#tragic characters

[izharmilgram]

born hungry.

#hp fanart #lvhp #tom riddle #tom riddle fanart #harry james potter #tomarry #harry potter fanart #tmrhp #harrymort #tom riddle x harry potter #the devastating transformation of slowly slipping away from humanity #aching for love #lord voldemort #tragic characters #i have seen your heart and it is mine #tmrhplv #horcruxes #elder wand #master of death harry potter #dark lord voldemort #eldritch voldemort #mitski

[lightning-struck-thrice]

I just want to say that there are so many tragic things about Dan Torrance in Doctor Sleep. But the one that really stands out to me is that his "inner library" is The Overlook.

Rose the Hat has a beautiful and extravagant mansion; it's as old, gorgeous, and well maintained as she is. Abra has her room, the only place that she really possesses and has control over at her age; the ceiling filled with stars and the promise of expansion as she grows up.

And then there's Dan's library, his mind is shaped like The Overlook, every thought, memory, and experience is stored in a place that he fears, hates, and cannot forget. Specifically, in the room where his dad would work. Possibly a room he liked before 'the incident'. But now the typewriter is eternally waiting and no one is coming back to it.

The hotel traumatized him so completely that everything he knows, every experience he's had in his life from before, during, and after the events of The Shining are stored neatly away in its terrifying halls. Every good memory must be revisited inside that sprawling, predatory, beast of a place.

His version is tamed, sure, but even without blood flowing out of an elevator or the twins at the end of the hallway, every time he turned a corner, surely he'd remember that at one point they were there.

Dan's mind is not a palace, formed in reverence for the things he knows and the years he's lived. Nor is it his safe space, that he can customize and manipulate to his liking, filled with possibilities. His mind is decorated with trauma and terror. And it frames his thoughts and all of his future experiences.

His mind is his personal hell, or was until he tames it, sobers up, and turns it into a place that he can walk through every day. Telling himself that he has changed it and made it different. That as long as he maintains control, he's safe walking the halls.

What a tragic glimpse into his life.

#doctor sleep #Dan Torrance #Danny Torrance #the shining #stephen king #mike flanagan #the overlook hotel #Abra stone #rose the hat #libraries #mind libraries #i'd love if anyone who read the book could tell me in the replies does the book goes over that in more depth #it is that a movie add-in? #either way hats off to whoever thought that up it is a true gut punch #tragic characters #sad boi #ptsd #mine

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

They have me thinking too much again, make them stop.

#iasip #meme #anmmbposts #it's always sunny in philadelphia #id in alt text #this could be about anything really but know it is about them #tragedy #media #tragicomedy #tragic characters #tragic heroes #feel free to tag other things though

[new-twitter-memes]

WHERE'S THE LIE THO

also on an unrelated note, I met Tom Kenny at a con once, he's the absolute nicest chillest dude, he asked me & my friend for advice on sightseeing spots in Vancouver & complimented me on my homeade riddler jacket. All the stories I've heard about him online from other ppl were true, dudes solid & funny as hell

#tom kenny #SpongeBob #spongebob memes #ice king #adventure time #twitter memes #celebrity memes #voice acting #funny memes #memes #twitter #tragic characters #tumblr memes #funny twitter #cartoons #cartoon #VA #fyp #twitter fyp

[rex-shadao]

For the Future: The Tragedy of Belos

This post contains spoilers of the episode For the Future. If you have not seen the episode, please do so.

Under the night sky of the Boiling Isles, a muddy figure lumbers through the forest, intent on reaching the Titan's skull. It is Belos aka Philip Wittebane, a witch hunter from the 17th century intent on completing his mission to kill the magical inhabitants of this realm. He had survived the Draining Spell, the Collector's Game of Tag, and Hunter's attempt to drown him. He has survived for hundreds of years, held together by his determination and the palismen he consumed. And yet...

He is slowing down. Tiring. His body is melting and falling apart with every step he takes. Soon, he's resorting to use his hands to simply trudge forward. After 400 years of prolonging his life, Belos is now dying. He is so close to finishing his goal after the major setback that Luz has put him through, and yet it's all slipping away from him. Everything he has done will amount to nothing if he suddenly dies right now.

For the first time in his long life, Belos begins to fear. Not of death, but of failure. Failure to complete his mission despite being so close. Failure to eliminate all witches and "protect humanity from evil." Failure to avenge his brother's death...

And then Belos stops and sees something. A phantom from his past has appeared before him. A pale, deathly-looking figure with sunken eyes and a lifeless frown on his face. It is Caleb Wittebane, Philip's older and now deceased brother.

The specter doesn't move or talk. It stands there before Belos lifelessly. Is it really Caleb's ghost? Or is it Belos' mind hallucinating thanks to him dying?

Whatever the case may be, Belos is terrified and angered by its presence. He yells at the ghostly image of his brother:

"DON'T MOCK ME!"

Caleb doesn't respond. No movement. No voice. No change in expression. Just a lifeless image starring into Belos' soul.

But Belos isn't just looking at Caleb. He is looking at the blood-stained knife that floats above Caleb. The same knife he used to kill his brother when he discovered Caleb's affair with the witch Evelyn.

Belos continues ranting to Caleb, his voice a mixture of defensive rationality and bitter resentment.

"I tried to save your soul!"

He tries to justify Caleb's murder at his hand, inadvertently revealing that killing Caleb was not his original intent. As Masha's tale puts it, Philip set off to save his brother from Evelyn. He failed and instead ended up killing him. He dreamt of being his brother's savior and the hero he always wanted to be as a young child. But he screwed up so badly that he's now making excuses for his sin. By the end, he blames his brother for his predicament, never taking any responsibility for his actions.

"It's your fault THIS ALL HAPPENED!"

And then he immediately attacks Caleb in primal rage, turning his hands scythes to slash his brother's image into pieces. But unlike the memory portraits, his brother remains untouched and still staring at Belos.

As Belos pants in the aftermath, his hand starts to rot and then falls off from his arm. Belos is shocked and suddenly convulses in pain. He falls to the ground as Caleb looks down on his brother with contempt and sadness.

Belos is now on his knees, almost as if he's begging Caleb for forgiveness. But Belos still presses on, ignoring the specter and simply thinking that a new body will fix his problems. The specter disappears, but the message is clear. Belos can't run anymore.

Belos manages to reach to his old hideout at the base of the skull, where the Grimwalkers are made... and later disposed of. But now he's reduced to crawling, with one of his leg detached from his body. As he stops to catch his breathe, he realizes he’s surrounded by the corpses of the past Grimwalkers. Where all the failures end up. Belos again sees Caleb... accompanied by all the dead Grimwalkers that Belos had killed for "betraying" him.

Belos knows what they represent. What they mean. And he has no energy to even rationalize or justify his crimes. He can only ignore it.

"Oh, shut up...," he wheezes before crawling to his Grimwalker Chamber. He desperately looks for a Grimwalker body, one who didn't manage to break out from his birth site.

"There has to be one left..." he frantically mutters to himself. It seems like the best solution. After all, Hunter's body proved most useful as a host. Youthful, powerful, stable, even has Caleb's likeness. So it stands to reason that a fresh corpse of a Grimwalker would work the same, with the added bonus that it won't rebel him. But alas, when he enters into the Grimwalker's corpse, the dead Grimwalker mutates and decays too quickly.

"No, it's not ready!" he cries. Even in death, the Grimwalker has betrayed him. They all betrayed him. And Belos is running out of time before the ghosts of his past come back.

Luckily for him, he found a new, stable host in the form of a puppet who used to be Raine. The puppet finally gives him stability he craves and even better, a disguise to get close to the Collector and either posses or trick them. With the Collector's powers, Belos could finally achieve his goal of wiping out the witches.

But his moment of triumph is only delaying the inevitable. For 400 years, he's been running from it, hiding himself in his shell crafted from his own insecurities. But death is patience, it can wait. It has been waiting for 400 years. And we the audience now know the truth.

We now see Belos without his shell. We now see him completely alone, with no one to talk to. We see him for what he is in the dark. He is driven by fear. Fear of the guilt that resides within him. Fear that nothing he would do could erase this feeling or make up for his sin. So he overcompensates by planning to kill all witches in one fell swoop, bringing his brother back from the dead and making him impervious to disloyalty, and returning home to hear everyone calling him the greatest Witch Hunter and hero of humanity...

All because he knows deep down, he has committed one of the most heinous sins and cannot undo it. But he can't accept that. He needs to fix it. He has to. Nothing else matters until he finish his ultimate mission to make up for his initial failure.

This is his tragedy. This is his downfall. This is his Hell. A cycle of horror and strife. At this point, no amount of physical punishment or imprisonment would deter Belos, and giving Belos death would be granting him mercy. The only thing that could hurt him now are his memories, specifically the memory of Caleb's murder and how he can never change that no matter how hard he tries.

#for the future #spoilers #toh #toh belos #toh emperor belos #philip wittebane #caleb wittebane #emperor belos #grimwalkers #wittebros #wittebane brothers #tragic characters #greek tragedy #character analysis #toh for the future #the owl house belos #monster belos #belos #downfall #tragedy #tragic villain #toh s3 #toh season 3

[unhinged-pickle-juice]

Tragic Angry Characters: Destined to Hate and be Hated

My favorite character type is Tragic Angry and it’s because they are always so complex and interesting. They’re introduced as antagonists and are almost always hated by the fandom from the start, but eventually get development arcs and build relationships with the other characters. They have an element of tragedy to them, their sharp actions stem from unhealed wounds and they shoulder burdens they were not born to bear. Further, they often die tragically or experience horrors out of sacrifice, and yet their pain is still usually dismissed by the fandom or in the show. They are doomed from first breath to last despite desperately fighting their fate until it became too exhausting.

#character types #bakugo katuski #izzy hands #regina mills #mickey milkovich #fandom rants #tragic characters

[rainyn0ise]

Simply, them

#tomerry #I’m so normal about them #genuinely such #tragic characters #so I will make comfort #get behind me tomerry nation #tommy and merry #project moon #library of ruina #library of ruina fanart #rainynoise #my art #my artwork

[confusedbookworm]

I forget that Anakin was only 22/23 when Revenge of the Sith happened

#anakin skywalker #star wars #that’s very sad #he was so young #tragic characters

[chaoticfandomgirly]

There's nothing like reading book or watching shows with tragic endings to develop a saviour complex.

How many times have you had the urge to jump inside a book or the screen with a blanket and wrap up your favourite character, steal them and pay for their therapy (or become their therapist) so they don't have to face their cruel endings?

#booklover #fangirl #tv shows #falling in love with fictional cahracters #the originals #supernatural #good omens #doctor who #tragedy #tragic characters #mcd

[0kaycce00]

Ammet and drucilla when she’s pregnant

#traditional art #lineart #sketches #illustration #character art #oc stuff #artist on tumblr #vampire art #fursona #digital sketch #vampire aesthetic #vampires #vampire couple #orginal character #artwork #traditional illustration #doodles #vampire drawing #comfort #tragic characters

[justsheerfilth1]

Do you ever come across a story that has a character so tragic youre never the same afterwards

#i havent been the same since jane doe in ride the cyclone #rtc #ride the cyclone #characters #tragic characters

[lovelyllamasblog]

Duchess Swan 🦢

Daughter of the Swan Queen

Birthday: April 30

Star Sign: Taurus ♉

Swan Lake

Royal

#my post #aesthetic board #duchess swan #ever after high #eah #swan lake #swan princess #swan queen #ballet #royal #tragic characters #tragic heroine

[autumnmobile12]

I want to talk about this character.  There’s a lot to unpack.  Look at this entrance.  She is fabulous.  She quieted a whole room even when Dracula couldn’t.  From the moment she appeared, we all knew she was going to be trouble.  But from there, her demeanor of power and poise began to slide downhill and rather than subtracting from her character, this adds a beautiful complexity.

Remember that line in Game of Thrones?  “Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.”

This line by Carmilla has the same meaning.  It plays into the element of ‘show, not tell.’  The way she entered Dracula’s council was impressive and intimidating, and that is all she needed.  If she truly was a powerful, confident character, she wouldn’t have felt the need to brag about this.  By explaining her actions to Dracula, she cheapened her own tactic to mere theatrics.  With this one line, she went from a powerful woman to a power-hungry character who unknowingly displays her own insecurities.

When we hit Season 3, we see she does seem genuinely happy to see her sisters and, at first, it’s heartwarming.  However, she keeps them at arm’s length and tries to ‘control’ them as if she’s afraid of betrayal.  She is the one who presented the idea to conquer Dracula's old territories, and then she denies the credit to any of the others who made it happen. Lenore secured Hector's loyalty, Striga commands the armies, Morana developed the strategy.  All Carmilla did was essentially say, "Here's an idea, let's do it."  We can even see Striga’s anger with Carmilla for her refusal to acknowledge any of their help, especially Morana’s.

Now we see her desire to conquer the entire world.  This is paranoia.  Her need to control everything has fully manifested, and in all fairness, we get a glimpse into the reasoning.  Styria has been invaded multiple times and when the Sisters asked for allies, they went ignored.  At this point, Carmilla wants to eliminate every possible threat so nothing can ever hurt her again.  Even Lenore is alarmed by this change in her behavior here.

We also get into her backstory a bit where she talks about how men ‘took things’ from her.  For the medieval period, this checks out.  This line could mean anything.  Her father could have taken her freedom by arranging a marriage that advanced his own interests but the match offered her no form of happiness.  It could be she was the sole heiress of a substantial territory and someone forcibly married her to claim that territory.  It could be much worse.  Any of these could be the case.

And then there’s the vampire who turned her.  We don’t get much information other than he promised her everything but then ‘became mad and cruel.’  Two ways we could look at this is 1.)  Carmilla genuinely loved this vampire when she was turned and when he revealed himself to be cruel and insane, she killed him or 2.) she was already disenchanted with the idea of love when he turned her and she used him until he ceased to be useful.

And finally, she takes her own life.  She says, “I win,” but nothing can be further from the truth.  She mocks Isaac and his Night Creatures for being unable to kill her, but Isaac wasn’t done fighting.  He wasn’t mortally wounded.  He wasn’t even slowing down, he had a lot more monsters to face her.  What happened was Carmilla could see which way the wind was blowing.  She knew she was losing the battle, she could not stand the humiliation of dying at the hands of a human, a being she viewed as inferior to her, and so she took the coward’s way out by taking her own life instead of fighting to the bitter end.  And it demonstrates that she truly loved nothing, not even her sisters, in the end.  Once she sees Isaac, there is not an ounce of concern for Lenore.  She doesn’t demand to know what he’s done to her, there’s no nonverbal moment of realization that if he’s here, he may have killed Lenore first, there’s no anguish at the possibility that her ‘beloved sister’ has died.  Lenore meant absolutely nothing to her.

This is a great complement to both Isaac and Trevor’s character arcs in the finale.  Isaac and Carmilla both rose above their traumas, just in opposite ways.  Carmilla chose to intimidate and control everyone around her and never allowed herself to love ever again.  Isaac chose to let go of his anger and began a new future.  Contrasted with Trevor, Carmilla had nothing to protect and killed herself, and he put everything on the line and essentially said, “If I’m going to Hell, you’re coming with me.”

Carmilla is a tragic character and brilliantly written.

#castlevania netflix #carmilla #castlevania carmilla #vampire sisters #character analysis #tragic characters #lenore #striga #morana #isaac #trevor belmont #castlevania

[raddestrose]

I can’t listen to music without assigning songs to characters and character pairings. It makes me sad but I can’t stop.

#bungou stray dogs #bsd armed detective agency #bsd port mafia #bsd hunting dogs #bsd decay of angels #There are so many characters im not even going to try naming them all #doomed by the narrative #tragic gay men #tragic characters #doomed characters #Im in too many fandoms to tag them all

[lsotp]

Hello-! this question has bugged me for the better part of almost a week now, and your recent answers have made it claw its way back into the forefront of my mind.

Lilith and Cobalt were part of the military before settling in Fontston (correct me if im wrong with the spelling) for permanent residency where they grew their family, yes?

Ok- this is a big one, I hope it answers your question. Sorry in advance!

**CW: mentions of Abuse, violence, and death.**

Yes. For about 10 years. They were in their late 20s (27-29) when they got married and retired. This happens about two years after the Fonston Freeze. So in the timeline the last time Lilith and Rose see each other is when they are in their 20's.

Mr. Marigold is hitting the girls as children and Lilith is the younger sister. She and Rose are terrified of what their father has planned out for them in regard to overhearing their prospective fiancés are going to be old businessmen and rather horrid people.

Lilith heard her father outside of his office talking on the phone about how "I have two daughters and I'm sure you can find a use for one of them. You may just have to smack them around. Works fine for me!" Then laughter.

Lilith tells Rose and they are horrified and make a plan to escape this life of abuse. Lilith is about 17 at the time and Rose is 18. Rose needs to find a husband and seeks out the help of a new fling in the form of Goudy, who is actually really sweet, kind, and loving to Rose.

They are smitten and head over heels for each other, but Rose knows Goudy needs to appear 'strong-willed' to her father to gain his approval for their marriage. So, in public, he adopts a very anal, and strict personality which we see become is actual personality at the time the fic takes place. (Really, Rose and Edward 'Goudy's first name' (Edward Goudy) trick Mr. Marigold to get Rose out of a bad situation.

Lilith is still a year too young to find a husband, so is put on a cart at night with materials and stows away with supplies to last her a while. And for her own safety, she is dressed as a man. It works and eventually she is mistaken for a soldier by a general who scolds her for losing her uniform and they 'adopt' her into the unit where she meets Cobalt, who at first is suspicious of her and doesn't trust her nor like her. Eventually she spills the truth to him about where she came from and the fact she's a woman.

He helps her hide her identity and eventually they fell in love and moved into Old Centry, where they were off duty and still active in the war effort. They have three children during this time, which is in the order of Jett, Buck, and the reader. Old Centry is burned to the ground and the family flees.

Lilith is badly injured during the siege of Old Centry but manages to escape with her husband and children. Having nowhere to go, Cobalt takes them back to Fonston where they buy the current land and built the house that we have in the story. The Fonston Freeze happens the winter before Old Centry is burned to the ground and Rose dies due to this. (Old Centry burns in the following spring.)

Lilith and Cobalt have one final child, which makes Lilith weaker due to a chronic illness caused by her injuries from the Siege. She dies a few weeks after giving birth to Whip.

Rose and Lilith never saw each other again before they died. They did write letters as often as they could to each other, though.

Point being, the Golden girls had it rough.

#lsotp #undertale au #undertale #undertale fanfiction #world building #undertale lore #undertale oc #undertale alternate universe #Mr. Marigold can suck a rotten egg #Those girls absolutely deserved better #Goudy didn't used to be a prick #the *trauma* #Poor girls #tragic characters #Undertale pre fanfiction timeline #Sorry theres so much #i got carried away.

[rex-shadao]

The unfortunate implication of born evil

There's a reason why I stated that Belos/Philip works best as someone was a lot like Luz in his youth, serving as a dark reflection to what path she could have taken. Because the alternative is to suggest that Philip was born a psychopath and therefore evil from the start. Which is absolutely a horrendous interpretation that goes against the themes of the Owl House.

I came across this discussion thread arguing that Belos never loved Caleb at all, not even when they were children. As someone who has a brother who clings onto family to feel safe, this rubs me the wrong way.

The only time Born Evil works is for horror movies, where the less you know the more you fear works. But in a show that teaches audience that inherent differences are to be embraced and celebrated and that weirdos should not be treated as outcasts because they are "different," the idea of Philip being born a psychopath and thus has no love for Caleb even at the beginning undermines the whole message. It suggest that Philip could not be reformed but instead must be destroyed immediately. And that he is different from other humans, therefore we can separate him as an outcast. Which sounds similar to a certain belief that Philip has about witches.

But we see in the show itself, Philip was an orphan boy when he came to Gravesfield. The same Gravesfield that would later deem Luz to be an outcast for not fitting in with society. Philip and his brother had to become Witch Hunters in order to survive and be accepted by society. If they did not, they'll be left on the streets or worse, be accused of witches themselves.

So it's not surprising that Philip desperately wants to fit in society and why he wants to become a hero and Witch Hunter General. He learned early on that was the only way to never be an outcast again. In fact, his desire to be accepted into society is what drove him to become evil in the first place.

What makes Belos evil isn't his personality; it's rather his deeds, his choices, and his determination to be accepted in a society that changes their standards and probably won't accept him anyways. Him feeling guilt about murdering Caleb actually makes his actions worse because we know he is capable of choosing a better path, but still takes the worst path out of fear of the emotional pain. That's the whole point about Philip. He wasn't born a monster. He became a monster by his poor choices.

And thus, he serves as a reminder to Luz and the audience that anyone could become Belos under the right circumstances and that Belos is the product of Gravesfield's sins, especially regarding the treatment of people outside the norm.

If we were to accept that Belos is born evil, we inadvertently absolve our own flaws and pretend to be superior even as many of us wish for the most painful and primal physical death for Belos.

#emperor belos #toh #toh belos #character analysis #writing pet peeves #tragic characters #tragic villain #villain #I need to get this off my chest because I despise the implications #belos should be evil by choice #not by genetic inheritance #nature vs nurture