#character talk

[mayrine]

AHHHH I know it makes sense for q!slime to push all the blame on q!mariana but MARIANA WAS A GOOD FUCKING DAD OK

Flippa was most energetic when she was whit him

They built Mariana’s house together

Some of flippas happiest memories are whit Mariana

Mariana is I think canonically just staying at Flippas grave slowly dying from thirst and hunger

HE WAS A GOOD DAD

So seeing codeflippa just putting tnt all over his house their house is just shattering my heart bc she wouldn’t do that

This moment from roier is how I feel about this whole situation

He’s pissed bc he knows Flippa wouldn’t do this to Mariana. Bc flippa loved Mariana

I think we all knew from the start that it wasn’t Flippa but I was kinda in denial about the fact that the code took her place but that moment was the last nail in the coffin for me

That is not fucking Juanaflippa

#qsmp #character talk #q!charlie #q!slimecicle #q!mariana #q!elmariana #q!codeflippa #qsmp slime #qsmp mariana #qsmp codeflippa

[bam-monsterhospital]

i know i've posted before about how against the idea of women (because marvel's full of cowards and doesn't want to have that conversation) telepaths being romantically/sexually attracted to scott summers i have been.

and while I know the actual intent behind this pattern on marvel's end and still disagree with that for obvious reasons, ...

In a vacuum? It makes sense.

Most xmen characters express what they're about on the surface, and there aren't too many layers hidden underneath. I can imagine telepaths in the world of marvel getting quickly bored by the people in that world not having anything more to offer than what's out front. Then you have a character like scott, who is designed to be deeply introspective anti-surface-read. A character the audience only gets the full picture of (/learns to appreciate) if the medium allows that glimpse into what's going on below the carefully controlled outer shell. That must be fascinating for a telepath (especially in marvel where you don't have many characters strictly adhering to this design). Not only that, it would take a telepath, or someone who is privy to what's going on below the surface (like, a non-telepath who is trusted enough for scott to open up to) to appreciate the full breadth of this character. So of COURSE the ones who react positively to the idea of scott summers would be those who know there's a lot of unseen shit going on there. It makes sense.

#scott summers #ramblings #don't mind me #unfortunately we're not in a vacuum #and marvel uses the pattern in other ways #aka: lazily #and also insidiously #lazily because: gotta repeat what's worked before #combined with a dismissive attitude towards attraction and masculinity and fjskalfda; #i could go on forever but i'm too tired to delve into that right now #xmen #superhero stuff #character stuff #character talk #hyperfixations never die #they just hibernate for a while #i'm not fully back on my bullshit #but it never went away

[dressupbastard]

What's your opinion on this motherfcker? [POLL]

'Aight so i was wondering what's everyone in this fandom's opinion on this bastard, as i've read quite a few different ones through my, huhh... hours and days of Ranger Research and Tribulations Online :D (Sheesh, sounds neat! /it's not)

I tried to make the options as nuanced as i could, but polls have a limit of 10 possible answers, so yeah. Check the one that sounds the closest/most accurate to how you feel!~☆ (no cheating or lying, i'll know it~ don't ask how :p)

(If you have a question or something to say to me specifically, please use the comments! Please please!! I don't reblog endlessly for conversing, as it gets quickly confusing for me <w>)

Edit: ☆

#original post #your turn to die #yttd #kimi ga shine #rio ranger #toto noel #character talk #yttd poll #yttd rio ranger #rio ranger yttd #polls #hehehehehe

[eruverse]

If what ppl want is to match Hetalia with irl: methinks ppl sometimes exaggerate Russia’s feelings for America. Russia is obsessed with the West, true, but sth tells me this is still majorly limited to Europe. Not America, tbh. As in, Russia cares primarily abt the Old World and not the New World, like what’s depicted in classical Russian poems and literature.

America tho… yeah there’s CW and such etc etc, they have pretty long history too… but there’s like… not much sentimentality compared to with Europe? The feelings inside the heart is different if you know what I mean. Also, like everyone else Russia rly is unable to ignore America. It has to find ways to work with America, bc America is like the king of the world. That isn’t always equal to love. Admiration, maybe. Frustration def. I don’t need to speak abt intricacies from CW lol. But love and fondness? I’d say it’s reserved more for Europe than America. Not that Russia doesn’t like America, but methinks Russia is more into Europe, and this is in the realm of love and yearning. It doesn’t actually revolve its life around America. America isn’t… the only one for Russia ahah.

I say we don’t actually need to match Hetalia with irl bc we are primarily here to have fun and we don’t need to be absolutely correct or anything. But if some of you really want to match Hetalia with irl, and you’re working with Russia esp as sth closer to a main character, you kinda… have to learn to see history through Russia’s eyes. Yes I know you will balk from this, but if you don’t want and are unable to — then well, your headcanons are still subjective biases that might be incorrect at the end of the day, lol. And it’s actually ok to be wrong! After all we’re all just doing yaoi here!! But you don’t gotta say that you’re right in context to irl, lol. Just admit that you might be biased.

(Ofc I’m not Russian so Russians can correct me if they want to lol. Bc most prob I also speak outta my ass abt this)

#character talk

[loganwritesprobably]

Just mentioned this in dms w someone but I wanted to put it out into the world

Monkey D. Luffy is what Scott could've been

Now hear me out! I like Scott. I like him a lot as a protagonist. But when I first started one piece after being hyperfixated on Teen Wolf for like a year and a half I just thought "oh, this is how that type of character is supposed to be"

Luffy isn't perfect and he is never portrayed as it, and he actively has flaws that he acknowledges. He does good for selfish reasons, and he does it in the name of his primary goal. He actively denounces the title of hero and feels no obligation to anyone except his people.

Scott could've been like him. Scott could've felt obligation only to those in his own circle. Scott could've been put on less of a pedestal. Scott could've had a moral code we could actually support that made sense ("we don't kill" except Peter.. and Kate.. and nearly Gerard). Scott could've had a clear cut goal other than "survive".

It's been a while since I've revisited Teen Wolf canon so if I'm vague or you're confused, take what I've said with a pinch of salt. There's also a certain amount of fandom to be blamed for some of Scott's less likable traits that are perpetuated.

But my point stands

#teen wolf #one piece #scott mccall #monkey d luffy #character talk

[bittyfromquotev]

The Mediators

Finally have official sketches and info for the Forest of Eden’s Mediators!

Right two are fellow Tumblr people who have not opposed/have approved of being Mediators in the story!

Top Right: @ayyy-imma-ninja

Bottom Right: @garbagechocolate

Not revealing the guy too much yet, as I’m still developing him and he’s the most important Mediator. I’m excited to see how their relationships develop! (They have to interact, obviously lmao)

#au #dca au #do not steal #oc #garbagechocolate #ayyyimmaninja #Mediators #forestofeden #forest of eden #story #fanfic #character talk #my art

[for-a-longlongtime]

Bestie I have a very important question about your Maverick series. When you visualise him, is your Marcus Pike a clean shaven Marcus, or Marcus with scruff? Field research attached.

BESTIE I absolutely love this question!!! I'm always up for endless character talk tbh, and this one is particularly interesting for me, esp because I don't quite consider myself to be a Marcus girlie.

First things first: Marcus with the (canon) revenge beard is 100% my Marcus in general. When I see 'current day' Marcus with Tim (for my Rockford/Pena WIP), he's looking exactly like that.

It's not just because I think it's so attractive, but the actual way that Pedro plays Marcus in that final Mentalist episode is SO different from the rest of it. He holds his body differently, he takes up space differently, there's an extra confidence in how he talks (down to his cadence), his facial expressions - everything. You can really see that he has played Oberyn at that point and not only sharpened his acting skills a lot, but just generally seems more confident and aware of how he can convey a lot without even talking.

HOWEVER.

The Maverick series takes place about two years before my Rockford/Pena WIP, and in my head this is definitely clean shaven Marcus. I can even be really specific: this was the gif I had in mind of him, but then kneeled in front of (Fight Night locker room scene) Frankie who has one hand in his hair. This style is also pretty close to how I see Marcus when he and Tim met & became a couple.

So this Marcus is indeed a little younger, a little different kind of confidence, and really (as @theywhowriteandknowthings said) A Good Boy™. I was surprised to have him pop up, but I could see immediately how he and Frankie would get along in several ways; these two are pretty different personality wise, but Frankie likes how Marcus is all bright eyed, cheerful and social but without being annoying. He wasn't expecting or looking to get to know him initially, it was just a matter of attraction and lust in that locker room. But when they met up that second time, he just found himself a lot more into Marcus than he expected. He's not exactly Frankie's usual type, but that's also why they click.

Now, looking a little ahead again -- to the Rockford/Pena WIP, where Marcus is rocking the revenge beard and has the confidence etc that comes with that. Personally, I see that as some influence on him by Frankie, especially with the scruff. I feel like Frankie brings out some parts of Marcus that he maybe wasn't too familiar with yet, and that definitely impacts him, even in the way he carries himself (aka 'the Oberyn effect').

There's one fun tidbit I can tell you re: Marcus in that WIP; there are going to be some flashbacks to about 8 years ago (which would be 6 years before the Maverick series takes place) to an even younger Marcus, who meets another crucial person in his life/in that WIP. The visual for Marcus at that time is very much Zach Wellison vibes:

SO. To quote Pedro, "I bet you weren't expecting me to start telling you this long story", LOL. But this is how I see him/them in my fic! Thank you for giving me an opportunity to wax about this, I love it 💜 Feel free to ask questions anytime!

#ask me ask me ask me #pedro pascal characters #pedro pascal #marcus pike #character talk #my fic #lovely asks #WIP

[theghostbunnie]

Stress overload I need to talk about the sillies immediately!!

Candy and Nikki complicated mother daughter relationship not downright bad and that actually makes it so much harder on Nikki because she would never want to leave her mom for good just. Have a break. The woman can be a lot at times. Candy unintentionally not fully viewing Nikki as a complicated individual (most people in Nikki's life don't really either) not the most aware what all can have an effect on her daughter, or long lasting effects. Nikki goes from being too young to put it into words how Candy's flawed parenting style effects her to "silent and bares it to keep the peace, not rock the boat."

Candy being a single mother who was trying her best, a very complicated relationship with Nikki's father, calling her daughter "My little angel", sunshine, every other affectionate nickname she could come up with. Every good aspect of their relationship, all the care and love, It all comes together and makes it so much harder to open up the conversation of "here's what you did wrong and how it messed me up." Because Nikki doesn't want to potentially hurt her mom with it. So it's easier to just never talk about it. Candy never suspects that type of problem.

Nikki being unable to casually vent to her close friends about it because Neil will only try giving his take on logical solutions instead of comfort, and Max, it doesn't really click with him at all, it doesn't help Nikki still can't put her complicated feelings into words the best, it doesn't stop her from feeling them but it hinders how everyone veiws her- Which, in a sense, is just simple.

#fandom headcanons #character headcanons #character talk #hcs #camp camp hcs #camp camp #camp-camp #camp campbell #nikki cc #cc nikki #nikki camp camp #camp camp nikki #candy camp camp

[starvels]

Steve going to Emma for Dom lessons so he can top Tony like he deserves

(Tony says Steve is doing just fine, amazing even, but when poked and prodded into giving feedback Steve can read between the lines of his answers and see Steve isn’t the BEST Dom in terms of technique YET, and Steve doesn’t need to be a mind reader to know who the #1 is so he goes to learn from the best)

((And is Tony aware he didn’t disguise his answers and feedback enough that Steve knows he isn’t #1??))

have you read oluka's fabulous fic here? concerning this very topic mhmmm.

theirs is a fun dynamic and i think in a lot of AUs, emma is doing something with teaching and dominance lol.

i honestly think there's something really fun about characters exploring how to get better at kink/bdsm and understanding that they aren't the best. also there's a real sexy playful dynamic that happens when two people who have very headstrong personalities and might dominate other people, go ahead and experience really good, fulfilling submission with someone who isn't like, Their End-All-Be-All-Person whom they would choose to kill at the end of all things because nothing matters more than them <3 just_little_stevetony_things.mp3 yunno? but that casualness with a party outside of them allows for less pressure on the exploration and a different sort of intimacy and discovery, i think.

also we, as a society deserve more big men being dommed by smaller women, like. we all do.

#our talk #stevetony #stevetony talk #emmastevetony #character talk

[bellusastra]

I keep forgetting that not all of my characters can be from the same universe 😭

#astra talks #ramblings #character talk

[mayrine]

Guys at least we got q!niki trying to flirt whit q!jaiden

Q!jaiden the aroace icon

This will be fun

Also emphasize on trying bc Niki wanted to message Jaiden “you know what doesn’t suck? You, cause you’re cool” but she couldn’t type it correctly so she gave up

Niki also called Jaiden cute sooooooo

#in the best case scenario they will have a queer platonic relationship #in the worst case #q!niki will become the cringefail icon I know she is /lh #either way a welcome break from the egg kidnapping #qsmp #q!nihachu #q!jaiden #q!niki #character talk

[fiveais]

so Red-is-just-some-AI-dude-au fun aside, i think that, for all that it's worth, Red just proves that Felix at his core is a fuckin' goof

#exhibit a: asking if Flesh Prince is his dad #exhibit b: thinking for some reason that the Eclipse girls would hide their treasure in a dumpster #exhibit c: im sure there's more but its 1 something in the morning and i can't think of anything else specifically off the top of my head #bomb rush cyberfunk #uhhhhh- #character talk #but not my own

[card-queen]

Story Craft: Process

Okay, so this post is gonna be brief but will hopefully help you if you start to feel overwhelmed. As I started to play my world-building post, I realised that I would need to touch on a lot of plot aspects because of how interconnected everything ends up.

But that's the key: ends up.

My fantasy story looks completely different to how it started. It's gone through deep, deep revisions and just slowly ship of Theseus'd itself into something almost new. My detective game on the other hand has barely changed, I've had a stronger idea of where I wanted things to go from the start and have only added new things that tease out character ideas, plotlines, conflict and drama.

Plot, basically. These are cool scenes and set pieces you imagine. They could come from your own imagination and desires, like when you close your eyes and day dream, when you're listening to music and envision cool scenes, betrayals, twists, reveals, fights scenes, cool encounters, rescue missions, etc. Of they could come from being inspired by other things you've seen. "I loved that scene and want to do something like it in my own story", "I hated that scene, it should have gone this way", "I thought there were going to go somewhere else with that scene and now I'm disappointed", etc.

Events, plotlines and themes are just skeletal frameworks: they're entirely universal, but they all have requirements that need to be met to work properly. All you need to do is look over the event, theme or plotline with a technical eye. "What underlying components are in play to make this theme/plotline/event have impact to me?"

While there is no one-size-fits-all solution to breaking down events to their core components, there are a number of things you can look at and see if they play a part. (I'll be using 'scene' as a catchall term here but this can apply to many different aspects of plot). This is especially helpful if you're starting from an Inspiration point and adapting an idea you liked/were disappointed in for your own story! Surface Details. Look over the scene and analyse it. What elements are at play, either obviously or under the surface? The characters in play often hand backstories and mindsets, so scrape away all the details and hone in on what the result is. Does the character need to be so cautious they don't trust anyone so that their rescue comes as a joyous surprise, or or focused entirely on work so they never see the budding romance, or rich and naive so that their betrayal comes as a complete shock? What about the situation between characters? Former friends and now bully & victim, or two battlefield generals on opposite sides of a conflict, or a group of co-workers who make nice and do what they can to get along being forced into a dangerous situation that relies on cooperation? And the emotional flow of events? Peaceful daily life that turns into a natural disaster scenario, or a serial killer on the loose in a quiet village, or all of the characters have been kidnapped and are in an unknown locations? Use generic words. The flavour comes from what you add, but to add flavour properly, you gotta understand the tools in your hands.

Power Balance. Does the scene use control or shifting control? Something like a betrayal, rescue scenes, reinforcement scenes, joining forces with a villain, or revealing a secret have an underlying battle of power and control. The scenes themselves often hinge on a reversal of power to have impact. Find where the power is and how it changes hands.

Realisation. This can be for the characters or the audience. We should take special care when there is a perception change at play. If we or the characters come to a startling realisation in this scene, you look over what the perception was, what the new perception is and how the change took place. (This slide's a little more vague but just.. just go with me on it)

Characters, basically. This works similar to plot. Where does your inspiration come from: something you saw or something you came up with? In my experience, those are the two places inspiration for ideas comes from. Whatever your origin point, I offer the same advice of cracking open the character and taking at peek see at the core components that get that character being ratings. Here are couple of VERY OLD slides from my early character work, but it should give you some confidence and ideas that things can evolve.

In this, you can see I use monikers like 'the honourable mage', 'merc boss' and 'wandering noble' but also refer to characters by their inspirations, like Dimitri & Felix (Fire Emblem: Three Houses). No one really has to know or see your behind-the-scenes work files, where you take inspiration is your business. I often refer to characters by their moniker or placeholder name based on their inspiration until I find a name that suits them.

This next slide is interesting because it shows that even back then, I had components in mind.

Inspirations is obviously what I refer back to when I keep thinking of their core concept. It's what helps me write the flavour text and description, and would probably be used in conjunction with typology for me these days. The Aspects part is a term I got from the FATE system of RPG books and I use it here to explain a strong core piece of the character in a term or phrase. These Aspects should be clear on their own and give you an idea of how the trait can be used to win the day or cause things to come to a crashing halt, how it can be used to create comedic scenes and have it can be used to win people over. It's important to find balance in your characters. A new rule I have in creation is 'You gotta know how your character is gonna eat shit'. I like to see the comic potential and dramatic potential in all my characters. If a character doesn't eat shit, they seem special and above the rest. Are they too good to make mistakes, be over the top or be funny to use? Think in three dimensions, friends.

Setting, basically. These are the great facilitators. They are the unsung heroes that nonetheless, must remain mostly unsung. Parts of the world and setting are of the backdrop and instigator of events, carry the physical embodiment of theme, provide resistance, encouragement and biases for characters. You often put a lot of work into world-building but if you share to much of it, it becomes a never-ending wall of text, a slew of infodumping. But by tying your aspects of your world-building and setting into aspects of the story or character.

I like to think of story creating in a node-based way. It's all about outlets and inputs. This is a very, veeeery basic example but check out this image.

It's a simple diagram for the components of a betrayal. We supply two characters and stakes. And in the case of things like countries or groups being factors in the betrayal, then I highly recommend having a representative from the group or nation that is the architect or at least responsible for the betrayal in some way. This is one of the MAJOR problems I have with games like Fire Emblem: whole countries start behaving like a single person and the action ends up feeling hollow and the world empty (FE4, I am staring at you specifically). We can, of course, feed more into the action device: emotions, stability, power, objects within the story, characters within the story, etc. But we're keeping it simple here: two character plus stakes in, the results for the betrayed and the results for the betrayed. These components can join into other events, decisions and moments. The newly empowered stance of the betrayer might been the actions he needed to take to get the money to propose to the Princess, so he could get closer to the Prince and carry out an elaborate revenge plot against he man who killed his entire family. The newly weakened stance of the betrayed might end up with her on the run and seeking new allies in places she would have dismissed in her earlier life, granting her new perspectives and showing her the world she never knew.

Keep these words in mind when creating: "...but..." "...and therefore..."

Nothing ends unless you say it ends. Everything can get worse or get better. Events, characters, themes, plotlines, setting, and systems all form a kind of butterfly effect where things happen because of what came before and will affect what comes after it. By taking out elements or feeding new details into them, you get a slightly different outcome. And things will change over time to fit better, more cleanly, take you in new directions, better directions, revisited directions -- it'll be a journey. And a fun one, if you let it be.

Happy creating.

Want more writing advice? Check out this post!

#story talk #character talk #world-building #structure #settings #plotlines #take it one step at a time #all things come in time #let's have some fun

[eruverse]

As someone who focuses on HWS Russia/Russia personifications, I know of this phenomenon regarding certain headcanons in which natives simply don’t agree with foreigners:

Foreigners: yeah HWS Russia should’ve only begun as Moscow

Russians: that doesn’t make sense, Russian history started in Novgorod

How do you deal with this? But tbh if some foreigner tells to my face that my country’s history only began from Majapahit onward I would want to slap them kinda. Because the heck is foreigner’s place to do this, as if they’re more valid than me who is a native and who likely knows more than them.

1) History isn’t only about a set of facts but also how these things are perceived. So the differences are also valid to an extent

2) If you want to focus on a country in nationverse I think you should be prepared to learn the natives’ perspectives on how they see their own country. A nation isn’t only about strict history but also myths culture beliefs ideologies etc etc

3) Yes yes this is Russia and there’s a righteous limit to land grabbing and perceiving history but tbh I have a hard time understanding why whether Russia began as Moscow or Novgorod (which is now Russia anw) is contested and this is politically driven in a lot of ppl

Tbh this is why in my own hcs I have Ivan being different from other principalities and I have my own for Moscow. Ivan represents the whole principalities on the Russian side and he was Novgorod at the same time he was Moscow Tver Ryazan etc etc. Also less headache for me that way

Also my own understanding of Russian history of this time period: the principalities were too intertwined for me it’s kinda too tricky to disentangle them and that’s why having Ivan representing all of them while at the same time these principalities were having their own personification is a nice middle ground

Anyway this isn’t the only thing in which Russians and non-Russians disagree on on Russia headcanons/history portrayals and things to my observation (they disagree on a lot obviously) but for me this is a funny one

#character talk

[intricatepuckrituals]

watching the way connor likes to do his little fake-out make-outs (pass or shoot mind games) with goalies and i do! actually believe! we should talk more about c.mcdavid potentially having great peripheral vision, tbh

#speaking as someone in a family of people w great peripheral vision #its such a bitch in everyday life #catching movement out of the corner of your eyes. having to act like you can't see people when they think they can't be seen by you lol #connor mcdavid #my talk #character talk

[marjansmarwani]

I’ve seen some comments saying Tk seems out of character this season because he’s shown more obvious out worthy love for Carlos in the first 4 episodes of season 4 than he ever did in previous seasons (not including the proposal) and that it’s obvious that Tim etc listened to fans who said it’s always Tk who’s in danger and Carlos’s feelings are way more obvious and evident for Tk than Tk’s are for Carlos? 🤔

I haven’t seen any of that but due to the general nature of things right now I’m not nearly as present in the fandom as I used to be and I don’t see all of the things happening pretty often. But I do have a thought on this and I’m going to see if I can put it into words.

TK does seem different to me this season and for a while I also thought it was a bit out of character, but I something someone else said (I cannot remember who and I’m sorry to whoever it is) started me thinking about it in a different way. They said that the past 3 seasons have been about TK overcoming his demons and developing as a character and that season 4 is Carlos’s turn. I think that’s absolutely right and that part of that means that TK is confident and secure enough to be more open and vulnerable with Carlos all the time and stable enough to be the one who takes the step back and let’s the other person lean on them. And that’s not a bad thing — that’s how good relationships work! Sometimes it’s your turn to lean on your partner and sometimes it’s your turn to be the rock.

Does that mean that TK is perfect now? Absolutely not because no one is. Does that mean he never has to worry about his problems again, including his addiction. Of course not, that’s not how addiction works. He’s always going to have struggles and he is going to have bad days and he is still going to have to lean on Carlos. But the past three seasons have consisted of never ending traumas and crises for him to get through and at the moment the universe is giving him a break. I think the TK we’re seeing this season is the TK who has faced all of that and come out on the other side stronger. And yes, that is different from the TK we’ve seen in seasons 1-3, but not in a bad way.

Besides, they deserve to be obnoxious about their love.

#god I hope that made sense #it’s been a long day and a long week and my brain is fried #but hopefully I got the thoughts out in an almost straight forward way #911 lone star #tk strand #tarlos #character talk