#to the characterization

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I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[n0tsketchyy]

Big fan of AUs where Gotham villains have figured out the Bats' patrol schedules and have an unspoken agreement to avoid certain areas on specific nights.

Nobody wants to deal with Red Hood on Tuesdays (he's always in a bad mood after mandatory family dinner). Nightwing on Thursdays is a menace (that's when he tries out new puns). Robin on weekends is excessively violent (no homework = extra energy). Red Robin during finals week is your sign to keep away from alleyways and pray.

Batman is always Batman, but villains know he's slightly less intimidating on Monday nights (when Alfred makes cookies), because there's a 50% chance of finding him on a rooftop, cowl pushed back just enough, stress-eating.

There's a betting pool among henchmen about which Bat will show up to stop their crimes. Joker keeps sabotaging it by specifically planning his schemes to get the "full set" of Bats to show up at once.

Catwoman maintains a detailed spreadsheet that she sells to new villains for an exorbitant fee. It includes notes like "Avoid the East End on Wednesday nights - B & eldest bird do weird acrobatic challenges. You will lose." and "Third bird stress bakes after patrols. If you must commit crimes, do it before 2am so he has time for sourdough."

[chloesimaginationthings]

Mike is gonna have a meltdown over FNAF balloon boy

[nitw]

i've been waiting for gravity falls to become relevant again so i could share one of my favorite underrated bits from the entire show. like it's only episode 2 but this whole segment just makes me lose my shit. i think jason ritter's exasperated line delivery is what makes it

[bricreative]

Already thinking about their future together UGH they make me sick

Inspired by Heybosshotsauce fic “Lovers, Hunters” Chapter 12, on AO3! A great blend of pre/post battle missing scenes and flashbacks that relate to the story.

Check em out!

[hollis-art]

i keep seeing redesigns of them as humans so i decided to throw my hat into the ring

[ofswordsandpens]

somewhere along the way, Percy being "dumb" to Annabeth's "smart" has become a genuine part of their dynamic where in the original series it was more like: Percy's impertinent and could be slow on the uptake because he's not a walking encyclopedia of greek myth in the way Annabeth is and she teasingly calls him "Seaweed Brain" in a way that's supposed to be light-hearted and affectionate but she doesn't actually think he's dumb

[t-4-twissy]

The Master regenerating into Missy and wearing skirts and doing makeup and using her "feminine wiles" (her words not mine lol) to do evil with her silly little Mary Poppins aesthetic vs the Doctor regenerating into 13 and just. Continuing to wear pants and eat dirt. I love them both so much

[sleepyvib-es]

defending percy jackson on the internet isn't enough i need to take him away from his own author

[literaryvein-reblogs]

more words for characterization (pt. 4)

Age

adolescent, afresh, ancient, antiquarian, antique, big, childish, crude, doddering, elderly, fresh, full-grown/full-fledged, green, hoary, immemorial, infant/infantile, junior, late, medieval, mint, modish, new, novel, older, old-fashioned, originally, outdated/out-of-date, passé, quaint, refreshing, secondhand, stale, state-of-the-art, undeveloped, up-to-date, well-preserved, youthful

Appearance

adorable, aesthetic/esthetic, artistic, beautiful, comely, crisp, dapper, decorative, desirable, dressy, exquisite, eye-catching, fancy, fetching, flawless, glorious, good-looking, graceful, grungy, hideous, homely, irresistible, natty, ornate, plain, pretty, refreshing, resplendent, seductive, spiffy, striking, stylish, ugly, unbecoming, willowy, with-it

Genuineness

abstract, actually, alias, apocryphal, apparently, arty, authentic, baseless, beta, bona fide, circumstantial, concrete, contrived, credible, deceptive, delusive, dreamy, ecclesiastical, empirical/empiric, enigmatic/enigmatical, ersatz, ethereal, factual, fallacious, fantastic, far-fetched, fictitious, foolproof, fraudulent, good, hard, historical, honest-to-God, illusory/illusive, imitative, indisputable, invisible, just, lifelike, made-up, magic/magical, make-believe, matter-of-fact, metaphysical, monstrous, mystic/mystical, mythical/mythological, nonexistent, openhearted, ostensibly, paranormal, physical, positive, pretended, quack, quite, realistic, right, sincerely, specious, spurious, supernatural, synthetic, tangible, true, unearthly, unnatural, unthinkable, unvarnished, unworldly, valid, veritable, wholehearted/whole-hearted, wrong

Movement

ambulatory, brisk, clumsy, fleet, fluent, frozen, gawky, graceless, immobile, indolent, itinerant, leisurely, lifeless, liquid, lithe, maladroit, migrant/migratory, motionless, moving, nomadic, oafish, passive, pendulous/pendent, portable, restless, roundabout, sedentary, slow, speedy, static, vibrant, winding

Style

adorable, baroque, becoming, black, bold, brassy, cheap, class, classy, contemporary, country, cultural, dashing, dowdy, eat high on the hog, exquisite, featureless, flamboyant, floral, flowery, formless, futuristic, garish, gay, glamorous, gorgeous, grand, graphic, hot, improvised, informal, innovative, kinky, loud, lush, luxurious, mean, meretricious, modish, neat, new, obsolete, old-fashioned, orderly, ornamental, ostentatious, outdated/out-of-date, palatial, picturesque, plush, posh, prevalent, quaint, refined, resplendent, rustic, scruffy, sharp, simple, sleazy, smart, snazzy, spiffy, spruce, stately, state-of-the-art, stylish, swank/swanky, tacky, tasteless, tousled, two-bit, unbecoming, unworldly, up-to-date, vogue

NOTE

The above are concepts classified according to subject and usage. It not only helps writers and thinkers to organize their ideas but leads them from those very ideas to the words that can best express them.

It was, in part, created to turn an idea into a specific word. By linking together the main entries that share similar concepts, the index makes possible creative semantic connections between words in our language, stimulating thought and broadening vocabulary. Writing Resources PDFs

Source ⚜ Writing Basics & Refreshers ⚜ On Vocabulary

[egophiliac]

THE POME AND IGNI MOB DUO ARE OUT IN EN!!!

YES I'm SO glad everyone else was also charmed by these two ridiculous spotlight-stealers and their thirty seconds of stardom. :D

(this was very fast I'm sorry)

[zombiecowboy65]

Everyone talking about andreil why is no one talking about Jeremy wanting someone to choose him for once and Jean choosing him over and over and over again. Why is no one talking about Jean wanting someone to see more than the court and Jeremy’s gaze finding Jean in every room. Why is no one talking about Jean going batshit crazy the minute someone so much as breathes wrong in Jeremy’s direction. Why is no one talking about Jeremy stopping Kevin the minute he started speaking angry French because he thought he was yelling at Jean. Why is no one talking about promise me you’ll protect him tomorrow. Why is no one talking about Jean’s angry they are not your partners. Why is no one talking about does it really matter? I’m only learning French for you. Why is no one talking about you and me against the world or Jeremy testing the easy way Jean took his weight without complaint . Why is no one talking about jerejean in their own trilogy oml

[beif0ngs]

There is no live action adaptations of Avatar: The Last Airbender...

[saccharinesaja]

Demons are possessive creatures.

It’s not something you have to put any thought into— not really, anyways. But it’s a whole lot harder to ignore when you’re staring at it face to face, shoulder to shoulder.

It’s something almost primal within them, a whisper constantly lurking in the back of their minds. Sometimes it’s easy to ignore. Other times, not so much. A mantra as constant as a heartbeat— Mine. Mine. Mine.

You try to play it off when your attention first calls to it. You brush off the way Romance has a consistent habit of leaving roses in your pockets like calling cards when he thinks you aren’t paying attention, reassuring yourself that it’s just the persona he’s playing up. You do the same when Mystery forgoes his own jewelry pieces, slipping them into your tender hands with no elaboration other than “it’s just a thoughtful gift. A piece of me.” Hell, you even excuse it when Abby lets his muscles free from his shirt, choosing to tie it around your waist instead because it was apparently such an unforgivable catastrophe to let the world be free from the sight of his flexing for more than 0.5 seconds.

It only gets worse the longer you know them.

They draw sticks as to who should be allowed to give up a flimsy justification for dressing you when you aren’t looking, a game Baby has gotten exceptionally good at rigging. (He swears it’s a completely legitimate win streak, a testament to his good luck when he was human. Meanwhile, the others are convinced he might be the most territorial of the group. You, on the other hand, have become very familiar with the infectiously pink fluff that is his sweater.) It’s a race to see who gets to silently ward you as theirs for the day— a firm hand on your shoulder here, a shared bite of their precious snacks there— all of it is more than just good old-fashioned chivalry. It’s a petaled and perfumed chain around your heart, one that snarls that you’re spoken for.

Despite how you’ve attempted to get used to it though, Jinu makes it impossible. While not the most outspoken about it, his methods are by far the worst.

It started off small at first. A missing hair tie here, the loss of one— one— sock here. (You’re still miffed about that one. It’s only fun to mismatch socks when it’s on your terms.) It was barely noticeable. Then, it became impossible to write off. Even if he’s unable to fit into your clothes, it doesn’t stop him from perusing your wardrobe like a fresh supermarket aisle. Entire blankets gone overnight. He might as well take the whole room with him next time, seeing as whenever you return something is gone.

And Jinu? Oh, he just eats every glare you give him up.

He knows you hear it whenever someone compliments the small accessory he’s gained a fondness of— it would be impossible to miss him practically preening. He makes it a note to switch it up every fanmeet so they’ll always have something new to notice outside of his regular getup. And every single time, his response plays out like clockwork.

“It was a gift from my biggest supporter. It’s like they’re always close to my heart.”

After all, how could he resist? Jinu, the same demon perched along your balcony railing long after you’ve fallen asleep. The same Saja Boy who had the audacity to coo, “What’s mine is yours, so naturally what’s yours is mine too.” after you questioned him and his recent behavior. It wasn’t like he had any reason to lie— none of them did.

Demons are greedy. You were no exception to their self-indulgence.

The sooner you accepted that, the sooner you could indulge in them too without shame.