#those are the ones with the most 'backstory' anyway

[nenoname]

stan twins the canon cptsd brothers i will always think about all your unaddressed issues that would make perfect plot fuel for your spinoff

and also the whole 'stan getting that poem by bill via a website which contrasts with bill getting one from the axolotl via a website' foreshadowing thing

like idk i would love something like su future but like more optimistic, aka not an accumulated breakdown that has to be mostly resolved off screen at the end :/// but something thats being kinda addressed throughout? (although would love to see one of them turn into a monster thats always fun lol)

stan having severe issues from his dad and those years of being homeless that we keep on getting more info on but never really getting confronted on (the drifter catalogue and tijuana incident...), him being completely alone for like twenty years when running the shack before soos comes along to the point that 1998 is noted as his low point, and him not really learning about bill+what he did to ford until ages after he killed him if he ever did get the full context

while i think amnesia and everyone seeing him as a hero actually helped with stan's 'i'm a worse version of my brother' thing its still a lingering issue too and we now got him being insecure over his own hands

ford being immediately thrown from 'being tortured by bill' to 'being stuck in the multiverse and being chased by bounty hunters constantly', him fully expecting himself to die when destroying bill, and him only now being safe for the first time in 30 years ....relatively safe, he's still in constant danger because of course he is

idk in the end the series wants them to be happy and they deserve it, its why i wasn't too worried about the book being like 'ooh bill is back!! and the book is haunting ford' thing cos i knew they'll be ok

[toastytrusty]

ok personal headcanon ramble time. MYYYY personal take on hickey's backstory and mental health 👇

in regards to the real cornelius hickey. the big thing -> he did not kill him. i understand why it was done that way in the show, but it doesn't make sense to his arc (read: the slow building horrifying realization that killing someone for the greater good is okay, actually) for him to have killed someone prior to the canon and be so unbothered by killing people. so within my mind palace that did not happen. instead, i like to believe he drugged him and locked him up somewhere on the day of the expedition. this is where it gets reallyyyy I'm Just Making Shit Up-y but. to MEEE. our hickey was having a really bad few years, deep in depression and struggling with alcoholism and whatever else, and eventually meets the Real cornelius hickey at a pub or something. they get close, our hickey is captivated by him, they're probably fucking, and the real hickey tells him about this expedition he's going on to the arctic! how fascinating! and his mental state kinda flips.

dave k has said hickey was written to have npd, which, obviously. no one was questioning that. but i also view him as having bipolar 1. we see Multiple examples within the show of him having what could be considered manic episodes, he gets really paranoid, has an intense fear of not being in control, etc. his delusions of grandeur can all be quite well explained by fits of mania, and he even arguably has moments psychosis (cough double homicide cough. because there is not one singular reason to take all your clothes off in the ARCTIC. he was not in his right mind). and! i think his decision to steal someone's identity and get on an arctic voyage when he's never been to sea in his life was something of a manic decision. he was in a months/years long depressive episode prior to meeting the real cornelius hickey, then he was sequentially thrown into a manic episode, and years of resentment and ambition coalesced into this idea of fleeing britain and making something of himself in o'ahu.

so, he drugs his new friend the night before the expedition, locks him in a closet or shed or something, and takes his place. i think him taking someone else's identity instead of just going as himself is a decision largely more relevant to other aspects of his character, such as the class traitor-ness and general themes of imperialism and bureaucracy in the show, but there is still a very paranoid weight to it. it's also obviously the less rational way to do things, which. yk. manic irrational decision making.

and just for fun. further less psychoanalytical and more thematic personal takes on his backstory:

his mother Was irish, but his father was english, and left before he was born. his mom died of consumption when he was nine and he went to live with his uncle in england. so he Is irish, just never really lived much of his life in ireland. takes the name and face of a real irishman to try clinging to something more real than he has ever felt he was, masking his insecurity. fake caulker fake sailor fake irishman. or whatever.

and the caulker thing. caulkers fill in cracks, fix things, hold everything together. the real hickey being a caulker is one of the things that fascinates our hickey and makes him want to take the real hickey's place. his narcissistic need to be needed. his grandiose delusions that he is the key to everything and only he can save everyone starts with him Becoming someone whose job it is to hold the little pieces of the world together.

from ages 14 to 18 he hung with a group of guys that moved around a lot looking for work, kind of a gang but not really. they had a hunting dog and hickey was more an equal with the dog than with them. they didn't like him. he was tasked with taking care of the dog, and grew to resent it even though it was the closest he had to a friend.

not thematic Or psychoanalytical but i like to believe those guys threw him out of a window on his 18th birthday. For morale. he stopped following them around after that

[ohdeargodwhy]

Still trying to work out why they made Trent a gay man if not for TedTrent and/or to be a parallel to divorcee Ted also coming out later in life make it make sense

(Like yes kinda support to the colin storyline but also there were so many other characters who could have provided that - sharon for one, obviously, keeley another, any new character. Also why specifically gay and (we assume) divorced and not happily married bi or gay with kids???)

[sadlynotthevoid]

is there something you don't like about windbreaker manga or the fandom?

So far I haven't found anything I don't like about the manga. Yes, even Endo (guy is surprisingly funny).

The fandom tho... Besides that one homophobic Sakura stan, when I forget to filter out the a/b/o tags in ao3.

I'm not a fan of of omegaverse and its tropes and there's a ton of Wind Breaker fics about it, so when I forget I keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling without finding a single fic to read—

Only to realize I forgot to adjust the tags. It makes me want to smack myself. Stupid Sorby, stupid Sorby. Everytime.

I always realize when I'm already by the sixth or seventh page of any tag I'm in, so... Yeah. Tho that's more of a me problem.

What else? Uh, I generally don't read fem!Sakura fics (or genderbent anyone, by the case, with a few exceptions or for crack purposes) and I'm very picky about the soulmates AU fics I decide to read. I also tend to skip Hanahaki AUs because they're all angst (and not always my type of angst, like, if you're going to die because your crush doesn't like you back there are other ways I prefer), but I read one once in other fandom in which it was platonic and I enjoyed that one.

I think that's all? Thanks for the ask ლ⁠(⁠◕⁠ω⁠◕⁠ლ⁠)

[bambiraptorx]

rip to all of my ocs who have been abandoned to the sands of time (never existed outside of my brain so there's nothing to reference about them except my own fallible memory)

[plusultraetc]

little snippet of Brave the Dark chapter 8 for fic bday <3

(boy I sure love this funky little bard, I hope he doesn't do anything foolish like tell lies or listen to his brain instead of his gut)

[sweetandglovelyart]

Would anyone be interested in hearing about my various Kirby OCs? I’ve only drawn a few of them at this point, but I have a lot of them and have come up with what I hope are interesting backstories for all of them. If anyone is interested I might make a post giving a summary of every OC I have so far, and then I’ll eventually draw them.

[wispwatched]

HELLO HI I live, I swear! friendly reminder to look at my muses page before interacting, thank you! it will tell you who is or can be a Rook, as well as you know. general character information. also my rules ?? its on this blogs pinned post, that one.

[ironloki3]

An Update to how the Baldur's Gate 3 campaign with @thebreadtree is going:

These are our current Discord Usernames. This Game is unlocking new things that I didn't know I would ever experience. It is truly a wild ride.

Also, my dice are cursed. I lose so many times and roll crappy numbers. It's driving me insane. I don't know how often we had to reset simply because I didn't roll well enough, but the fail would completely ruin everything. And it's not like I only miss the high rolls. Those are of course difficult. It's mostly actually the low rolls that I miss, which makes it worse.

Still having a lot of fun, of course. Genuinely, I can only recommend the game.

[a2zillustration-archive]

Not to get sappy but I had so much fun in my first year of art fight, it was a great way to keep me motivated to draw, everyone has such cool and wonderful characters, and I was absolutely delighted with the people who took the time to draw some of my own little guys. I hope I’m able to do it again next year bc I definitely still have a lot of bookmarks I didn’t get to.

[andromeda3116]

fighting the powerful urge to just like. go ahead and post the next chapter. because i am so happy about a scene i've added and like. i know that this fic has a tiny readership but i really love this scene.

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

[pomefioredove]

need overblot boys with epel, and floyd with a reader that randomly lore drops as if they're an old dad like "yeah lol my old school had a shooting once....anyways *SNOREE*" and when asked they just agree and walk away and never elaborate whatsoever💀 if you feel uncomfortable feel free to delete or ignore‼️love ya pookie💥

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ a reader with a backstory

I got u 🫡🫡

summary: wacky reader lore type of post: headcanons characters: riddle, leona, azul, floyd, jamil, vil, epel, idia, malleus additional info: romantic, reader is gender neutral, reader is yuu

you find new ways to raise Riddle's blood pressure every day

little guy is worried enough as it is

you've already got your school work, taking care of Ramshackle, taking care of Grim, taking care of all the other freshmen, taking care of-

well... you get it

the last thing he needs is to hear another one of your stories

"oh, yeah, that's like the time I got stabbed"

"????? WHAT??"

what's entertaining to you and ADeuce is mortifying to Riddle

if you're not careful you'll end up sleeping on the floor in his room

where he can keep a close eye on you

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

you're like Leona's little court jester

and he takes you with him everywhere

it's not easy to get a genuine laugh out of him, after all

besides, what's so bad about a little dark humor? it's not like you died or anything

he knows you're a resilient little thing

and you seem to love telling him about "that time you crawled into a drainage pipe", anyway

you make him laugh; he likes you

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

Azul indulges you

his white noise machine stopped working last month and you make for excellent background ambience

so, he lets you talk yourself in circles about your school work, your friends, Grim, Grim again

and then you drop the most HEINOUS bombshells in the middle

"blah blah blah Grim, blah blah Crowley, blah blah, that one time I got lost in the woods for a day, blah blah-"

he loses his train of thought every time

now, Floyd is the complete opposite

he will hyperfocus on the most mundane details

and ignore the bombshells

will give you an, "oh, that's cool" to your ghost story but will find you the pair of socks you mentioned liking three months ago

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

Jamil is just fascinated by you

you as a person, of course

but also the fact that you're still alive

one night, he's explaining the reason he makes all of Kalim's food and you're like

"oh, yeah, I get it. I got mold poisoning once and hallucinated for a week"

?????

then you go right back to asking him about the recipe

sitting on the counter, as happy as could be

"HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE!!!"

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

Vil is used to this

he knows that look on your face

he will shush you with a finger to your lips before you even start

"don't tell me, I'm stressed enough as it is"

he's going to break out if you keep at it

he finds you quite... macabre

which is entertaining until he sees you going down a flight of stairs without holding onto the railing and remembers all those stories you'd told him

he's just... concerned for you, that's all

and he does NOT appreciate Epel for encouraging it

"tell us more about the time you fell down that hill into that pile of rocks, Prefect!"

:D

like a kid in a candy store

learning new Lore is like the highlight of his week

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

"talk about having a high luck stat..."

Idia is more entertained than anything

he thought these kinds of things only happened in anime, but...

...there you are

it sounds like you experience more in a single month than he has in his whole life

and you know what?

GOOD

you can keep your freaky real-world experiences!

he'll just live vicariously through you

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

poor Malleus

he's been putting so much effort into learning and blending with human culture, and now here you are with your terrifying stories

you tell him in such earnest, too

you seem so... unbothered by it

perhaps humans are less fragile than he thought?

of course, he shouldn't have underestimated you in the first place :)!

then you come over for dinner one night

"hahah, yeah, last time I was at someone's house their grandma threw a lamp at my head and I got a concussion"

Silver and Sebek both go >_>

Lilia goes <_<

and then Malleus is there like, "ah, another fascinating tale :)"

[thought-42]

Anyway I've been rewatching Leverage and I think the most fun thing about Nate Ford is that he really is that goddamn good at what he does, and he's also absolutely that fucked up. Like. It's one thing if the alcoholic ex?Catholic with a tragic backstory and a chip on his shoulder thinks he's that good. That's dangerous, but like, mundane dangerous. That's messy, but beatable. That's every villain and half the heros. The problem is this fucking disaster of a man IS exactly as good as he thinks he is at getting into people's heads and looking at the world like a game of 3D chess. And that's a whole different kind of dangerous, and also the only thing that keeps him from being an absolute flop of a character. There's a show where he's the incompitent one of the crew, and there's a show where he's the only compitent one of the crew, and both of those shows would have sucked. But instead it's just 'Surprise! this one's also terrifying!'

[unforgivingchorus]

If I could talk to my younger self I would tell her that she gets up every single day and keeps living. It sucks and it feels like the worst decision she ever make and I am so fucking proud of her. Life gets so much worse and is slow to get better. And more than just loving she does everything she can. She puts herself in the line of fire as often as she can to protect those she cares about. She experiences the worst days of her entire life and goes to class and does a test. She runs a politically connect school group that gives experience to younger students, and she spends a year keeping it alive alone when she didn’t sign up to do that alone. She is fundamental in raising thousands for charity and in helping kids get through Christmas in a cost of living. She gets publicly humiliated by a teacher, and still passes that class. She takes her medication and goes to her appointments and has a panic attack every single day and still wakes up does it next day again. She goes through more than most adults. She goes through things most people couldn’t imagine. She becomes respected by those in her chosen field, because she’s good at it. Better than she would have been in the more lucrative choice. She is talented at so many things. She does so much charity work. She fails a class over and over again until she passes. She knows her strengths and weaknesses. She has to be forced to give up when she’s working herself into the ground. She does so much good and works so hard and the hardest thing she ever does is choose to keep going, and she makes that choice all the time. I’m so fucking proud. She survives and she lives

[pricegouge]

starting a new position at a university and your least senior status means you get one of the less-than-savory offices in the underbelly of the building. you share a wall with the boiler room where the strange custodian with the jagged, poorly-healed scar spends most of his time. you won't lie it frightens you a bit. less the appearance, more the mortal reminder. but you're determined not to let it keep you down, especially once you learn his backstory. sad case, that. you suppose you'd be rather intense too if you'd survived everything he did. it's why you give him grace when he hovers too much, lingers in the door too long, electric blue eyes pinning you in place against your desk as he blocks the door, broad frame eclipsing your escape. he probably doesn't mean to anyway, and it's not like you can get a word in edgewise to excuse yourself. he's one of those sorts who can carry a conversation all by his lonesome. (even if it's not a particularly engaging one, prattling on about military accomplishments you have no framework for.) and if you come back from a meeting a bit earlier than expected to find him sorting through your trash before collecting it, well, you brush it off that maybe he's the paranoid sort.

but you draw the line at watching movies too loud when you're trying to get work done, the tinny stretching through the cheap drywall, a woman's high shrieks lending a good mental image to the sort of schlocky bloodbath he's likely watching. it's none of your business what he does on company time but you would like to get some work done every now and again so you gather your courage and knock on his door, hand coming up to cover your mouth when the door creaks open, latch never even bothered with. you're not sure what shocks you more, the sight of his thick, hairy fist gripped so tight around his angry cock -

or the cliche, archetypal schoolmarm getting the soles of her feet caned on screen.