I think modern au Zhu SHOULD be the lesbian best friend trope to Ouyang except that its because this man is her pet project and gODDDAMIT she's gonna FIX him she's gonna MAKE him be BETTER she's going to SOLVE EVERYTHING and he will RESPECT HER (she is actively making him worse). She has a whole complex about it and everything. She has based a part of her identity on dragging this man up from his toxic funk and is fully convinced that if she tries hard enough he will eventually come to his senses and be an equal participant in this relationship. They have a terrible wonderful toxic loving codependent relationship that's neither a romance nor a friendship nor a rivalry but a secret fourth thing.
Predictably, this does not go well. The character arcs would be Zhu learning she can't fix a sinking ship and letting Ouyang fail by himself, and Ouyang learning to not be a shit person, actually, and coming out of his bubble of self-centeredness and working on himself instead of unloading his emotional labor onto the people around him. And they should both get to develop a healthier relationship with each other than what they had in canon bc queer solidarity is great and its even better when it's in the shape of some weird bullshit some gay people built out of the corpse parts of heteronormative romance (affectionate and completely unironic)
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Do you have any ideas for a gillion classpect... I was thinking breath for aspect... but idk...
YES !!! YES I HAVEEEEE I HAVEEEEEEEE >:]] (was just thinking about this today) Ok so like...
Gillion is Hope-Coded:
There's the characteristics like optimism, trust, love good things that to me define Gillion.. Then there's also shit that ties him like belief, destiny, reliance on him as the Chosen one, religion etc.
I like this explanation on hope by loquaciousgamer-classpecting:
Infinite in its power and limitless in its utility, Hope has the honor of being the Aspect of Possibility. To try and narrow its purview to anything less broad would be to go against the spirit of the Aspect. As a positive Aspect, Hope creates innumerable opportunities and makes all things possible. When Hope’s power is present, all things seem brighter, obstacles crumble away and belief becomes reality.
And it makes me think about the quite literal vibe he brings to the Riptide Pirates 'it is your destiny' and shit. Also a lot of the names of the stuff he does in fights (eg Favoured by the Gods, Divine Smite, Prophetic Screw Up - his SWORD is called Destiny's Blade) like... cmon man do I even have to say
MAID OF HOPE:
Ok so I have a personal rule (im stubborn) that most if not all of Charlie's PCs are Heir-coded. It's just in his veins or smth if he doesn't do this he like dies --
Except Gillion (stay with me here)
LIKE from a distance if you didn't know him personally - only by his titles and his importance as the Chosen One, you'd pin him as an Heir he EMBODIES hope and is the deciding factor for the world's fate. But to those that do know him you'd discover how fucking daunting that role is - by the world he was thrusted this responsibility he was born with never asked for. When thinking about Gillion's situation I think of this quote by dahniwitchoflight:
Maids start out relying on others for their Aspect. They’re often treated like doormats, dismissed or pushed around by those they rely on. Their challenge is to learn to rely on themselves for their Aspect.
Maids of Hope start out relying on others for what to belief in or feel happy about. At their starting points they don’t have much to believe in that is of their own making, just what others have told them. This can make them seem like very gullible people at first. They trust and love whatever they have been told to by some kind of authority figure, or what they have always grown up trusting and believing. They do anything they feel they have been allowed to do, and nothing can stop them, but anything they feel like they haven’t gotten the green light for, they will not.
and then i cough i throw up and cry :[
Being a Maid of Hope means to create hope, to create a possibility out of impossibility, to forge his own future and decisions beyond what was put onto him.
and this is what he's doing now with the Riptide Pirates - and I find that message more than anything beautiful ;w;
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We all have those mutuals
the one that you actually friends with and talk to on and almost daily basis
the one that you don’t talk to all that much but still have a emotional attachment to
the one that comments on all of you post and tells you shark facts when they bring you close to and emotional breakdown
the one you aren’t really sure is a mutual but you follow each other but don’t talk to at all and occasionally you like and/or reblog each others posts
the one that disappeared awhile ago but you still check their blog everyday to see if they came back
and the one you share a fandom with
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oh i've started listening to nona btw, my audiobook hold went thru at the library after many weeks of waiting. i also realized part of why i'd been putting it off was because i know i'm gonna miss a lot of important details and characterization and implications and have no idea what's going on during the first read and embarrass myself, which is silly. not knowing wtf is happening is a Vital Feature of these stories. i do not need to retain every single page of a book with perfect clarity or absorb every single thematic implication as i read it in order to enjoy it. <-desperately chanting this sentence while gripping the sink staring wild-eyed into the mirror
SO the plan is to just casually let it play through once so i get the vague shape of the story & then, if i have enough time left on the hold, to do a second listen wherein my brain will Actually Pay Attention. we'll see.
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You asked for a fic rec so I’ll toss this one at ya: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767358?view_full_work=true Stick through the formatting for the characterization, tone, and really the whole vibe of this fic. I haven’t been able to get the bathroom call between Daigo and Majima out of my head for weeks since I read it with how naturally it all flows. My own little Daigo characterization booklet to review when I feel like I need a refresher on him.
so I may have stayed up until 6am reading this (would’ve slept earlier but I couldn’t stop reading it) and hgggahaghhhhaggahshhhhhhhh that was one of the most well-characterized fics I’ve ever read what the fuck. like the differences in how each character speaks (both tone-wise and in differing levels of authenticity) and how they speak to specific others (the daigo and majima dyanmic specifically- how they actually take into account how long they’ve been working really closely- SO good), the mental anguish and chaos vs the overwhelming emptiness of being daigo dojima but no longer The 6th Chairman Daigo Dojima……….I could keep going but I think you get it.
tbh I’d been wanting to write something exploring a similar set of dynamics/situation (post-kiryu’s fake death, interactions with haruka, daigo, and/or majima specifically, reflecting on his shortcomings while acknowledging the heavy Grief left behind) but now I’m like. well I still could but this was so well written in regards to daigo and haruka that, as far as something between those two goes, I don’t feel the need to.
thanks for the recommendation! my brain is broken now (affectionate)
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