#I love complex characters :)

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

creators: “so rose will be soft and pink with a button nose, stars in her eyes, cute chubby cheeks, & the most precious (often confused) facial expressions. she will be filled with childlike wonder and a desire to heal others. she will spend her days playing with Lion Friends. she will be loved for 6,000 years by this badass swordfighter who thinks everything about rose is precious and her main soft spot is her fear of not being able to protect her.”

also creators: “but she’s SAD. like really sad. she has a dark past & no one knows how much they mean to her & she doesn’t know how much she means to THEM because she like, hates herself. lots of people won’t understand her so they’ll hate her, too. she’s also dead before the show starts. alright let’s get started—”

[mapoeggplant]

ririka: how the world turned against a child only to create a villainess

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before we continue, i would like to remember you all that this thread will talk about subjects like underage drinking, cyberbullying and child abuse. if you're sensitive to one of those topics, please don't keep on reading this analyze.

tall, gorgeous and with a career that would leave any teenage girl jealous, ririka is the one everyone envies, the one everyone wants to be. even with a turbulent past, she managed to turn everything around and capture everything she had lost just to be on the spotlight again.

everyone who stumbled upon her story would be surprised to know how full of resilience and strength she is to surpass all the rumors that people created about her and the prejudice. so why would said girl be seen as a villain when all she ever did wasn't in fact proven at all?

ririka is a character that rips the scene with fierce and presence since day one. her arrival at school caused a turbulence on a peaceful moment, opening a can of worms of what was hidden between the lines of a boy that the whole school considered to be perfect.

however, up to this day, all we can do as readers is to speculate, same as the ones who broke her career in the first place. all we have from her is an image of an unbalanced girl who looks down on everyone just to build herself up. but what is she silently trying to tell us?

from the crumbs that were given to us, what we know about ririka's past is that she was shima's cast partner and childhood friend, who grew up under the same circumstances as him. and that, one day, she was caught up in the claws of a scandal, assuming that she was drinking while underage and partying. but, if we pay attention to what she's saying, we can see a common denominator in all of this, a boy who she once thought was her friend: shima, with the same age as her, was at the same place with the same people, but she was the one to get caught in the eye of the storm. why so?

we can speculate a lot of different reasons, like shima had a better pr team than her or that he was also under fire but, since he gave up on his acting career, his evolvement in the story mattered nothing to the public. however, denying the sexist society that we all live in is to deny the trauma that ririka went through. we all know why she was the one to be at the cover of every single newspaper ever, knowing the full picture or not: she's had the audacity to be born a girl.

a girl, who had it all, who could conquer the world, was leaving it all behind just so she could enjoy the "wrong" side of life. but...was she? from what we can gather, neither her nor shima were part of it all, but little does that matter for tabloids and for people who wanted to see ririka fail. so the damage had been done: she, who once was a rising star lost everything for a rumor. can you imagine what it meant for a little girl to be seen as a monster, when she couldn't comprehend what was happening in the first place? why was she the villainess when all she ever wanted was to be by her friend's side? and what about this said friend...where is he in the overall picture?

from what we know by ririka's side of the story, shima wasn't there when she needed him, being due to his mother's influence, due to pr or anything related to that. what it matters is that she saw herself alone when she needed the most. that can be confirmed based on shima's guilt and reaction on all of the trauma that was left on her shoulders: when he asks for her forgiveness and do anything she ever asks him to just to seek for a form of redemption, we can guess that he had a bigger influence on ririka being at that party than it was revealed for us. yet, I won't be here trauma dumping everything on shima's shoulders — after all, he was a child himself and couldn't know better.

both were caught by the circumstances thanks to naivety, but the world won't ever forgive a girl for making a mistake. and that's what ririka have been dealing with since day one. now, distancing ourselves from her career, I want to talk about her relationship with shima. ririka has a strong need and codependency on shima. maybe because he's what is left from her past, maybe it's because he was her first friend, maybe it's because she wants him to feel guilty — anything is reasonable in these circumstances.

however, I don't think ririka meant bad or that she hates shima in any way. in fact, what I think is happening inside her, is that she can't really dissolve or understand how she feels exactly about her relationship with shima and his influence on her drama. she know his mother is the one responsible for all that shima went through (and she's the only one who's brave enough to say it) and she knows all the scars that acting left on him. deep down, ririka knows that shima is as hurt as she is, but in different levels and places.

she's not trying to compete or to traumatize him back — she's just trying to find her place in all of that. she doesn't hate shima or wants to see him break, she just thinks that being harsh on his is the only way she can keep him on her life. by making himself feel guilty, ririka is fooling herself thinking that that's the only way he will care for her. her trauma makes her blind for affection and for the true meaning of her forgiveness, making it hard on herself to understand where shima lays on her life and her heart.

is she happy that he's sad or she's heartbroken to see her childhood friend suffering? is she mad that he's living the normal life she ever wanted to live or she just feels lonely that she has to deal with all of this alone? is she bearing her trauma up to now, trying so hard to prove she's not what the tabloids said or she does in fact love her life as a model/actress? why she was the one to deal with all of these while shima is the one to enjoy his normal life as a normal teenager? why does the world hate her so much?

ririka is a complex character that bears the guilt and the trauma that billions of female child actress have to endure — she's the perfect villainess that the world want to gossip about. she isn't bad or cold, she's just someone who never had a chance to heal because she had to prove herself constantly to the ones who hurt her the most. for now, all I can wish for her is that she can heal and the she has the chance to tell her side of the story, now that she finally has someone that will listen to her.

thank you so much for reading it!!! i hope you guys liked my analyze on ririka! 💛 you can also find the thread of this analyze on twitter

[asexualsoup]

Thoughts on Queen Mira's writing/characterization:

Thank you, @adriennezzz, for letting me share these 💜

[wethegingersnaps]

sparrow telling normal that he didn’t get a normal childhood and like obviously that’s true, but also he and his twin brother CHOSE to sacrifice people two days in??? and were immediately down to summon an eldritch demon god??? my brother in christ, you were like that already!!

[eros-ghoulette]

Me when- when a character is complex- and when when a backstory and complex and when- when- and when they are just broken and need help and when- ahhhhh

[scatterbrainedart]

Just watched ep 1 and I forgot how much I've missed Izzy <333

[house-strong]

I agree but with me it’s the opposite and with daemon and aemond (I don’t really pay attention to Alicent). I love them both so much but when people want to defend them (especially Daemon) to the point where they can’t even be considered morally grey anymore, it’s so frustrating like what’s wrong with liking characters as they are.

i agree with this too!! i think sometimes people get blindsided by certain actions,, especially with aemond and daemon – i find it really hard to agree with people who say they’re all good or all bad because of something they did.

i think it’s important to understand that it’s ok to like characters who do bad things! it doesn’t make you a bad person because it’s all fictional

but all together, they’re beautifully well written and i love how their story’s unfolded

[monachopsis-pluviophile]

I think there's actually something really profound in Donna's 'missing everything' gag. Like, yes, it's objectively funny that this woman has somehow missed every alien invasion in the entirety of her time on Earth.

But there's more to it than that. She's the most compassionate companion, the most down to Earth as the saying goes. She sees things that others don't. Like the missing sick records, the way others are treated, Martha's ring. Sees the inside of the Tardis before she sees the outside. And perhaps most importantly, she doesn't see The Time Lord - that big otherworldly figure. She just sees the Doctor. Sees his need for true companionship, his need for guidance, his need for someone to carry a burden he is being crushed under.

She misses the big things, yes, but in exchange she is so wholly, beautifully immersed in the small things no one else sees.

[nyamafriend]

none of you are talking abt whiskey which truthfully is such a damn shame. she was introduced and i thought she was just supposed to be the dumb blonde girlfriend - arm candy. but then she ran into helen and we immediately see how badly she wants to do more, but she feels trapped to go along with what duke does in order to build her future. shes also the only person to look at helen, who she believes is andi, and say thats shes sorry, that she was fucked over and didnt deserve what happened. dont look at me and say this character wasnt fucking fantastic

[assiraphales]

seen some ppl say they hate the ghoul because he’s a bad person. alternatively I love the ghoul because he’s a bad person. he shot a guys foot off so he couldn’t run away. he killed a dog then brought it back to life bc it was useful. he used a living person as bait for a giant lake monster. he eats human flesh. he’ll kill anyone or anything that gets in his way (or for money). he’s one of the worst things the wasteland has created and actively makes the most morally bankrupt decisions. he USED to be a good person, and he suffered a great loss, and he might make better decisions later on, but it doesn’t change the fact that while some ghouls turn feral against their will he actively chooses everyday to be a monster. and I love that for him!!!!!!

[andy-deer]

I didnt even cover half of what i think of my oc in that one post

[egophiliac]

redesigning my headcanon for Sebek's parents, based on important new information (SCALES)

(you can't see it but they're both wearing crocs)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bros before Ho(oh my god is that Hanguang-Jun?)

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[macbethz]

“Is doctor who a good or bad person” theyre the kind of person to fly in a little blue box and go weeeeee

[graysonnightwing]

i need you guys to fall in love with female characters the same way you do male characters i need you guys to fall in love with female characters the same way you do male characters i need you guys to fall in love with female characters the same way you do male characters i need you guys to fall in love with female characters the same way you do male characters i need you guys to fall in love with female characters the same way you do male characters i need you guys to fall in love with female characters the same way you do male characters

[sebille]

Oh the little change in his expression