#this is my ideal character dynamic

[howtotrainyouragents]

Luffy: Here to make friends and have a great time

Nami and Zoro: Plotting grand larceny and maybe some murder five feet behind him

#anyway I’m really enjoying opla #would ride or die for any of them #opla #one piece #op #how do i look? you look like nami! I said I was wearing black #I cannot describe to you how much I love this idiot trio #this is my ideal character dynamic

[lotus-pear]

whatever happens, please don’t break

#god not a fucking DAY goes by where i don’t think of that one interview and this quote #does anybody have it word for word? please? i’ll pay you #literally every single time i think about how kunikida as w character was MADE for dazai. specifically to share his suffering #i actually sob into my hands because that means they were both destined for tragedy together and the long dark road they will walk #will at least not be lonely. because they have each other. they are each other’s light in the darkness. #DO YOU UNDERSTAND #bro the fact that kunikida is painfully aware of the imperfection of the world and how he still continues to fight for his ideals #paralleling dazai who finds humanity beautiful but cannot become attached bc he feels alienated from emotion #THE WAY THEY COULD HELP EACH OTHER????? SICK SICK SICK I AM SICK #i love kunikidazai sm i wish more ppl could see the potential #but some of you aren’t ready for the sheer perfection of their dynamic #also i’ve noticed that i am only capable of drawing dazai properly when it’s with kunikida what’s up with that 💀 #and sorreyy i know their height difference isn’t THAT big but i didn’t realize until i was halfway into the coloring 😔💔 #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #kunikida doppo #doppo kunikida #kunikidazai #knkdz #kunizai #lotus draws

[lollytea]

I get to write Willow and Amitys weird awkward friendship in this fic I'm so excited!!!

#its hard being both a willow lover and an amity liker #i LOVE to talk about how amity deeply affected willow's life for the worse #but i also love to talk about how amity has to live with that truth for the rest of her life #i love how amity continues to try because she loves willow #tries too hard even #i love how amity STILL continues to fuck it all up because shes so painfully awkward and guilty #and shes so busy trying to preserve a friendship that died years ago that she doesnt realize that she should be aiming to build a new one #because this is NOT the same girl that she knew #i love that amity still means so much to willow that she cant bring herself to get confrontational over the obvious infantilization #i love that willow is trying so hard too because she wants this to work out so badly #and she cant even admit to herself that this idealized friendship shes wanted back for YEARS is not everything she hoped it would be #i love both girls so much #it used to be a real struggle to talk about this because somebody with a hate bias towards amity always wants to chime in #and like okay fine sure you can hate whatever character you want im not gonna shame you for it #i just dont WANT to discuss one of my my favourite dynamics with people who hate one of the characters yknow? #theyre two teenage girls who love each other and theyre struggling to love each other properly but they want to #I LOVE THEM!!!

[benbamboozled]

Brucie Wayne: best tipper in the city, funny, charming, a master at passive-aggressive verbal sparring (which is to say he is is an expert at being a Mean Little Bitch™️).

Bruce Wayne: literally the weirdest dude you will ever meet—the height of eccentric Northeastern old family money oddballery, will 1000% look at you like you’re the weirdo.

#my ideal dynamic #Jason Todd gets his Mean Little Bitch streak from Brucie I refuse to believe otherwise #Brucie Wayne can pull off an actual RL *bon mot*. #Bruce Wayne mumbles something indiscernible-chuckles to himself-then looks at you like you’re intruding on a private conversation. #character meta

[vaguely-concerned]

travis matagot just -- the very concept of him unlocks something deep and feral in my brain, even aside from all the changeling stuff. an angel looked upon you once as a child and, after seeing every possible thread and pathway of the man you will grow into one day, said 'I see no sin here' even as its holy flames consumed your screaming parents and the town around you. that angel, having stumbled head over heels to earth after killing god, later deliberately loses their name to you in a card game so the eyes of heaven can't find them. you and the angel have proceeded to annoy the everloving FUCK out of each other for centuries because you just keep. bumping. into each other!!!! through the power of like Narrative and also simply being two of the only people who've even been around that long. you've kept their name for them this whole time and never breathed a word of it, even though they seemingly never even explained why they wanted to lose it in the first place. you've sworn to die together or not at all.

what if you met an eldritch horror as a child and then became their best (and most irritating) friend/life partner/frenemy/perpetual thorn in their side (affectionate). I'm obsessed with this idea of being divinely judged as unworthy of damnation so early in your life and having to have that in the back of your head forever even as your self-loathing and trauma start piling up over the centuries and you have done so many shitty things along the way. like. is he trying to prove them wrong. is that part of his whole thing about trying to escape the narrative. or is it to prove that 'no actually awful things happen to me because I'm awful, you got it wrong from the start (fuck you btw)' because at least that feels like a choice, like some kind of control to hold on to? what is going on here travis. what the fuck

#skyjacks #campaign skyjacks #travis matagot #gable skyjacks #trable #like mostly in a. narrative/thematic sense?? because both the bickering everyday dynamic and the uh Cosmic scale ones... #sets my head spinning honestly. what the hell #I'm catching up with this podcast and spoiler warning: it's still excellent #just how easily travis accepted that gable was the angel that destroyed his hometown (including his parents) is so funny and so sweet to me #he was just like 'eh. more than enough water under that bridge to wash that one clean tbh #I am also a huge albino turkey for this hugely emotional conversation btw' #and he's equally blasé about finding out gable like. caused the partial end of the world. #the only time he freaks the FUCk out is when he finds out they lied about having figured out how to die so he got to leave first #skyjacks spoilers #anyway listen to campaign skyjacks it is extremely good and travis actually is Like This all the time #he's a jaded depressed old man in the body of a trickster twink. one of the ideal character archetypes tbh

[hetamata]

dead girls!!!

#trigun #pot.png #id in alt #wolfwood #rem savarem #tessla #i have 2 get up again in 4 hrs. but i wanted to finish this first heart emoji #i like to think that tessla haunts the shit out of rem in the afterlife and ww's there not understanding the dynamic between them at all #i like 2 think tessla hates rem partially bc rem is less threatening than the ppl who actually did hurt her but like. #after 150 years tessla is more messing around w rem than actually trying to scare her #300k fic in my head where tessla and rem watch knives take over the world while giving commentary and eating popcorn #holds nightows hands gently please let me see more of rem. shes such a fascinating character #when she's seen in flashbacks and not vash's idealized concept of her #meanwhile i am inventing tessla characterization from the ground up

[dolokhoded]

i'm supposed to be studying but i have a hot take which is that could we start again please should have been an ensemble number mostly led by mary and peter's verse should've been divided to him, john and james if not more of them

#🧅 #like think. sort offf but not exactly stay i pray you from anastasia. #it only makes sense being a duet between mary and peter in 2012 arena where it actually build a dynamic between them #otherwise like. where did peter even come from. that guy is Not an equal part to mary #i actually do like it as it is i just haven't seen many productions that have worked out how it clicks in my brain #i understand the show can't be 2000 hours long and im just biased and want them to talk abt mary constantly but ideally i think peter's #character should've been used to kind of ground mary. cause yeah she does love jesus but also realistically that guy does Not give a shit #about her. mary is forgotten about the moment she's out of his sight. somebody needs to tell her to girl get up #which is sort of what happens in 2012 arena! there's this part after the last supper where mary kind of hesitantly goes to approach jesus to #comfort him and peter just takes her adm and he's like girl. get up let's get out of here. and she leaves #and tbh we love to see it

[hell-heron]

Sometimes the fact that GRRM has, amid all his efforts to have nuance and a wide spectrum in his female characters and to deconstruct certain tropes, played the daddy's girl tomboy in contrast to the hostility or complete elimination of the female figures in her life trope completely straight over and over again, with basically every female warrior he wrote, from his female lead to two whole secondary POVs to one note extras (with the exception of the Mormont ladies yeah at least, maybe when we get more Alysane content I will be less grumpy about this), leaves me kind of bitterly shocked tbh

#have seen a very rightful post that people are vocal about ned favoring arya but not so about cat favoring sansa and while part of it is #yea some people can't read etc on the other its also true that the first is a living onpage subtle dynamic and plot relevance and #the second is. stock recollection of generic my mom told me to brush my hair :( episodes between characters who never interact #and that kinda contrasts with other things we know of cat: like she clearly did not overvalue primness in her childhood memories. she takes #to other willful ladies so quickly and this with arya already having plenty of negative female figures with sansa jeyne and septa mordane #idk i get why the fandom isnt too focused on this. not ideal for when what is being done is objective analysis of the text ofc. but i feel #ignoring lazy male writing is kind of a fandom tradition even if here the well is poisoned for any deviation from canon sadly #with the distortion at play from that side #i have not tagged the canon nor any character's full name so huh if you see this in any tag i apologize and that wasnt the intention #i also strive heavily in my writing to subvert this with asha as far as canon supports but one my mother raised me to be bold doesnt really #change the fact that is def a case of complete elimination of the female authority figure in practice #op

[minamotoz]

i think it was like. a genuinely evil creative decision to have shawn hunter marry the gender swapped narrative equivalent to his dead neglectful father in girl meets world. like theres no way to go around it katy is explicitly to maya what chet was to shawn, that is purposefully set up by the writers so i dont understand why it was then decided for the two of them to end up together.

#girl meets world #boy meets world #shawn hunter #my thing with shaty outside of just the bizarre implications of having shawn marry a genderswapped version of his dad #is just that one image of cartman saying he uses any pronouns. He would not fucking do that #he wouldnt marry a woman hes barely known a year . he just wouldnt do that #u cant expect me to believe a character with such deeprooted issues with intimacy and attachment #and a very well known history of being incapable of comitting #would just get married to this one woman because he relates to her daughter and feels parental towards her #the shawn/maya dynamic js a whole other thing i just dont buy it at all. no chemistry in the slightest #but like. u really want me to accept that he wld just do that #the only way i can rationalize it in my head is if its another example of him chasing after what cory and topanga have #bc just like how cory attempted to emulate shawns romantic endeavors in childhood #in their late teens and well into adulthood shawn is just aimlessly chasing what corpanga have #that was his whole MO dating angela. he is always pining after this idea of being Like Cory and Topanga #helping push the idea that their relationship is Ideal and Perfect bc its become such a constsnt in his life #him rushing jnto a relationship with this woman he hasnt known all that long #Could just be a way to mimic the way cory and topanga also rushed into marriage #anyways sorry that all roads lead back to shory adjacent conspiracies #i just dont like shaty. Whoops

[nyupuun]

Dynamic

#the ideal dynamic: me. my wife that my clan has sworn to fight for millennia. and her homophobic coworker who is now my daughter #i love dakki and squire so much THE tcg yuri to me #i imagine yuki onna wants to keep a close eye on dakki (because i imagine she wants to take over the mayakashi) #and because her human form is a child she just kinda becomes the adoptive daughter of dakki and squire #and she hates seeing them together #something like that #sorry im . odd #yuki-musume the ice mayakashi #dakki the graceful mayakashi #shiranui squire #yugioh #yugioh tcg #dakki x squire #omg what if they were called ghostgirlshipping (like the vrains character teehre)

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Been trying to write an analysis on Sasaki and the ending of Entrance Exam for days now and it just wasn't turning out so I deleted it... maybe another time when I can formulate a thought properly...

The only part I'll put here for now was the bit about my amusement with Dazai and Sasaki clearly near instantly realizing the other is a threat, which changed the way I read the scene of them chatting in the booth after she stayed the night. It probably boiled down to:

*sweetly smiling at each other* "oh this asshole has got to go"

Actually I went on an unorganized ramble in the tags so read that if you're interested in my Sasaki thoughts. Maybe I'll clean it up one day and make it proper.

#i've never seen anyone talk about her in depth so i thought it'd be fun; i really like her actually there was a lot of (wasted) potential #but my brain said no apparently #she has obvious implications for kunikida's character #but i wanted to talk a little about her dynamic with dazai and the paralleling between them #a seeker of justice who actually does not care much about justice and has no real personal ambition #merely acting in the memory of someone with much more strongly held values #she's also pretty cool i mean she has no ability and is quite intelligent #manages to puppeteer everything on her own simply through her skill at reading people and being selective with info #and yet is described as a puppet herself multiple times #and it was heavily heavily implied she wanted answers on what to do with herself and all her painful feelings towards the world #and dazai saw shooting her as 'kindness' #even as she was midway through telling kunikida #that she was happy when kunikida saved her even though it was all a set up #also i wanted to bring up how there's a really important difference between kunikida and the azure king #they're uncomfortably similar in some ways but very different in others #the point was that the azure king is to kunikida (if he valued ideals over people - the darkest path) #as sasaki is to dazai (if he'd been given no direction after losing his most important person - the darkest path) #it's more complicated than that and definitely not 1 to 1 but i stand by this interpretation #the main difference being that perception of humanity in self and others that is the running theme of this series #realized i paralleled a romantic couple to these two #does this count as kunikidazai lol #ugh anyways eventually i will write this i hope #storyrambles #also i know the point is that her and rokuzou died i know the point is the deaths were pointless #but what if she lived? what if she too got to find a reason to keep going in the face of grief and apathy? #and the continued conflict this could give kunikida too #something something the clash of different ideals of justice and how what is 'right' isn't so clear cut #but eventually he sticks to his belief that it is his ideal that no more people die if he can do something about it #this is so stupidly self-indulgent and an impossible scenario and probably i am the only one who finds it interesting but whatever #i think her living would've made things very very complicated but it's interesting to think about

[liferetainsitssparkle]

wish i found leon and ada believable as a couple bc the dynamic of action hero and antihero who steals shit from them inc. their heart and brain is so good but unfortunately there is nothing there. and there will continue 2 be nothing there as long as ada exists in perpetuity as the video game equivalent of the sexy green m&m

#or #revil posting #they went too far w the mystique of it all they forgot to give her a character #like i love her in my brain she's wonderful <3 but she is really like a sexy lamp for all of the character work capcom put into her #ada is. competent. and wears cocktail dresses to the zombie apocalypse on two separate occasions. thts it xoxo #she's also a feminist bc she feels bad that carla got her shit rocked by mad science but not that bad yk cause shes ambivalent #her va in the remakes is doing so much by giving her that flat affect but my running wild with an autism headcanon is not a real trait #(neither is the likely intention of her just being . really bored of me lol) #that ada wong actually has and expresses <3 this is a post where i talk abt how i do not connect with The revil ship but #now it's a post about how ada could be Everything. they Stole her Moments they Took her Cutscenes #and she already had so little......... my beloved #sorry ive just googled are there books about ada wong and she is in One book. and this review says the author 'gives life to characters #whose motivations we normally only get in cutscenes' or w/e and now im wondering if i need to read this. if This will tell me #give me Ada Info. Ada Lore. #god and i havent even mentioned that leon is gay and all the smart gamers know it!!! #the ideal ada/leon dynamic is roommates

[neroniiii]

Objectively speaking Kai's past episode is the best because 1. it has lose conditions in its mandatory minigame, 2. said minigames actually serve a point in demonstrating the character's progress, and 3. Kai's existence as someone born in Asunaro has the most questions surrounding it that could be most effectively answered through the past episodes

#Naomichi's comes extremely close given that his minisode also fulfills my first two points but in a vacuum the premise isn't #really that interesting except for showing us how Asunaro has a means of controlling things through its finances #Alice's is also extremely good while only performing within the scope of its character writing and the dynamic present- which is ideal

[missingn000]

the phantom guardian chapter twenty-five

#ohhhh boy. Ok #if you thought tpg has been philosophical up to this point. We're about to get. My god #the sheer amount of symbolism and beginnings of new narrative themes in this chapter #i just. Man #what if i simply put all my thoughts on the meaning of life #and self worth #and individuality #and the fate of the world vs the fate of the individual #and existentialism #and unconditional love along with its consequences #and the nonexistence of fundamental goodness/badness #and the struggles of what it means to truly know a person #and bridging the gap between conflicting ideals and a desire for closeness #and the importance of bonds with others in the face of adversity #and the necessity of suffering in an imperfect world #into a dynamic between two characters 🤔 what if i did that #idk maybe five medications arent enough for me 😆 but who knows? #tpg

[marshmellowtea]

tbh i feel like my interest in willmartha would skyrocket 200% if it wasn’t treated as the fandom’s Golden Fluffy Healthy Ship

#not gonna tag this cuz i’m just taking aloud but this is about the who’s lila characters if you couldn’t tell and we’re curious #like honestly i still think i wouldn’t be that interested in it even without that baggage #martha just. does not interest me lmao and i think they both have more compelling dynamics with other characters #but in the fan content i see for it it feels like. super idealized? #which honestly that one its own is fine. whatever. doesn’t interest me cuz i like mess lol but there’s nothing inherently wrong with that #it’s just when it’s put up against willtanya that it. causes an issue for me #cuz as much as it seems to have died down i can tell at the beginning the fandom had a lot of hostility toward tanya #and agaibst willtanya as a ship #and obviously. i’m a huge fan of both of those things #and it puts a bad taste in my mouth when i get the vibes that willmartha is meant to be this cutesy healthy (better) alternative #both from a willtanya pov but also a ‘you don’t have to think a ship is healthy to enjoy it’ pov #and also from a ‘willtanya doesn’t have to be unhealthy and under better circumstances it could’ve worked you guys are just mean’ pov #i just #really really hate this idea of martha getting pushed forward like ‘see?? here’s will’s REAL perfect partner!! they won’t have any strife!! #when first off all any relationship would have some form of strife #and second of all is just a really boring interpretation of a ship i already feel super bored by #idk if any of this makes sense i’ve just been thinking about this rn hfhfdhvdg #in some alternate universe i could see myself theoretically liking this ship but eugh #the presentation of it bothers me idk idk #marshy speaks

[autisticcassandracain]

I have Opinions about Bette as part of the batfamily and they're all negative but I've never read her post-flashpoint Batwoman appearances so I don't feel entirely qualified to talk about them so I'm just sitting there. Twitching my eye whenever she's referred to as batfam

#My posts #Bette kane #I know i should read her batwom asn appearances but have you considered: I really really dont want to #Anyway. Bette is a Titans gal!! #Like I simply do not think bette works as a batfam character #Unless we're going with pre-crisis bette + batfam but nobody does that so #Like the batfam is all about being moody and broody and dark grittiness #That's not to say ALL batfam stories have to be dark but Gotham's just not a bright place #And Bette is a showgirl. She's an attention whore. #She has no tragic backstory she has no deep personal trauma or heroic motivations #She's here to kick ass make friends and flirt #She just.... doesn't work in the serious 'realistic' dark grittiness of gotham #All her worst appearances have been in batfam comics and its why i dont want to read her n52 appearances #She just fits so much better in LA and wuth the titans than with the batfam #I think she can cameo in batfam comics but only bc she'd be a jarring contrast to them and it'd be funny #I think her ideal batfam dynamic was that one issue of young justice where she and cass teamed up #Just like. Mutual confusion and mild disdain #I want bette to be like 'ugh my gotham cousins are so dramatic' while standing in a spotlight covered in glitter