#monstrification

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Finished!

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An Overall Analysis Of Albert Wesker and "Unsympathetic Villainry"

I am not sympathizing for any of the characters described within this post! I am simply analyizing to provide people with a deeper understanding and possible comparisons between characters and adaptations.

Mentioned characters will include: Azula (Atla), Albert Wesker (Resident Evil), Zuko (Atla)

Albert Wesker

We know very little about Albert Wesker as a character and person, so a lot of this may be pulling strands of grass (or whatever). But I want to try to bring a new view to the most iconic villain of Resident Evil, no matter how far-fetched it may be.

In his childhood, it is assumable that he was taken from his parents by Umbrella and put into several makeshift homes with other Project W subjects (victims). From that young age he was seen as a person with favorable intellegence and "genetics", groomed into being able to be a senior scientist at age seventeen, a process that takes an upward of twelve years (at least!!!).

And in those few years before his introduction to working at Umbrella he went to a school where surely he was also praised and uplifted by staff and classmate alike.

To Wesker, the whole world must spin around his feet, halting under each step. If it did not, everything would pay.

And in some aspect I suspect that beyond him seeing the current lot of humans being "under par" or "lesser" that ultimately he saw a vast oceans of thoughts and ideas, and maybe he was scared. Scared that there were enough people that thought differently, and he wouldn't ever be able to convert them all. So if he couldn't recreate the world in his disease-crafted image, he would not stand for any of them to survive.

Even before re1, when he was killed by the Tyrant, he had signs of hatred for humanity. A disconnect between him and them.

Now, Wesker had every chance to take the step back and observe his situation. To self reflect and consider if what he was doing was right. If it was kind, or if it was something a person would even do. He did not take those chances to reevaluate.

Two characters I can consider similar to Wesker (faintly) are Zuko and Azula from ATLA. Zuko and Azula were both raised under extreme pressure and social status. However, they are still both very different people. Zuko was only hateful because of his lack of care from his father and other members in his family, fighting for scraps against his sister. And that emotional lack gave him the chance later on to open up and step back from that destructive course. I think Wesker is more like Azula. Azula too was raised under the same circumstance as Zuko, but she was gifted. Smarter, stronger, more skilled than Zuko ever dreamed he could be, even when they were both children. She was stronger than him, years younger. This caused her to shimmer like prized gold in Ozai's eyes. No matter what she did she was praised and instructed deeply. Cracking under the scrutiny of even a single loose hair.

Azula was so lost in the pressure and self absorbtion that she didn't dare step back. She had everything she wanted. Why would she ever look into the lives of lessers?

[polito0]

Lowering my prices for a bit! Sharing is really appreciated as usual. Will be taking only 3 orders so take your chance!!

Also, I'll be trying my hand at monstrification of characters for the first time! Really excited to see the results :D

[creepycombo]

You guys ever think about how Penny’s friendship bracelets might’ve been how she marked kids to be chosen for monstrification or is it just me?

[monstrous-fusion]

Faye (OoT/MM) / any/all / 10? years old

A former hero that'd been turned into a monster upon getting lost in the Lost Woods. He's mistrusting of people, quiet and sneaky. If you aren't close with her, you'd think she's standoffish and unapproachable. Underneath that calloused exterior is a soft spoken child who wants to be loved. They just. Don't think anyone would love them enough to try.

(Credit to @scopophobia-polaris for the headcanon that the Lost Woods turns Link into a monster! We really enjoyed it, especially the plot potential that it could have. Check out their AU, it's an amazing read and gen one of the best things I've read in terms of LoZ AUs!

World Building facts under the cut!

Just kind of randomly, the marks on their face bleed! They pretend they don't know why they bleed, but they do.

In spite of the Kokiri having...quite rigid gender roles (the girls wear boots and a belt, the boys wear a hat) Faye has never felt like they slot into either of those roles. They instead make it their life goal to reject gender,,,,become Creechure

They have Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) and suffer from CPTSD (which. I guess isn't entirely unusual for any of the younger Links in this AU, but them especially).

In spite of their monstrification, she can only hear to the same ability as your average Hylian. He can see in the dark, though.

[marmakar]

Say hi to Wayne Evants — my bestie as a Monster High persona (Monster High Sona, Monster High Self, monstrification?)! Mothcore realness, mysterious vibes, and way too many sparkles (just like in real life). This art is a birthday gift for my amazing bestie — because they deserve to exist in a world as weird and beautiful as Monster High. The character's Profile Bio is in Russian — since Wayne speaks Russian and this was made more for them than for the general feed. 

[tomush]

Bad timing, little ones!

Lately I was scrolling through tiktoc and trend about monstrification yourself popped up… And new character suddenly was created. She is gargoyle :D

Idk her name or any other details, but I thought that it will be very fun to use her in G/t setting.

Night time at least somehow safe for investigating humans dwelling… But not when there is gargoyle, who come to life when dark is come.

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And some additions like extended picture and first design of my gargoyle char

[studiofezilla]

My project with the kids for Term 4 2023 - our project brief is 'Monstrification.' We're taking an original or existing character and monstrifying them. I took my OC Kay and turned her into a Strogg Berserker from Quake. - Luke. #fezilla #studiofezilla #digitalart #quake #artwork #anime #arts #digitaldrawing #digitalart #Devildogs #NeonKnights #Strogg #manga #gaming #FanArtFriday #retroshooter #cyberpunk

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Coloring

[thecritdoeswotldbuildings]

It has been one day

The monstrification occurred suddenly and violently

Its fur began to fall off, the skin pulled tightly against its bones and its teeth sharpened and then

its first metamorphosis was done

[vileflesh]

another attempt at not using a line. it's something like a self-portrait, but if I were a monster. I tried to create a design using my face. I am very pleased with this result. Unfortunately, I don't have any other art with this character

[moved99999999999]

HEY GUYS CHECK OUT THIS MONSTER FUSHI DRAWN BY @suiamena​. 

It was a raffle prize on twitter and it’s absolutely amazing and I advise a follow (preferably on twitter cuz she ain’t active on tumblr anymore)

https://twitter.com/SUIamena

[itsmaferart]

Totally, I believe in ONE and Murata's ability to go further, even if we don't see the result right away. The good stories are well made to wait and that's because Empty Void has too many connections with the arc of MA and Cosmic Garou, intertwining the characters and the concepts.

Following the manga's line of events, it's not just a narrative excuse the absence of Saitama and Flashy during the association, and the appearance of Blast (well, yes a little, but that's not the point). The monstrification, the interdimentional portals, and the silhouettes of Blast's allies in his long fight against God, and although the time travel puzzled many, I'm sure that far from “fixing things”, it was a way to prepare us for what's next.

I wouldn't be surprised if as the showdown picks up, Blast has a vision with Blue (Which would connect to the intoduction to the Neo Heroes arc in the future). or if things get out of hand, Empty Void starts leaving some pretty big collateral damage. I suppose the damage could be so great to the point that again Saitama decides to go. It would be curious a Sonic, Flashy Saitama and Blast adventure between dimensions.

Clearly Empty Void doesn't seem to be “just one guy”, when there are too many things involved and surely Saitama doesn't come out of it entirely unscathed, after all.

Perception bias, round 2 Director's cut, Saigenos edition!

(or basically, how my brain jumps into another topic only loosely related to the original ask)

Thank you @itsmaferart For the wonderful ask again. :)

Warning: Long post ahead

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Perception bias also serves another more...sinister purpose for Saitama. Psychological conditioning. There is potential evidence for deprivation of basic needs, conditioning for violence for protection and subliminal messages for suggestion, among other things.

Being deprived of all these needs is akin to mental torture. But so is facing all of the underlying issues at once via hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy if the patient is sufficiently dysfunctional in a societal setting like Saitama happens to be. Especially if the therapies are performed...poorly.

CBT has shown to be the most effective intervention for people exposed to adverse childhood experiences in the form of abuse or neglect Criticism of CBT sometimes focuses on implementations (such as the UK which may result initially in low quality therapy being offered by poorly trained practitioners. However, evidence supports the effectiveness of CBT for anxiety and depression. Evidence suggests that the addition of hypnotherapy as an adjunct to CBT improves treatment efficacy for a variety of clinical issues. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its symptoms have been shown to improve due to implementation of hypnotherapy, in both long and short term. As research continues, hypnotherapy is being more openly considered as an effective intervention for those with PTSD.

In short, in order to heal mentally, Saitama may need to face mental torture because he has such strong willpower and such strong mental barriers shielding his vulnerabilities on a basic primal need. There only needs to be a sufficient trigger.

ONE sent Saitama home to restore his energy levels...because he's going to sorely need them for the upcoming confrontation.

Empty Void's ability to genjutsu people casually and cause parallel shifts in the reality and using these to abuse emotional dependencies is like a loaded Chekov's gun on Saitama's forehead. Because Saitama has been roleplaying to re-learn his emphatic skillset after he had suffered too much mental trauma.

That's why early Saitama did not even bat an eye when Beefcake killed his own brother but now he's empathizing with Hamukichi. That's what I call character progression.

Even a compulsive planner like Saitama cannot predict what will happen because he's not familiar with Blast's maladaptive coping methods deep down. Blast is great at masking because they are coping methods so he can bear with his guilt and other issues and just wants to do things on his own, without assistance.

This causes Saitama's perception bias about Blast who seems capable and emphatic, when he is in actuality unscrupulous and amorally indifferent if you really, REALLY study him hard enough.

My bro casually invited Saitama, who is sensitive to aggression, hostility and violence, to watch literal torture of human turned monsters, with an actual smile on his face. And justifying it with his end justify the means philosophy. That's awfully too close to being sadistic and cruel when you consider the ramifications.

They say "love is blind" and Saitama is wearing some rose tinted glasses on because Blast is straight up shady, but he does not see it because he's probably identifying with Blast so hard. Middle-aged, number 1# hero, powerful, confident, outwardly caring, intuitive, ruggedly handsome, positively masculine, secretly gay...you name it. Everything Saitama more than likely fantasies about being because he's so emotionally dependant on Genos and he wants to better himself for Genos due to all his insecurities.

Oh yeah time for some saigenos. *rubs hands*

The very first Genos tells him is to tell Saitama to hide in order to protect him. Saitama has a lot of dependency issues since he has been a small child because he was so emotionally lonely and never got the safety he needed to cope well in life. There are definitely some underlying anxieties or disorders laying about.

Second thing Genos does is show just how smart, capable, cool and devilishly attractive he can be when he gets passionate and engages in combat. Genos can get an awed reaction even from Saitama who's emotions were being blunted during their first spar.

Third is showing he's not gonna judge Saitama for completely embarassing himself, even if he was to get naked around him and lower his inhibitions and showing him it would be ok to trust him on the level of intimacy he craves so dearly. (Season 2 Blu-ray & Dvd: Saitama and the mysterious heroine)

Fourth is showing that Genos is also extremely resilient even when getting hurt...because Saitama hates to see others hurting and he doesn't want it to happen because of him.

And finally the fifth...is because Genos is just as emotionally lonely as he is, but he's unable to let go of his emotional dependencies because he trauma bonds so deeply. He would rather double KO for a Game Over screen than let the monsters win over him and his loved ones on pure principle and take those he trauma bonds with him, because emotional abandonment and guilt would kill him deep inside, so he would rather end it himself for a shred of agency before he withers away.

All these draw in Saitama like moth to a flame and he easily lets Genos into his life. Because he identifies with the lonely teenage boy Genos with traumas who is so familiar to him like coming home.

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Despite everything that has happened to Saitama, he tries to remain optimistic. He's not naturally prone to cynicism unless under great amount of duress. The worst thing to do against him would be Genos emotionally betraying him, betray everything that he perceived in him since the first day they met.

But Saitama has perception bias towards Genos too...such as that Genos is no longer the small teenage boy who needs to be sheltered and cared for, but a battle-hardened soldier. Neither is he a lost naive little sibling in need of guidance or chaperone but an adult wanting mentorship where he can be truly open about his own issues. Would be such a shame if these wrong illusions about Genos were to be shattered...painfully. If Genos were to ever violate that implicit trust Saitama gives to him.

My brother in christ Saitama, he's not actually related to you and he's not your family member even if you'd love him enough to adopt him or something. Not letting go of this notion will spell trouble, like wonky image of relationships and intimacy.

(Yea Saitama please he's not actually related to you, even if it's kind of endearing that Saitama considers Genos to be as close like a family member)

It'll just get worse if Saitama confuses emotional intimacy with sexuality because of his bad upbringing when he's never had any friends and missing his parents too and all his role models have been aggressive and toxic people.

Funny how Saitama's first conclusion about Dr. Genus being interested in his body was sexual in nature and he immediately got defensive. He essentially revealed himself as someone who doesn't even know for sure which way he swings. Which would be quite classic for infj demi but I'll get to that if it becomes more relevant.

Genos naturally knows best though, poor guy looks so disappointed haha. Doesn't stop Genos from attempting every trick in the book besides outright throwing roses at Saitama and arranging dates to get into his good side and woo him, he dressed up so nicely for a spar haha. Dressing to impress, yup. And then he got himself new shiny body and practically walked weeks without a shirt on just so Saitama would see it. (Chapter 185: Updates) My guy has it down bad for Saitama, but Saitama seems oblivious to Genos indirect advances and Genos gave up and finally found a shirt to put on.

(I would pay to see Genos actually chuck roses at Saitama though.)

Even Saitama has to acknowledge that Genos is objectively a hottie though, because in the webcomic he says something along the lines of "he's not even pretty" about Amai-mask and it really makes you think the standards of who Saitama considers pretty when even ikemen like Amai-mask won't do.

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Genos unfortunately is growing up some pretty large perception bias about Saitama after the time travel fiasco. His idolization of Saitama is becoming obsessive and objectifying, like Saitama can do no wrong and that Saitama is some kind of messiah.

Genos also does not take no for an answer. It would be incredibly damaging to both Saitama and Genos when this perception bias is broken when Saitama gets too much on his plate to handle. Like for example...Empty void's specialty, messing with emotional bonds and inducing traumatic events like the illusion of death to break any emotional bond, just like he did to Flashy flash and Sonic.

I do greatly anticipate how Empty Void's fight is going to proceed, we might be in for very big perceptional bias shifts all around, like Flash was forced to acknowledge that he's emotionally dependant on Sonic. (Chapter 201: You pass) And Saitama's idolization of Blast will come crashing down when he finds out what Blast is really up to.

I'll throw some funny perception bias at the end.

[nil-the-glitch]

anyways i am rotating dr kinde in my mind again, might end up making a sideblog for her tbh. the scp wiki would NEVER accept stories about her lmao her entire deal is going against the rules and having empathy/compassion when she's not supposed to.

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I got sudden idea to do some tfp monstrification. So first one is Arcee. Test Sketch.

// P.S. As she has splitted rear wheel on the back of her shins, I decided to allow her roll on them like Bonecrusher (in TF movie 2007)/ Sideswipe (In the following movies)+ mask to protect optics from bugs on highway. Also leg claws like deinonychus used to have + tail for balance. I do like everything made her look similar to XLR8 (Ben 10)

[thecritdoeswotldbuildings]

Here amongst the sand of the Kukkacane desert, I have found my first specimen a common desert wolf showing clear sines of monstrification. magic readings in the area show that the level is about right for the process to begin

-Dr Yo uka