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silviawrites · 2 years
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Writing characters properly
Characters are obviously a very important part of our writing. They're what the story centers around (other than the plot) and play a very big role in a lot of the books and other writing we read.
A lot of the characters, however, are not written properly. And I especially mean the characters that are way too perfect. The kind, gentle, energetic and optimistic character who can do no wrong. They. Are. Annoying. Or maybe the MC is depicted to be the good guy, but he's completely selfish and condescending.
So how exactly do we make a character, unlike the ones we hate? Easy. Write characters properly. That's easier said than done though.
Let's see how we write them!
Give them good and bad characteristics
Personally, I like to give three good characteristics and three bad characteristics to my characters. For example, let's say we take a character, "Mara". Mara's good characteristics could be she's assertive, hard-working and brave. But her flaws could be she's impatient, sensitive and can't handle it properly when she doesn't get what she wants.
This here is a flawed character. She isn't 100% good, but she isn't 100% bad. She's somewhere in between, describing real-life people in real life. Of course, you don't have to do this exactly, writing is different for every person. Just do what's comfortable for you!
2. Character development
While it isn't that bad if a character remains stagnant/flat throughout the writing, it is very satisfying to see a character begin to develop and mature throughout whatever you're writing. Maybe a character is completely selfish and condescending in the beginning but as the story progresses, they begin to become a better person. Of course, don't remove all the flaws at the end of the story, but it would definitely be enjoyable to read about a character who slowly begins to change and mature.
3. Make them struggle
Struggles, struggles, struggles, struggles. We all go through them in our life and is completely normal to be challenged as our life goes on.
So imagine how annoying it is to see this perfect character just get everything they want in life. They want to get an A for an exam they didn't study for? They got it! They want to defeat an evil, powerful queen in about one day without struggles? They got it! They want to be the richest person in the world overnight without doing anything? They got it! You get the point.
Using struggles to make your character's journey harder is one great way to make the reader sympathize for your character and it makes the reader root for the character as well. This character has worked so damn hard for this, so do you know how depressing it would be if they didn't get it? That is what readers want. Characters who struggle to get what they want because it shows how much the reader wants it, it can make the reader sympathize with the character and can make the character relatable.
Sorry, I hope this wasn't too long! Feel free to add some more ways to properly write characters, whatever I've written definitely isn't all of them!
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captainmaiel · 2 years
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richardsphere · 1 year
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Rwby character-writing analasis thing.
Its really interesting to me how much RWBY as a series has changed in the post-beacon era. And while there are many differences i could write page-long essays about,  I think most of those are a story for another day. Today i want to talk about how the post S3 change in genre has negatively affected the strength of its characterwriting. (other topics might come up tangentially but wont be the focus.)
Beacon era RWBY was a verry slow, airy slice-of-life heavy show with only a bit of action sprinkled on top, like Fondant on a cake. It gave the characters plenty of time to breathe, interact and just share a chemistry together.  I’d even go so far as to say the early show was, 80 percent slice of life (at minimum), and maybe 20% action at most. Even “fight for our life” were permeated with moments of dialogue and lighthearted character-beats. (Ruby and Weiss talking out their squables mid-beowolf fight, Weiss VS Boarbatusk cutting to ruby’s little flags for example)  But it should also be noted that, With exception to Pyrrha, who the show knew had only 3 seasons to be fleshed out. Most characters were left deliberately sort-of vauge so they can be deepened out when we get to their arcs later. (certainly they were given “goals” like “find Raven” or “redeem the Fang”, but anything more specific was left out for future writers to resolve). But in a post-beacon world, the showrunners put them into a constant no-time-for-breaks pacing has prevented much of that filling in, as the show repeatedly denied them any moment for them to just “exist” (as well as the infamous stories about how any scenes that do allow characters to do so, having all chemistry surgically removed by production to “prevent romantic spoilers”.) They cut out so much of its slice-of-life moments, that all levity happens either off-screen (Yang+Blake at the disco) or in the background of “actually important” plot-beats. (Meeting Jaune’s sister taking second-seat to a critical debrief re:Ozpin-being-full-of-shit) Not to say there’s been no progress at all on filling out the blanks left behind in their early characterisation but: Ruby’s 6 seasons of constant trauma, ended on a resounding concluding note that “she was fine as-is in S1E1″, meaning nine collective seasons of character development, amounts to a great “Status quo, but now with Laser-eyes”. Yang’s raven-issues “resolved” at the fall of haven, and did so in a rather unsatisfying in the way. Because her and Raven never really explored the abandonment issues beyond a vague “i know you dont care about me, I’ve decided the feelings mutual now Portal me to my sister/Hand me the damn relic”. (which doesnt feel like a resolution, but the show tries to frame it as a “going no-contact” resolution) Blake and Weiss have both actually had their core struggles in the world removed and tranposed onto adjacent characters instead of actually resolving their established “goals” in the world at large. (Weiss no longer wants to redeem the family business, thats Willow and Whitley’s job now, Blake no longer wants to redeem the Fang, thats Ghira and Ilia’s job). and although we now know how Ren and Nora came to be together, their atlas arc only emphasises that even they still dont know who they are themselves.  Same for Ozpin, pf whom we now know how he came to be cursed, he spent so much time dormant “regaining his oldest memories” that we only know we dont know him either.  Six additional seasons of writing for these characters, and they are all (with possible exception to yang) either back at square one, or in BW’s case have somehow stumbled themselves back to square zero. The only character that’s gotten “more” fleshed out in a way that satisfies on a narrative level is Jaune. (to the point that i cant even fault elements of the fandom criticising the show for being “The Jaune Show”) And even that is only because of how well-realised Pyrrha was at time-of-death, It really says something about the drop quality in the shows post-beacon characterisation that Pyrrha is more well-written in absentia then the entirety of the shows namesake team combined. and that is just plain tragic.
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thelordstears · 2 years
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Who did more writing? This quirky dumbass!
"The hands of death are slowly trickling down the clock." - Davy Blight
"I knew too much, so in turn I became very little." - Churchill Smiggins
I know I wasn't born this way; I was made this way, however. Very fine difference. One is crafted by God, the other by humanity." - Haymitch Viers
"Animalize me, but dare not humanize me." - Haymitch Viers
"Free will was stripped away a long time ago brother. I'm just a puppet dancing on frayed strings of contempt." - Dorian Bellsway
"I'm human, perhaps. Though I must confess I don't feel like it; but what use is humanity when you can have Godhood?" - Viper Krilovitz
"He shoved me into the dark quiet and mad, his finger ashen and pale, but black as coal. He ripped the wings from me before I took to the Heavens, and as all you find is darkness, as the light flickers only every once and awhile you come to learn just how blinding the fire is. I don't want the light, mister. I don't want, redemption. I don't want, to be forgiven for my sins. Because they make me feel alive. And everything else feels like a constricting tomb of skin and thought." - Bethy Angelice
"Shadows reveal themselves when the sun's rays haunt the lonely shore." - Bethy Angelice
"I was stolen away by smoke wisped eyes in the flames of a predetermined accident." - Levi Delemonte
"You tell me what you did, or so help me God will hear your screams from Heaven's throne and wince." - Crow Sandelfreicks
"We've all got a little Devil inside darling; dare I say it feels like a Summer breeze to fall away from your Heavenly wings? Grasp at the clouds with burning fingertips Icarus, the fall is so much easier than waiting for the breeze to push you past the edge." - Diavol Sinsvat
"Saints have this funny little idea that evil can be vanquished; it rings around the good man's skull until it becomes a delusion. That's all it is, though. A mirage in your desert of evil." - Mekivalla Brimsburn
"The rapture came down on the weary long ago, Clifford. We're just the storm that continues to thrash in the winds of Heaven's ghost." - Mekivalla Brimsburn
"I took my fate in human hands and turned it into a ghastly shaped monster." - Mekivalla Brimsburn
"The truth is a prison formed by thoughts that don't truly exist. Lies are freedom, they are the key." - Mekivalla Brimsburn
"Evil never takes a break; so neither will I." - Denver Hickamay
"I watched justice cough up its last as a thousand bullets echoed in its throat." - Denver Hickamay
"Violence. It's a very peculiar word misused much too often." - Sotana Grimwalker
"I'm just skin and muscle held up by weary, cracked bone. If you opened up my corpse you'd find a thousand secrets echoing inside my ribs, a heart rotted and dead inside my ruined chest. And as my flesh is peeled away, know that I'm just a cog in the machine of corruption and death; echoed in regret and silence I should've ripped from my tongue." - Hoffman Magnol
"When injustice runs like blood through the cities veins screaming that you're equal is like drawing lines in the sand just before the tide comes rolling in." - Jamal Bovetzo
"You know some shit, yeah. But you don't got twenty eight years of experience fighting a war that don't gotta be fought." - Jarvis Killargen
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"Life was cruel far before I knew what the word meant, but I could always taste it on the tip of my brittle tongue. The monsters of this world took me by the hand when I was young and led me away from myself, but I trusted them because I thought change was necessary, I thought this was growth. But into the garden I went to wither away, like secrets in the dark." - Malory Hansell
"I sunk my teeth into the pieces of me everyone loved in a single starless night. I didn't do it because I wanted to be rid of these things; but because survival comes with a hefty price of skin, bone and emotion." - Kamoto Razan
"My story ain't written in blood, Linda, it's written in fucking glory." - Zane Harrenburrow
"Humanity passes its sorrow on along with their death. I sit here with their sins in my teeth, their sorrow in my stomach; and it churns like a meal, and I digest all of their pain and consume more of it day by day. They call me wicked because I guide the lost souls to the afterlife; but they fail to realize I unburden the sorrowed heart as they pass the barrier between life and death." - Tanbris
"As all the kings horses, and all of his men rushed to put together the broken pieces of the innocent girl who fell in the thicket of the mesa they discovered that she was not broken. But scattered and aloof, like a half open present left unloved by the side of the tree." - Evangeline Swartzlander
"Men like us do not escape our father's shadows, we're bound to it by last name. It's like a noose, of sorts; twisting around throats that are not our own. Don't be a fucking fool, there's a stool beneath your feet, and you're taking deadly steps forward." - Vitello Stronami
"A man can either be himself or nothing at all." - Cato Paztendra
"They called him a beast with claws made up of all the dried blood on his hand; but there was a sorrow in him, too. One that ate away at his heart, and as it crumbled away in my fingers I wondered what kind of curse was laid upon him, for the thing behind the vase to be a heart wilting instead of a rose." - Lana Devestino
"People like you, those who've fallen tend to find themselves in the very same light that kills the moth. It's a new addiction, to you people; if you can't get another high, you follow danger. You have followed the trail, Rain Morvosina. And the gravel is beginning to crumble." - Mekivalla Brimsburn
"The nightmares, they'll knock gentle on your skull; barely an audible decibel. As the minutes drag on the knocks will get sharper, more fierce. Like a migraine no pills will flush away and you'll see things no one should see, like dying stars in the eyes of all that you love. Blood dripping to the carpet. Ruined throats and empty hearts. And the nightmares will claw at you, and rest assured, they will win the war. And as you close your eyes tight reality will seep through the small light dancing like a red flicker of your eyelid pulled over your vision. And that's when you'll learn nightmares are not distorted versions of reality, but the truest form of it." - Hector Thomas
"My heart lays in my chest like a haunted garden of what never should've been; and as I lay my head to the pillow a thousand screams shatter like glass in my mind. It is in all the silence, in all the buzzing of fireflies and moths, butterflies and campfires that I can hear the decadent screech of my memories." - Doba Hudasallo
"Once I'm done with you Heaven's gates aren't mine to walk through." - Lillian Murphy
"I don't claim to be a moral man, there's secrets in me that have withstood the trials of time. Pieces of my heart lost to the way gunpowder and riches tastes on the mortal tongue, I stand for nothing you could ever come to understand. Sometimes humanity is cruel; wicked. But it is not so bad, to watch as we fall through history like dying stars." - Osbourne Trousendale
"You can't begin to understand the depth of my insanity. Carry your sane mind down into the waters of the Marianna and maybe you'll stand a chance; but even then I've got'cha beat brother." - Jaguar Bovakaino
"Standing under his shadow never brought me peace; but it gave me survival." - Jayburrow Arcta
”If I’m gonna be staring fate in the eye I’d like to know his name first.” - Ekalo Brutevit
"Change is beautiful, but there's a certain ugliness too it as well." - Fable Godlay
"I followed path after path. Road after unpaved road. Clues were dropped along the way; little trinkets of time that would stay in the grasses of the trail for centuries to come. And I never discovered. I never tore apart the secrets. My brother still laid dead underneath the soils of another man's rage. And I never put a face to the name phantom." - Avastio Echoswith
"Survival is this; beast. It starves itself for years until it's ready to consume, waiting with hungry and bloody teeth. Cannons whir in the sky like warnings, my friend. Like a symphony of strewn about death. And to the survivor; it's an omen. A cruel omen that he survived." - Ekalo Brutevit
"Revolution soared through the sky on pale white wings; much like a dove who sat with parsley in her beak, with warnings of peace. And the powerful took it as a threat. Something poisonous. Venomous. They always twist the truth; even if it was sent to help them." - Olivette Le'Cramonia
"I gripped the edge of a knife and plunged it ever forward. And I always wondered why there was a scar deeply embedded in my back; it took me years to realize I had willingly cut a piece of me away to please a God who stood above the weak, the powerless, the crows of tomorrow who let their squawks sing like an outcry of revolt. And I bled like a martyr. And I died like a fool." - Flicker Caldostia
"If you want to kill me, weary general; you'll have to put a bullet in that memory of yours." - Vessemir Hussane
"The strings of revolution wrap their throats around the weary like little crows pecking at the remains of what was left behind. And that's how the powerful claim it will be. They say death will corrupt. It will stain like wine poured through the clear glass. But revolution clears the smoke; leaving the warriors unblinded." - Kaytlie Dextor
"As the gunfire dies in a mind brittle and lost; do you flee from yourself or let who you're becoming trample who you've been?" - Caspian Wicketfire
"Corruption breathes in the air; but justice won't suffocate to this damning smog." - Veronica Crowell
"And there the shadows laid; like whispers of love in my chest." - Alastair Sambridge
"Tonight we storm Hell as if it was our home and refuge, think of it as just another day, because in the end, history will forget tonight as it forgets all things that threaten its rule." - The Man in Black
"I fear that I've done something I can't change. A terrible, dreadful sort of affairs. A man came to me in the night and told me I could be great; I could be one of the holy, my eyes sparked with something I hadn't felt in a long while. Who was he? To accept one of the unsightly into the ranks of the church? But I fear I have been led astray, father. The Devil found me beaten on the side of the road, there was no good Samaritan, only the decadence of the devil who claimed the stars howl." - Arlo Westberry
"I came not to confess my sins, dear boy; but to confess fate to the listening ear." - Puceto Sostallen
"There's no redemption for destiny. And there's no redemption for the serpents of this decayin' desert." - Marquis Kamlet
"C'mon chap, you and I are just two dogs circlin' round the same damn chain. We're bastards and thieves mate, waitin' for our barks to twist into bites; it's been like that ever since we were wee little boys playin' in the backyard. Why would destiny change for a coupl'a blokes?" - Marquis Kamlet
"That's the thing about the mind; no one knows when it's as its breaking point." - Cartvane Hearthrob
“ "I sit here in my locked bedroom of grief, rocking gently back and forth as I hum myself a quiet lullaby knowing only I hold the key to this cell of imaginings and sorrow. And even if the monsters come with axes and swords and rusted hatchets, the door is made of steel. They may swing, slash and cut, but only I know my own head as much as they ever could; and it is such a sorrowful place to travel. “ - Opal Malphesto
“ My troubles stomp away upstairs making a ruckus in my head, they jump and shout into the walls as a knocking comes upon my doorway. I open it to greet all my past lovers who complain of the noise inside my halfway hollow skull, and I give them a feeble smile and say that I'll try to shut the old bastard trouble up once and for all. So I board up the stairs as my joy looks at me teary eyed, looking not much unlike an abandoned child as I let it deal with the man upstairs who stomps, and shouts, and screams. “ - Opal Malphesto
“ Into the woods I went to find myself, from whence I would never return. “ - Maxadellas Zonestrame
“ I built an artwork out of the way my pain tasted on a lustful tongue, I swallowed my tears, my grief, my confessions. And all I am became a meal for the emptiness that tastes like rot on the roof of my mouth, as though a parasite crawled inside my spine and whispered to my heart, "May the dark shimmer in this ribcage of emptiness and despair."  - Maxadellas Zonestrame
“ I didn't end only one life in those woods; I didn't end only two. I ended all the possibilities inside of me as she cried, wailing her thank you to the sky as my tears hit her bloodied back. Is it cruel of me to say I liked the way the blood spilled crimson on my boot? It truthfully scares me that excitement leapt from my chest as she thanked me for the way I made her scream. Am I monster because I enjoyed it or because I regret enjoying it? Am I me?" - Maxadellas Zonestrame
"I don't really understand who I am anymore. He's kind of like one of those faces in a dream you just can't place your finger on who they are. Like a stranger that sits in my mirror as a dark reflection of who I ain't. “ - Danny Savinwit
“ Look, man, from what I can tell we're just monsters stuck in a cage of our doubts, praying God gives us the key to our rage. But he taunts us with false love of metal and unkempt flesh, and we scream in terror as what we held onto most reveals it's fangs. We're just the monkeys in the pits of despair, fearing the dark that created us. “ - Danny Savinwit
"There's things in this world that quite simply put, shouldn't exist. But beyond all comprehensive evidence that of this is how the world works, they do, exist. And not even the twisted and pained tongue of Allan Poe could etch ink dark enough to describe the beasts that rule over this world. “ - Horace Hop
“ My final scream still haunts me so. “ - Horace Hop
“ Have you ever seen something, unusual and brushed it off? Have you ever felt eyes staring into your back when no one but the dark is with you? It was likely the beasts that rule over humanity, but we don't see their crowns. We don't see the way they smile at us with not quite human teeth. They lurk in the dark because they know we fear it, but men like me traversed the shadows with flashlights and grit, but we never walked out of the nebula, did we? “ - Horace Hop
“ I was a star, once. But I imploded like a thousand screams echoed in the sky." - Horace Hop
“ I touch my fingers against wooden crosses left parched in the dirt and wonder if the Heavens would forgive me for joining the angels that left earth much too soon. “ - Jimmy Rummers
“ What's a family man sposed to become when he loses his family?” - Jimmy Rummers
“ There's a gash in my bones where all the love used to crawl, these tears begin to taste like the red wine on my lip, these sinner's lips begin to taste like all the things I no longer have. “ - Jimmy Rummers
“ I'd etch a smile into the earth with a sharp stick if I could remember the way her dimples curved when she saw me. I'd scribble her favorite song onto a notepad if I could remember the lyrics. “ - Jimmy Rummers
“ People act as though spilling blood and choppin' throats is all they can do to defend themselves these days, but that's not true! Why are we acting like animals when we're human? “ - Jolt Netz
“ The way I see it people vault over their choices and land head first into the violent ones with blood dripping down their shirt like a warning of who they've become. “ - Jolt Netz
“ Come one come all to a world where peace rules over the violent, where the sheep lead over the wolves, isn't it a beautiful image? Isn't it wonderful to see the wildness of a peaceful life? I don't care what you think your justification for murder is. Because it's not justified. It's cruel, it's unnecessary and damning. Don't spill blood when you could let those memories go up in the wind with your peace, the best revenge of all is to live a life worth living.” - Jolt Netz
“ Humanities clock is ticking, man, and we're ripping the hands off the wire in an attempt to give ourselves more time; but all we're doing is making it impossible to know how much of it we have left. And if we keep it up, we'll have stolen all our time." - Jolt Netz
“ Hope is not oppressive, love is not a crime; but hate? That's a one way street ticket to soon to be damnation. “ - Hartvorth Devilsky
“ We can't let justice wither away with our bravery, let your voices be heard and your war cries rip through the clouds of Heaven. “ - Hartvorth Devilsky
“ Justice must be served by those whom use their voices not as a weapon, but as a gavel, as a way to sanctify the promises of mercy. “ - Hartvorth Devilsky
“ Long ago my mind went ablaze with scars of the holy and condemned, and like a forever twisting crescendo I danced until the music was no more and all I had was the tapping of my shoes against the blood of all I ever knew. “ - Porter Blackburn
“ Pain is but my motivation, it strikes a chisel against my bones until my ribs become a home for my black heart, the cobwebs and spiders dangling from the pieces of it I haven't used in many years. I hang skinny and aghast on the meat hook of my own salvation, blood dripping to the bucket filled with childhood tears and the fears that made me this mad beast I have become. “ - Porter Blackburn
“ I put the barrel of my shotgun against my identity and asked him to beg for his life, oh how he wept, how his tears tasted like the promises I broke. And as his final howl left the pale lit sky, BOOM! His brains splattered across my face and all the birds fled from the trees with caws of mournful vengeance against the man who killed his sense of self. Pieces of him still stick to my teeth and skin, reminding me of why, I am this way. “ - Porter Blackburn
“ One day I will stare the beast who swallowed me whole eye to eye, and we will sing our prayers with bullets and swords. “ - Porter Blackburn
“ I’m on the highway to Hell, boundin’ towards my damnation mile by mile. Each sign warns me to go back from where I came, but I've begun ta realize that no matter what I do, no matter how far I turn back; I'm gon' be back on that road when I die, so I might as well drag my feet 'cross the concrete and gravel, lettin' my demons knock loose my thick skull. “ - Nikolai Goodbread
“ I'm a shotgunnin' sunnuva bitch with a whiskey burning lip and broken wings on my back.” - Nikolai Goodbread
“ Look, when ya stared the crooked angel of the city eye ta fuckin' eye, you get this funny lil idea in your head that bein' an angel don't mean you're holy. I mean, damn brother, there's angels all around me and all of us got scars like tattoos on our backs. Just cause we're angels don' mean we're good men. There's scars where our wings resided, tattoos coverin' up our crimes like the grime on an old buildin' ever decayin'. I mean, take one good look inside my eyes and you'll see one helluva snarl, cuz I protect what I got, and I protect it good. “ - Nikolai Goodbread
“ Monsters. They stare at us in the reflection on the daily, in the ripples of the pond they are true, they are present. But we can not dwell on the monsters inside of us unless we wish to become them. “ - Morsvey Vitinbow
“ I've been hunting down the cruel of this world for a long time now, many a bullet have flew from my chamber, many a monster dropping dead at my boot as the smoke from my pipe wafts around the sky like a dusk lit promise sanctified. “ - Morsvey Vitinbow
“ We are lost without an equal balance of dark and light, and dare the scale tip in favor of one or the other we will fall like blinded angels in the sky of a thousand burning stars, our scars cutting deep into the skin of a war bound bastard that didn't know any better. “ - Morsvey Vitinbow
“ We are not fully dead until we are forgotten, and that is such a heavy burden to carry on my shoulders. I remember too many faces. Too many names. They're like tattoos aghast my skin, scars etched into my mind. A missing poster is just a piece of paper to many, but to me it is a ghost waiting to haunt the lonely detective who rips it from the pole." - Morsvey Vitinbow
“ Choices are difficult, often a little bit cumbersome and require some form of sacrifice, and that's the kind of thing that kills the indecisive man. I've lived my whole life afraid of change because I was taught as a kid that you gotta be the same man as your father, you build up that legacy of his and you get yourself a son who will do the same. But all I ever wanted to do was break the cycle. And I did, and thank God I did too. “ - Seymour Allaman
“ I'll give a big ol' fuck you to all the people who've taught me I'll fail, and a big ol' I love you to those who stuck by me." - Seymour Allaman
”We’re not perfect. So why do we set perfectionist expectations of ourselves? “ - Emnia Ruzit
“ Sometimes we have to let ourselves change so who we were meant to be rises, we're ashes waiting for the phoenix to become, so rise my love, rise! There's something beautiful about you waiting to show itself. “ - Emnia Ruzit
“ When all the money is gone, and the rivers have run dry, the poor will clamber to the rich men's doors and knock until we succumb. And like sewer rats they will tear apart our skin and flesh, revealing the wicked bones underneath the rich man's jacket of good deeds and morals he stole. And they will gorge on the very same sin that killed us. “ - Zachariah Stout
“ Is it a sin to try and forgive yourself past all the blood on your hands? Or will the poor hang me from the throat and stab nails into my palms and make a symbol out of me? “ - Zachariah Stout
“ Vines overgrew my conscience and everything I touched turned to gold, I was Midas, and I touched my heart praying it'd paint itself. “ - Zachariah Stout
“ ”I’m a bullet. But there’s no gunpowder in me.” - Merida Calico
“ Perhaps we're all just killers, waiting for time to consume as hungry as can be.” - Merida Calico
“ I swear I'm just the bullet that fires time and time again, but never against my own skin. No, I'm kept alive by the trigger of the family revolver. “ - Merida Calico
“ I was a good man, once. But ever since blood spilled and glass cracked I could'a sworn something inside of me changed, and god damn, he was me, huh?” - Ramo Bonewitz
“ That man was empty of emotions, bleeding them from me so he could feel something besides the hollowness in his heart. The only thing he'll feel is my rage as I shove a revolver against his throat and empty my damn chamber in his voice box.” - Ramo Bonewitz
“ He shoved a knife in my back and let it grow into a tapestry or garden in my spine.” - Ramo Bonewitz
“ I must ask, what is love but pain, persevering through the dark? What is pain, but love rewritten in a new light? “ - Gem Tentacoa
“Dreams are just that.” - Gem Tentacoa
“ I tap my fingers against an old typewriter and create a tapestry of my misery for all whom care to read and touch with decrepit fingers that mark my pain as poetry and prose on the paper of my hurt. “ - Bovako Stillsworth
“ In all my years of life, I've learned pain won't kill a man. But hope? That mother fucker is lethal. “ - Bovako Stillsworth
“Here I am, breathing. Maybe not living, but it is what it is.” - Bovako Stillsworth
“ We raise a glass of water to our pain and take a shot of it, but it stains our teeth red because somewhere along the line we let our scars bleed into our water supply and all we've got left is the hurt that made us ghosts of our own minds.” - Bovako Stillsworth
“ True strength is kindness and everythin' that makes life beautiful.” - Markino Ravine
“ Some people say true love is just a myth, humanity will never find what it don't ever wanna let go.” - Markino Ravine
“ The devil of docile delusions came for me, with ashen bone fingers and a mind that smelt like fire and sins he couldn't contain. That's the difference between him and I. Because I know what I'm doing, he's led by his delusions and I'm led by bloodlust and the idea that this insanity sets me free. “ - Bethy Angelice
“ Pain is an eternal ache on the body.” - Bethy Angelice
“ There will come a time when we have no ammunition left in which we can fight with, a time when war will be a matter of words and fists. And until that day I vow to lead the way to a new age that we can call our own. “ - Eugene Goodbread
“ I've lost a lot in this life, and if you think loss can be measured, let me tell you that it can't, because loss does not fill a cup of emotions. It does not overshadow other emotions either. It sticks beside anger, joy and sorrow. And all four fight for dominance over the mind. I've watched my sons get in trouble with the law, I've seen the regret in their eyes; I've seen my daughter go through the loss of a man she thought loved her and seen my granddaughters grow to become capable young women. And I'll still never be able to tell you what life means. “ - Eugene Goodbread
“ We're all human, but a fuck ton lot of us like to pretend we're not. “ - Eugene Goodbread
"My heart is a wonderland of horrors. It sits in my chest like a strobe light always flashing with a new bright color every time my buttons are pushed, I wouldn't advise making me angry! There's rage hidden behind this insanity, a monster somewhere ever lurking. I may appear innocent on the outside, just a passerby to Wonderland and all the horrors within; but I'm one of the beasts, here. “ - Izlita Scove
“ My brother and I, we were just two lost vagabonds looking for a world where someone would care about us. Skinny and starving we were, skinny and starving. Until an elegant man of the circus saw us lurking just outside the tents, looking at the circus acts with a certain sparkle in our eyes. And he saved us! He took us under his wing and told us what it was like to be mad, to be insane in the blink of a fear ridden eye. I had never gorged on so much since I was a girl at Thanksgiving, and he let me eat my worth in sin. “ - Izlita Scove
“ Pain was cumbersome, insanity was comforting. “ - Izlita Scove
“How many times can a man say it was for survival until it becomes murder?” - Kanvitz Anvellerson
“ I'd rather put a bullet in my skull then be brave.” - Kanvitz Anvellerson
“ This world operates on power and I've got none of it.” - Kanvitz Anvellerson
“ I can still taste the cocaine on my lip, or see it in the mirror right out in the open on my damn nose, I just didn't wanna accept that life was pain so I stepped right out of reality and into fantasy where it was all sugar plums and gum drops. But the fairies had teeth, and so they ripped my skin apart until I was screaming bloody murder in the open street, wondering if I was gonna make it out of the trip alive. “ - Bosko Hallramo
“ I trapped myself in an attempt to free myself. “ - Bosko Hallramo
“ I've contemplated suicide before, but this fucked up, wiry skeleton has become my body, and I've grown to fall in love with the way I self destruct. “ - Bosko Hallramo
“ I was just a heroine ghost sipping on everything that made me feel calm, I swore I wouldn't get addicted... it was just once to deal with the memories of it all. But then I kept coming back to it like a lover in the sheets I swore I would never go back to, and so I tangled myself in the sheets of addiction and kissed everything I never should've been with loving lips that began to taste of something foul. “ - Remanna Heartfull
“ I'm just a drunk fool looking for her mind amidst the crowd, knowing that it would never wave me hello if it saw this, cold, bitter woman I've become. “ - Remanna Heartfull
"My skull is an empty vessel in which my cruelty lives. It knocks on my mind like a salesman looking for trouble, and here I am with a pen ready to sign with the blood of my enemies. “ - Markston Valentine
“ I just really enjoy violence, it's a hobby I've mastered, hell one might even call me the next Picasso, but I sure ain't painting in blue, brother. “ - Markston Valentine
“ I'm a trespasser in this universe, and you sure best hope you kill me good with your first shot. “ - Markston Valentine
“ Peace won't be gained unless humanity makes peace with itself. “ - Ketlia Doolwaine
“ I think we cling much too tightly to identities we know will change. “ - Hezinta Hearval
“ I remember when I met my wife, my best friend dared me to walk up to her at a party as she played beer pong, and I was scared too, truthfully. But look at how it turned out, she's my beautiful angel and I'd have it no other way. Even if I tripped over some guy's leg and fell on the table, beer splashing all over my button up as she howled with laughter and the jock curled his fist in rage. It was a beautiful mess as she'd like to put it. That night was chaos, it was crazy. But it was the first step towards recovery. “ - Harmen Pocketfiez
“ We're born to believe we have to earn our identity, but I think we always, even in secret know who we are. “ - Harmen Pocketfiez
“ I'll never understand why man kind chooses to kill, to maim, to bastardize and condemn until we're no longer recognized as the human race. “ - Devon Caviezel
“ We're all turning to salt because we dared to search our past for answers, so we turned our backs to the future and crumbled like ancient towers torn asunder by an angry God as we spoke new languages we could never come to understand. “ - Devon Caviezel
“ Karma deeply misunderstands humanity. “ - Devon Caviezel
“ We're not violent at heart but at mind.” - Devon Caviezel
“ My family took me home when I forgot where it was.” - Carmisaina Workshift
“ Love is a double edged sword and I can't bare to make a choice." - Carmisaina Workshift
"My shadow left me decaying in the dark crevices of my soul. It took one look at the blood on my lip and ran for cover, wondering what I had become as flesh touched my teeth and tasted like salvation on the tip of my tongue. “ - Macury Adamson
“ There's questions in the water, my friend, and they're all red. “ - Macury Adamson
“ I told him I would be his forever, I just wish forever could've lasted longer. “ - Carmiala Varzenfell
“ I am a pirouette in the dark, dancing like a pale lit monster in the flickers of light that reveal the teeth in my smile and the truth in my death. “ - Mizella Shrew
“ My childhood was nothing but a single memory repeated time and time again. You might know her by many names. Pain. Trauma. Beauty. Lust. They are all walking on a single line, balancing amongst each other until they become one in the same. “ - Mizella Shrew
“ I have faced a thousand deaths in this lifetime, and I will face a thousand more.” - Mizella Shrew
“ Too many romanticize pain. “ - Hermione Vallwing
“ I could've sworn there was something beautiful inside of me once upon a time, as I met the kids of the theater underneath spotlights and told myself, "You're gonna make it girl, you're gonna make it." And I did, oh how I danced on the stage and played make believe in front of those who held belief that reality could be stretched for the dreams we may reach. But the spotlight shown amidst the crowd to reveal the man who filled the room with terror, nothing at all hiding behind his eyes. Nothing but the abyss in which he'd make of my heart. “ - Hermione Vallwing
“ Sometimes, we're born into a world that doesn't want us. “ - Kezia Galway
“ We need to accept all of us, or we're never truly going to accept ourselves. “ - Wyvettia Bloodstallia
“ I can't let forever be a standpoint in time, it's oughta be the whole clock.” - Pompeya Heartsworth
“ We're human beings, mate. And that's why we oughta stand tall. “ - Pompeya Heartsworth
“ I dance like a witch at the flame, twilight sparks of my lovely figure corrupting the essence of purity as my lips taste like the madness that made the key into a cell. Didn't you know I'm just Eve, luring Adam to Abel's fate? “ - Belle Nalroma
“ This is the purest form of control I have. And as my fingers dance against another man's cheeks, and my skin touches his I know that this siren of the night is what I am. My cold hands lap against his chest, my darkness echoes in his mind as my lips search his memories for something to break. And I give him that little push forward until he too, falls as I did. I can't help but laugh at the way the angels fall for the Devil's trickery, it's so foolish to love what death has touched a thousand times. He's tasted me too. He loves me too. Death fell head over heels for me the day I tucked myself into my bed and hid from the monsters I knew by name. And I, fell head over heels for the control I ripped from the beasts." - Belle Nalroma
“ The pale white bull stares at me with eyes malicious and filled with promises of a death fated much too early, but he can't see the resolve in my bones because it's a feeling. A sensation one can hide. “ - Varine Stillbrink
“ You know how it is, you think that you'll make it through the struggle, but a part of you dies in the past and can't be reclaimed in the future. So you trek on with a heart of very little value and wonder what all this blood on your hands is worth. I know that it was for survival, but even that becomes damning at some point, right? “ - Eva Westfall
“ The glass eyes of Heaven stare down at me with some sort of sorrow that burns in the torches light.” - Wes Smykens
“ I don't hate my family, I truthfully don't. Cause I used to be just like them. But life stretched me out like an over-worn sweater as the moths ate away at my cloth and cotton until I was just a reflection of the memories lived through. “ - Wes Smykens
“ I want to capture peace in a bottle and keep it for all the times I feel like pain is eternal. Because peace is a sip from the stream away." - Wes Smykens
“ Shadows are smothering, sugar, don't let them take the breath from your lungs as they kiss you on the lips if only to trick you into a false sense of security. “ - Ekalo Brutevit
“ Survival is so skewed, it punctures the hearts of those who adhere to its motives but caters to he who watches the other survivors fall victim to the hungry teeth of time and flesh cut much too early. “ - Ekalo Brutevit
“ We're all monsters in some capacity, but some of us learn how to be human.” - Ekalo Brutevit
“ The way I see it some of us don't want to accept reality as it is, so we give ourselves substitutes that don't do much but warp our sense of what's real and what's fictitious. “ - Ekalo Brutevit
“ One seeming inconsequential choice can lead to some pretty fucked up shit, take it from a woman who shook the hand of a patriot only to watch American flags burn in his eyes as he struck the world like a hurricane, ripping apart homes and lives as if they were collateral damage. “ - Delana Whinrich
“ When faced with the odds keep a calm and calculated face and pretend for three incredible seconds that you're brave, the adrenaline will do the rest of it for you.” - Delana Whinrich
“ All my life I've been looking for an escape from it, something to mask all the pain inside of me until it would just.. disappear. But I learned the hard way that pain manifests into something much, much worse. And so it becomes sort of like, death, in a sense. “ - Rain Morvosina
“ I can still taste the white powder on the tip of my tongue, the sweet nicotine flowing in my veins as reality became aloof and fantasy danced with me underneath my delusions that this would make it all the better. But it doesn't, it never does. You become a drug hazed ghost waiting for her next fucking hit, and it kills you. It beats you until everyone you know can't recognize you anymore. And you become so unfamiliar to yourself that you can't even recognize the girl in the mirror, she's a stranger. Those tired bloodshot eyes can't be yours. Those brittle, frail fingers can't belong to you. That raspy, ghost like voice can't be tumbling from your lip. But it is, you. And that's what fucking sucks. No matter how many times you try, you can never be anybody but you. And that's why I weep at night, that's why I claw at my skin until blood shows, because I don't like myself. I really fucking don't. I never have, and I don't think I ever will. “ - Rain Morvosina
“ I carved away the skin of who I am a long time ago, cast my exoskeleton into the flames and watched the boy I was howl as his skin scalded and bruised. Bury who you are they say. Watch him die. It is a necessary step forward to change. “ - Mekivalla Brimsburn
“ We're all liars feasting on half truths until we think we're full. But we never are, are we? “ - Mekivalla Brimsburn
“ You suffocate on the bad because you've known the good for much too long. “ - Mekivalla Brimsburn
“ We're not one definition but far too many, and so we take a path of several roads and wonder why we're lost." - Mekivalla Brimsburn
“ These miles are our own. These destinies are controlled by us. Never let someone tell you fate is a predetermined road, after all life is consequential and led by our actions. There's no plan set in stone, there's nothing stopping you from living except for your own perversions of a reality sold to you by the powerful." - Enessa Mimo
“ Sometimes we gotta accept our fear but still do the right thing.” - Kemi Backwallow
“ I'll never understand why fate spares those undeserving. “ - Darvin Vorstem
“ There's no escaping the war. Soon as you step foot in the battlefield you're a new man, nothing more than a killer dressed in patriotic intentions and fear, and as I pulled that trigger; the mud splashed with crimson, both the man I killed and who I am died as his head hit the puddle of blood and muddied rain water. “ - Darvin Vorstem
“ I tricked the world, but god damn I just couldn't fool myself. “ - Darvin Vorstem
“ Without our experiences who are we really? Without our memories what would we be? Without family, found or began with, who do you think we'd become? “ - Starmina Galwots
“ To find our who we are we gotta experience being who we're not, that's just how it works.” - Starmina Galwots
“ I mean, ya think life is gonna be simple. You go to school five days a week and go home, maybe going to some parties and meet some chicks who might like ya, but then everything starts to fall apart and all ya can do is watch with pain tinted eyes and realize that nobody gives a fuck about you. Nobody ever did. “ - Rodger Jabdull
“ Love is just an open and shut case brother.” - Rodger Jabdull
“ I used to be the good guy, what the fuck happened to me man? The night sky exploded in front of my eyes, and as the stars rained down heavenly against my skin scars were scalded into my heart until the darkness between the stars etched themselves into my blood. “ - Maximus Dante
“ I've got free will and this is what I've chosen to do with it. “ - Maximus Dante
“ There is a difference in loyalty and blindness. “ - Vialdir
“ Water will cleanse your hands but not your mind. “ - Sasha Wayward
“ Every time I look in the ripples of the pond I wish I could rip my spear through the flesh of the beast that looks at me with distorted eyes. But it's only ever droplets of water and fish I catch on the end of my spear. “ - Sasha Wayward
“ I didn't mean to become this survivor of guilty heart and bloodstained mind, but I pulled back the string of my bow and let it soar towards my reflection. And I watched as I clutched a ruined throat and try desperately to rip the arrow from my throat. But it's no use. Who I am was murdered, and I hold the weapon of death in my calloused and bruised up hands." - Sasha Wayward
“ When offered power or humanity walk the path sadly seldom taken.” - Esterly Hellsworth
“ A blackbird swung down to my level and whispered in my ear all of the sins I would commit, and it was on that cold night that I let my white feathers twist dark, my heart fall away from itself until all that remained in my ribcage was a violent little melody that told the tale of the boy who died near the bridge of the forest, blood and freedom sputtering from his throat as he became one with the blackbirds. “ - Stringer Taztallo
“ You could live while decaying; but you could never survive. “ - Stringer Taztallo
“ We all have a beginning, we all have a middle and end; but some of us live beyond this final stage, some of us crawl away from our skin and bone, becoming someone else on this journey of nowhere and nothing in particular. “ - Stringer Taztallo
“ Men like me just wanted to feel something again as the blackbirds and crocodiles of violence gathered around them in the swamp; and so the crows pecked at my eyes until I could see again, the crocodiles ripped at my bones until I could feel my heart beat again, and the snakes injected the venom of wickedness into me as they bit into my throat. And all of me died. But all of me began to rise different. “ - Stringer Taztallo
“ All my dreams have died in the lights of my nightmares.” - Samina Gelbrook
“ My little band of vagabonds left town wingless and broken as our families tried to piece together what happened to their precious little babies, all we are became dark. Who we are began to change, and so we took a new path that would allow us to breathe free and open, but you know how secrets work, right? They always follow you. So I down another shot of black waters and let my lungs sputter up my breath as my heart breathes its last red beat. And who I am becomes a twisted, blackened star, as though I was never meant to radiate light off of my walls. “ - Samina Gelbrook
“ I remember the first time I met him, just a lonely kid trying to sell some drugs so her mama would be okay again. But as he walked in I felt a dangerous presence in the room, as though the bigger dog had just sniffed the blood in my tears, and he shoved cocaine and needles into my arms and barked at me to get to work. And I became something I couldn't stand, became my demons as the immigrant dogs took their war to my hometown. “ - Azvina Strovel
“ I swear, as I looked that God in the eyes all I saw was rage and murder swimming like dollar signs in his pupils. “ - Azvina Strovel
“ Not all fights are fought with fists, some are fought with words, others with guns and tanks, and sometimes they're fought in the silence of a mind roaring with the truth. Above all else, a fight is something that forces you to keep your bones held up if only to roll with the punches destiny throws your way. “ - Shanita Heiser
“ Sometimes you have to take justice into your own damn hands. It ain't pretty, but it's sure as shit necessary. “ - Annawillow Glass
“ I didn't ask for all this hell, but no matter what I stand upright and fight, because I have a daughter to look after, a baby girl to keep safe from all the horrors of this world, and I don't intend to let her go. All I ever wanted her to have was a mother who could be there for her, who could take her to the park and see the ducks and the flowers. But it took a long time to get that because of another man's actions, and I'll never be able to get those years back with her that I lost. My mother's saw her first footsteps, my brother heard her first words, but those memories aren't mine, and it fucking hurts. But I won't take this time I do have with her for granted, because I need to be her hero, I need, to be her mother. “ - Annawillow Glass
“ We're just vessels that repeat our ancestors memories, bleeding the way they bled. Dyin' the way they died. “ - Arnie Boardman
“ Ya can't fight for change and reject it soon as it confronts ya.” - Arnie Boardman
“ To the city of sin and gamblers I went to find my glimmer in the sparkling lights, but everything I thought I'd become crumbled as that bastard of a man cut pieces of me away with phrases and razor fitted cards. He was just a howling monster hiding underneath his riches, and as he ripped me apart I wondered if this is what it felt like, to lose your dreams while you're still young. But that's exactly what I did. “ - Jemina Kovacks
“ I bled on the stage as the man with the scarred eye clapped and cheered for the bastards who cut me from every side and he told me that this is what it felt like to become someone worth being. First you have to kill your dreams. Then you have to let your demons kill you. “ - Jemina Kovacks
“ As I've come to learn they're thankful for our sins; but not for us, they congratulate us for the triggers we pulled and condemn us for the ones we didn't. “ - Valkrane Pernotte
“ War is the forever moving prison, drifting with the soldier as he searches desperately for a key." - Valkrane Pernotte
“ Us strongmen are perceived as the toughest of the tough, strongest of the strong, manliest of the manliest; but deep inside a sorrow blossoms and all I can see is the way my identity rots under old floorboards and mad men's laughter from just across the dining room, where they sit with knives and forks to pull away at the secrets in me until all I am is revealed like a well written book. And that's all I am ta them, a fucking story to be told, a tall tale to write again and again until I'm bloodied and bastardized, choking on all the desires that made me who I am. “ - Cordaroy Vakstin
“ You never suspect the soft and supple hands to wield claws, the kind voice soaked in the pain of insanity to be a siren's song in disguise. But that bastard pulled me under the waves, and I choked on saltwater and false promises until I drowned in what I thought was true. “ - Cordaroy Vakstin
“ All I ever wanted to do was make sure my little brother had someone to run to when the weight of the world crashed down on his shoulders, but I bare so much weight that I fear these brittle bones will collapse if I take one more step forward with these burdens against my crooked spine. “ - Tiara Schello
“ My brother and I are just two wandering ghosts of a world that asks the hind sighted to stay forever blind to the truth, but we drag these truths from the closet. Sometimes we beat the monsters over the head or put a round of lead through their skulls to give peace to the people they've hurt, but in the end we don't know the meaning of the word peace. It never sat at the edge of our tongues, it never kissed us in the night; for all I know peace left us in tangled sheets and told us to go into the night for her, she had other people to attend to. Other people to love. And so we let her drift away like a long lost lover on the wind; and still we keep her picture framed in our ghost like hearts. For we were head over heels for peace; but we had to choose a path in the divergence, and we chose to give the gift of peace to others. “ - Ozbey Crocker
“ Who I am and who I could've been are so achingly different.” - Ozbey Crocker
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virovac · 3 years
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Heroes with villain-like character coding
This after reading some old comics where heroic characters complained that they hated being challenged in fights and not dominating.
And...that’s interesting. You could easily have a character that could come off as a bully, but if you do it carefully it can be they just have felt weak or helpess before and never want to feel that way again, nor do they want anyone but those who prey on others to have those feelings.
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burtonsdoodles · 4 years
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Kaz
Of all the characters I’d say Kaz is the one who is given the least amount of development - he’s given little to no personal growth at all really. Other than a brief stint being the serious one in the first episode - he just remains the same old easygoing Kaz he was in Might Med - with seemingly no worries nor cares - just enjoying life as it comes. This stays the case throughout most of the series - that is all except in the episode ‘The Superhero Code’ when we meet his little brother Kyle.
It’s really interesting to see him in this episode as he shows a side I don’t think he’s ever shown in either series - and that’s his vulnerability. It’s seen from the very beginning in the opening scene - Bree asks if he’s showered and he replies (not very enthusiastically), “Yeah I had to. My younger brother Kyle’s coming to visit.” Immediately he is presented in a state that he usually wouldn’t be bothered about being - clean - yes he follows up with a comment about his pen exploding in his face which you would obviously wash off - but it still highlights that he cares about the impression he makes on his brother’s arrival. He doesn’t want to make a fool of himself as he really wants to establish that bond he’s never been able to make. He is uncomfortable being his true self in front of Kyle. Suddenly all the confidence he showed in annoying Megahertz and infiltrating Mighty Max Prison is gone and he becomes doubtful of himself - believing the only way to be cool is to be different.
This doubt is strengthened with the realisation that the visit was to in fact meet Bree and Chase - the bionic people - and not him at all. Suddenly, he sees himself as the fool he didn’t want to be, all because he was wrong for believing that Kyle was missing him. This clearly hurts Kaz and leads him to think that he must be powered like them to be finally accepted and liked by this person who has no respect or interest in him.
To have powers is to be cool - an idea he can actually fill - however, because of the superhero code he is sworn to keep that aspect of his life a secret, meaning he must forge another false self to hide behind. With each identity he puts on, a bit more of his true self is buried away - leading him to lose the security of what makes him him. Quickly the episode manages to break down those foundations that kept him feeling in control and pushed him to the point of wanting to escape the very place he called home - to remove himself and Kyle from the ever worsening situation and get away from the people who were supposed to be his friends.
His need to escape heightens his anxiety and pushes him to find ways of seeming more interesting than Bree and Chase without revealing his powers - which leads to the tour. However, this immediately goes wrong when Chase joins them - at Kyles request - and allows his own desires for admiration to fuel his actions instead of allowing Kaz the space he needs to bond with his brother. Chase’s ignorance shows a lack of support and forces Kaz to find more ways of looking better - resulting in his weekend of having fun with his brother, becoming a petty competition against Chase - who has no idea how insensitive he’s being.
I love the moment where Kaz actually confronts him, as it isn’t over done in any way or turned into a massive confrontation which leads them to a super competetive fight over Kyle, or even played for jokes (like most things in this show). It’s straight and to the point. Kaz never breaks from being serious which amplifies his emotional state in the moment, he’s frustrated and wants a bit of respect from his friend - which is totally understandable. For me the most powerful emotional moments come from when the goofball character is being serious, because that is when you know the matter is no joke - when your joker isn’t even laughing - it strengthens the moment and is helped by Chase understanding and complying with his wishes.
Kaz finally has the freedom to spend some family time with his brother, however the damage has been done and Kyle is able to play off his siblings insecurities in order to manipulate him into doing things he definitely shouldn’t - like going into the unauthorised areas. You can see Kaz genuinely try to move out of the area knowing that it is wrong for them to be in there - he does show moments of being responsible for Kyle’s safety - but it’s his insecurity which ultimately dictates his judgment. Kyle definitely knows how to get what he wants from people - even bragging that he knows how to work their parents to get the race car bed Kaz never got as a kid.
With this episode we are presented a deeper look at a side of Kaz which we don’t get enough of, it highlights how sometimes the hardest people you can face and be normal around is family. The fear of not being ‘right’ can take over and make you doubt yourself, and when you doubt yourself you lose all sense of control - which makes you vulnerable. Kaz opened himself up to manipulation because he let his insecurities cloud his judgment. Rather than believe he can be as good as Chase in his own eyes, he allowed Kyle to do something stupid - as a means of proving himself better - which lead to Chase getting hurt, his bother almost getting killed and him revealing his powers. All things that ain’t that great.
I think the main takeaway with this Kaz storyline, is that you should find the self that you are comfortable with and believe in it, rather than constantly changing to satisfy the views of others. After all, the only person who truly has to live with it everyday is you. Understanding your true self can really help to find balance and control in our day to day life - which is something we should all strive to achieve - for our own piece of mind.
(Quick side note - I haven’t gone into the whole Kyle finally accepting Kaz stuff because the way I see it is, the whole episode is about teaching Kaz that he doesn’t need to be a superhero to bond with his brother - yet Kyle’s acceptance still only comes after thinking Kaz is also bionic - he even says it would be cooler if you were a superhero. And in my mind that just defeats the point of the episode.)
Anyway, that’s the first one done - I honestly didn’t think I had anything to say on Kaz but apparently I founds something. I think the next one is going to be Skylar, though that will probably be shorter as her instances with insecurity aren’t as prominent as the others. We’ll see what happens.
There’s more to come...
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mrsunderhill678 · 3 years
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An interaction between two of my characters
Roan: "We, we was young, Clayborne!"
Clayborne: He cracks a bulldog grin, "And I hold a grudge."
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#CharacterDevelopment #writing "It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth." George Orwell, 1984 Whether you're writing a antagonist or protagonist it's good to keep in mind that internally your character will always be fighting something. Like I said in my previous post conflict it's not just two people struggling for different goals but the changing of emotional values as the characters are challenged and what they perceive to be real or good. Every aspect of our consciousness is being challenged in some way all the time. A character can be motivated or hamstrung by the most grandiose of ideas or the smallest shift of perception. How they respond to it is a mark of their own integrity or lack thereof. #CharacterWriting #Psychology #HumanNature #UsefulIdiots #OneRingToRuleThemAll #Writing #StandAgainstMarxism #GeorgeOrwell #1984 #RayBradbury #Fahrenheit451 #CarlJung #RedBook #Conflict https://www.instagram.com/p/CDH-SuAFh4r/?igshid=igmtl6mhl2tn
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Arjun Saluja from ZNMD is a character we all could relate to at some point or the other. He is suave, sexy and a huge bundle of mess!⁣ ⁣ So, let’s analyse Arjun’s character from a writer’s perspective.✍️⁣ ⁣ Here’s a summary of what the audience initially finds out about him-⁣ ⁣ 🔸he lives in a wonderful apartment ⁣ 🔸owns a Ferrari⁣ 🔸has an exceptionally high-paying job⁣ ⁣ And here are some questions which arise in their minds-🤔 ⁣ ⁣ ➡️why does he live alone?⁣ ⁣ ➡️why doesn’t he give time to people?⁣ ⁣ ➡️why does he run after money?⁣ ⁣ The trick with this character was to make him relatable to the audience.⁣ ⁣ Initially showcasing how amazing his life appears from a bird’s view;⁣ ⁣ ✔️his perfect job with a hefty pay cheque and his ability to gain all materialistic possessions he desires. ⁣ ⁣ And then, once the plot proceeds...⁣ ⁣ ✖️ the façade is peeled off layer by layer to bring out the hollow truth of his life.⁣ ⁣ This type of character peeling pops out the essence of the character’s internal struggle which readers don’t realize at first.⁣ ⁣ Once they feel accustomed to the character’s traits, it becomes thrilling to know their backstory and understand why they are the way they are.⁣ ⁣ I have tried to decode it in this detailed breakdown of Arjun’s character.💯⁣ ⁣ Swipe to read through my analysis and share your views in comments below👇 Also, tell me which other movie or book characters would you want me to analyse? ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Follow @srishti.msr for more character breakdowns, plot analysis, writing tips and reading tricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #characteraesthetic #charcteranalysis #bookcharacter #bookcharacters #characterdescription #characterwriting #charcterdevelopment #moviecharacter #moviecharacters #tvshowcharacter #writingcoach #fictionwriting #fictionwriters #writingprocess #newauthors #writingadvice https://www.instagram.com/p/CB2y9icpUS1/?igshid=qwquiz67x893
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crowy26 · 4 years
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Would like some help in naming a fox pet character for a story I'm writing. Check my stories or answer below! If you would like to check out future writings check out my Patreon page Patreon| creating podcasts and writing stories: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=23929748 #Stories #writers #writerslife #help #writinghelp #ideas #foxes #animals #storywriting #story #writersofinstagram #writer #writerscommunity #sendhelp #writinghelp #ideahelp #concept #concepthelp #characters #characterwriting #writingcharacters Im also the host and producer of Crowy26’s The Crows Nest Podcast https://soundcloud.com/crowy26scrowsnestpodcast And you can find my merch here! https://www.redbubble.com/people/crowy26/portfolio https://www.instagram.com/p/B9cnHC3HggF/?igshid=1gkh9dw22tok8
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(via Names Are Everything - Open Book Blog Hop #325)
Names Are Everything #OpenBookBlogHop No. 325 - “How do you come up with the names for your characters?” https://authorkwilliams.com/2022/05/names-are-everything-open-book-blog-hop-325/ #characterdesign #characterwriting #writing #names #research #WritingCommunity
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thelordstears · 3 years
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I wrote some more, because I, am an addict
“ In this world I've met some sorrowed souls, one of 'em stands in my mind like a candle, flickerin' lights of his mercy dyin' in my heart, and as he stares me down with madness filled eyes and a heart sick 'a trouble and decay, will he gun an old friend down all for vengeance on the man who broke all 'a us? “ - Quint Sanfield
“ I'm just an outcast lookin' for his heart, and as I travel this strange and mysterious land, I must wonder if my heart lays underneath foreign soils, cause as I dig my hands inta the soil of my hurt, I don't find anything but trouble and the decaying corpse of me. “ - Quint Sanfield
“ I'll keep on keepin' on like a sorrowed ghost train, findin' passengers along the railroad of my heart, and, maybe findin' a couple more people like me. People who understand the depths of secrets and trouble, perhaps I can be a lil less transparent with people who understand me, with people who also know what death tastes like on their heart." - Quint Sanfield
"If God loves all, does he look at the sinner who bleeds the river red with a gentle and forgiving smile? I can't help but wonder if he looks at me with something sorrowful swimming in his ethereal eyes, because as I tremble under a cruel man's trigger, I stain the river of my heart with unholy colors and sinful strokes of a brush.” - Jonah Worthshein
“ I met a man with death and cruelty lurking like ticking time bombs in his heart, and as he struck me down with his cane of trouble and told me to weep the mercy from my eyes, I succumbed. “ - Jonah Worthshein
“ There's pain beating inside my heart, and I know there always will be, because my hero, he's gone, and somedays I don't know how to go on without him. He was my brother, and as he became nothing but a missing poster in my mind, I wondered what I would do with his tattered cape. Somedays I hold it close to my chest and weep into it, for it holds questions I'll never find the answers too. But whenever that pain comes crashing down on me, my daughter picks me right up and tells me that I'm her hero, and I always will be. “ - Faymeline Borealis
“ My friend, I am insanity in an unwell mind, bursting with colors that shouldn't exist.” - Burns Mataugh
“ We are pioneers of madness following our Queen through the echoes of the night, for she saved us from the slow and insidious killer that is sanity. She stands tall and lean like a madness filled revolver, and as she kills peace, you must know its grave has been long overdue. “ - Burns Mataugh
“ The tranquility of succumbing to your beastly nature is like no other feeling I have ever felt, and as I stand here like an ill begotten question, sipping on a stream of crimson stained melodies and secrets, I know I would never yearn to be the sheep again. “ - Burns Mataugh
“ I once asked the world who it wanted me to be, and as I sat at the stream, madness seeping through my veins, I saw the reflection of God in the lake, and to me, he looked like a lonesome beast of sorrow." - Burns Mataugh
“ I'm just a washed up and broken dream wondering why all his childhood wonder turned into nightmares, stars imploding in his mind, cause damn, it's just a galaxy colored the shade of the nebula. “ - Brooke Bermgeir
“ They're always like, oh, you gotta be a boy, you gotta be a girl, but fuck that, I wanna be myself. “ - Skyler Syndicate
“ My families memory is like a cigarette against my lip, because all it does nowadays is kill me slowly with things I'll never have again. “ - Connie Averfollow
“ My mind is a panic room, the walls are etched in names I never wanna forget and faces I'll always miss, and as I cower in the corner my darkest fears come for me with eyes I used to see everyday, her eyes haunt me, her smiles have become a graveyard in my haunted little heart. And as I sink into my blankets and smoke another cigarette I pray that life will give me my lover's fate as my head hits the pillow." - Connie Averfollow
“ I don't know how humanity managed to become an enemy to itself, but damn, ain't it a shame we're losing the fucking war?" - Larry Devendra
“ People are always tellin' me I'm digging my own damn grave, but don't they realize it ain't my name etched on the stone?” - Zane Harrenburrow
“ It's kill or be killed these days, and regretfully I still breathe. “ - Rolft Van Gaver
“ I just wanna live despite the death in me." - Rolft Van Gaver
“ I, am where dreams go to die my friend.” - Moores Thomas
“ I'm a sinful bastard with a heart rotted bared on his extravagant sleeve, do you think a heart could possibly survive madness? It rotted, withered and decayed as I sputtered up blinding red lights and salvation.” - Moores Thomas
“ You'll live, but you won't survive. “ - Moores Thomas
“ Sometimes, we just gotta raise our fists instead of our white flag.” - Hunter Shallows
“ There's a garden 'a decay in my mind, two roses standin' tall, but all the others 'ave become black petaled ghosts, but I visit that garden if only ta see my roses still painted red. “ - Saria Romiro
“ We've both seen Hell in the eyes of people who were supposed to love us, but we found Heaven in each other's love. “ - Riell Romiro
“ I try my best, to stand tall, but somedays I'm struck down by the sorrow I feel and I can hardly reach the other side of paradise. Because in truth, my son's ghost still haunts me. He's in the corners of my memory, asking me why I didn't find him, and I give a regretful smile and say I tried my best. “ - Riell Romiro
“ I have met darkness in the eyes of a banshee, standing tall over me like a shadow that shrieks into my broken mind that I won't make it out of this darkness alive. But I take a fragile step forward and fix my little bowtie, knowing that the cruelty I've met is not me, but rather what I have seen. “ - Harlem Peixoto
“ These secrets in me hide deep within my cracked ribcage, nesting, waiting to blossom like a rose grenade, the shrapnel of lies and shadow splitting my heart in two. “ - Harlem Peixoto
“ My hands are stained in mystery, and as my mind brews up questions like it were some witches cauldron full of answers, I get to wondering how many of the people I searched for are still out there. “ - Harlem Peixoto
“ At some point, life presents you with a fork in the road, and which path you take determines who you'll be, one path leads to who you're supposed to be, kind, gentle, whole in some beautiful way, but the other path gives you things, but it also corrupts your heart and turns you into a wicked beast with cruelty living deep inside his troubled heart. Be careful when hate and cruelty whispers in your ear that you do not become these things. “ - Solomon Bones
“ My brother has always had my back, man. He's been there for me, he's kind of, my hero, ya know? He doesn't wear a cape fluttering in the breeze and he doesn't have laser eyes, he has burdens, he has scars, but most importantly, he has a kind heart. And that's what makes a hero in this broken world. “ - Solmon Bones
“ They've both seen the Hell of war, it drips down the notches 'a their spines and whispers lies inta their hearts, cause mate, war never leaves the innocent soul be. It's a beast draped in crimson, fur drippin' with innocence and forgotten men lyin' in freshly dug graves. When it smiles, ya see it's rifle fangs and bullet tongue, and as it charges, it leaves all soldier's ghosts 'a who they were. “ - Fallows Diamond
“ Mate, I've seen death in the shadows 'a graves that neva' shoulda been, I seen cruelty lyin' in the eye of a man with venom drippin' from the corner 'a his eyes. 'E was a slitherin' serpent in the garden 'a my mercy, firin' bullets inta me peace and askin' it ta bleed for all he'd done. And so, with regret, I say there ain't no peace in me heart. “ - Fallows Diamond
“ She stands in my mind like a howling regret, scratching at the confines of my skull to escape my memory, because she was my fuckin' hero, man. “ - Tristy Alden
“ I can still remember Sasha's gentle eyes, her heart worn on a cotton sleeved sweater, her heart beat was a melody I could listen too forever. I know sometimes I made it a struggle to love me, but no matter what, she was always.. there for me, and sometimes I wonder if I fucked it up. I hope she knows that I love her, even if we've been separated because of life's trickery and deceit. “ - Debrah Sabbatino
“ If you look at the pages of a history book you'll find me, stained in the bloodied ink, etched into the stones of war and cruelty. “ - Veltrexen
“ I have watched the kind fall through the scorching skies as people clapped and cheered for the death of the good hearted rabbits. And as I pull a top hat from the back room, I look for rabbits inside but I'm always pulling my sins from a hat and wondering if the innocence has left me behind in the dust of my cruelty. “ - Ellsworth Davis
“ I was just a girl looking for trouble in the ashen cigarette and love with a boy who wouldn't remember my name next Summer. “ - Carrie Hackenwood
“ I am not crazy, I would not quite put it that way. I am mad, I am twisted, I am broken, some extant form of Wyatt Demouchett. From the corners of my cracked ribcage, a beast started to roam, and ever so slowly he tore pieces from my heart to eat from, for a starving heart will always find itself in the maw of the ribcage.” - Wyatt Demouchett
“ My mind is a prison of thoughts and memories, and as I try and rip myself away from the confines of my skull I realize I can never rip this mind from me, for if I were to do such a thing, I would die in an empty prison cell. “ - Wyatt Demouchett
“ I am scalded flesh upon the battlefield, rusted bones in the grave of a boy I no longer am. “ - Wyatt Demouchett
“ If ya look deep inside my eyes you'll find little reflection 'a who I ain't creepin' about, little sorrows in the corners of my pupils, sitting there like dogs starvin' on a chain. “ - Sandro Colorfeid
“ Ya know, people are always saying I'm a hero, I saved so many god damn lives, but the way I see it, there's too many I didn't save to be considered any sort of hero. I sit here in the silence of my mind, sparking up cigarettes and memories, wondering how many bastards and cheats went right under my damn sniffer. Maybe a hundred, maybe only two, but even two bad men out in the wild can make a difference, huh? “ - Sandro Colorfeid
“ I'm starving bones looking for a grave that ain't never been dug wondering if this lonesome ghost is all I can ever be. “ - Sandro Colorfeid
"Humanity lost its fight against evil the day they gave it a name. “ - Zalrifear Dellrick
“ I am no longer tethered to humanity.” - Zalrifear Dellrick
“ I'm a crimson fucking bullet soaring towards all who wronged me and all who didn't, I'm insanity flying on wings of wax and loss. “ - Harvin Scoviney
“ The sane man just don't survive the insane one's wrath.” - Harvin Scoviney
“ I'm living like a landmine, whosoever steps on me is gonna feel that shrapnel dig into their fragile skin, and trust me, the sight won't be so pretty. “ - Harvin Scoviney
“ I'm a ticking time bomb and you best hope you ain't near me when I burst, cuz when I do, it's gonna be an explosion of broken bones and bloodied faces strewn about the concrete of my fucking rage. “ - Harvin Scoviney
“ Ya can yell for the boy I was, but he's buried in a pinewood box and brother, he's just charred bones in a casket. “ - Harvin Scoviney
“ Don't say I don' got what it takes to make it in this life without knowin' my damn past. “ - Carolann Tresparo
“ I'm old, I've seen just 'bout every sorrow there is ta see in this broken man's land, and as I spark up another old cigarette, smokin' away my lifespan with sparks in my dusty ribcage I getsa wonderin' when this ol' man will finally find himself a bit of peace. “ - Rayburn Manski
“ Ya know how it is, ya break a couple times, ya fall from yourself and wonder who the hell ya's sposed ta be, but eventually ya find the peace ya seek. But I'm different. I'm just a gambling man with his wicked little heart worn on a broken sleeve, wondering if these casino chips and blinding lights is all he could ever be. In truth, I don't know me, just who I used ta be. “ - Rayburn Manski
“ Don't pray for me, I don' missed out on every opportunity ta confess, I'm just sittin' on this old bench with a cigarette on my lip, smoke driftin' around me as I ponder on where I'll go when I die. “ - Rayburn Manski
“ I'm a ghost of who God wanted me to be.” - Hayton Mathers
“ Do you ever feel like, maybe you're a promise that's been broken by the Gods? They vowed to love you, vowed to be by your side, but life washed on by and scattered your pieces into the sand, so much so that they could no longer find who you were supposed to be? “ - Else Serafin
"Peace doesn't die, man, it just hides from the chaos sometimes. We just gotta wait for it to feel comfortable in the open, because honestly, chaos leaves a whisper in the wind, some sort of after noise of what happened to you.” - Aaron Crinklewick
“ That man stands lean like a vulture, and instead of the flapping of wings he's got the whinnying of a decaying and black horse, rusted hatchet strapped to his dusty black coat like an omen of what he'll do. “ - Allison Diamond
“ I met a man in the streetlights, he stood tall and lean like a flickering omen of death, and as he offered me his hand, to walk away with me to a place where all the freaks and wolves can be themselves, I put on a smile and found myself a family in the lights of the damning circus. I have since died. But I like the way this grave feels. “ - Zayleen Bevessa
“ He is a silent wolf, jaws gnashing at those who think they can escape the destiny of a circus soul. Together, we are the wolves of tomorrow, gnashing our jaws at the innocent with smiles of crimson and doll like features of cruelty. “ - Zayleen Bevessa
"Beauty knew my name, once. But since then it has withered. “ - Nishi Masago
“ I am a butterfly and a wasp wrapped into one vessel of anger and love that can bleed and fight, so when all my enemies come towards me with grins of sin and blades of death, I shall let my blade fall to my side and do the work for me. “ - Nishi Masago
“ I sit here like a forgotten candle 'a wax, my flame long since passed wonderin' why I didn't find myself in the essence 'a heroism. “ - Danya Cruz
“ In truth, I'm just a kid, my body grew up, but my heart is still just as young as it was thirty years ago. “ - Sametha Springton
“ I don't wanna never ending life, because in truth, I don't think I'd like what humanity would do with eternity.” - Sametha Springton
“ I've seen pain in snapshot crime scene photos and blood spilt on the streets I'd hear about in the news and weep over, but as Charlotte smiles and tells me the past is the past, I know I've got a wonderful future with her. “ - Oscar Forbes
“ I'm just a bullet casing washed to shore, waiting for somebody to pick me up and awe at the used up violence they've found nestled inside the cracks of a rock.” - Asher Broquel
“ I once swore an oath, that I'd protect the people. And I did, but did I ever think about protecting myself? Or was I so wrapped up in the thought that everyone else was a person but me, that I let myself bleed into someone that isn't really me? “ - Asher Broquel
“ Humanity is always growing and changing as flowers do each season, sometimes we're daffodils swaying in the wind, other days we're wilted roses with nothing but thorns, and somedays we're just a regretful weed, shivering in the cracks of the concrete. But all it took to make a flower beautiful was some water and light, and so as the sun rises and it begins to rain, can't you see we're meant to grow during this storm? We're not decaying, we're just growing from out this storm's soil." - Audrey Killva
“ Ya know, I met death in the eyes of a man with cruelty lurking in his veins, ribcage beating empty, his chest an empty night sky of the void. And as he told me I'd never be the same once I met him, he sure was right, huh? Cause as my son was ripped from this world, I knew a scar would be left on my heart like a threadwork patch of memories and sorrows I'd always know. “ - Barry Bosnia
“ She's a beacon of hope in a world so dark, and as her light shimmers like a star in the sky, I know there's a chance humanity will win its war against the dark. “ - Thituna
“ My heart is a lonely little ghost town, filled with cobwebs and dust, old decaying drawings of people I knew hung up on the hallways walls. And as I trace my fingers over the threadwork scar of memories in my mind, I come to realize I'm just another scar in my own heart. “ - Scarlet Westfield
“ I am a cold water sin, dripping from the corners of your eyes and bleeding from the edges of your spine. “ - Devella Minstreiva
“ I, am a woman of the night, dancing so elegantly in the cruel light of the pale moon, sinning as Devil's do. The scared little girl I was is begging me to stop, begging me to turn back, but with a smile stained red, I keep forward on this path of broken bones that are never my own. “ - Devella Minstreiva
“ I've got blood on my hands from men who'd be better off breathing, but sometimes, you have to justify the sin to survive.. because when you step foot on a battlefield, you aren't really yourself. You're this distorted version of who you are, baring a rifle as if it would bring you glory, I was still Adam Eavington when I was at war, but I wasn't me. “ - Adam Eavington
“ I know it feels like this darkness is all we can be, but don't you understand, shadows are deceiving? They follow us and mimic our every action, but those doppelgangers aren't us, they're a twisted vessel of what we never were. Because in truth, we'll never truly achieve the title of darkness, for that implies we're able to be without light, but with the sun shining on us, and the moon washing us in its pale yellow glow, we've found our lighthouse. “ - Adam Eavintgon
“ This is a war, and I'm the only enemy.” - Adanya Oni
“ Eternity is such a damning and distraught curse, and as I seek to find me, I find mirrors standing in front of me, regret flickering in their eyes, and I realize the only person who could ever be there for me, is me. I trace my fingers over the glass of my own cheeks, running a gentle finger over my own glass lip, asking myself why the only connection I have is with the woman in the mirror. Heavy is the burden of being myself. “ - Albersteen
“ I have grown so tired of me.” - Albersteen
“ I've seen a helluva lot in dis world, I seen angels fallin' bloodied from da sky and cruelty smilin' in the eyes 'a death, but I ain't da things I've been through, eh? I'm Abraham feckin' Carlson, and there's sumfin' beautiful about dat. “ - Abraham Carlson
“ I've been through quite a bit, but despite all this, I live and breathe like I was supposed to do, sadly, some people don't get this opportunity, some people are ripped into this world only to be killed the day they were born because of people who don't know how to love. So to all the broken, I'll be a lighthouse at sea, and though those waves crash down so violently and it feels like you've got a ship but no steering wheel, know that I'll lead you home with a light that never flickers. “ - Sandra Dickens
“ I'm Lorelei Metals, not my scars.” - Lorelei Metals
“ I know that this world feels like a big ol' cage, trapping us in the echoes of our mortality, but the key is acceptance that your memory will live on forever in the hearts of those you've loved. “ - Lorelei Metals
“ There's a devil and an angel within us all, and it's up to us to decide which one wins the battle waged inside our crooked lil hearts." - River Metals
“In my eldritch stride I steal all things holy.” - Algonul
“ I am all the shadows accumulated into all seven deadly sins, wiping star light from my lip as I take a taste of all that is holy and let it rattle in my throat. “ - Algonul
“ I am nothing more then a vessel in which darkness lives.” - Algonul
“ I'm a cruel man, and as you look for any sort of mercy in my eyes, you'll find it staring down the barrel of my fucking revolver. “ - Gilderoy Vinefroker
“ I'm a sinner with his heart bared on his sleeve, look at all those scars, all those bullet holes, they're proof I've survived, and if I've lived through all these old assassination scars and treason laced holes, do you really think I can't survive you? “ - Gilderoy Vinefroker
“ I'm screaming into a void of my broken sorrows, wondering why this abyss stares at me with unblinking eyes.” - Annalise Valley
“ When she holds me close to her chest I feel like I can finally be me, as she tucks strands of my hair behind my ear I know I'm gonna be okay, and as she kisses me soft with gentle lips, I know love is a magical thing, healing scars that hands can't touch. In her heart I found a beautiful song, and as I listened to its rhythm and leaned in close, she took my heart in her rough yet gentle hands and told me she'd heal all the broken parts inside. I don't know how I can possibly thank her, but as she tells me she loves me, I know that safe can't even begin to describe how I feel when I lay my head in her lap. “ - Amila Hemizvowe
“ I'm a girl of revolution and smoke, standing sturdy and tall amidst the war I've waged against the weakness that used to make me, but nowadays as I pull back the hammer of this revolver I don't flinch. Because killing has become second nature, and so as I stare down he who made me, I'll let him drop with my human nature." - Kaytlie Dextor
“ My heart is built of buried bones and dying secrets, and as all this violence seethes like rage in me, I know I'm just not the girl I used to be. “ - Kaytlie Dextor
“ In this world, there's cruel men who need to be put down like the dogs they are, and so with my jacket of hidden knives, dare you call me Karma? “ - Cosmina Winchester
“ I put up emotional walls in my mind to keep people out of my heart, because in all honesty there's a certain sense of freedom, in being able to control the way your heart beats. “ - Cosmina Winchester
“ I'm falling from grace on wings of fragile bone sanity, always asking if who I am is good, but I shudder with horror as I see the words flash like crimson on a screen in my mind, "Outlook not so good." I met a devil in the confines of an orphanage I should've been safe at, but he sipped on his delusions so much so that he'd become them, and as his shifty eyes glanced towards me, his boney fingers wrapping around my collar, dragging me to a room of darkness, I knew my life was over before it ever began. “ - Olive Junkshire
“ That man called him a Devil, but I always believed he was a fallen angel, clutching at the clouds with human fingers trying to find anything to stop him from falling regretful through the atmosphere of his sorrow. “ - Olive Junkshire
“ Maybe there aren't any heroes, maybe there aren't any villains, just people who took different god damn paths. “ - Ashelice Curt
“ I'm not a saint, but maybe I'm halfway there." - Ashelice Curt
“ Monsters are always human, they always have the kindest smiles, but they wear grins with bullet fangs, silver revolver glistening like death in the smile of a rich beast. “ - Ballen Morfellos
“ He wears my pain like a jacket, his sins hiding just underneath his sleeve, darkness nestled inside the fabric of my hurt, but I'll wear his pain like a fucking bullet grin. And as he stares down the barrel of my revolver, will he plead guilty and ask for mercy, or will he stand like a statue and greet his death with insanity bleeding from his forehead? “ - Bellerose Kivinstein
“ I was human, once. It was beautiful, the way the flowers recoiled and withered as I stepped into the garden, how the trees howled in pain as I scratched human claws against their bark. I am not life, my friend, but the opposite of it. “ - Bezeltorren
“ Truth is we're all a mosaic 'a all the people we've met and all the things we been, so as this light shines through me I know I'll always be somethin' beautiful, won' I? “ - Rosaline North
“ Some men like ta call 'emselves coyotes howlin' in the dark, and once I met a man in the forests who called himself just another animal, biting and barking at anythin' that gave him a reason. But ya know what? If he's jus' another animal, then I'll be jus' another got damn hunter. “ - Rosaline North
“ I've been goin' knuckle ta knuckle with evil men ever since I stared me rage ridden father in the eye, and so as I stumbled through life in a haze, wonderin' when I'd find myself in the eye of some bloody peace, Hymond caught me in 'is arms and danced with me in a storm 'a peace and love ever aching. That man is brave as all hell, and with his heart scarred and fragile in me hand, I kiss his wounds and stitch the scars in 'is mind together so we can always dance so beautifully.” - Cleopatra Peterson
“ I'd never met a soul so brave and beautiful until my eyes met her steely gaze. “ - Samantha Robertson
“ The world ain't wicked, but people sure as shit can be." - Samantha Robertson
“ I'm not the best man in the world, I've killed, I've cheated at cards and gotten people hurt, but at least I'm halfway fucking decent. For Naomi holds my fragile and scarred heart with a smile that saves the goodness inside of me. When she holds my hand, and tells me with my scarred and rough hands she trusts me completely, I know that I'll be okay despite the murder and rage that nestles in between the cracks of my ribcage. She is my peace, and I will do whatever it takes to keep her in my heart. So with my sin etched bones I pray that God is forgiving to he who has a kind, yet murder scarred heart. “ - Perov Teras
“ With a heart so stained, and a mind so scarred, I walk this path knowing it is Hell I deserve, but alas, Naomi says God forgives he who fights for the side of the right, and so I pray to every God listening to this poor broken soul that for once in my God forsaken life, I do not stray left of this path I tread on tattered tap dancing shoes." - Perov Teras
“ I am a fragile beast, please, spare me of the point end of your blade, I was never savage, only weak and frail, hiding in a corner of my mind so dark it'd turn any star into a shadow. “ - Beverly Himisear
“ I can look deep into the eyes of who I am and find someone I'm not swimming in my dark pupils, and as I recoil and wither in the sight of who I've become, I must ask why fate vowed against the troubled girl. “ - Beverly Himisear
“ I suppose this is all I can ever be, and so with sorrow lurking in my chest, sitting there fragile and gentle like a forgotten toy in a chest of more loved dolls, I rust away into something forgotten by time and me. “ - Beverly Himsear
“ As my brothers went disappearing in the night, I didn't know if I'd ever be okay again, cuz in truth, they were my heroes, and without them I felt so lost. But as Rebelle takes me by the hand and tells me we'll make it through all the treachery, I know I'll be okay. With them I feel so safe, and as they squish my widdle cheeks and calls me their cute little gremlin, I know that I couldn't possibly be more in love then I am. “ - Marine Scoviney
“ Its been such a better place since they came along, and as they kiss me gently under the light of the sun, I feel my heart burst with colors that only exist in the mind and soul. “ - Marine Scoviney
“ Oh I was just another starving question, but my answer was always dark and twisted, a decaying little rose in the dying cracks of emptiness and pain. So as I stalk these fields, cigar on my lip bursting sparks and chaos from my lip, dare you trifle with a dead man walkin'? “ - Borat Coolraymo
“ My friend, a skinny and starving boy is easy prey for a lion, and so I had ta become somethin' other then the rabbit, standing daintily in the field of wolves who intimidated the lion. So, I grew into my red fur, ripping into my skin, becomin' something less then human as I arose from my coffin a beast of a different kind. I ain't just some skinny and starvin' boy of Africa no more brother, I'm a red lion of the O'Connel outlaws, and as I grin, blood on my teeth, you best know it ain't mercy I'm firing from my revolver. “ - Borat Coolraymo
“ I wasn't born for peace, but maybe I can fight for it. I can feel the colors bleeding from my soul like paint dripping down a canvas, and as I rock myself back and forth, asking myself why this world didn't protect me, I come to realize that the world never made anyone safe. Because the world is dangerous, and I learned that too young. “ - Bowie Hunton-Blather
“ I feel as if, as I roll in these sheets I'm sleepin' in a strangers bed, wonderin' where who I am went, but as these blankets wrap 'round my throat like a noose, I know this, is who I am, and from now on out, always will be. As the darkness encroaches upon my vision, and I fall inta the dark, I know that no matter what I do, I will not escape being this beast called Shawn Moot. So with tragedy in my veins, regretfully I continue ta be me. “ - Shawn Moot
“ I can hardly travel these lands of trouble without finding the edge of a blade, running my fingers over the metal as to bleed this man I'm not from my finger tips. But I'm skin, I'm bone, I'm thoughts and withering roses, but the one thing I'm not, and never fucking will be, is Shawn Moot, and that, is perhaps the greatest tragedy of all." - Shawn Moot
“ I was just a wild gal, dancing at clubs and bars, wondering where my life went, but perhaps that too, was life. Living wild and free, trying to find someone to make my colors burst like fireworks booming in the night sky. I met him in a bowling alley, striking down pins with his buddies, and as I caught his eye, I wondered if perhaps that was life I was staring at. Sure, we had our troubles, we had our hardships, we had breaks, and we had fights. But in the end, I don't think I'd want anyone's heart but Rolando's in my gentle hands. “ - Bridget Shontell
“ My life has been troubled, I've met a man who barked at car lights and shadows, looking for any reason to bite, but I've also met peace in the eyes of a goofy and highly stupid guy who makes me laugh uncontrollably. “ - Bridget Shontell
“ Once upon a time I told myself I'd never dance again, but as she beckons me to the spotlight and tells me this dance would be her pleasure, I follow her, swaying gently back and forth into the light with a pained smile creeping up the corners of my lip. “ - Alexandria Hartman
“ As she dances fingers against my scars and tells me she loves me, I know that somewhere in this heart is a flame, sparking for a revolution against the darkness in me. But alas, I have always been a moth drawn to her own fucking flame, sparking up cigarettes in hope to find the light that draws me ever nearer to my demise on a golden sunrise. “ - Alexandria Hartman
“ I've been faced with trouble all my life, smoking cigars wonderin' if these sparks would be enough ta keep me warm, but they never was brother, they never was. “ - Wesley Kamstool
“ A good friend of mine once said that we're all just tryin' to be somebody, and maybe the fact that we're striving for that, means we've already grasped it. But I've always been a ghost, a grave etched with no name, and so am I really someone, or have I always been a lonely no one, sitting on the edge of a cigar, rising from it like the smoke of a dying man's breath? “ - Wesley Kamstool
“ Perhaps as life looks at me with sorrowed eyes, she mourns for the man who never lived, but if she could dance her fingers against my cold cheek, would she find Spring and Summer blossoming in my broken smile? Or would she find Winter and decaying bones ripping through my chest? Maybe she wouldn't find a man, but rather a ghost pretending ta be one. “ - Wesley Kamstool
“ Perhaps this grave of war and old gunshots is all I can really ever be. “ - Bri Calzato
“ All these scars have killed me ever so gently, and as I'm laid in the soil next to the worms and moles, I must wonder if this is what it means, to be alive. But this is no life I've lived, it's been death, disguised as the greater good. “ - Bri Calzato
“ I yearn for the gentle touch of someone who'll love me, battle scars and all, for maybe love would heal the wounds sitting idle on my breath, but these scars are roots dug deep into my heart, wrapping around my ribcage until I can hardly breathe without pieces of dirt and pain ripping themselves from out my throat. “ - Bri Calzato
“ I honestly fear I am nothing but a bullet cased grave, etched with a name that is not quite my own, and as I trace my fingers over the words and numbers that tell me when and how I died, I get this haunting feeling that I've never really lived. As if I am a ghost, haunting her own lonely little grave where all the flowers and roses came to wither and fade like me." - Bri Calzato
“ I'm caught in this war I wage in my mind, traveling this labyrinth of scars that sit in the hallway of my brain like sorrowed questions never to be answered by this heartbeat, and as I wade gently in these waters, they start flowing red with blood that has not ever been my own. “ - Brooke Woodward
“ With our blades we charge, but alas, as we swing them our hearts become blackened ash of a dying willow tree, and we have always been standing underneath the shade. “ - Brooke Woodward
“ My heart is such a long maze, and as I traverse through its shadows I wonder whom would so care to travel alongside me, for this dark place is a part of me, and to love me means you too, must be dark. “ - Brooke Woodward
“ I have come to the horrifying conclusion that we simply aren't human, anymore. We're little more than beasts, ripping at the seers threadwork fabric set before us, we follow blindly into destiny with hearts of steel and gnashing teeth, and gently, ever so gently the seers cut us from thread and watch us fall down ever so down into a hole of our own inhumanity. Perhaps this is their way of punishing us. For we poisoned the garden with our wicked hearts, asking why all the roses turned black, and why the daffodils withered and died. “ - Brooke Woodward
“ Ya know, as those two people fell in spurts of red and my misery, I knew I wasn't ever gonna be the same, so at the cost of another boy's peace, I protected my own. But I guess murder never gave peace to anyone, huh? It hides in the cracks of your heart, and as it sits there like a forgotten secret, you know it'll always be the blood ya bleed. “ - Bruce Willingfell
“ My sons tell me they love me, they say I'm their hero, Ragnar says as I accepted him as the king he is instead 'a the princess the world tried ta make him, he knew I would always be a hero ta me. And Jaspel would always smile, and say I'm a good father. But they don't know the murder in my heart, the secret bloodstains in my ribcage. “ - Bruce Willingfell
"The world never betrayed me brother, but you did." - Ralph Artvaina
"Once upon a time I wished upon shooting stars, asking for the mercy of my decaying, bruised and ugly heart. But alas, I found wishes never come true, and so here I sit, heartless." - Hartman Brokedallo
"You know, I've had too many mother's ta count, too many black toothed bloodied knuckled father's ta speak each individual name of the fists that broke me down ta tears and bone. I ain't never had family, every brother I ever had pushed me down flights 'a stairs and called me an outcast of his family. Every sister stabbed me in the fuckin' back, but when I get ta lookin' ta people who ain't known me for all that long, and I see some sense of, redemption swimmin' in the river of their pupils, I get ta wonderin' if family is found in ghosts and people mercy failed." - Ralph Artvaina
"I stared her eye ta eye, and I can't say I found a human swimmin' in them blackened, decaying pupils." - Ralph Artvaina
"I think I died the day I stared mercy dead in the eye and said, "This just ain't no truthful sort of matter." - Ralph Artvaina
"Justice isn't something we can change the definition of. If you twist the words and tangle the truths, you can't call it justice, all you can really do is call it what it is. A stone cold lie based in cruelty, and an agenda." - Hartvorth Devilsky
"Circumstance pushes people a helluva lot more than trust." - Darmina Lightsworth
"It is only in death I feel the presence of life." - Vokens Samtino
"If life is not an adventure, I'd much rather do something other than live." - Lewis Kifle
"Every once and awhile, God must let Lucifer roam earth as a reminder that not all in this world is beautiful." - Royal Hondros
"The heart that loves, perhaps, is the one that breaks." - Lukell Calderi
"I have found that she is not a garden, as those wither. She is not the sun, for it sinks, nor is she the moon, nor the stars, for her beauty and grace is unfaltering, and as I see her warrior's smile, I know that perhaps to be alone with her in this maze of my heart is not such a damning fate." - Brooke Woodward
"In that old revolver of secrets and the sins of a ghost, I met the darkness in me and walked willingly into the decay of my own broken heart." - Callina Troubrewskey
"He's a stain on my heart I don' wanna see go." - Dori Thievesmire
"To become something a little less than yourself is the loneliest achievement of all. And as I sit here, in a corner of my heart, I come to realize how lonely I really am." - Harpwrit Thievesmire
"If my heart was a chord, a melody of seven strings, I don't think anyone would care to listen." - Alckoline Thievesmire
"I looked at the world through a dead man's point of view, and came to realize death is not so peaceful after all. To sit lonely in your casket with the worms and bastards would be such a sorrowful sort of damnation." - Elfine Thievesmire
"Inside of me something real started to grow like a cancer, blossoming from my chest." - Myka Thievesmire
"I'd never claimed to meet death until I looked into the eyes of a Devil, who with a crooked and wicked grin tore his children, along with all whom knew them kicking and screaming from a garden of Eden." - Devanhue Connor
"Screw that destiny shit, take hold of your reigns, kid, don't lose control like I did. Cuz the only fate I can imagine that's worse than being me, is becoming me." - Denzel Thievesmire
"I'm one strike away from death, kid. Don't go damnin' yourself ta this fate of dead end home runs and hollow bones." - Denzel Thievesmire
"I can sense the death of identity in your smile, Rupen. Dare you place it in the tips of my fingers, only to watch it flitter away like cinders from my cigarette?" - Rucarlo Devinski
"Evil where's the face of the every day man." - Clarice Sanchez
"Aching and gentle I lost my heart. It was a cruel melancholy tune, drifting through the skies like a soft cinder, and as I reached for it with greedy paws, it slipped like water between my fingers." - Maxadellas Zonestrame
"It is not so easy, finding who you are in hiding echoes." - Camilla Davidson
"If you are loving, my father, give me all I had back and beg for forgiveness from the man peace never seemed to know. But I suppose you can not give me graves without grief." - Alastair Sambridge
"Here I sit, like sacrilege on my tongue." - Alastair Sambridge
"A grave is creeping up the corners of your sorrowed eyes." - Royal Hondros
"It is always Winter, in my ribcage." - Benjamin Samahil
"If she were to dig her fingers into the essence of my heart, I fear all she'd find is a dark shadow of who I am. And as tar and crimson spills between the fingers of the pure, does the kind become cruel? Does the loved become the hated?" - Benjamin Samahill
"I died long before I met you, you simply shoveled dirt in an already decaying casket." - Benjamin Samahill
"I met a man in the dying lights of my faith, and with an almost, life saving smile he changed the bulbs." - Rhys Breeze
"I am an extant form of man, no more am I Benjamin Samahill, just the vessel in which he once lived." - Benjamin Samahill
"I lay my hand on a Bible and it withers like the mercy in my heart." - Antonio Sharp
"Some people will take their bows and their arrows and catch fire to the flint headstones of death sitting idle on the wood of their instrument of murder. Some people will always crave chaos, but a true warrior craves peace, above all else." - Enzvilina Harbrita
"That woman dances with a ghost and expects to find something living beating inside her heart." - Hoshino Akinori
"Pieces 'a his reflection become marred with mine." - Sandro Colorfeid
"Is it really madness if it brings you peace?" - Moores Thomas
"My brother once said he was a rabid Stoneshire dog, and it's with fear dripping down the notches of my spine I say, I'm a blood hungry Stoneshire wolf." - Mackton Stoneshire
"Every man who's lain dead at my feet haunts me, but, with a badge on my chest and a heart that rarely feels, I pull another trigger and call it justice." - Vayton Camilo
"In a kill or be killed world, I must regretfully call myself more then a grave." - Vayton Camilo
"My brother looks at me with human eyes, but it's hate tangled in his love for his own life that makes him something less then the man I knew." - Marvin Grudges
"You ever look at yourself through the lens of someone you know and realize, you ain't never been the good guy?" - Marvin Grudges
"In the gunfire smoke of another day, I traverse through the heart of war, wondering if it beats inside my ribcage." - Ulysses Tenbarge
"It's not life that kills people, it's not cruelty or the sea. Trust in strangers and people with kind smiles has killed more men then I've ever watched go down in sprays of red mortality." - Narthal Vormalew
"I met cruelty in the eyes of a widow, heart bared black on her empty sleeve." - Dante Dunbar
"I don't understand the fundamental roots of evil, all that I know is, I'm swingin' from 'em." - Dante Dunbar
"They stood still at his grave, like vultures, who knew their job was done." - Sarvel Humington
“ You want protection, right? You wanna make a name for yourself in the notches of history? Then come with me, cause this town is full of crooks and broke back cheats, we're all reapers here, so let me give ya your damn scythe." - Sarvel Humington
"Tell me somethin' kid, if a man can look death eye ta eye every day of his God forsaken life, what do you think he'll do when faced with life?" - Sarvel Humington
"I was like a wet cat, scratchin' and tearin' at anything that got damn near two inches 'a me. And god damn brother, something about that chaos just killed me." - Sarvel Humington
"I would watch for monsters under your bed, child. You have no idea what hides in the wake of nightmares and dreams." - Mizella Shrew
“ You can't jump into the casket of secrets and expect it not to close." - Moores Thomas
“ Sometimes there's a little monster prowling in the depths of our mind, he stamps his little feet, always wearing a cute little frown, but don't let that grumpiness inside of him get to your heart, because that's when it gets real difficult to exorcise this nasty little monster who holds you down. “ - Krystie Shontell
“ am caught in a bad dream, except every time I close my eyes, I escape it. If only for a mere night, I escape my mind. I've never been able to dream, really. My mind doesn't conjure images for me to see, well, in a sense it does, just not in the sense that I dream. I can picture a meadow of grass, I can picture the nights of terror, I can picture the darkness inside of my mind, but I don't particularly dream. I hit the pillow and wake up. And on the rare occasion that I do dream, it is my mother I see in the dark. “ - Zachariah Rinderez
“ I am a king without his crown, wondering why his kingdom ever followed him into battle. “ - Bardzimi Collingwood
“ They call this strange land, New York city, they say it's filled to the brim with corruption, evil spilling from the side of the glass. “ - Russel Cormelius
“ You can deny the innate desire within to hunt down those who kicked you down, but is it really worth it, to let your enemies escape and watch as they continue their ways? As they say, be merciful to the cruel and you're cruel to the merciful. “ - Pascal Von Reddix
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⬆️ New Blog Post! Characters are my favourite and least favourite thing in the world so I wrote a lil thing about fleshing they out and some tips that helped me! Hope you enjoy it!! 💓 #writersofinstagram #writing #characterwriting #characters
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EPISODE SEVEN… A BLANK PAGE… =) pt. 2 🌀&🥔 #CHAOSisHERE #conversationswiththeSINS #ep7 CURIOSITY🌀MOTIVATION🥔 #theSINS #conversation #words #oc #digitalart #artist #inspiration #curiosity #illustration #procreate #art #artist #illustrationartists #doodle #typography #narrative #writing #characterwriting #longlivcuriosity https://www.instagram.com/p/CYSZRN8IVf3/?utm_medium=tumblr
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