#sorta at least for characters

[shiikiyun]

I think something i don't often see in discussions about Futa's character is how, if you really take a second, he's kind of a people pleaser

He isn't so in a way like what Mikoto got going on, he does want to be around people of the same interests as him, and you wouldn't think he'd care about anything but authenticity if you stayed with the way he behaves on milgram. It is only when you think about him -in- those social circles he manages to get into that you can see him tweaking lol

I think the closest to see this that we have in milgram itself is that one interaction with Kotoko in which she attempts to debate how prisons respect human rights. Any other time he expressed his opinion/stance on things he was aggressive and maybe condescending to the rest because they disagreed with him, but the second someone agreed? Whole demeanor changed. Suddenly he didn't have much to say anymore and he just parroted Kotoko's words back at her. Why. If he has such a strong personality and mindset, why was someone validating his point enough to shut down his otherwise very firm attitude?

Futa doesn't go as far as to manufacture his every word for it to cause a positive reaction on others from the get go, but he does seek validation all the same. He braces himself for rejection by being loud and obnoxious and harsh until he sees a positive reaction and then is when he does a complete 180 to keep the other person in that place of validation. He is simultaneously completely bad at it though, but I never said he was good at people pleasing. Which connects back to what i've said before about his inability to fit in. Even when he thinks he's doing it right and he sees himself getting validation by people he cares about (in the case of his crime, by mimicking his friendgroup's method of "bringing justice" by calling out someone online, that same friendgroup following along and reinforcing the idea that he was doing it right), he ultimately fails anyway and loses it all over again.

In the end, he's just extremely socially awkward and anxious. It isn't in his nature to reach anyone else's expectations even if he genuinely wants to, so he'll either do what he can within his parameters (mold himself for his friendgroup of people he deems similar to him) or he'll avoid trying altogether because he knows he'll fail (what we see in milgram!)

It also shows how his yearn for a support system (t2 qna + mu's birthday timeline convo) isn't particularly new from his current circumstances, or why the only person he could think of when asked who he would want to see right now was his mom (who left so long ago he barely remembers her). He has just never truly had people that genuinely cared for him no matter what he tried to do to make himself likeable.

#and having this in mind i think i understand why he seems to be “giving in” to amane's beliefs #it isnt solely because of his current vulnerability #it isnt even just to find solace in religion #it is because amane offered him help. in a way shes validating him #and if believing in bullshit like salvation and god will make at least the elementary schooler talk to him sometimes #against being left alone with his thoughts and the voices in the walls #with the track record he has of slightly molding himself and mimicking others #yeahh #and honestly that only means itll backfire even worse! on Him! #in his own words #it is what it isSorry #but no yeah hes fucked. i dont think his religious arc is gonna make shit complicated for anyone else but him #but itll be AWFUL on him #milgram #fuuta kajiyama #fuuta milgram #character analysis #sorta kinda #as always

[synthe4u]

masterlist

What is love if not him? What is life without him? He is your sole lover and husband. You couldn't abandon him, not here.

Even when he was calling out to you to leave, to run and take cover. You didn't move. You kept pressure on his wound.

He wouldn't die. He couldn't die. You would change your religion for this man. You had ran away and eloped with him against your family's will. You weren't leaving him now.

Not when he was bleeding out in your arms. He was dying. You both knew that.

Your tears flowed as quick as his blood poured. No, he wouldn't die alone, and he wasn't going to be the only one to die.

In life and death.

The end for Ghost. The start for a pair of ghosts.

#blurb #blurb of what? of something that will never be created :) #LMAO get it? because they both become ghosts #and Ghost is dead... #haha #anywho do you like it :blink blink: #i could be doing an exam project but i was like omg the randos sorta like my writing so im like inspo #call of duty #simon ghost riley #cod #cod mw2 #character death #ghost simon riley #simon riley #simon riley x reader #simon riley x you #simon ghost x reader #ghost mw2 #ghost cod #ghost x reader #simon ghost x you #simon ghost riley x reader #xreader #x gn reader #synthe4u writing #synthe4u #IDC IF I GET LIKES BY BOTS AT LEAST THE BOTS CARE ABT ME :sob sob: #i could put “The birth of a new pair of ghosts” but it sound a lil weird #i am weird i will admit #help me pls i cant no more

[broken-clover]

It's eternally a little funny whenever I see someone say something along the lines of 'everyone in Strive is so happy now! Everyone's stories are getting resolved! It'll be hard to make a new game when everyone's retired and living peacefully and resolved their problems' and then there's a haunted semi-sentient mecha corpse in the corner constantly screaming from being trapped in limbo

#nothing against the character reworking it's just funny in a fucked up way #everyone get a happy ending!* #*(except for you Romeo) #when I go back and rewatch Xrd vs Strive it's kinda jarring since you have a whole fleshed out character and now he's just kinda conceptual #like sure obviously he's dead but he himself is just sorta mentioned in passing by a couple of people #they didn't even go with the interpretation of 'oh his spirit passed on in AS/story mode' #and based on the character theme it really just reads as 'I'm trapped in neverending hell and my sister's presence is the only distraction' #half the cast is retiring and Romeo is reenacting I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream #idk I could be overthinking it but that whole segment of plotline bugs me in the weirdest way #wish it was more conclusive. wish it had more continuity from xrd. wish more than like two people in universe acknowledged it #how it's presented and how it's treated feels like it has a schism where things don't quite match up #bleh. at the very least there could have been a special intro with Axl #the ending of arcade mode is so abrupt it's almost a little silly #'ahh okay your brother's ghost/a lingering fragment of his soul is desperate to kill himself let's not touch on that much further' #maybe it'd be better if everyone had outtro dialogue like in xrd...? #guilty gear #bedman #delilah #op back on her bullshit

[tea-cat-arts]

Me: "ok, wait till it's in game and you have context to react. The storytelling may support the design"

Also me: "THEY FUCKING ELYSIA-IFIED SEELE!!!"

#honkai impact #I'm really not a fan of the new design direction in honkai #its not because of the individual designs #most of them are fine in a vacuum #its just together they all just sorta blur together for me #and its especially noticeable given how fantastic most of the star rail designs have been #ive been watching witch from mercury recently and it really made me realize just how much i dont like mihoyos art style #for characters at least (big fan of their environments) #the characters in witch from mercury all wear pretty similar clothes (uniforms mostly) #but they all look SO distinct because they go so ham on the body shape and hair and eyes and face shape and everything else #every mihoyo lady just seems to be some pretty lady with long flowing hair and like- #its not objectively bad. I just find it boring #i just want more variety ✊️😔 #honkai leaks

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i only just found your au and i need everyone to have a happy ending so badly im gonna cry ;-; sally is gonna be so freakin upset when she wakes up for real and sees she decimated barnaby.

oh, Barnaby already has his arm stitched back on when she wakes up! and really, even if he didn't, that'd be the Least of her worries. she wakes up into a Real nightmare - partially of her (unintentional) making

#happy endings... well... yes and no. depends on what act you look at #act one? no! actually things get So Much Worse in an entirely festive new way! #act two? eh! sorta! its more bittersweet than anything #act three and four blend into each other so much that three doesn't have an 'ending' #but the final act - act four... well. who's to say! im still workshopping what i want to happen #but i do know it's still gonna have at Least a bittersweet tinge to it #wh lights out au #rambles from the bog #there are consequences and not everyone Makes It. i dont like stories where everything wraps up perfectly fine #even if it hurts! i like it when things hurt in a good way. those stories where the ending is overall positive #but Enough Happened that its just... its an ache. looking at where someone used to be. you know? #my favorite shows and books and fics have ended with me smiling while sobbing bc it yes it Hurts but it was So Fucking Good #and while i wouldnt be able to handle rewatching/rereading due to Emotional Damage... #i think of them fondly and often and theyre Important to me #perfectly happy endings just rub me wrong. it always feels like there's something Missing despite it all being idyllic #i cant let my own stories - original or aus or whatever - have that kind of end #so if thats what people are hoping for! you've come to the wrong person and the wrong au! #i like to be kind but that rarely extends to my creative works! #i like it messy and painful and bittersweet and i like to be Ruthless with my creations with no compromise #sometimes characters need to fight. or leave. or die. or make serious mistakes. etc. #but anyway! anyway.... #i will say that there isn't a happy ending for Everyone. and for others it's... complicated. again - bittersweet

[peachyymomo]

[AI Hop has no intention of battling!]

. . .

[AI Hop has initiated a battle!]

#do yall remember that ugly wip i never finished back in december #yea me neither we don't have to talk about it #but yea this is a sorta redraw of that #i think my art has been improving a lot actually :) #i've actually been considering rewriting ai!hop. at least some elements of it #i kinda neglected some really important characters like sonia and julian on my first draft of it #i think i was approaching it as if it was actually in the game and not like an actual story #and i'm not sure if i made them different enough from sada//turo #pokemon #pokemon art #pokemon fan art #pokemon sword and shield #pokemon anime #pokemon journeys #pkmn swsh #swsh #galar #hop pokemon #ai!hop

[eregar]

Raphael's character class potentially being bard is so fun. casting his tendency to use charm and illusion as not necessarily a devilish trait but instead as a bardic trait being used for devilish ends and suggesting that his cunning is possibly something that was learned rather than something that was innate. and it means he gets to be a bit of a loser <3

#bg3 #raphael bg3 #loser (affectionate) #in case that wasnt clear #but yeah very fun and very cute to pair a class thats sorta viewed as frivilous and unserious #with a villain character #too if that cunning was learned how does that put distance between him and those he wishes to usurp #at least in his own mind #sorry im addicted to slamming the ‘raphael is half-human’ button #you give me a man with such blatant ego-wounds i cant help but dig my fingers in #greg texts

[paluimbel]

Today on Absolutely Batshit Insane Things That Happen to Us As A System:

Turquoises, explaining plurality to some characters in a daydream: See, in our case, we have around 80 system members according to our last census, but that's incomplete and we're definitely missing a few people, so we don't really kno...

Character in daydream, completely unexpectedly: One thousand, seven hundred, and fifty-eight.

Turquoises: What.

Character: You heard what I said.

Turquoises:...

#Thankfully we actually wrote it down before we forgot lol #The fact that there are that many of us isn't surprising we sorta figured we were probably at least an order of magnitude #bigger than we could estimate based on current census date #but like #this was *not* how we were expecting to find out the exact number #The guy who said this (now believed to be a headmate not just a daydream character for obvious reasons) #is a fictive of a character whose power set would conceivably give them access to this kind of information btw #that just Did Not Occur To Us until afterwards #plurality #plural system #osddid #endo safe #pro endo #anti endos dni #paracosm #??? ig???? #polyfragmented

[pespillo]

i love seeing a post defending the grace of shipping jelix n it got like 20 notes max n no one wanna interact with it

#jelix isnt problematic at least with the most info given atm . but you gotta think abt it ... most of it bends jack to felix wishes lol #n warps every character into a hole of What If Felix got to be happyyyyyyyyyy #idk man it just sorta sucks i agree its not egregious n its Painfully easy to make fun of #but like... its not rlly that good...sorry... wold rather see ppl making jack n rose more complex #or u know cough cough i wanna see more jack n charles in the world

[sage-basil]

Loghora situation continues

#nem art #fanart #artists on tumblr #log horizon #maybe I will buy one more west wind volume just to see him #can't believe we never got a honesty spin off. Well at least pixiv novels have got my back #loghora #log horizon shigeru #ログ・ホライズン #digital art #drawing #character redesign #sorta i guess #clip studio paint #rkgk #samurai

[nyxofdemons]

four years for this show...

#IM SORRY. ITS JUST. IM SO. HHHHHRGN #its fine. its good. its entertaining to say the least #but from a writing perspective...... #im not an anti i am the worlds biggest helluva boss enjoyer the hellaverse is SO SPECIAL TO ME #but.. the more i see about hazbin s1...... #how in over four years was this what you came up with. how is the pacing this insane. how is this character treatment ok.... PLEASE #my sorta toxic trait is that as someone obsessed with media analysis; narrative devices; and story structure - #as well as just. someone who is an aspiring showrunner/creator working on my own huge projects - #is that every time i come across a movie or show that i think is done in a really lacking way. all i can think about is how i would #have done it instead #(this happens in a non-critical way too tbf if i really enjoy a book or game i'll be like they should let me make a based on film) #but hazbin. hazbin. all i have right now is 'i could fix her' in my head #I WOULD TREAT THESE CHARACTERS RIGHT I WOULD GIVE THEM THE NARRATIVE THEY DESERVE #there is. so much potential here. how is the execution so lacking #mine #good ideas!!!! good moments!!!!!!!! THE OVERALL CONSISTENT NARRATIVE IS NOT DOING SO HOT #as a side note though i really think this is why helluva is doing so much better in terms of pacing and writing. the structure of that show #is so much more accommodating to a long intricate story WHILE weaving in a billion different character stories #8 episodes for hazbin is insane season 1 needed twice as much #nyx crit tag

[hiisheart]

( so i've been thinking about this for a bit now but i'm just gonna throw it out into the ether in the hopes that some folks may be interested: would anyone find it cool if maybe i made like a discord server or smth?? i'd hope to keep it active tho so given the time of year and how its kinda right after the holidays and everything it may not be a good time for folks?? but idk throwing the idea out there anyways in case it sounds cool!! )

#( we'd probably have like. thread channels as well as ic chat channels/instagram/spotify/that sorta thing ) #( and ooc/media channels too & vc in case we wanna do games or smth ) #( kinda just like. a hangout & rp hub combined into one or at least hopefully akjhfsdfh ) #⠀ ⠀ ♥︎ ⠀ ⠀ 𝒏𝒐𝒂𝒉 𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔 ⠀ ⠀ ╱ ⠀ ⠀ out of character.

[daz4i]

love talking to or seeing videos from other hsr players who focus on gameplay. idk what a main is. i don't have a team i use all the time. i have all 9 team slots filled and i gave my husband psychic damage when he saw it. one of them is called "i like them" and it's genuinely just 4 characters i like bc i think they're neat (apparently they're considered shitty when it comes to gameplay too). i don't understand a thing that anyone here is saying god bless

#i mean so far i seem to be doing okay #i survive boss battles and that's what matters 🫡 (when i'm not underleveled at least.) #idc abt strategy guys i'm a brute force type of person..... i do it in every strategy game i play...... #personally i think this sentiment embodies the player character. so it's okay #alternatively: while other players are playing chess i'm playing dollhouse and making them kiss (one of the dolls is me also) #dan plays hsr #sorta. kinda. i guess. this isn't liveblogging but it fits the title 👍

[acaciapines]

guys what if i told you ive been thinking about dess and actually i think dess/chara might be able to work out in the drkau...like ive been doing some thinking into dess and her reasons and why she does what she does and how she cares about people and im starting to nail down the role i want asriel to play, and. and.

guys i think dess is actually going to be able to change. i think dess figures out how to change but asriel never does....

#chatter #its about like. okay azzy's big thing is normality right. #ive decided hes our monster representative for the prophecy #(which i could make a whole post on but these tags are not the place) #which means dess ISNT which means dess isnt stuck by that #which means like. god this needs so much context i dont have time to give but. #in order for asriel to change he has to come to terms w the fact that a lot of things are his fault #like if he had reacted differently dess maybe stays #or at least doesnt take kris with her #and DESS comes to terms w this. dess is aware that she sorta fucked kris's life #and no shes not their mom but she does love them and care for them #and eventually would start to realize like. i have to be there for them #it wont be perfect but i can TRY even if trying is really really scary #and its this idea of like. what dess-chara-kris-frisk have #is family that could NEVER fit into what society sees as 'normal' #but they have each other. and they want to try. so they make something good #vs asriel chasing normality and pushing everyone away and at the end of it all like #that cant make you happy. all it does is make you Alone. and i dont know if he like #changes. cause hes so deep in he cant admit he was wrong cause then what was any of this for? #anyways let me remind you that noelle is our main character-- #(though tbf since azzy is her brother and has a huge impact on her life its fair he gets a focus too) #I LOVE MY OWN AU <3

[kavehater]

AAAH I have a mutual who’s 18 and he sorta kinda is flirting with this one guy who is a minor as a joke of course ( to which a concerned anon said that it’s weird ) but I can’t help but flashback to er*s

#granted the er*s situation was thoroughly complex and the reason she did those things was her copism with not being able to pull ( LLLLLLL ) #and ik that guy doesn’t mean any harm etc etc he’s not messed up like some ppl #BUT I DUNNO STILL #sobbing #they’re pretty sweet so #hes* #OH AND HES IRAQI TOO I LEGIT COULDNT BELIEVE THAT #dora daily #lowkey kinda sorta sad that a whole anon was more concerned than ppl i knew and who knew my age #and freely saw it happen so readily #and everyone else on that blog #genuinely and utterly disappointed #it’s always protect minors until the minors need protecting goddamn #this is especially directed at rhy yeah I’m not censoring that #🤷‍♀️ #too busy simping over minor characters who don’t have a time skip in canon and aging them up then complaining about it when ppl call out #the brain deadery of that behaviour #girl pls #you did not care about minors from the beginning literally bye #e[redacted] literally ruined my brain chemistry to say the least I will never go into how what she did absolutely muddled my brain never #told anyone and I don’t think I can ever tell someone ever #not to mention practically hyperventilating being unable to breath literally going into madness and ppl think that I’m overreacting and #telling me to shut up about it and blaming me for the situation as if I wanted any of this #lmaolmaolmao #all that and I was expected to do uni girl byeeee I need a good century to recover at least ☠️ #the only thing I DID want is friends but clearly that was a hard ask when ppl can get friends just by existing on this god forsaken app #atp I don’t even know what to say literally just wth #yall say mdni with your dumbass banners and decorate it like something special when yall are the ones to keep from minors you disgusting #wastes of clean oxygen 😭 mdni my foot gross ass adults should’ve never trusted them #the way I’d give them therapy to their complex traumas ☠️ imagine relying on a minor for therapy

[myersesque]

so like. what is the general consensus abt getting gale's orb tattooed on u. bc i relate to him n his backstory a fuckton and Really Want It (no promises i'll listen to the general consensus, i just wanna know what it is)

#like. am i good to go or am i signing myself up for eternal fandom discourse #for the record what it represents in the story is kinda WHY i want it #i am very aware of what it means #again i find him super relatable to the point i cried through his entire quest lmao. watching his cutscenes sometimes feels like watching- #-myself from an outsider pov. #i think i want it so bad bc it's like. a physical metaphorical manifestation of that very real trauma feeling that we share #and representative of surviving and getting past the specific flavour of abuse that we both experienced #and also. chronically ill gang lmao #idk. it means a lot to me and it's sorta a darkly hopeful sorta symbol in my brain #not bc of mystra or netheril or whatever. bc of GALE #but again. if i'm going to be yelled at and told i don't understand his character if i do end up getting it #i want to at least be emotionally prepared for that #no guarantee i will get it. no guarantee i won't #i'm just thinking abt it n want input #og #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #id