#character core traits

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm sorry I let down my guard.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #xiao xingchen #God DAMN this scene was brutal. Season 2 episode 2 is almost nothing but misery and anguish #Helena by Nickle Creek does not quite fit the comic's vibe but it is absolutely a Xue Yang song so I linked it. #The change from “Helena don't walk away...(gentle)” to “HELENA. DON'T WALK AWAY (threat)” is fantastic. #And “Don't waste your pretty sympathy - I'll always be just fine”. Xue Yang core. #Okay now for the real meat. Disclaimer first: *I really like XY.* I think he's a great character. I think his actions consistently- #come from a place of deep trauma. While his reactions and actions put him in a villainous role he is still human about his hurt #and what I'm about to say is NOT intended to be a statement of causality or villianize a group of misunderstood people. #So with that said...Man oh man does Xue Yang have a lot of BPD traits. More that just 'character who is chronically manipulative'. #The impulsivity and emotional reactions and seeking stability makes him feel like he needs that control. What other choice is there? #The part that really gets me is how he *wants* to be safe and happy. But his past experiences tell him how thats impossible #He's the kind of person who goes 'if you don't like me then you better hate me for something substantial". All (pos) or All (neg) #''Love me entirely or Hate me. But don't you dare leave me or forget about me.'' #Not at all comfortable saying 'BPD coded'. Im not a psychiatrist. Just that he has TRAITS. Feel free to disagree or add your thoughts. #ppl with bpd also are not a monolith and everyone has very different experiences. Xue yang is very complex. People more so.

[sirspeep]

buggy being presented as sinister, evil and most of all an actual threat is so weird to me. like, i forgot there was ever a time when he wasn't just constantly rolling nat20s on deception checks against the entire world & accidentally joining a dilf throuple.

#one piece #just finished ep2 and im neutral on this new series so far #a bit bummed abt all the things they changed but i get it #and the core themes/character traits seem to be the same so far #EXCEPT FOR LUFFY SAYING YOU FIGHT GOOD TO ZORO #LIKE NO HE LIKES HIM BC HE HELPED A GIRL NOT BC OF THE FIGHTING SKILLS #sorry im calm again #im going back in‚ i want to see my little boy (sanji) #siv speaks #opla spoilers

[transmechanicus]

The recent explosion of Hazbin Hotel into popularity over the last 2 months is so surreal, did the court of public opinion not find viziepop guilty of just insane levels of bigotry as early on as 2013?? Like forgive me, i was in middle school, but i seem to recall a relatively widespread understanding that she was not a great person while the show was still in the earliest stages of pre-production, did i miss a memo???

#my stuff #like…not to be inflammatory but i think there’s a category of person into FNaF or Hazbin #who god intended to be a homestuck or bill cipher cosplayer and they were born in the wrong years #direct line between what ppl like aesthetically abt the stupid demons and the humble homestuck troll #direct line between every mf dressed up as that radio twink and bill cipher w varying personal amounts of troll traits #and your honor im no historian but i think the viziepop enjoyers are worse off. like spiritually. #hazbin imho is carried by being a catchy musical and blatant use of troll bait char design #without the music and with more stock characters i think more ppl would see the rot at the core peeking through

[mortysmith]

thinking so hard about how morty is scared of ending up anything like jerry because of rick

#rick and morty #rick voice morty your dad sucks hes lame hes stupid hes cringe. and jerry is just standing there #like jerry is at his core an optimistic kindhearted and famoly oriented character. all traits that morty shares or has shared #whether or not rick 'dislikes' jerry because of these qualities is irrelevant. morty sees that rick hates jerry and he has to internalize it #rick is mortys only proper friend and since morty has no friends a neglectful family he kind of has to cling on to ricl #so if rick disapproves so does morty #morty sees the qualities he shares with jerry and he stomps them out

[elcucurucho]

obviously you can do whatever you want but there’s nothing that immediately turns me off a piece of fan content faster than a complete refusal to engage with the source material

#discourse #this is why the whole guapo verse whatever is so deeply stupid to me. sorry #‘I love these characters but I don’t support the media’ ok well the characters exist in the context of the media #you remove that context you remove a core part of the characterization and you’re left with a sock puppet of a character #aesthetic without any of the traits that made them interesting to begin with. #if the original media is so untouchably bad then why? how would you fix it? there’s a lot of ways to engage with problematic media #other than just pretending it doesn’t exist. #I try not to post about discourse for my own sanity but there’s nothing I hate more than fandom decontextualizing characters #ESPECIALLY when people try to act morally superior for ignoring canon. #in the kindest possible way. ​if the source is really that untouchable consider looking into different media.

[mamawasatesttube]

like. okay. thinking about this some more and tbh it is kind of insane to me the way people will sometimes characterise core four, and kon specifically, as being completely unconditionally on board with tim not revealing his real name or face to them prior to wwyj.

like, i know the real reason is that the people doing this simply don't read comics. which is such a fucking wall to run into. but man... tim not telling them his identity when everyone else had revealed theirs to each other/didn't have one to begin with was the biggest driving force behind the tim and kon fight on apokalips. the same way kon was upset and hurt that superman never told him he's also clark kent. kon is very explicitly not cool with being left out of the loop about things as big as secret identities. it makes him feel like the other person doesn't consider him trustworthy, and then he starts questioning their relationship. (once again, pointing at the kon & lois conversation post hypertime arc when he finds out clark's secret identity.)

i love identity shenanigans. i love identity angst. i think thats one of the most fun things about the superhero genre! and aus where they don't know each other's ids can be fun!!! but it's like. INCREDIBLY out of character for that not to be a driving force of conflict if kon is involved in any way.

#rimi talks #just bc they are all insane about each other later does NOT mean they started out that way....... #they had to build trust in their relationship. like yes kon was referring to tim as his best friend even before owaw but #that conflict was still very much present between them all the same. #like....... kon feels hurt when people aren't transparent with him. even when he arguably doesn't have the right to know everything! #that's one of his core character traits as far as interacting with secrets and other heroes goes. he likes to feel valued and trusted #and when he feels like he's Not trusted it undermines his relationships! #that's a point of conflict! isn't that way more interesting than declawed generic cardboard cutout boyfriend who doesn't have boundaries??? #anywhoozies. complaint over its back to my wip mines #kon #tim #timkon

[littleseasalt]

"forever is a bad dad to richa-" SHUT UP!!!!!

#qsmp #qsmp forever #qsmp richarlyson #id also add in the book he wrote for the egg museum where he talked again about forever being the one who took care of him the most #but i dont have the patience to find it in vods to screenshot it #also sorry but. some people on twitter have been stressing me out A LOT over their opinions on their relationship #ive literally been stressing about it since i woke up i needed to release this stress somehow #< also im thinking of doing a long post talk about what their relationship is and isnt #bc whenever theres angst/fight between them people take it as an opportunity to mischaracterize BOTH forever and richas #in a way that makes it clear that the person 1. doesnt keep up with forevers pov #and 2. only knows richas through one pov #like. ok #disagree with forever however you want youre free to do that #i myself think he was in the wrong in multiple situations (like the tallulah fight day) #BUT SURPRISE!! SAYING HES A BAD DAD IS LITERALLY SO WRONG!! #PEOPLE CAN MESS UP!! PEOPLE CAN MAKE MISTAKE!! NO ONE IS A PERFECT PARENT!! #NO ONE ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO BE THE PERFECT DAD AND THERES NO SUCH THING AS BEING A PERFECT DAD!! #PARENTHOOD IS SOMETHING YOU LEARN ALONG THE WAY!!! #AND LEARNING HOW TO BE A DAD IS A CORE TRAIT OF FOREVERS CHARACTER SINCE DAY ONE!!!!!!! #saying hes a bad dad literally goes against canon statements from richas #saying richas is uncomfortable with forever goes against canon #“oh but i mean in the emotional way” ok so you never watched a forever stream before #because when they fight. richas ALWAYS opens up to forever later on how he felt #the fights HAPPEN because richas is comfortable making drama in front of forever #if richas' didnt feel comfortable he would literally just “suck up” his jealously and not show it often but he does shows it often #if richas was uncomfortable after fights he would just apologize and never talk about his feelings #but after the tallulah fight? he told forever about how romero richas affects his body and how he feels #after the armor fight? he told forever about how he felt towards his own life #to which btw BOTH of these times where he opened up #he had never talked about that with anyone before

[five-of-cr]

ohhhhh i relate so much to wylan despite having had very different life experiences because he's been haunted by an unshakeable fear since childhood and wears shame like a shadow. ok

#and the grief of course #this is what jack means when he says he sees so much of himself in wylan and approaches everything with fear first #me too king #i've overanalyzed the core traits all my favorite characters have in common to hell and back and i'm not sure i like what it says about me #do i think i am fundamentally unloveable? the therapist in my brain says no but the projection onto fictional characters says otherwise #anyway #six of crows #soc #shadow and bone #sab #crooked kingdom #the crows #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #jack wolfe #grishaverse

[avephelis]

you know what you guys can have some early design exploration for a hypothetical tmnt iteration. as a treat.

#my ass does not have a name for this ill come back to tag it when i do #tmnt iteration #avepharts #posting this now because if BEAN CAN SO CAN I i can be brave sometimes #BASICALLY i want to develop this further BUT! i need to consume more tmnt iterations FIRST so i have a wider scope of influence #i have the core character dynamics/traits and mikey + donnie's designs worked out though #also want to think a bit more about style because i really want a punk/grunge collage influence but id need to do like #style and background studies and fake screenshots to figure it out proper #i really like strong shape language and the peanuts dot eyes though #um yeah if anyone has questions fire away i might have answers? maybe? #oh the reason theres more donnies than mikeys here is that i had mikey's relatively sorted already

[guujikaroko]

I went to read Ratio's messages again and:

He encourages Stelle to enroll on Veritas Prime, a.k.a his very own alma mater, for REALSIES. Not only that, but:

He's willing to personally recommend her. P e r s o n a l l y.

And that's kinda surprising, in a good way. Like, I know Ratio isn't a condescending prick that thinks himself above others (or, well... There's a lot more to him than the condescension, is what I mean to say), but he looked at Stelle and saw potential in her. Veritas Ratio, the man who'd rather wear a fucking plaster head in front of his students because he's allergic to dumbassery, looked at Stelle, our resident unhinged raccoon, and saw enough potential to personally encourage and oversee her pursuit of knowledge.

Look at this! He's genuinely interested in her worldview and her opinions! He doesn't consider a waste of time to discuss topics with her! He spent the entirety of this message batch simulating a debate with her and sharing knowledge on the subject!

Again, it's not like I thought Ratio was incapable of any of this, but I never imagined that he'd be like that with the Trailblazer either. It's surprising, but in a very pleasant way? Like, "wow, I wasn't expecting this dynamic to be so genuine but it is and I like it". Honestly, I'll never not be impressed by Ratio and his particular ways of showcasing kindness to others/seeking companionship. He's such a compelling character.

Oh, and this is my favorite message batch of his. He feels tired by the monotony of his projects and he decides to relax by... Humoring Stelle? He goes and says "Hey, think of something you want and I'll make up a project" and Stelle, huge dork that she is, goes "Make me a cool weapon!" and "Make the Express move forever!" and he just... Does it? Sends a project of transforming the Express into a mecha?? Says he wants to disassemble the Express to figure it out???

It feels like I'm rambling for nothing but this is truly disarming to me. It's easy to dismiss Stelle as a goofball (and she very much IS a goofball) but Ratio actually takes her seriously and seeks to nurture her progress. Beyond that, he honestly likes to entertain her ideas and thinks that hearing her out is a positive thing.

If I had to describe their relationship, I'd say it's all very cute, in a pure and wholesome way, and I cannot believe I'm using these words to describe Veritas freaking Ratio out of all characters. This gotta be a new kind of brainworm.

#ratio looking into stelle's no-thought-head-empty eyes: hold on she might be able to cook something #after this whole crusade i remembered how ratio sees aventurine as someone of equal standing that deserves life #and how he wants people to stop worshipping geniuses and start pursuing knowledge on their own #it's all such a compelling character trait of his #constantly advocating for people's inner potential even if they themselves don't realize it/believe in it #he's a good teacher at his very core #honkai star rail #hsr stelle #dr ratio #wait is this ratiostelle #oh god it is #ratiostelle #the protagonist ship compels me yet again sorry

[obihoe]

kind of lame tbh how sakura in the chuunin exams arc is shown to cut off her hair as a symbol for her independence and coming into her own power (since she grew them out in the first place cuz she thought it might make sasuke like her) but then at the end of the story she still ends up being defined solely by her crush on him. like during the war arc kakashi makes it her most defining trait when he thinks to himself abt how team 7 has grown and they each have changed, he says abt sakura that her feelings for sasuke have changed. and in the end, when sasuke and naruto are about to take off to the valley of the end, she again, begs him to be with her. even says that she is pathetic for doing so like .. okay

#posts #i just smtimes wish kishimoto would give her more of a personality #other than just girl who has a crush on some guy 👍 #its fine that she has a crush on him but dont make it her sole defining characteristic maybe? lol #and like she's consistently shown to beg for him and cry for him and sasuke tells her to go fuck herself over and over #i think when she says she's pathetic ... thats how the audience is supposed to perceive her as well yknow #that is how kishimoto intends for her to be seen #and that doesnt feel right for me :c #moreover ... it is also i think not debateable really that sakura's crush on sasuke .. it doesnt have that much depth #it doesnt have really any depth #which is fine conceptually i think. not everything has to be super deep and meaningful #but to make it into such a core trait of her as a character .. it just reads as if kishimoto perceives women as shallow #they just have shallow crushes on men no deep/complex relationships tho :) not with anyone thats for the men #u know? #anyways i know im not rlly saying anything new here #naruto is sexist fork found in kitchen #but yeah

[mourning-at-night]

ok im going to ramble for a minute but i think van palmer's turn towards violence is so interesting. like in the beginning, she nearly throws up just thinking about allie's broken leg. she can't watch when shauna sobs over her baby's body. but then she's one of the first to truly believe and accept that they'll end up turning to violence in order to survive - she stops and she watches shauna beat their friend and teammate and she knows. it's brutal and bloody and near deadly, but this time, she doesn’t look away.

despite her weak stomach, she's always been willing to do what she believes is necessary. to her, violence isn't intriguing or sensational or something to be celebrated - but it is something to be resorted to, one of those things she sees as an inevitability, a necessity, no matter how painful or nauseating or depressing. she’ll slap her mother awake, but first she'll call out to her. she'll hunt nat through the woods and she'll let a 14yo drown, but only because she and taissa and lottie and everyone who she cares for, they're all starving, or hurt. she will do what she believes it will take to keep herself and her loved ones alive, at least most of them, at least as many of them as possible - because, of course, she’s always tried so hard to be the protector. that's who she is, shown in a thousand little ways. she plays goalie. she tries to break up the fight between tai and shauna in the pilot and she starts to defend nat when travis is being a dickhead in bear down and she helps hold shauna back until lottie tells them not to in burial. she tries to look after tai when she sleepwalks, like how she possibly had to look after her mother for years. she jokes around and she tells the group stories, trying to keep them connected to the outside world.

i think it's interesting to see a character so solidly rooted in the idea of protection to be the one spearheading violent action. it's ironic and tragic and it makes sense, because as yellowjackets shows, over and over - care is not an inherently gentle or bloodless act!! it's van telling the others to leave her bleeding in the woods after the wolf attack and it's tying herself to tai even though she gets hurt and it's helping carry bodies onto the plane and digging graves. it's telling tai she loves her for the first time by literally writing it in her own blood.

sometimes it’s painful. sometimes it's not healthy or righteous. sometimes it’s the hard choice - putting forth the playing cards and joining the hunt and watching with grim determination as javi struggles and cries out for help, and then separating herself and the others from the choice to let him die by claiming the wilderness made it for them. reaching out and turning his face away from shauna when it’s time for the bloodletting. convincing travis to cannibalize his little brother by telling him that he owes javi this final act of love.

it's giving up retelling movies and tv shows and instead telling a different story, a quiet, cold one, because she believes the only way for them to survive out in the wilderness is to give themselves over to it fully, no matter how horrible - because, after everything, what choice does she feel she has but to persist? even in wiskayok, living was always a fight, another series of necessary actions in order to Get Through It and Get Out. after the alcoholic mother and ambiguously unmentioned father and the trials of being young and gay and butch in the suburbs of 90s new jersey, she wants a future, so badly. and after having to pull herself out of the crash and surviving the wolf attack and the pyre, after spending months watching the others around her suffer and starve and die, she can't pull out of the fight. she wouldn't even know how. like a brutal, desperate instinct, she must survive, and she must protect.

it's agonizing but she won't let herself feel it and it's endless but she can only think about the end result. it's selfish in the way they're almost all selfish and it's loving in the way they all love - but especially van, who is so deeply and fiercely protective, who has always cared so much. in the end, that protective instinct both keeps her painfully human and pushes her out into the deep end. it's the kindest and most wonderful piece of her being and it's an intense force that leads her towards brutality. because sometimes caring is the violent thing!! sometimes love is violence and violence is love!!!!

#i literally have a fever rn. does this vaguely strung-together nonsense make that obvious #this tumblr post is like if a 3 paragraph essay was half-digested and then spit back out and thrown in a paper shredder #anyway me when a character's kindest core traits are what lead them down a dark path....... <333 #god im obsessed with her i want to see her get Worse in s3. like go on commit more atrocities in the name of love and life. cmon do it #don't even get me started on the cancer thing. how she helps instigate the hunt when they're adults. god #obviously this isnt an overarching analysis or a moral judgement. just a thought i wanted to get out of my fever brain bc im insane abt her #van palmer #yellowjackets

[jayninjago]

making jay the element of laughter is broke making him the element of honesty is woke

#friendly reminder that his whole deal is learning to be honest with and to himself as well as others #its mentioned several times in different character bios as a core personality trait #also while i do agree that kai and loyalty works well i think generosity is more of his deal #he puts others well being before his without considering his own health or desires which results in health being impaired #blah blah blah spinny lego show fans stop reducing characters to their most obvious traits #jay tag #also zane is laughter obv he is their home and comfort

[lycanr0t]

i feel very frustrated about the trend of giving chil body hair bc if it was any other anime twink i would be thrilled its just that it seems to only be because people are SO afraid of him looking young they have to make him hairy to justify liking him in ships.

meanwhile it does directly go against canon (he literally is supposed to look like a child. this is integral to both his character and his race's lore as a whole and it makes no damn sense that he would be mistaken for a child if he has body hair i mean. cmon.)

and it's like. some men are hairless. some men look young. when youre a trans man in your 20s-30s its especially common to be mistaken for a teenager, even more so if you're not on t. and short. these traits do not make you less of a man or an adult. :/

#rot posts #listen its like. i just wish ppl werent doing it for the reasons they seem to be #you NEVER see tiny little men get body hair in fanart i should know ive been in multiple fandoms where i was the only 1 givin bitches hair #but it also sucks when its like. clearly from a place of discomfort and not wanting him to seem young #rather than actually loving body hair #for example where is laios with body hair. wheres kabru. mithrun. literally any other character #(senshi us a slight exception on account of semi canonically having hair) #it just feels like a performance for no one. ok yeah good job you made chil look like a hairy 30 year old #did you pay attention to how that totally disregards his story and how he canonically looks like a child and that IS an important aspect #half foots face infantilism to an extreme and his appearance is a part of this. the discrimination he faces is partially BECAUSE of looks! #so changing him to erase such a HUGE important aspect of his race's lore just bc ppl seem uncomfortable with him being young looking feels #idk the feeling. its frustrating to me #i just wish there was some self reflection here. i guess. some actual acknowledgement of his canon struggles #do you even like chil if you cant accept one of his core canonical traits... #whew anyways this is HUGELY a limited edition post bc im deleting it as soon as my husband reads it ❤️ #i hate drama i hate discourse so like always if you try to start shit i will ignore + block you soo fast dont try me

[superduperkas]

The decision for Jo to be upset with Greta about her knee jerk reaction to cut and run when things get scary or boring and NOT cause of the raid on gay bar is a great and nuanced storytelling choice

#it informs on both character's core personality traits in such a short amount of time #i love that Jo picks herself and the love of baseball #i love that greta seems genuinely taken aback by Jo's decision #and she also feels upset with Jo that she's focused on baseball and not a horridly bad night #greta uses her fear as a security blanket and Jo is done using it for warmth #greta is definitely running from her feelings for shaw #and all the boundaries and walls she let shaw pass thru #Jo doesn't even blame Shaw #she thanks her and says she's a pretty decent coach #but greta is big mad cause her best has been traded to another team #and Jo in her own way is another security blanket for Greta #i dunno #i can't stop thinking about this show #aloto #a league of their own series #a league of their own #melanie field #jo de luca #d'arcy carden #greta gill #wlw #lesbian #LGBTQ #butch lesbian

[headfullofdolls]

Friendly reminder (or intro explainer) that show bibles are reference documents that evolve with a series and get updated as the writers make changes. Despite what the name might make it sound like, nothing in them is set in stone. They're guidelines for focus and consistency, and getting writers on the same page.

Actually writing the script leads to an evolving understanding of the story, plot, characters, etc., often in unexpected directions. So the writers update the show bible to compile new insights and account for changes, again to keep everyone on the same page.

Nothing is confirmed until the finalized show.

#monster high #all this to say lagoona bi/pan and frankie autistic. fight me 😤 #no but fr seen this misunderstanding of show bible = Confirmed Canon become an issue with other leaks #and then people giving the leaks more weight than what happens in the finalized show #and creating confusion around the final product #and i do think actually making frankie intentionally autistic would be a natural evolution in understanding their character #like a realization that the traits are core to their character beyond just them being new to living #and an understanding that if their character can so easily ''unintentionally come off as autistic'' #perhaps the core of that character inherently strikes a chord with that experience #if only they take the opportunity to embrace it #my posts