#he just elevates the character

[modernchillthings]

I know I just did a little rant about Sooho so let me just talk about Sieun and why he is the way he is (or why I THINK so)

It's pretty obvious his parents neglect him, probably as early as childhood based on that flashback scene. I don't remember which parent said it but one of them most likely did not want to have a child and that outlook can definitely affect the way you raise your kid.

Based on that flashback, they were so unprepared with the thought of Sieun ever getting hurt (he had a broken arm I think?) I get being worried, but that was not worry to me tbh, it was more like they didn't expect raising kids to be so troublesome which is such a ridiculous notion! They get hurt, they get sick and you can't just expect a child to raise themselves no matter how smart or good they are. They need guidance! They need love!

And I don't remember what ep it was but when the dad asked Sieun if he still fell asleep in class or something like that and Sieun responded 'I don't do that anymore'. Idk that made me think that Sieun had like a chronic sleeping thing that he probably managed on his own just so he wouldn't trouble his parents. And the way Sieun at that age, understood how much 'trouble' he seemed to cause his parents, I think that's what started his very 'cold' and 'unfeeling' nature.

And from then on out, Sieun decided not to be a bother to his parents at all. That also made me think...okay, if he didn't want to bother them...then did he want to make them proud of him instead to show that he wasn't gonna be their problem?

And I get it, he's so me lol. Because I try so hard not to be a bother to not just my parents, but honestly any adult authority figure in my life. But the diff is, I kind of strive for that validation whereas Sieun...doesnt seem like he does, or at least not as much as he thought it would. Like what are his goals? Did he even want to go to a big college and be a big time 'something'? I don't even think we learned much about him and his motivations because it's true that he's so studious and gets so many awards and good grades and yes his parents praise him...but Sieun doesn't even look like he wants or cares about those praises anymore.

On the first ep. when he got that award and showed his dad, his dad seemed like he was genuinely proud of him but his reaction was just...😐 perhaps Sieun knows that his purpose in his parents eyes is to generate good grades and be a good kid so he just does that. Like 'ok I've done my purpose, on to the next task' and honestly that's so fucked up.

Anyways, yeah. I feel like he lost any sense of purpose. Maybe back then getting good grades and validation from his parents meant he wasn't being a bother to them and he prolly liked it but after a while, it kind of just burnt him out. Also maybe after his mother left and his dad started being away more often for work, it just didn't seem like it mattered to him but he still keeps going because it's the only thing that will grab his parents' attention. But again, at the same time, idk if he still even wants their attention. He doesn't even want to try anymore

When he was eating with his mom, you could tell the mom was distracted and Sieun must have felt so discouraged because he must have felt like a task to her, like something on her to do list to check off because how easily she pushes aside Sieun's presence and assumes he was done eating. Like she was already standing up, like she was waiting for an interruption. Sure, Sieun never said anything or expressed his needs but only because his parents never tried to understand him in the first place and idk...be an ACTUAL PRESENT ADULT FIGURE IN HIS LIFE!!

Sieun is such a complicated and interesting character and my only wish was for him to snap at his parents at least once. He almost did it with his dad at the hospital but he held back which he shouldn't have!! Yell at them! They deserve it! (hopefully we'll see that in s2)

I never really knew I would be so attached to him. Usually I get drawn towards the Sooho-type (and dont get me wrong, I love him too) but something about Sieun just makes me want to wrap him in a blanket and never let him go and give him the proper love and care and attention he deserves!

#plus park jihoon is such a brilliant actor #he just elevates the character #this was another long one #it's just mostly stream of consciousness bc like I said before #this show has occupied my brain and I want to get it out of my system!! #weak hero #weak hero class #weak hero class 1 #yeon sieun #park jihoon

[raiii-bee]

I've grown to be exhausted of the MCU. like I have no interest in seeing anything that comes out anymore. It feels almost bloated now, after Endgame. A lot of it is bland and feels too much like military propaganda. Marvel girl had style to it i guess. But I generally don't care for it like I did when I was younger.

But the moment I saw that funky raccoon again I'm like FUCK!!! ROCKET!! MY BOY ROCKET!!! IT'S ROCKET RACOON!!! ugh cris pratt.... THIS ONE IS ABOUT ROCKET!!!!! I GOTTA GO SEE ROCKET RACOON!!! MY BESTIE ROCKET!!!

#mcu #guardians of the Galaxy #rocket raccoon #in 2018 i was TERRIFIED of falling elevator style ride at CA adventure #BUT ROCKET WAS THERE!!1!!!! - i toughed it out for that lmao #there aren't many marvel character j care about anymore. but rocket. rocket is always my bestie #im willing to have to look at crisp rat if i get to see a movie about rocket's story #gotg 3 #raiii rants #he's just a little funky guy

[cuntylestat]

you don't fully appreciate how incredible jacob anderson's louis is until you watch iwtv (1994) and see brad pitt visibly wish on screen that he had 40 million dollars to buy himself out of his contract

#also he's just so badly written in the movie like at least in the book there's something interesting about him #but the show and jacob have elevated ldpdl to a whole other level making him the most compelling character on the show

[justalittlebluetiefling]

As a stats person, I think it would be so funny if I could compare the number of people hating on Essek to the number of people I've seen in my tags alone say that they're trying to catch up on C3 just because they heard Essek is here now.

#like i get that essek fans are loud but he's a GOOD character #matt truly ran off into the sunset and elevated to another plane while he was doing what he was doing with essek #and every time i see someone complain about him i'm just like #what is the fucking point #the amount of shit i just don't speak about because i don't like it #is miles long #i am a hater at heart #cr spoilers #listen i have horrible cramps and i'm on a restricted diet from my dental thing last week so i'm letting myself just not care today

[radioroxx]

not that i mind fandom discourse too much (its natural, it happens) but even if we assume that it WAS gregory in the elevator, and he did kill her, betray her etc. never have i ever seen so much hatred towards a villain character before. its so… unnecessarily aggressive.

i think you guys just hate kids tbh

#ruin spoilers #fnaf gregory #security breach #props to the people who saw it and said ‘i like that hes evil’ i respect you so much #it would be one thing to argue about what really happened but theres so many people against gregory who #just have so much against him as a character and who he is #what if vanessa had come on at the end and dropped the elevator? would the response be the same? #i guess i cant blame the fandom because ive seen this happen twice in other fandoms #a child character does anything less than moral and is completely turned against for it #im a gregory defender but not in the sense i think hes innocent… its just so aggresive out there #this is all to put aside the ‘he cant do wrong hes 12’

[wi1dshxpe]

i just think it’s so sick and twisted gortash canonically has abs. like him being hairy isn’t enough i also need him to be fat. it’s like when people make mods that smooth out his old ass face or whiten his yellow ass teeth, but it’s real. i need to see his muffin top more than i need to see anything else in this game.

#enver gortash #durgetash #i did not care about him at all my first run i was like ‘old man anime boy- boring- whatever- i like the lobster suit lady more’ and moved #on. it took playing durge for me to be like 'actually i gotta worship this man's hairy bhaals i think' which is the correct way to go for a #character. he's whatever then you learn about his history with your player character and you're like 'okayy. listening- seated- on my #knees- you already know what i'm doing down there.' in reality his shitty hair cut and yellow ass teeth are entirely what makes him hot and #that would entirely be elevated by a fat stomach i don't make the rules. this is also true of halsin. actually no party member should have #muscles they should just varying amounts stomach fat to attend to MY preferences exclusively. hope this helps!

[todayisafridaynight]

everyday i constantly think of masato's wheelchair and if that's his only one/main one no wonder he's so pissed at everyone

#snap chats #someone pointed this out to me like last year so im stealing it sorry cause I Think Of It Constantly #the handling of masato's disability will forever annoy me esp with how vague it is but esp his chair #one day ill draw masato with an appropriate wheelchair. maybe then he'll be happy for once #in a way i guess it could tie into how restricted or trapped he felt since the type of chair he's shown is more like. a hospital one #and not one youd really use as a regular user- like in that vein it is a bit of storytelling in that he can ONLY go out with help #since hospital chairs are SO much different from home chairs ESPECIALLY in regards to mobility and independence the user has #AND NOT TO MENTION HOW UNCOMFORTABLE THOSE CHAIRS ARE get his ass a proper cushion P L E A S E #like it portrays the idea that its unfathomable for him to go anywhere on his own and so in that vein . Interesting Storytelling #theres a lot of implications going on here if im so honest and again it makes for Really Interesting Story Telling #however i refuse to give rgg credit like that when it comes to disabilities. ... they havent earned that from me yet #see this is why the vagueness of his condition annoys me because he's shown to be independent enough to roll himself to his elevator #and presumably get himself dressed but he cant have a proper chair ? #because ik there are people who have expressed they have conditions where even writing is tiring #so if his condition was in-line with that and it was hard for him to push himself in his chair then i could buy it #obviously the issue lies with his lungs but i just want to know the full extent yk... #to wrap this up tho ive been thinking of character design in rgg and how we dont give credit to it enough #sooooo if i make a second post ten minutes from now thats why cause i keep forgetting to spam my thoughts on here LMAO #ok bye

[anna-scribbles]

emilie agreste and rose quartz.. the same

I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME

#the. what's that one post about characters who aren't in the story but are in every part of the story #the way emilie and rose are both so revered in their narratives #and leave such a gaping hole #i find stories about the absence of someone so interesting #ive spent so long trying to decide how i would characterize emilie if I were ever to write her #and eventually I made a list of things that adrien is that he got from his dad and things that adrien is that he definitely did NOT #get from his dad #and then i decided to attribute THOSE things to my perception of emilie #and I love the idea of borrowing from rose quartz's complex of becoming whatever the people around her wanted her to be #so that they all elevated her but had different ideas about who she actually was #& how she was actually so deeply insecure and doubtful about who she really was #that she decided to leave #very emilie to me. #think a lot about how adrien impulsively reflects what people want from him #(he's a mirrorball girl if you get what I mean) #and how he's just so universally adored #how he doesn't have a strong sense of self because he is always performing just as much as he is experiencing. #his expression of self is always at least somewhat impacted by who's around him and what they want or expect from him #and he didn't get that from gabe. gabe doesn't model that at all. #so I think it would be interesting if he got it from emilie #because she WAS universally adored. the same way adrien is. #look at what she did to adrien. to nathalie. to gabe. everyone who knew her loved her so completely #but she's also someone who would leave them all behind #I think that emilie taught adrien the idea of self-sacrifice as an expression of love. I think she taught him how to hate yourself #and be loved by everyone else #I think emilie messed him up too. #anyway YES tumblr user mari-monsta. yes I do think about that #ml #anna rambles #thirteen

[jabberwockprince]

since we're all having fun talking about theories and headcanons before the game drops. one thing that i do want for missing link, that is mostly wishful thinking on my part, is a reveal for kairi being a descendant of the player

this is based on their parallels of being shooting stars later found washed up on a beach from the new missing link trailer, plus that one moment from KH1 where kairi's grandma tells her about the age of the fairytales and nothing else lmfao

and i want that so badly because. it would be so fucking ironic and poetic to have kairi be a direct descendant of the one person that raised and cared so much for xehanort. the player, whose memories of ephemer and skuld and chirithy and everyone else influenced xehanort into starting his whole ass spiral and descent into darkness

only for her (and sora) to be the ones to get xehanort to stop in the end. ending a cycle of sorts. for her to be haunted by the memory of xehanort, the same way xehanort was "haunted" by the memory of the player's past life

PLUS. i want it to SPECIFICALLY recontextualize kairi's inheritance of the keyblade from BBS. because kairi's reason to wield a keyblade being nothing more than an "accident" feels like such a disservice to her AND aqua??

if they could recontextualize xehanort into whole new depths in dark road, i dont see why they couldn't reframe that moment as kairi reclaiming a dormant power, her own heritage that her bloodline forgot for centuries, since knowledge about keyblades and wielders began to fade out over time to the point where people who KNEW about them thought they were evil. makes sense that as the age of fairytales is left FORGOTTEN, no one can remember how to summon a keyblade, let alone the knowledge to create one from someone's heart. but having a strong heart (one of the requisites for bequeathing ceremonies) and being in direct contact with a keyblade, could just. help jog the memory a bit

and show that yeah. kairi deserves to wield a keyblade because she has a strong heart, and because this was her heritage that was taken away from her when the worlds began to drift away from each other and so on. not because of an accident

everytime chance, fate and destiny are brought up in the saga to explain why something. happened the way it did. it carries so much weight and so many events that led to That Point. but kairi's inheritance as of right now was just. yeah, an accident. no ceremony at all AND I JUST THINK SHE DESERVES RLLY COOL THINGS OKAY

#khml #DONT GET ME WRONG. THE THEORY AND HC ABOUT #RIKI BEING THE ONE COMING FROM A PRESTIGIOUS BLOODLINE OF POWERFUL WIELDERS #IS ALSO SUPER GOOD #BUT I THINK KAIRI DESERVES SMTH TOO OTHER THAN THE WRITING USING HER JUST TO ELEVATE SORA #their dynamics mean so much to me #some fucking guy named sora and his very cool anime protagonist best friends who actually think HES the coolest protagonist in the world #kairi being stubborn refusing to let go of sora. the same way the player is stubborn in refusing to let their friends die #to the point where they both can just cheat at death many times thanks to their connections with other people #since MOST ppl who came back to life in the saga. they do it by cheating time. or sheer force of will. but rarely thru. friendship and love #looks at luxu. some even refuse to die. kinda wild #YES im delusional #look at me in the fucking eyes right now #sora as a character who keeps being shattered. due to the pressure of his role. things he never asked for and keep happening to him #riki as a character who bends and breaks over and over. as punishment and rebellion. because he doesnt know where he fits in all of this #kairi as a character who keeps vanishing. who continues to have the places and people she loves taken away. and she keeps being left behind

[penofwildfire]

Lloyd but he looks like his mom (and also like a huge nerd)

#me when I don't know what to do with a character's arms: what if. they were holding boxes. #ninjago #lloyd #lloyd garmadon #he IS a huge nerd of course but the glasses just elevate that #it's the glasses/scruffy facial hair/long brown hair combo lol #huge fucking nerd. I love it. I love him. #I should start just. referring to characters with the pronouns I headcanon them as having #anyway Lloyd but SHE looks like THEIR mom

[chipistrate]

After watching the entirety of the DLC, i'm so confused lmao.

Basically how I think it ended

#Chip Chatter #I'm not *entirely* sold on the idea that it wasn't Gregory that shut down the elevator- #but I'm also not entirely convinced that it *was* him #I think both interpretations are really fun to mess around with<3 #figures- I'm a Six LN fan through and through I've defended characters for this before and I'll do it again god damn it #people just don't understand them like I do......... #Ruin spoilers #fnaf sb ruin spoilers #Fnaf ruin spoilers #fnaf spoilers #I kinda wish we'd gotten more PQ stuff since this takes place after the PQ ending- I've got SO many questions about how PQ3 ended #but hey #the story of the Pizzaplex isn't over just yet #so I guess we'll just have to wait n see where this goes<3 #also god damn I gotta get better at drawing Cassie..... love her forever and ever I must draw her all the time #also no- I will never stop drawing Gregory with the stealth hoodie #I love the stealth hoodie and he deserves to wear it more #he's a stealthy little guy

[quaranmine]

ok ok ok watching scar's vod for last saturday's mcc while i do much-needed work. that's not important. what IS important is that i'm 23 mins into the beginning of the vod and someone just sent a dono sending luck from yellowstone because they had to work and scar is like (super excited)

"from yellowstone? do you work at yellowstone? [a gasp and like 5 full seconds of awed silence] yellowstone...i've been to yellowstone twice. i love yellowstone."

this is personally important to me specifically as the writer of firewatch au, since shoshone national forest literally borders yellowstone national park. about half the research i have done, especially about ecology, has to be for either yellowstone or "greater yellowstone ecosystem" because shoshone is so much less-visited that there is a lack of data and research available for it. yellowstone is one of the most iconic/most visited parks in the country, so there's a wealth of climate data, geological data, ecological studies, etc for me to pull from and it's close enough to shoshone for me to consider it all. scar's general reaction and love of yellowstone also means i completely unintentionally nailed certain parts of his characterization without even knowing it xD

#hc_firewatch_au #unfortunately scar also said later on that he doesnt think he would be able to travel to yellowstone again unless his breathing improves #because the high elevation would make it more difficult for him :( #but this entire reaction is so...perfectly wild to me #especially because i am writing the chapter rn that goes deepering to scar's character and why he's out here #so it's so fun to see that i just. nailed that. without meaning to LOL #like scar's character in the au had to be here one way or another ofc because i was always going to use the same setting #but it's kind of validating in a strange way that this applies irl too haha

[s2pdoktopus]

Sometimes it be like this when reading fics

He's an unlikable bastard but he's my competent unlikable bastard child! You will respect his competence!

#me when Bakugou becomes a dummy in fics #i get it he's not likable but he actually knows what he's doing. like can we respect the brain underneath his prickly head? thank you #i just don't like it when one character gets... uhh belittled? becomes incompetent? to elevate another character #like we can elevate them without belittling the other one right? #cause otherwise. did they really rise up or did we just dumb down the competition? #it probably fits other characters too but this is something i saw a lot with Bakugou in fics #they are probably vent fics made by people who hate him tho. which yeah honestly. better than attacking other fans i think.

[reyryz]

um so instead of doing work i spent the whole day sketching kagami....

#knb #reezdoodles #LOL #i rlly didnt mean to spend the whole day doing this #but i saw a speed draw where somebodys lineart was just erasing and cleaning up their sketch #and i was like. i need to try that #so this is me trying that #this is also me toootally starting a series of pieces of knb characters in elevated 2000's era fashion #tooootally #totally isnt gonna start and stop w kagami #kagamis is simple bc in the manga he wears like. white or black shirt. jeans. ring necklace. #this is based off a pinterest model pic #where its white tank top + baggy jeans + belt + black leather jacket #which is close enough to kagamis style i was like yeah fuck it #also. kagami teen boy from los angeles. #hed sag his jeans. i hate it but hed do it and itd be his fashion statement

[amatres]

gonna be honest, while she is a wonderfully played character, i do not like karna as a person at all lol. usually i love morally grey characters but i think im too attached to amangeaux to appreciate karna's character. like the scene where amangeaux had to beg karna on her knees just to be able to flee for her life with her child made my skin crawl and was probably the final nail in the coffin for me

and that on top of karna without remorse offering up amangeaux's child's life, which she didn't even have conformation was the heir to vegetania, and then her speech of getting 'drops of recognition' from amangeaux for 'her own protection and happiness' i had no sympathy for her after everything she did. it felt like she was getting mad at a woman she was trying to take advantage of who decided to prioritize herself and her year old child, who karna just agreed to kill

like yes, theres the political standing difference between them, but by that time amangeaux had no political safety and was discarded by her allies, and only a few hours ago in the game's universe was it proven by their own actions how even with supposed political advantage means nothing anything anyway and just

her careless 'im damned to rot so i have no care what suffering i put people through to get to my goal' just rubs me the wrong way along with everything else

this is no hate towards aabria, she's playing the character wonderfully and every move she makes makes sense for the character she has made, it's just karna makes me so inherently uncomfortable

#ama mumbles #dimension 20 #the ravening war #karna critical #dimension 20 spoilers #i dont even know if that will work but whatever #she just. she is so close to being a character i would like but i just cant. she makes my skin crawl and i rarely like the moves she makes #not bc theyre bad moves as a player irl aabria's making but bc shes just so. horrible. #sorry i know its not articulate but *gestures* #if i had more insight into her background it might elevate things but she just makes me uncomfortable #the only characters i genuinely like are amangeaux and collin. deli is interesting and raphael is funny at times same with karna #tho tbh he also makes my skin crawl at points. which is fitting i suppose both raphael and karna have a similar 'my goals are number 1' #approach so 🤷‍♀️ if raphael kicked it it wouldn't be the most upsetting thing to me #karna doesn't owe amangeaux anything but in the same vein if thats how she sees it amangeaux doesn't owe her anything either #and amangeaux was going to offer karna to escape with her! it wasn't like she was saying 'sucks for you lol' she wanted to take her with he #until karna rolled her eyes at her and was threatening her. only then did amangeaux stop #they're both littlefinger like characters i suppose if that makes sense? and he makes my skin crawl too #who knows maybe with time i can look at it more objectively but for now. bad vibes #also sorry for this being in main tags i'm doing this for categorizing and so my followers can block the tags #will say tho while the scene did make my skin crawl them yelling over zac was very funny

[lemongogo]

#i think ive talked ab it before but imlike. actually obsessed w the way lost july was revealed #how hoppered and meryl are subjected to vashs first hand account and how hoppered begs and pleads not 2 see it #for he knows whats ab 2 happen.ITS JST SO GOOD.. the tension between their screaming and panicking / vash being legatoed under the elevator #and the caps of knives' confrontation / the angel arm / the ppl of july #interspersed throughout #i especially love lovelove the way it affects meryl too and i WISHHH THE MANGA LIKE. SERIOUSLY EXPLORED IT DEEPER #her ptsd from it and the way she sees vashs history in totality etc etc #it had such a good trajectory but i think it got resolved too soon..idk. i wish meryl and millie had more story in gen #theyre such lovely characters and these little bits of like.development for them is so sweet in my mind.like candy #trgn is just a very rushed and short story 2 begin w ig. #also btwjustlike i love how knives looks throughout this entire chapter. i love his outfit .. his arrogance & the way he sits.yah #<avg knives enjoyer #vash #knives trigun #hoppered the gauntlet #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun spoilers #im back 2 talking ab the same scenes and panels incessantly sry.parrot core.broken record smt #millions knives