Hi, I'm Isa and I cyclically hyperfixate on Deltora Quest and the Roddaverse. I try to tag the spoilers but be mindful anyway. | I follow from @hard-times paramore.
You know what, it might seem silly but as I was making my last post I started thinking... maybe headcanoning your blorbos as having mental disorders that are demonized by society can be a small way to fight that ableism. Because you learn to research these conditions, and since they're your favorite characters, you see them as the complex people they are, and not as having "bad person disorder".
Tell me about your blorbos' mental illnesses. I'll go first.
Chloe Price from Life is Strange: Borderline Personality Disorder
Lucifer from the Netflix show Lucifer: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Dante from Devil May Cry: Bipolar Disorder
Alice Liddel from Alice Madness Returns: Schizophrenia (that one is canon I'm pretty sure)
Deltora Ladies - Jasmine (wedding edition), Marilen, Verity, Gla-Thon (based on Dread Gnome designs by @citrinesunshine), Lindal, Sharn, Tira and Neridah. Sorry for any inaccuracies.
i love how fucked up the concept of hereditary guilt is (like the idea of the "sins of the father" or bastardry laws). what if your ancestors fucked up so bad that your agency in whether or not to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions was considered forfeit before you even existed. doomed by the narrative that was chosen for you at birth.
thinking about. what even would have happened if dain really was adin's heir?? like he wasnt an ol, maybe he was actually doom's son, uh, sorry jasmine, etc. what would lief have even done. probably something gay
you know retrospectively whatever the fuck lief and dain from deltora quest had going on in the final arc was fucking insane right. the trust built up over so long. the heartache. the betrayal. our dear friend dain. lief literally collapsing and getting teary-eyed from happiness and relief, thinking he'd found who he's been looking for all this time, the heir, and of anyone possible it being dain. dain with his eyes so kind, he must have gotten them from his mother. swearing to protect him or some shit. lief holding dain's dagger to his head when he's devastated that he failed to protect him from being captured, unaware of the trap. finding him again, rescuing him, and instantly getting backstabbed, attacked, and wanting so badly for it to not be true that dain tricks him again and again during the fight. acting concerned, reaching out to help him up the ledge, only to laugh when he falls for it and try to kill him again. every spot on his skin that lief cuts with his sword transforming grotesquely into armor, every blow he deals exposing dain as something inhuman. creating a shield over his heart. lief eventually killing him by wrapping the deltora belt around him, effectively a hug, and then stabbing him in the heart through the back. dain melting, dying, reaching out to lief with a human hand desperately, regretfully, only to use the last of his strength once again lashing out and try to take his life when lief once again falls for it. barely any hesitation. like dain could put the act back up, look kind, regretful, gentle, reach out to him, and he would fall for it a hundred times. I don't think thats normal