#fadeglory

[youusedme]

" Grand beliefs and commendations won’t lead you anywhere, son. Being a hero’s not all its cracked up to be. "

@fadeglory

★—  ❛   You say that as though I signed up for the title. For the glory.   ❜ 

Though his rank was earned, and that in itself was an HONOUR  - he never read too much into it, given he knew he was a soldier --- with a duty, just as everyone else on the field. 

❛   I didn’t get into what I do to be BRANDED a hero. I wanted to be someone to look after others, I wanted to be someone that puts my all into ensuring that people have a peaceful life, that they can come to me for HELP. They called me, at one point, the sentinel of LIBERTY --- and I believe that, because there’s nothing more I want than for people to be FREE; for people to be who they want to be, to love who they want to love, to walk the streets without FEAR in the back of their minds. Ambitious, I know, but it isn’t impossible.   ❜

His poise was STRONG --- held HIGH with not a doubt nor hesitation in every word he uttered. He believed this, sincerely, he believed himself. 

             ❛   I ain’t a hero. I’m a soldier. I’m a person who wants to PROTECT others and will do anything to ensure that their lives are kept safe, that any threat that lurks is dealt with. Not only fight for them --- but for JUSTICE; in this day and age, the corruption of government impedes our growth as a nation. So it’s even more important for me to FIGHT. I may don the flag of this nation, but lately, I’m not a believer in it. I am a believer in what it should be; the land of the free. And I’ll keep fighting until we get that. So no, I’m not here for a good time, for glory, for medals and a fancy title --- I’m here to PROTECT, and tip the scales of JUSTICE once more. I’m here for those who need me, and I’ll keep fighting for freedom so long as I live. Brand me what you want, but I know who I am, and I ain’t goin’ to stop any time soon.    ❜

[pretendcr]

“Whoever killed her will answer to me I will make each and every one of you pay with your blood.”

ＴＨＥ ＥＭＰＲＥＳＳ ＯＦ ＣＨＩＮＡ ( ᵐᵉᵐᵉ ) |   accepting

MORTALS ARE SO AMUSING, thinking they hold some kind of powers over destiny - but they're freil and doomed ( This one should know better ). How could he ever thought that he could save her ? This soldier boy, too proud to see what the future would bring upon fate's shore, and yet absent when the right moment called. It makes him SMILE to see him fight against what is already sealed in History : her blood has been spilled, marking the beginning of a new Era. —— How touching, but you're quite late to the party, don't you think ? Whatever you do, it won't bring her back. “

SMOKES IS POURED FROM THE DEVIL'S EYES, turning his body into the darkest mist, traveling along the air, until he is skin and bones again, standing behind this vengeful man. —— But I'm a generous man : if you want your revenge, why don't you take it ? Going after en Empire seems a bit extreme, but I am right here. kill me, and everything ends here - of course, she stays in the bBeyond, but you ? Well, you'll fulfill your need for blood, and feed your egoism - you might even save your precious Eos ! I mean... “ HIS LAUGHTER CARRIES A DARK SECRET, one that ooze from his eyes and silver tongue, a scourge made blood that makes even the kindest of souls rot and die. —— ...Only if you manage to kill me. “

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[rdmptnn]

1, 12 + 14

crucial muse development questions - accepting ; 

what would completely break your character?

i think we have witnessed this in draco. having been a sheltered boy, growing up with all things lavish and inevitably spoiled rotten — his skin was like porcelain, easily breakable. so when the likes of voldemort frequented his everyday life – it left everything in disarray, completely and utterly down on his knees at the dark lord’s beckoning. lest he meet the fate of those the lord so facilely vanquished, he had no choice. and it is in not having a choice that he is broken. when there is no way out, no other option but to endure yet ultimately cripple from the weight of his calling — that breaks him. being fully privy to the fact that if he hadn’t killed dumbledore, his family and he, himself, would not live to see another light. draco was always a fearful boy but it wasn’t until voldemort that he knew what true fear was and that broke him. post-war, what would break him ? …he’s already broken. he lingers in his own ashes, withers in his own self-pity. he tries desperately to regain himself but he sees death replay itself over and over again in his mind. he’s already broken. already believes he’s undeserving. already wallowing in his own self-hate. the mark of a pariah etched upon his skin and he is constantly reminded of how worthless he truly is. what would break him beyond repair ? the loss of his mother. 

what are your character’s major flaws?

major flaws: cowardice, jealousy, vanity (regarding accomplishments), entitlement, prideful/egotistical, spitefulness, pettiness, selfishness, prejudice, arrogance. i will certainly go into detail about all of these character flaws in another post. for now, suffice to say that many of these are knocked down several notches as post-war — draco learns he isn’t much of anything. he becomes…subdued ? humbled ? there are things he is still very much a coward over. he is still prone to jealousy. there isn’t much vanity left or a sense of entitlement. he still remains prideful – refuses to ask for help, refuses to display any emotion other than indifference (masks that he is ok when he is not). he’s pretty much adopted a defeatist attitude. can still be spiteful and petty depending on the situation. he learns his prejudices are uncalled for and very much stops utilizing the term - mud.blood. he can now understand what it means to be treated like less than and can understand what it feels like to be looked down upon. while he knows he’s privileged, and can not fully relate to those coming from muggle backgrounds, he knows what it’s like to be spat on. nevertheless, what arrogance he has left is merely a facade and what lies dormant is self-deprecation. 

how does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

this question is the perfect conclusion to the previous questions. to summarize the second inquiry, draco projects arrogance, bravery, indifference, elitism, superiority — all of this was what he emulated from his father but deep within he was always so frightened, so conflicted, so pressured to live up to the expectations of the malfoy name, so trained to think in such a narrow-minded manner, soon enough there isn’t an ounce of superiority or elitism in him. that’s the difference. he is very much a hypocrite and projects only what he wants people to see. what people don’t see is a boy (turning man) who struggles with his own self-image, one who has a growing self-awareness of just how fucked he truly is. it won’t be until years have passed post-war that he reconciles all of his issues and learns to forgive himself, learns to truly live for himself and no one else. 

/ @mistlenoct , @fadeglory ( tagged u bc u sent #14 as well )

[deacruor]

SELF - KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONNAIRE.

RATIONALITY

You like clarity and intelligent simplicity and you get frustrated at messy thinking. This can make you seem unreasonably pushy to some, but it is actually a virtue: you are motivated by a horror at pointless effort and a longing for precision and insight into how things and people work. Your ability to synthesize and bring ‘order’ is essential in producing thinking which is truly helpful.

SHYNESS

Part of you is gripped by the fear that you’ll launch into something and completely mess it up. The upside of this is wise caution: people are indeed often too rash, whereas you know, by instinct, that holding back can save you. Probably, you feel shame and self-disgust a bit too much. But when you do feel in your element, you act with a wisdom and sensitivity never found in people with thicker skins.

RESILIENCE

You have a tendency, after a setback, to turn your emotions towards restriving. What attracts you is the idea of wiping out a humiliation by resumed action – overcoming weakness, repressing your fear. Because part of your motive is pride, you can sometimes be unwilling to admit weakness or to receive aid. But at heart, tour insistence on coming back and never folding has taught you a valuable pessimism: you know that important journeys are never easy.

tagged by:  @fadeglory​ & @vynua​  !! tagging:  you see this you are tagged

[youusedme]

“Trust me, I’ve been there.”

★ COMFORT STARTERS // ACCEPTING

@fadeglory

★— EMPATHY WAS A VALUED TRAIT. But at this point, Steve wondered how true the others words actually were ---- sometimes people would say things just for the hell of it but the way that the other carried himself, the way his eyes looked into his as he spoke --- spoke TRUTHS. 

BETRAYAL was never easy to deal with, and was something that he mostly took on his own shoulders, not to burden anyone else with such woes. Still, this time this fellow soldier, by the looks of it, seemed to see right through him. 

        ❛  I don’t know about that. But I appreciate the sentiment, it’s harder when half of your team has turned against you ---- and those members are key players. Trying to rally the troops to fight the good fight is becoming harder by the day.  ❜  

[deacruor]

take this test for your muse and post your results, tag as many as you’d like !!

tagged by: @fadeglory  & @ilmortale !!  tagging:  everyone

Warmth  ||||||||||||||||||||| 70% (  supportive / comforting  ) Intellect  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  90% (  cerebral / analytical  ) Emotional Stability ||||||||||||||||||||| 66% (  calm  ) Aggressiveness ||||||||||||||| 50%  (  modest , docile &  tough   ) Liveliness ||||||||||||||| 50%  (  somber /  restrained &  wild  / fun loving  ) Dutifulness ||||||||||||||||||||| 66% (  traditional  ) Social Assertiveness |||||||||||| 38% ( withdrawn ) Sensitivity ||||||||||||||| 42%  (  coarse, tough. hm  ) Paranoia  |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74%  (  wary, suspicious  ) Abstractness ||||||||||||||||||||| 70% ( strange , imaginative ) Introversion  |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82% (  private , quiet  ) Anxiety  ||||||||||||||| 50%  (  self-assured but fearful ?  ) Openmindness |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82%  (  curious, exploratory  ) Independence  ||||||||||||||||||||| 70%  (  loner  ) Perfectionism  ||||||||||||||||||||| 66%  (  orderly, thorough  ) Tension ||||||||||||||| 50% (  relaxed / cool  &  stressed / unsatisfied  )

[jjillekkot]

LITTLE CHARACTER THINGS

Just a fun little character game. fill in the below categories with 3-5 things that your character can be identified by. Repost & tag away !

TAGGED BY: @fadeglory ( ily boo ! ) TAGGING:  @ndeavor @fujxn @kissafist @nomadicnovice @gotitmemorised @ifemerel @softestmood @vibraea @lonerlion @heroofgrymoire @fairlegacy @lunarfayth

EMOTIONS / FEELINGS:

001.·        excitability.

002.·        enthusiasm.

003.·        optimism.

004.·        passion.

005.·        hope.

GREETINGS:

001.·        "hiya!” “howdy!” “hey!” she’s quite into one-word greetings, nothing terribly long-winded, quick to grab attention.

002.·        “excuse me?!” “wait a minute!” she doesn’t like being ignored, avoided. her attention is valuable, and she wants to have all of yours, quite frankly.

003.·        "hello? are you in there?” given the amount of... to be quite frank, absolutely stupid people she’s met in the world, both on wutai and shinra side, from execs to the regular citizens, and even now in the wro, she’s does question the intelligence of the folks she’s surrounded by if they’re not the regular gang.

004.·        "i’m the great ninja yuffie!” “i am the conqueror of evil, the sun and moon and stars, the white rose of wutai.... yuffie kisaragi!” to formally introduce herself comes as a momentous occasion and she’s ever so thrilled to introduce her acquaintance to someone new.  while she can be rather boastful, and even theatrical.... she is true to herself and honest to her identity and skill set. she does not like to act as something she is not.

COLORS:

001.·        white.

002.·        earth green / dark green.

003.·        brown.

004.·        colors found in nature: blue, yellow, tan, etc.

SCENTS:

001.·        floral.

002.·        citrus.

003.·        neutral?  she’s rather plain.

004.·        light scent of sweat. yuffie is active.

005.·        whatever concoction spritzed on her before a formal event, occasion, gathering, meeting, etc. 

CLOTHING:

001.·         shorts. short-shorts, to be specific. she enjoys the freedom, wants to feel like she’s barely wearing anything. i’ll include skirts as well, even though not canon technically.

002.·         boots. needs the traction for running, hiking, climbing. enjoys the constricting feeling laces provide. 

003.·         cropped clothing, if only because it’s less fabric on her skin, doesn’t want to feel like she’s wearing much.

004.·         pouches, pockets, etc. she needs a lot of storage space ok.

OBJECTS:

001.·        her father’s headband. she took it the day she walked into the war, to see the battlefield with her own eyes. she switches to her own battle headband after the events of vii, having proven herself a true warrior in her own right.

002.·        shuriken. weapon of choice. kind of her symbol? it’s kind of important.

003.·        kunai. it’s important to her to have a range of weapons, long distance and short-range, noticeable and hidden. she did train to be a ninja, after all.

VICES / BAD HABITS:

THEFT.·        yuffie’s found stealing throughout most of the compilation: whether it’s stealing bombs ( before crisis ), treasure ( crisis core ), materia ( ffvii ), or straight up vincent valentine ( dirge of cerberus-- yes i’m counting this ). theft itself isn’t great, though her reasons for doing so, she tries to validate. 

HIERARCHY OF MORALS AND ETHICS.·        yuffie tends to think her goals, ambitions, and ethics supercede anyone else’s. she’s validated to steal materia from ~the gang~ because she needs it for wutai. she can leave wutai because she feels she is more reliable and responsible than her dad when it comes to decision-making. overall, there’s a lot of instances in which she views herself as top of the hierarchy, that her personal views are best... and that’s pretty rough for a lot of reasons, other than the obvious self-sering.

RUNNING AWAY.·        we see yuffie running away from a big scene frequently, and typically it’s a scene she was directly involved in, if not the center of. it’s not that yuffie neglects responsibility or accountability, for we see her claiming her actions and dealing with consequences rather severely; but rather, it seems that she prefers to avoid confrontation, hates instances in which she’s required to focus intensely on her feelings. this isn’t to say she’s afraid to voice her opinion-- she just doesn’t like appearing soft or weak, so she would rather leave than lose. 

MARTYR  /  SAVIOR COMPLEX.·        though it goes wildly unaddressed by anyone for the most part, yuffie certainly has a problem with this. why does she feel personally responsible for the honor of an entire nation at age 8? why does she willingly put herself into danger as a sole representative of wutai at 9, at 16, at 18 and 19? what’s the purpose of her not merely saving refugees, but spearheading the rescue process in midgar?  why does she, knowing she’s innocent, agree to being incarcerated for being the carrier of the midgar sickness? she definitely has some sort of complex to acknowledge in which she thinks she must carry everything on her shoulders, she must help, she must be the one to solve things and fix it but... girl there are other people??

BODY LANGUAGE:

001.·        rather exaggerated swaying of body to extenuate emotions: swinging of arms, leaning forward or backward. accents her overly-expressive facial expressions, leading to an over-the-top interaction, especially when excitable.

002.·       scratching of cheek, batting of eyelashes, subtle gestures to suggest timidity or humility or shyness. she can be rather bashful, as she does not often receive praise despite being of such high position.

003.·        fumbling with hair, clothes, tapping. she has a lot of energy, and so she has ticks which are visible when focused upon which showcase yuffie’s attempts at containing her boundless enthusiasm or energy.

004.·        elevated volume. she has a loud speaking voice and her pitch can seem high at times. because of her small stature, she uses other tools like her voice and her body movements to garner attention.

005.·        direct eye-contact, straight body posture, firm handshake. a natural-born leader, she possesses skills and attributes and abilities which show that she’s not going to back down, that she stands her ground, can hold her own, is a force to be reckoned with, whether in personal affairs or on the battlefield.

AESTHETICS:

001.·        silk, gold, fine materials representing wealth, royalty.

002.·        nature, flowers, grain, pastures, fields. 

003.·        fish, the ocean, fire, the mountainside, representations of the gods da chao and leviathan.

004.·        steel, swords, shuriken, kunai, short sword, dagger. weapons of tradition, rather than modernity. 

005.·        cats, balls, shiny things... she loves cats, would consider herself similiar to one, very same interests...

SONGS or PIECES:

001.·        descendant of shinobi. 

002.·        stolen materia.

003.·        wutai.