#character dynamic

[cataclysmcrows]

collection of a specific dynamic that gets me every time

[babischlong-six]

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[cornkernelcorp]

I love dynamics where one character is relentlessly clueless and the other guy is like god I hate them so much.. I cant stop thinking about them, I have nightmares of them every night, and every waking moment next to them puts me into panic mode. I have to kill them.

[redd956]

List of Platonic/Non-Romantic Character Dynamics (Two Characters Edition)

Technically every character dynamic can be a platonic one if you're brave enough (and most a romantic one too, I mean whose gonna stop you)

Ancient Ghost & Living Human Stuck With Them

Aroaces Unfamiliar With Allo Life

Begrudging Friends

Best Friends

Body Guard & The Guarded

Child & Monster

Child & Robot

Commander & Underling

Comrades (In the military way, not the Russian way)

Da Boys

Girl's Girl

Enemies to Buddies

Enemy Siblings

Exes to Friends

Fellow Immortals

Fellow Outcasts

Fellow Outlaws

Fellow Nonhumans

Final Girl & Immortal Killer

Found Family Parents

Forever Indebted To Each Other

Forever Indebted (One-sided Edition)

Hero & Sidekick

Hero & Superhero

Hired Arms & Guy With Money

Mad Scientist & Their Equally Mad Clones

Mentor & Mentee

Might as Well as Be Cousins

Monster & Monster Hunter

Noble & Retainer

No Nonsense & All the Nonsense

Nosy Neighbors

"Imaginary" Friend

Impossible Friends

Inseparable Siblings

One-sided Pals

One-sided Rivals

Opposing Mercenaries Hired Together

Parental Figure & Child Figure

Partners In Crime

Patron & Deal Maker

Person & Their Dog (Boy and his dog)

Rescuer & Rescuee

Rekindling Family Members

Rival Secret Agents

Rivals to More Intense Rivals

Rivals to True Enemies

Roommates

Sibling-like

Scientist & Subject Allowing Themselves To Be Studied

Therapist & Client

Villain & Henchman

Villain & Supervillain

We Wouldn't Be Friends In Any Other Circumstance

Youngin' & Elder

[just-a-few-prompts]

“Please. Stay with me.”

A turned to spit out a snide remark, but they bit their tongue when they saw B’s eyes glistening with tears.

“…. Please,” B repeated softly. “I’m scared.”

[thestellargoblin]

"I don't wanna lose anyone more" person + "I don't wanna leave anyone more" person + "bitches, you would literally have to sell your soul to satan to get rid of me" person. They are all dating

[rottentiger-art]

made this with an specific show in mind, but it's a dynamic I've seen around, and I'm honestly a fan.

Every group has that sunshine character that's too forgiving for their own good lol

[cameronthecryptid]

Oh. You’re the brooding, grumpy, loner, and or all male character in a series? That’s nice. Where’s that weird little girl that you accidentally adopted?

[girl4music]

TARA: "Buffy, I promise there's nothing wrong with you."

BUFFY: "There has to be. This can't be me. It isn't me."

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TARA: "It's not that simple."

BUFFY: "It is. It's wrong. I'm wrong. Tell me that I'm wrong, please."

Buffy and Tara have a short but very significant dynamic. I've talked about it before when writing about Tara's use and representation in each individual dream in 'Restless'. That for Buffy Tara is a means of identifying and communicating with the deepest parts of herself. A narrative and thematic vehicle for understanding her identity and nature. The parts of herself that she doesn't love and doesn't have any appreciation for. The parts of herself that make her feel wrong and ashamed of herself. The parts of herself that she wants to escape from and hide away. 'BtVS' effectively uses the metaphor or allegory of being a supernatural being like a witch or a slayer or a werewolf or a vampire for being queer. For being an outsider. Cut off from others. Cut off from humanity. And they do it in such a way where you're not meant to believe it as such but to just acknowledge it and entertain the thought that the characters themselves think and feel this way about themselves because they're not really shown or told the contrary until they interact with each other and learn and grow together in solidarity in their experiences of being different from the norm. The writers are basically showing through characters like Buffy, Willow, Tara, Oz and Spike that the supernatural equates to queerness either in identity, sexuality, gender or just in general beingness. Just in being the person that you are. In being yourself.

There's added layers on to it when it comes to the dynamics between Buffy and Spike and Tara and Willow specifically in that it could also mean that they are actually evil in nature as well as queer but going down that route leads to controversial misinterpretations and I don't want to fall into that considering sometimes my words can get me into trouble and I end up insulting or offending a lot of people when I don't mean to. I personally think it's a compelling topical area to explore but I'm not writing this piece of writing today to explore it. Only in what it means regarding being and feeling queer in oneself and, for me, the dynamic Buffy and Tara have best represents that. I suppose for some people who haven't identified and accepted that they're queer, it can come across as feeling evil depending on their cultural background. Their family and home life in particular. And I think the episode 'Family' does a great deal for and in addressing this. Tara has, up to this point, spent her whole life being told by her biological relatives that she's evil or would turn evil. She's been gaslighted and psychologically conditioned to think, feel and believe that her identity and nature as who she is as a person naturally is wrong and is something that she should be ashamed about all because she can do magic. All because she can do things that normal people cannot do - and thus - she's not normal - she's not natural - she's not human. In some ways the demonization of being or feeling queer has a lot of significance and therefore merit in providing overwhelming narrative and thematic substance and depth for 'BtVS's clever take on characterization in a supernatural Universe.

When it comes to the episode 'Dead Things' Buffy is undergoing severe depression and is doing incredibly self-destructive things to feel something again. Something other than her deep despair at being pulled out of heaven by her friends - Tara included. She obviously doesn't like feeling the way she does when she does it but her justification for doing those self-destructive things is because she's come back to life wrong. When she goes to Tara to ask her to check out the spell that resurrected her and Tara comes back to her to tell her that she hasn't come back wrong - that she isn't wrong - she completely breaks down because now that means that she has no justification for doing what she's doing. For using Spike for sexual and emotional gratification, for neglecting her sister and letting her get injured by another one of her friends that's also fell off the wagon - so to speak - and is also involving herself in self-destructive relationships and behaviours with being addicted to magic and numbing herself to her experience, for not making an effort. All of this now is something that she has to question herself on. That if there's not something wrong with her mentally - why is she like this? Why is she doing this? She's just at a complete loss for logic, for reason, for understanding. It's a very effective and meaningful allegory for being queer and not understanding why. Especially because it's Tara she's crying into the lap of in that moment who is queer and can completely empathise with Buffy's experience of being attracted to somebody who she shouldn't be attracted to. And there is a line of dialogue that was removed from the final cut of the scene that explicitly compares Tara being a lesbian and having romantic/sexual feelings for girls to Buffy having feelings for Spike. She gets it because she's been there. She's felt that way too. May even still does even if she's fully out and fully accepted her sexuality. But she knows all too well what it's like to feel wrong for being queer.

Therefore there's a lot to glean about Buffy and Tara's dynamic and what it represents, what its significance is, despite being so short and non-detailed. You could even go as far as saying the metaphor or allegory isn't really one at all because Buffy is actually queer in both identity and sexuality. I mean the narrative hints at this being truth enough times in the show that you could definitely see it happening or becoming a possibility at some point in her character arc. And you know, with the whole Faith thing, it's not exactly well hidden either. Even though I don't ship them at all, Buffy and Faith definitely have something romantic/sexual there that all but makes the metaphor or allegory negated as far as sexuality goes. Identity is another story. And one of Buffy's core themes for her characterization is identity - which is why the Tara = witch/Buffy = slayer parallels work so well and why they so brilliantly convey the notion of queer/gay solidarity.

As for whether that makes them evil or means that they can be evil... that's a topic better left alone but I think it does present a compelling case study for a queer person's experience when they do not understand nor accept themselves for being as they naturally are, which I think is something that makes a lot of sense for the character arcs of Willow, Spike and Oz too in that they have trouble reconciling with their dark sides and that there's much of themselves that they suppress or repress so they don't have to feel like who they are is wrong or evil or a burden to the ones they love and that love them. And that they can be involved and fully connect with others healthily as opposed to destroying themselves and each other in the process like Buffy and Spike do so frequently in their S6 enemies-to-lovers dance of death, abuse and pain sorely mistaken for life, love and pleasure.

There's definitely a compelling case study for all of that to be unpacked and I probably will unpack it at some point once I can figure out how to articulate it so that it doesn't come off as offensive to the people who identify themselves to any of these characters because my intention is never to offend. Only to teach and enlighten. Okay, maybe I don't have the right or authority to do that but I write my meta for me just as much as I do for other people and so I certainly have the right and authority to teach and enlighten myself. And if I feel that I want to write about that topic at some point, I will. And I will do so through the fiction of art/entertainment and my favourite characters because that's the best way that I know how. If it comes across as offensive, all I can do is apologize for it but all I'm intentionally trying to do with doing it is expand my consciousness. I'm an INTP, a Virgo and Claircognizant - this is just how things work with me. I need to write to get a better understanding of who I am. My wording isn't the greatest, I know that. But I'm trying my best. So please - if you read what I write and you feel offended by it, reach out to me and I WILL explain to you that my heart is in the right place. That I just want to learn and understand and evolve. That's all it is.

[thedupshadove]

Character who has taught themself to make friends via Clowning™ meets character whose primary association with laughter is people mocking them. Tragedy ensues.

[headless-horsepossum]

fav character dynamic is like

character A: i wanna die for you so bad im foaming at the mouth to die for you pleeeeeease ask me to die for you

character B: *grabbing A's face* hey. hey, look at me. if you die for me. i will be sad.

A: you can't—that's not—

B: i'll be so so sad. like i might never be okay again i'll be SO sad.

A: it's—this is manipulation, is what it is—

B: are you trying to make me sad, A?

A: *reluctantly removing themself from danger and remembering to eat and stuff* i hate you so fucking much

[babischlong-six]

"Oh. Oh," moments can be great.

"Oh shit," moments are even better.

But the long-suffering sigh of acceptance that comes with, "Oh. Right. Yeah. Of course." Like, come on, what could I have been thinking? There's no other way this could have gone.

[toasterdrake]

sun x moon but the sun is secretly traumatised and the moon is secretly a sweetheart

[shingetsu-online]

the amazing 4:

1.) scary[fights people for fun and is genuinely passionate abt it but in a way that people take it as a threat. loves people]

2.) scary[can and will hack you and steal your data. hates people]

3.) scary[tall and has a MYSTERIOUS and TRAUMATIC past/upbringing. they have a secret interest and theyre actually really nice but hates bringing it up. also emo. hates people they cant trust]

4.) scary[does scary shit for fun. talks to ghosts and jumped off of a mountain that one time and lived?? somehow?? also does the "feeding crows so they take shiny stuff and give it to me" thing. has mixed feelings for people]

[airlocksandaviaries]

A good mlm & wlw dynamic is Old Grumpy Queer Man and the Insane Young Dyke he unofficially adopts

[outcasting101]