#and a tragic backstory

[serendipity-by-chance]

idk but calling the darkling psychopathic, insane, manipulative, etc is in no way insulting to me like i knew all of that AND liked him. like he’s the villain he’s supposed to be fucked up.

also it makes him sexy🤷🏻‍♀️

#darklina #the darkling #aleksander morozova #shadow and bone #like hes hot and insane #and im easy #and he has dark hair and dark eyes #and a tragic backstory #im easy

[gh-0-stcup]

We as a culture were robbed when Dracula caught on over Carmilla.

#not saying dracula's a bad book #(or even that it's worse than carmilla) #but in terms of vampire lore and tropes and possibilities for expanding characters? #carmilla is where it's at guys holy shit #how have there not been seven million adaptations? #or even a single proper high budget one? #like we seriously as a culture decided to morph dracula into a mysterious sexy count with an obsessive love for the female protagonist #and a tragic backstory #while carmilla was literally right there! #we have a thousand different stories on van helsing and renfield but zero on who the fuck that lady claiming to be carmilla's mom is? #or anything about those people helping her? #such a cool little story that would be soo awesome to see properly adapted #carmilla

[lordspoooky]

Ice king is a really good character because they intoduce him and you're like "haha what a freak what's wrong with him" and then the show goes "oh! You want to know? Let me show you :)" and you end up just sitting there like

#hi you clicked on the root post :) #good ass character #i love characters that are 'hehe goofy weirdo' and then they show their backstory and they're the most tragic fucking character in the show' #adventure time #ice king

[corvidcall]

"blumhouse when they ship the final movie and then realize they forgot to give the killer a fucking motive" his motive is that he wanted to kill people💖 hope this helps

#fnaf #fnaf movie #would the movie have been better if it went into his tragic backstory. be honest #fnaf movie spoilers

[egophiliac]

this is basically what happened, right?

(these guys are very lucky that everyone at NRC 1) has the combined intelligence of a sack of bricks, and 2) is easily distracted by shiny things.)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #these two are SO sleazy and i am utterly delighted by them #can't wait to find out their tragic backstory in approximately 3-4 weeks! #fortunately i have like a month to figure out how the heck to draw their hair (spoiler: i will never figure it out) #also. god. i love it whenever leona accidentally reveals his Mom Side. #he doesn't care about any of this but he WILL be tagging along to make sure no one else gets into trouble #once again he has to be the Responsible Adult and he hates it. the whimsical hat weighs heavy upon his head. #anyway this is me so excuse me while i now talk about diasomnia for three hours #but lilia being all 'kids gotta have some adventure in their lives!' is hilarious #specifically because you know silver would NEVER. #100% silver not only never snuck out but he always went to bed on time AND brushed his teeth AND flossed even when nobody made him. #lilia: aww but you should be enjoying your youth! >:c #silver: i am. i enjoy being respectful and disciplined and honoring you as my father. #lilia: #lilia: maybe i'm TOO good at raising kids #you know i was going to say none of his kids would be involved in this but i actually think malleus definitely would #he would not see it as a moral quandry though. he would just be excited to be invited along. #(the only reason he isn't there is because he was busy admiring a termite-infested beam somewhere and yuu didn't get a chance to ask him) #i mean MAYBE if lilia as his single authority figure told him no then he would have some reservations #but lilia's the one who's screaming HELL YEAH LET'S SNEAK OUT AND DEFY AUTHORITY while dabbing so moot point there #sebek would never and he would rat on everyone else. unless malleus is going in which case he's already there. #and i guess if everyone else is going silver probably would too #but he'd. y'know. feel conflicted about it.

[vampqueers]

Just imagine Kipperlilly rolling up to the new guidance counsellors office after the pervious one got killed to bring back some kids to life. And she sits there complaining about not having a tragic backstory since every rouge needs a tragic backstory, and that it’s so unfair that Riz has one. He’s got a dead dad, a mom who over works, a missing baby sitter, and he’s poor. And she’s got a pretty much perfect white picket fence life. And all the while the werewolf guidance counsellor who stays as half wolf as a from of a political statement, who less than a few weeks ago was a drug dealer and super down on his luck and life was just over all bad for him has to be like “hmm yea unfair… how about your adventuring skills?”

#dimension 20 #d20 #d20 fhjy #fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #kipperlilly copperkettle #jawbone o'shaughnessey #kipperlilly being a rouge with out a tragic backstory and mad about it is so funny to me

[licollisa]

In which they have a conversation.

(Bonus below)

Chara calling Frisk 'partner' will always hold a special place in my heart.

#(pats both of them) these badtheys can fit so many tragic backstories inside #also don't ask me where said area is. idk man i gave up on the bg #(british voice) perhaps even nuts #undertale #chara #frisk #lico arting

[iamalivenow]

dead boy detectives was very fun but they sure are not sixteen. on no planet are any of them sixteen. the show was so completely uninterested in them being sixteen too. yeah these two girls are sixteen, yeah they live alone, and rent their own apartments, and never go to school why would they? funniest thing by far.

#dead boy detectives #i get its because the boys have to be that age for tragic backstory #and the girls can't be older because that would be weird #but you have to understand. #riverdale had more believable teenagers

[koipepo]

That omake of little Kabru not being able to show off his howetown sweets because of Misril gets to me a lot so...

Here's a happier Kabru (and Lairu)

#kabru #lairu #labru #laios #dungeon meshi #my art #my fanart #fanart #idk why i resort to fluffy fanart even tho i keep thinking and seeing gag/hornt lairu stuff #kabru is just so.. fascinating and actually endlessly tragic #i kinda like that ryoko kui doesnt try to over-explain or dramatize her characters that have tragic backstories. it makes her world that- #-much more believable and realistic. that being said i will devour more kabru stories from her #i kinda cant stop thinking abt kabru (and to an extent lairu) #ik in Lairu/Labru fanart Kabru is usually depicted as humorously in denial guy #but i see it everywhere and it made me think more of their more understanding phase in the epilogue #maybe laios is ooc here but i think he will also warm up to human connection now that he actually has people he cares abt around him #(and maybe because kabru is teaching him tips and trick to be a Normal Guy lmao) #im also not very good at humor so theres only so much i can do with gag lairu 😂

[vladdyissues]

The great thing about canon giving you only vague details about a character is the fact that you can take that character to the Build-A-Blorbo workshop and stuff them with whatever headcanons your little heart desires.

#fandom #blorbos #headcanons #danny phantom #star wars #worldbuilding #fanfiction #fanart #and then you get to sit around and play blorbos with other fans #''omg i love your blorbo's costume redesign!'' #''i love your blorbo's tragic backstory!'' #''i love what you've done with his hair!'' #tumblr is the build a blorbo workshop btw

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[piosplayhouse]

"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"

#dont ask why binghe gets to be a human but sqq has to be a unicorn #maybe hes prince lir in this au actually wait omg that would be good #half human half red bull sxy was freakay #the unicorn turning human to disguise herself is obviously sqqs plant body allegory #binghe sniffing around the castle: where is shizun i can still smell him? suspiciously sqq shaped human: gulp #binghe's tragic backstory in this au i guess is that he meets shen qingqiunicorn as a kid and sqq can sense that hes half fae and so #takes him semi under his wing but is like a prick about it until binghes seal breaks and they find out that hes a red bull fae #and shen jiu stabs him into the ocean something something abyss he comes back gets adopted by haggard kills every unicorn by throwing them #into the ocean as well before picking off shen jiunicorn last. and then sy fucks it all up #it's been like a decade since i read the book sorry #svsss #scumbag self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #sqq #lbh #luo binghe #my art #svsss last unicorn au

[runningwithscizzorz]

Sacrifice of the flesh for freedom in the spirit

“M-May venom strike the evil from my broken heart, may a flood wash away my sins, may fire scald the demons in my skin. O, only in Death am I free…. I’m sorry, Umm, I’m so sorry…”

Incase y’all can’t read cursive

#liseysart #haha please don’t hurt me guys #fun fact: I don’t actually like giving my characters tragic backstories #writing Nour with this story is legit making me sad haha #illustration #cotl fanart #cotl lamb #cotl

[drathe]

I hope you die, I hope we both die

Enver Flymm and Urge, the unloved children

#my art #sketch #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #enver gortash #Enver Flymm #the dark urge #theyre awful but I feel for their younger selves #tragic stories not always make backstories for heroes #rina

[musubiki]

my best friend is the main character

#the cat witchs guild #tcwg #the misc adventures of mochi and lime #tmaomal #mochi #coco #lime #oscar #(oscar makes a one-panel appearence as a side chara #art #ocs #original #comic #mbfitmc #i think about how if anyone went to this school and you asked them who the main character is anyone would say coco #theres a beta idea that taffy kidnaps coco because he thinks shes the witch at first #(but...youre the only one with bright hair and tragic backstory and wears all black) #coco: its trendy #im slowly realizing that the only way lime knows how to flirt is giving mochi weird shit #gifting frogs is his love language appearently #if he cant hug her the second choice is appearently giving frogs #side quest npc mochi is so cute i want to talk to her!!!!!

[sophsicle]

no but, remus actually will not accept sirius at his worst and that's why it's wolfstar for me babe. like he won't. you want someone to pat you on the head and tell you what a good boy you are you go to james for that shit. because i have been hurt too and i have been broken too and im not interested in your fucking bullshit. you pick yourself up and you deal with it. the same way i pick myself up after every full moon. i will love you deeply but i will not love you blindly. that's why it's wolfstar for me.

#wolfstar #if you're gonna act like a dick i don't care if you've got a tragic backstory i have shit to do #i just don't think remus is playing those games yall #soph rambles #sirius black #remus lupin