#traumatising characters

[chocoee]

Lemme just...🤭🤭🤭

By the vibe alone you should guess that this is some kinda dystopian esc apocalypse au 💃🏾💃🏾

Also that gives Leo a LOT of trauma so ya... It's important to the story♥️🫠 it's called a gnat

Plus moreeeee✨✨✨✨✨

I love me some ancient roamers 🤭♥️

[arc0n]

Trying to think of an actual linear plot for my works and all I’ve got it’s “I’m gonna traumatise these characters so bad” and not a single other viable plan, I am not a great author and these characters are my babies and I’ve spent hours creating them and figuring out their little quirks but if there’s anything I’m good at as a writer it is absolutely destroying my characters mentally, physically and spiritually, it’s a cannon event and I cannot interfere.

[dreamerdrop]

I don’t talk about my love for Kira Nerys too often because. Look. I think if DS9 handles anything well, it’s Kira, hands down.

Her character development is a work of art. She is so traumatised, so angry, so beaten down and STILL FIGHTING at the start. She struggles so much with her PTSD, with the idea that she is ever allowed to be in anything but attack mode…

And then, slowly, gradually, she becomes a whole new person. She laughs, she smiles, she makes corny jokes, she does dumb fun things for the sake of enjoying herself. She has friends, she has a family, she is surrounded by love and joy and HOPE.

Even in the middle of second war, she’s DIFFERENT now. She’s not the same miserable angry person she was, afraid to let go of the vigilant surivival instincts that kept her alive for so long. She’s come back to life as a person who has something to live for.

She has done terrible things. Her hands are stained with blood. She is never going to be able to forget her trauma or the suffering, both her own and that of her people, nor the suffering she inflicted while fighting for her freedom. But she recovers. She heals. She carves out an existence where she is truly, genuinely happy to be alive.

I don’t need to talk about Kira as much as some other characters because this all happens on screen. It’s right there, and it’s beautiful and perfect.

Kira Nerys goes from a person who cannot conceive of herself outside of the horrors she has suffered, inflicted, and fought against, to someone for whom her trauma is just one part of the larger picture, a piece of a rich and vibrant tapestry that is now filled, overwhelmingly, with joy.

Kira Nerys is like, hands down, bar none, one of, if not THE best characters Star Trek has ever created. I love her so much. She is just, completely and utterly perfect, especially in her flaws.

[torantuga]

some spud doodles bcs hes my fav regretevator npc

i drew this out of spite bcs in at least 3 different servers we got spud and they immediately killed him. one just said "let me get my autoclicker rq"

[flo-n-flon]

"Wiping the blood from her mouth, Moiraine crawled out from beneath the tail of the wagon and rose unsteadily to her feet, the sound of a man's laughter in her ears."

— The Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan

Moiraine and whump go well together, Robert Jordan said so

[sakivsiil]

Can we talk about the amount of claustrophobia TSC must have please

They just keep putting him in selectable boxes he can be controlled in

And then actual boxes like goddamn id be so done with small places

This isn't even the first time there's always been a problem with TSC and boxes

Free my boy ;-;

[screechingchaoscrusade]

Spider was born to fly !

Inspo photo!

I've always imagined Spider in this ever since I saw this photo, a boy doomed to be stuck. Maybe, I don't know I'm bad at this stuff 😆

Hope to satisfy you guys more, requests and such are always open! ❤️ (Currently doing the ones in my inbox)

[pygmy--tyrant]

one of the most insane subplots of trc was when blue's mum started dating the man who violently murdered ronan's dad and there weren't really any objections. like no one minded

[fandomsnrambles]

Similarities between Lloyd and his uncle are so cool and heartbreaking.

I mean they both share blonde hair but theres also a lot of narrative parallels, for example, when Wu was 9 he broke a serpentine treaty and nearly caused a war. When Lloyd was 9 he opened the serpentine tombs.

Wu and Lloyd also get betrayed. Think Harumi and Aspheera as a consequence to their actions with the serpentine.

They both suffer from high expectations. Wu with his father and living up to his expectations of being better because he blames himself for his brother’s venom and Lloyd facing high expectations as the green ninja. Both face them at a very young age!

Both of them fight Garmadon. I’m thinking of the battle between brothers and the prophesied final battle.

And now… Lloyd seems to be paving the way to parallel his uncle with their first students by placing high expectations on them and making them resent them. (If it wasn’t clear i’m talking Morro and Arin)

And they both do this because of generational trauma and expectations. Dragons/oni war -> FSM -> Wu and Garmadon -> Lloyd (and Morro) -> Arin

[secondstar-acorn]

I would genuinely listen to an entire series of Anthony Burch talking to himself and exploring the kiddads’ lives between the end of season 1 to the beginning of season 2

like they are so Fucked Up and I know why but I just wanna know MORE I wanna annotate their lives and put sticky notes over significant moments and write essays on their trauma I’m. fucking losing it

[m0rninglatte]

What's this?

Me actually posting another skybound character that isn't Ashril?

Whaaat /silly /j

[occasional-hobbyist]

[valtsv]

Who is Cassius?

new oc. they wear a mask they never take off and don't cut their hair and they accidentally caused the collapse of an entire civilisation because they killed the god-emperor of the region in a revenge duel slash act of rebellion (fought on dragonback) and had no plans for what to do in the aftermath, meaning that the area formerly under his control was quickly invaded by neighbouring rival empires and its people assimilated or killed in combat. they were a young adult at the time but babygirl your lack of geopolitical understanding literally caused a massive societal upheaval get it together lol.

[pterodach]

Make him feel alright

[gbirrd]

A piece Ive made for the @batfam-big-bang is for this fic by @megaerakles inspired by The Odyssey! Obviously, the soundtrack whilst drawing was EPIC. Would you expect anything else, really?

Image ID:

An image reminescent of a book cover. Transluscent white shattered glass-like cracks stem from a jagged 'hole' slightly left of the center, through which Bruce Wayne's eye is visible in a vibrant blue. The cracks radiate out into 8 sections, each with a different character, which together make up one face. From left going clockwise, the characters are Dick Grayson, with deep eyebags, Jason Todd, with prominent scarring, Tim Drake, Steph Brown, a siren Cass Cain, Duke Thomas, Helena Wayne, and Damian Wayne-Al Ghul wearing a laurel crown. The image is done in a painterly style similar to goache.

[rookflower]

thinking about the character again (cinderpelt) and it's likely unintentional and a result of either her shifting narrative role from young go getter to wise mentor or a shift in how the books display their own politics but i find something really tragic in-universe in how she develops from a character who will actively and willingly break the warrior code when it conflicts with her own morals (immediately lying to cover for graystripe and silverstream, acting in direct defiance of her leadership to nurse littlecloud and whitethroat back to health) but overtime through her role she gradually grows more god-fearing and pious and embodies somewhat of a "starclan is always right, even when they are cruel, and we need to accept that" position