen who followed him into that arena. Roche showed a tremendous amount of respect for Cloud in that moment; no bitterness for losing to him, he took that as graciously as he always has. Just... adoration for doing the right thing.

Because yes, they are ShinRa employees, and Cloud could have just left them to their fate, or even killed them himself. But he didn't, he looked after them, saw them through to the end of that road, because they are just people. People with lives of their own outside of all that, with families and hopes and ambitions, and Roche could see that and commends Cloud for it before literally helping with his escape.

Even if Cloud didn't really appreciate it at the time and calls Roche a jackass xD

But I love him, you guys. I love him so so much, because I honestly feel like he hates his situation and just does his best, in his own chaotic and ramshackle way, to do right by the people who surround him, not because it's his duty, but because they are just people.

[vivid-creates]

you see, the problem with writing my oc backstories while listening to epic the musical is that i start instinctively changing details to match the lyrics of the current song playing.

and then i have to examine whatever "brilliant new backstory detail" i just thought of, and go:

(in the voice of someone trying to see what's in their dog's mouth) is that your oc's backstory? is it? yeah, um- no. no, it's not. that's odysseus of ithaca. put him back. no, i don't care if "ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves", your oc is ten years old and she does not have the ability nor the time to somehow get a crew of soldiers killed. move her along to the assassin plotline and put the sad greek man back where he came from.

[faultyconscience]

if barb really thought her husband was just a naive idiot or any other dumb things i've read and just wanted to be a completely vindictive cunt, coop would not even be allowed to see janey, let alone have any kind of custody of her.....

[frumfrumfroo]

So Reylos are now freaking out over episode 4 of Ahsoka cause Anakin showed up in what appears to be the wbw. I have not watched Ahsoka and don't plan to. I personally think that nothing will come out of this in regards to Ben Solos return. People think Leia sacrificed herself to send Ben there? If she sacrificed herself to save him then he wouldn't have gone anywhere he would have been alive.

Anyone who thinks there was planning or thought behind anything in tros is delusional.

Thinking they're setting up Ben's resurrection is almost as removed from reality.

[bestworstcase]

Do you think the discourse around Ironwood being "right" even when he obviously isn't is partly driven by people's ingrained perception about Western Imperialism?

i think the rwby fandom as a whole is just profoundly bad at reading what rwby is doing thematically and fandom in general is set up to incentivize fighting to the death over countertextual readings so like. what do you expect to happen, really.

of course fandom discourse will always reflect the wider cultural zeitgeist and in that sense the average rwby viewer is bathing in US military propaganda all the time and sure that might be a factor in why some folks latched onto ironwood—or winter or clover or the ace-ops or frankly i would argue any of the core heroic cast given that all of them are, you know, members of an elite warrior-police caste. lol.

but ironwood and other stupid discourse is largely a symptom of fandom being… what it is. that’s the end result of building a passionate community around the “fuck canon” text-as-sandbox approach. hrhghdj

[sparkles0n-a]

// Aoyama having some sort of relationship with AFO and seeing him regularly is cooler than him just never rly seeing the guy much so that’s what I’m choosing to believe lol . basically for my interp, Yuga sees AFO pretty regularly and ends up seeing him more of an abusive family member than a villain even if they aren’t actually related .

// AFO makes him and his parents refer to him as “uncle”, and he often uses manipulation to get people to fall in line . Yuga has to regularly interact with him, especially after the traitor role is set up for him, so AFO’s constant controlling presence would be more similar to an abusive family member just because it’s far more personal than just being extorted by an unseen presence . Yuga knows that he’s not in control, he knows that AFO could destroy his entire life and kill his parents if he wanted to, but he’s still forced to talk with him and show him gratitude for his gifted quirk . AFO is a lot more scary to him because he’s not always cruel, a lot of the times he really seems kind . Yuga is fully aware (and has seen) what terrible things AFO can do, the fact that he’s basically forced to treat him as a familial figure is what really gets into his head on a deeper level than just threats would (partially because of how much weight he/his parents put on family and loyalty to family) he knows that if he doesn’t keep up this falsely good familial bond, horrible things will happen, and that constant dread is the main reason he doesn’t get the strength to rebel for a long time and ends up beyond terrified of the guy .