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hey man how’s it going

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For anyone following my suffering with these stupid blind box plush keychains I was convinced Kenny just didn’t exist considering I had 20 of them and no Kenny, so I found one for sale AND NOW I CAN MAKE THIS MEME

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Tamaykta is one of the founding fathers of the South Park fandom change my mind

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getting analytical about spooning

to me, kenny is the little spoon and butters is the big spoon and here's why: kenny is the little spoon because i think he would feel really comforted by the feeling of falling asleep in someone else’s arms (someone else is "looking after/protecting him" him for once), he sleeps like a fucking baby. bros out like a LIGHT. butters is the big spoon because he has been shown at least twice in canon (to my knowledge, there might be more...) to naturally/unconsciously cling to people in his sleep in the episodes "Fun with Veal" (Season 6, Ep 4) and "Quest for Ratings" (Season 8, Ep 11).

to me this implies he likes to hold someone/something while he sleeps (especially cause when stan shakes him off of him he goes "oh sorry! i thought you were mr pickles" and goes to hold him instead), so i think butters loves to hold kenny and pull him close against his chest, it helps him sleep.

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HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH THIS HO JUST CANNOT CATCH A BREAK FROM HORRENDOUS PICTURES😭😭😭 WHY CANT HE HAVE ONE GOOD PIC.

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he/she kenny supremacy and also one (1) heidi turner for variety

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kept seeing this trend on tiktok and knew what i had to do instantly

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I LOVE BUNNY FANS. THEY ARE THE NICEST, LOVLIEST MOST TALENTED PEOPLE. I stg I don't think I've ever seen a problematic bunny shipper. I just❤️♥️💕💞💘💝❣️LOVE YOU BUNNY SHIPPERS

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Zoom In, Don’t Glaze Over: How to Describe Appearance Without Losing the Plot

You’ve met her before. The girl with “flowing ebony hair,” “emerald eyes,” and “lips like rose petals.” Or him, with “chiseled jawlines,” “stormy gray eyes,” and “shoulders like a Greek statue.”

We don’t know them.

We’ve just met their tropes.

Describing physical appearance is one of the trickiest — and most overdone — parts of character writing. It’s tempting to reach for shorthand: hair color, eye color, maybe a quick body scan. But if we want a reader to see someone — to feel the charge in the air when they enter a room — we need to stop writing mannequins and start writing people.

So let’s get granular. Here’s how to write physical appearance in a way that’s textured, meaningful, and deeply character-driven.

1. Hair: It’s About Story, Texture, and Care

Hair says a lot — not just about genetics, but about choices. Does your character tame it? Let it run wild? Is it dyed, greying, braided, buzzed, or piled on top of her head in a hurry?

Good hair description considers:

Texture (fine, coiled, wiry, limp, soft)

Context (windblown, sweat-damp, scorched by bleach)

Emotion (does she twist it when nervous? Is he ashamed of losing it?)

Flat: “Her long brown hair framed her face.”

Better: “Her ponytail was too tight, the kind that whispered of control issues and caffeine-fueled 4 a.m. library shifts.”

You don’t need to romanticise it. You need to make it feel real.

2. Eyes: Less Color, More Connection

We get it: her eyes are violet. Cool. But that doesn’t tell us much.

Instead of focusing solely on eye color, think about:

What the eyes do (do they dart, linger, harden?)

What others feel under them (seen, judged, safe?)

The surrounding features (dark circles, crow’s feet, smudged mascara)

Flat: “His piercing blue eyes locked on hers.”

Better: “His gaze was the kind that looked through you — like it had already weighed your worth and moved on.”

You’re not describing a passport photo. You’re describing what it feels like to be seen by them.

3. Facial Features: Use Contrast and Texture

Faces are not symmetrical ovals with random features. They’re full of tension, softness, age, emotion, and life.

Things to look for:

Asymmetry and character (a crooked nose, a scar)

Expression patterns (smiling without the eyes, habitual frowns)

Evidence of lifestyle (laugh lines, sun spots, stress acne)

Flat: “She had a delicate face.”

Better: “There was something unfinished about her face — as if her cheekbones hadn’t quite agreed on where to settle, and her mouth always seemed on the verge of disagreement.”

Let the face be a map of experience.

4. Bodies: Movement > Measurement

Forget dress sizes and six packs. Think about how bodies occupy space. How do they move? What are they hiding or showing? How do they wear their clothes — or how do the clothes wear them?

Ask:

What do others notice first? (a presence, a posture, a sound?)

How does their body express emotion? (do they go rigid, fold inwards, puff up?)

Flat: “He was tall and muscular.”

Better: “He had the kind of height that made ceilings nervous — but he moved like he was trying not to take up too much space.”

Describing someone’s body isn’t about cataloguing. It’s about showing how they exist in the world.

5. Let Emotion Tint the Lens

Who’s doing the describing? A lover? An enemy? A tired narrator? The emotional lens will shape what’s noticed and how it’s described.

In love: The chipped tooth becomes charming.

In rivalry: The smirk becomes smug.

In mourning: The face becomes blurred with memory.

Same person. Different lens. Different description.

6. Specificity is Your Superpower

Generic description = generic character. One well-chosen detail creates intimacy. Let us feel the scratch of their scarf, the clink of her earrings, the smudge of ink on their fingertips.

Examples:

“He had a habit of adjusting his collar when he lied — always clockwise, always twice.”

“Her nail polish was always chipped, but never accidentally.”

Make the reader feel like they’re the only one close enough to notice.

Describing appearance isn’t just about what your character looks like. It’s about what their appearance says — about how they move through the world, how others see them, and how they see themselves.

Zoom in on the details that matter. Skip the clichés. Let each description carry weight, story, and emotion. Because you’re not building paper dolls. You’re building people.

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More characterization essays!?

I personally have such a weird way of characterization. Like usually you have to do an essay or answer some character sheets and sure I do those too but it's mostly my way of keeping my thoughts together neatly. The actual way I characterize is like a diagram.

For exemple with kenny I cut his personality in three ways of interpret that mostly go like a spectrum:

Kenny- nice front and soft on the inside. The chillest kenny. The kenny who is trying to forget, the kenny that tries to act like a normal civilian. So when I write this kenny arc I think of a 'I don't care' attitude. Aloof but with a sweet side.

Princess kenny- princess kenny is nice front but spiky on the inside. When you meet her/him you genuinely can't belive someone can be so charming and sweet but turn your back on her/him and see how deep those stings can go. When I write a kenny like that I have they words he/she is saying contrast his inner monolog. So while his/her words are sweet and charming his mind is edgy and dark.

Mysterion- dark on the outside and on the inside. He dosen't try to hide his threatening presence. Heck, he thrives on getting taken seriously for once. Sure,there are a few cracks of kenny here and there, (when he makes jokes or when he feels appreciated) but mysterion is kenny’s way of understanding himself. Letting himself be at its purest. No hiding his true thoughts, no hiding his deaths. When I write mysterion I keep his inner and outer dialog as edge lordy as possible.

Now this isn't just a 'oh! This is a superhero fanfic so I'll make kenny act a bit more dark' guideline. No. This is a kenny personality spectrum. He dosent need to be mysterion to act like mysterion or wear a dress to act like princess kenny, all he needs is the right situation to show one of his arcs. So for exemple if I wanna write a story where it's a revenge plot I'd use princess kenny, if it's a story where kenny is helping around town (mabye there is a case needing solving? Or he is playing bodyguard to keep someone he loves safe) I'd use mysterion arc or If I'm writing a story that just explores Kenny's life and how he copes with death, I'd use a kenny arc. Since it is a spectrum there also can be a mix of those arcs/ a toned down vers of those arcs. It's just a way to have to character fit the plot as much as the plot fits the character.

Another character I do this a lot with too is butters and I actually cut butters arcs in 4-

Early seasons butters- this is the Butters that people will often call 'too soft' or ooc simply bc they mistake LSB with this one. This butters is meek, nervous, nice- he still stands up for himself but it's not an outburst but rather a scolding. He has a harder time understanding he is getting manipulated therefore he ends up always being the victim of others action. When using this arc I personally and as I see with a lot of other people it's mostly just as a default before butters goes through his character arc and becomes more confident. Shortly it's used to explore butters boundaries until he breaks out of the coocun.

Later seasons butters- this butters is more confident, more prone to chaos and outbursts. He is still nice and has morals that he hold on to a lot but those morals are a tiny bit shaky bc of cartmans influence. He can sense earlier on when he is being manipulated but he is still naive. He won't turn the other cheek when you slap him but rather slap you 100× harder. Generally more protective of himself but still extreamly kind and compassionate. The other respect him more too- so it's his 'end arc', his butterfly. I use this butters arc when writing stories where there dosent need to be character arc focused and butters is an adult.

Victor chaos- now this butters dosent have morals. He has become from manipulated to manipulator. He is insane and selfish. An agent of chaos with a clean and charming front. More self-conscious when it's comes to people he knows aren't safe to be around but still naive enough to get manipulated. I use this arc in stories where I need butters to have more control.

Chaos- not that different from Victor but what's different with him is that he knowingly inflicts pain on others. Aside from that he is a more toned down vers of Victor.

Idk if this is just a weird way of characterization but it's my way and it makes the story in my eyes 100% funner to write and plot.

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I love the South Park fandom WAYYY more than I like the actual show. There's just a certain feeling to it that I can't put my finger on, but I love it. Keep doing what you're doing guys, textbook example of the fans being so much better than the source material

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Kenny's Heroism (part 2)

(part 1: parentification)

Control (or the lack of it)

Turning the running gag of Kenny's deaths into trauma that deeply affects him is perhaps one of the most genius things I have ever seen in any media, ever. (Don't quote me on that, I'm just a big fan of it.) It recontextualizes each time Kenny is violently torn into another death and turns it into something so much darker. Especially instances in which he's clearly fighting it and trying to escape it (episodes like Tweek vs. Craig, s3 ep5 & Super Fun Time, s12 ep7) or when you see that how his friends treat his deaths deeply upsets him (Kenny Dies, s5 ep13 & Cherokee Hair Tampons, s4 ep6). It also reframes Kenny's cheesing addiction in Major Boobage (s12 ep3)-- as well as ongoing mentions that Kenny likes to "sniff glue" (like in Best Friends Forever, s9 ep5) or always tries to get high in other ways-- as a means to escape his incredibly traumatic life.

What theme ties all of these instances together?

Control.

The theme of control as a driving force behind Kenny's actions first stuck out to me when playing From Dusk Til Casa Bonita (TFBW DLC, 2018). In this side story, Kenny is obsessively convinced he needs to save Karen from getting sucked into the Vamp kids' group, despite Karen's repeated insistence that these guys are her friends. But Kenny doesn't like these kids, and he isn't willing to hear Karen out about it. He isn't even willing to talk to Karen as Kenny about this; he just barges into the party as Mysterion (her "guardian angel") to ruin it and get his sister back. Although Kenny may believe so, he doesn't actually have Karen's best interest at heart, at least not in the most productive way. By the end of the DLC's story, Henrietta introduces Karen into the "goth ways"; offering her a cigarette to smoke, and Kenny stands by and seems to have no problem with it. It's likely that Kenny himself simply doesn't know better, but also that he doesn't mind her indulging in bad things like smoking so long as she does it under his watchful eye.

So what's this really about?

Kenny loves Karen dearly, no question about it. But Kenny is an deeply messed up child; intensely parentified, left to his own devices far too much for a kid his age, not to mention continuously traumatized by his repeated violent deaths. Every aspect about Kenny's life screams a lack of control; lack of guidance; lack of a present parental figure to help him through any and all of the emotional and physical turmoil he's experienced. He gets thrown around by life and death so much, with seemingly no way to find footing and take control.

It only makes sense that Kenny obsessively wants for Karen's life to feel different to her.

Kenny knows that he isn't making Karen happy by ruining her night out with friends. But he also knows that he himself has gotten tangled up in a bunch of situations in his own life where he probably wishes his parents (or any adult for that matter) had stepped in and held him back, guided him a little more, instead of him having to figure out what's good and bad for him all by himself.

Kenny doesn't pretend to be able to control anything around him; for that he is far too apathetic, much more resigned to his life rather than proactive in making a change in it (like at the end of C**n vs. C**n & Friends, s14 ep13). However; when he sees something, or someone that he deeply cares about in a situation where Kenny could even exercise a tiny bit of control over, Kenny goes ridiculous lengths to take the chance.

Example A for this is the DLC. Example B: the Post Covid duology (2021).

The episodes The Scoots (s22 ep5) and the South ParQ Vaccination Special (s24 ep2) showcase another instance of loss of control for Kenny. This time, however, it's not about his deaths or within his family. It's within his friend group-- or chosen family, even.

In The Scoots, Stan, Kyle and Cartman decide behind his back that Kenny won't be going trick or treating with them, without consulting him or even giving him a chance to help come up with an alternative plan that works for everyone. Why? Because Kenny doesn't have the money for a phone to rent a scooter; another factor that is completely outside of his control. And following this up; in the Vaccination Special the three of them decide to break up the friend group without even letting him in on the conversation, treating him like their child for whom they make decisions, rather than their friend who deserves to have his input heard. The events of this special kickstart Kenny's motive in the Post Covid duology (2021) to build a time machine and change the past, consequently saving the entire future from a horribly dystopian reality.

Remember when I said Kenny will go ridiculous lengths to do whatever he can in a situation where he believes he has even an ounce of control?

So. Kenny's heroism. Is it based on high morals and/or empathy?

Maybe in part. Kenny is definitely an empathetic person (as seen in this little scene in Going Native (s16 ep11), how he cares about McNuggets in Cock Magic (s18 ep8), the reason he leaves Cartman his PSP in Best Friends Forever (s9 ep4)), but he can also be fairly apathetic and self-serving (Cartman Joins NAMBLA (s4 ep5), Good Times With Weapons (s8 ep1), The Tale Of Scrotie McBoogerballs (s14 ep2), Dikinbaus (s26 ep6), and others). I wouldn't put empathy as his main driving force behind his actions and decisions.

Does Kenny have high morals? Perhaps higher than Cartman (the bar being in hell), but he often does seem inclined to just follow along whatever Cartman's scheme is, no matter how objectively questionable (South Park is Gay (s7 ep8), The Tale Of Scrotie McBoogerballs (s14 ep2), The Magic Bush (s18 ep5), South ParQ Vaccination Special (s24 ep2), Dikinbaus (s26 ep6), possibly others). He at least seems more often inclined to do so willingly than Kyle or Stan, and even Butters who mostly tags along because Cartman manipulated or scared him into it. It should come as no surprise that Kenny doesn't have rock-hard morals like Kyle does, given that there's not a lot of highly moral things his parents might've brought him up with (meth lab in the garage, early exposure to plenty of sexual content, constant physical fights in the house, etc). The most devoted to a cause I've ever seen Kenny (for reasons other than empathy) is in the Unfulfilled & Bike Parade episodes (s22 ep9-10), where he shows class consciousness and decides to boycott amazon alongside his dad.

I guess the conclusion here is that Kenny is more driven by empathy rather than a strict moral code. However, we do have to consider that Kenny is a child and that there shouldn't be too high expectations/standards when it comes to moral code. Even so, Kenny has proven over and over again to be willing to sacrifice himself for the good of others (see list below).

So what drives Kenny's heroism?

Most of all it's his overwhelming sense of responsibility over offering others his help where it could be needed. This is most likely a result of lifelong parentification so much that it's become a compulsion or second nature to help. It's ALSO that he might want to exercise control over people's lives in some way to make up for what he never got; he wants to have a positive impact on other people's lives where he would've needed it himself all throughout his own life.

(Shameless plug: You can see all these themes reflected in my fic Chaos Plan if you're interested in checking it out.)

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Episodes/Instances showcasing Kenny's heroism:

Cartman's Mom is A Dirty Slut (s1 ep13) -> electrocutes himself to bring power back to the hospital

Rainforest Shmainforest (s3 ep1) -> jumps in front of Kelly to protect her from gunshots

Jewbilee (s3 ep9) -> hits the shell Moses was trapped in with his head to break it and dies to save all the Jews

Bigger Longer and Uncut (1999) -> sacrificed his chance to come back to life in order to save thousands of other lives

Best Friends Forever (s9 ep5) -> is cast to save Heaven from an attack from Hell

The C**n (s13 ep2) -> the entire concept of the hero Mysterion

C**n vs. C**n & Friends (s14 ep13) -> 1: uses Mysterion to make a better life for himself and his siblings, 2: demands Cthulu take his life to free his friends

The Black Friday trilogy (s17 ep7-9) -> becomes the key to the PS4's success in the console wars

The Post Covid Duology (2021) -> creates a time machine not only to save his friends' broship but also positively changes the trajectory of the entire future

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Kenny's Heroism

Upon @kennys-parka-jacket's request and in relation to this post I'm gonna take a little look at Kenny's heroic tendencies, which there is a LOT to unpack about.

First and foremost: The post this question is referring to is by no means a universally applicable concept. I didn't intend for it to be so that people can be measured on a scale from empathy to high moral compass, nor that the two are mutually exclusive. It's just a difference I noticed in how Kyle and Stan make their decisions when it comes to helping people, but I don't think this concept is properly applicable to Kenny. Regardless; I will attempt a categorization anyways.

The two factors that I see driving Kenny's heroism most are:

Parentification

Control (or rather the lack of it)

Let's start with the first one.

Parentification

I'm writing this post under the deducted presumption that Kenny's (instrumental & emotional) parentification is canon. Canon instances I see this most reflected in are:

Cartman Joins NAMBLA (s4 ep5)

Mysterion Rises (s14 ep12)

The Poor Kid (s15 ep14)

Going Native (s16 ep11)

The City Part of Town (s19 ep3)

From Dusk Til Casa Bonita (The Fractured But Whole DLC, 2018)

Allow me to elaborate on the first one; Cartman Joins NAMBLA (s4 ep5). There's two ways to read this episode, one being that Kenny is simply jealous and doesn't want to share his things, room or parents' attention with a new sibling. Fair enough, he's an 8 year old boy. The other interpretation is that Kenny is aware of how difficult life would be for this new kid, considering how neglectful his parents are and how limited their resources are to properly care for another child. This latter interpretation is probably not the intended one, but the reason I'm mentioning it are all of the other episodes on that list and how they recontextualized Kenny's behavior in this older episode. Feel free to reject this as an argument, but all the other episodes point more glaringly towards clear evidence for parentification.

In Mysterion Rises (s14 ep12) we have Kenny taking on a clear role-reversal (classic characteristic for parentification) in that he scolds his parents into consuming less weed, not beating each other up (taking on a mediator role) and treating their kids better. In The Poor Kid (s15 ep14) when their parents are taken to jail, Kenny takes on a mentor/caretaker role for Karen specifically via Mysterion.

When Kenny shows up to console her the first night at the foster home, she says this:

"I was wondering when you'd appear. You always come when I'm sad."

In the police car, Karen immediately grabs on to Kenny's hand, and holds on to his arm or hand in some of the scenes following up (in the Soft Room, in their new school). In the "punishment room" she turns to Kenny to ask what they're going to do. All these instances indicate that Kenny taking on this role for Karen isn't anything new, and more notably: It isn't Kevin, the actual eldest sibling of the three, that she turns to. It's Kenny.

All of these are clear signs of emotional parentification (referring to children/youth tending to the emotional needs of family members, be it siblings or parents, as well as promoting harmony amongst the family members). However, The City Part of Town (s19 ep3) shows Kenny stepping up financially for his family as well, getting a job at a far too young age. He ends up using the money to get Karen a doll, but it isn't unthinkable that he might pursue this behavior to support his family in other ways in the future as well. This type of parentification is referred to as instrumental parentification.

How does this reflect in Kenny's behavior outside of his family?

Granted, we haven't seen much. But one particular instance strikes me as interesting: The episode Going Native (s16 ep11).

We haven't seen Kenny and Butters truly interact in any episode prior to this one, much less positively. Plus, when Kyle says "Kenny, you're clearly his best friend, go stop him" Kenny refutes this by saying "I'm not his best friend." Considering all this, assuming that Kenny goes to help Butters because he genuinely likes him would be a stretch. Kenny just sighs and resigns himself to the responsibility of saving Butters, solely based on the fact that "no one else can do it but him." This dynamic changes a little over the course of the episode when Kenny starts genuinely feeling sympathetic for him, but that isn't relevant to this topic.

Why is this relevant to understand Kenny's heroism?

Simple: Mysterion was introduced in The C**n (s13 ep2) as a hero who protects "the innocents" of the city, a job neither Cartman nor the police were doing well. But in Mysterion Rises (s14 ep12) and The Poor Kid (s15 ep14) it is revealed that Mysterion is so much more than that. Also: In all these episodes, Kenny takes on a role that isn't his to carry out, and yet he does it because he feels exactly like that: "no one else can do it but him."

The episodes Mysterion Rises and C**n vs. C**n & Friends (s14 ep13) reveal that amongst all his friends, Kenny is the only one who has a real power (apart from Bradley but whatever), and he instrumentalizes this power in several instances of these episodes to take on a savior role. It's tragically true; no one else could do it like him. No one else can die and come back effectively. So he does it, even though he hates it.

"It's not pretty cool, Kyle, it fucking hurts." (Kenny in C**n vs. C**n & Friends, s14 ep13)

don't mind me i just fucking love this scene the dialogue is insane the execution is flawless it gives me the fucking chills. Heroic Kenny I love you

In The C**n, at the beginnings of his existence, Mysterion could have been anyone. But the little guy who ended up stepping up to fight crime in South Park was none other than Kenny. Kyle, who has a high sense of responsibility and moral compass didn't take up this role. Stan, who has high empathy, didn't either. Apart from Kenny having his curse to aid him (Cartman didn't have these powers either)-- Why is that? It might very well be because neither of them were parentified like Kenny was. Even though they theoretically could do something about the crime of the town like Kenny does, they don't. They recognize it isn't their job and it's too dangerous to do it anyway. Neither of them have developed a fucked up savior complex like Kenny has, in that he feels like whenever there is someone that needs help it's always his responsibility to step up.

Moving on to my next point.

(part 2: Control, or the lack of it)

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Episodes/Instances showcasing Kenny's heroism:

Cartman's Mom is A Dirty Slut (s1 ep13) -> electrocutes himself to bring power back to the hospital

Rainforest Shmainforest (s3 ep1) -> jumps in front of Kelly to protect her from gunshots

Jewbilee (s3 ep9) -> hits the shell Moses was trapped in with his head to break it and dies to save all the Jews

Bigger Longer and Uncut (1999) -> sacrificed his chance to come back to life in order to save thousands of other lives

Best Friends Forever (s9 ep5) -> is cast to save Heaven from an attack from Hell

The C**n (s13 ep2) -> the entire concept of the hero Mysterion

C**n vs. C**n & Friends (s14 ep13) -> 1: uses Mysterion to make a better life for himself and his siblings, 2: demands Cthulu take his life to free his friends

The Black Friday trilogy (s17 ep7-9) -> becomes the key to the PS4's success in the console wars

The Post Covid Duology (2021) -> creates a time machine not only to save his friends' broship but also positively changes the trajectory of the entire future

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P2

So that Dream I had, I decided to make it an AU. Might flesh it out at some point...

But idk

Alt. Versions

Possible names for this au: Kevin remembers au, Kevin's Bad "dream" au