#tan Dean discourse

[jellybracelet]

Sam and Dean going to school for a month on long island is where they learned to cultivate their stringent tanning rituals

[shuvva]

Matt brainstorming stuff:

My two main challenges with Matt are 1) ‘why is everything I write for this kid so damn depressing and on the flipside how do I make him not an ~inspirational woobie~ without making him sarcastic/mean’, and 2) how do I write a character who is pretty much the opposite of my usual character archetype (loud angry obnoxious lesbian with an urge to wreck shit). The second part is kind of why I like him, though.

Kind of a mix of Sufjan Stevens + Owl City + Muse aesthetically. Earliest character inspiration was Matteo Alacran from The House of the Scorpion, whom he still has a…surprising number of parallels to despite the number of revamps he’s been though.

Early life: Was generally sickly as a child and got sick after being exposed  to an unvaccinated child and never really recovered. Met Nhu The Charismatic Trans Medical Experiment Wonder Child in the hospital and was later in her class in elementary school and they just sort of became BFFs after that.

Health issues are like asthma + other undefined chronic respiratory stuff + weak immune system. Also generally brainweird, but tends to be quieter about it that Ruma so he slips under the radar more. Has more pronounced anxiety and dissociation issues after escaping from Sulla, which are exacerbated by his powers.

Ruma is very 🗡🗡🗡 toward anyone who tries to hurt him

He and Ruma have a strained relationship for various reasons. They both have sort of built up these idealized versions of each other that they base their feelings toward each other off of when they really just need to sit down and talk. They finally get to reconcile in Act 3. Basically, they care about each other but have a lot of shit they need to work out before they really have a healthy relationship.

Ruma did do some legitimately shitty stuff to Matt as a teenager (lying to him about some important spoiler-y stuff + bailing on him) that he doesn’t 100% forgive her for. From her perspective, she thinks she was protecting him. I can see the eventual future discourse on this brewing from here.

In general he and Ruma remind me a lot of Dean and Sam from Supernatural, although I made them before I even knew about Supernatural so this wasn’t on purpose.

Chris Traeger from Parks and Rec (particularly when he gets neurotic or freaks out about stuff) is another one of my headcanons for him.

To change the subject: VOID POWERS. He can do stuff like phase into other people’s dreams, make dreams real to an extent, and make people selectively not notice things. (Explanation: People only notice a fraction of what they perceive, and remember only a fraction of that they notice. You’d get completely overloaded and be unable to process anything otherwise. Matt’s power lets him obscure information by making people less likely to notice and therefore remember it).

It’s pretty similar to the Man in the Tan Jacket from WTNV

Mind control doesn’t work on him. You try to mind-meld with him, you just get…static. I haven’t decided if he could mind-meld with someone if he wanted to and could turn his powers off, or if he’s just straight-up incapable of it. But yeah, he’s not telepathic as a side effect of this.

More advanced applications of his powers: selectively shorting out cameras, summoning rifts to phase himself into, creating a sort of void cloud that extends his powers to anything in about a 10 foot radius. Also has telekinesis. This becomes important later on.

Might be able to project himself through rifts for a couple of seconds. (sort of like Lilith from Borderlands’ phasewalk ability) Haven’t decided whether he can interact with people/objects while projecting or whether it’s more of a ghost-type situation.

I think Ruma and Nhu are kind of desensitized to his powers since they’re around him the most. That would be a handy way to explain their general resilience to daemon powers. (Especially for Nhu, since I have other explanations for Ruma. For Nhu I just have…she’s an ADHD bonehead which makes her super inconvenient if not impossible to mind-control. Ruma’s explanation is that she will mentally kick you to the curb if you try to mind-control her)

In case it wasn’t obvious, people like Kaunya and Sulla are literally drooling to get their hands on someone or something (there’s not much of a difference to them) with Matt’s powers. That’s why they’re after him. Other people are after him for their own reasons as well and Matt is pretty sick and tired of it. He can use his powers to evade them, but it gets exhausting after a while, and he doesn’t have a lot of extra physical or mental energy to keep that up.

Also, idea I just had, K + S wanting to his dream powers to basically keep people in induced comas. Not something that Matt would ever consent to, though.

Danza’s essentially his guardian angel. His shitty obnoxious guardian angel who keeps saving his ass and is probably working for someone but I can’t say who or why. Their dynamic amuses me but I don’t really condone shipping it. Danza’s mean and Matt needs emotional support and Danza’s not interested. Brynnza’s a better ship anyways.

Probably eats relatively healthily but also eats a lot of sugar and Starbucks and shit.

I have had Matt as a character for over 10 years and I am just NOW realizing that he’s bi and probably wears gold jewelry. I attribute this delay to me being a fool and a coward.

[jellybracelet]

Do you think the spray tanner on set gave them full body tans or just face and neck because they knew no other skin would show