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Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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A for fun gem drawing

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My exams are killing me

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We all know Aventurine is the favourite child…

Meanwhile Topaz 💀💀💀

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90% of gamblers quit right before they win big

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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despite everything, it's still you

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and as i struggle to maintain my position the oil's dried from this heart of rusted tin and i wonder if i'll survive this without you

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/62968051

title: mirrors and what we choose to see

warning(s): emotional hurt/comfort, panic attacks, past creepy behavior

chapter(s): 1/1

relationship(s): scar/grian | hotguy/ariana griande

summary:

She would’ve caught the way Hotguy’s eyes dart between her and the floor, rubbing his fingers together. She doesn’t see any of it, only able to hear the result. “Did I do something to make you hate me?” Her breath stills at the question, at how quiet and oddly small Hotguy’s voice sounds. It shakes slightly with anxiety or apprehension, she’s never heard him like this. And it’s something she doesn’t ever want to hear from him, either. Grian’s hands freeze in place, the length of white bandages hanging limply from her grip. “…what?” Hotguy coughs as the room grows stuffy, tight with nervousness and uncertainty. “It’s just… I’ve noticed that you don’t seem to like being around me much. And after all the times you spilt something on me or ran away—” Grian cringes “—well, I figured I must’ve done something, right? I’m sorry, for whatever it was.”

Or, four (4) times Griande was proven wrong about Hotguy's character and the one (1) time Hotguy was proven right about hers.

read on ao3 here!

REBLOGS DO MORE THAN LIKES!

NEW BODYGUARD FIC YIPPEEEEE :D I've been looking forward to this one for a while ueueueue. honestly this is just 13k of scarian hurt/comfort (sorry grian 😭) grian's finally leaving her hater arc <333

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Today hasn't been very good. Reblog to cover prev in blankets and tell them everything is going to be okay and they're loved.

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Everyone be extra nice to Skizz, please

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mm..i miss my son...

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fragile masks au — master post!

grian moon is a popular singer known as ariana griande to the public. due to events involving her previous bodyguard, her managers (mumbo and impulse) are on the lookout to hire someone new. after being saved from an accident on stage by the city's beloved superhero, hotguy, grian finds herself stuck with a new obnoxious bodyguard... who just so happens to have a crush on her.

scar goodtimes is a well loved actor who had a rapid rise to fame after he got his first major role in a movie. however, after a life altering accident, he found himself with highly enhanced abilities that would pave the way for hotguy to take the world by storm. when he gets the chance to be ariana griande's bodyguard, he leaps at the opportunity. she just... doesn't seem to like him very much.

(note: hermitshipping is involved (obviously), as well as nsfw content, so if that’s not your thing, this au isn’t for you)

warning(s) for the au: nsfw, past abuse, medical trauma, ptsd, violence *this list will be updated as the au goes on

- main tag: #fragile masks au

- official playlist can be found here

fics.

that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet - scarian focused, main storyline

arts.

tba.

lore asks.

how did flower husbands & gempearl meet / pre-canon meeting / family reactions to their relationship / grian and scar difficult days / scar's trauma /

misc.

lore dump: one ; two / post patrol cuddles / sad scar hours / cuddles / grian writing a song for scar / hotguy after a rough patrol /

more will be added as the au develops!

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why watch an 11 minute video of a minecraft youtuber refusing to take responsibility for his actions when you can loop sabrina carpenter for 11 minutes instead 🥰

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Genshincraft: Grian

Our next Genshincraft member is Grian himself, and this one comes with something even I wouldn't have expected - art!

The WONDERFUL @wormtime123 has gifted me not just the splash art for the Wish you see below, but a series of related images to the concept work in this post here.

Grian is an Anemo Polearm user, most likely in the On-Field and DPS roles, hailing from Mondstadt.

Specifics and thought process following under the cut.

Element and Weapon: Grian being Anemo was a no-brainer, even without the birdlike associations he's gained over time - being a Free Spirit of Mischief in the face of anything and everything is so thoroughly Grian. As for the Polearm, I figured Grian would enjoy a really fast-moving weapon, and the ability to do a bunch of flipping around in between them. Since I gave him talons as well, the quicker attacks allow for an easier flow into an attack with them before back to the weapon itself.

Region and Affiliations: Grian was one of my earliest creations for Genshincraft, and so the patterns of reasonings are a little different. I found there was a bit of a gap in Mondstadt having unique 'subspecies', the way there are the illuminated beasts in Liyue and such in later-released regions, and so I borrowed from bits of the history to establish the Raptorans as a species of birdlike beings originally from the area now known as Stormterror's Lair. Obviously, there aren't bird people everywhere, so they had become wiped out and obscure enough that the only ones remaining established the Remnants as a way to hold themselves together. No longer fully flighted, but still 'of the skies', as it were. Grian and Pearl are both Raptorans, to me, and probably the only ones of the Remnants that normal people would ever meet, as the others are still in hiding (and might be the ones somewhat containing the barrier at the Lair in an attempt to hold back the ancient wrath and all). Grian, obviously, wouldn't be held down by this, and I can see him joining the Adventurer's Guild as a vessel by which to explore more of Teyvat for himself. And get up to shenanigans. I think he'd like Bennett, too.

Constellation: I knew for a fact that his constellation would be bird-themed, and I found that Accipiter (Hawk) seemed a fitting choice of those not already claimed. There's a lot of bird constellations, but Hawk is a nice bird of prey, as well as a more common one than some of the more esoteric options. Also I've met trained hawks at Renaissance Faires and I think they're really cool. The pattern of stars would probably cover the wings, as well as one of the talons - classic bird constellation things.

Special Dish and Event Wish: Mondstadt has a narrow selection of dishes not already claimed by existing people, but when I saw that the mushroom-based ATK boosting dish wasn't claimed, it was an easy choice for Grian. Mycelial Snacktime is a reference to Grian's part in the Mycelium Resistance of the Turf War in season 7, and I imagine it having taken on that purply color of minecraft mycelium somehow. Grian's Event Wish is technically shared with Scar, again as the first one I did when I didn't actually understand how the event wishes worked (I thought they were pairs). Duel in the Desert is, of course, a reference to the end of Third Life, though I imagine it in-universe being a meeting between this Mondstadt traveler and the Fontainian merchant somewhere in the great desert of Sumeru.

Ascension and Talent Materials: The Cecilia flower in Genshin is noted as "just as intangible as the true heart of an unbound soul", and only grows in places with harsh winds. Although it doesn't actually grow around Stormterror's Lair itself, it feels appropriate enough for Grian - the most unbound of souls there is. Flower Nectar is not particularly significant, it just was less common, especially when I was first making characters, and I liked leaning into 'gaps' I saw. The Anemo Hypostasis and its Hurricane Seed are the local Mondstadtian Anemo option, and Grian can deal enough non-elemental damage to still fight it effectively. Plus the seed is described as 'waiting for the day to conjure up storms once again', which could be seen as Grian's itch to lean into fun conflicts as the 'storm'. Resistance for the Talent book was another no-brainer. The Mycelium Resistance, anyone? Even in the Permit Office, Grian is resisting the organization he himself is running by making it inefficient. Thematically it makes sense to keep his weekly boss as Stormterror, and of the options, Dvalin’s Plume felt most appropriate. Especially with the Raptoran wing history behind Grian, a dragon's feather is a nice piece to integrate.

Elemental Skill: Grian himself could be described this way, so it's only fitting that a taunting Pesky Bird would be his skill. Leaning into pranks and such, as well as mimicking a few other exploding taunt skills. I know I say it a lot, but this was early on, so I was still more like to closer copy something from the base game as reference, while slowly understanding more of the systems myself.

Elemental Burst: As I was building Grian around being a DPS, I wanted to give him a nice big-damage Burst, and Hunter’s Wings felt like a fitting solution, both thematically and mechanically. Wide area of Anemo effect that could come out very quickly. I'd considered something Poultry Man-ified, but I'm happy I went for something a little more. Serious. Grian's a comedian and a jokester, but he IS also quite skilled in combat, especially aerial.

Talents and Constellation Upgrades: Commit to the Bit was my way of giving Pesky Bird the usual Anemo infusion, and. Grian loves to make a bit and then commit to it too hard. Most Hermits do, in fact. Though Grian....thinks about the fishing I was really excited about the idea of Grian using his talons in a kind of kick attack during his sequence, and Trickster’s Talons leans into that, encouraging actually using him to get that extra CRIT. One of the Grian TCG types is the Prankster, and I thought Trickster was close enough, and had the nice alliteration. A Memory of Flight is the Utility, referencing the history of the Raptorans (I really leaned into the Raptoran thing okay) as flighted, and I wanted to give a unique effect to gliding. More precise control of the glider isn't an option in the game as of yet, and there's times I would've found it helpful, so now it's here - and the DMG bonus to Plunging attacks is to encourage getting the drop on foes. The Normal Attack of Pre-Emptive Self Defense is. I can't remember if that's an actual Grian quote, or something I've just attributed to him so thoroughly. But you can hear him calling a prank that. If he's gotta fight, he's gonna claim it was Self Defense....just ahead of time xD

Swift Recovery leans into Grian's ability to bounce back from just about anything, and lets those wings come out more often. Office Closure is of course a reference to the Permit Office, and the idea that as long as Grian's in control and can set the pace, he can really deal a lot of damage. Please hold. Pesky Bird and Look, A Distraction! are just a perfect fit. Intimately Grian. It'd work on some people, too. Once again, I can't recall if “Just Don’t Look at the Back!” is an actual quote or not, but considering the running jokes about the back of Grian's builds, it felt fitting. Civil War is a reference to Season 6, Grian's first season on the Hermitcraft server, where he really was a driving force behind the big Civil War event. And it worked, so like. Yippee! And What Doing? is named after Grian's favorite game, going around and just poking his nose into other people's business - so it's a cooperative party perk that can provide some nice synergy.

Other Thoughts: Honestly, the process for Grian is so interesting to look back on now that the project is done - I've changed a good few things about how I made the characters since then. I wouldn't change any of it, though; the journey is the point, and he's still a very effective character in my eyes.

I've also designed a custom weapon for Grian! (And...will for all of them EVENTUALLY) Thanks to Worm designed the aesthetics of one, I had to give it a go, and it was fun to learn about. The Raptoran’s Razor fits very well with Grian's fighting style, essentially allowing him to keep fighting a lot longer. Combined with the damage upgrade from Office Closure, and it can really make him a one-man army.