#or that i dont react with extreme emotional volatility

[rampant-testiculitis]

the stars aligned in my personality so that everything i convey is either a warped version of what was intended something blatantly different

[captainkingsley]

i will Not comment on posts with stupid takes about Ashton I will Not,

(proceeds to ramble in my own tags because idk where else to dump this)

[zyafics]

abt the cheating talk, I think since it’s not easy for him to connect with people emotionally he’d only able to like maybe do some drunk sex cheating or when they’re in a break and he’s so frustated that he wants to hurt you (he’s full of issues and we know he can be mean and is holding grudge typa guy)..so I do think he’s capable of it, but it won’t be the all planned discreet one.

I think the cheating would very much intentional to piss her off when they’re fighting and he feels like she’s in the wrong (out of spite), he’d make sure it’d be known. but naah, I really don’t think he’s into like real real cheating, but there’s a possibility though.

then again it all comes back to how one defines cheating..

yes and no, if that makes sense. i don’t think rafe is a strong manipulator. being a manipulator implies that rafe has a strong sense of understanding of his emotions and how to weaponize emotions against people. i don’t think rafe has that sense because he reacts to situations impulsively and whatever his head demands of it.

so i agree, i don’t think rafe would cheat a “planned, discreet one” but i definitely can see him being so emotionally volatile that he cheats during that moment (physically). HOWEVER, i also believe that if rafe is truly in love with someone, his first reaction isn’t to cheat on them. i think it’s either to scream or try to get all these voices to settle and/or listen to what they gotta say. this could either be them going to the person’s house screaming at them at 4am in the morning, or having a blowout fight. but i doubt cheating is on the table. because rafe is shown on the show to only attack those who attack him first (or in line with “attacking” him/his father, this being the sheriff going after his father or sarah when he drowned her and shot her). he never tries to hurt anyone outside of those who he deemed done him wrong. like, he had cleo and terrance in front of him w the gun and his main goal was john b and sarah. why didn’t he shoot them when they were right in front of him? (do u understand where i’m coming from?)

so i dont think he would even cheat to piss her off. i think it would either be totally a reactive response to his circumstance/situation, him being extremely high, or bc they got into a big fight. but i doubt he would rub it into her face, if he loves her. i think someone reposted my other one saying that it depends on rafe’s emotional connection to the person (@kisstaya) and that 100% on the money. if rafe cares about that person the way he cares about his family, cheating is off the table. if rafe is still figuring/feeling that person out, trying to assess if they’re good in his life, then if he cheats, he wouldn’t even consider it cheating.

[finitevoid]

By kh3 hes like borderline jaded. certainly existential in ways that remind me a lot of vanitas himself .

On the contrary silvers trend is that hes softening up a lot. hes being given the space and company to process things now. I wish it happened in the games but ill take it. You know i generally don't have too much issue with the theoretical direction idw is taking with silver on a lot of things. i dont like his dialogue and interactions. its extremely off. But i agree its interesting to see him in a context where he doesnt have to worry about his future and yeah i agree he’d loosen up a bit (A LITTLE BIT…. PLEASE I MEANT A LITTLE BIT) and have anxiety attacks sure. Sonic channel my beloved has quite a few stories with him in lower stakes situations and the way hes written there feels a lot truer to him. Its :| autism not uwu autism. Sega of japan thank you so much for being so real please post another silver story ? one where he has to resort to cannibalism in the future i think thatd be funny as fuck. Maybe hire me

silver actually seemingly needs a lot of emotional support to make decisions in difficult situations (like blaze) and while thats thematically similar to ven’s situation, ven doesnt hesitate to do crazy shit if he thinks he needs to . would you say silver is ever reckless. hes def irritable/easily frustrated yeah?

silver doesnt “need” emotional support to do what he does given hes been alone his whole life fighting iblis. Hes very quick on the draw when it comes to action actually. Any hesitation/doubt is after the fact (times he vents to blaze in 06: after fighting iblis in the early game. blaze tells him to calm down after he punches a wall in agitation over the futility of fighting iblis. then after failing to kill sonic and raising an ethical question where blaze tells him hes going to have to kill anyway. Notably conclusions hes already arrived to. Its more that he needs to be redirected before he spirals. Theres similar interactions between silver and espio/blaze in idw). I will stand that silver has something of an emotional dependency on blaze (he literally says he cant go on without her. And blaze describes him as volatile when alone) but its not really to have blaze help him make decisions. Its a matter beyond his fighting. He has moments of doubt but is still described as almost supernaturally optimistic. Its uh also not just blaze things are shaping up between him and espio now (2 purple friend) but i dont like citing idw *continues to cite idw* 

I dont think its through a lack of consideration of the consequences of his actions (hes rather introspective) but rather a failure of his own logic that he does irrational things. He jumps to extremes too quickly and becomes obsessed with them. Yes he is irritable and easily frustrated. He is a little quick to attack people that set him off to a counterproductive extent. Overall yes he has his brand of recklessness

is this like a p5 “fate worse than death-ing our villains so hard that killing them wouldve been kinder” because If you think about it thats a kind of brutality all its own.

Yeah man that was weirdly brutal i wouldve thought it more in his style to straight up kill eggman nega rather than leave him trapped in rubble to die. I dont know if espios presence affected things there. Leaving eggman nega to die is definitely an espio thing its a faux deep lesson he loves that shit. Come to think of it silver didnt even react to eggman negas pleas. espio was like “You reap what you sow…” while Silvers literally goes “Ok. Bye espio.” Hey silvers friends are weird. Also as i said silver isnt one to show remorse to everyone! 

a) i asked this because ven’s stated personal goal is to become a keyblade master. i don’t know that i’d call ven ambitious exactly but the pursuit of power (in order to better serve his masters & the light) is absolutely a major part of his character. however his (relative) “weakness” is a major element of bbs as well. 

silver has no such thing. His grief around the futility of fighting iblis feels more a matter of circumstance and he tends to put much much more of the liability on his current actions rather than his state of being. as a character in the sonic franchise its a somewhat notable thing that never crosses silvers dialogue. Though he is shown to be rather confident in his strength. for good reason

hearing you describe silver’s selflessness and its intensity (like, a pure and genuine love for humanity itself)

Now that i think of it another thing between shadow and silver can be shadows misanthropy and the nature of humanitys relationship to what theyve gone through. We spoke about silver already but shadow explicitly struggles immensely with misanthropy. Shadow has been victimized by humanity, silver has been victimized with humanity. ventus and vanitas? Though “humanity” is a little more charged on the sonic side of things since shadow isnt a human so its kind of racial beef. Anything i say on silver would be purely speculative since he never makes any mention of distinguishing between mobians and humans though the fact hes lonely makes me think community wasnt easy to find in the future. Given hes rather extroverted id fault the people of the future here lol

after hearing all of this do you think we have a case for ventus being canon silver or are we reducing him to uwulver. vanitas shadow is a shoe-in even despite the whole sonic of it all.

We can make it work. I mean their personalities dont have to completely match. We’ve seen a silver with ventus’ personality in the form of uwuver so why not a ventus with silvers personality. But actually i think everyone should be paired up and have a silly time with each other. Silver and shadow are hedgehogs after all they make wonderful pets

1) i mean ultimately all characterizations can be compelling if written with care and thought but it seems like idw silver suffers moreso from the fact that the people writing him dont (or didnt? lol) seem to care much about portraying him as accurate to his origins, and was more worried about the specific archetype they wanted to portray. ultimately silver can soften up and chill out but if theyre portraying him as an entirely different archetype its going to feel wrong

2) hmm i think this is ultimately points in our favor because i think one of ven's main defining character traits is his recklessness. the biggest difference i'd say is that ven (during bbs' campaign) is relatively thoughtless about what hes doing/why/the consequences of it. Theres a reason vanitas is able to string him along so easily. silver by contrast is really introspective, but you're right in pointing out that this introspection always happens after that. and i did conflate his reliance on blaze with his decision making when in reality you're right he doesn't hesitate. this is cool because ven doesn't hesitate either .

3) while ven does his fair share of video game murder i cant say he fate-worse-than-deaths anyone except for arguably vanitas himself but it seems like (assuming vanitas exists in the current timeline because i dont think thats necessarily guaranteed My Tjeories) if he did get vani stuck in sora's heart it was unintentional

4) yeah he owned when we played the game you were freaking owning me

5) this is really interesting and i've been pondering it. i dont actually think vanitas would describe himself as human in any meaningful way (plus its canon to the novel that he doesnt need to eat because He Is Darkness or w/e). would ven? ambiguous. perhaps too ambiguous for kingdom hearts. he does describe himself as having been "sifted apart" in kh3 (referring to vanitas) but he also tries to appeal to vanitas by saying that "they should get to choose". in this scene he halfway implies that he wants to have darkness in his heart (ie to be a normal person) which says to me that he thinks of himself as distinct from "humans" as they exist in kh canon. why else would he say that the way forward for himself & vanitas is for himself to not be "just light" and to say that vanitas shouldn't be "just darkness". i think it would be way more interesting if he didnt consider himself human though so maybe im reaching

they've both definitely been victimized by humans though. vanitas specifically re: xehanort, but i honestly cannot believe i've gotten this far into detailed vv analysis and I haven't mentioned that ventus' dad tries to murder him 3/4's of the way through bbs. (to stop the x-blade from being formed.) vanitas has been psychologically and physically tortured by a human, and ventus has been stifled, sheltered and betrayed by one.

this is an interesting line of thinking bc ven and vani are probably the only kh characters i would describe as being genuinely inhuman. if you take kh's "every heart has both light & darkness" at face value then it really does imply ven and vanitas are a genuine affront to nature born of human cruelty. kinda shadow and silver of them

6) yeah ive actually been thinking about this and i think shadow would find vanitas annoying. ven makes friends with everyone though

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@lieutenantgivesnoshits asked:

1. What inspired you to make/pick up these characters?

Both canon and your OCs

So, when I first saw Simon I really fell in love with how soft spoken he was while still going out and doing dangerous and scary things with his friends, because it's what was right. It was something I could relate to personally very well. I was horrified to see how easily he can be killed in the game and made it my mission to give him a chance to live. So i started writing him and he just developed from there into a character that I truly love and cherish so very much.

Markus was always my favorite of the three protagonists because he was the driving force behind the game. If you didn't have Markus, you didn't really have a game. He was what propelled the plot of all three characters. I was a little disappointed that he was rated as the least favorite protagonist among fans of the game because that just didn't seem right to me after all he does in the game and how exciting his chapters are. So, because I love him so much and think he deserves more love than he gets, and certainly deserves a closer look into his character and development, I took him on as a muse too.

For Leo, I recognized the redemption ark in the game he can have and realized he wasn't necessarily as bad a person as we are led to believe. When he was high, that's when he was a bad person. But without the drugs in his system, he actually seemed like he had the potential to be a genuinely sweet, if a bit troubled, person. I wanted to explore that side of him more because it was very glossed over in the game and I thought he deserved a little more credit than that for deciding to make an incredibly difficult decision to get clean. I've seen first hand what drugs do to people that were once good people. Leo telling his dad he was going to get clean is something I sincerely hoped was authentic on his part. So I brought that hope into existence by writing it and developing his character further.

Daniel was another character I could empathize with, even if I thought his actions were wrong. I hated that there is no way to save him in the game and he is doomed to never be able to redeem himself. There was potential with him because he was clearly only doing what he did because he was scared, panicking, and feeling a lot of strong emotions for the first time all at once and was confused and not in control of the situation. It just escalated when the SWAT team arrived and got worse from there. I genuinely believe it wasn't entirely his fault, even if he did make the wrong choices, it was in an extreme moment that most people would react poorly too. So, in writing him, I got a chance to get him to redeem himself and show that he wasn't as terrible a person as the game made him out to be.

Ralph is a similar case to Daniel and Leo, where I wanted to show the side of him that is better. We all know Ralph killed a man and threatened Alice and Kara and was just a very volatile person in general. But he is also very sweet and innocent and even childlike in some ways. And when I say innocent, I dont mean he did nothing wrong, I mean that he didn't know any better and was doing what he thought he had to, to survive. I just wanted to show that without those extreme circumstances, Ralph had the potential to be a very kind, if emotionally unstable, person.

The Jerrys are admittedly just comfort characters for me. They were always sweet and soft and safe. They never meant any harm to anyone and just tried to get by. If I could play the entire hive mind I would, but my writing abilities arent that good, so I chose three of them and just decided they would be my fluff characters for when I need a break from all the angst I like to write.

Elianna was honestly a spur of the moment OC that I thought would be cool when I found what I thought was the perfect face claim for a female RK200. I still need to develop her a lot more because she's still a pretty clean slate right now.

Lysias is my hot take on RA9 without proving or disproving it's existence. I just wanted to toy with the concept of an unknown entity that was potentially very threatening. They still need a lot of character development as well but I at least have a basic direction with them where I want them to essentially be an antihero that can easily be pushed into antagonist territory.

Arda and Alma are actually characters in a novel series I am writing and I just love them so much that I want to integrate them into my RP experience. They are based on the very simple concept of "can A.I. develop consciousness" and were heavily influenced by the androids in the Alien movies, as well as Blade Runner and I Robot. I actually had never played or even heard of Detroit: Become Human when I started writing for them. In fact, the game hadn't even come out yet. But the game followed that same concept that I've been so fascinated with and I think that's why I fell so deeply in love with it. It's certainly why I thought Alma and Arda could be integrated into the setting with a little tweaking.

I have other OCs as well, but I'll leave it at my DBH ones for now, since this is already a pretty long post.