#and making it in character

[infiniteeight8]

Hi can you do Alpha/Omega? But Alpha Stephen is part of a mafia and Omega Tony is a kindergarten teacher? Go ham with it! Maybe add a bit of smut too? :)

Alas, there is not enough space in the type of prompts I do to establish their dynamics and careers and also do smut (I didn’t even get much into Tony’s career). Which is partly because I can’t seem to do smut short. But that doesn’t make it less true. LOL. So I’m afraid you shall have to settle for the non-smutty version. 🙂

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“That man is waiting for you again,” Scott says, leaning back through the door to alert Tony. The uncertainty on his face is clear; someone repeatedly waiting outside the school for one of the staff is rarely a good thing.

Tony appreciates the thought, especially given how intimidating Stephen can be, but he’s not worried. “It’s okay, Scott,” he says, pushing the door open and stepping outside.

Sure enough, it’s Stephen. He’s dressed in a crisp dark suit and is leaning against the side of a sleek black town car with tinted windows. Tinted windows like that are illegal in New York, but that’s the least of Stephen’s concerns. Tony walks right up to him. They must make an odd sight, Stephen in his fancy threads and Tony in faded jeans and a bright red t-shirt. “If you keep showing up like this,” he says, “the staff are going to start talking.”

Stephen straightens up and opens the back door of the car for Tony. “That’s the point,” he says coolly.

Tony hesitates for just a moment. Getting into an unfamiliar car with an alpha is against all kinds of omega safety tips. But Stephen has always been a gentleman. He also tends to treat refusals as openings for negotiation. Everyone has a price, and Stephen excels at finding it. Tony knows that from personal experience. He gets into the car.

Stephen follows, and the driver pulls away from the curb the moment the door thumps shut. “Where are we going?” Tony asks.

“Dinner,” Stephen says. Tony tries to cover his sudden unease, but Stephen is too sharp. “Somewhere different,” he says, voice gentling a bit. “I know you didn’t like the last place.”

Tony hadn’t said so, but he’s not wrong. Even so, he ought to say no. It’s clear, now, that Stephen is interested in more than conversation, and he’s exactly the wrong sort of alpha for Tony. Except that his scent is wonderful, absolutely everything that Tony could ask for, and he’s been so careful, so strategic. It’s hard to resist someone who thinks he’s worth so much effort. “No dress code?” They’d waived it for him last time, at Stephen’s request. That had made Tony less comfortable, not more.

“No dress code,” Stephen promises.

Tony lets out a soft breath. “Okay.”

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

I'm a simple bitch. i believe the purpose of government should be to improve the lives of its citizens and protect its most vulnerable members. unfortunately i live in a day and age where this gets me labeled an enemy of the state

[feefal]

Synthetic biology

[wukongfeetpics]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

[grimbeak]

woag. i'm sure this character who i've never heard of before in my life would do completely ethical things to me in my Smart Home and that there are not two games entirely based around why this is a bad idea

[cronchy-baguette]

I promise

[ifriqiyyah]

"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[rae-butter]

Honestly, I love it when characters relapse. When someone who’s gotten over their anger issues falls into a situation so out of their depth they fall back on their old habits. When someone who’s learned to open up becomes a recluse again in order to cope with something outside their control.

There’s just something so horrible, so toxic, about watching a character grow and then slip back into their old selves in order to cope, bc you know they still care, that they’re the same inside, but watching them hurt so hard they don’t know what else to do brings a sense of catharsis.

[malone-fanart]

SUSIEEE

her and some of her awesome outfits from chapter 3 🙏

i might be becoming kinda obsessed lol i love her sm , like get rid of Kris as the middle-man (said in a gender neutral way) cuz i’d gladly hold her hand myself 🤭 /silly

also i drew all of these on separate layers so i might make these intro stickers or smth!! might sell if people are interested :)

[bearloonz]

I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Some spins on the "mostly male team with a token woman" trope:

The woman is trans and stayed in her old circle of bros even after transition

The woman is the only one in her circle of "girls" who didn't turn out to be a trans man

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He should be at the Adventurer's Guild.

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[sherbetstudios]

I’ve been getting into deltarune but a VERY specific character has definitely been 95% of the deltarune thoughts I’ve had

Ok anyways does her hair + just overall bust features give snowflake im really trying

Like. See. See idk give me a break I’m new to actually really trying to put shapes into character design I normally just pick a pattern and a color scheme and go with that