#flower protagonist

[taitavva]

scrapped submission for 2023 shuake week

#kept overworking different places #& then realized i didnt like it when zoomed out #+ i had to get the rest of the days done #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #procreate #2023 #goro akechi #persona 5 protagonist #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #shuake #10 hours #+ pego looks like a vampire ?? #his collar is so silly #just imagine him getting smacked in the face by an oversized bouquet of flowers #ALSO HE'S TALLER AGAIN FOR SOME REASON #it's so u can see his face but #shuake disease #it's the opposite of akeshu #where supreme twink akechi = alpha man #or eye shapes are switched #unlike me. who is not worse (< lying) #if u ever see a gross case of mischaracterization #design; or misattribution #just think on me fondly

[lucabyte]

"Euphrasie unfreezes the King" postcanon stuff is so funny to me because like

#loop and siffrin meet the happiest man in vaugarde #the reason this is in ms paint is because sam and i were joking about the king and then i put far too much effort in #the fucking. mop-headed tank top flower crown king is sam's joke not mine LMAO #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat king #isat fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #anyway funny as it is to have neutralised antagonists one-sidedly see protagonists as their friends despite it all #siffrin is way too strong for that by the end . that man is fucking mincemeat

[flowerbloom-arts]

I made a version of the Long Quiet but it's just me, and also... What if the Long Quiet changed clothes along with the Princess... (Used my 2 favorite princesses as Proof Of Concept, if you want more you can request other princesses :P)

#slay the princess #stp protagonist #stp #stp princess #the adversary #the damsel #voice of the smitten #stp narrator #the long quiet #art #stp fanart #I used the red anemones from The Thorn as a consistent motif because.... I like flowers #'How is LQ a victim of lesbophobia if-' Slay the Princess is yuri to me. because birdman is me and I'm girl

[philcoulsonismyhero]

I'm doing some rereading, and this bit in Broken Homes always cracks me up. You're both nerds, lads, let's move on

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#rivers of london #thomas nightingale #peter grant #peter's intense architecture knowledge is Such an endearing character trait #all protagonists should have a random thing they're obsessed with actually #also I really do love nightingale being a Nature Guy #he knows trees he knows flowers he can identify molly's weird vegetable experiments... #it's such a fun thing for him to be notably knowledgeable about

[agentc0rn]

Lonely earth-bound monarch figures whose existences and legacies extend past the bounds of time and space.

#pokemon x and y #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon fanart #pokemon xy #az pokemon #area zero #the indigo disk #pokemon legends z-a #terapagos #pokemon az #my art #glimmora #Pokemon #my favs who held deity-like status ties to time/space (timeline split/multiverse) vital lore and lost potential.. #flower motifs = glimmora and floette... #while one caused mass wipeout the other is a survivor of a natural disaster (though in some sense could take over the region with crystals) #both of their stories involved grand machine infused with potent power tied to the legendary mon #where in the end AZ/ai prof entreats the protagonists for their help to shut their creation down #both embody their themes - life/death #+ you need a special key item for the machine..the key and the book...sources and symbols of the creators' ambition #oh man do I think about them a lot... #at first I did not like the way this was going but im finally satisified with the results. I poured so many emotions in here lol

[ingoodjesst]

catching up with my shuake yuri quota

#absolutely haven't finalized my hcs for their fem designs i just wanted to doodle Something simple to start bc i love the girls #(un)fortunately i'll never get sick of joker givin akechi flowers #femshuake #shuake #akeshu #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #goro akechi #p5 joker #p5 protagonist #jesst some art #yeah the toxic yaoi is good but the toxic yuri? peak.

[animaxvi]

KH Sora Rage Form poster ✨

"When all the petals fall, what will be left of me?"

New art weee here we go! 🎉 I've been drawing this Sora Rage Form piece for a few months now and I'm excited that I can finally share it now that it's finished! I've been holding onto this piece for what feels like a lifetime 😭

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh sora #artists on tumblr #illustration #art #kh fanart #this has been my comfort piece to work on 🥺 #alot of love and care went into making this so I'm kinda sad that I'm done with it #maybe I'll make a second one to match with a certain silver haired protagonist 👀 #the render was definitely my favorite part #I struggled with the flowers a bit and drawing the stained glass was a first for me #plus breaking the stained glass lolll #been holding rage form sora's hand throughout this whole thing and now I gotta let his hand goooo noooooo 😭 #my art

[somnimagus]

Wake your heart

#persona 5 #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #p5 protagonist #fan art #blood #body horror #my art #from 2021 #tweaked the contrast a bit from how it was originally posted because it was kinda washed out. now it's probably too much but eh #still wanna make a series of all the kids with diff flowers but it's been long enough i'm not sure i can match the style of this one #still a little bit proud of my ribcage bird cage design though

[cloudyshade]

“the gentle spring sunlight warms your body. you feel a little sleepy…”

#this game gay as hell wdym another man was inside you 🤨 #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fan art #my art #persona 3 #persona 3 fanart #persona 3 art #makoto yuki #minato arisato #persona 3 protagonist #flowers #flower language #persona 3 spoilers #maybe?

[onehundredfallenpetals]

Sleepy Akira clings so hard he drags Goro into bed with him too, forced to cuddle in jeans - how tragic

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #shuake #akeshu #akechi x ren #persona 5 protagonist #akechi goro #goro akechi #amamiya ren #akira kurusu #This one was fun to draw! The background was painted and rendered solely on one layer #So one layer of line art and one layer for colour on it that was it #It really made it fun to render and think about #I love how the lighting turned out as a result I kinda want to colour this way more often #It's definitely great for doing backgrounds #also flowers on the window sill are forget me nots and red asters for anyone wondering #referencing those keychains of course #also personal headcanon that Mona 100% will play with cat toys and deny it to anyone who sees or asks so Akira buys him tons of them and #pretends not to notice them scattered across the floor #definitely unplayed with guys

[the-unconquered-queen]

With Blades 2 coming to an end, I just wanna get it off my chest that I'm really not a fan of how they wrote Nia for a great part of this one, particularly vis-à-vis the way they wrote MC. I know I've been saying some stuff along those lines for ages now, but it hasn't left my mind so now I'm gonna actually get into it.

For starters, I think a lot of the issue with Nia's writing was captured pretty well in the tags of this post, particularly on point 2. Like I've said, Nia unfortunately falls into the category of a Mary Sue in that every "flaw" she's given just serves to elevate her to perfection. Hell, even when corrupted—when a person is supposed to be in their most volatile state—the worst she does is be snarky that first chapter (she is aggressive toward MC at one point before this, but it's neither acknowledged nor repeated later). After that, she is entirely normal, just not as much of a pushover, and while I much preferred shadow!Nia, I do think that this really undermines the whole gravity of corruption and b2's emphasis on shadow-light balance, since shadow!Nia comes off as quite balanced already, especially compared to other corrupted characters we've seen.

But here's the thing, that post that got me thinking is months old, and we have gotten more story since then, and what I have noticed is that Nia does, in fact, have one real flaw in canon, but it's the one flaw she's absolutely not meant to have: Nia in canon can at times come off as self-absorbed. She either makes things about herself or doesn't stop people from doing this, and there are multiple examples of it. There is the instance in Riverbend when MC is taking a moment to finally try to process Kade's capture (which, following their own capture, they never got the chance to process) and Nia derails the conversation and makes it about her own grief and is comforted by MC and Mal. Another example is the moment on Gerhard's ship when she vents about the pressure she's been under and lets MC comfort her without at any point considering that MC might have been under similar pressure.

And don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a character putting themselves first. But when the book doesn't waste a single chance to tell us that Nia's character is the complete opposite and that she is chronically incapable of not being considerate 25/8, it's quite contradictory. I mean, you can even call out Ethan Ramsey, PB's golden boy, on making things about himself at some point in OH, but because, unlike Ethan, Nia is written for you to consider her super sweet and wholesome and perfect, the Blades MC actually contributes to this by performing mental gymnastics to turn something around to be about Nia.

Which brings me to my final point: Blades 2 pushed MC to the side to revolve around Nia, but MC is exactly the person they meant for Nia to be, by virtue of the dissonance between showing and telling. They tell you that Nia is selfless because she always puts everyone else first. Well, I can and did name examples showing the contrary, meanwhile, MC is the one who was been through the most traumatic ordeal and is constantly checking in on everyone else without expecting and without receiving much of the same courtesy in return, even apologizing to Nia because she was "carrying all that weight on her own", never mind that MC always has the weight of the world on their shoulders. They tell you that Nia is the heart of the party, but they both told and showed us that everything fell apart without MC.

Even some of Nia's most defining character traits, MC has in similar measure. Nia sees the best in everyone? MC can be the #1 believer in Aerin's redemption after all the shit he pulled. Nia is trusting to the point of naivete? MC literally trusted Valax while she outright told them at every turn she would turn on them at the first opportunity, and was genuinely hurt by the betrayal. Miss me with MC calling Nia "our better self".

Every trait that they've gone out of their way to tell you Nia has they've shown twofold in MC, which is why it's so exasperating to me that they reduced MC to the conduct through which other characters' (particularly Nia's) stories get told while their own is an afterthought. I am by no means saying that two people can't have similar traits or that two people can't be good people at the same time, but there is something about praising these traits in Nia when, based on these, MC should be held to a similar standard. Instead, they relegated MC (main. character.) to a supporting character in Nia's story, elevating every trait that MC possesses only in Nia while ignoring them in MC to the point that many scenes felt frustrating to play.

#it's not that she's a bad character but I do resent making her the protagonist of b2 at the expense of MC #I really hope MC gets their flowers in b3 and the chance to really be in the spotlight because this aspect of b2 was not it #I do like that she had the whole light v shadow thing going on and got to be super powerful and I think her arc was overall good though #it's just those other things that bug me

[marshmurmurs]

skipping a few steps of explanation but ng+ au gone wrong (the lads roleswap) and this somehow works out in akira getting a magical girl outfit

#persona 5 #p5 #akira kurusu #persona 5 protagonist #marsh tries #ng+ au gone wrong (not clickbait) #akiras having a time and a half but on the bright side magical girl hours #and he gets pockets. ann is jealous #n e way i was absolutely going through madoka magicas tvtropes to come up w/ smth for the aoa thing #and saw that and thought it would be funny so #also head in hands i have so many tabs about flowers open bc of this and i dont even know if the flower i was drawing comes across

[tal-iced-tea]

after watching the adventuring party i have a greater appreciation of the introduction of wanessa, like she is FULLY a y.a. protagonist but made into an npc, and i am absolutely in love with the perspective shift of it all

#it's kinda like binx being a warlock patron #such a neat take on fey #also 'a study in human averages' is SO FUNNY especially when you put it in the context of wanessa being a parody #of the typical 'white girl isekai' #SDFKJFDS like a hundred different books came to mind and all their protagonists were exactly like this random human #a court of fey and flowers #dimension 20 #acofaf spoilers

[pekiacyunn]

thanks @ d2k_jpeg for most of the pokemon suggestions!

#mindhack #but they're pokemon trainer #i think it's a sort of black humor to give protagonist so many flower pokemon and rookie so many food material pokemon #(there could be more

[incompleteninny]

The forty-eighth free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

I went back and forth on the title of this chapter, but I decided that I have the “capital A” Asexual privilege of giving innuendo filled names to totally innocuous things. So this one gets the name “Hot and Bothered”.

Hot, humid air mixes with the sweat of awkwardly arranged limbs under a pile of blankets. Avery struggles. She flails, kicking both her feet with wild frustration. One foot rockets out of the steaming maw of her comforter and fresh, cold air rushes over her body. The relief nearly distracts her from the headache.

Nearly.

She rolls over onto her back and drapes an arm over her eyes. Why'd they have to turn the radiators on tonight?

Outside, the wind picks up in a whistling frenzy. It billows through sheer white curtains set around her desk's open window and dampens the unbearable heat. This'd be the moment to drift off if it wasn't for the headache. She sighs, letting an odd mix of relief and frustration seep out.

[...]

#my nose holes are no longer swollen from The Sickness and I can breathe through my nose #Now I can smell the newly blooming flowers! #not that I will. outside is scary #book tags #queer novel #queer webnovel #protagonist with ocd #big scary thoughts that bully me #among other emotional damage of course

[darkfire359]

What’s the difference between Izzy (who yells at people) and Stede (who abandons his family without a word), Ed (who makes someone murder his own dog and then basically forgets about it), Jim (who tries to lock someone in a storage trunk and drown them at sea), and Buttons (who tries to eat a guy’s finger, giving him an amputation-worthy infection in the process, for no reason)?

…Sometimes Izzy acknowledges and apologizes for his bad behavior.

#izzy hands #hot takes #this is basically a shitpost #it’s very uncharitable to everyone else and they don’t deserve it #Stede at least sometimes apologizes too #like when he offered Mary flowers for flipping out at the art show #though that was mostly just a fuckery tbf #anyway I am grumpy and in Izzy apologist mode #other things Izzy does better than main protagonists include: #- communicating his feelings when he’s upset about something #- asking for feedback and suggestions when people tell him he’s doing something wrong #- acknowledging that it’s fair for people to be upset with his actions and to treat him accordingly #- caring when good men who work for him are needlessly put in life-threatening peril #(looking at Stede’s reaction to Swede’s scurvy and Ed’s ‘they’re pirates; it’s their job’)