tw: sexual assault mention (not really explicit but just in case)
not enough people talk about Ghost being a victim of SA and it makes me so sad. IT'S LITERALLY SHOWN ON PAGE IN THE COMICS YOU CANNOT DENY THAT IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!
the comics were published 2009 when most media wouldn't even touch on male SA victims unless it was to make fun of them. we don't even get many empathetic portrayals of it in recent years!!! (whether the perpetrator is a man or woman). Ghost is quite literally the first good male ID'd SA victim rep I've seen in a piece of media that I enjoy.
it also shows disassociation (not dissociation) by having Ghost literally separate Simon Riley from himself. He tells his backstory by pretending it happened to someone else and calling Simon Riley an "old friend" of his that died.
Simon "Ghost" Riley would not "punish" you so badly you have a miscarriage.
Simon "Ghost" Riley would not tie you up, call you a whore, and tell you to "take it or else"
Simon "Ghost" Riley would not insult your body so bad he gives you an ED.
Sebastian Kreuger would not Kidnap and abuse you.
Phillip Graves would not verbally attack you.
Phillip Graves is not racist or homophobic??
Nikto would not hit you for seeing his face on accident.
König would not throw you against a wall and call you a whore for coming near him, the dude has social anxiety..
idc what anyone says, if you enjoy any of these please get off the internet and figure out a different way to cope, this isn't even proshipper level, this is just wrong.
How are you going to headcanon a victim of SA as a rapist? How are you going to headcanon a victim of a lifetime of abuse as an abuser?
Headcanoning a southern american man as racist and homophobic just feels so icky!
Seriously guys please if you have issues, there are other ways!!!
I'm tired of blocking so many lovely accounts because of the amount of dub-con/noncon/straight up Sexual Assault that's in their reblogs or in the accounts they support and advertise.
There is a difference between tough and straight up fucking insane??? Maybe read the characters backstories and actually take their past into consideration because you guys kinda look dumb for making these characters so OOC.
Please get help and keep your gross fics to yourself.
"a father's grief/love" (idk how to do painting titles) anyways Ethan and Rosemary!! love them to pieces and decided I wanted to paint them so 5 hours later here they are!!
I'm sorry but every time i see a photo or a video with shang tsung in it i like cannot watch it because he's so infelicitous looking like he's dying to tell me a riddle
my view of roach is that he's a quiet character [obviously, he's mute in canon] but he ISN'T a baby who can't do anything. he's intelligent and good at listening to orders and doing things calmly. this doesn't mean he's emotionless, in my eyes he CAN be a sensitive soul. for example, I'd consider him significantly less "brash"/harsh/sarcastic than Ghost, but also very understanding.
i headcanon him as still liking SOME childish things, but he isn't super open about it.
as for the whole "hypermasculine" thing? he doesn't really care about gender stereotypes that much. he doesn't care if people see him as feminine or masculine or "strong and dominant" or not. he doesn't even feel connected to feminity or masculinity that much he just GENUINELY doesn't care. he's genderblind, you might say.
he can DEFINITELY get by just fine by himself and doesn't need 24/7 support or else he'll collapse. he's ROACH, for god's sake. his callsign is roach BECAUSE he's good at surviving.
but that's just my take. others might see me as MAJORLY mischaracterising him in this.
oh and he's also my skrunkly scrimbo. he's my favourite little guy. he's pure and Has Never Done Anything Wrong, Ever. just so you know.