#about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

[theblurrinessofbeingalive]

yeah, no, sorry, I can’t come in to work today. yeah, I’m having shrimp emotions about fictional characters again. ye- yeah, it’s gonna be all day.

#no yeah I know I said it’d be all day but #honestly it could be a couple of months #this is currently about #the magicians #but really when am I not having #shrimp emotions #about fictional characters #quentin coldwater #eliot waugh #queliot #but also #the raven cycle #kinnporsche #the eclipse #supernatural #the bastard son and the devil himself #the bastard son & the devil himself #gabriel boutin

[pink-wysteria]

ghostknife is going to be the death of me

#jrwi pd #jrwi prime defenders #about ep 14 s2 #im blushing #why am i blushing #im too old to be blushing #about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS #but why was it so cinematic #like #the music??? #them holding each other in the sky???? #stars? #THE MUSIC??? #prime defenders season 2 #prime defenders

[emeraldspiral]

Looking at Invader Zim age discourse trying to claim that X number of years in one species's lifespan is the equivalent of 1 human year makes all of my brain cells want to commit die. It's "Loki is 16" all over again. I'm begging yall to get off social media and take a science class cause Jesus Christ how do you function in society being this ignorant?

Different species do not mature at the same rate relative to their lifespan. Grogu being a toddler for 50 years is not a thing that actually happens in nature.

Let's look at dogs for a second. It's commonly said that a dog ages 7 years per 1 human year. Most dogs live about 10-13 years, or 70-91 years, which sounds about right, doesn't it? But some dogs live to see 20-31, or 140-217, way longer than any human has ever lived. But let's also consider their early development. Dogs can start walking after just a couple of weeks while human babies take several months. Dogs can reach adulthood and sexual maturity in less than a year. Some 7 year old children do experience premature puberty, but this is far from being the norm and does not mean they are fully mature adults. Additionally, it is said that a fully adult dog only has the cognition of a 3-5 year-old human child. No matter which way you look at it, you can not equate the way a dog matures and ages to human development and lifespan.

Most newborn animal species, regardless of how long or short their lives are, are much further along in their development than human babies are, closer to toddlers than infants. Many are able to walk or crawl within a few days or even minutes after birth. Compared to most animal babies, human babies would be considered extremely premature.

With Zim, we saw onscreen that as a newborn he could walk, stand upright, jump, grab and hold things, and speak, more like a human 3-5 year-old than an infant. If we were going by the logic of "1 Irken year is 10 human years" that goes around in fanon, 10-year-old Zim should still be a baby, only barely be able to walk, pick up objects, and say a few words. But in the unfinished episode The Trial, concept art for 10-year-old Zim shows him looking like about what you'd expect the actual Irken equivalent of a 10-year-old to look like; taller than a newborn, but smaller than an adult, which for Irkens doesn't get much taller than a human 12-year-old with rare exceptions. There really is no basis what-so-ever to assume that Zim has only developed to the equivalent of 12 or 16, especially when he has a job in the military and lives on his own with no supervision. I don't know why anybody who headcanons that for shipping reasons would even want that to be the case when by that logic it would mean Dib and Gaz and any other human characters they want to pair him with would very quickly grow up to be adults while he remained a child.

In most cases, when dealing with extremely long-lived fantasy/sci-fi races, if the rate of aging is addressed at all, it is much more likely that the characters develop at the same rate as humans until they reach their 20s, at which point they'd be fully mature physically and from then on their bodies would simply not break down and display signs of aging as quickly as a humans. It makes no sense for a humanoid species to remain in a state of helpless infancy for decades or spend hundreds of years going through puberty. The only times you'll usually ever see something like that in fiction is if it's being played for a joke, or because the writers actually wanted to address how messed-up it would be to be to go through developmental stages like that for so long. Usually it's not even a matter of aging, the characters are just vampires or androids or something stuck at whatever age for eternity, yearning to grow up but never being able to.

Keep in mind however, that physical age and maturity are separate things. There's no reason to think that just because a character is immortal or long-lived that they mature as slowly as they age. Maturity has a lot more to do with life experience than physical growth, especially once your brain finishes developing at around 25. Often in fiction, when dealing with an immortal adolescent, being condescended to as if they were a child is a source of great frustration because they do have the mind of an adult. On the flip side, even in real life some people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s may be stuck in a state of arrested development, with teenagers surpassing their level of maturity.

My personal interpretation of Zim is that he's a manchild. He probably aged more or less like a human until his 20s and then stayed physically 20-25 for decades or centuries until the time the show takes place. He's just so immature he finds his equal in a 12-year-old human child. However, if he were to stay on earth long enough, I could see him maturing along with his peers at skool and starting to act more his age when they get into their 20s, (assuming he actually follows them to hi skool and college and doesn't just keep repeating 6th grade forever). If he stuck around Dib and Gaz into their 30s and beyond, I could see him continuing to match their level of maturity into their old age while he remains physically young.

If you have a problem with Zim being canonically an adult pretending to be a child, I don't know what to tell you guys. Like, if you think it's sad, that's the point. Literally, in the commentary for Mortos, Jhonen says that's the joke. That Zim's "basically an old man" getting into slap-fights with actual children and it's funny because it's so pathetic. If you think it's creepy, that's also kinda the point. He's a villain. The fact that he's not even human and that he's plotting the demise of the human race is already disturbing. He steals a bunch of children's organs in like, the third episode. He used time-traveling rubber piggies to maim and eventually kill Dib starting from when he was a toddler and then took a victory sip after watching the life leave his eyes. The entire concept of Zim is inherently sinister and predatory. But at the same time, Zim being a sexual threat is completely off the table. Canonically, he's aroace. He has no reproductive organs and no sex drive. He finds humans repulsive, and between that, his germophobia, and general paranoia it would be far more in-character for him to be terrified of the prospect of unwanted sexual advances than to be a sexual predator himself. That's why I don't think anybody thought too hard about Zim trying to woo Tak when he thought she was an actual human child, and why you shouldn't either. Yes, he had ill intentions toward her, because he is a bad guy, but those intentions were entirely chaste. Zim is not a threat to children because he might try to manipulate them into inappropriate relationships, he's a threat to children because he might manipulate them into helping him enslave their race.

There's no need to hand-wring about problematic age discourse. We're talking about a horror comedy that was cancelled two decades ago where the prospect of romance was never on the table to begin with. There is no such thing as a canon-compliant romance fanfic, and all fanfic by definition is non-canon anyway so it doesn't even matter. Make the characters whatever ages you want and tweak their characterization or circumstances in whatever ways you need to make whatever the fuck story you wanna tell work. It's all make-believe anyway. You don't need to make up fake quotes or deny or creatively interpret real quotes or bend yourselves into pretzels to prove the age headcanons you use to justify why you do or don't like a ship.

But for fucks sake, if you're gonna go there at least pretend like you know a single goddamned thing about the way aging, development, and maturity work before you unironically make talking points following the same logic as "According to my calculations, this character first portrayed by Tom Hiddleston at age 29 is actually 16".

#invader zim #age discourse #about fictional characters #is so fucking stupid #like #i can't even believe some of the stuff you people say with a straight face #zadr #zadf

[noctiselusio]

I am lucky that BE wasn’t released when I was like in middle school cause the kid that I was would have totally seen some of herself in Juwon and tried to imitate him like u don’t get it I would have started telling people that I hate physical touch and would have internalized his manner of speech and compulsive cleaning tendencies and i know this cause i’ve done it with characters i liked before and god that was so embarrassing 😭😭😭 anyways idk why i’m saying any of this lmfao just that i love this silly fictional man so much

#beyond evil #like i’ve totally neverrrrrrrr did that before with trying to act all mysterious cause i liked a quiet character #and people definitely didn’t ask if i was okay after the weird sudden change #that was about hitsugaya toshiro from bleach btw #the fact that till this day that memory haunts me… #why cant i be normal #about fictional characters #han joowon #ilysm #here a hug #the fact that JW is also a copycat he just like me fr fr

[creekbeds]

bellatrix being more force than girl is something so special to me. her laugh being loud and obnoxious. heavy footsteps. wearing her emotions on her sleeve. her face an open book. a quick tongue and no fear behind anything that she says. knowing her place but never staying there. always striving for something greater. to be the best at any cost.

#bellatrix lestrange #marauders era #she is my babygirl #i love her #marauders #jane thinks #about fictional characters

[add1ctedt0you]

" Jin Ling had never seen so many fierce corpses before, much less at such a close distance. He could feel his scalp tingle, clenching the sword hilt of Suihua. Yet, suddenly, his fist was peeled open, and a cold object was stuffed inside. He looked down in surprise, "Uncle?"

Jiang Cheng propped himself up with Sandu, which had lost its spiritual energy. His figure wavered slightly, "Try losing Zidian and see what happens!"

[...]

When Jiang Cheng was unaware, he stuffed Zidian's ring back into his hand and sprinted toward the crowd, all the way up to the most dangerous area before the mouth of the cave. Jiang Cheng was about to chase after him when he managed to slice a few corpses, staggering. He felt that Sandu was no lighter than hundreds of pounds."

Jc loses his spiritual powers and, instead of leaving with his nephew, he starts fighting to protect wwx. And I am very impressed! Now I don't want to dig down deep in his feelings at the moment : he in the past lost his spiritual powers and he felt as incapable of defending his loved ones. This situation probably triggers him a lot. But, anyway, cultivators with their powers sealed:

Can't control their sword's power

They tired more easily

Their percentage of surviving bigger blows is down to an average "human" level (they can't heal easily)

So, jc has his powers sealed, he can't fight properly, something that is underlined by the narrative

"Jiang Cheng propped himself up with Sandu, which had lost its spiritual energy. His figure wavered slightly" [...]

"he managed to slice a few corpses, staggering. He felt that Sandu was no lighter than hundreds of pounds".

not even considering that he fought against the fierce corpses before loosing his powers, probably he is already tired for that, but, nonetheless, he starts fighting and he manages to slice few corpses! Impressive in my opinion, and I attribuite his success to two options :

He starts fighting with the sheer force of his love. Something that he does a lot!

Jiang Cheng chased over to fight Wen ZhuLiu. Wen Chao saw that his eyes were bloodshot and had on a terrifying expression. The rest of the disciples had also been excited, and there was still a gigantic beast inside the pool, the front-left claw of which had already stepped onto the shore. Wen Chao finally began to fear, "Retreat, retreat. Retreat right now!"

Chapter 53

Jc, without his sword, in a cave with a gigantic beast, knowing perfectly what wzl is capable of, chases over to fight him because wzl attacks wwx. His expression is so terrifying that wc starts fearing for his life.

He does a trip of ten days in seven days to save wwx and lwj!!

Or

He uses to practice fighting or at least defending himself without his spiritual powers. Jc is a very cautious and practical man, who doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes. I think that's canon because, he has his faults as parent, but he, after understanding where his parents fucked up, tries so hard to be better for jl. ("Not even my uncle hits me") Also, yunmeng jiang is the clan you don't mess with, when he was the youngest sect leader with a destroyed clan! When jc knows how things go wrong, he tries to improve!

#silly thoughts #about fictional characters #jiang cheng #mdzs #am i making any sense #I don't know

[olivershen]

@grapecaseschoices pushing my buttons on this peaceful saturday morning smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

#i am BIG MAD again #about fictional characters #twc #twc tag

[stars-and-birds]

I am having. Feelings

#up to interpretation #about fictional characters #or…

[greelin]

[guy who genuinely fucking loathes himself voice] well on account of my charming and endearing nature. Of course

#:) #‘is this about FICTIONAL CHARACTER ?’ no it’s about me actually. Who cares

[darkpurpledawn]

The most potent blorbos are the not the hottest or the most pathetic, they're the ones who share your particular neuroses but in their world those neuroses are significantly more justifed

#fictional characters #no points for guessing who this post is about lol

[egophiliac]

You can’t pick Lilia for this. But who is your other favorite short character in Twst?

I like the angry little king boy 🌹

#art #twisted wonderland #sorry epel and ortho i like you guys a lot too! #oh and grim i guess #wait how many other shorties are there in twst #anyway i have a lot of affection for episode 1 and for riddle's character arc #he is a terrible little bastard who is trying very hard to be a slightly less terrible little bastard #and i have feelings about his friendships with trey and cater and che'nya especially! #and how that relates to his upbringing and his dumpster fire of a mom and uhhhhhh you know. everything. #i don't know how to do the words about all the thoughts i have on fictional characters #me waving my hands frantically in the air: it's about LOVE and wanting to be LOVED this is what twst is ABOUT -- #(i am dragged bodily offstage by my collar)

[cacodaemonia]

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#just one character? how about both of them?? ಥ_ಥ #waxer #boil #like really??? #XD #writing #writing problems #fan fiction #tcw #meme

[rrat-king]

“and for the briefest moment, you see two silhouettes in the rail of moonlight across the ripples of the lake. a tall and awkward teenage girl’s silhouette and a strong and confident woman briefly hold hands”

a tall and awkward teenage girl.

a tall and awkward teenage girl— god she was only 16! she revived rats in the woods! she was a cleric and a beloved student and tall and awkward and just. lucy frostblade i will never stop thinking about you.

#brennan said that line and i burst into tears #not to be insane about a fictional character but i’m glad your resting easy lucy. you didn’t deserve what happened to you #d20 #fhjy #fantasy high #dimension 20 #lucy frostblade #fantasy high junior year

[angryjewishcat]

But, for real, do you give a shit about real live Jews? Do you care about the violent antisemitism they face? Do you care about their physical and mental well-being?

OR do you only care about "antisemitism" when it's calling a piece of media out for being "antisemitic?"

#Antisemitism #Jumblr #Goyim give more of a shit about goyishe fictional characters that were created by Jews than they do about real live Jews

[bloominglegumes]

i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

#either that or hilariously dysfunctional or both #tf one #orion pax #d 16 #megop #megatron #optimus prime #my art #saw one post pointing out in the trailer that a like5 frame shot of megatrons cannon that was snuck between their mahoushoujo type transfor #mations and like.messed up deeply messed up u see how goofy best friends orion and megsy are theyre just silly guys but in every telling of #their story they always end up enemies ok like in a meta multiverse hopping way think about it.like oh my god prewar tfp megop was already j #juicy and earthspark divorced-remarried megop is like.RGHFH tf one is going to destroy me bc this is what they had Before do u get me #before the war before they fell apart before friends became enemies and hands were stained before the beginning of the end im so so normal #like ok.this silly tight goofy buddy dynamic thats shown in tf one so far is.is what they had before. its what they could have kept if only #if only things turned out differently. but in every world optimus prime and megatron end up leading opposite sides of the bloodiest war ever #ok.its a universal fact and everyone who knows any transformers knows this BUT THE CHARACTERS DONT THEYRE POWERLESS TO PREVENT IT #ill clean up these tags in the morning but like im so.so normal about fictional robot guys #anyway i was intending to draw a background for this but i got lazy and also spent too long on the hands!!!!so whatever

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

If you are a person who doesn't like Frodo Baggins I am taking you by the shoulders. I am shaking you gently. I am asking you if you've ever had to try to do something overwhelming. I am asking you if you've ever had to carry on in the face of insurmountable despair. I am asking if you've ever carried burdens no one else could know of. I am asking if you've never seen yourself in the monstrous. I'm asking you if you've ever been unable to trust your own mind. I am asking if your mental health has ever made you unreasonable. I'm asking if you've ever been too weak to take care of yourself, too weak to do the right thing in the end, too weak to do what, in your heart of hearts, you want to do. I'm asking if you've ever been too small to make a significant difference and if you tried anyway. I'm asking if you've ever faltered under something heavy placed on your shoulders. I'm asking if you've ever taken the next step despite never wanting to move again.

If you haven't yet, you will.

#haha yeah I'm fine and normal about Lord of the Rings (fights anyone with a bad Frodo take) #we are not worthy of him... #no character in fiction has ever been more important to me #a 50yo Hobbit saddled with a cursed object slowly destroying his mind is something that can actually be so personal #Lord of the rings #lotr frodo #frodo baggins #lotr