#He's in his villain arc <3

[insxmniaxx]

LORD HAVE MERCYYYYY

#disney twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland #malleus draconia #lilia vanrouge #riddle rosehearts #leona kingscholar #azul ashengrotto #jamil viper #vil schoenheit #idia shroud #twst yuu #twst mc #i want both of them to step on me #lmao like father like son #twisted wonderland chapter 7 #liia vanrouge got me in a chokehold fr #He's in his villain arc <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jin guangyao #qin su #The parallels to the mulderskully comic were genuine scripting coincidences that I kept in for the irony. #wwx and mulder both have a strong need to show their beloved (investigation) partner the cool thing they just found. #Much to their chagrin and concern. #For as much of a mess the plot gets in The Untamed...one of the things it does probably the best of all adaptions is setting up JGY. #specifically how we spend time getting to know him as a *Regular Guy* around our deuteragonists' age. #I love how he's present in the cloud recess arc! I was rooting for him as a character! The twist villain reveal felt so heartbreaking! #Here in the audio drama (for as much as it does well) we pretty much get 2 scenes tops with this guy before he's villain monologuing. #before this we know him as 1) the guy NMJ yelled at a lot 2) a suspect 3) leader guy Jin Ling was partially raised by. #The elements are there but but not with any particular depth to make him...interesting (in this version). #Sure we get to learn more after the fact but it just falls so flat in comparison B*/ #ohhhh noooo the guy we are pretty sure killed a guy is gaslighting his wife and has a secret torture chamber. And he's a politician. #not much of a mystery to it all innit. #Feel free to disagree or bring up differing points btw; I love media analysis convos and this truly is just my opinion.

[waywardsalt]

refused to let myself rest until i finished making this

#loz #legend of zelda #twilight princess #midna #ocarina of time #ganondorf #phantom hourglass #linebeck #skyward sword #ghirahim #minish cap #vaati #i thought about adding totk rauru? but hes just polite hes not quite a man whos a fancy lady #this is my opinion but tbh yeah. idc that twili midna looks like that we all saw her in imp form shes 100% a girl whos a gross dude #linebeck and ghirahim were going to be in this from the start but i really had to think abt who else to add #i like how its like. 3 major villains and then the companions with the best arcs #ganondorf ended up being so close to linebeck bc i ran out of room and also bc im gay about them #also i used linebeck's model instead of that one bit of official art bc in the art his coat is incorrect (missing bottom stripe) so. model. #also you get his gay little pose with the model so win #listen vaati is the one im the least sure about here but its fine #anyways. loz polycule from hell #my post #dying over how fucking similar ghirahim and oot ganondorf's poses are tho #TBH MIDNA AND LINEBECK ARE SIMILAR TOO #vaati is left out damn

[songleap]

hey gang i think we can talk about the misogyny in warrior cats without defending a character whos ONLY personality trait is "abuses disabled children"

#i feel like comparing her to most antagonists that people enjoy is a false equivalence because like #they do other things #literally the only thing rainflower does is abuse her disabled child #like if the ONLY thing hawkfrost did was abuse mothwing liking him would be sus as fuck #but uh. he was a major villain for like 3 arcs. #its more comparable to like. liking stormtail #when all he does is neglect his children and be predatory towards younger women #but i have never seen anyone stanning him?!? #if you want a mother with a complex relationship with her disabled child lets talk about millie #wc #warrior cats #rainflower

[transgendermilesprower]

most normal response to rejection

#sonic prime #nine the fox #miles nine prower #sonic prime spoilers #i am actively going crazy about the part 3 preview!!! #i am armchair diagnosing nine with RSD #(rejection sensitivity dysphoria) #i love my emo son. he deserves his villain arc

[zabiume]

Can you talk about what you enjoy about the Lust arc? (since you've brought it up several times and I enjoy reading your thoughts :D)

i think what i like about it the most is that it culminates all the themes of the hueco mundo arc + the overarching story of bleach in general into one fight. and it is masterfully executed.

you would think that invoking so many symbols, images, callbacks, themes etc with one fight would be overwhelming but it's not! it's the one part of the story where it feels like kubo has control of all the elements and you really get to see his skill as a patient storyteller shine. foreshadowing only works if you're willing to sit on stuff for a while, and the lust arc feels like the pay-off for so many build-up moments that have been cooking for a while—ichigo promising to protect orihime, zangetsu's king and horse threat, kaien's monologue about the heart, ichigo's observation that ulquiorra has become more human (while he himself has become more hollow), ulquiorra's speech to orihime ("what is the heart? if i tear open your chest will i find it there?" vs the last hand reaching out scene). it's also an important cornerstone to many future moments—zangetsu confessing that the one they have always wanted to protect was ichigo, ichigo showing orihime his new form in horn of salvation, this being a "despair" moment that ichigo recalls he's overcome when he's going up against yhwach. even if this fight is not the last "event" of the HM arc, it certainly has a finality to it that's very cathartic. we finally get returns for the foreshadowing that's been happening for a while, and this moment in itself is a gigantic stepping stone that leads to horn of salvation, arguably one of the biggest moments for ichigo and orihime.

but where horn of salvation allows ichigo and orihime to succeed, lust forces them to fail. remember, the arc begins with ichigo wanting to gain mastery of his hollow, and orihime wanting to be independent enough to support ichigo in battle. they're both incredibly glum about it, and they're both incredibly earnest about wanting it, which is why it's a painful shock when the events at the tower unfold the way they do. kubo gives them no mercy, just rains failure and despair down on them, makes their worst nightmares come true. they do not achieve anything they set out to achieve at the start of this arc. everyone always likes to point out that orihime "did nothing" this arc or that she fell back to being a damsel in distress for the entirety of it, but again: not only is this is played out like a tragedy, ichigo doesn't meet his goal either. orihime and ichigo are at rock bottom, the worst versions of themselves, the most helpless to circumstances outside their control. they really feel like teenagers here, and when you know how badly orihime has wanted to NOT be a burden, it only hurts worse when she does indeed become one. by the time ichigo cuts off uryu's hand, you've spent enough time with the character to know how sick he'd be when he regains consciousness and sees what he's done. there's a purpose to it that makes me actually like the lust arc for its failure. just because a character is a good person and wants something badly enough does not actually mean they will get it. orihime in particular gets a lot of slack for not accomplishing what she set out to do throughout the HM arc, but there is an intentionality to it that's very different from kubo's usual, good ol' fashioned sexism/misogyny. the despair here feels intentional and not a slight against orihime. he wanted to push these characters to a dark corner and he was not afraid of how ugly it was going to get. i know, given the climate over the last 20+ years of how women get written in fiction, there is an impulse to groan when a woman isn't allowed to take a W but the lust arc is clear that there was no way orihime and her ragtag group of teenage friends were going to come out of this unscathed with an easy victory. power of friendship aside, these are amateurs going up against a man that's kept soul society fooled for years, using a technique he's honed for years, using an army he's built for years. the only one with any amount of career experience is renji, and even his leadership is not enough for this suicide mission.

the only thing they have going for them is the resolve in their hearts. the war was supposed to start months later but they started it early. every one of their foes is stronger than they are. they are vastly outnumbered. and yet they keep going. it was doomed from the start, but something about orihime's optimism and ichigo's bullheadedness and all the victories so far fool you into thinking maybe they can beat the odds this time. but kubo's realism comes through here. none of the victories feel like an asspull, and all of the victories end with a deep sense of exhaustion. they're lucky they came out of this alive, and ichigo is lucky he came back at all. there was never going to be a circumstance where he came out of this unbloodied. his fate was sealed the day zangetsu implied the horse would one day take over. it's ichigo and orihime's utter idealism that destroys them. this is why i struggle to wrap my head around "fix-it" fics where orihime does something different in the HM arc. it just undercuts how woefully underprepared she was at this moment to handle this life and all its raw ugliness (i mean, each to their own, just a personal opinion! orihime's lack of agency plays a big part in her tower breakdown)

meanwhile, you have ulquiorra, who is the perfect antithesis of everything the characters, the series—and maybe even shonen itself stands for. lust comes at a time in pop culture that was a very cinemasins-esque, nitpicky era where audiences were feeling like the power of love // power of friendship trope was a lazy shortcut. it was the birth of the asspull era, where love wasn't enough to justify a return from the dead. even if we've now moved on to a kind of post-ironic/sincere enjoyment of these tropes again, they were already starting to elicit eye rolls back in the early-mid 2000s. ulquiorra feels very emblematic of that culture, a culture that wants nothing more than hardcore realism, even at the expense of our heroes, the ones we want to root for. if our heroes win, there has to be a logical explanation for it. we're not satisfied with a flimsy little thing called love anymore.

the way kubo resolves this is just. so intriguing. i've always pegged kubo to be a bit averse to fully embracing the usual trademarks of shonen (i mean, look at how different ichigo is to the rest of them), but i've also noticed that he's not fully against the idealism of it either. there is a part of him that sometimes enjoys the deep simplicity of emotion and the one-dimension of virtue. in lust, he has an answer that satisfies both the realist and the idealist. zangetsu explains the mechanics for how ichigo comes back, but orihime is the heart trigger. you couldn't have had one without the other. there is a logical explanation, but it's meant to be an underlying framework. the overarching motivation is still all heart. it's...power of love with a little science packed into it. at the end of the day, kubo still loves this genre, even with his usual disinterest in heroes and heroism. there's something for everyone, from the battle-scaling dudebro to the keen-eyed shipper (the two most extreme ends of the spectrum i could think of; obviously these are not the only categories of "fan")

speaking of shipping, i love the lust arc so much for how it feels like an us vs the world arc (quite literally too! even if ichigo and orihime recovered from this, most people had zero faith that ichihime would recover from this, and everyone was convinced that this was the end of the road for them, even if it was just the beginning). it was a special time to be in the fandom for anyone who could see the arc as proof for what it was: that ichihime could survive anything—conflict, tragedy, the majority of bleach fans' disapproval, death itself :D

#with the exception of rukia vs as nodt this was the last fight in bleach i actually enjoyed :( #also considering how many characters feel like they're overstaying their welcome #it really is a breath of fresh air that ulquiorra arrives; does his thing and then exits the stage. perfect beautiful character arc no notes #bleach has no shortage of great villains (except those boring ass sternritters) but ulquiorra is a personal fave #we got to spend TIME with him. we got to MOURN him. god. #meta #ichihime #<- for that last paragraph. #the fact that ichigo is so keen to make it up to her (it = lust arc)🥹 no one loves her more than he does it's so serious #also @ anon: my entire body broke out into a set of chills when i heard ichigo say 'i hear her...' for the first time. life-changing #they make me believe in a marriage between men & women <3 do you know how hard that is to do for a kid w the kind of trauma i have #asks

[astral-schools]

YOU BETTER GET READY TO DIE !!!!!

#w101 #w101 fandom #wizard101 #wizard101 fandom #w101 oc #wizard101 oc #oc: finny #sal art #FINALLY DREW HIS ARC 4 FIT #i decided after his villain arc he changed clothes and got a new weapon #for most of arc 3 i was. technically using the cabal banner which i think is funny #and then i had darkmoor gear for a while #but now i have everything stitched to this slay outfit #oh the bit on his scythe is not a mantis skull btw. they dont have bones #its a carapace :] shed shell #giving him rainbow hair was a mistake its such a pain to draw #he looks fire tho

[inkykeiji]

grrrrr miss icky gross virgin incel tomura from like season 1-3ish i do not like the direction he has been taken :(( want my slutty gamer boy back

i get where ur coming from anon (｡>﹏<) as much as i love beefcake shig, my favourite tomura evolution of them all is scrawny, bratty, pathetic, incompetent and entitled NEET tomura sigh :((

#i do really love tomu that comes into his own right after the my villain academia arc #the tomura in my header #he inspired bmb tomura because he's still bratty and entitled but he's a bit more confident and competent yk what i mean??? #i do miss virgin gamer boy tomu so much tho :((( #i'm sorry anon bb #u all know i have so many feelings regarding the recent route his character has taken #(i hate it) #so i get you 100% #either way i hope today was good to you <3 #please stay safe and drink ur water!!! #inky.bb #clari gets mail

[jklpopcorn]

So.. this absolutely wasn't meant to be posted AT ALL as it was supposed to be just another short doodle but

well.. um

yeah

have an additional sketch as well

#my art #felix #ocs #artists on tumblr #this was completely self-indulgent #this wasn't actually done with my normal set up but instead with a cheap tiny tablet and krita on another laptop #which was not meant to be used for a full piece #but i guess i got used to drawing on it after 200 doodle layers #but still i am highly unfamiliar with the program especially when it comes to coloring #but still! came out quite good ignoring all the things i sped through because again #wasn't meant to be posted #anyway this was inspired by a song i found like two days ago and to keep my motivation to finish this i listened to it for 3 hours straight #while drawing #it worked #also yeah it's the catboy he's the victim of my wrath atm #the context of this is that a hero had overworked his sidekick and a villain took advantage of it by lowkey mindcontrolling them :v #miraculous style #his temp theme is being eepy #in their villain arc the first thing they did was f*ck off for a month and get some proper rest #goals ngl #also the catboy keeps rotating his prononuns like rotisserie chicken and i think at this point i should just give up and go for any pronoun #this thang wasn't made to contain gender #and i keep writing catboy bcs catperson is a little bit awkward i think unless you're literally describing them #also catboy is funnier

[secondlastk]

rowan damisch truly makes like 1 decision and falls into *checks notes* 120+ years of suffering

#he decides to comfort an almost stranger while they die #and is rewarded with 4 months of murder training #8 months of more abusive murder training #like a year or so of solitude and doing righteous murders #captured by villain and killed over and over #escapes and get stuck on a sinking island when he dies in an airtight cube at the bottom of the ocean #revived after 3 years and kept in jail #busted out of jail by villain and almost executed #busted out by a different group who force him into doing less righteous murders #get out of that and get put in a shipping container of corpses for 4 days #reunites with gf who then dies in his arms #put on a spaceship and told she'll be revived in 117 years #arc of a scythe #bookshelf #these books are so funny #the characters just get dragged thru events over and over #but i think rowan has is worst #bc everyone hates him the whole time #and its super not his fault #this isnt even everything #this doesnt include volta and tyger #and his family #and faradays rejection #hes so emo and hes earned it #rowan: im gonna call myself..... LUCIFER #me: you sure are buddy have fun

[beastweaver]

if Blizzard ever decides to give Lifeweaver a villain-arc, I hope they make full use of his Messiah Complex

#like imagine the PAYOFF a villain arc from him would give us #here is a guy who grew up with privilege and saw what corporations were doing to the world and said 'couldn't be me' #then decided to make it his life's mission to 'heal our world' #from the very get-go in his ORIGIN video he's setting out to be a savior #he's not saying he'll do what he can Lifeweaver literally said 'I'm the savior' #would love to see this man shattered and broken #<3 #lifeweaver #overwatch 2 #niran pruksamanee #ow2

[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

@allvalley100

Prompt: Chemistry

Pairing: Hawkmetri

Friendships: Demetri & Miguel

***

“Why do you always do two sets of notes? I know I need to borrow them sometimes, but I mean…” Miguel watches as Demetri slips one of two identical equation-laden papers into his binder.

“I’ll show you.”

Outside the classroom, Demetri slides the spare notes into a familiar locker. Miguel frowns.

“I thought you two weren’t friends anymore.”

Demetri sighs. “I don’t want him to fail his chemistry finals. He’s too busy committing misdemeanors and breaking arms to pay attention in class.”

“But why help?”

“Because eventually he’ll see sense, amigo. I only hope it’s in time for college applications.”

#allvalley100 #hawk x demetri #demetri x eli #binary boyfriends #elimetri #hawkmeat #demetri x hawk #eli x demetri #miguel diaz #demetri alexopoulos #demetri cobra kai #eli moskowitz #hawk #cobra kai #cobra kai season 3 #poor Miguel #he's tryna be a supportive bro #but he's genuinely baffled why Demetri is still sneaking notes to Hawk during his Evil Arc #Demetri Alexopoulos could not stop simping for villainous arm-breakers if he tried

[camping-with-monsters]

Common descriptors of foxes may include cunning, clever, and tricky. And all would be true for the impeccably intelligent mister Vin Dictive!

Vin believes himself the epitome of knowledgeable when it comes to his kind. A clever specimen as he is, adorning such advanced abilities not many normal animal-kind bare like speaking aloud, he finds himself a high and mighty monarch ruling over wherever he treads. Of course, following behind his tail is a line of trickery. Vin likes to make others react to his crimes, and they usually will. This fox seems to have grown far too comfortable slipping away from the consequences of his actions.

Being such a selfish and careless creature with a knack for fooling the less fortunate has landed himself a pretty hefty bounty for his head. It’s apparently held up by a certain pair of ruthless twins. And those twin bounty hunters who seem so keen on his defeat… oh, how he despises them so! Wearing his own subjects like intimidation tactics! How fickle, and how rude! Whoever would place such a resilient bounty for his execution!? But he knows he’s always bound not to let himself be bound. After all, he’s no ordinary fox like any other he’s called upon before. He’s a gray fox— one complete with a feature not many other canines have: retractable claws, perfect for things like climbing and scampering away, or even more casual things like scaling trees to collect fruits where the usual, lesser canine could only dream to reach.

And to display such impressive divinity and vanity, Vin wears his cape, headdress, and bracelets of leaves, vines, and grapes with pride. He doesn’t even have to tend to them or replace them! Because… well, they’re not real grapes along him. Just his own craft to give off a kingly approach. But he won’t tell you that. It’s possible that the falsified nature of his inauthentic gear could allude to the devious demeanor of this divine deviant. And recently, he’s heard from the grapevine that there’s a strange newcomer woman in his neck of the woods… a perfectly pathetic candidate for action in his eyes.

But don’t quote him on that… it’s only a little birdie that told him.

———

Several weeks ago, me and my friends had an unexpected “character creation convention” that revolved around the possibility of a potential fox character, who would then take major inspiration from The Fox and the Grapes. Admittedly, I’ve slipped in just a little bit of Evil Queen (from Snow White) inspiration in there as well.

Vin’s name is also interesting as well; taking from the term “Vin”, which means wine, “Dictator”, as he’s a rather headstrong guy who sees himself as a feared leader, and “Vindictive”, which means to have an unreasonable desire for revenge.

Though there’s a bit to unpack about Vin, I should also note that he’s planned more as a side character with his own brief moment of plot. In terms of the whole story, he’s not the most important character, but will certainly have his importance when it’s his time to shine :)

Credit to @aggresively-doesnt-know, @vinesoy, @menthum-mint, @pazam, @shroingushour, @pizzabits, @agent-plaguemask, and @barnowlblu for helping a lot with the original idea and design concepts of Vin! Whew that is a lot of people! I hope I didn’t forget anyone! Sincerely hope y’all don’t mind that!

#WAKE UP SLEEPYHEADS #NEW DUCK DUCK GOOSE CHARACTER REVEAL #not much else to say that I didn’t already say in the post but #he sucks major dookie fart #he’s certainly a villain but like. a side villain #a brief one-off villain for a small arc of his relevence #so don’t get too excited about him tbh #on episode 9 of I hate drawing dogs :3 (HELP) #I should probably still polish his ref like #it’s kinda messy right now. I’ll eventually get to it though #Vin Dictive #Duck Duck Goose #ocs #original characters #original stories #character references #character design #The Kiwi Draws

[eclipsecrowned]

me giddily running my hands along my main muse's flaws like 'i hate you so fucking much <3'

#not even as like a gag. i love that dream's genuinely reprehensible at times pre-imprisonment. #it's none of this 'redemption arc for characters that don't even need one' #it's 'redemption arc for the villain of MULTIPLE stories' #he needs these acts of cruelty for the story/his attempt to be better to mean anything. #i love it but also fuck you big guy <3

[skylordhorus]

viren is such a good complicated character- i want to study him under a microscope

#*deep space noises* #i find him fascinating your honour #intelligent yet an idiot #arrogant yet extremely insecure #a villain but selfless? in his motivations #absolutely zero sense of self preservation #its why i got mad at series 3 because it felt like it took a lot more of the nuance out of his character #but hey thats what fanons for- chucking canon out sometimes lol #im also musing abt the idea that for once maybe he is a character that actually fits npd criteria #but i feel bad because as complex as he is hes still a villain #and idk for sure if theyre going for a redemption/atonement arc even tho i very much want one #im also not super knowledgeable abt npd either so im just gonna shelve it as a curiosity i think #plus i dont trust ppl to know that i mean npd w nuance and neutrality and not just the shorthand for Evil that so many ppl use it as

[aceofvase]

10 characters 10 fandoms 10 characters

I was tagged by @a-krelboyne, and I’m always up for talking about my own interests, so thanks for that

Riza Hawkeye (FullMetal Alchemist)

Nick Valentine (Fallout)

Ramlethal Valentine (Guilty Gear)

Kat-B320 (Halo)

Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

Crona (Soul Eater)

Shogo Makishima (Psycho-Pass)

Vivian (Paper Mario)

Asuka Langley-S[???] (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

June (Avatar: the Last Airbender)

I’ll tag @bonsaicatboy, @commandtower-solring-go, @frenetic-chameleon, and @silviaelric. But if I didn’t tag you and you wanna do it, go nuts. Or if I did and you don’t, don’t go nuts, I’m not your boss

#woof you can really tell what my interests are from this list #I’m not sorry about my taste but I know it’s…acquired #explanations to follow: #1. I can’t think of another character whose appearance in a scene makes me so happy. riza’s damn near perfect in my opinion and I love her #2. nick’s got a level of focus heart and style that fallout 4’s writing was sorely lacking until far harbor…where he got even better #3. listen I love testament but ram is literally my main. also her arc is interesting and she’s cute #4. just…every line. ''you’re in my light commander.'' ''thank you for sharing.'' ''some plans are too good to say no to.'' #5. watching nick straight-man his way through the original trilogy is a lot of fun. he’s smart but he’s also so stupid and I love him for it #6. I love their design I think their weapon is cool as hell and I find their extreme anxiety relatable. wait is that bad #7. honestly my single favorite villain. he’s smart he’s dangerous and he’s also right. his dynamic with kogami and akane makes the show #8. transfem shadow witch who learns to love and stand up for herself? incredible. it’s criminal we haven’t seen her since #9. god she’s interesting. there’s so much to unpack and there’s never enough time to do so. also sorry about this but I like shikinami more #10. from one june to another I too would like to be voiced by jennifer hale