this has been said before but ford pines is such a good character. to me. really stole the show in like eight episodes and all the supplementary material is great but you can still get to the core of what he's all about and what he means for the narrative and the pines dynamic in the comparatively very little screentime he has. and he's also very tasty for me specifically as someone with thoughts and opinions about the way we treat intelligence as a personal trait and the kinds of people that emphasis tends to produce. (NARRATOR: she's one of them)
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*WANDERSONG SPOILERS*
I wanna talk about Audrey, the so-called 'Hero.'
Now I'm not that good at writing or posting meta but man oh MAN Audrey is actually so much more interesting than I initially took her to be; she's actually deeply insecure about not only herself but how the world perceives her AND has a skewed, dare I say, SUPERFICIAL, idea of what it means to truly be the hero. She primarily sees it as a role she has to play or fulfill, rather than something someone chooses to be, and while she "knows" herself to be the hero, she doesn't actually BELIEVE she is A hero in herself.
Even further is that she WANTS to be The Hero but is so dyed in the proverbial wool in both her insecurities and her perception of her role as The Hero that she doesn't want to stop, she wants to fulfill the role she was given so bad that she broke her promise to the Bard when she said she wouldn't kill anymore Overseer spirits upon killing the King of Hearts because, how she sees it, 'that's how it is.'
What was interesting is that Audrey spoke about her dislike of being told what to do and where to go when Eyala was acting as her guide, that she found it demeaning that she couldn't think or act for herself, but was that her interpretation of being told to back down by Eyala? After all, Eyala did mention to the Bard that when she warned Audrey, Audrey felt that Eyala was 'taking something away from her', and that something was the role of The Hero, without which she would still be a nobody that no one saw or knew or cared about.
She wants to be the Hero and is so attached to that role and the adoration it had brought her and wants to fulfill that role because she believes that what truly makes her and that without the title of Hero and the Sword and the powers, she can't be A hero.
Her insecurities tell her that she can't be A hero outside of being THE Hero, and she can't understand not only how the Bard had gotten so far but how he continues to have hope, despite his own innate feelings of despondence and his own melancholy. But he keeps going because of his hope, hope that he can still save the world and that there is always another, better way, a way that one can choose. A different way to be a hero, if you will.
And I personally think that the Bard's approach to being a hero, it's confounding to Audrey for many reasons, one of those being that he wasn't chosen by anyone or anything to be a hero per se, but he chose to be a hero HIMSELF, despite everything acting against him, including Audrey herself. The Bard admitted he's jealous of Audrey being chosen to be the hero and her sword and her powers, not knowing that his innate goodness and his CHOICE to be good make him a hero, without the need for a sword or a title or a higher calling.
I honestly love how Wandersong toys with the definition of the word 'hero', and not only subverts the typical fantasy RPG hero archetype with Audrey, right down to the outfit and the magic sword, but DOUBLE subverts her; she could have been a twist villain who was simply a villain masquerading as a hero, but even this was subverted by making her not a hero, but not quite a villain either, but an insecure girl who sees herself as a nobody and is so obsessed with fulfilling a role that makes her a somebody that she's going to end up destroying the world and herself (both figuratively and literally), but is blinded by her self-perception and insecurities so that she can't see anything within herself that's heroic, making her both a mirror and a foil for the Bard.
I'm not sure where I was going and I know Wandersong isn't the first game to do this but I love how it was done here so far (I'm starting Act Seven), not least because I hated Audrey at first but she's actually growing on me, as much as I hate to admit it, not least that she actually resonates with me much more now this revelation has come about.
I was pleasantly surprised and now I want to study this girlfail mess of a human being under a microscope.
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For sketch requests, would FSAAU!Raz's performer archetype like to show off for us?
sick flips!!
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Yknow. I do forsee a potential plot point for Netflix-levania to somehow have Dracula as a villain back, even with the end of the previous series. Obligation. He's no longer the weary widower, and with Lisa's return there's closure. He's lived as a man. He understands man. He may not even hate man. Maybe.
And yet he's back because the other Vampires are fucking it up and now daddy's home to bring back order. He's no longer gunning for genocide, but honestly, the politicking of the vampires who are so far up their own asses, they need to be reminded who's really in charge. His death left a power vacuum, a particularly annoying vacuum. Maybe the little things of humanity irk him, but vampires are everything they have but turned up to 11.
So at the end it's a formality. He'll come back, clean things up among vampire society, make enough of a mess to get a Belmont to kill him, then turn in for another 100 years.
Does this make him too noble? Probably. If you want the grandiose "What is a man" Dracula, you can extrapolate from "It's an obligation" and have him actively resent people pulling him out of the afterlife from Lisa so fucking much, that he leans too hard into the role. The part of him who's evil out of obligation and the part who's evil out of resentment begin to blur the lines. Is he the lord of darkness because that's the role he's been cast and is simply going through the motions or his he just so simply done with the whole process that he refuses to give up an inch of power to any other Vampire (or human) because they're all just children in his eyes?
It could still ultimately culminate in a Soma Cruz plot line where after 1999 he quits so hard that he refuses to even return to the role properly but it doesn't matter because his mere presence fills the vacuum, even when he does nothing (not for the lack of trying from others).
Maybe that's a bit petulant in its own right. YMMV, but I think that's the point. For being such an archetypal lord of all evil villains, how he fills it is shockingly dynamic. He's evil for evils sake, a beacon of arrogance, or a truly tragic villain. Depends on what's needed. If he does come back, I do want to really see a "Castlevania does Bram Stoker's Dracula. Genuinely. It's just an adaptation for the original novel because that's Canon to the original Castlevania timeline, and it'd be funny to properly reveal that Quincy Morris is a Belmont (And his son fights WW1 vampires and grandson WW2)."
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My Spotify Playlist Series
Song recommendations for addition or removal encouraged
The Archetypes
The Viber
The Dying (Depressed)
The Artist
The Fuck Up (Heartbreak)
The Psycho (Laughing Jack vibes)
The Recluse (Sally Face and Ticci Toby vibes)
The Stalker (Yandere vibes)
The Dreamer
The Mermaid
The Early Bird
The Nightcruisers
The Lovers
The Wolf (Jacob Black, Peter Rumancek, etc.)
The Hypomaniac (Cruella vibes)
Comfort Characters
Hades (Greek Mythology)
Death (Sandman)
Link (Legend of Zelda)
The Twins (Harry Potter) This one is surprisingly tricky
Other
Ballet Class
Contemporary Ballet Barre (Inspired by music my teacher played)
The Endless (Sandman)
Luci’s Playlist (Tom Ellis Lucifer)
Salem’s Mix (shit my brother recommended)
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i dont know who the latest illustrator/team is for recent ygo archetype artworks all I know is that I need to kiss them on the mouth because they Understand the sex appeal for characters like check out their comment for lovely lady
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First pass for a Prowler haunting a cyberpunk Binondo, Manila.
Story details below the cut.
Lore time baby:
- She and her sibling (this universe's Spiderperson) are half-siblings, the illegitimate children of some rich jackass who abandoned their mothers
- She discovered her sibling's existence via a tip and found them after their mother died. She became their legal guardian from then on and provided money for their welfare. She was often away, but loving.
- She fell in with the wrong people when she was younger and became a hitman for hire
- Her sibling moves to Manila on a senior high scholarship to a fancy school and gets bitten by a radioactive spider during a tour of a lab, you know the drill.
- She wanted to shield them from her experiences in the dark underbelly of the city, and when they discover her identity + she realizes she very nearly murdered her sibling in a fight her worst fear comes true. She loves her sibling more than life itself, but when his faith in her utterly shatters she's at a complete loss at what to do and runs away
- She gets yeeted into Nueva York and goes on the run until she gets captured
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miguels backstory was about traveling to another dimension to be in a happy family. kinda sorta reminiscent of a certain antagonist from a certain first movie concerning spider people from many universes. is all im saying
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One TF fandom argument that confuses me is when people put Megatron and Starscream versus each other like, when people say that it's "unfair that Megatron gets redemption but Starscream doesn't" (in regards to IDW1) because like. One, IDW1 in phase 2 was written by like 4 different writers, so you can't try to claim that there was some unified vision where the nonexistent Singular Writer of IDW was like "no Starscream isn't allowed to have nice things."
And second, I don't think the writers would even think of it that way? It's not like the writers were like "okay we have one Get Out Of Jail Free Card and we're going to spend it on Megatron, sorry Starscream maybe in the next reboot you can get it." The divisions fans make between X character likers and Y character likers are completely made up fandom drama and sometimes I feel like people don't understand that the writers aren't privy to fandom infighting/drama and wouldn't write Megatron and Starscream in opposition to each other as if one character's gain must come at the other's expense.
And finally............. IDW1 Starscream literally does get to be portrayed as a more morally gray person, have his feelings shown and treated as human, even make some friends/have people treat him nicely? IDK what fucking comics people are reading where they think that Starscream is treated as an evil villain with no redeeming qualities at all. Maybe it's the same Starscream fans who shit on TAAO/Scott or something, that's the only way I could explain it.
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