#self-contained story

[warpedlegacywrites]

Fiercely Perish

I wrote this story for April Fool's Day four years ago, and it's still one of my favorite things I've written. This was so much fun, and I especially loved seeing people in the comments slowly realizing what I was doing lol.

“Ser Dorian, you there?” A familiar voice came through the sending crystal as clearly as if they were standing right next to him. “Krem, what can I do for you?” he asked pleasantly. “Sorry to disturb you-” Krem always was so polite, “-but the scouts just spotted a cart coming up the way. Looks to be the Chief.” “Ah, so he managed to make it before nightfall after all.” Dorian had wondered. He knew the big lummox well enough to know he didn’t rise early by choice if he could help it. He’d half expected another fortnight before seeing so much as the tips of his horns. “Barely,” Krem chuckled lightly. If there was one exception to his professional decorum, it was in ribbing his intrepid leader. “Cart’s moving at a snail’s pace. Might have to make him a tent out here at forward base, unless you had other plans?” It was ever so slight; the faint hint of amusement in his voice disguised as a question. Yes, Krem was always polite, but still no one’s fool. “No, go ahead and send him up,” Dorian replied. His gaze twitched to his left, where his bed sat, still unmade from the night before. “I think we may find room for him after all.” “Sure thing, ser.” Krem ended the communication. Dorian fought off a sense of foreboding as he set his own sending crystal down, hoping he hadn’t made a mistake.

#my writing #fiercely perish #the iron bull #dorian pavus #action #self-contained story #adoribull #dorian pavus x the iron bull

[isan0rt]

You know, when you consider Azure Moon as a self-contained narrative, the use of ‘unanswered questions’ and ambiguity as a reinforcement of the themes of the route are really effective. I honestly think having the route not address the Slithers was the best narrative choice IntSys could possibly have made given the themes of Azure Moon.

Like. The developers didn’t really expect people to actually play all the routes; they designed the game so ‘everyone would have a different experience.’ As a result, all the routes have very different themes and scopes. Azure Moon is the tightest, most character-driven narrative despite not being the shortest route.

And Azure Moon is about grief.

Grief hangs over the entire route; except for Mercedes, every single one of the Blue Lions is haunted by the Tragedy of Duscur and the unanswered questions surrounding it. Felix loses his brother directly, and his worldview and best friend to the aftermath. Ingrid loses her fiance, but also her sense of security; without Glenn, her people may starve, and her personal future is now uncertain. Sylvain and Glenn were the same age, so we can assume they were friends, though his loss is less direct; Sylvain is surrounded by people broken by loss, including his own father. Annette’s father leaves her family in disgrace over being unable to stop the tragedy. Ashe loses his foster brother to the aftermath; and later his foster father as well. 

Dimitri and Dedue lose everything.

All of them spend the whole route wanting to find answers and some kind of closure for this event. It drives the entire narrative for all of the Lions actually from Faerghus. Mercedes, meanwhile, stands as an outside observer to that tragedy - but she is also dealing with her own personal tragedy and unanswered questions about her brother, and that drives her during Azure Moon.

And the thing about grief is that sometimes you never get closure. But you still have to move on, anyway.

That’s the whole point of Azure Moon. Dimitri has to move on. All the Lions have to move on. 

Mercedes cannot regain her brother, whether you find out his identity or not in the route. She has to move on anyway. Dimitri cannot reconcile with his family, not with Rufus (Did Dimitri kill him? We the viewer can never really know for sure) and not with Edelgard. He never finds out whether Patricia wanted to kill his father, or whether she loved Dimitri at all (and we the viewer don’t, either). He has to move on anyway. The Lions never find out the cause of the tragedy.

They have to move on anyway.

Involving the Slithers at that point would not only add a bunch of last-minute narrative complications that aren’t necessary in Azure Moon, it would undermine the emotional impact of the route (in much the same way the last map of Verdant Wind does, honestly). The themes of Azure Moon not only don’t need to answer the question of the Slithers; not answering that question is the point. Bringing up the Slithers at that point would take all the air out of the personal drama the route takes its entire runtime addressing.

Dimitri hesitates at the end. He stops, and tries to look back, and Byleth stops him. He has to move on. He can’t keep looking back at Duscur. He’s got to walk forward. 

And that means leaving his questions unanswered. 

#Fire Emblem Three Houses #FE3H #Blue Lions #Like honestly if you look at the route as the ONLY route you play #The story is incredibly well self-contained #In a way that also makes you want to play other routes! #Azure Moon IMO is really effective from an emotional impact perspective #Like. assuming you like deconstructions of Hamlet because that's what Azure Moon is lbr #Incidentally I personally don't think Dimitri actually killed Rufus....but I don't know!! He could have!! I will never know for sure. #That's the point.

[delawaredetroit]

Now that I have to see his face again, Bakugou isn't much a deuteragonist. He only really acts as deuteragonist in some school arcs until about halfway through the manga when the war arc begins. And in the arc where he is most relevant to the overall plot (the second war arc), he spends half of it as a corpse.

Shouto is deuteragonist of the Sports Festival Arc. Iida is deuteragonist of the Stain Arc. Mirio is the deuteragonist of the Shie Hassaikai Arc. If you consider Izuku the protagonist of the Kamino Arc (which there's a decent argument it's actually All Might), then Kirishima and/or Iida are closer to deuteragonists while Bakugou fulfills the role of the damsel in distress.

His record is dismal prior to the Paranormal Liberation Front War: The Battle Trials, the Midterms, Hero Licensing Exam/Deku vs Kacchan Part Two, and the Joint Training Arc (Endeavor Agency Arc is arguable, but the Hellish Todoroki Family took control of the plot for that one). Bakugou is somehow constantly present and almost completely irrelevant to the overarching plot for at least half the story.

And I can't tell if this is Horikoshi shoehorning him in because Bakugou was too popular but he didn't want to change the main beats of the story. Or if he was trying to make Bakugou grow into the deuteragonist role like Izuku and Shigaraki grow into the roles of "the hero" and "the villain" respectively. It wasn't well executed if that was the case. They had to grow into their societal roles through the story (so they could later overcome the roles of hero and villain), but Izuku and Shigaraki already fit the roles of protagonist and antagonist from the beginning, unlike Bakugou as a deuteragonist.

#bnha reread #bnha #bakugou critical #midoriya izuku #shigaraki tomura #sometimes i think people like bakugou's character arc so much partially bc it's almost entirely self contained away from the plot #making it easy to understand even if you don't bother to understand anything else that's happening in the story

[tangledstarlight]

wild to think that if netflix werent the worst we could have had a jatp s2, maybe even a s3, by now. like. we could have had so many new songs😔

#julie and the phantoms #most of the time i am okay with cancellation now becuase if you ignore the last 2mins with nick/caleb it's nice self contained story that #wraps up with the boys coming back to life after julie hugs them and i can pretend they went and found willie and hugged him back to life t #BUT sometimes i do think about what could have been and what we lost out on. like i would LOVE to know what the overall plan was #but also maybe i dont because i might have hated it so actually its a win that we never got a s2dfjkhgdfg #anyway i'm a little in my jatp feels today for some reason i guess

[ef-1]

Visual Narratives | Hungary 2023

#god i love photography so much like. look at how these are all self contained little stories #like that first one with max and lewis is a heavy offtttt. then the two demonic entities of zak and helmut whispering nefariously #alonso and Piastri and in the forefront Lewis's helmut ughhhhh #LIKE YOU COULNDT STAGE THESE IF YOU WANTED TO!!!!!! #f1 #daniel ricciardo #lewis hamilton #max verstappen #Fernando alonso #george russell #toto wolff #hungarian gp 2023

[askcometcare]

OOC: I just found out about the fics in your toyhouse, and I love them! I wish I could've read them sooner! Are ya planning on making more?

OOC: yes, i am! i dont write them as frequently as i do updates cuz writing can be kinda hard for me sometimes (when its not like... planning something) but i do like making these little stories a lot :3 i think it would be fun to do a multi-chapter one at some point

#ooc #ive never used toyhouse's multi-chapter fic feature #i know it exists #i just havent figured out what i'd do with it yet cuz all my stories so far are pretty self contained

[agentravensong]

it's actually incredible how tightly written the guy who didn't like musicals is. and how catchy the numbers are. and how funny it is. and how much paul emotionally devastates me

#rewatched it this evening for the first time in a while. what a show #as a self contained story it's still easily my favorite hatchetfield thing #(as much as i love hannah and lex) #starkid #tgwdlm #hey mutuals. the show is free to watch on youtube. you should do it (if you can handle some theatrical body horror / gore)

[blinkpen]

brainstorming mechanics for a bloody mary of my very own

#mog art #artists on tumblr #horror #monster #this is for a self-contained horror project with its own story entirely unrelated to MantleDwellers #and by project i mean... possibly live action..? never thought i'd say that but anyway- #she might cameo in MD though or show up once as part of its Monster of the Week format bc My Original CreepyPasta Monster My Rules #speaking of rules there's more to this setup obvs n other effects n powers and i'm still playing around with her appearance #adjustments n such; already will be changing 7 nights to 12 bc Clocks #blood cw #death cw #want to get the specifics just right so there's room for protags to get fucked over when they think they've won #AND there still be the loophole that lets you Actually defeat this thing #or at least neutralize it after summoning so you don't have to commit 2 sit in a chair u cant ever move every night until you die

[oifaaa]

I'm not gonna lie I've been pondering for the last 30 minutes or so on what a good animated Robin movie would look like and Im kinda coming up blank I'm even getting stumped on which Robin the movie would focus on and outside of that what story should be the main focus

#Dc #Robin #Like I feel like the obvious answer would be dick #And the movie focuses on how he became Robin #Which like very good story #Easy to fit into the movie time span #Your basic origin story that new fans won't get confused with a bunch of back story #But it also just sounds like the safe option #And kinda boring if I'm being honest #Especially bc to me if you really want to tell dick or really any of the Robins stories #You need way more time to do it #Idk tho my brain isn't really working today #Soooo putting the question out there #Dc is making an animated Robin movie #They've asked you what Robin should be the focus and what story your telling #With the obvious stipulations #It's gotta fit into a 90 minute runtime #Robin has to fulfill some sorta character arc #It has to be newbie friendly while appeasing old fans #It's gotta be a self contained story while leaving room for a sequel #Annnd go

[jesperr-fahey]

these two guys are having an absolutely devastating romantic story with horror elements that is surely going to end in tragedy and carpenter and hayward just. burst in like a fuckin tornado, arguing about shit that no one but them can understand. this show is so good

#the silt verses #tsv #podcast tag #this feels like a return to form in a v fun way.... #less of the big political bullshit that has been happening recently #(which i also like!!) #but more of a self contained story that ties into our main characters somehow

[laundrybiscuits]

Eden actually likes her name. When she thinks about the muslin-draped horrors she could’ve gotten stuck with, like poor Suzie, she feels guiltily glad she dodged that bullet. If she’d been the one who had to shoulder the impossible burden of being named Suzie, who knows how she might’ve turned out.

Eden is a word that could go a lot of ways. It’s almost as good as Lilith or Isis or something. It’s the kind of name that could be sexy, in the right hands. The kind of name you could say on stage: ladies and gentlemen, introducing the one and only Eden—

That’s where the picture stalls out, though. Eden Bingham is pretty awful, no matter how you spin it. She wants to pick a stage name like some glamorous Hollywood actress, but she hasn’t decided exactly what she wants yet. She thinks it would be real elegant to pick something French, like…like Verne. 

There’s a battered paperback tucked under her mattress at home, where sticky, prying little fingers can’t get at it. She’s not a fast reader, but she’s read it about a million times by now. Sometimes when she can’t sleep, she’ll take it out and just squint at it in the moonlight, tracing her fingertips over the faded elephant on the cover. It’s a story about some guy who was so bored he decided to travel all around the world, and nobody stopped him. He could just go. He didn’t have any kids or anything that he had to take care of or look after; in fact, there was some guy whose whole job was to look after him. 

For a little while, Eden thought about borrowing the main guy’s last name, but Eden Fogg sounds kind of old and stuffy. She could take the French valet’s name, but she’s not completely confident she knows how to pronounce Passepartout, and she’s terrified she’s going to say it wrong and nobody’s going to take her seriously ever again. 

The author’s French too, though, and his name seems a lot easier to handle. So, lately she’s been looking in the mirror and saying Eden Verne, hi my name is Eden Verne real quiet to herself, just testing it out. She’s not sure about it yet, but it’s definitely better than Eden Bingham. 

Eden Bingham is just a handful of years away from Edie Bingham, who spends her time looking after a house full of kids and wears shapeless floor-length dresses. But Eden Verne could be someone who travels and wears exciting makeup. Eden Verne drinks and swears and smokes, and she never has to deal with kids ever again. Beautiful, sophisticated men and women alike despair for love of her, but she never lets anyone stay more than a night. 

Anyway, she doesn’t have to figure out if she can carry off Verne yet, because the stupid boy she followed halfway across the country introduced her to his friends as Eden Bingham, so she never got the chance to decide if she was going to say something different. She probably wouldn’t have, but—maybe she would. Maybe. She’ll never know.

The thing with Argyle fizzled out pretty quick. He’s cute, and making out with him is fun, but he doesn’t ever seem to want anything real out of life. Eden can’t understand him at all, and worse yet, she’s pretty sure he doesn’t understand her. When they’re high, they communicate just fine giggling about the cosmos, but that’s not enough. She’s sure there’s supposed to be more, even if she’s not entirely sure what that means.

She broke up with him on an impulse, and sometimes she regrets it. He’s a good guy. He’s not like any other guy she’s ever known. He’s willing to drive clear across the country, which is what she liked about him to begin with. Maybe that’s as good as it gets for her.

But she can’t take it back now. It’s not even that she thinks he’d say no, necessarily; she just can’t handle the idea of trying to walk back something like that. She’d die of humiliation before the words made it out of her mouth. 

So Eden’s just here, in Hawkins, staying in her ex-fling’s best friend’s step-dad’s spare room because it’s still marginally better than having to hitch home to Utah. Argyle is planning to drive back to California in a few weeks, so she’s going to just ride with him then. In the meantime, she’s going to have a nice, quiet vacation in Indiana, doing whatever it is Midwesterners do in the summer, and then she’ll go home and nothing at all about the life of Eden Bingham will have changed.

#eden bingham #so yeah this is the robin rarepair I mentioned! I don't want to talk too much in the tags bc I want to see if I can sell it via narrative #obvs this is the same story as the matchmaking snippet I posted last night but I don't think it follows directly #I just wrote it & it seemed like a pretty self-contained thing so here u go #(also I'm kinda assuming this post is not going to be too popular given it has zero ship content and is about a very minor character haha) #(which is fine! that's just how fandom works! maximum engagement is not my goal I'm just here to try stuff out) #anyway there's a pretty good chance this'll get rewritten once I have a better handle on eden's voice #fic: somewhere sometime somehow

[razmerry]

I love mayview everyone in that town is fucking insane

#razpost #paranatural #i'm not gonna post spoilers since the page only came out today but HELLO #HELLO #what is her problem i'm immediately obsessed #also extremely funny that he's also part of the death cult bc like yeah. in hindsight he was entirely out of the gym when hijack was out #i'm eagerly awaiting for him to meet medium johnny. let's get that ollie character development everyone #only reinforces my belief that pnat chapter 5 is maybe the best self contained story of any webcomic or maybe any thing

[homoeroticgrappling]

I need people to see how Danhausen captioned this image. Twice

#this man posts slayer and hatebreed on his story and captions his creepy self image with halsey. he contains multitudes #also I love when he decides something is important enough to post on all socials he's so real for it cause picking a good caption is hard #Danhausen

[theanonymousplayer]

today’s dracula daily entry is actually so good......... referring to how dracula can’t touch that which is sacred (a rosary) but using He and It capitalized for him as if he is, in his inhuman monstrosity, divine............ something something the word awful is still derived from awe

#dracula #dracula daily #am i speaking a bunch of nonsense? probably #i really enjoy the demeter logs as a whole they’re SUCH GOOD HORROR #LIKE THAT COULD BE ON ITS ON A SELF CONTAINED HORROR STORY #SO GOOD #yes i checked if awful is Actually derived from awe i don’t wanna embarass myself on tumblr dot com #shut up jack

[escapedaudios]

The most annoying NPC comment anyone can post on an audio is "PART 2???". LIKE OMG. SHUSH. I get this comment on the dumbest videos. Like the video will literally say "To Be Continued" and people comment that. It could be part 4 of a series and they'll still say "Part 2??".

One time I blew up every single character with a nuclear bomb and people were asking for a part two. And I'm like. What on earth are you talking about. They blew up. There is no part two. The cast exploded.

#I also don't want to continue the same story forever #trust me to have good new ideas #Also not everything is suited to be a series #Or meant to be a series #learn to appreciate a self contained narrative #it's literally so boring dragging out stuff after it was meant to end #have a little faith in the new ideas

[scalproie]

really wish people would realize that every single character endings in t8 isnt canon

#yes even the ones thats seems “likely”. yes even the ones you like. yes even if some seems to be connected. #THEYRE *ALL* WHAT-IFS. THE “CANON” STORY IS STORY MODE. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FLUFF #AND ITS A GOOD THING‼️‼️‼️ #anyway jun's ending was bittersweet and might be my second favorite. no its still not canon. #her *special* episode where she explains what happened to her pre-t3 IS CANON. her *character* episode aka the arcade mode IS NOT. #its a self-contained little story with an intro. a couple fights. and a cool cutscene ending. just like every other character episodes #this is so obvious to me but i keep seeing people not making the distinction #*yes* as cute as it would be to imagine freshly-beaten kaz sleeping in that tent. no jun just woke up she doesnt have a full camping set up #and the g corp blanket at the end of her ending is meant to signify that maybe her happy dream had some truth to it since kaz left it to her #and i have a whole essay about jun's role in the (canon) story mode but i'll try to be brief. its like 1am #tagging later