#i almost said Tweek tbh but I’m not as involved with him even if I do project a lot onto that twitchy mf

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

Hi PCE! I have a silly question for you if you have the time! Which of your characters are you the most like and why? :3

Oh goodness this question made me think HARD lmao the singular brain cell out here workin overtime bc y’all I literally have SO MANY DIFFERENT AUS SO MANY CHARACTERS AND I PUT A BIT OF MYSELF INTO ALL OF THEM BUT!!!

I gotta say, I think I poured the most of myself into my Kyles, and especially OrangeJuiceVerse Kyle.

So if you’re familiar w my insanity, you know ojv is my most involved au with 18+ stories and has wound up being my default state when I think abt my shit, and Kyle is kind of the first character I really fleshed out with that au? In a lot of ways, he’s a variant of me that I wish I could emulate better. He’s empathetic and passionate to a fault, feels so strongly about everything and everyone in his life, he craves validation and personal achievement, and is really hard on himself. He has a lot in common with Tweek (I’m extremely Tweek coded too) in the overthinking and sometimes paralyzing anxiety but the difference is that Kyle does tend to bounce back and forth with his emotions; he’s kind of a whirlwind.

A lot of my Kyles are very idealistic in their worldview, because I am. I want to believe that everyone is capable of good, that rainclouds make the sky light up silver, that birds in the winter will be safe and have somewhere warm to go. Like especially OJV Kyle, I want to make the world a better place and spread positivity, because we need that! And while irl I’m a nervous depressed piece of shit, deep down I want to believe that the world doesn’t actually suck, see the beauty, find the art in it all and give people the benefit of the doubt. That romanticism fucks me over sometimes, but Kyle’s in the same boat.

It’s also worth noting that I make every Stan I write a simp and a loser vegetarian because I am lmfao

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK I ENJOYED THIS

[heloflor]

You know, the more I think about it, the more baffled I am that Jimmy is sometimes forgotten when talking about Craig’s gang. I mean, not only had he been part of said gang since it started becoming a thing, but Jimmy is also probably the sixth more important kid character behind the main 5.

(I’d like to point out that I haven’t gone through the tags of those characters in a long time so I have no idea if this is still going on. For all I know this issue is old news. On that note, my intention here is NOT to start any discourse. Actually I think subconsciously I just wanted to point out how present Jimmy is in the show because I find it interesting to notice 🤔).

After all, on top of seeing him with Craig, Clyde and Tolkien (“Ginger Kids”, “Fun Times with Weapons”, “The Magic Bush”, “Lice Capades” etc), he’s also been seen hanging out with the main 5 as part of the sixth friend like in “Pee”, “Super Fun Time”, “W.T.F.”, “The China Problem” or “Band in China”.

Then there’s also his involvement in season 5, the season he was introduced, + several episodes centered around him like “Fishsticks”, “Erection Day”, or the last few episodes of season 19. Also, while Clyde tends to be the character used when they need a secondary character talking in a scene, Jimmy was shown pretty often talking in scenes like those as well, like him being the one doing the talking to Craig in “The Magic Bush” or him being the person Stan asks to talk to Wendy in “Raisins” or even that one deleted scene from “Reverse Cowgirl”. And let’s not forget the few episodes he has with Timmy and Nathan.

Seriously, I’m pretty sure Jimmy is more of a major character than Tweek, who became part of the main cast for half a season !

  Tbh, I think the reason why it bothers me is because, the more I think about it, the more I start thinking that it has less to do with Jimmy possibly being harder to draw/write to some people and more to do with him being disabled.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m very much aware that main/major characters aren’t always fan-favorites or even the fandom’s priority (just look at T//OH fandom’s interest for Hun//ter or the P/n/F fandom with Do//of and Per//ry for example). Hell, I’m part of this crowd as well sometimes (Cav and Dak from M//ML, with my fics almost never mentioning Mi//lo).

But given the fandom’s liking of Craig’s gang, it does raise a few questions when such a major character gets forgotten without much explanation (again, if someone simply struggles with drawing or writing him, I can understand. Though it sucks if he’s not even mentioned or acknowledged as part of the group).

(And yes I know Jason is constantly forgotten, but tbf he was pretty much only part of the group for one episode. Plus, as of S23, he’s canonically dead)