#does this count as a character study?

[lacrimosathedark]

SOMEONE needs to get on Angel Dust & Vox content.

Not a ship, but just their whole dynamic could be so interesting.

Both Angel and Vox are connected to Valentino. Both of them, for lack of a better phrase, fuck with Valentino. But they have such different dynamics.

What they have in common (besides sex):

They're both used to Val's violent temper.

Both are unafraid to stand up to him if necessary

Differences:

Since Vox is stronger and on more even footing, he sees Val less as a threat and more as an annoyance when he acts up.

(I love that second scene Vox's face makes me laugh every time)

Vox has also learned non-violent ways to pacify Valentino where Angel...can't do that.

Angel, however, has reason to be afraid. Val owns him and can do whatever he wants to him. For the most part he's less scared and more miserable, but there is fear.

Angel's abuse has led him to inflating Val's strength in his own mind. This leads him to being protective of people who could feasibly kick Val's ass, putting himself in harms way to keep them safe from him.

Vox doesn't have anyone to protect from Val, really. The only others we know he cares about are Velvette and Alastor. Velvette is part of their team and used to this shit, and Alastor could not give less of a fuck.

Angel also has somewhat healthy relationships while Vox only has the Vees and his obsession with Alastor, which is also distinctly aggressive.

I have so many questions though.

Is Vox jealous of Angel being Val's main carnal focus? Did Angel ever envy Vox because he got to see a nicer Val more often and wasn't bound to his will? What do they think of each other? Has Val hurt Vox? I mean we know he can swap his head out for different monitors, could Val have broken his face at some point? Does Angel know?

Could Vox and Angel have any kind of connection from the abuse Val puts them through? And how would that dynamic effect their other relationships?

The closest we have to an interaction between them is this in Poison

Vox is holding Val's hand less like a handshake and more like kissing his hand. He sees Angel and stops whatever he's saying, and his smile drops. Then he gives Val an I'd almost call it a soft look, and then he zaps off.

There's also those lines on his face. Those aren't the same lines Vox has when he's worked up.

It's the other side of his face.

But also if you notice, both Val and Angel have something coming out of their mouths in this scene too. (this gif is Angel having wiped it off on his hand, you can see the droplets)

Seemingly, this is Val's saliva...ew.

I've seen people theorize Val's spit works like an aphrodisiac or has some other kind of soporific effect. I've seen people suggest it's an ingredient in Velvette's love potions.

Point being, it's a physical manifestation of the "poison" Angel is "addicted to", "choking on", and "full of".

The implication on Vox being that he's being poisoned too.

And there's just...something about this that has me thinking.

I just think they could be a fun dynamic to explore.

#Hazbin Hotel #Angel Dust #Vox #Valentino #Alastor the Radio Demon #Husk (Hazbin Hotel) #Niffty #Charlie Morningstar #Velvette #does this count as a character study? #idk I just think they're Neat

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

Robin never really got boys talk.

When Sarah turned 14 she invited all the girls in band for a sleepover. It started out fun. After her parents went to bed they put on a creepy horror movie and watched it in a huge cuddle pile. They braided each other's hair and did each other's nails and squeezed each other during tense scenes and muffled their shrieks after a sudden jumpscare.

After that they watched another one. This time Sarah sneaked her mother's makeup kit down to the living room, and so lipstick and eyeshadow joined the mess of nail polish, hair clips and snacks already on the floor.

The second movie was different. In the first one, the blood was obviously fake and the acting wasn't the best (to say the least). But the second one was tense through and through. The cries of pain were so visceral that Robin shuddered, and in the end everyone was terrified. It was silently and unanimously agreed upon that everyone had had enough TV for the night. It was already 3 in the morning, but tomorrow was the weekend and right now Robin wouldn't be able to sleep even if she wanted to, and thus began Robin's first real boys talk.

It was funny at first. Sarah pretended to die of heartbreak when "the blond hot one" was unfortunately the second to die. Heather said the nerdy one with glasses and abs was cuter, which started a very heated discussion of whether blond or brown is the more attractive hair color. Robin had to defend her correct "redheads" opinion all by herself.

(When the others got into a stalemate Sarah turned to Robin. "C'mon", she pleaded, "you know that the blond one was hotter. Just tell us which one you found prettier! And don't forget that this is my birthday party."

Robin laughed at the ribbing, played a bit hard to get, until she finally admitted. "I actually found the first one who died the prettiest." Sarah was already halfway through her victory dance, when Robin corrected her. "No, I don't mean the dude. I mean the first one. The girl with the pink purse."

Everything was silent for a moment.

Then Emma laughed. "You don't have to be jealous Robin", she consoled, "you are also very pretty."

"Yeah, especially after our makeover!"

Robin laughed and agreed and continued on as if her world just hadn't been turned on its axis. Because she knew that the stirring in her gut and the beating of her heart had nothing to do with jealousy. She didn't find the blond one hot or the brunet one cute. That was the first time she really knew it. She liked the girl.)

It was a bit funny the first time, even though she couldn't really join. It got less funny the more it went on. Suddenly boys was the only thing everyone wanted to talk about. And worse: it wasn't just unreachable famous boys like singers or actors anymore. Suddenly it was all "oh, Steve Harrington is sooooo cute" or "oh my god, Tommy Hagan had suuuuuuch a glowup" and "I want to lick the sweat of his body after basketball practice" (this last one was applicable to multiple different people, including Steve and Tommy. It was not applicable for Chrissy when she exited cheerleading practice or Beth after football.)

She thought it would get better when Emma finally confessed to her crush and they actually got together, but no. It somehow got worse. Because "normal boy talk" turned into "experienced boy talk", and Robin wasn't allowed to admit that the only thing that got wet when she thought of Billy Hargrove was her mouth, because he made her want to throw up.

At first she'd say that she didn't have crushes. After a while of people refusing to believe her (even if she was telling the truth! Sometimes.) she started pretending to be into Steve Harrington. Every girl had a crush on Steve, so it made sense that she'd been embarrassed to admit that she was just like everybody else. He was way too far above her league for her friends to force her to "confess" and she could stare without fear when he passed by in the halls with the beautiful Tammy Thompson in his arms. Truly, it was a brilliant plan. It didn't stop the boys talk, though.

So she became a tomboy. She joined football and she hung out with boys and she cut her long hair into a bob. She lost a bit of touch with Emma and Sarah and the others, but she tried not to think about it too much. Instead she threw herself into sports and started hanging out more and more with Matt, the second trumpet in band.

And that was that. Sometimes she missed wearing dresses, but it was a relief not to have her mother insisting she "do something about that hair" anymore. She and Matt became best friends. She even considered telling him for a while. Until he sat her down and confessed his feelings.

She tried to let him down as gently as possible, and they never talked again. The cycle would repeat for multiple times.

Someone out there is laughing their ass off because who would have thought that the dude she pretended to have a crush on would turn out to be the missing half of her soul?

It started out like always. She teased him, he laughed. They suffered through customer service together. He was funny and surprisingly in touch with his emotions and apparently babysat a bunch of middle schoolers, which was equally hilarious and adorable to watch. They both enjoy sports and they both hate Billy Hargrove with a passion and Robin is heartbroken because she knows she can't get attached. She has already been through this too many times to allow it to happen again. She gets close with a guy, they become best friends, he confesses, she can't reciprocate, they never talk again.

This is what is going to happen. She should already be used to it, but it still hurts. It's better for her to keep her distance. To encourage him to flirt with other girls, even if she can see that he mostly does it to amuse her.

And then they uncover an actual real life Russian spy network right beneath their place of work like some fucking blockbuster. And then they are pumped up with drugs and the next thing she knows is that they are both throwing up in a cinema bathroom.

And then it happens. Of course it happens.

He starts his little speech and her heart is already breaking. She surprises herself when she realizes how much she started enjoying Steve's company. He is a dingus, but she is also a dingus and they just fit.

She is already preparing her apology in her head (oh fuck work is going to be so awkward), but what comes out instead is what she wishes she could've said every time this happened. What she wished she could have said every time she got close to another person, every time her parents questioned if she finally found a boyfriend. Something she really tried not to feel ashamed of, but it was so fucking hard when you had to keep it hidden all the time.

(She remembers when she used to train in front of the mirror. She would stare at herself and repeat again and again "I am Robin Buckley and I am a lesbian. I am a lesbian. I am-")

She doesn't breathe as she waits for what she knows what comes next. What has to come next. There is a reason she never told anyone, always kept it hidden and to herself even if she wanted to scream it into the world. He will mock her and he will out her and he will be disgusted and-

"Tammy Thompson?!"

Instead they have girls talk. And Robin finally gets it.

#heteronormativity being like: every strong emotion you feel towards the other gender is romance #+ patriarchy being like: men are entitled to women #= robin suffering #</3 #fun fact i actually never had to invent a crush #like they questioned that i never seemed to be into anybody sometimes #but i always said it so vehemently and also outside of 'boys talk' that they just believed me after a while lol #but i know of multiple ppl who had to #robin stranger things #stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #pen. #stranger things drabble #robin buckley drabble #stobin #platonic with a capital p #platonic stobin #does this count as a character study?

[dr4wingfranciss]

Lucy Gray used Snow, and even if she felt a little bit of "love" towards him, it quickly vanished when she met him again in 12. AND THAT'S COMPLETELY FINE

When they first meet, she's literally lecturing him and giving him passive-aggressive comments over his "good will of meeting her and helping her as her designated mentor in the Games". She knows he's doing it for something else, but can't quite figure out what. So, she doesn't trust him, not even when he offers her a rose and tells her all those explanations that were basically useless for her. And her way to show her distrust is with sarcastic and mocking comments against him and his attitude. Because he's just a Capitol guy who showed up to the train station to "help her", when she just arrived to the place where she's going to probably die. She's stressed, affraid, tired and done with everybody's shit, plus, the fact of Snow showing up and trying to impress her just adds more stress and she immediately catalogues him as useless.

However, when Snow gets into the truck with the rest of the tributes, she realizes he's being deadly serious about him "wanting to help her", or at least wants to convince her. That gives him off. And that gives her the idea of her life: using him to win. Because, in the end, he's literally doing the same. He's using her and her 'marketable appearance' to win whatever he wants to win. That is useful for her, so she decides to use take the opportunity. She defends him from the other tributes, and allows him to present her to the journalist at the zoo. Along with that, she plays her role as a 'pretty and charming district girl' to win the crowd. Because she knows that's also going to help. She gets closer and closer to Snow because she wants him to trust her. She still doesn't trust him completely, but trusts him enough to cooperate at the tribute-mentor interviews. And she tells him very clearly what's the price for it: a guitar. She's going to use all his influence and power in the Capitol to her convenience, mainly due to the fact that he's decided to make her win.

At the Arena bombing, she saves his life. She does this because she's not a monster. She values his life. She thinks and knows he 'deserves' to live, and she needs him. Without him, she's screwed. When the interviews the night before the Games happen, she sings a song after realizing that the Capitol loves a show. The Hunger Games are a show, and she's just another performer in them. Besides, she likes to sing and express her feelings and thoughts through music (it's what she had been doing her whole life) and she perfectly knows how to move a crowd with words. Her song is not just a message for Billy Taupe, but also for the Capitol people. What are they going to do when their beloved songbird dies in the arena? What is him going to do about it? She knows he has grown attached to her, and she had done it as well. Maybe a little less intense, but she appreciates how hard he works "for her". Also, she knows he has a plan, and that he's going to do anything in order for her to go home. Back to 12.

During the Games, she watches Jessup die, and knows that Lysistrata and her own mentor have something to do with it. And then the snakes arrive. She knows she can't fight them, but when the snakes don't attack her, she realizes Snow actually did an enormous thing to help her survive them. She sings, just to play along, but everything is orchestrated by her mentor. He saved her life, even if that meant risking the Plinth Prize and probably his own life as well. By that action, she notes that he is actually decided to do whatever he needs if it means keeping her safe. She has him eating from the palm of her hand. And so she kills Treech with the snakes. She waits for Reaper to also fall, and when he does, she realizes she's finally free.

She won the Tenth Hunger Games...

But she cheated. The guilt drowns her as she's taken out of the Arena, and when the Dean Highbottom goes to meet her at he train station and explains her the whole deal with Coriolanus, she feels realived. She can get rid of him. She doesn't need him anymore, and he doesn't need her. She can go back to her normal life, even with the survivor's guilt living inside her forever. Because she survived and can be free like she always wanted to.

And then, Coriolanus Snow shows up in Twelve.

He came to reunite with her. She's not free from him and his obssesive love. But, she tries to love him back. She tries to push all the manipulation aside and try to love him the same way he seems to love her. It doesn't work. She can feel something weird with him, deep down. And the first time she catches a glimpse of that disturbing thing is when he shots Mayfair. He killed her. He tells her that he did it because she was going to call them out, but it still upsets her a lot. First, he kills Bobbin, and now Mayfair, the girl who got her reaped. Even after that, she wants to trust him, so she slightly believes it. She takes her precautions though, since she knows that the peacekeepers and they Major are going to think that she killed Mayfair. She has to scape, and she wants him to come with her, because he's also going to be hunted down. And because he's very capable of saying that she was responsible for that murder of it means that he would be safe. So she takes him with her. Few moments after they're scape, she realizes what's wrong with him.

He betrayed his 'best friend'. He revealed his intentions of revelling against the Capitol and the Games. Of course that's the third person he killed. So the small glimpse of trust that started to appear quickly vanishes. Because, if he betrayed Sejanus, the person he "trusted the most", what stops him from betraying or even killing her? She needs to run away from him now. Not just the Capitol, but him as well. She makes him think that he fooled her, but in reality she's planning what to do. Where to go. The manipulation technic comes back, and she shows as sweet and calm when going to pick katniss, but she's actually running away.

Lucy Gray never fully trusted Coriolanus Snow, not even in the end when she needed someone to trust the most. She used him once, and did it again because she wanted to live. She wanted to survive and he was the only way she had to do so.

She took her chance and never let go off it.

#lucy gray you're a GIRLBOSS #i hate snow if u couldn't tell #i wanted to make this more book version centered but idk if i managed to make it right #does this count as a character study? #if u disagree it's fine but DON'T HATE #frann rants abt stuff

[rxnefairs]

I HAVE THOUGHTS

Rhaenys worships no god. And, in her defense, she has every reason not to.

If I remember correctly, the only time that Rhaenys had ever spoken about the gods was during her fireside conversation with Corlys. And she wasn’t even the one that brought them up in the first place. It was Corlys who did.

You’re looking to place blame for an act of the gods? / Mayhaps the gods have scorned us.

Her theological beliefs are very much like Daenerys’ in a way. Dany believed in no gods because no gods came to save her. And even if Rhaenys were to pray to the gods, what would she even pray for?

After all, what good have the gods done for her?

Born into the most powerful dynasty Westeros has ever known? Rhaenys was born a woman, and a woman isn’t supposed to rule.

Grew up with a father and a mother who loved her unconditionally? Whoops, Daddy took an arrow to the throat and now he’s dead.

The presumed heir to the Iron Throne after Prince Aemon’s death? Sorry, Uncle Baelon is Prince of Dragonstone… not Rhaenys.

Uncle Baelon is dead, surely she is to be the heir this time? Nope, Grandfather calls the Great Council.

She is the Old King’s eldest descendant, born to be the Queen and raised with the expectations that the crown would end up on her head one day. Wait, no, the men of the realm chose Viserys because he’s a man too.

One could argue that things could have been worse. Rhaenys could have been dealt a worse hand. She could have married a man she didn’t love, she could have been barren, she could have been born a peasant rather than a Princess.

But even though none of those things actually happened, misfortune struck her in a hundred other ways.

As far as Rhaenys is concerned, both of her children are dead. Her sweet babes both consumed by the fire meant to protect them. And then her husband leaves for six years. He comes back to her with his throat slit and a change of heart that no longer matters because they’re already too involved in this war. The war she never wanted in the first place.

Of course, Rhaenys could always pray for the safety of her grandchildren. But she already lost one of them.

What could the gods possibly do for her now? For every one good thing that happens, the gods take two things from her.

Why pray to gods that do nothing but take?

Maybe Rhaenys was right. Maybe the gods have scorned them.

Perhaps the gods have always scorned her.

#thank you for coming to my tedtalk #apparently sleep deprivation makes me philosophical l #but it’s something that i’ve been thinking about for a day or two #i could probably be totally wrong #does this count as a character study? #rhaenys targaryen #eve best #hotd #i have thoughts

[crookedtaleofdreams]

Druke, my man :/

This is going to be kind of long, so buckle up.

Replaying act 1 makes me really want a prequel, especially since the devs have been rerunning some of the Rody and Druke events. I'm at chapter 3 in my replay of act one, and I just finished the scene with the Druke xahe-oyai and Norza. After the Blademaster Druke event a couple of weeks ago, I've been thinking about what Druke's motives for taking the aeon thorns were. Like, obviously he wanted to stay/become stronger despite his age (I don't think he's even that old? I assume he was somewhere in his 20s during the last Pandemonium, so he would have only been in his early forties or late thirties, which isn't that old.), but I feel like that deviates a bit from how his character was portrayed in the last two events (Blademaster and Witch of Winter).

When we first meet Druke in the Blademaster event, he's arrogant and eager to rush into battles if it means he can prove his strength. He's even glad that the Pandemonium has started because he's always wanted to fight in it. Druke and Norza (post-Menue's death) are pretty similar because they're always searching for that next big fight. Once Druke meets Rody and Rody is revealed to be the Crimson Crestbearer, Druke realizes that maybe there's more to fight for than just proving your strength. He swears to help/protect the Crimson Crestbearer and the act ends. Enter the Witch of Winter event. Druke is still his arrogant self, but it's less about growing his strength and more about helping Rody end the Pandemonium.

Now, how does this relate to act 1 chapter 3? The Witch of Winter event is only a short amount of time after the Blademaster event, but Druke has obviously found something new to fight for. If Druke's character motives have changed this much in the short time he's been traveling with Rody, imagine how much more he would have changed in the months (or maybe years?) leading up to Rody's battle with the Eternal. Maybe he even gave up entirely on seeking the next strongest enemy?

But, we know how Rody's battle with the Eternal ended. Rody and Druke were pretty good friends, so Rody's death probably hit him hard. Sure, their other traveling companions were still alive, but Rody was someone that Druke admired, which made their relationship kind of special. For some people (I think I can safely say that Norza and Druke fit into this category), losing the person that you admired can cause you to start sliding back into some bad habits. Once Druke lost the person he admired and wanted to protect, he probably started looking for something that would give his life meaning: becoming the strongest swordsman on Erden. Once he started getting older, he began losing confidence in his skills, and, despite having seen the outcomethanks to Xandra, he accepted the aeon thorns that Norza offered him.

#evertale #druke #rody evertale #does this count as a character study? #i just have emotions about rody and druke's friendship #the events make it look like rody brings out a better (more heroic) side of druke #and i wanted to talk about what rody's death meant for that side of druke

[booboothefatuus]

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭:

𝐘𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧 【𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝚶𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐝】

"𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧."

𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 / 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧 / 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧 (𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐚) / 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 / 𝐈𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 / 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 / 𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍 / 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐞 / 𝐏𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞 / 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐔𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 (𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝚩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐫) / 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 / 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝚶𝐧𝐞 𝚩𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭 / 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝚩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐞 / 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 / 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 / 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 / 𝚩𝐚𝐝 𝚩𝐨𝐲 / 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 / 𝐈𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 / 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 / 𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐲 / 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐨𝐣𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐭) / 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠'𝐬 𝚶𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥 / 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫 / 𝚩𝐚𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 / 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 / 𝐆𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐞 / 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐭 𝐔𝐩 / 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

#genshin impact #yelan #does this count as a character study? #could be but songs that vibe that i actually like listening to >>>>>>>> #playlists #Spotify #click the title for the playlist link

[alle-ni]

My thoughts about goodomensverse (I'm clinically insane) (my personal opinion) (long post)

Book Crowley:

- absolute disaster

- lonely boy

- grumpiest

- he's so in love with Aziraphale but didn't even realised yet

- a bit dumb sometimes ngl

- very tired

- he's trying so hard save earth and everything he knows but everytime he tries to explain why it's always AZIRAPHALE

- sometimes he's like... your old gay uncle, the old gay uncle of the family except it's a 6000 years old gender fluid demon

- HISS LIKE A SNAKE GANG

- got called dear once and them died (figuratively)

Radio Crowley:

- flirty

- "Humm have you ever seen me in a dress~~??"

- he's like flirting with Aziraphale 24/7

- 0 patience this man is a BOMB

- if Aziraphale ever EVER got slightly flirty with him back he will EXPLODE

- smartest of them all, he's very intelligent

- HISS LIKE A SSSSSNAKE GANG

- he's so in love with Aziraphale and it makes him SO FRUSTRATED

- his Aziraphale is the hardest one to reach, maybe this is why he's so deliberately obvious and direct with him (he's resilient, he will never give up)

- he's like a tsudere teenager collegial except he's a 6000 years old demon with serious issues

- not called dear yet poor soul </3

TV Crowley:

- SILLY

- he's the dumbest of them all, sorry 😭

- red hair

- he's so in love with Aziraphale and everyone notice it's SO OBVIOUS

- he's the most affected by The Bookshop Burning ™ event

- the only one who got to kiss the angel, good for him ig, or sorry, idk

- anxiety bomb he literally (literally) EXPLODE

- strongest soldier bc his Aziraphale is IMPOSSIBLE

- got dumped 2 times more than the others someone pls help him

- the most brave tho

- doesn't hiss a lot :/ free him from this madness let him hiss

- he's like a puppy with giant yellow eyes except it's a 6000 years old snake demon that lies all the time

- protective as hell this man wouldn't let anyone near Aziraphale if possible

- got called dear but at what cost??????????????

Book Aziraphale:

- Anxious all the time, religious trauma except the god is your father and he left you and never talk to you again and the guard angels are your siblings and they want you do be dead

- He's so soft he wants so bad to comfort Crowley but he's really hard to reach

- his Crowley is the most difficult of all of them, he needs to circle him a lot to get in touch

- this man got called names so often I don't think he even cares anymore

- he's very nerdy

- he's the calmest of them all

- really chill

- everyone is so mean to him for no reason

- he has 1 braincell tbh and it's really bad bc his Crowley is not that brilliant too they're both stupid sometimes

- he really REALLY wants to be with Crowley and Crowley only, he sounds almost obligated to be with heaven

- he is really kind to others even when they don't deserve

- he called Crowley dear once and then implode

Radio Aziraphale:

- full of himself

- bastard

- the most closed and oblivious of them all

- he tries to play cool with Crowley all the time (he's slowly getting insane and someday he will jump on this man)

- he's the most self sufficient one he barely holds on Crowley to anything and they're pretty independent

- Crowley can say shit like "Miss me angel~~??" and he would keep a bored face and not react at all (he screamed with the walls 4 hours later)

- he's also a tsudere collegial but he at least try to look cool and composed in public

- he's the Aziraphale that most believes in heaven, he's sure they are good and selfless and the right side

- he's not so brilliant tbh but he got a lot of spirit

- the most active Aziraphale ?? He really put his hand in the dirt and do the things alone

- the most angry and bad tempered of them all, bro scream "WE ARE CLOSED LOOK AT THE DAMN SIGN" when ppl barely touch the bookshop door

- he has a lot of patience with Crowley, not deserved tbh bc he thinks it's his personal job to get in Aziraphale's nerves

- overall he is polite

- he's really proud of their "arrangement" there not only one chance he let go without saying that

- he likes to provoke Crowley sometimes too but not as much as the other way around

- if he ever call Crowley dear he will explode

TV Aziraphale:

- bitchiest

- this man need to be sedated what the fuck Aziraphale

- most nuts of then all he's CRAZY

- he's the most up to do shit with Crowley they're insane together

- he doesn't let Crowley rest he is flirting and being cute and hitting on Crowley all the time

- he's so obviously in love with Crowley its embarrassing

- he's the fruitiest he's the entire salad

- the most... indulgent, if I can say, of them all

- more like an employer of heaven, different of book Aziraphale

- he's the only one with almost white hair

- he got kissed but at what cost

- he's the most intelligent of all of them how can he be this dumb

- he loves little things about earth and humans and life and he seems to be the Aziraphale that most love EARTH itself, like, the life, the humans, the food, the little pleasures we have, the little time of happiness we have between all the shit that is happening... he really loves humans <3

- he's conflicted about heaven, he seems to know that there's something WRONG with how heaven works but still doesn't understand what exactly it is

- "oh but saving me makes him soooo happyyyy~~~"

- overall kind and sweet, in a excited way

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziracrow #crowley #Aziraphale #radio omens #good omens radio #good omens book #thats my opinion #more like some thoughts i have been collecting since im hearing radio omens #not really accurate #does this count as character study???? #lol I think not #maybe i have a preference for radio Aziraphale i wrote so much more about him and ended up erasing it all bc it made me look insane #shit its 2 am I'm so sleepy

[ghoulisheous]

The term overshadowing in fics or in the show always strikes me as v intentional, when it comes to Danny. Like out of all the powers Danny has. That one has to be the one with the most moral ambiguity.

But Danny always seems a little too at ease about using it. We've seen him use it seriously in dangerous situations. But also more casually too. Because Danny can be very petty at times

Which just brings me back to my point. He always calls it "overshadowing" instead of what it actually is. Possession. And it just feels like an attempt at sanitizing it, for Danny (And correct me if I'm wrong. But I don't think it was ever called possession in the show. Probably to keep it as kid friendly as possible. But I think it's an idea that can be applied to Danny's characterization too)

Danny doesn't think he's a bad person. And he's not. He's 14. He works hard. He takes on so much responsibility that no one ever asked him to take on. But he's 14. And he's also grumpy, and petty, and immature. Sometimes he makes mistakes.. and sometimes he makes very intentional, very bad decisions. Because he has far more power than a 14 year old should have

But I don't think he can think of anything he does as really bad or evil in any way. And that's normal. Everyone sees their own best intentions first and foremost

So he doesn't call it possession. He's not malevolent. He's not evil. He doesn't hurt people like his enemies do. He's not blindly following an obsession that leads to hypnotizing crowds en masse, like Ember. He doesn't feed off misery, like Spectra. He's not like Vlad, or Skulker, or any of his other rouges.

So it's not possession

It's just overshadowing.

It's different.

At least when he does it

#danny phantom #danny fenton #ghouly tag #idk does this count as a character study? #if you can tell #i was trying really hard not to sound like im bashing him #hes my fav so i really dont mean for it to be taken that way

[evasiveagaric]

I have a physical reaction every time i think about the queercoding of Dave at the end of homestuck. My roommate and I were reading it and i kept having to take a moment to think “holy shit, is he coming out??? is that what we missed on the meteor round 2?”. I don’t keep up with Andrew Hussie news bc i don’t really like him as a person, but the whole talk with Egbert on the lillypad makes me think Hussie either was really close to a queer person or queer himself with just how accurately he wrote Dave talking about the queer experience, even if he doesn’t actually come out in that part. It doesn’t feel like queerbaiting either bc it bc fits with Dave’s characterization and how hard it is for him to talk about anything sincerely.

I don’t want to downplay the importance of Dave realizing the thoughts Bro instilled in him about how a man should act in favor of speculating about his sexuality tho. Not wanting to be a stoic hero of man who doesn’t have attachments or be soft with anyone is a huge part of Dave’s characterization and character arc. I think they go hand in hand tho, his struggles with toxic masculinity and his sexuality. I think the conversation was blatantly about both while Dave gave himself an out to pretend it was just about one. And he didn’t even do that.

I’m about to get hella pretentious and read way too much into things under the cut. More rambling about Dave’s character arc as a whole and nitpicking of dialogue towards the end of homestuck down below.

Future peepaw edit: this turned into a fucking play by play essay, my bad

Out of order but I also want to talk about his characterization as a whole.

Homestuck Mobile formatting jumpscare:

He’s willing to talk about another guy’s feelings. Romantic ones. for someone at the time presents as a guy. It doesn’t even feel like he’s joking. 13 year old Dave would never.

And this happens before all the stuff i mentioned earlier, showing exactly what he talked about. I honestly don’t think any other character has an arc like Dave’s. Which, seeing as Dave is a fully fleshed out complex character that makes sense, but I mean in general. I have consumed a lot of media, i’ve consumed a lot of queer media too. I’m really into the history of queercoding and how it relates to representation. I don’t think I’ve seen a character arc quite like Dave’s, especially in relation to sexuality and toxic masculinity.

Egbert assumes that Dave’s being a dick on purpose, and Dave rebukes it so strongly he uses an exclamation point. In a series where how people type is kind of a big thing, Dave’s frequent lack of punctuation is a nod to his “cool guy” facade, the lack of tone indication part of the “mystery” a cool guy has to be surrounded with. So, the fact that he feels strongly enough, or has loosened up enough on the cool guy show no emotions routine speaks to his self reflection. Of course this is stated literally a few more dialogue lines down, about how much time he spent on the meteor thinking about societal norms and his Bro’s teachings but the fact that it’s sprinkled in before hand too makes it feel less like it’s come out of the blue, or that it’s out of character.

“yeah we coulda talked about this” says so much. Not only to his relationship with Karkat (romantic or not, i’m a Davekat shipper but that’s not what i’m getting at here) but just how far he’s come with getting close to others. Not to mention the fact that it’s implied that they talk at least somewhat frequently about heavy and deep issues such as feelings for other people definitely feels like a major shift in Dave’s character, one for the better.

He’s probably been vulnerable with Karkat in a way that he never was with anyone as a kid. They talk about things. They talk about important enough things that Karkat’s past black crush on Egbert never coming up probably feels a little strange, hence Dave asking if he’s been thinking about it all this time. He has that connection with Karkat, which is important bc Karkat is masculine presenting. I’d bet money that Bro would not have approved, regardless of them just being friends or not.

That level of vulnerability? Not immediately calling Karkat gay and dunking on him? Treating what would be seen a gay relationship as completely normal and not even something to bat an eye at? 13 year old Dave WISHES he had the emotional maturity Dave has now.

He even encourages Karkat to hold on to those feelings bc Egbert expressed that they could hate people, at least platonically. Egbert even calls him out, saying he sounds like he’s being a dick about it and Dave says he’s being real.

Not to mention he kind of forgets that Egbert “isn’t a homosexual” at this point, that or he suspects Egbert isn’t straight in some capacity. I think he has less hang ups about queerness than Karkat does at this point. Or at least less hang ups about being honest. It feels fitting for his character and i’m sad that most of that character arc is off screen. I get it tho, writing meteorstuck round 2 would have made homestuck significantly longer most likely.

In conclusion: I like Dave and his character arc too damn much. I have to go to work now, i was not expecting to have this many thoughts about it and i’ve rambled enough.

#homestuck #dave strider #does this count as #character study #karkat vantas #john egbert #june egbert #i’m vague on pronouns for Egbert #peepaw story time

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

Martin had had exactly one relationship that miraculously lasted for longer than a month. It is kind of funny. He knows his mom has fucked him up, knows that his every thought and action is tainted by that woman. She has made him long for solitude while being terrified of loneliness. She has made him beg for affection while resenting the person he willingly demeans himself for. She has raised an aching mess of contradiction and doesn't even have the decency to look her own abomination in the eyes. She was forced to raise and put up with him through poverty and sickness and sometimes he can't even bring himself to feel the proper gratitude she deserves. It was her responsibility as his mother to take care of him. She was sick and she deserved better than to be forced to live with a fuckup like him for so long.

(He used to daydream about what it would be like to live together. With Jon. His dreams were always warm and fuzzy and bubblegum pink and completely unrealistic. Because in reality Martin simply wasn't built for a domestic life. And his boss also absolutely hated him. That was half of his appeal, after all.)

His name had been Tim. It was not the same Tim that would become his coworker, although his heart did stop in dread for the first month or so whenever he heard the name. Both Tims had been remarkably similar. They both loved reading and they both forgot everything around them when they were focused on a particular topic and both were loyal and nerdy and friendly and conflict avoidant. Both looked happy whenever they saw him. They moved in together, and Tim made both of them coffee every morning (Martin never told him that he hates it) and sometimes surprised Martin with his guilty pleasure (funny shaped pancakes with chocolate drips and condensed milk) and did half of the chores always on time and without complaint (he playfully scolded Martin whenever he put the responsibility to keep the entire house clean and functioning on himself alone). He was always the one to go to the supermarket (Martin hates going to the supermarket) and he never misgendered or deadnamed him (if it is so easy why could his mother never-). It was perfect. And Martin absolutely hated it.

Because he had been molded for years and years until his edges were too jagged for a comfortable life. He didn't fit into a good and healthy relationship. He is wasn't built for it, his shape is all wrong. He is always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and when it doesn't, he throws it himself. He can't help it. (It runs in his veins.)

Whenever Jon would be way too harsh because of a minor mistake, Martin's heart would jump in elation. And, shamefully, whenever Sasha and Tim (the other one) tried to comfort and reassure him something inside him preened. People cared, so surely it couldn't be as impossible to like him as his mom had always implied. (He just needed to keep it up).

He secretly relished Jon's meanness because it meant that the world would end before the other liked him back. (Oh the irony). It was a comfortable place, or at least as comfortable as a twisted form like him can manage. As long as Jon sneered at his every move and refused to drink his tea, Martin could continue his daydreams. Because they were impossible, which meant they weren't real, which meant that they felt good. And sometimes these stupid fake dreams where both Jon and Martin became people that don't really exist were his only reprieve from real life.

(It had been his choice to break it off. With Tim. It had been his choice to move apartment. It had been his choice to live alone. And oh, how Martin does hate the loneliness.)

Living with Jon is not like the dreams he would escape to whenever day-to-day life became too much.

Living with Jon is waking up with a bony elbow pressed against his chest. It is finding long strands of hair in every nook and cranny and it is being permanently banned from the kitchen and it is not quite getting most of his jokes and it is also being reminded of his lack of higher education sometimes (he knows that Jon doesn't mean it, that it is just Martin Blackwood making everything harder for himself like always, but it still stings). Sometimes they go to bed angry and sometimes they can't bear to look in the mirror or at each other and sometimes they need to feel each other - skin against skin - or they feel like they are going to die. It is not perfect, sometimes Martin wishes he still had a flat for himself alone, but that is what makes him love it. That is what makes it real. Martin Blackwood Hello Jon apologies for the deception -

#tma #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #does this count as a character study? #jonmartin

[irlstereo]

normalize general Dallas Winston headcanons

#it’s past my bedtime #matt dillon #dallas winston #dallas winston x reader #dallas winston headcanons #i’m just saying #they eat every time #plus I like studying Dallas and trying to fit the headcanons into what I already know about his character #he’s so silly #I love him #this does count as a delusion #the outsiders

[wickwackity]

little self study + zabrak time :)

#literally me bc i’m zabrak #fun fact!!!! #me fr #zabrak #self study #does this count as a star wars self insert #star wars #sw #star wars art #my art #original art #star wars character #kinda

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Ok I saw a lot of posts touching on the existentional crisis Nine would go trough if he saw his alternative self/ves and had the realization that he's but a mere trait, a one of many, someone Sonic cares about only because he's a fragment of someone else entirely.

But I wanna focus on the jealousy and anger he would definitely feel after learning that he was the version of Tails that had it the worst. The "bad end" version of him, the "What would happen if Sonic didn't exist and Eggman ruled the world?" version.

Every other version was saved, every other version gained friends and hope of some kind, even if not in Sonic. But they were still shown love and companionship and acceptance and guidance and home and safety. Something Nine could only ever dream off.

Just imagine the bitterness, the resentment the hatered.

Why did he have to be the one growing up in a tyrany and wasteland ridden metrocity? Why did he have to be the one who never got a chance of love and acceptance? Why did he have to be the one left to fend for and survive on his own? Why did he have to be the one to turn out selfish and to only think about himself out of necessity, why did he have to be the one to suffer the most, why did he have to be the one- why him?

#sonic prime #i mean miles from WWMH exists but hes not really cannon so he dont count #even tho I really like to think of him as an interesting character study #buuut not now #not yet #i hath to collect my thoughts aboutbit bit more #for now its only nine #and god does this little creatchure manage to fit so much angst in it #he says why him #but why anyone else #why anyone really #nine the fox #miles nine prower #sonic angst #silly brainworms

[obamousse]

Hinata is actually good at English.

However, Karasuno at the time did not have enough resources -- it taught English through textbooks and focused on grammar and reading, and it could not afford an English-speaker to practice speaking with the students.

Hinata learns best by speaking with natives, and worst by memorizing endless formulas and knowledge in books, obviously as he struggled in other subjects. Things were so bad he had to ask Yachi for tutoring and help him memorize English's arbitrary grammar rules. He thought he could not learn English.

Until he went to Brazil. He was scared, since he could not learn English - the language of the world - well. Until he met Oikawa, who is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, who spoke English, Portuguese and Spanish with him for Hinata to learn the language. Hinata was surprised he could learn these languages so easily, and realized that he was bad at English because of the school's way of teaching him, and that he needed to use English in practice often to master it.

#haikyuu!! #hinata shouyou #haikyuu headcanons #character study #does this count as headcanons or analyzing canon???

[stragglewort]

A quick bath after a tedious battle.

My Curse of Strahd players have consistently mixed emotions. Join them!

#does this count as nsfw? #It's basically an anatomy study #just strahd flavored #curse of strahd #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd 5e #strahd von zarovich #dnd stuff #art #dnd character #dnd5e #dnd art #strahd

[immobiliter]

"And it would not do for the Demoiselle of the Spina to go without a gun" "Granted, as president of Spina di Rosula, I do have my ways of making people keep their mouths shut, but don't worry — I promise not to use those on you." "If you ask Navia, she'd tell you that the Spina serves as a business partner with all sorts of people in it, that will help with any problem, using the velvet glove or the iron fist as appropriate." "she could see the cosmetic scars imagined by makeup artists permanently carved into the bodies of those dwelling in the Fleuve Cendre."

tell me the spina is like the mob without telling me the spina is like the mob

#me & sae coming up with this analogy 🤝 navia's voicelines/character stories backing us up #* / character study ( navia. ) #this is probably one of the first things i will meta about since i really want to pin down what the spina is and how it operates #because it's not just an independent detective agency #they effectively control the fleuve cendre which is implied to be full of unsavoury characters - even without counting the sinthe dealers #and i think navia has very good intentions and a kind heart #and it's interesting that she does talk in her voice lines about not wanting to run it like her father did #but i think her morals are flexible and her willingness to look the other way to the moral character of others in the spina is interesting #but as i say - a full write up on this is coming once i've done her story quest and compiled all of the stuff from the AQ