#it’s an oddly specific trope

[ghostdrinkssoup]

if I had a nickel for every time a Dark and Mysterious and probably Morally Ambiguous character was soft for a young girl from his past (probably blonde and probably dead) then I would have a handful of nickels, which isn’t a lot technically speaking but why does it keep happening ??

[ghostlakan]

finished the silmarillion

very very good book i loved it, honestly not as scary as people say 100% recommend

gonna read children of húrin now,, beleg is my favorite ever i hope he shows up a lot in here,,

[amee-racle-ofmyown]

one thing I love about iswm is that even though the Captain hardly talks, engineer Mark always seems to understand them

I'd like to think that in the monster captain au, the two of them would still find their own ways of communicating, despite being very different

[fallen-angel-adam-frankenstein]

If I had a nickel for every time a ginger-haired Imperial officer was a spy for the rebels and helped them escape from an Imperial base, asking them to hurt him to make it seem like he tried to stop them and failed, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[just-1other-nerd]

One trope that always gets me is the "blind seer". The poetry, the symbolism of having a character that physically can't see but instead can see the future or past or their surroundings as if they had their eyesight or even different or better than people who see with their eyes.

You can do this with someone who's been blind but not really blind since birth or someone who was born blind but found a way to adapt (an example for this is Toph from ATLA) or a character that has had a tragic accident that caused them to lose their eyesight which leads to them adapting or gaining a new way to see the world (like Daredevil from Marvel) or bonus points from me to you if you have a character that lost their eyesight because someone violently took it from them and now they have to adapt or it unlocks a special power in them, a different way to see things, to see beyond what's happening now, or they had that power before but were to lazy to train it and now they have to in order to navigate their life (and maybe to survive more attacs or to avenge themselves)...

They could hide their powers which causes lots of angst and loneliness and lots of "how did you do that" moments and in general be a part of one of my other favourite tropes, the secret badass, or they could be open about their powers which can lead to great character dynamics: the others could constantly forget that the blind seer can't see normally or they could be freaked out by that ability or they could simply not believe the blind seer can see anything or rather deny their powers and declare them crazy or the people don't believe that the blind seer is blind because they're just so good at navigating their way in the world (and people try to uncover this "conspiracy") or the others are not sure about how much of the stuff the seer tells them is true because the blind one has a thing for mischief or only one single person found out about their ability and tries to uncover the truth about them without ever succeeding.

The seer can either be a great threat, a trusty advisor, a graceful entity, an eccentric mentor, the town weirdo, or a traumatised chosen one.

The trope is also great for character design, like you can have someone with a blindfold fight multiple people or they can just sit in a temple looking like those statues of Justitia (Roman godess of Justice, famously wearing a blindfold) while giving you a glimpse at the future. You could have helmets that cover the eyes, or the eyes could be white, either in a scarry or in a devine way.

The whole thing is filled with possibilities and but all variations can be so good and creative.

[cass-foxx]

Call me crazy but my favourite ship dynamic is

Dilf that is madly in love with his wife but she dies and after her death, he grows miserable, cold and depressed or a piece of shit and he also have a past that explains why he is so rutheless and how he acts but I swear he has a good heart X a younger man that is a ray of sushine and brings out the best in him

[cosmoknightchaos]

Grabs you

Hiii I’m here to ask the silly questions for the oc ask thingy.

11. 20. 2.

The urge to ask half the super silly questions

It's okay!! We love silly questions!!

2. Your newest OC

I believe that would go to Tristen Kannaroe! The bitch himself. My most recent art of him is from October, though I think his concept was coined a bit earlier than that.

11. Would you consider yourself nice to your OCs?

Nervously glances at the Wtss cast

It depends! Certain characters I treat nicely while others I want to see burn alive. Entropy and Sky are probably the nicest I am to any of my OCs, with Paisley not far behind them. However, we also have characters like William Sonemeir (A scientist who developed advanced war technology and unbeknownst to him turned his dead son into a sentient war machine), Creator/Evan Sonemeir (Will's kid, died and reborn as a war machine), Kannaroe (Tortured for all eternity for simply following orders, though to be fair he does deserve it), and Flower.

I'd say for the most part I'm not nice to OCs, as the best characters are formed by putting them through hell and seeing how they survive. But for the most part I try to give happy endings and help characters move past the trauma I give them.

Except for Kannaroe and Flower. They don't get happy endings because I fucking hate them.

20. An OC regret

Not many! As mentioned on a previous ask, if I don't like anything about a character I'll rework them pretty quickly, so I tend to work out all regrets until I go back to liking the character again. I'd say my biggest regret right now is underutilizing Entropy and Kannaroe. Kannaroe moreso, since Ets has Rtth and a definite appearance in both side stories I plan to release as part of the Wtss Director's Cut, while Kannaroe got completely annexed and exists solely within my sketchbook and that one bit of Rtth. But they both have very good reasons for being underused, so I don't regret it that much.

[asongoftearsandfandoms]

What are some of your favorite tropes? I'm compiling a list of tropes I like, and I'm sure online lists aren't comprehensive, so I'll do like any undergraduate-level researcher and survey you all here on the Tumblr campus lawn.

[astranauticus]

someone on lofter has definitely written 冥婚 joongdok right like both of them die way too many times to not do something with it

[anamariee86]

Not me craving for a 100k words -slowburn-rival surfers-enemies to lovers-cruel summer shit Braime fanfic after reading Malibu Rising😔😮‍💨

[pastelchaos12]

Favourite villain trope:

Innocent lil guy slowly getting corrupted by the cruelness of their world and turning evil because of it.

Bonus if they have a friend that was the only decent person to them seeing them reveal how messed up they are because angst.

[penn-dragon]

Me: I like Hunter but im not as crazy about him as everyone else  Hollow Minds: Bet?

[marshmallowprotection]

I've seen so many ppl write that Unknown likes having Mc sit on his lap but has this ever happened in-game or is this smthn everyone just agrees on lol

It cannot happen in the game because your time with him as his would-be assistant isn't covered the same way it is with Ray. You wind up with a Bad Ending red screen before you're dragged to Mint Eye. So, basically, I'm the one that started writing those snippets all about Unknown using the MC as a weighted blanket. This isn't canon because we know nothing about Unknown's Assistant.

This came to me one day in two ways. 1) Unkown wants you to feel afraid of him and what better way to torment you than to show you his work? Why not make you watch the next person go into the damn apartment like you were supposed to? Why not scare you with what's to come for them? That's the kind of person he is. Good luck dealing with that. He wants you to be frightened.

2) Unknown struggles with dissociative states. Do you know what can keep you grounded? A weighted blanket. Sensory help can be critical to keeping you on Earth when you feel weightless. Not that he's ever going to admit that he finds the pressure of having you by his side helpful in any way... but it adds to his fear tactics and power play to make you squirm.

If you combine the two of these, it adds more facets to Unknown as a person. There's a reason he's not a romanceable route, so when you write about him in that way, you have to find the means to see where he's vulnerable and how you can fit between the lines to reach this man who is otherwise unreachable.

[kiwisaregay]

found this quiz today and I mean...

[hauntedandhopeful]

I was scrolling through Instagram earlier today and suddenly I thought of a book with a trope of like CEO x spy or millionaire x law agent or something like that but I've never seen a book with that trope and I am begging you bookworms of tumblr I need a rec with the same vibes please

[just-1other-nerd]

I noticed something about myself and I thought some of you might relate.

I hate liar reveal stories cause you know from the narrative that something bad is going to happen and they're gonna get exposed, that's why I'm never gonna watch Dear Evan Hanson. Like Aladdin (spoilers I guess, also I like Aladdin a lot in geneal but just not a fan of the trope), you just have to watch how he is making all those wrong decisions and you can't do anything about it and just want to shake him and tell him he should be honest. You just don't want this generally good person be corrupted by their lie or see them disappoint their loved ones. I simply don't like the consequenses of the lie and how it can butcher a character because it was avoidable. Even worse if the character was outed by the villain and thus had no chance to come clean by themselves just before they were going to or if they had all those chances in important moments and didn't take them.

But in contrast to that I love it when a character is secretly badass but has to hide it for ✨️reasons✨️ like being executed for having magic. It creates hilarious situations where they have to cover their actions up or everytime someone treats them like shit I think "you bitch wait until the reveal then you're gonna be really sorry for what you just said".

Merlin does this quite well and the few times it was revealed were super satisfying. Six Crimson Cranes (and the fairy tale "Die sechs Schwäne" on which it's based on) did it even if in part 1 the reveal was limited to a few people (not finished the 2nd part yet so don't know how much is coming there).

Mulan does it a rare combination of both because she is openly a badass but has to hide something for good ✨️reasons✨️ and this creates hilarious situations. And there is the reveal (because she tries to save everyone) with it's consequenses but the ✨️reasons✨️ justify having to live through them (like no-one thinks "that was so avoidable"). But I think she should have been more like "yeah well you know what I'm better than everyone of you and I just saved your asses so how about a thank you"

Alchemy of Souls does the combination too (spoilers) where the ✨️reasons✨️ the characters have are "good"/relatable, the situations are hilarious and the reveal at the end of season 1 was so satisfying because the information was suddenly out there but also the consequenses were just horrible like even worse than expected and while the lie was justified towards the viewer the mere existence of the reveal was so unsatisfactory and felt so bad because it was initiated through the bad guy and not because the main character was trying to do something good or save themself or someone else.

Yeah so I guess that's another oddly specific trope I'm into.

EDIT: and I don't mean that protagonists can't be flawed, mess up, lie or make mistakes (even those that could have been avoided or which's consequenses they should have seen coming) like Anne from Anne with an E constantly messes up but she is one of the best protagonist I've ever seen. She always puts the work in to make it up and she doesn't mean to harm people.