#lol this is what goes in my head with characters

[homunculus-argument]

I've got a book draft project that I call Book I Am Not Working On that I probably haven't touched for like four years now. I originally wrote the first draft of the first book like 10 years ago, didn't like the ending, and decided to write a Next Generation Reboot with the previous cast's offspring and niblings as the main characters. Skipping the world ahead 20 years, and having the new protagonists be Standard Fantasy Book Protagonist Aged, in their late teens and early 20s, they learn about the past book's events in glimpses, as almost mythical legends.

The new story's main protagonist is the niece of a character I originally wrote into the first book as a gag - a naive Farmboy Hero. In this one he's taken up the role of a Grim Mysterous Mentor, who tags along on the protagonist's misguided quest because he knows that he can't stop her, so the best he can do is help. And he mentions that there is this wise man that he used to know in his youth, who lived in this specific city - he is wise in the ways of the world, and if he is still alive, he should be able to help them.

The protagonist agrees to go find the man, and for the first quarter of the book, this Wise Man that Old Uncle Hiram Knew In His Youth is this grand and surely legendary Wonderful Wizard of Oz kind of a figure, who is surely all-powerful and could fix anything. After all, old uncle Hiram would trust him with his life, and uncle Hiram doesn't trust anybody.

And then they finally make it to The City, and find The Old Friend. Who is a completely normal-looking middle-aged guy in an apron, kind of fat and slightly balding, busy with five kids and a grandbaby. And he's just as surprised to see the protagonist and her uncle at his door.

So the protagonist's uncle and his friend retire into a more quiet room to discuss the problem at hand while the protagonist and the friend's eldest daughter head out to find new, additional problms, fully trusting that these Adultier Adults will know what to do.

Meanwhile, the two old friends sit down, and the Old Friend looks at the protagonist's uncle, just going "dude for fuck's sake. Twenty years and you haven't changed at all. All these years I thought you were dead and then you show up at my doorstep, plop a felony level problem on my lap like 'hey lol this wasn't even my problem before I decided to get involved, pls help lol' and expect me to fix it."

And Old Uncle Hiram, who in fact is only in his early 40s and suddenly doesn't seem all that old and wise at all, just shrugs like "yeah I kinda gambled my life (and my niece's life btw) on hoping that you wouldn't have changed at all, either. That you would agree to help us, while calling me a fucking idiot the whole time."

And the old friend goes "yeah no shit of course I'll fucking help. You fucking idiot."

[doctorcurdlejr]

Riverdale characters and their opinions on granking it

Archie -> supports Veronica and Jughead, doesn't listen to MCR all that much, and therefore takes the neutral stance that whatever his friends say is probably true and those men are divorced (was half listening to anything ever said to him)

Betty -> yeah go ahead and clock the peter pan collar with CoverGirl lipstick dramatically smeared off her face that's a MCR fan. Well known bisexual but deeply homophobic, therefore anybody who even mentions grank is a freak. YES she makes that disgusted look if somebody even mentions rpf, tries to tone it down for Veronica. Once got curious and read a 100k grank fem au, printed it out, ate a page, and then set it on fire at 2am.

Veronica -> Catholic 💥 Bisexual 💥 Dresses frequently in dark colors 💥 Casually morbid 💥 Loves theater 💥 not only does she grank it but my girl puts on her reading glasses to scroll through old live journal posts like she's a hardboiled detective ready to lock into the facts of the matter. "Jughead I could use another pair of eyes on this" it's 240p footage of those men fighting on stage. She keeps sending lesbo grank fics to Betty followed by "lol sorry meant for Jug." To which Betty responds "V. 😑"

Jughead -> [11am] violently typing a reply on a google doc for his creative writing class "I take offense at your claim that this is derivative of Velvet Goldmine just because I'm playing with similar themes. As to your second point, Cheryl, this band is an entirely fictional amalgamation meant to represent how our culture interfaced with the purely symbolic icons of the era." [2pm] "You're totally right, Bets. Really wish people could just appreciate the artistry and think more meaningfully about the MESSAGE." [10pm] sitting at his typewriter in Veronica's speakeasy where an entire diagram is laid out before him "This goes beyond stage gay. I'm sure of it."

Cheryl -> TO MX. G: Visiting fabulous Cali for the next fortnight. May I place Julian in your care for an evening? Have been absolutely overwhelmed with requests to visit darling Rosy. Whatever day works best, I understand scheduling so last minute may be difficult with your various dalliances. Ta!

Toni -> Once a regular contributor to Friends of Frerard night at the speakeasy, but suspiciously stopped all attendance after a vacation with Cheryl.

Kevin -> couldn't even tell you a band member's name but, in an attempt to be included in a conversation about homosexuality, once showed up at the speakeasy and laughingly asked Veronica if it was anything like Simon & Garfunkel. Before she could respond Jughead threw a copy of What is it All But Luminous at his head and told him to get out if he couldn't even be bothered to hold himself to their same level of base academic rigour.

[sobasluuurp]

Ok. About Tenko.

I understand why so many people are angry that he's dead. I really do. I would've loved for him to live as well. I cried when he died.

However.

Just because he's dead doesn't mean his character has been handled poorly. In fact, all things considered, this ending (even though it makes me real fucking sad) makes the most sense for both his character and his story. Let me explain.

First and foremost, there's the matter of Shigaraki's characterization and arc. It goes without saying, but he's an angry, used, and abused child who grew up into an adult who wants nothing more than for everything to end. His goals have always been destructive to an extreme and honestly, the logical end to "let's destroy it all" is LITERALLY everything, including himself. He's also had absolutely zero agency since the moment his parents even thought of conceiving him, and has been struggling to become his own person since the beginning of his arc. He, against his abuser, who covets immortality and eternity.

What better a way for a person such as himself to assert his agency is there than to go out the way he did? To shift his focus away from the faceless masses and to the (similarly faceless, lol) abuser who caused his pain in the first place? To destroy the control AFO has held over him and prove to him that he was always his own person? To say, this is who you molded me into. And because I am who I am, I will now kill you, and take myself down with you, and be glad for it.

(and in the process, destroy the worldview AFO showed us in the Star and Stripe arc, that the ones who survive are the victors. AFO has completely and eternally lost, but Shigaraki is victorious to his last.)

It's his first moment of complete agency in his life -- acting entirely against anyone else's wishes for himself or his actions. And he uses it to do the one thing he's been itching for his whole life -- to destroy the source of his pain.

It's a negative character arc, in a way. It's not what any of us would've wanted for him. In a perfect world, he would be able to recover and readjust, building a life for himself and his found family in peace. He'd be able to experience life fully for the first time, and see that the world is not so bleak after all.

(I'm choking up just thinking about what's been lost. It's a fucking tragedy.)

But not every character arc gets to end happily. Sometimes people do slip through the cracks. That's always been what Shigaraki's character is about.

....and what every other member of the League's characters have been about.

Because here's the thing. The story of Shigaraki's life and death would be incomplete without his relationship to his found family. He's their leader. Their symbol. Their All Might.

Shigaraki's death is not the grimdark, fuck-the-audience, senseless kind of tragedy. He is a martyr, yes, but the people he stood for will in all likelihood survive. He died for the League. His life -- his existence -- brought them together, gave them purpose, and showed them a bright future. It is my steadfast belief that he will be the only death among the main villains. Because this is a story about saving to win, after all. And given that My Hero doesn't like to kill characters off too often and each one of them still has a path to recovery, I think it's a safe assumption to make. Especially since (especially in Toya's and Toga's cases) each of them had a moment of reconciliation at the end of their fights -- the kind of thing that can help them move forward.

And to be honest, we've known for a very, very long time that BNHA is the kind of anime that likes to turn old cliches on their heads. Kacchan did not become a villain during Kamino. La Brava's literal power of love was not enough to win the battle. Deku fought tirelessly to talk-no-jutsu Shigaraki into redemption, and while he did get through to him, he still couldn't save him after everything that happened. It's nuanced and messy in a way that I've come to expect from BNHA.

So yea, Shigaraki died. But Shigaraki also lived. Despite everything that AFO and Kotoro wanted from him (despite the fact that he was never meant to really be alive in the first place), he lived on his own terms and fought so that the people he cared about would be seen. Because he lived, the old world was destroyed, and from his ashes, a better one can be built. He achieved everything that no one thought he could, and reclaimed his life in the process. What better ending could you ask for a tragic character?

[hexitca]

What's your favorite OC ship?

ohhhh jeez! Hopefully, this counts!

I have this guilty pleasure where I make an OC to just romance my fave characters and imagine scenes like it's my own dating sims game lmao there are times I have my OCs get together but I'm much more inclined to make an OC for my fave character at the moment.

I make new ones or remake old ones or have the old ones bleed in basically.

But! My top fave "OCxcharacter" ship is my OC Lyra Cross with Harry Dresden from the Dresden Files.

I love playing around with stories and how the characters react to different things! Things like how my OC reacts to that character's morals, emotions, actions, etc. It's kinda fun to build an OC around that character's life/in the story.

I have many of these but I tend to revisit this ship often in my life. Especially if I'm in between fandoms/ships to focus on lol

Under read more bc I ended up rambling lol

A little bit about my fave oc ship:

Lyra is a by-the-books, lone wolf, supernatural buff (aka nerd) 30+ year old (the ages vary but mostly 30 and up). Her expertise is knowing obscure things that involve the supernatural (as a hobby) and her regular work changes often since she rather study creepy shit lol She keeps to herself and has a pretty routine life until she kinda fell into Harry Dresden circle and works toward the plots in that series or new ones.

She acts as a resource on the more vague supernatural that Harry might not know (things outside his regular expertise) and yea!

I would go more into it but it's vague if I'm not focused on it right now.

Right now currently I'm in the Moon Knight phase and saw Steven Grant and went "well i just GOT to make him a girlfriend" so I'm working on that lol

Currently making her a drifter academic (she works the system that she's just forever in school (kinda based off a friend of mine when I lived in Italy who literally is 70+ and has just been in school her whole life and I loved that lol) who is now in London just minding her own business and Moon Knight (with Layla) kinda drag her into some supernatural hijinks lol

[sonic-adventure-3]

metal sonic doodle painting thing except it’s seven fucking am and i have a killer migraine and the white point on my phone and ipad is set to like -98 so i can’t see it and i also didn’t use reference and did this in like 20 mins and my eyes aren’t rlly focusing so i genuinely have no idea what it looks like

[sysig]

What your fave says about you: Sona/Undertale edition (Patreon)

[dhmis-autism]

whatever. love the writing of the DHMIS show because EVERY single character in it switches violently between the roles of either straightman or bugs bunny with no in between.

[lesbiangiratina]

Started watching hxh 99 with a friend tonight we’re so close to 99 killua funny moments truly beginning i feel the 99 killua autism taking hold of me aaghhh uaaghh uuoogghh clutches my cursed eye gguhhh

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

hey am i crazy for this. spader calling him candyboy but blaine and their uncle just calling him candy.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

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[the-kipsabian]

i just want everyone to remember that this platinum tier promo exists cause its my everything

[inked-out-trees]

CHAPTER 6: IN FLIGHT

Max and Sandra almost (almost!) get a full year of marital bliss. In 2530, some young Bureau operatives discuss their futures.

[nova-they-exist-yup]

Not me and my autistic ass reading unsympathetic tags and going “oh! the author wants US to not sympathize with the character!”

[widevibratobitch]

do i let feminism lose and spend all of my savings on a rhinoplasty or do i continue to just. live Like That lol

[orcelito]

oh god now im thinking about my Godawful hand-written “original” stories i wrote in middle school, the earliest in 5th grade. the 5th grade one was with a bunch of unicorns, & i put “illustrations” using the unicorn stickers i had. & the only ppl who really read it were my grandparents who would cheer me on, despite it sucking absolute ass (my grandma for the longest time INSISTED that i should be a writer)

and now here i am with 46k hits & 1082 kudos for a 444,666 word story

how the times have tabled

[erigold13261]

*looks at the curse-human tag post* Okay this needs to happen in the Eriverse at one point (but Mahito would not be forgiven…)

Probably not the Eriverse as that specific idea relies on the JJK universe, but there could definitely be a tag game between humans and entities at some point (Mahito: Tag! You're it! *person is idle transfigured and in pain*)

I have this silly JJK AU in my head where everyone is alive after the Shibuya incident. Most of the time it is the characters being revived after everything and they remember what happened but are not allowed to kill each other again for whatever reason (some higher being/stronger force is fucking around and wants to see how these curses and humans would interact if forced to co-exist).

I honestly do this a lot with media. Where I isolate characters in a like hyperbolic time chamber pocket dimension just to see them interact (I had a prominent NSR version of this but it was 6 of my AUs all together having to fix their own issues with each other).

So that version of the tag game was definitely just JJK and not Eriverse. Specifically a version where it's just a bunch of humans vs curses games to see who can get more points.

There's another version where curses are fully confined to the Tokyo School and can only leave the barrier with supervision of a sorcerer (Mahito is never let out while the other curses are forced to go on field trips with a sorcerer. This is where I got my idea that Hakari and Hanami would become friends lol)

I have a few other versions where humans and curses are able to coexist, but honestly this whole plot line I am talking about has nothing to do with your ask and I just wanted to share my stupid way I enjoy making character interactions. Because it is fun just shoving characters together without having to make a whole world around why the fuck someone like Kurourushi is hanging out with Mechamaru or some stupid bullshit like that.

But anyway, I think a tag game like that in the Eriverse would happen for fun once TADC domain was fixed and Caine has free reign but also sentience. He'd definitely try to do group bonding exercises with humans and entities to get the two groups closer together.