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“wait, two jobs plus law school? how did you do it?”

            – I HAVEN’T SLEPT SINCE 1992.

indie emmett forrest from legally blonde : the musical. penned by sabrina. est. 9/12/17, remade 9/15/17.

gorgeous promo made by @grumpgamed (tysm!!)

#emmett has moved! #tbt.

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“wait, two jobs plus law school? how did you do it?”

            – I HAVEN’T SLEPT SINCE 1992.

indie emmett forrest from legally blonde : the musical. penned by sabrina. est. 9/12/17, remade 9/15/17.

gorgeous promo made by @grumpgamed (tysm!!)

#follow emmett over here!! #tbt.

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Just a heads-up that I’ll be going through the process of making Emmett his own blog! I’ll post a promo here when it’s all set up!

#WE LESBIANS THINK WE'RE SO TOUGH ( ooc )

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if anybody cares ( probably not ), here’s a short list of direct evidence from the text for the headcanons mentioned in this post! admittedly, some of these are stretching it, but these are headcanons, and I just want to prove that they’re not entirely baseless.

AUTISTIC ( or possibly ADHD )

For starters, his clothing choices. He’s shown to be fairly picky about clothes, tending to wear a lot of layers/heavy fabric. He seems to care more about how the clothes feel rather than aesthetics, and besides the price point, this seems to be part of why he didn’t own a nice suit prior to Take It Like A Man-- he just hadn’t found one that felt good. ( also, corduroy is a super stimmy material. just saying. ) 

On the topic of stims, he stims a lot. Just off the top of my head, he fidgets with the strap of his bag a lot, and his little dance at the end of Chip On My Shoulder just screams happy stim.

He evidently hyper-focuses a lot, and law is definitely a special interest for him. He knows a whole lot about law, and can call up that information in an instant, but when the conversation moves to another topic, he quickly finds he’s out of his depth.

His bit in The Harvard Variations was definitely scripting. I mean, he did use the same line all the times.

On the other hand, he overshares quite a bit in Chip On My Shoulder; when Elle asked why he came to Harvard Law, he tells her ( an abridged version of ) his life story.

He also takes things very literally ( the perfume names and the entire changing room scene in Take It Like A Man, for example. )

While he’s generally very empathetic, he does sometimes make inappropriate comments without realizing. ( poking fun at Elle’s bunny suit, ‘I never mentioned love / The timing’s bad, I know’ )

BISEXUAL 

He generally seems super comfortable flirting with Nikos in There! Right There!. Like, I don’t know any straight guys are that comfortable and casual flirting with another dude who they think might be gay, even if he was acting.

Something about the way he says ‘guys who wear that get beat up on my street’ seems a bit too personal and nervous to just be referring to a random theoretical guy, but that might just be me.

JEWISH

Roxbury IRL has a significant Jewish population.

Emmett generally seems to exemplify quite a few common Jewish character tropes.

He doesn’t seem at all interested in going home for Christmas, he just knows that Elle is.

The entire Christmas segment of Chip On My Shoulder seems pretty similar in general to how non-Christians interact with their Christian friends during the holiday season.

For example, his Santa impression vs. the Greek Chorus singing a more religious carol echoes the practice of some more secular Jews & other non-Christians who celebrate Christmas as a gift-giving / commercial holiday or a day off, but not a religious celebration.

In particular, his gift of 2-in-1 shampoo, while also a demonstration of his pragmatic personality, seems more in line with the smaller gifts generally given at Hanukkah than an acceptable Christmas gift.

Elle saying “you’re so adorable to think of me,” makes a lot more sense if you consider that Emmett doesn’t actually celebrate Christmas himself, and instead went out of his way to buy a gift for her specifically.

#GUESS YOU NEVER CAN TELL ( headcanon ) #i could probably come up with more but #this is what i've got off the top of my head #also if the autistic thing seems way more fleshed-out it's because i am a master of Projecting

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Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator Sentence Starters

“Betrayed by my own butt yet again.”

“Can you explain memes to me?”

“Contrary to popular belief, penguins are… birds.”

“Did you think I was gonna stab you just now?”

“Don’t cry. Don’t cry. I swear to god if you cry again.”

“Don’t write checks your dick can’t cash.”

“Here’s to bad decisions and relaxed moral values.”

“How’s the…… jeeeeeeeeeesus?”

“I am a happy little cheese monster.”

“I am spinning a web of lies that I fear will one day consume me.”

“I don’t want your stupid fruit leather.”

“I have to get a solid two to three hours of brooding in per day. Filling quotas.”

“It’s called ‘string cheese’ and not ‘chompy cheese’ for a reason.”

“I’ll probably end up standing uncomfortably in the corner with a plate of food and hope that nobody talks to me.”

“I’m so many levels of irony deep I’ve forgotten what humour is.”

“I’m suddenly struck with the overwhelming need to crawl back into bed.”

“Mothman is bullshit.”

“My ultimate sexual fantasy is sleeping in on a Saturday.”

“OH SHIT THAT’S A KNIFE.”

“See you in class… bitch.”

“Sharks are tight.”

“So, you ever kill a man?”

“Stop being so desperate to please your hot friend.”

“That… that is a good butt.”

“The key to being cool is acting like you don’t care about anything but actually care very deeply about everything to the point where it’s debilitating.”

“This ice cream cake is my new boyfriend.”

“This is where I come to masturbate.”

“Wait, I’m a wreck.”

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.”

“You can never be too careful. See that baby in that stroller over there? Government operative.”

“Your face… is… good.”

“Your unending thirst will be your ultimate downfall.”

#tbt.

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and a wild, adorably soft andy karl appears

#CAN'T SPEND HOURS DOING MY HAIR & STAYING IN SHAPE ( visage ) #christian is my fc but andy as emmett is adorable and i'm weak

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man, what a great day to love Emmett Forrest, my Bisexual Jewish Autistic son

#WE LESBIANS THINK WE'RE SO TOUGH ( ooc ) #i am prepared to fight everyone on this #please ask me if you want to know my reasoning for any of these #i actually really want to talk about these hcs

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#tbt.

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You've never mentioned anything about your family to me, Em.

He stiffened at the word ‘family’. He crossed his arms over his chest, but he seemed to be HUGGING himself more than anything else. When he spoke, his voice was small, with the unmistakable sound of someone who was trying hard to not sound on the verge of tears. “That... that was on purpose. I told you what you needed to know, but I try not to dwell on the details. But now I guess you deserve the whole story. It’s... not exactly pretty, to put it lightly.”

“I guess I’ll start from the beginning.” He carded a shaking hand through his hair, a clear nervous tick of his. “My dad left when I was, mmm, around seven. I don’t really remember him- Ma says he was a SHITHEAD, though. Guess she has a type.” He laughed at that, but the sound was cold and bitter. “I love my mom, I really do, but she has shit taste in men. The first guy she dated- Saul, I think- was a raging alcoholic. He never actually touched either of us, but he could yell something awful. He’d throw bottles sometimes, too. He was around a couple years. Then... oh God, then there was Rich. He was only around ‘bout six months, but I ‘member him cause... cause he was the first one to hit my mom. I remember feeling so helpless that night, not being able to do anything to help her. That was when, I think, I decided I wanted to do something with my life to PROTECT people. Least Ma had the sense to whip him out on his ass after that.”

He took a shaky breath and shuddered as more deeply-lodged memories came to the surface as he went down the list. One arm stayed wrapped around his chest, and the other shot out to find Elle’s hand, gripping it tightly. “Then...” he swallowed hard, already feeling the bite of tears welling behind his eyes, which he blinked away frantically. “S-sorry. Then there was Marty. He treated my mom real sweet, but when she was’t around, he,” a sniffle. “He’d beat the SHIT outta me. Told me to tell her I got in a street fight. A-and, and there was one time...” A wave of guilt and DISGUST washed over him, and the dam broke, tears rushing down his face to be hastily wiped away by a sleeve. “N-nevermind...I think you get the picture.” He hugged his knees to him with one arm, burying his face. “I- I’m sorry...” he mumbled in a wobbling voice, one hand still clutching Elle’s for dear life.

#abuse // #child abuse // #child abandonment // #alcoholism // #alcohol abuse // #domestic abuse // #sexual abuse // #child sexual abuse // #csa // #that last one is more implied but i want to be careful #this is probably the most trigger-heavy three paragraphs i've ever written #i hope this flows okay i was more worried about getting my hcs out than how it sounded as dialogue but i tried to make it work #and if you reply please don't feel like you need to match this length!! #i just wanted to get it all out there #bricfcased

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Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator Sentence Starters

“Betrayed by my own butt yet again.”

“Can you explain memes to me?”

“Contrary to popular belief, penguins are… birds.”

“Did you think I was gonna stab you just now?”

“Don’t cry. Don’t cry. I swear to god if you cry again.”

“Don’t write checks your dick can’t cash.”

“Here’s to bad decisions and relaxed moral values.”

“How’s the…… jeeeeeeeeeesus?”

“I am a happy little cheese monster.”

“I am spinning a web of lies that I fear will one day consume me.”

“I don’t want your stupid fruit leather.”

“I have to get a solid two to three hours of brooding in per day. Filling quotas.”

“It’s called ‘string cheese’ and not ‘chompy cheese’ for a reason.”

“I’ll probably end up standing uncomfortably in the corner with a plate of food and hope that nobody talks to me.”

“I’m so many levels of irony deep I’ve forgotten what humour is.”

“I’m suddenly struck with the overwhelming need to crawl back into bed.”

“Mothman is bullshit.”

“My ultimate sexual fantasy is sleeping in on a Saturday.”

“OH SHIT THAT’S A KNIFE.”

“See you in class… bitch.”

“Sharks are tight.”

“So, you ever kill a man?”

“Stop being so desperate to please your hot friend.”

“That… that is a good butt.”

“The key to being cool is acting like you don’t care about anything but actually care very deeply about everything to the point where it’s debilitating.”

“This ice cream cake is my new boyfriend.”

“This is where I come to masturbate.”

“Wait, I’m a wreck.”

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.”

“You can never be too careful. See that baby in that stroller over there? Government operative.”

“Your face… is… good.”

“Your unending thirst will be your ultimate downfall.”

#WHAT DO THEY WANT? NOT REALLY SURE ( ask meme )

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Break my muse. Exploit their insecurities and weaknesses. Do whatever it takes to make them angry or cry.

#WHAT DO THEY WANT? NOT REALLY SURE ( ask meme ) #BLEASE #I WANT MY SON TO SUFFER

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Touch Starved Meme

My muse is touch starved, send one for your muse to-

❤️ - Hug my muse from behind 👏 - Ruffle my muse’s hair ✋️ - Hold my muse’s hand 💪 - Pick my muse up 👆- playfully poke my muse ✍️ - Write something on my muse 💋 - Kiss my muse on the cheek 😏 - Playfully headbutt my muse 😝 - Lick my muse 😙 - Cover my muse in multiple kisses 🖐 - Give my muse a backrub 💤 - Cuddle up to my muse 😶 - Quietly lean against my muse 👃- Boop my muse on the nose ✊️- Playfully punch my muse 🙌 - Playfully shove my muse 😖 - Bury their face in my muse’s chest

#!!! em is super touch starved blease #WHAT DO THEY WANT? NOT REALLY SURE ( ask meme )

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how has your character’s socioeconomic background influenced their ideology?

In short: very heavily. His background forms the core of all that Emmett is, and influences nearly every decision he makes. His primary goal in life is to prove to the world that he is more than where he came from, but his origin will never truly leave him. There will always be a part of Roxbury in him-- the part that can never hesitate to help a person ( particularly a woman ) in need; the part that pinches every penny and weighs every purchase because splurging one day might have meant not eating the next; the part of him that flinches every time he hears glass break. He’ll carry all of that on his shoulders for the rest of his life, but those are also the things that drive him to succeed. As he sees it, the world or the system or whatever you want  to call it, has failed him, and he needs to prove both to the world and to himself, that with enough determination he can rise above his poor lot in life and reclaim the things that were denied him.

#poverty // #abuse ment // #that's more implied but just to be safe #also i hope this answers the question adsgbdf #i'm terrible at these things #suitablysublime

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detailed writer prompts

what sociocultural factors of your own life do you think influenced your choice of character and how you play them?

what is more important to you, narrative or style? if so, why, and how do you think you portray that in your writing?

what iconography (symbols/images/motifs/etc.) do you associate with your character and why? how do you portray this in your writing? 

without using your fc, describe your character physically - not just looks but also movement, posture, etc. 

do you think your chosen fc could play your character the way you write them? if not, what changes do you think would have to be made? 

let’s say someone else was going to write your character - what are the main points of their personality that you would tell the other writer to focus on? what about outside of that? images/symbols/moments in their life/etc. 

what sort of medium do you think your character is best suited for (literature/film/graphic novel/etc.) ? if they are a canon, do you think there’s a medium that fits the character better than their current one?

what writers influenced the way that you yourself write? how so? are there any that influenced you negatively? 

when you see a partner’s response to a thread, what are common misconceptions/assumptions you see other characters making about yours? is that purposeful? 

how do you think your character fits into your view of society? do you see them as a social critique? a celebration of certain societal values? 

what mythic deity do you think best embodies the core values of your character? how so? 

what is your character’s ideology? what beliefs and values are most important to them and how do they impact their decision making? 

how has your character’s socioeconomic background influenced their ideology?

do you see your character/their narrative as allegorical? if so, how do you attempt to portray this through your threads? if not, do you think that the lack of allegorical symbolism says anything about their metaphorical meaning? 

for canons: do you think your character is a foil for another character? how so? 

for ocs: what does your character metaphorically represent to you? what is their symbolic value as it pertains to you as a writer?

#WHAT DO THEY WANT? NOT REALLY SURE ( ask meme )

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Music.

Emmett doesn’t know shit about music. He mostly listens to classical/instrumental music while studying/working, but his personal music collection mostly consists of weird indie bands and hyper-specific genres, as well as 80′s-90′s rock. It’s all over the place, but he gets super defensive whenever someone questions his music tastes.

#bricfcased

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Give me a word, and I'll write a headcanon based on it.

#WHAT DO THEY WANT? NOT REALLY SURE ( ask meme )

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My new favourite thing is people thinking ( in or out of universe ) either Elle and Emmett are in the same house, or Em is a Slytherin and Elle is a Hufflepuff just from their outward personalities but it’s totally the other way around. Elle is a Slytherin and Emmett is a Hufflepuff and y’all can fight me. 

#WE LESBIANS THINK WE'RE SO TOUGH ( ooc ) #yes that's my ooc tag #GUESS YOU NEVER CAN TELL ( headcanon )