#his backstory FASCINATES me

[eternalglitch]

! Warning! In Stars and Time spoilers ahead.

Quick little drabble from Siffrin's POV under the cut.

Character angst focused.

The shock to your brain, to your senses, is so bad that you feel yourself falling, twisting, blacking out. It is pain, a throbbing migraine, stars exploding behind your eyes, a ripping sensation as everything is dragged out of your hands and tossed away like an unwanted toy. Your brain stutters restarts resets. The ground is hard, and gritty, and cold. Your back presses against it, and you are staring up, up at the dark void above you, little pricks of white light finally finishing their swimming motion back in the position where they should be– Universe guide us– last vestiges of thought dripping through your fingers as your eyes widen with– You don’t remember what this sensation is. Some kind of feeling. Some kind of emotion. …what were you doing again? You slowly sit up. There are people around you, speaking. Gesturing. You listen to their words, but they are garbled foreign unrecognizable. You open your mouth, try to ask– …what are the right words? Your brain starts to burn, pain, searing pain rearing back up again. You don’t know the words. One of the people around you finally says something your brain catches, hooks its claws into and clings to for dear life. “Hello?” That was… Vaugardian, your brain quickly shoves this into your hands. You had learned the bare minimum before… before… You’re not sure before what. The people are still speaking, and you start to slowly catch a few more words… but they aren’t matching the order that you try and place them, the meanings all jumbled, all wrong, you don’t– Your clutch your head in your hands as it pulses again. Something is wrong– your home is– you scream and scream but by the time your throat catches, and you gasp for more air, you have already forgotten just what it is you are screaming about.

#glitch writes #isat #isat spoilers #JUST A QUICK LITTLE THING #his backstory FASCINATES me

[cringefailvox]

what do you think of mimzy? and her friendship w alastor omg ( bcs things were looking kinda shaky at the end of dad beat dad 😭

i think mimzy is one of those friends that's an absolute blast to get hammered with but you wouldn't trust her to dogsit for you, you know? she can watch my drink but nothing else. i imagine it's probably a situation where they started off genuinely close, but then alastor became more and more powerful while mimzy got herself into deeper and deeper shit, and alastor's laxness with his friends probably only enabled mimzy's belief that she could keep using him to bail herself out every time she got into something new. rosie could get away with swinging him right off his feet, so there's a precedent of alastor indulging his friends beyond what he would normally allow anyone else. i think he is honestly fond of mimzy, but it's impossible for him to acknowledge that someone else might be taking advantage of him. it hurts his pride too much to say no to her, because that would mean she's affecting him somehow, which doesn't align with his mental image or his very highly treasured reputation. but he can cut her off if it's not for himself, it's for the hotel - when it's an investment of his that she's threatening, not his ego. sorry, this was supposed to be about mimzy but it turned into another alastor character study, i just can't help myself

#she's also an interesting window into alastor's human life #which i find fascinating bc she chose to tell a vague story about his rise to power as the radio demon #instead of telling angel & pen anything about his mortal backstory #maybe she knew that was a boundary even she couldn't get away with crossing but it still intrigues me. girl i want to know MORE #mimzy #alastor #hazbin hotel

[anonymous-chicken-was-taken]

I Am Rattling The Stans Around In My Brain Aggressively Like A Maraca

#i love them #so much #in a lighthearted sense they are GOOFY and ICONIC silly little guys who are both right about everything they do #in a serious sense their backstory is absolutely heartbreaking and Stan's entire character is so tragic and his arc makes me cry #and Ford is so fascinating and undoubtedly a good guy whom I love so much but he's made so many mistakes and he's so out of touch #they deserve the best they deserve each other #damn if they didn't earn their happy ending #gravity falls #gravity falls spoilers #stanford pines #stanley pines #stan pines #ford pines #grunkle ford #grunkle stan #these mfs have so many names #is there a tag for them collectively? the stan twins or smth? #I'd look into it more but no offense gravity falls fandom y'all seem kinda insane

[tacagen]

xenophobic fucker my beloved. who else would take a reasonable and even noble 'we must prepare to face any alien threat and prevent whatever happened to me from happening to others' takeaway from his traumatic life events and somewhere along the way straight up make it into 'I HAVE TO MAKE A SUPERIOR HUMAN RACE BASED ON MUTATED RAT GENES AND MY APPEARANCE, INFILTRATE THEM INTO THE HUMANKIND AND IF THEY KILL 57% OF IT WHILE SEARCHING FOR MUTANTS/ALIENS IN HIDE THEN SO BE IT, THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A HEALTHY OUTCOME FOR EARTH.'

#agent bishop #agent john bishop #tmnt bishop #tmnt 2003 #tmnt #grrrrr I WANT TO DISSECT HIM TO LEARN OF HOW HIS BEAUTIFUL BRAIN FUNCTIONS. SO MUCH. #his logical constructions are one of the wildest i've ever seen. i need to know every single detail of what leads to them #and dont get me started on ff!bishop. this guy SO hasnt reformed or actually reflected on his xenophobia and war crimes. #and can we talk about how his backstory is a rape metaphor. how he actually has the right to be extremely wary of aliens due to that. #his paranoia is LEGIT but instead of focusing on that he chooses to waste governmental budget on genetic experiments ON HUMANS INCLUDED #literally the fuck was that episode with the monster from epf container being the dude who had bishop as his best man. LITERALLY????💀💀 #AND HIS ONLY REACTION TO POOR DUDE HE WAS CLEARLY CLOSE TO TRYING TO FOLLOW MEMORIES OF PLACES 'HE STILL REMEMBERS.... FASCINATING'?? #FASCINATING INDEED. GIVE ME YOUR BRAIN NOW #god what an insane mix of mister sinister and senator kelly who has the name of another third xmen character

[rollforjackass]

thank god i've come back to tumblr after all this time bc where else could i say "i've been simping for the scarecrow from batman begins lately" with impunity. anyway thank you cilian murphy for your service

#idk his take on scarecrow fascinates me bc of his progression through the trilogy #like we're all familiar with the 'villain descends into madness' trope and how it's usually played as a tragedy #we see traumatic backstories & flashbacks & the underlying narrative is 'i don't want to be this way' or 'i just want it to stop' #so i'm obsessed with the fact that when we see crane again in dark knight & dark knight rises he's Even More Confident than he was in bb #he goes from quiet meek-ish schemer to wise-cracking criminal who smirks at the batman when he's unmasked #and then to the preening judge of bane's mock court doling out death sentences like it's a game to him #and like we Could have had the scarecrow that we saw in the end of bb: straitjacketed & descending into madness #we Could have had a harvey dent-ish downfall where he becomes someone to pity rather than someone to fear #but we didn't! we got a guy who said 'what drives you crazy makes you stronger' and went on to have a whole lot of maniacal fun #and i think that's really the essence of how batman villains Become iconic batman villains: being utterly ride or die for their public imag #scarecrow: oh i got gassed & went a little delulu? i'm a known criminal who will never hold a job as a doctor again in my life? #scarecrow: so what i'm getting here is that i'm free to become Worse~ #batman #jonathan crane

[note-boom]

Higuchi and Ranpo are just such interesting author-based characters in BSD.

I know it's weird to connect the two but hear me out...

So far, the only authors I can remember that don't have a known ability are Aya, Higuchi, and Ranpo. Aya and Higuchi will likely get an ability (latter has been confirmed to have one, at least) while Ranpo...probably won't? Though you never know.

But the reason I bring Higuchi and Ranpo together is because the latter is an author who is heavily implied to be the son of one of his IRL counterpart's characters. And meanwhile, the former is someone who has one of the real people in her IRL counterpart's life (that is to say, BSD Higuchi's sister) brought into the manga. Yeah, Tanizaki and Akuatagawa have their sisters be based off characters, and we also have Haruno based off a Tanizaki character, plus Fitzgerald's characters in the eyes of god story arc.

But I really think that it's interesting that Ranpo is the child of his own character. And that Higuchi is I think the only one with a family member that is based on IRL Higuchi's own family situation. That we might actually have a BSD character based on a real life person that wasn't a significant writer of some sort (to my knowledge, at least).

I don't really have a point with this, but it is interesting and aghhhhhhh Asagiri I'M BEGGING you to do something with Higuchi that doesn't involve Akutagawa! There's so many things about her and I want to know!

#seriouslyyyyy #ive seen some metas about higuchi's ability being tied to one of her shorts that shows how people cant escape their childhood fates #and that would be SO cool in a manga like bsd that takes the whole doomed by the narrative and fighting against the narrative theme #and also just....her sister!! #im just obsessed okay? i want to know more about higuchi #i want to know why she kinda gives protagonist vibes when we were introduced to her #and i NEED to know her motivations and goals because forget staying in the pm for aku how did she join? #how did she climb up the ranks? #but you know i wonder how people survived without the light novels given all the hints canon gives us about the side characters #like how did they handle chuuya before fifteen and stormbringer? #how did they handle dazai before entrance exam and dark era? #what did people think about fukuzawa and ranpo before untold origins? #asjdurjthhtjdkskeh screaming and yelling because so many of the side characters need light novels #but yeah ranpo is pretty fascinating too but we got almost all his backstory now for what happened during the ada early years #and this manga is probably aya's backstory xD #anyway above is me slowly going insane thanks #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd higuchi #bsd ranpo #bsd aya #character analysis #spitting nonsense

[yuuminni]

its just so incredibly funny to me that in a game with a literal Flowersland kingdom and Flowersland prince and Flowersland princess whose designs have flower crowns and everything. and they gave the "birds flock to them when they sing" cliche to some guy from Sandland who howls like a wolf.

#fire emblem engage #god im so sorry for posting continuously in the main tag but he's such a fascinating guy genuinely. to use in gameplay AND storywise #fe pandreo #and like when you think about it he really is a disney princess. like he has all the qualities. #people are happy when they enter his company and if they are not he Wont leave them alone until he makes sure they are #he uplifts everyone. he gives suffering people a community and something to believe in. not a Single selfish bone in his body. #like if you throw him into k*ngdom hearts he will be a princess of heart literally #and what else. powerful magic user. healer. prays even for his fallen enemies. parents-related tragic backstory. #me when i first saw pandreo: oh hey he can double a mage killing them all while taking exactly 0 damage if i place him next to alear. lol #and he howls! thats a fun gimmick #me now: #fe engage #duri vs fe

[pekoeboo]

crying because i'm thinking about the Nuance involved with my characters and their backstories and the complexities of good intentions vs selfish behavior causing harm to others and i CANT EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS via art or writing. HOW are people supposed to know how complex and deep these characters are if i dont draw or write it out tho!!!!!! ugh

#i have rarely talked about khalan's past in particular #there was a big backstory post i made a while back but a lot of that info is outdated now #but just thinking about his backstory again made me appreciate how nuanced it all is. the idea of like #leaving an abusive relationship for your own personal health being done in a way that is actually harmful to yourself and others #and the question of what is the fine line between a selfish act and an act of bravery?? #khalan's whole situation with his dad is so. fascinating to me because jal was genuinely a terrible person #and very seriously hurt his son both physically and emotionally #but also. khalan choosing to be defiant by leaving home ended up having horrific consequences #since he didn't ensure that someone would be there to keep watch over his dad in his absence #and jal got turned into a zombie because of that #like!! khalan was right to get out of that abusive relationship of course but also. he was wrong to do it in the way he did #and i love that he messed up. i love that his way of going about it wasn't a clear-cut 'right' thing to do #aNYWAY i could go on. #but i won't #there's way more to this that i just can't get into but it's been on my mind right now and i had to scream about it #text post #probably delete later #my ramblings #khalan

[thelostsisters]

every person who says ramón isn’t as good of a character in the remake as the original owes me $500 in cash right now

#you’re LYING yes he is? #ofc he doesn’t act the same his og character’s goofiness matches the tone of the game but it wouldn’t fit with re4r’s more darker tone #his personality isn’t even that different he’s just more cruel #which makes sense bc the cult overall is presented as a lot more intense #plus there’s way more backstory on him and his family that wasn’t explored nearly as in-depth in the og game #i could go on and on this idiot is so fascinating to me lol #ramon salazar #resident evil #resident evil 4 #re4make #resident evil 4 remake

[rivalsilveryuri]

let’s him walk around on my palm

ruby and sapphire

#VOICEMAIL #funny 2 me that viz just. made his reoccuring...........bathroom joke into him pourign a can off of rooftops. but everyone else is still #reacting like he's killing someone while he's likr 'i love recycling :)' and emptying a can of pepsi or somethign #sorry that its what first comes 2 mind with him. #but i DO like emerald.... he's kinda the only hoenn dexholder i ... like??????????????? not in the way i DONT like the other 2 i just don't #have much 2 say on them. but also because reading rs may actually trigger my ptsd i think. a little. ummm. so i dont remember basically any #of rubys half.. i remember saphs just fine thoguh. but yeah what was i on about. umm. oohhh yeah i like emerald thr best #kinda makes me mad how people just infantilise him and look over. basically everythign about him. like his sibling relationship with crys #+ his backstory + the shit under the surface for the way he acts.. #+the interaction they have as a trio because i find it kind of fascinating but its honestly the shortest amount of time 2gether a trios had #idk. it feels likr 2. people out there are actually interested in *emerald* himself #and everyone else just likrs. ............how everyone else sees him in universe.... and the rest see him how emerald wants to be seen. idk #always shy about character analysis cause i always worry im pulling at nothign and cooking nothing but i feel decently confident that- #-thats the whole point of emeralds character and his childhood and behaviour n etc. #i have NOT read oras though. umm. heard mixed things about it but who knows. itll take me 50 years 2 get there n e ways... #also emerald and wally. wish they interacted at LEAST cmon. unless ive brain fogged it but whateva........ #how did me talking about piss jokes turn into character analysis

[petr1kov]

having almost been through with all of the released arcs of one piece by now, i think i can safely say that doflamingo is the most interesting villain of the entire series thus far. he's absolutely despicable but he is also layered and complex in a way the other villains really aren't

#i mean i am not counting the marines as an institution here because i do find them very interesting #but individual villains on one piece tend to be kind of whatever to me #like i don't give a fuck about blackbeard he's just an asshole to me. evil luffy with no rizz #doflamingo though. i want to study him. his backstory is fascinating #one piece

[sweet-sixteen-kraang-birthday]

lol I noticed I’ve been highly into role reversal aus these days. as in, seem to just think for them for each of the fandoms I’ve been in LATELY. sasusaku? my demon? alchemy of souls? Jjk? and even I think for tg too. like lololol, it’s such a surprise to have this realisation because im really not into role reversals au LOL but all of this is staying otherwise

#suddenly getting wanting to role reversal ninjago now too #JFJJFJDJDJDJJDJDJDJD #i talk #but seriously. like. when i think “role reservals’ it’s incredibly boring to me. unless it’s sasusaku. everything is not boring when it’s no #t sasusaku #BUT I think it’s just cause. I think role reversals is the same story but just the characters swapped but. no. No it really isn’t #the dynamic might feel *similar* but it’s so distinctly different #and what i really like is the way its role reserval but OH how even if fate stands with the diff set of cards in hands #the story isn’t the same !!!!! since the ones with the card are diff people !!!!!! #also so fascinating to see how it *changes* characters and how this character would react to it #also very interesting to see how i could incorporate canon in the role reversal #like sukuna’s tattoo being his instead of itadori. Despite him being the king of curses #how Sukuna doesn’t swallow the finger in one swallow. the way it’s a concious decision too and how he bites into it because itadori is insan #and how he’s already incoprataed in the jujutsu world while Yuuji wasn’t #the way sakura’s brother isn’t the one to kill her clan. because she doesn’t have one. #the way cho yeong still has her family backstory but it’s still jang gang doing the deed. #with my demon it was really tricky. and i still am *thinking* abt human!Jeong Gu won #BUT…. went to think about madam joo + do do hee #and INCOHERENT. SO MISERABLE. #it’s so good. the way do do hee is the one who meets her as she was a child. and is there as she grows and is unable to do nothing while she #dies because that would be interfering with god’s work #ahhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHH #role reversals my beloved #HJFJFKFKFKKD so fcking funny how i started with “actually don’t like role reversals to. role reversals my beloved #im so fcking funny

[timeskip]

I have surprisingly strong feelings on Chrollo and tbh I think the reason for it is because I started HxH last year. After the Phantom Troupe backstory chapters had already come out. AND I read the manga before watching the anime so I got all the way to chapter 400 with little exposure to the fandom and whatever ideas on Chrollo have been marinading in the minds of HxH fans for over 20 years, with his backstory as incredibly important in my mind to forming my perception of him, without having to add that backstory ON TOP OF an already solidly formed perception of him as a character.

It's just interesting to notice how that perception-formation works. Especially with such a popular character as Chrollo, though I generally haven't looked into Chrollo/Phantom Troupe fan spaces so idk much about other people's perceptions of them... I should probably do that if I want to make sweeping statements about Chrollo as a character or the Troupe as a group and do actual analysis, but since I'm not planning to post any of my strong feelings, I'll just keep vibing as I have been !!

#i do wonder if this is too vague and will make people think i believe he's innocent or good (in the moral sense) #but actually his backstory while tragic and undeserved makes me feel like he's even MORE guilty for his later actions #and it's fascinating for a number of reasons

[thedeca]

i will NEVER get over the bhaal murdering sceleritas fel scene, it goes so unbelievably hard to me

#i was speechless when it first played #bhaal's voice is just so perfect #also re: bhaal's avatar being the reflection of sceleritas fel in his pool of blood #jaheira mentions she suspects that the butlers are to sort of keep an eye out on his spawn to make sure they dont betray him #betray him the same way that a bhaalspawn resolved the bhaalspawn crisis w jaheira and minsc #so that makes it very interesting to me how orin OBSESSIVELY would kill her butler #and with bhaal using the butler as an avatar i think it ties in with how orin is doing all of this for her father sarevok #shes committing all these ritualistic murders for bhaal. shes doing it for sarevok #and she admits it herself when you tell her the truth about sarevok and helena #bhaal doesnt seem to care much though??? because if anything he just needs a puppet chosen willing to commit murder constantly #orin 'dies' when she becomes the slayer. shes no longer orin #in bhaals words she becomes 'murder' #hence why it doesnt matter to bhaal that shes more loyal to her actual father than bhaal #im just so fascinated by the backstories of durge and orin and their relation to bhaal and his cult #because i feel like there are things in bg3 that imply durge mightve tried to resist once but failed miserably #like how sceleritas fel said durge always struggled w simple tasks which i always assumed to be murders #but i feel like it could also mean something else because durge is canonly bhaals favourite child and probably most successful one #also i fucking LOVE that the avatar of bhaal doesnt wear sceleritas fels hat LMFAOOOO #i thought it was an oversight at first because you see glimpses of his bhaald head #no its just because he doesnt want to wear a servants hat #if you wear one of the hats belonging to sceleritas #sceleritas even urges you to take it off

[pastelchad]

So so curious about Takano's parents. Did his 'dad' know that he wasn't his the whole time or was he just as blindsided as Masamune? Did they find out via DNA test or did they just work it out via timing? Were they in love when they got married or was it just because she was pregnant? Did either of them even love him at all?

#takano masamune #sekaiichi hatsukoi #i just want to get some more backstory #we arent told much either onodera or takanos parents but takanos broken family is so fascinating to me #like their neglect is why hes so incredibly fucked up as an adult #he is so love hungry nd clingy and desperate bc his parents were too busy to pay him any fucking attention as a kid #takano please seek therapy

[boxchewr]

im sorry again to saythat. My taste in characters is still

a bit debatable. frankly

#text #this should be. excpected of me i think after my fascination for ghetsis. that i'd like some of the other weirdos of pokemon #faba doesnt even have an interesting backstory to theorize on like ghetsis. he's just a creep and an asshole #but i'm nothing if not devoted to my brand. for better or for worse (some would say worse) #replaying ultra moon right now so i can kick his snivelly little flat ass #i say replaying as if i ever finished either moon or ultra moon. when they came out #THIS WILL BE REMEDIED NOW #because for SOME REASON i cant keep my DIRTY HANDS off of RANCID MEN #also colress is there and if i cant tear his leg off with my teeth alone i will simply pass away i think #^ extremely normal