#Mature Protagonist

[doodle-empress66]

Basically these 2 are the embodiment of giving a reality check.

Reminder: most people dont notice but they are not the villains of the movie. Just an antagonistic force against the protagonist that push him forward yet eventually both earning mutual respect.

This 2 are the real villains.

#Which do you like better? #Data: they both go for a drink at the same bar. #One is death metaphorically poetically or some fancy way of putting it #the other is death straight up #i love antagonist that exists purely to call out the protagonist bullshit and force them to actually mature as characters. #110% agreed #not so much a villain but more of the “real deal” #rango #rattlesnake jake #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots death #animation #dreamworks

[iris-nonsense]

Yuuji continue to demonstrate that he's an incredibly mature person and a great friend

#i like the way his compassion is shown it came off a lot more genuine than most shonen protagonists #also his reasoning on killing and the value of life show again how mature he is even if he's a bit naive #but this is going to end in tragedy isn't it #iris reads jjk #itadori yuuji #junpei yoshino

[diableasura]

It's neat seeing hinatas complete disregard for his own body being set up as early as season 1, I must admit when he collapsed during their last match at nationals it took me by surprise but yeah on rewatch you realize he really had never cared about his health at all as long as he was allowed to play

#he got hit in the face by asahis spike and begged not to be taken out boy you have a concussion #it was one of my favorite parts of the manga. seeing a message that said you couldn't push yourself to the brink #cause in the long run it will become an obstacle in your path #it's a very mature message #especially coming from a shonen story where the protagonist breaking himself to achieve his goals is the norm #and maybe if you're made of rubber like luffy that's the case lol #but haikyuu being set in the real world can't say that and didn't #and that's awesome #haikyuu #hinata shouyou #haikyuu spoilers

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

You ever make up a bunch of people in your dream and wake up like aw. They don’t exist. Come back :(

#I miss you unnamed pregnant trans man protagonist + wife #I miss you mysterious tiny samurai girl of the wind #(this dream was a Lupin iii movie I wish existed and I can't describe any of it bc it's fading :))) #the unnamed protagonist had some people come after him from his past and he was forced back into (insert cartel type shit here) #while pregnant. this was very upsetting yet very compelling #sorry to go on about this but I don't wanna forget #it was very. mature and mellow? Jig and Lup tended to this guy when the (insert cartel-like bad guys) hurt him #then switched places with him in disguise #idk there was some part where Jigen got hit in the head and forgot everybody and went attack mode #this was all in some old rural japanese mostly-empty village #anyway idk then it went weird with some (adorable) samurai clan who could vanish underground and were like airbenders or some shit #cagliostro calm-Lup vibe. He growed up and he look after you :) #anyway I wanna draw the characters they were cool looking. nameless had nice hair

[mickeym4ndy]

soooo many of the characters in shameless (particularly the female characters) are villainized and judged for their actions as teenagers as if they should’ve had the emotional maturity and decision making capabilities of grown adults when they were literal kids

#it’s possible to acknowledge the shit they did while also understanding that they were kids that were products of their environments #u can hold them to a different standard in the later seasons fine #but people need to stop acting like a 15 yr old should’ve acted with the emotional maturity of a 35 yr old #shameless #now that i think about it u cud say this for most things that have teens as protagonists #Debbie Gallagher #mandy milkovich #Mickey Milkovich #there’s more

[kyouka-supremacy]

ok so I've been thinking about about akutagawa (as always) and... do you think he has an education? I don't think he ever went to school, I mean I do think he can read and write but I don't think he knows much more...

He definitely doesn't. And he still talks like that and it's absolutely hilarious.

Official material gives us a pretty exhaustive understanding of Akutagawa's life and we can tell with fair certainty he never had a proper education. He grew up in the slums until he was recluted in the pm by Dazai, and I highly doubt Dazai ever imprinted any kind of academic education on him (like I have reason to believe Kouyou may have done with Chuuya); on the contrary, I feel like Dazai always pushed to make out of Akutagawa this mindless fighting machine, always acting irrationally and on instinct and especially prone to take orders and not think with his head. After all, it's much harder for people that lack formal education to think critically and are thus also much easier to manipulate, so you can see why Dazai did that, how he never leaves anything to chance. I do think Akutagawa's lack of education is reflected in his impulsive, irrational behavior. Additionally, be it for circumstantial factors, be it because of his natural temperament, it's really hard to believe Akutagawa would ever be patient enough to sit to a schooldesk or even just... ever study anything on a textbook (it's the autism). I get why the image of brooding, mysterious guy often leads people to think that, but the concept of bookworm Akutagawa sounds extremely unbelievable to me, I struggle to believe he ever concluded a book his whole life as we know it.

Which leaves the question open on why Akutagawa talks like that™. My personal guess on that is that someone threw a big dictionary at him when he was very young and Rashomon absorbed it just like that

#Last part is a joke but seriously that's one of the most inexplicable things about Akutagawa's character and it's SO so amusing– #I wouldnt change it for anything. Talks like a Victorian novel protagonist tormented by the horrors but no thoughts go on behind those eyes #ryūnosuke akutagawa #bsd #bungou stray dogs #Btw in case anyone was wondering it is at least confirmed by Beast he can read and write (chapter 9) #people asks me stuff #Thank you for the ask!! #Sorry for the late reply - and sorry for the asks I've got still hanging - but I'll probably be very busy untill the 16th 😪😪 #“I've been thinking about about akutagawa (as always)” is such a big mood tho #Fics: Atsushi came back home to Akutagawa reading a book on the couch #Me: Was he really though (╥﹏╥) #To be fair I feel like there's a chance of him changing a bit in that direction once he becomes more mature‚ with more peace of mind #He'll never be a bookworm tho lol

[lacomandante]

okokokok i raise you teresa reading sense & sensibility honestly!!! elinor pushing through grief and loss and hardship with no ability to take up a sword and change her circumstances, and the drama of marianne being taken advantage of for having the courage to love freely…. i think she’d wanna gut mr willoughby tbh!!

Teresa reading any of the JA novels tbh!! But YES S&S is a fantastic one! I think as an older sister too (at least, that's my headcanon- Vivar mentions her sister, Maria, and in the books it's Ramon, so I say Teresa is the eldest child/sister, and I say she has both siblings!) she can really relate to Elinor- she has to take care of her family first, to put her own emotions and heartbreak aside, especially in times of great change and tragedy. She has to be the strong one. Teresa would definitely see herself in Elinor, and though I don't talk about her a lot because there's nothing about Maria in canon and she's basically a blank slate, I think Maria being like Marianne is a great dichotomy between the two.

I always thought of Maria being the baby of the family, so she gets away with a little more than Teresa did- she's also the youngest daughter, and while Teresa probably has a little more pressure to marry well, Maria more than likely doesn't. Maria can be a romantic, to chase after who she wants, though I like to think she's a little more airheaded than Marianne, less bold, but just as excitable. That one scene in the 1995 P&P with Lizzie and Maria Lucas makes me think of their relationship- Teresa guiding and teasing the overly worried Maria. "Mariah, this is your trunk and these are your gowns. You may arrange them in any way you wish- Lady Catherine will never know!" Also that scene where Mariah tells Lizzie to hurry downstairs and does a little spin- that seems like a thing Maria would do! Excitable and fun and so young.

And YES she would want to gut Willoughby for being such a rake and a terrible person!! Especially for knocking up a 15 year old and leaving her to fend for herself!! For the heartache he put Marriane through as well. Teresa understands the economics very well and knows that love sometimes isn't enough to make a relationship work- money is just as important. But it doesn't stop her from breathing a sigh of relief when Marianne dodges a bullet when he leaves her. Sam and I like to think Sharpe gets P&P for her and they read it together, and when they go to Yorkshire and meet a George Wickham they look at each other like 😳😳😳 mr willoughby and wickham found dead more news at 11

#;letters #(i just got finished listened to a reading of s&s so this was perfect) #(although of all the jane austen novels teresa reads i will be biased. i think persuasion is her favorite) #(because its the most mature of her novels- anne is older than any other protagonist. and teresa is a romantic and LOVES romance novel) #(especially in her youth though i think she tries to hide it/deny it but by the time she meets/marries sharpe she can indulge in it ;w; #(but i think she enjoys anne's maturity and how brave she is in the face of longing and heartbreak and yearning) #(8 years!! 8 years since she's seen the man she loved- the man she never stopped loving. it might not have been 8 years) #(but teresa understands that longing of missing someone you love dearly- someone gone off to fight- not knowing if youll see them again) #(all too well) #(one day i'll write out the moreno family dynamic i have most of it in my head as well as family fancasts....) #(also ty for your patience!! ill answer your next ask asap <3)

[fellhellion]

Semi planning to make a YouTube essay about this but the trend within a lot of popular modern media to have characters just. State aloud in therapy clinical terms what’s wrong with them without consideration to qualities like their age and even what the implications are of this character so openly stating these issues to others? It’s so often such damn lazy writing, especially when the tone of this delivery just makes the goal of this exchange be a joke.

#what I mean by this is exchange like #persona a: what is wrong with you? #person b: oh I have crippling self esteem issues and carry deep seated fears about my parents not loving me HA HA #like. how did this person learn to conceptualise these emotions within parameters we see most often in therapy? #and since these terms are semi widely known online - did that influence them? #why do they conceptualise these issues so clinically? what does it say about them that they do so #if they’re a child. children (or at least I did this as a kid) will often apply theoretical knowledge of a concept while lacking emotional #maturity or experience on other faucets of the problem #who are they telling this to and would this character specifically apply the approach of ‘blunt statement masking a cry for help and #understanding’ #there’s also like. an extremely weird problem with this approach being applied to protagonists talking to antagonists as well but that’s #another post #tunes titters

[kashilascorner]

Still thinking about Rebecca... Mr de Winter is like someone tried to recreate Rochester except he is worse

#listen... rochester might have had that woman locked fown in the atric but de winter killed his wife and ghaslighted the #second ms de winter throughout all the plot. like idk about the book but in the movie the man insists rebecca died by #accident and that poor girl is so so so desperate to believe him... jane had a clearer mind i think. #another thing: de winter literally treats his new wife like a child. just look at the first 30 minutes of the movie or so #he likes her because she is young. rochester might be a lot of things but at least treats jane like an adult #finally........ to be honest at least rochester does genuinely (after some point i guess) love jane. yeah sure still not a good man #but mr de winter??????? he married that girl on a whim and because he was so unbearably lonely and you can't convince me otherwise #jane sure was rather destitute younger of lesser social standing but she knew the world. she had a clear head. she was mature in #a lot of things. but the protagonist in rebecca is an orphan a destitute a much younger and of lesser standing than #her husband but on top of that? she doesn't know the world. she has never had to fend for herself. she is less mature in every way #laura watches stuff

[sweet-salome]

Happy Old Year is my favorite movie now. Just, the layers and layers of history existing inside of your childhood home. The horror of discovering you’re selfish just like your father. Rebirth, Buddhism, Minimalism. Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying’s performances, with just her eyes.

#personal #happy old year #it was a really mature complex story over something very small #with an unlikeable likeable protagonist #I’m sitting with it

[fictionalnormalcy]

A/N: After over a year of not uploading, FINALLY. 

Ch. 35: Unanswered Texts

The Boy with a Strange Name 

WC: 116,149 Rating: Mature Fandoms: Fusion of the How to Train Your Dragon books and animated franchise Summary:  Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III has lived nearly seventeen years of life. In the span of those years, he’s moved twelve times. Five of those years his mother was alive. Then a tragic accident left Hiccup in the sole care of his father, Stoick Haddock. Berk was where he had been born. That much he knew.  Over every, single, move his father put him through, it wasn’t until he reached sixteen years old that Berk was the city in which the father finally decided to plant roots. At least, that was what he claimed. After years of being victimized at each school he attended, Hiccup was determined to keep a low profile at Berk High. His past is intent on preying upon him, deciding that Berk was perfect place to come back into the light. However, like all good things that came to him, there was always something to drag him back down into the pit of despair. A dormant secret, tied into his family history, was ultimately brought into the light when Hiccup settles on Berk. A secret tied with guilt and tears, and it all goes downhill from there. He discovered what his father truly did those long stretch of years, and finds he has a gift that had been nonexistent for centuries.

#httyd #httyd books #fanfic #my fic #tbwasn #the boy with a strange name #mature #graphic depictions of violence #modern day AU #AO3 #jaded protagonist #slow burn #angst #35 chapters so far #hiccup haddock the third #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #stoick the vast #astrid hofferson #snotlout jorgenson #book fishlegs #fishlegs ingerman #eret son of eret #tuffnut thorston #ruffnut thorston #httyd camicazi #heather the unhinged #httyd dogsbreath #viggo grimborn #toothless

[swordlegion]

fuck it. azure with top scars

#my wife #she's so gender #astral chain #platinum games #astral chain protagonist #azure #tagging this as mature jic tumblr gets on my ass

[nenekobasu]

noa says individual ability is important but to be precise what he says is 「相手の統率された組織力を破壊するのは　球際の"個"の力だ」 "what will destroy the organizational strength/command of the opponent is the 'individual''s strength/ability to fight over the ball"

for someone like isagi who modeled his own movements after kaiser's off the ball movement and who is consistently unable to steal or keep the ball in a 1v1, this game was from the start unsuitable for him. it was unsuitable for kaiser too until he re-evaluated his life choices

it's funny that noa's just like "be good at stealing and keeping the ball (and if you can only get the ball from a friend who feeds you a pass you suck and you'll fail)" he said this to everyone in class and isagi just Forgot. this is also probably why noa folded when snuffy came on the field, noa knows he can't beat snuffy in a 1v1 so he knows he won't be able to destroy snuffy-led ubers' true strength (noa was also like "be patient, we can stall so don't rush things" and isagi immediately rushed ahead in the opposite direction— well, now i feel bad for noa)

raichi too was noted by noa to be number 1 when it comes to stuff like 「１対１でのボール奪取成功率」"the success rate of taking back the ball in a 1v1"— raichi was chosen because of his skill at taking back the ball in a straight duel. i think this puts ch.224 raichi v. snuffy in a new light as isagi emphasized for raichi "the most important thing is not to steal the ball, but to cut off snuffy's vision" i won't try to argue raichi should have tried to genuinely beat snuffy but i will argue that it says something (and this is followed up with isagi's response to raichi in ch.230) that raichi's big moment so far was most decidedly Not about highlighting raichi's main reason for having been chosen by noa. isagi too while he gave raichi the task of dueling does not see "stealing the ball through duels" as a relevant fight; even as isagi made raichi shine, i feel right now isagi cannot draw out raichi's full potential because he just doesn't recognize the importance or strength of raichi's real ability. when raichi's real moment comes i think isagi may be surprised by what he sees

#also in the snuffy-lorenzo noa-kaiser mirroring noa-kaiser cannot beat snuffy-lorenzo which makes kaiser trying to beat lorenzo #both in accord with noa's advice and differentiates him from noa in that if he beats lorenzo he'll be narratively superior to noa #not technically of course. but there's a precedent in kaiser's ch.220 goal where his ideal narratively bests noa's ideal (through isagi) #so the bones for kaiser surpassing noa (again only narratively) are present and accounted for #for kaiser who had given up on being a protagonist in noa's team this is strong and fitting development #and that it happened in one game i think shows he always had it in him. it's not maturity so much as it is regaining what was lost #kaiserposting

[br1ghtestlight]

rainbow ABSOLUTELY thinks she is the protagonist of their story like she is the Main Character she is the most important aspect of their story its like a fun fantasy adventure for her where he learns about herself and grows as a person and everybody else is just a secondary character which she is so objectively wrong about lmao like she isnt NOT one of the protagonists but not in the way that she's thinking. she can't do anything wrong or be flawed in any real way bcuz she is the Protagonist the world revolves around her..... anyway she's crazy love her <3

#when u understand that she doesn't really think of the people around her as like People with their own thoughts feelings and stories #her motivations make a lot more sense #she is the protagonist of a young adult fantasy novel But she is not in a young adult fantasy novel i will tell u that much #over time she matures and uhh is confronted w/ some things about other people and her own life and the way she's engaging in the world #when OTHER people refuse to see the trauma and heartbreak of her story thats when it becomes like a bigger problem #(people outside their little collective obvs) #txt #object ocs

[stylishanachronism]

*grump grump*

It’s a novel about discovering you’re queer in your twenties what the fuck are y’all talking about.

#was trying to remember the name of A Fistful of Sky’s….. antagonist? second protagonist? secondaryish romantic lead? (it’s Altria) #except my copy is….. somewhere so I couldn’t just grab it #and like all the reviews are both a. trash and b. Missing The Point #like if I had to point at a novel that defined my teenage relationship with being queer this is like top two #(the other is A Stir of Bones which are less blatantly queer than it’s…. later chronological books but for thematically correct reasons) #anyway the two major complaints are ‘this doesn’t wrap up with the family resolving their issues’ #and ‘not mature enough for adult fantasy’ #and it’s like (spoilers and/or death of the author) this is a novel about coming to terms with yourself for being queer #and coming to terms with coming to terms with your family about being queer may never be an option #and also about taking love where you find it and how it is not how you’d like it to be #(the main character is both explicitly bi by the end (…..sort of) #and in a relationship with a nonhuman shapeshifter who uses female pronouns and wears a woman’s body but doesn’t actually care about it #I’m going to fight all these middle aged moms like what the fuck #also fuck you too mature for ya I was thirteen and it was difinitive and I got way more out of it than my mom did too

[schnees-and-schnugs]

Damn I thought I had gotten over it but now I'm just thinking abt... The scene where Weiss confronts Whitley in the hall in v4. She feels powerless and alone and like nobody is on her side. She doesn't understand why Whitley is turning his back on her and she's hurt.

I would have loved a v8 scene in that exact same place in the manor, paralleling to the previous. The same framing, the same way they were faced towards each other. Except now Weiss isnt powerless and alone, she has a team on her side. But most importantly, she isn't clueless about Whitley, she has an insight into behind his emotional walls like she didn't have before. And because of that the positions are flipped- because this time Whitley is vulnerable and has had it all swiped from under him, and she's so sure that she wants this to be different this time. She's not the self centered heiress that she used to be, who left him alone. What Whitley seems to think she still is, and it hurts her. But if he won't take her hand that she has outstretched, won't meet her half-way, what is there left that she can do?

#*screams from the top of my lungs* #i love weiss being emotionally mature i love her growing and being the bigger man and showing that shes different in the way it matters #rip to cr/wby but i like my protagonists actually trusting love rather than beating everyone else over the head with it to make them submit #weiss schnee #whitley schnee