#specifically their fantasy high characters

[bacchuschucklefuck]

I know a normal amount abt waistcoats

#fantasy high junior year #riz gukgak #heard americans call those vests. deranged. thats not what that is #riz gukgak is a character made to target me specifically bc I am aroace and I love drawing formal menswear more than god #tho Ive been giving riz hard sole shoes which. wouldnt be good for stealth #I wear those I know. you can hear that shit through a meter of concrete #probably less important in a setting with real actual magic so its fine. but its something I do think abt #this kid is so fun to draw... its a Problem for me. I have to force myself to do my goddamn job knowing I could be drawing him instead #its a curse. I have to treat myself at the end of the day. sucks to be here so much

[healthydoseofhedonism]

"sandra lynn has incomprehensible taste" wrong! there are patterns and logic to her dating history

#yes its very funny to just look at the collection of people shes dated and think wow what a cast of characters #but this is fantasy dnd land more specifically BRENNANS fantasy dnd land #i love her so much #im so glad her and jawbone have eachother #sandra lynn faeth #fantasy high

[rollforgaslight]

I know kipper cunt is a fictional character but I want y'all to keep something in mind:

fantasy high specifically is a coming of age story that has acknowledged the teen villains are children at the end of the day and should not be written off as evil and nothing else.

romanticizing trauma is a very complicated issue and indicative of deeper psychological problems. Hell, the bad kids only found out she felt this way because they read a file she thought would remain UNSEEN by her peers. As far as we know she has only told Jawbone about this. This is a young girl that is reported to have anger issues before she even went to the mountains of chaos so we can clearly see she isn't well or in a good headspace.

maybe I feel so strongly about this because I in my past romanticized other peoples trauma and I know what its like to be in that mindset. and looking back I can see why I felt that way. I had a complicated life like everyone else but because my life was good on paper I thought I needed something worse to happen to me so my psychological and emotional issues would be valid. I thought I wasn't valid in having issues because in theory I shouldn't have a reason to. I know thats a shitty thing to do which is why I never told anyone about it. its a very frustrating experience to have because you know its wrong but for the life of you, you cannot figure out why you desperately want something bad to happen to you.

I also wanna say this is an experience that is different from Dream Tannaka. Dream is a caricature of this issue but what Dreams character does not cover is how it truly feels to have this issue. you feel like a fucking asshole because you know at the end of the day you dont truly want someone else's trauma but you can't help but crave it for some reason. and you feel like you can't tell anyone about it because you know it will make you look like an asshole. Its very similar to the experience of having taboo intrusive thoughts that horrify you.

I will reiterate that I know kipperlilly is a fictional character but this show is no stranger to discussing complicated topics--especially through villains. ESPECIALLY child villains.

#kipperlilly copperkettle #d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #fhjy

[utilitycaster]

💙💜

Which character is not as hot as everyone else seems to think?

We've talked about this in DMs anyway but OTOHAN. She's physically attractive I suppose, although that's 100% from official art and absolutely not from initial description (perhaps that's just me, but Matt described her as having eyes like a bird of prey, and somehow the image of her in my head has always been. does anyone remember the weird turkey pictures of Ole Golly in Harriet the Spy (the book). Is this too weird a pull? Did I make it up because I can't seem to find an online image? Unclear.) But point being before the official art came out I was not imagining her as attractive, even. And then there's personality. Like, yeah, you can say someone is hot based on just a physical image without knowing them; this is how celebrity works. But when you've only one got one singular physical image and it doesn't really match your mind's eye which isn't terribly attractive, anyway and then there's no personality but...I can't even say zealotry because we literally don't know anything about her motivations other than raw murder. I can't even enjoy the inherent eroticism of the sword. Anyway. If you want hot middle age women villains why not og Delilah before she became a loser, or Raishan's human form, or Ripley, or Avantika, or Vess deRogna, or Liliana. If you just want hot middle age women with a propensity for violence why not Deanna with Jerry the Goat. If you are specifically interested in the "milf" archetype (Otohan is not a mother, so this is rather telling) then might I suggest Veth, who is not middle-aged yet but she is a mother and she is super good at violence. All of these women have hopes and dreams and personalities and aren't a blank dull slate to project upon, as I personally am entirely unattracted to the latter. Anyway hopefully this also fulfills one obligation to either @playerkingsley or @whirlingbadger who asked about "mischaracterized"; Otohan is a polarizing figure with many who agree with the above as well but she is also wildly mischaracterized as hot and interesting when she is at best depicted as attractive and deathly (and deadly) boring. She bored everyone to death; the sword just got in front of her.

Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

Eshteross. I fear we moved on too soon when he died. Everyone in Bells Hells wanted a slice of this hot old orc man when he was doing his sword practice, and also he was community-minded and loyal and devoted. More generally you know that post that's like "hobbits have it all figured out, farmers market high as shit, why are people horny for elves"? This is true but also might I suggests orcs. Elves are overrated. Why are people's fantasy lithe hairlessness. This is a very narrow beauty ideal and I reject it. We, as a fandom, and dare I say, a society, need to be hornier for orcs.

I'm going to go watch candela and the inbox remains closed and will for much of the rest of the day but there are two more asks that have the exact same two hearts and I will be providing two more separate answers as well as another mischaracterization answer, and possibly making an eye appointment although I'm inclined to think the hearts just look super alike on my computer.

#cr tag #unpopular opinions ask meme

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

Sometimes you just gotta shamelessly project on your parasocial best friends, ya know? 

#mine #dimension 20 #d20 #I find myself unreasonably funny #I couldn't decide whether it was more accurate to say this was about the players or about their characters lmao #specifically their fantasy high characters #ally's especially feels VERY kristin applebees-core lmao #so I leave it up to your discretion. it's about whatever feels right in your heart. #the main difference here is that for Emily Axford? She just IS the most interesting and clever person in the world. #When I said it though?? That was hypomania lmaooooo #also I'm pretty proud of all of the pics this time. On my last D20 post I kinda just grabbed whatever picture I could find #this time it feels on-brand with the quote lmao #Aabria Iyengar #Emily Axford #Zac Oyama #Siobhan Thompson #brian murphy #brennan lee mulligan #lou wilson #ally beardsley

[hamable]

It’s really interesting to me how elusive Kipperlily Copperkettle has been throughout what is now the first half of the season.

She’s the closest thing we have to an identifiable Big Bad. She gets established in episode 3 to be constantly vigilant, capable of eavesdropping on anything and everything.

And then she’s physically MIA (iirc) for seven episodes, barring her scene with the food trucks at the start of episode 7. I think she’s said to be present at the assembly this most recent episode (ep 10) but she doesn’t appear to be an active participant in anything. That inaction is eating away at me… bc I know she’s doing something.

Talk about haunting a narrative… I’m constantly aware of her nonexistence. I’m paranoid. With every episode that we don’t hear from or interact with KLCK, she grows more terrifying to me. Brennan made sure to establish right away that she could be listening at literally any point. Riz tried to keep that at the forefront of his mind initially, but even he let that idea fall to the wayside as stress built up and time passed.

I think we’ve settled into a false sense of security in this respect. I think that at any point Brennan can and will drop a KLCK bomb on us and oh boy it’s gonna be deliciously messy.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #kipperlilly copperkettle #brennan lee mulligan #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #I didn’t even mention that Aylwen is somehow working for her??? #KLCK is clearly pulling threads behind the scenes and I can’t tell how or to what extent and it’s fascinating #yknow that idea that like if someone went back in time to change the past no one would notice bc to them that’s just how it is? #it’s like that to me. she could just a That Bitch at school or she could be the Mastermind behind the curtain and I Don’t Know Which!!!!! #she fascinates me #I want to put specifically her character’s influence under a microscope

[morphimus]

#jmc #Morphimus' Art #elf #human #pregnancy #this came to me in a dream #tree #art #fetus #pregnant #fantasy #worldbuilding #speculative biology #comic #symbiosis #these aren't specific characters this isn't a fandom thing it's just generic fantasy #high note post

[johnsspacesuittight]

okay I’ve been seeing a lot of gifs/references to the Lou and Brennan create Chungledown Bim video recently, which makes sense Junior Year and all, but it is also what made me aware of it’s existence and I have finally watched it, fully might be one of the funniest things ever

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #lou wilson #brennan lee mulligan #fabian seacaster #chungledown bim #like fr making a character entirely focused on one incredibly fucked up specific purpose is incredible

[applebees4prez]

brennan you can’t do this to me my url is literally applebees4prez… i’ve made buttons and stickers… i gave a vote for kristen button to @caitmayart at zenkaikon… what do i do now if kristen’s getting expelled?

#THIS IS TARGETING ME SPECIFICALLY #KRISTEN IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER OF ANYTHING EVER #YOU CANT DO THIS TO MY GIRL #crying weeping sobbing #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #dimension 20 #d20 #kristen applebees #fhjy spoilers

[mongeese]

Something about the way Siobhan and Emily play teenage girls is just so incredible and accurate to life I don’t know how they do it. Adaine’s rage at injustice, her impulsive violence, her constant anxiety. Fig’s insecurity, the way she barely knows herself because she’s always hiding behind a mask, her reckless love and trust. Ylfa’s conviction that she’s turning into a monster, the pain of growing up and realizing you can’t be the girl that everyone wants you to be, the girl you expected to be. Rosamund believing she’s figured it all out at 18 and there’s no use hoping for anything better, trying to establish herself as an active force in her life when she’s always been told to just wait for men to take care of things. I’m closer to my teenage years than they are but they capture it better than I ever could

#i kept this to just emily and siobhans characters in the 2 seasons ive seen but kristen is also a great example #shes a good representation of what its like to specifically be gay confused teen questioning all youve been told before #i also am certain the seven satisfies the 'painfully teen' requirement i just havent watched it yet #idk what other seasons have teenagers ive only seen fh acofaf and now part of neverafter #fantasy high #d20 #neverafter

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

what do you mean you don’t “agree” that riz is aro. HES LITERALLY GREEN.

#this post is mostly meant to be read as a joke. but also. #sometimes people say characters are ace when they really mean aroace bc they don’t have the more specific language and THATS OK #or some people also just don’t follow the split attraction model!!! #regardless that green ball man does Not Experience Attraction #riz gukgak #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #dimension 20 #mari is irrelevant

[natjennie]

armor of ayda!?!!!!!?!?!! if i fucking sob.

#like armor of agathys right? but for fire #that's so dope i love when d20 flavors things to be character specific #fhjy #d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high

[sea-buns]

Forgive me if I'm a bit nervous about Gorgug this season. It's just that the last Zac Oyama pc was Colin Provolone, who was arguably one of his greatest D20 performances, if not the greatest.

Zac always does great with every pc he plays, but Colin was something else. He came out swinging with actions and words that were teeming with unspoken emotional baggage. The way Colin's presence affected the other pcs; there was this level of depth that I don't think I've seen in any of his other characters. It was understated and quiet in that signature "just a guy" way that he tends to be, while still captivating everyone instantly with just how raw it was.

Not to say we haven't seen emotional depth in Gorgug. It's just that, compared to the other Bad Kids, Gorgug's journey and progression as a character has been very... impersonal? Like, yes, he found his birth parents, and he found friends who appreciate him, and he faced his insecurities about his intelligence, and he navigated relationship troubles, and his trial through the claustrophobic bug-tunnels was a horrifically-uncanny parallel to how he's spent his entire life trying to make himself as small as possible.

But how much of that has actually changed him from the Gorgug we started with? I would agree that he's definitely happier with his life, given all the loving and supportive people that have been added to it when it used to be just him and his parents. And he's certainly grown into himself and become more self-assured in his abilities, even if he's still, and always will be, our anxious little guy. And there's nothing wrong with that. I've always liked how Gorgug was a representation of all the little things. The subtle acts and kindnesses that don't seem like much to most, but to some are everything.

We don't need another Bad Kid living in fear that their mouth could be shit-in at any moment. We've already got one-too-many.

All that being said, I just feel like Gorgug's personal story beats are much easier to sweep under the rug than everyone else's. He has the same soft and understated quality that Colin held, but they lack that extra oomph that pushed Colin over the edge from being just another guy in a series of dudes, to a character that the vast majority of us could not get out of our heads. He took someone who was anxious and softspoken, who ultimately never wanted to be violent— someone who is remarkably similar to Gorgug in many ways— and maintained that demeanor and core in Colin's character while still hitting us in the feels with character development at max velocity at every turn.

I think Zac gets better and better at this with every season that goes by. With each new character, there is always something that leaves me stunned in awe. And it's been, what, three? Four years since we last saw Gorgug?

I'm just,,, I'm cautiously optimistic but also going into a bit of a worry about what violence this man may inflict upon us

#i got SO carried away LMAO #i dont think ive ever written any posts about gorgug specifically #i made a lot about colin. and some about pib. and some more about zacs performances in general. #but never anything gorgug-focused. i just wasnt on tumblr at those other times that hed been on my mind like this #you can tell i still couldnt resist talking about colin lol #he was just so fucking good. a fantastic character all around. i cant imagine a better example to get my point across than him #when i do posts like this its all very much just me taking a vague idea and working with whatever comes out in the moment #so when i tell you i very much did not plan to get lost in the counterargument and had to stop for a second to remember what my point was #my point still stands but so does everything else #you dont realize it. how similar gorgug and colin really are. or how metaphorical the bug tunnel was. #or how gorgug IS the epitome of little details. small acts. quiet rights and wrongs. the faint causes and the even subtler effects. #u dont truly realize it until youre writing it yourself in a free flow fugue state and it all comes to a halt cuz youve blown your own mind #anyway i love gorgug and i love zac pcs and i hope this post makes sense cuz finding the right words was fucking hard hah #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fantasy high sophomore year #fhsy #gorgug thistlespring #the ravening war #trw #colin provolone #zac oyama

[thebastardjetrocks]

I do have a big question (which I assume will be answered), which is why are so many of the NPCs we’ve grown to love being seemingly removed from the season?

Ayda & Aguefort are off on a ‘holiday’ through time.

Zelda & Tracker have both broken up with their respective Bad Kid love interest. And honestly? A part of me assumes that the only reason Ayda is MIA rather than having also broken up with Fig is because Emily was already so tempted to retire Fig entirely so she could have her ‘happy ending’.

Gilear and Halariel are off on a cruise. And Cathilda is, seemingly MIA?

Aelwyn has moved out and gotten a whole ass job in less than a year (which like, while I love that for her, it does feel kind of unrealistic? Everything else at least somewhat makes sense imo).

I just, idk. I trust that Brennan (and presumably the rest of the cast to an extent) had good reasons for doing all this. It seems like the point of a lot of this season is to tear the bad kids out of their own comfort zones and see how they cope, at least based on the preview we got for next week. But idk, I’m just kind of sad that it seems like we’re not going to be seeing much - if any - of so many fan favourites

#of course most of them seem to be gone specifically until the end of the year #so I assume something is being built up to? #potentially including that festival the Thistlesprings are running #or even just graduation #but yeah I’m a little more tentative now going forward than I was coming in #like I enjoyed the fight intro but I was excited to get to see these characters once it was done #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #spoilers

[sluttylittlewaste]

Does anyone else remember how during ACoC people kept trying to prove that Caramelinda was somehow in on [redacted's] betrayal and was actually evil? And do we all remember how many times Brennan had to say "No, she's not evil or Bad or anything, she's just a woman who is trying really hard to make the best decisions she can with the information she has in the heinous circumstances she's in"??? Do we remember Brennan having to tell the Bad Kids that Zayne Darkshadow isn't just some cringefail fucking edgelord but a child who suffered greatly in his life and then DIED?

Does anyone else remember Kalina literally having to snap her own neck to get the Bad Kids to realize that she might not be just *blanket evil*?

I feel like I'm seeing something very similar happening with Porter and Kipperlily and I really hope Brennan once again subverts the idea that just because a character is antagonistic they are inherently Bad or Evil.

Also, just a reminder Protagonist = main character Antagonist = person opposing/challenging the main character

These terms do not possess a moral assignation.

#To be clear this is not about the Intrepid Heroes and how they play the game #This is fully about how easy it is while playing DnD to forget being the main character makes it really easy to assume opposition = malice #and to make character judgments based on whether or not NPCs or nice/helpful/frienldly/agreeable #even though time and time again it has been proven that the nicest people in the world can be the most nefarious #also in the specific case of Fantasy High #they are all so good at playing teens and really leaning into the defensive/reactive/emotional aspect of that #a lot like Ruby in ACoC #there's also something very high school about responding to a person disliking you with extreme defensiveness #rather than simply understanding that sometimes that just...happens #and that people can come to and act based on conclusions about you without all of the information #in the exact same way that you can #but it feels more personal and offensive because you are living in your own head and know your reasons for doing things #so it becomes a flat dichotomy of nice person = good #rude person = bad #and it takes a lot of growth and perspective to know things aren't that flat in most situations #Aabria is actually really good at subverting that manner of thinking #both as a DM and a PC #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 #fhjy #if i die #let me die #thoughts #a crown of candy #acoc spoilers #fhjy spoilers

[ultimateinferno]

I said this in the replies of a different post, but I'm calling it properly here:

Based on Ally describing Kristen's chaos no longer being cute, I'm going to predict it's not necessarily going to be her setting out to tone it down, but more accurately having a deeply uncomfortable epiphany that she needs to tone it down

In other words, I'm predicting Kristen is going to have her own Fabian's Leviathan.

#fantasy high #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high sophomore year #fhsy #dimension 20 #d20 #specifically I think Kristen is going to make a character decision that blows up in her face so badly #the rest of her arc is picking up the pieces #like how Fabian made such a bad decision on the Leviathan that it fucked him up for many episodes #kristen applebees