#boring character my ass

[starbuck]

we need to defend a protagonist’s right to suck ass and be boring and do everything wrong

#LISTEN. #i once saw a post claiming that [redacted] isn’t the protagonist because ??????? Who knows???? #he’s not the most charming i guess?? #and it’s like. that is LITERALLY not how that works… #you can’t just Decide that someone isn’t the protagonist because you don’t like them #HE’S LITERALLY THE POV CHARACTER LIKE WHAT THE FUCK #LET THIS MAN SUCK AND FAIL AND CRY AND BE THE PROTAGONIST #(also for the record - those are his best features imo - everyone else is just mean) #people will really see a depressed and traumatized man and go ‘wow he’s so boring’ #because they are fools and understand nothing #anyway. #[redacted] is my lame ass boyfriend and if everybody doesn’t clap i’m blowing the whole building up

[kenobihater]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

#len speaks #star wars #revenge of the sith #empire strikes back #the force awakens #not tagging more films than that bc i cant b bothered. incoming tag ramble ahead bc i have sw brainrot rn and im making it everyones prob❤️ #i rlly struggled 2 remember if id watched tfa or aotc more. i went w/ tfa bc it was formative to me as a teen and ive seen it probably 6ish #times? whereas aotc was the first sw movie i remember (specifically the scene of obiwan serving c*nt in the bar lmao) but i've only seen it #for sure 4.5 and maybe 5.5 times. the .5 is from when i got bored after obi-wan's scene ended and ran off to go play in the mud or smthn 😭 #i'm sure tfa will eventually get surpassed in number of rewatches by aotc and rots bc i don't fw the direction of the ST but that's my #current ballpark estimate of my total number of rewatches #as an adult tho if i just wanna watch a star war i'll go with aotc bc it's fun and ends semihappily and i can turn my brain off for the #spinny lightsabers. it's great background noise or for if you're sick or whatever. rots on the other hand? i won't talk through that unless #i'm quoting it with my brother and i am LOCKED IN 100% entirely entranced by it all #i almost picked rogue one for the best quality answer but i think the character writing is weaker and the facial cgi is creepy. esb beats #it by a hair imho bc of that. the vader hallway scene goes hard tho!!! #also i'm not covering shows or games or books or anything else in this post - simply the films. might ask abt shows later but that might #also give me hives bc so many of the shows suck ass and i don't rlly want ppl extolling the virtues of t.bb in my notes 💀 #and yes i do think one's enjoyment and one's opinion of quality are two things that often overlap. but sometimes you just like something #bad and that's awesome. like rots is the best of the prequels by a large margin and i adore the opening and characters and many of the #scenes but that doesn't mean it's the best star wars has to offer ykwim? it's my specialest most favoritest sw movie but that doesn't blind #me to the dialogue lmfaooo

[cluescorner]

I gave myself a writing challenge and I am fascinated by it

So basically I put the robins in a randomizer to give them a new order/role (because I just...kinda wanted to see what would happen + I like role-reversal AUs) and got results that are giving me a fucking brain blast.

Stephanie, the first sidekick who defines the role

Tim, the sidekick who dies and comes back wrong

Dick, the sidekick who saves Batman from himself

Damian, the sidekick who was never supposed to be a sidekick but would go on to prove everyone wrong

Jason, the youngest sidekick who is still the Kid Wonder

...So this is fucking wild. I've got some ideas and several of these fit perfectly (Dick's role is pretty similar to his one in canon), but some of these are fucking INCREDIBLE to explore (Steph being the first Robin is something I never even considered but tbh I kinda love it).

I probably won't write a fic or anything because tbh I don't like publishing my writing that much, but I might expand this into a full AU and post about it. I might randomize other stuff too (ie, stuff that I cannot change vs stuff that I cannot keep the same) but this fucking rules as a starting point.

#uhhh what am I calling this?? #randomizedrobinsau #stephanie brown #oh my god I am so excited to figure out how tf to write this. #because she's my favorite of these characters and having HER be the first sidekick + the one who has a mentor/older sister relationship #with the others?? kickass. though I'll probably keep her and Tim's relationship as 'dating-then-exes' because I think it's funny #and then SHE can be the Robin who Tim got fixated on + figured out her identity?? holy fuck and then the angst of Tim later dying #Tim Drake #tbh I kinda wish he'd gotten a different position because 'sidekick who dies' Tim has kinda been done a lot with the standard #reverse robin aus. But it'll still be fun to write. Definitely going the Joker Junior route with this because Batman Beyond kicks ass #Dick Grayson #He'll honestly probably be the easiest. Like...his role has not changed much outside of being younger/not the one who defines this #But I still think it'll be good to see how well I know Dick beyond his eldest brother thing (which is my best way of relating to him) #Damian al ghul #damian wayne #oh this is gonna kick ass #Bruce does not want his son to be a sidekick but Damian just kinda forces his way into that role #and everybody doubts him because of his history with the league but he later proves himself more than capable #to the point that he can set out mostly on his own and still thrive #Jason Todd #Jason being the baby of the family is also something I have never thought about but holy shit it could kick ass #I really hope that I don't roll 'Jason must die' or 'Robin 5 must die' on the randomizer. I just kinda want Jason to live this time #But unfortunately I double-screwed him because he's on the 'must happen' wheel twice now. I did not think these prompts through #TBH I am so happy that none of them rolled their OG roles. because that would have been so fucking boring

[comradekatara]

one time i asked my brother who his favorite atla character was and he said “roku. because he’s hot” which is of course crazy to me, but ive long given up on trying to decipher his internal logic. anyway, this is all to say that i am not my brother, and i don’t think i can read a roku novel i’m sorry guys 😓😓

#to be clear my other brother not the one i rewatched atla w a couple years ago (his favorite character is decidedly momo) #anyway who asked for a roku novel. WHO. #society when i finally infiltrate avatar studios and get them to write an ATUAT NOVEL #or even a kuruk novel???? i mean come on???? #szeto?????? where is szeto’s gogolesque beauracrat bildungsroman #ANYTHING BUT BORING ASS USELESS FUCKFACE ROKU!!!!! #the one upside to a roku novel is the potential for more gyatso. but THATS IT

[butwhatifidothis]

Do people really not see the inherent disconnect of the claim that Houses Claude is genuinely an amoral opportunist when his dream is to break down barriers to foster unity and peace? Like, is there not a fundamental incompatibility in having a desire for everyone to get along yet being a backstabber that throws people under the bus for their own benefit? From a personality/character standpoint, all that does is make Claude look like a ginormous ignorant hypocrite, and an idiot even though he's supposed to be smart. Because if his end goal is to create a diverse and harmonious community, how is he going to bring people together if he constantly betrays every side? And from a writing perspective, it makes no sense to have a character's actions and goals be completely contradictory and never address it.

Also for someone who is amoral, it sure is interesting in Balthus' Classroom QA Part 2 that Claude likes "ensure the fewest casualties" and dislikes "do anything to eradicate the enemy" when the question was "the war has been dragging for long so let's end it quickly". It's kinda like he has some principles or something.

Like, the idea of Claude being an untrustworthy backstabber who opportunistically takes advantage of everyone without ever growing close to them is just Hubert minus Lady Edelgard could be an interpretation of his character that aligns with at least his initial showing, or a surface level understanding of him. He calls himself the embodiment of distrust, he never fully opens up to anyone, he can in fact be fairly manipulative and callous; the crumbs are there, for sure.

But it also has to ignore how far he's willing to go to protect his people (putting himself in high danger when he is not sacrificial like, say, Dimitri is), or how he supports others having dreams for themselves (Goddess Tower), or how open he is to criticisms against what he thought (Cyril's support), or how he tries to be there for his friends (Marianne's support), or how he's open-minded enough to listen to people he initially thought needed to be his enemy (Rhea), or how violence is not just not something he considers but is something he actively rejects as a means of getting what he wants (The Alliance Leader's Ambitions, near the end), or how putting the people's lives in danger is something he is adamantly against (as you point out, Balthus' classroom question). A staggering amount of Claude's character has to be deliberately ignored in order to come to the conclusion that he's just a backstabbing opportunist who does anything to get what he wants (who magically gets fixed by Byleth's mere presence), because a backstabbing opportunist who does anything to get what he wants who magically gets fixed by Byleth's mere presence does not describe Claude.

Even if one were to take the game's writing failure of properly presenting Claude tackling racial issues (like never addressing Petra's situation despite having supports with her) you can't really deny that Claude is, in fact, a caring person after taking everything in his character into account. For all his flaws, he never abuses the trust people have in him to the extent that they are actively put in danger, nor is it ever the case that the "doesn't truly tackle racial issues" ever translate to anything so drastic as "which means he'll actively worsen relations between two countries." And, well, yes; you still do have to take into account that his dreams are of bringing people together and disregarding past bad blood. He never stops trying to achieve this dream, and he wants it to come true so badly that he is willing to let other people that he trusts rule Fodlan to work together with him to achieve it, shown in VW and even AM. That means a lot for someone like Claude, who is otherwise pretty slow to trust other people so deeply.

That's not someone who would use Leicester's bad history with Faerghus as fuel to violently invade it. That's not someone who would use Almyra's navy to make it look to Sreng like Faerghus tried to invade it. That's not someone who wants to conquer other nations and make his own come out on top. Those things describe Hopes!Claude, which 3H!Claude is not.

It's like. You know how some 3H's fans see 3H as "Edelgard, Dimitri, and the third guy that justifies my fave"? How a lot of people in 3H's fandom don't really see Claude as his own character with his own perspective and ideals and beliefs and morals that are unique to him, and only see him as a battering ram to try and knock down one of the other two lords? And so don't really care how he's characterized in other things (like fanfiction, fanart, meta, or in this case spinoff media) because they never really cared about him as his own character? But then get really, really, really defensive when you point out the flaws in their perception of him, saying that you're the one who never understood or liked Claude, because if you did you'd "realize" that he was always [insert vague, bland description that happens to prop up the lord they actually like]?

Yeah that's basically what's going on here. Most people who prefer Claude as their fave lord do not like Hopes!Claude, some of the loudest voices in the JPN Amazon reviews were of people who hated Hopes!Claude and were literally trying to warn Claude/GD fans away from Hopes as a game because of how awful their writing is, while nearly every Hopes!Claude fan that I've seen vastly prefers Edelgard as their fave lord and are - you guessed it! - very defensive when it comes to Claude fans venting their frustrations over Claude's shit-end-of-the-stick treatment he got in Hopes.

So like, yeah. It's less that people aren't directly computing that Claude's ambitions and character don't match how he's depicted in Hopes, but that they just don't care that it doesn't since 1) it justifies their fave and 2) they never really gave a shit about Claude anyway

#ask #anon #clyde discourse #yeah these people just want Claude to do whatever makes their fave look better #at BEST they want him to do edgy shit just for the sake of it because edge = iNtEreStInG which is. not much better lmao #like these are the people who called Claude too boring because he never snaps like Dimitri does #nor does he do overtly morally bankrupt things to get what he wants like EdeIgard #(man if I had a nickel for every time I liked a game where a POC man was called boring by fans because he didn't do ''bad enough'' things #(before those ''boring'' traits are given to other characters and then paraded around as *that character's* traits instead of the POC man's #(I'd have two nickels. Wyll Ravengard baby you're not boring the fandom is just ass sometimes) #ANYWAY LMAO so yeah you have either Battering Ram For My Fave or Isn't Wanton Murder Just So Nuanced Guys and both are insufferable

[aingeal98]

You would think that since Bruce and Cass's morals are so aligned I'd be rooting for Bruce in his confrontations against Jason but you'd be wrong. If it's Cass vs Jason I'm team Cass she has the moral high ground and I like her more. If it's Bruce vs Jason neither of them fully have the moral high ground even though technically Bruce and Cass's codes are quite similar. Because unlike Cass Bruce has been used as a mouthpiece by multiple right wing writers and also just plain bad writers to the point that you have to ignore a LOT to simplify his morals down to "Killing bad." Like yeah if Jason's going around murdering people I'm rooting for say, Cass or Dick to take him down. With lots of angst and challenging their codes and making sure everyone has a bad time. But Bruce is just such an asshole and yeah, bad person, in so many other ways. (You can ignore the comics where he's horrible if you want but they exist and there have been so, so many of them it's a consistent character trait post Jason's death. And it's never character assassinating him for anyone else, he's always presented as the Protagonist even when he's going through his edgy punch the kids moments. Which sucks but that's what DC chose.)

And also Jason was sacrificed for Bruce's pain and meant to just stay dead and smeared to let Bruce get the angst without the bad dad allegations so hell yeah son. Come back to life and torment your father. Be more than just a costume in a cave. Just get better comics and better fans because when you're not fighting Bruce you've been Lobdell's pet for so long that most casual readers associate you with his godawful writing right after the UTRH movie.

#after alfred I think bruce is my least favourite batfam member even though I enjoy so much of his interactions with my faves #But the way he treats Babs Steph Helena Dick Jason... Tim Damian and Cass too in a slightly different way #i like good batdad content but I was also rooting for gotham war to end with them jumping him and breaking his legs. u know. #dc #dc rambles #scared to tag this with any character tags because it's not coherent it's just something that's been brewing in my brain #like one part of it is that even when cass is wrong i care about her more than the people she's wronging. #and one part of it I do genuinely think despite their codes being so similar at this point Cass is the pure essence of what batman should b #whereas bruce is just. head stuffed up his own ass by so many different writers it gets boring.

[corpsoir]

you actually GOTTA give characters with top surgery scars some gnarly looking scars they should look like the person made it themselves they should swirl around like vines on their chest they should glow they should look insane and fun actually . give em character

#still mad about that one weird 'tutorial' a friend sent me who said to 'never stylise scars from surgical procedures' #literally shut the fuck up . let me draw characters with cool looking scars #let me stylise the shit out of something i have on my own body fuck off lmao youre so boring if you think this way #drawing a magical cartoon character you made up in your mind who has the most boring surgery diagram looking scars. #ok. but i will make them glow in the dark and shaped like ancient greek pottery decorations. eat my ass #BTW MY FRIEND SENT IT TO ME TO SHIT ON IT WITH ME NOT TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO I WANNA BE VERY CLEAR LMAO #om du läser detta; 🫶 #corp.krax

[k-chips]

Kung Fu Panda 4 felt like it was written by chatGPT... It was cool and fun, the two dads were the best thing in the whole movie, but it reeeaally felt strange?

Like, it sounded like a list...

Cliché 1

Cliché 2

Funny trope A

Sad trope C

Badass cliché 5

I literally predicted EVERY SCENES 5 minutes before they happened and the "plot twist" was obvious from the very first few lines

And not in a "It makes sense, it will go this way" but in a "Every movie with this trope does this so of course it will happen"

#I'm very disappointed... #but the DADS❤️❤️❤️ #they have my heart #also #no Furious Five #so 1/10 #kung fu panda 4 #spoiler #kinda #po #zhen #the chameleon #boring ass villain and boring ass new character #and the way they treated the old villains???? #nah bro #tai lung #shen #kai

[karamazovanon]

DUNYA <3 i've been too busy to do art so here are some sketches of me trying to figure out a dunya design that have been sitting in my drafts for like a week ヽ( ´ー｀)ノ

#avdotya romanovna raskolnikova #dunya romanovna raskolnikova #dunechka #im in love with her a little sorry #i never post my character design sheets/sketches/etc bc i feel like these are so boring but i want to post so #she deserved so much more screentime i LOVE a woman who paces and would die for her shithead brother and also has a gun #dunya please just one chance. just one im on my hands on knees #i also found it interesting that she and grushenka are both described as having a “protruding” lower lip & chin #like the same verbiage is used and oh no now im thinking about grushenkas abusive relationship for financial reasons wrt dunyas situation. #hm. #im sure that wont haunt my brain for the next 5 business days #anonart #dunya #crime and punishment #<- my ass was so lost in the loving dunya sauce that i forgot to tag the damn book

[piggiebonez]

dib and zim team up to shoot recap kid witgh a rifle i fcuking hate recap kid

i dont get why you hate recap kid anon that thang is alright by me. the comics have so much weird lame shit later on recap kid is completely innofensive compared to stuff like zimvoid

#first drawing sucks megafartballs but i looove how recap kid turned out. their slightly bulging out dead fish eye........... #i know this post isnt about that but zimvoid was so fucking lame #uninspired dull and criminally unfunny. rick and morty fanfiction. zib is such a stale boring ass character i dont get why people like him #plain white rice boiled chicken breast type character #le sad #my art #iz #invader zim #recap kid #asks #dni banner on an reply post like some fucking troglodyte. whatevar i know the typa fans recap kid has #those people are a shoot on sight for real

[wi1dshxpe]

i just think it’s so sick and twisted gortash canonically has abs. like him being hairy isn’t enough i also need him to be fat. it’s like when people make mods that smooth out his old ass face or whiten his yellow ass teeth, but it’s real. i need to see his muffin top more than i need to see anything else in this game.

#enver gortash #durgetash #i did not care about him at all my first run i was like ‘old man anime boy- boring- whatever- i like the lobster suit lady more’ and moved #on. it took playing durge for me to be like 'actually i gotta worship this man's hairy bhaals i think' which is the correct way to go for a #character. he's whatever then you learn about his history with your player character and you're like 'okayy. listening- seated- on my #knees- you already know what i'm doing down there.' in reality his shitty hair cut and yellow ass teeth are entirely what makes him hot and #that would entirely be elevated by a fat stomach i don't make the rules. this is also true of halsin. actually no party member should have #muscles they should just varying amounts stomach fat to attend to MY preferences exclusively. hope this helps!

[degenerateshinji]

2 dumbasses im obsessed with rn

l'il bonus i made, don't ask.

#i dont know why akechi in mushitarou's suit straight up is just loid forger #touma akechi #akechi touma #mushitarou oguri #oguri mushitarou #bungou stray dogs #bsd #the disastrous life of saiki k #tdlosk #saiki kusuo no psi nan #saiki kusuo no ψ nan #saiki k #fanart #my art #and i still managed to sneak screentones in there #me when i try to render #this is crazy why is art fun now thats weird #me when i outfit swap my favorite characters except one of the characters legit never wears anything other than a boring ass school uniform #seriously why are the saiki k uniforms like that they look like prison jumpers in the winter

[eggwishing]

our couch was moldy anyways

#mindy firefly #august #somewhere out there. like when you look at a photo of our earth you're in there somewhere #ocs #drawin this while kinda bored. which is smn i dont usually do ... #i feel liek i always gotta be inspired when i draw or else it'll come out looking awful #but. this turned out alright!!! #can't listen 2 that dismissive voice in my head #draw draw draw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #wish i could lore dump about mindy and august oouuuh #but gotta do more than that 2 make other people care about em #i need 2 capture the emotion their characters #anyways #the couch represents their relationship. it got all moldy from being where it shouldn't #they kept it outside bc they couldn't fit past the doorway of her house #and got weathered n yucky over time from being all exposed 2 tha elements and shit #basically begging to be thrown out bruh Skull emoji #she loves him but she's about to go hunt him down and kick his ass for being a huge wad #i think after this the sidh just spits the couch back up at her #all gross and burned and stuff but still in one piece #she gets really frustrated that she can't throw it out and just stews in a quiet rage for a few days #decides to just tie it to her house and set sail #maybe she even tries to patch it up piece by piece #or get it inside somehow later on. maybe she removes the doorway or something

[nonuggetshere]

My funny little murder cats from my funny little murder cats game

Story explanation:

Kinkstreak, Oddflower and Ganderspeckle are littermates. Ganderspecke becomes mates with Opheliabite and Oddflower becomes mates with Kingwing. At some point, Ganderspeckle and Kingwing start an affair and much later down the line have a kit, Faithkit, that Opheliabite was led to believe was his. Oddflower has been suspecting the two of cheating and eventually confronts Ganderspeckle which turns violent and Ganderspeckle gets killed. Kinkstreak helps cover up the murder, then later during the vigil, Flowerpelt, who's been suspicious of and spying on his father for a while now, outs his secret affair and accuses him of killing Ganderspeckle. Kinkstreak finds this awfully convenient and lies in support of Flowerpelt to frame Kingwing. Opheliabite snaps and tackles Kingwing, who after getting free runs away and never returns to the clan.

Shortly after this, their leader and mother Coyotestar, being unable to cope with the loss of her kit, decides to step down and Kinkstreak is promoted to leader.

Aka just a normal day in CoyoteClan tbh

#spooky arts #clangen #warrior cats cos #Too lazy to add any more tags #Fucker got framed for his lover's death. you call it a crime I call it skill issue #Also I find the fact that Kinkstreak became the new leader very funny bc he's just. Such a background character #He's literally The Patrol/Mentor Guy. He's just a regular warrior and his entire personality revolves around being Oddflower's layer and #more boring twin. How did this happen. #Literally if not for me making up that he helped Oddflower cover up the murder he would have been such a nothing guy #This is like if Thornclaw became Thornstar. Minus the cat xenophobic tendencies #Oddflower is the interesting twin with family drama. Kinkstreak is The Boring One. And yet here we are #Also he lost his 2 first lives to foxes the first and second moon skip after becoming leader #Call it karma I guess. Gander's sending foxes on his ass from beyond the grave #Also yeah I gave Faith a mullet 💜 #my ocs #oc: kinkstar #oc: oddflower #oc: faithfleck #oc: kingwing #oc: opheliabite #oc: ganderspeckle

[rintoki]

genuinely wondering why some players play genshin if not for fun… like it’s literally a game it’s not that serious….

#for context #sometimes i coop the azdaha domain for fun #and like most times people play like … normally ? i guess you can say #but sometimes you run into those AR 60 long time players or those like east asian whales #u know what i mean #and like they’re obviously cooping this domain for fun like do u rlly think they need help ☠️ #so sometimes they bring low level characters ir even lvl 1 characters #bc why the fuck not u play every character in the game enough times they get boring so u play a character u never play #even if it’s like lvl 1 #which is besides the point #bc this persons level c6 diluc has better stats than like 70% of the genshin playerbase #like i went to check this person diluc #has 2k atk 60/160~% cr/cdmg #like also even if the diluc has ASS dmg #it doesn’t matter bc there’s literally 3 other people in a coop domain #you telling me you’re not confident enough in your builds to solo this giant lizard #me personally i know any of my dps’s solo this domain any day #unless i’m playing healer or support #idc if the whole fucking team dies bc i know i can do it myself #this girl rlly was like ‘level 1 diluc’ #and just holding us hostage in character select #like BRUH JUST STFU AND PLAY DUDE #so i reply why does it matter this is for fun #and she goes #do you think this is fun? #THIS IS A GAME ???????? #WHY ARE YOU PLAYING IF NOT FOR FUN 😭😭😭 #even if we fail the challenge we can just play again??? #i fucking swear genshin players (derogatory) #delete later

[psychoetheric]

i read all of dunmeshi in 2 days and here are the bitches that unswervingly read as trans men to me

#hiding a controversial take in amongst boring ass takes #just as an aside i didnt rly get trans girl vibes from many characters? like for the most part all the women seemed painfully cis #lycion mayjack and milsiril are my trans girl takes. maybe namari but not strongly?