#what a charming young man

[jcs-singular-slut-strand]

Jiang Cheng had what, 3 months? To gather up rogue cultivators to be his disciples? And yet when we see him with Lan Wangji on their hunt for Wei Wuxian he actually has quite a significant amount

Baby girl was clearly doing something right

#oh sect leader jiang? jiang cheng? jiang wanyin? #he offered to buy me breakfast if i joined his sect and now I've been here for 5 years #what a charming young man #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #the untamed #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #jiang sect #lotus pier #sunshot campaign

[starry-eyed-never-satisfied]

#what a charming young man #paul stanley #damn that man is fine

[briaryoung]

wouldn't it be cool to start posting my art here, too?

Hi. I'm Briar. I like Chonny Jash.

#chonnys charming chaos compendium #chonny jash #cj whole #cj soul #cj heart #cj mind #art #what on earth man idk how to use this site #briar young art #apparently people make tags for themselves idk how this works #tw glitch

[2offayyo-kzt]

Sean is such an underrated character 😔

#can we talk about his development for a moment #before his brain was fried #he had no respect for his wife and took his marriage for granted #then he became the romantic young man he had once been... the one who had charmed Charmaine back in the past #and despite having been raised in a more than toxic environment #he did pretty well #a man with good values and a good heart #all those tags are a pure bullshit for the sake of the joke of Sean with big naturals #pls respect my work #I sincerely think it's my greatest creation #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits sean #sean rinaldi #kztpost

[insinirate]

KV as it's portrayed in Stampede is like modern day classic yaoi, it's like Muraki/Tsuzuki from Yami no Matsuei, it's all the fucked up rapist seme/cute uke tropes of yesteryear and I love studio Orange for doing this

we are, as they say, so fucking back

#rape ment / #even their redesigns go absolutely crazy #like knives to me was like wow what a charming young hundred year old man #and then studio orange stripped him and gave him the fuckboy cut (and yknow. if you know my history) #and vash was already babygirl mode with his coat dress and his tiny waist and his sweet green eyes and pretty lashes #AND THEN THEY TURNED THE DIAL UP SO HARD IT BROKE OFF #they took away his sass and outside of combat hes literally just some soft little uke boy #they just never miss!!! #kv #anonymous

[invinciblerodent]

brb, i have to go and. make strangled noises at nothing real quick; it just hit me over the head how Wyll's use of the metaphor of dancing as a stand-in for romance and intimacy really just. accompanies him all throughout his story, and how perfect it is

I guess I should have expected a character like him, that's both deeply poetic in his speech and courtly in his upbringing, would come to idealize a chivalric romance a bit, and translate his feelings on/of love to an element of courting that's as ritualistic and processional as ballroom dancing, but sometimes just realizing the obvious can really knock you off your feet for a second

like. just like how there is almost a blueprint to a perfect storybook romance in both stories and -consequently- in his head (I think romance might even be one of the literary genres with the highest number of unwritten rules that need to be fulfilled for a work to count as a romance), there is also a fairly strict method to a court dance. There is a series of well-known and practiced steps that was laid out in advance, and one is to perform them in succession, and in sync with one's partner. If one of the parties doesn't know or doesn't want to follow the rules/steps, it gets... tangled, messy, and you both stumble. The dance and the relationship both fall apart. The happy ending of a tale is not reached without all the steps in-between being followed, and he so dearly wants his fairytale ending, his happy, fulfilled love, I just---

it's such a perfect metaphor, and what makes it even more perfect is that Wyll is ostensibly aware of it, and he chose it, purposefully, and i don't want to watch the Act 3 commitment scene because I've not yet done it myself and don't want to spoil it, but I would be so surprised if he a.) made no mention of storybook romances, or b.) didn't just straight up propose y'know

i'm (metaphorically) crying, if it were possible to play this game on six different characters simultaneously without getting bored or confused I fucking would

#squirrel plays bg3 #yet another way my Trevelyan works very well in this situation for me #oc: raymond trevelyan #back in the day i made him... actually very similar to what Wyll is now #he was a young man of noble birth who grew up idealizing the storybook heroes of legends and romances #and while he wasn't really that stuck on the 'perfect romance' bits; being not interested in the ladies at all... #the Noble Hero On A White Steed image and the Charming Knight Saving the Realms images did appeal to him immensely #he was gregarious and brave and chivalrous and overall just... trying his absolute best to be good #he wanted to be the a gallant hero and to experience a sweeping passionate love- both wooing and being wooed #which he did get! and he did eventually find his happy ending! #only... the stories rarely mention that heroes don't often live this far past the end of their own tales #when the evil is slain and the damsel is saved; the story simply... ends #the characters; they live on frozen in the perfect moment of true love's first kiss #and nobody really talks about what happens after- not until you must experience it for yourself #so now he's... a burnt-out ex-knight #a has-been hero whose usefulness ceased and his happy ending was torn from him by pointless intrigue #and I just LOVE the thought of him finding a new happy ending; of starting over with someone who'll rekindle his passions #and dance the night away with him #YAY FOR TAG NOVELS

[silly-stings]

i like to think either shrignold does this to everybody and they hate it, or people do it to him and he SUPERhates it (or both)

#(referring to source shrignold) #it either goes: #''oh what a handsome young man you are!'' ''i am an adult man do NOT chastise me.'' #or ''oh what a charming fellow you are!'' ''shrignold please let go you do this every single day'' #🐝 #dhmis #shrignold #dhmis headcanons #shrignold dhmis #dhmis shrignold #dhmis hcs #dont hug me i'm scared #scopo cw

[notwantedonthemoon]

THE HANNAH RAMBLE

This rapidly spirals into me plotting fanfiction. PRELUDE:

Gotta be honest. Hannah completely blindsided me. Her character did not go the direction that I thought it was going to go.

When I was studying Not Wanted on the Voyage in class, she was given a super impressive introduction: “the most intelligent character in the cast” (which I will respectfully disagree with. I think it’s Crowe, because my love for that bird is immense and unending) and her scenes in book one were stellar. I am most fond of book one Hannah. She had poise and ambition, she was menacing and mysterious. I liked that! I liked that a lot! I think she has a future in politics or perhaps as an extremely cutthroat lawyer. Unfortunately her talents keep being wasted in middle management at Applebee’s (the Upper Decks).

I was envisioning her throwing a coup and taking Dr. Noyes’ place as the main antagonist of the book. I feel like she had potential to be an even more terrifying villain than Dr. Noyes because she’d not only be cruel and ruthless like him, but she’d be smart, too. Noah was kind of an idiot. 

The message that I was expecting from Hannah's coup is a commentary on how systemic issues by getting rid of the bad people in power; the entire structure that they were functioning under needs to be overhauled. I was expecting a story in which Noah was killed off and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the root of evil was done with… only to discover that Noah was never the root of the evil in the first place, but rather, a product of it. His ideas are infectious; they didn’t start with him and they certainly won’t die with him. 

And now that he's dead, there are some people who are very interested in continuing his legacy. 

The environment that these characters were raised in is very, very flawed and we see a lot of what the culture expects from people very early on: formalities and borders are encouraged, power imbalances are essential for the structure of this society, obedience to one’s superiors is equivalent to love, differences should be eliminated, and questioning your superiors is dangerous and insulting. Noah is terrible and has committed so many atrocities that he should definitely be held accountable for, but I refuse to believe that there is anything inherently evil about him. I refuse to discount a character like him as ‘just a bad apple’ because people are products of their environment and these guys are living in a world that has a tendency to produce tyrants. You can’t say someone is ‘just a bad apple’ and ignore the same rotting barrel that all of them are showing up in and Not Wanted on the Voyage is very good at showing how all its characters are impacted by their environment

I think a lot of Noah’s strength as a character lies in his simplicity. I vaguely remember read an academic article somewhere that describes him as more like a force of nature or a strawman than an actual person, and I disagree. I think that he is painfully human. He doesn’t want to take any responsibility for his actions, because he doesn’t want to be the villain (no one does!) and he always has to be the victim. He throws his authority around and mistreats everyone around him because it feels good to be powerful and to get what you want. He’s so human and that makes him scarier because he’s the type of villain that you could realistically become by giving into your worst impulses.

I suppose that's why Mottyl was so tentative in calling him evil.

What I’m saying is: if it wasn’t Noah, it would have been someone else. Someone like him is inevitable (but so too are the people who stand up to him).

This world has a tendency to create tyrants and Hannah has been primed to be Noah’s replacement. Even the victim in a harmful system can internalize its values and they can end up becoming the perpetrator. We do see that with Hannah in the book (her treatment of Emma, for example), but on a much smaller scale than what I was expecting. 

But what exactly was I expecting?

THE PART WHERE I RAPIDLY SPIRAL INTO PLANNING FANFICTION:

I was expecting Noah to die somehow (don't think too hard about how, because I sure didn't), leaving behind a power vacuum that multiple candidates would be vying to fill aboard the ark.

There’d be Noah’s sons: Shem, who’s the oldest and should be expected to replace his father… actually who am I kidding, he’s not going to be involved in this. 

There’d be Japeth, who, at the core of his character, is scared; he learned, abruptly and in one of the most traumatizing ways possible, that powerful people can do whatever they want to you; but you know who never had to beg for his life and bend and bargain around the whims of stronger people? His father. If Japeth inherited that kind of power, he’d never have to be scared and powerless again. 

And then there’s Lucy; yes, she wants a better world for herself and her loved ones. Yes, she has good intentions and has always done what she thinks is right, but Lucy grew up in the trigger happy, might-makes-right culture of Heaven that produced her battle-obsessed brother. We already know that Lucy has a ruthless streak:

So I want to see how far she’d be willing to go to achieve her goals. I think Lucy should commit some murders, actually. I cannot believe that her kill count during the book is a solid zero.

Friendly reminder that Lucy is basically a disgraced war general from Heaven. She has canonically led armies. So why on earth is her kill count the same as Ham’s????

Is my frustration, perhaps, anything like what Lady Macbeth felt when she was trying to get her husband to commit regicide. Actually what I said about Lucy applies to Lady Macbeth too, I want Lady Macbeth to commit a murder or two.

And finally there's Hannah, who’s ambitious and clinical and calculating and wants to carry on Noah’s legacy not out of love or loyalty to him, but because she wants the respect she’s owed. She wants to have her words spoken and heard and appreciated, she wants to be Yaweh’s new prophet, she wants the security and prestige of Noah’s position. 

We'd be viewing this disaster of a succession crisis through Mrs Noyes and Mottyl's increasingly distressed narration.

Can I just say, though: Mottyl would make a fantastic diplomat. She’s comfortable talking with both humans and animals, she’s very frank but very considerate at the same time, and her greatest strength is making allies by being friendly and dependable. 

‘LOCAL NEWS. Exhausted 97-year-old mother of six desperately drafts peace treaty: more at nine. Also she’s a cat.’

I think it's clear you're screwed when all your hopes are riding on the negotiation skills of a 20-year-old cat.

Anyways, this entire plot was inspired by this song:

#not wanted on the voyage #timothy findley #book analysis #character analysis #danny gonzalez #this guy's songs have been stuck in my brain for. ages. what a talented artist. what a charming young man. #youtube #just realized that my inclusion of that song implies that Noah was murdered. So there you go. That’s how he dies #my ramblings

[incorrectfigureskatingopinions]

Not quite as fire as it could have been but still so fun and mostly clean

#not to be an old lady charmed by him skating to the music of my youth #but what a nice young man #nikita starostin #figure skating #euros 2024

[ohkrasias]

eldon was born in texas but raised in california and occasionally has a texan twang. he told me himself

#taking a break from agonising over his childhood and teen years to think ab his funny little accent #ch: eldon parker. #also being forced to remember that my favourite character is 1 a man and 2 American #did originally click new post to draft something from his adolescent that suddenly clicked in my head but this is better #it would be silly to me if it were anyone else but it's eldon so instead it's endearing and charming #and thinking about young el with a texan accent is so cute. my boy #maternal instinct for the version of my oc living in my head that is a child only #also i do think it's funny that occasionally he sounds a little texan and everyone is like ......what was that vjfjfjfjjf

[torturedp0etry]

PRIMARY MUSES.

#& ── the darkness‚ it has me . . . 𝗏𝗂𝗈𝗅𝖾𝗍 𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗆𝗈𝗇 . #& ── i can’t control their fear‚ only my own . . . 𝗐𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖺 𝗆𝖺𝗑𝗂𝗆𝗈𝖿𝖿 . #& ── win‚ because you don’t know how to lose . . . 𝖽𝗋𝗂𝗓𝖾𝗅𝗅𝖺 𝗍𝗋𝖾𝗆𝖺𝗂𝗇𝖾 . #& ── i could set this world on fire and call it rain . . . 𝗀𝖺𝖻𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗅 𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗒 . #& ── how long before a legend becomes a god or forgotten . . . 𝖾𝗅𝗌𝖺 . #& ── the world isn’t safe for a girl like me . . . 𝗓𝗈𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝗇𝗌𝗈𝗇 . #& ── he didn’t know what he was doing but it was coming naturally . . . 𝗁𝖺𝗇 𝗌𝗈𝗅𝗈 . #& ── do the universe a favor and don’t hide your magic . . . 𝖼𝖺𝗋𝗈𝗅 𝗆𝖺𝗋𝖼𝗎𝗌 . #& ── more deadly: your stubbornness or your loyalty . . . 𝗆𝗂𝖼𝗁𝖺𝖾𝗅 𝗐𝗂𝗇𝗌𝗅𝗈𝗐 . #& ── here’s the story about a little guy who lives in a blue world . . . 𝗉𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗌𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 . #& ── magic is science we don’t understand . . . 𝗃𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝖿𝗈𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗋 . #& ── if witchery is a sin‚ they’re going to burn smiling . . . 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗇𝖾 𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾 . #& ── the weight of an empty life will lessen at the moonlight . . . 𝗇𝗂𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖺𝗌 𝗋𝗎𝗌𝗁 . #& ── a charming young man capable of being terrible . . . 𝖻𝗋𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗊𝗎𝗂𝗅𝗅 . #& ── still bitter seventeen‚ searching for an exit . . . 𝗉𝖺𝗎𝗅 𝗄𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌𝗅𝖾𝗒 .

[pommancy]

Ernestos personality is surprisingly well written

#a charming young man trying to grasp at his own des #destiny oh labradoggy we really in it now #also it struck me off guard to see how close the siblings are #pet pet hope to see more of him #and la pluma I like her too just a clueless girl #candela I want to see her again too she’s so cool what if I look up to her she has a certain evil appeal

[simptasia]

#what??? WHAT??? #okay okay okay i knooow beauty is subjective but WOW #okay i understand not finding young leonard nimoy attractive. personally i think he has a sort of elegant charm #but like i get it. he's not conventionally attractive. fine whatever #but ZACHARY QUINTO????? I AM ACTUALLY BAFFLED #quinto spock is fucking beautiful what the actual fuck #seeing somebody confidently imply that zachary quinto isn't hot legit feels like a twilight zone moment to me #like i woke up in a different earth #my star trek (and life) experience is so different from this persons. wow #fyi im not insulting op. they weren't like bitchy about this and eye of the beholder and that #and in the comments of this post they're being friendly and having a laugh with all the spock fans. its fine #im just blown away. man if the reboot movies were as popular now as they used to be? this person would torn apart kjhfskjhfs

[goodmode]

thinking about timaeus and ying'er again. fondly

#it's the romantically-skilled-but-holds-romance-at-arm's-length perfume lady being charmed by a polite but unromantic nerd. #he just wants to discuss his line of work and hes very serious about it. and it isnt a ploy #and ying'er is like. what a nice young man. he doesnt have a single romantic notion in his head. #gmtxt #gm does teyvat

[acceptsonlynttnightwing]

Persuasion 2022 makes me want to visit Jane Austen’s grave and apologise

So here’s a compilation of hilariously scathing reviews. Enjoy!

-Clarisse Loughrey

How exactly does the line, “it is said if you’re a five in London, you’re a 10 in Bath”, improve on Austen’s work or make it any more palatable to modern audiences? Or what about the comments on being “an empath” and focusing on “self-care”? 

When Anne is reunited with Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), the man she once rejected, Austen writes: “Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.” In the film? We get: “We are strangers. Worse than strangers. We’re exes.”

There’s nothing here that seems to drive her [Crackell’s] work (...) beyond the directive of capitalising on current trends. This is exactly what happens when art becomes a brand exercise.

There’s not even an attempt to be accurate here – Marianne Agertoft‘s costumes only look like Regency dress if you’d somehow been led to believe that the pages of this month’s Tatlermagazine had been shot out of a time machine. And, as much as I am loath to defend Bridgerton, the Netflix production Persuasion clearly modelled itself after, its anachronisms at least feel carefully chosen in order to give the series a poppy irreverence.

You can’t help but think what Austen would make of all this. She was nearly 40 when she wrote Persuasion, inches away from her deathbed. Anne’s pain in the novel is sharp, laced with the fear that she’s reached a point in life where she’s outrun every last opportunity, most especially for love. How do you absorb all of that feeling, only to give us an Anne who sighs performatively after she knocks a vessel of gravy on her head and boasts about dancing to Beethoven alone in her room “with a bottle of red”? How would the latter even happen in an era before record players?

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Austen should be allowed a chance at the Instagram generation. But the frozen expression on romantic lead Cosmo Jarvis’s face throughout speaks louder than any review. (He can relax: one of the few things that can be said about this film with certainty is that it will be forgotten quickly.)

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- Patrick Cremona

It all seems so forced and deliberate, more annoying and jarring than it is charming or inventive.

Then there are the frequent fourth-wall-breaking monologues, which start early on and continue to arrive at all too regular intervals throughout the runtime – with Alice providing a near-constant running commentary on the action, one that's neither witty nor insightful enough to be worth its while. It all allows a certain archness to take hold, a smugness that gets in the way of any emotional sincerity.

For the most part, it just feels rather drab and half-hearted, breezing along easily enough without ever injecting any real pizzazz into proceedings.

All this ensures the film commits one of cinema's cardinal sins – frankly, it's a little bit boring.

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In other words, the film’s Anne, unlike Austen’s quivering and stifled introvert, is that rom-com mainstay, the manic pixie dream girl, an ostensibly smart and capable woman whose klutziness and all-round-adorability ensures she’s completely non-threatening.

Sad but true, she (Dakota Johnson) is upstaged by the wallpaper on several occasions.

The famous ’letter scene’ is shrug-worthy. The final kiss moved me not.

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It’s set in the early 19th century, not remotely of Austen, but of Bridgerton, the success of which has unfortunately convinced Netflix that anything goes. Imagine flaunting an antique copy of the novel in a full-cosplay selfie, but holding it upside down.

Meanwhile, the dialogue perpetrates five war crimes per minute.

The way Michell finessed the most autumnal of Austen’s works, with Amanda Root cast to perfection, set a gold standard. This takes a flailing leap, but it’s neither audacious enough to commit to a singular vision, nor shrewd enough to get the novel right. It nosedives between two stools and never gets up.

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It is like an Austen amuse bouche — an entry-level cover version that tries to rev up the humor and speak directly to Gen Z by using its lingo — or at least an advertising executive's idea of what Gen Z sounds like. 

-Lindsey Bahr 

Instead, viewers get brief snippets of Anne’s internal character conflict and her yearning for Wentworth. By extension, Wentworth is always shafted and his character falls short due to the comedic tone of the film. Anne and Wentworth have clumsy and awkward exchanges that feature the sort of delivery you’d expect from an episode of The Office as opposed to a romance about healing the wounds of two heartbroken people.

Characters are constantly espousing modern beliefs. “A woman without a husband is not a problem to be solved,” says one sagely, greeted with a wry smile by Anne. Except that in 1817, unmarried women faced ridicule, lack of social agency and destitution, something Anne and Austen knew all too well. By removing Austen’s thematic concerns – class, spinsterhood, the questionable power of persuasion – there are simply no real barriers to Anne and Wentworth’s reunion. Indeed, it’s hard to see how this spirited person could be persuaded to do anything. With such low stakes, the film crawls along without momentum.

I’m all for modernising the classics (see 2020’s Emma for Austen with an injection of over-the-top fun) but this one can’t decide if it’s trying to amuse or edify and consequently does neither. Bring back Bridgerton, please.

- Francesca Steele

Sadly Persuasion, not only the worst Austen adaptation but one of the worst movies in recent memory, delivers on all the agony and none of the hope. 

The filmmakers have served up a soggy mess of limp rom-com clichés that does a disservice not only to Austen but to all her contemporary inheritors, from Cher Horowitz to Bridget Jones. As played by Dakota Johnson, the novel’s heroine Anne Elliot, a lovelorn, bookish, self-effacing woman on the cusp of spinsterhood, becomes an insufferably coy scatterbrain who speaks in 21st-century buzzwords 

There is updating classic literature to bring it in tune with modern sensibilities, and then there is insulting the viewer’s intelligence. Persuasion’s endlessly attempts to pander to young audiences presumed incapable of understanding any message not conveyed via Instagram hashtag 

Unfortunately, as played by Cosmo Jarvis, Wentworth is also something of a lifeless sad sack. His pining for Anne is believable enough, but his character is so thinly written that it’s hard to see whatever qualities induced her to spend eight years pining for him. 

In this movie, eligible men are mostly nattily attired scarecrows on which to hang romantic longing. 

The fine shadings of social class that drive the novel’s conflict are mostly lost in this translation to the screen. The presence of Black, Asian, and mixed-race actors in the cast at first feels refreshing, but any intended social commentary is lost in the script’s thematic muddle.

it’s hard to overstate what unpleasant company Johnson’s Anne Elliot is. She performatively chugs red wine straight from the bottle, goes everywhere cuddling a never-explained pet rabbit, and interrupts one stodgy teatime with an extended and charmless non sequitur about a recurring dream that an octopus is sucking her face.

she (Austen) describes Anne and Wentworth’s long-ago affair as “a short period of exquisite felicity.” The only such moment afforded by Persuasion is when the closing credits finally start to roll.

-Dana Stevens

(just read the whole review, seriously- https://slate.com/culture/2022/07/persuasion-netflix-movie-2022-dakota-johnson-jane-austen.html)

#persuasion 2022 #dakota johnson #cosmo jarvis #henry golding #you poor man #not a terrible performance though #Mary and Louisa Musgrove #were also pretty good #was I the only one who expected Wentworth to be more dashing and charming tho #He's a naval captain and a hero right #Like more of a younger Brad Pitt / Tom Hardy kinda way #Anne and him had one of the smallest hero-heroine age gaps of any couple in Austenland #Plus he's the only one who's described as attractive enough to get women solely based on his looks #And Dakota Johnson's way to young and pretty looking given that Anne was kinda depressed and was supposed to have lost 'the bloom of youth' #Henry golding would have been a way better Wentworth #At least he had charisma #and he and Anne seemed far better matched than her and Wentworth - which is the exact opposite of what's supposed to e happening!

[headphonemouse]

The Tower's parents

This man is around the same age as Temmy, but Temmy looks older because of the beard and years spent working under the sun. This Sun character is a scholar and spent most of his time at a desk

I say that these two are the people the Hermit loves and hates most in the world, but really that's just what he tells himself. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has about them so he runs away, packs his emotions into neat little boxes labeled "love" and "hate" and then considers the whole matter over and done with. He never really planned to run away, but once he did he also never planned to return. This man is not a forward thinker, which is another issue he always had with the Hanged Man

The Tower loves their family very much. The Sun is kind and lenient while the Hanged Man is extremely devoted and capable. They learned from their mom how to think ahead and act decisively, and from their dad they learned to have faith in people and to stand by their convictions.

The Sun was delighted to have a child, and spoilt them rotten. He wasn't sure if he would ever get married (he was in his 40s when they got together) but he's always loved kids. He's extremely grateful to the Hanged Man and loves her for loving him and giving him the chance to make a family together. He's also extremely proud of her for all the things she's done and how she's grown since they first met.

The Hanged Man lived a dishonest and cruel life. During an emergency, she used her magic to try and exploit the catastrophe and get revenge on another group of people. The Sun, who was sent to the scene to help out, saw her and saw her skill with magic. Afterwards he approached her. Without knowing anything about her, he offered to teach her magic. Despite being told that she was dangerous, she came from a bad place, she wouldn't fit in with the rest of the witches, he unfailingly insisted that she had the potential to do good. He's the kind of person who has such an upstanding moral character that it inspires others to shape up too, just to be able to stand next to him. He'll teach you what it means to be proud. The Hanged Man saw him as light, as hope, as all the good things in the world. What is pride? What makes someone deserving of good things? What makes someone capable of doing good? What makes someone unforgivable? She had to reconsider all these things and more while learning from him. She decided she wanted to stay by his side, then she had to consider what she could do to make sure she deserved to stand there. After facing many obstacles and becoming a person she would be proud to present to the object of her affections, she finally got around to seducing that old man

#oc tag #the age gap is ~20 years #perhaps i am overthinking their love story #is it not enough to see a 40 year old man and deciding that his ass is your life's goal? #you would think he would need to have the ass of god for that to happen but no i need to stress to you that this man is painfully average #the Hanged Man is also kinda average. shes not especially feminine and shes glaring half the time but shes a very admirable person #the only character thats in-universe described as stunningly attractive is the Chariot #the Hermit has blurry face syndrome #everyone thinks of the Wheel of Fortune as 'a cute charming young lady' #Temmy was. as stated previously. 'popular back in the day' #i need to get past all the character introductions so i can start posting memes #theres just the Apothecarist and the Magician now. just to cover whos included in the relationship chart. there are more characters besides #them. like the Apothecarist's family and all of the Tower's friends. and then Temmy. Temmy's old so the number of characters involved in #THAT backstory will be at least double the Hermit's #i am aware that if this story ever gets written then more than half of this information will be excluded #but its very likely that this story will never get written so this is what the world will see