#i just want my favorite character to suffer

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

Character Flaws vs Writing Flaws:

While catching up on some of the stuff people have commented/sent to me, I noticed someone mention how Katsuki being a bully is a flaw of his and that not every character needs to be a good person.

First of all, when did I ever say that a character has to be morally correct to be a good character? Some of my favorite characters are villains who’ve done worse things than Katsuki.

So what’s the difference between them and Katsuki?

Well, the villains have a reason for existing. Joker is meant to serve as a parallel to Batman, challenging his morals while also showing what an unhinged Batman could look like.

On a much lesser scale, despite his extremely limited screen time, Moonfish’s bloodlust, lack of sanity, and cannibalism serve two purposes in MHA: to showcase Fumikage’s power and to give the readers an example of what the heroes of this world have to deal with.

Katsuki’s flaws are meant to show the flaws of a world that values raw power over morals, but he fails at this. The reason why? His flaws are never allowed to be flaws.

Katsuki’s aggressive and hostile nature should have him struggling to make friends, yet he has the two pillars of 1-A, that being Ejiro and Denkias described by Hori, immediately befriend him with no issues. His inability to empathize with others should have people wanting to steer away from him, but his instead 1-A loves him, Eri loves him despite being the last person who would, and anyone who doesn’t love him is seen as being in the wrong.

Katsuki is meant to be a big fish in a little pond, someone whose ego isn’t challenged until a certain point, and the Battle Trials were meant to show this. While yes, Katsuki has a mini-breakdown over the fact that he’s no longer in a class of people with weaker quirks, he has no issue claiming a spot as a Top Dog and he still continues to demean the people around him.

Katsuki’s aggressiveness is meant to be both a flaw and an asset. His aggressive nature is what motivates him to defeat the villain, but it’s supposed to cause him to have a one track mind when it comes to hero work. Rescue, teamwork, all of that is ignored by him to fight the big bad. His ego caused everyone to have a tougher time during the USJ, but is that ever touched upon? Nope. It’s just ignored. When Katsuki saved Kyouka, there was no buildup to it. It just happens. We never see him struggle with teamwork because everyone else follows him like a lost puppy.

Meanwhile, Izuku is meant to be Katsuki’s parallel in this department. He’s meant to showcase why too much selflessness isn’t good while also showing that a hero is more than just their raw power. Problem is, Izuku gets completely shat on no matter what he does. He goes after a villain to protect U.A? Gets criticized. Does his best to work with Katsuki? Gets blamed despite it solely being an issue on Katsuki’s end. Does everything perfectly? Nope, still not enough. Compared to Izuku, who always seems to be in the wrong, Katsuki’s placed as this paragon of heroic virtues despite the fact both characters are supposed to be two halves of a whole. They’re supposed to learn from one another. Problem is, Katsuki’s flaws are always ignored while Izuku’s positive traits are demeaned.

Finally, Katsuki being a bully is supposed to serve as a starting point for his character. He’s meant to grow and develop as a human being. Again, he doesn’t, or at least he doesn’t do so in an organic way. He never suffers consequences for his behavior, he’s constantly propped up and coddled instead of criticized, and he’s given some heroic moments despite there being no buildup to them. In the span of a month he goes from nearly killing Izuku to risking his life for him. Where the hell did that come from? Honestly, I wouldn’t care if Katsuki being a bully is his sole purpose for existing, but he’s meant to be more than that. This is supposed to be a well developed and fully fleshed out character who grows from his selfishness and is meant to show that anyone can be a hero, no matter their starting point. But when the development is crap and he hardly changes outside of some OOC moments, then his flaws cease to be flaws that he’s meant to overcome. Instead MHA treats it as him being quirky and misunderstood.

In conclusion, you just can’t present something as a character flaw and expect it to serve as an excuse as to why a character exhibits said flaw. You have to think of the following: what purpose does this flaw serve? Is it meant to be used to teach a lesson? Does it set something in motion, whether it be the development of this character, another character, or does the flaw cause the character’s downfall? The only thing Katsuki’s flaws does right is that they set up Izuku’s story, which again would be fine if that’s Katsuki’s purpose, but it’s not. Him being a bully isn’t something that he overcomes in a natural way. His redemption story is the equivalent of filling things out of a checklist without being fleshed out. Every time he screws up, it’s never treated as a screw-up. Oh he failed the hero license exam? Well so did Shoto so he’s not unique there, and the proctors still suck his dick even while he’s “failing”. Him being the reason for 13’s injuries? Never brought up.

Katsuki’s flaws don’t piss me off because they are flaws, but because the writing of his character IS so deeply flawed despite being a centralized character in the story.

Oh, and as always, someone can dislike a character for whatever reason they might have. If people don’t like Katsuki because he’s a bully, then they have every right to. What I wrote is a response as to why I think Katsuki’s a shit character and how it’s not because of his flaws themselves, but how Hori goes about writing these flaws.

#anti katsuki bakugou #anti bakugo katsuki #anti bakugo #anti bakugou #mha critical #anti bakugou katsuki #bnha critical

[franzkafkagf]

okay so i want to hear about your take on aegon i know you like him and all (so do i no matter how much i wish not to) but whyy

yess thanks for asking, I love being insane about him<3

I think Aegon is such a wildly tragic character– many asoiaf characters are but I'm so drawn specifically to him; he didn't want power or responsibility or the crown. It all was bestowed upon him against his will, and he shouldn't; putting on the crown is his definitive death sentence. The coronation scene has got to be one of my favorites in the season– he is quite literally walking up to be butchered like a sacrificial lamb, there are tears streaking his cheeks in the scene! I love the tragedy of it, the way it couldn't have been avoided anyways; his fate was sealed from the very start! He was quite literally dead from the very beginning.

I'm going off a mix from the book and the show but I actually love what they did with the character in the show? The book version does have some hard-hitting moments from him that are missing ("What sort of brother steals his sister's birthright?") but there wasn't that much there in terms of characterization and relationships. And wow, did they deliver on that in the show; I'm gonna give whoever came up with his mommy issues a forehead kiss.

Because YES! He and Alicent are reflections of one another– Alicent suffered under the heavy boot of Otto, turned into the perfect daughter, turned into the perfect queen for him. She recognizes that this was wrong and abusive of him, then she turns around and does the same thing to Aegon– the poison DOES drip through, the wheel is NOT broken!! It's BRILLIANT.

@atopvisenyashill put a GREAT tag under one of my posts–

#he looks like her and he’s weak like her so why can’t he get strong like her.

While Alicent persevered, Aegon crumbled under the pressure. He is miserable when we meet him– and he should be! He is unfit for the role of king, but it is his destiny nonetheless, everybody tells him so. It destroys him.

It's so sad too and I cannot help but to feel bad for him. No one knows where he is in ep 9, I don't think he has anyone to confide in; it must be lonely. Everybody seems to have written him off already– he is a drunk and a failure at being heir, being a son, being a father. He tries to prove them wrong later, and does in some aspects.

His loneliness plays into another aspect of him that I really love; his desperation to be loved. He will never be enough for anybody, he probably knows it deep down.

"[Aegon is] desperate to be loved but destined to be hated." – Tom Glynn-Carney

Obviously there is the carriage scene with Alicent that shows this. But I also really love the moment in his coronation, where he basks in the people's affection and cheers. He is poised to bleed out in front of the throne, he was crying and fighting for his life not to take the crown just minutes before. But now he's here and they love him and he can't help but love that.

He takes the crown to protect his family (the show does hint at that with Alicent telling him as much in ep. 6– in the book it's much more explicit with Criston pressuring him on the day of the coronation itself) and then his son DIES because of it! And he drinks and rages and drinks some more; he must've blamed himself. He goes to battle, flies too high (figuratively), and he FALLS; he burns and falls to the ground. He isn't made to be king. He knows. He does it anyways.

"You have already written yourself into legend, you survived dragonfire" – Larys Strong in season 2 (probably)

He survives, he is gone for over a year, unable to do anything but he SURVIVES. He escapes the capital, takes Dragonstone, he falls AGAIN, he loses most of his family; but he still goes on. Fueled by what? Maybe anger, or bitterness or just pure lust for revenge. It doesn't matter. He must've realized somewhere on the way that this was always meant to go this way, ever since he put the conqueror's crown on. It doesn't matter.

And then he dies and it's not grand or spectacular or anything like that. He drinks poisoned wine, nobody even sees him die, they only find him after. It's so uniquely lonely.

#hotd #house of the dragon #tom glynn carney #aegon ii targaryen #aegon targaryen #hotd meta #aegonposting #alicent hightower #otto hightower #omg now im sad </3 #ales.txt #asks

[jennifer-jeong]

[Fluff + Slight Angst] [Gojo Satoru x Reader] Kikufuku

GUESS WHO'S BACK FROM ROTTING DURING EXAMSSSSSS TAKE THIS DRAFT I FINISHED WHILE I WORK ON MY REQUESTS HEHEHEHEHEHE I WILL BE POSTING ALL MY STUFF SLOWLY MEHEEHEHHE

CONTENT

Going to get food everyday with Gojo bc he loves trying new places and he used to do it sm with geto and shoko ): Mostly fluff, some angst, gender neutral reader, implied crush, lots of mentions of food, ALL CHARACTERS ARE 18+

AUTHOUR NOTES

Note that I can’t remember where I got this idea from (it's been sitting in a document for months and I only just got around to it) but I might've read it from somewhere (maybe a tiktok?) so I’m sorry if I've stolen someone's idea, please lmk so I can give credit if this is the case!

Word Count: 477

Satoru is your typical happy go lucky guy on the outside. He’s always walking around as if there’s not a single thought running through his mind. He’ll buy his favorite mochi while all the passersby swoon at his handsome self. You met the man not more than a few months ago when you joined Jujutsu High as a fellow staff member and you’ve gotten quite close. He’d always ask you if you wanted to get food after work and most of the time you'd say yes. But, for the first few weeks, sometimes you’d be busy or not feeling up to going out to dinner with your co-worker you just met. That quickly changed though.

Satoru gets quite lonely when you aren’t there with him and you've noticed after getting to know him. He's not anything he shows on the outside. He’s alone. He’s suffering. But he’s still so sweet. A month or 2 after meeting him, you’ve made it a mission to always get food with him even if you’re busy. If it’s not in person, you’re at the very least video or audio calling him so he can show you the food and talk to you while you both eat. Gojo loves trying new places because it feels refreshing. It makes him feel young again and you support it because you know his youth was robbed from him. You know that he used to get food everyday with Suguru and Shoko because he told you about it. You know he misses them by the way he talks about it and he knows you know. But, ignorance is bliss right? You're both just trying to live ignorantly happily while simultaneously healing from your respective pasts. What else could you really do?

Yesterday was takoyaki and Thai milk tea for dessert. Today was coconut curry and ice cream filled taiyaki. Tomorrow, Satoru is thinking Beijing style duck or maybe K-BBQ? Carbonara? Peri Peri Chicken? Enchiladas? Shawarma??? You always laugh when he goes on a tangent of what he wants to eat and try with you. You tease him by adding more options to the list and he clenches his fists dramatically and squeezes his eyes shut under his blindfold while whining that he can’t pick and that there’s too much good food. You occasionally have to reassure him that you have time and that you’re not going anywhere. You never fail to notice the blush on his ears when you soothe him like that and he never fails to see your fidgety hands as you say the gentle words to him. He feels so lucky to have your company and you can confidently say the same, in your thoughts of course. You wouldn’t tell him that out loud and he also finds himself too scared to try. At least, not yet. Maybe one day, over some kikufuku.

Thank you for reading!

|| MASTERLIST<3 ||

#jjk x reader #reader x jjk #jujutsu kaisen x reader #gojo x reader #reader x gojo #gojo satoru x reader #satoru gojo x reader #gojo fluff #gojo satoru fluff #satoru gojo fluff #gojo comfort #j's silly ramblings

[vesrimm]

What colors would a god machine bleed? Be it some dream or nightmare?

#blood/ #rain world #five pebbles #rain world five pebbles #five pebbles rain world #biting and chewing my favorite character like a chewtoy and then sticking him in a blender (affectionate) #he's so me. i need to shake him around for a while. give me 26 dollars for the plush and i'll give him a warm blankie instead. #i also just wanted to draw someone covered in blood. unfortunately he was the person i was sketching. i'm so so sick he's suffering with me #payment for the sniffles. #idk what the text is for i just wanted to sound cool </3 #haha wheee 💖 #edit: wow i should drench him in blood more often. yall like that huh.

[i-d-e-g-a-f]

i ache for katara so deeply, she deserves so much better than her canon fate. i cannot express in words how much her story and how the fandom views/treats her physically hurts me

#anti kataang #katara deserved better #i know she’s a fictional character so ppl can say think and feel however they want about her and it the end of the day it shouldn’t matter #cus she’s not real but i just feel for her so deeply it hurts #katara my beloved #katara #katara my best friend who i have a DEEP parasocial relationship with i will always be on your side #they can never make me hate you #WE COULDVE HAD IT ALL #yes i’m being dramatic but also 100% serious #truly my favorite character of all time and she has been done wrong not only by the writers but by the fans too lord give her a break #i need her to get justice so bad against bryke and everyone who speaks ill on her #god please take all her suffering and give it to bryke #am i being hyperbolic right now? #your guess is as good as mine #zutara #for exposure ig #anti bryke

[noddynods]

Crowned Dimentio Soul

"You did this to yourself, fool. Your actions have consequences and i will make sure you fully understand that."

- the master crown probably

#I wanted to make a regular crowned dimentio design #But i don't have the energy so i'm just gonna give you his soul form #Oh how i love making my favorite characters suffer <3 #super paper mario #spm #dimentio #kirby's return to dream land #Kirby #master crown #Kirby-Mario crossover #super mario

[notsoevilmagistrate]

I love psychotic pathetic men

#they’re my favorite ones to write #maybe because I am one idk #ocs #oc making #it’s all funny #I wrote a guy having a mental break and running away to vomit in a bathroom #he had five mints in his pocket so he just put them all in his mouth at once #and when another guy makes fun of him for freaking out #he says ‘kill yourself’ with the mints still in his mouth #proceeds to then eat them and swallow them #and then go on another detailed rant of how the other guy should suffer #it’s great #they’re the funniest types of characters #oh and I should mention my oc had that mental break because someone was flirting with his fuck buddy #well ‘fuck buddy’ if you get what I mean #it’s so hilarious #I can make them as crazy and irrational as I want #he’s really just a wet cat

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Taako 100% struggles with chronic fatigue post-Wonderland. He's died so many times but nothing quite feels as awful as that constant, bone-deep exhaustion that never really goes away.

#having a rough few. . . years. . . . . . #and i just want my favorite characters to suffer with me #i'm so tired #taako taaco #taz #the adventure zone

[francy-sketches]

Props to grrm for being realistic and having many characters with the same name I guess but whenever I see a historical or background character with the same name as a more major one I just imagine the same guy but slightly recolored

#.txt #asoiaf #except for those super generic names like jon or jeyne #I mean there’s what at least 4 jons in the main books. and 2 of them are povs #new drawing challenge pick one name and draw every character who has it. pick jon if you want to suffer #there’s 9 joffreys holy shit #grrm really liked that name huh #I really hope they include those two in hotd #just so somebody can be like ‘my favorite character in the got universe is joffrey :)’ and confuse everyone #when asked to elaborate just say ‘oh you know the kid that died at 13 and got slapped by his uncle’ #did grrm do that on purpose #I think so lol #do you think they’ll have the balls to not change their names. or are they like dnd who thought people would confuse asha and osha #or maybe just not include them actually idk how important they are #haven’t read f&b just the wiki pages lol #ok im stupid i couldve just checked the cast list lol. the gay one is there apparently epic

[mister13eyond]

basically vin's morality is "you have to play with your cat until he's exhausted or he WILL make his own fun and it WILL be destroying your furniture"

#vin isn't outright evil and as long as he's entertained he's perfectly harmless #but there is nothing more dangerous than a bored demon #also by virtue of watching and eating dreams he has started to think of humans as like blorbo from his shows #those are his favorite nightly programs! #but that also means he's like #ahh i can't wait to see blorbo from my shows experience catastrophic emotional turmoil because we love to see them overcome struggles #so if he's looking for entertainment he MIGHT cause problems on purpose just because #he wants to watch someone struggle with and overcome those problems #he doesn't take JOY in suffering he just loves a good narrative arc and character growth #and unfortunately there's little difference to him between characters and humans #especially in the realm of dreams #bc there he gets to watch people like die or endure horrors beyond the possibilities of reality #but he also knows they will wake up and be Fine so he's extra desensitized to nightmare horror #oh this is a serious trauma you're processing? #no this is his favorite psychological horror movie #my ocs #my oc #headcanons #vin #vinegyaru

[puhpandas]

I love Cassidy to death but the idea of her being the only one to possess Golden Freddy (or just the main spirit) is so boring to me. like since with most timelines Mike is the night guard in fnaf 1 its just SO much better for Evan to be possessing the robot he had a plushie of and what he was killed BY. "It's Me" makes so much sense with Evan and Mike in fnaf 1 then it does with Cassidy. with Cassidy the only reason she would be saying "Its Me" to Michael is if she thought he was William, which is just so boring to me compared to Evan talking to his brother after like 8 years. Cassidy was 1 of 5 kids that were murdered that day and the legendary Golden Freddy JUST being 1 of the 5 kids that's angrier is so boring to me. like the "Its Me" everyone was theorizing about for years being Evan Afton, the boy who was killed by his brother on his birthday talking to the aforementioned brother 8 years later while possessing the same robot he died in while the brother tries to fix his fathers mistakes. like oh my god. the only reason Evan died that day is because William was a child murderer who purposefully didnt care about safety precautions in his animatronics and his son paid the price for it. Evan being angry at not Mike but William and being the one to keep him in his personal hell along with Cassidy who has a grudge. the most satisfying theory for real

#i love the idea of both cassidy and evan possessing golden freddy and i believe that theory #it would also makes sense with 'the one you should not have killed' if Cassidy was also there #maybe im just an evan enthusiast and hes been my favorite character for 6 years so im biased #but Evan has one of the best stories in the whole fnaf story when you think about it #cassidy not wanting to move on because she wants to keep william in hell and evan not moving on either so he can stay with cassidy☹ #Mike spending his whole life trying to make up for what he did to Evan when in reality it was never his fault Evan died #and Evan acknowledges this #Mike and Evan finally getting to talk in pizzeria simulator and Evan telling this to Mike #Mike finally getting closure from Evan and is able to move on peacefully after knowing his brother doesnt blame him #Evan maturing over time after suffering for so long and acknowledging that Mike was just a dumb teenager trying to prank his little brother #they mean so much to me guys #long story short evan afton is the best fnaf character send tweet #long post #pandas.txt #pandas talks

[ghoul-haunted]

trying to create a little cast of npcs for a potential forum style RP and boy lemme tell you. as much hostility as I have for the source material, I have in fact accidentally created knock off versions of the original cast which is a testament to the author's skills. he did make some fucking fantastic characters. if only he could publish a book that didn't have me feeling a very specific kind of hostility when I reached the end. it'd be perfect. it's not even the kind of hostility where I want to create stuff because it's almost good. I feel like the author kind of hates the reader and you know what. the feeling is mutual, buddy. but I won't deny. I am obsessed with everyone here.

unfortunately I must return to the drawing board. we will make npcs.

#like oh my god i get it some teenagers were mean to you on twitter but you're a grown ass man with a whole series #i remember seeing a line from one of the more recent books and immediately clocking it as a response to some criticism he got #its embarrassing!!!!! just tell the fucking story so i can be at peace #sorry you made characters with a compelling dynamic! if you could just KILL MY FAVORITE CHARACTER OFF SO I DONT HAVE #TO WATCH YOU SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT BECAUSE YOU WROTE YOURSELF INTO A NARRATIVE CORNER #I WOULD APPRECIATE IT #like watching an author deliberately tell a worse version of a story to spite narrative trajectory and set up is annoying #but not more annoying than the cool story thing happening off page and getting summarized in the last chapter like are you fucking #kidding me. you made me suffer 300 pages and you made the cool thing be something referenced?????? #AS THE READER I WANT TO SEE THE COOL THING HAPPEN not hear about it in passing at the end of the book. what the fuck

[browniepokemon]

"i can fix him" "i can make him worse" i can break all his bones and also make them trans. get trans-angst beamed bitch

#pew pew! this is about my ocs lol #emberian solunaria #void keith #voidkeith #emberian talks #voidkeith talks #void keith talks #writing stuff #it is honestly hard for me to write fluff not gonna lie #i just want my favorites to suffer because i like hurt/confort and whump lmao #im also nonbinary and transmasc so most of my characters are somewhere under the trans umbrella

[bat-the-misfit]

half of the world talking about the barbie movie, the other half talking about nimona and then there's me, Uncle Bat, still waiting for the goofiest teen mystery movie brazil will ever make

#“wow Bat you came back from the dead just to say that???” yes #my hiatus was broken just so i could say that #now lemme get back to my cave #this TMJ live action pic is still on my mind 24/7 #i think about this movie every day #i stalk the cast members just to see if they post anything about the movie but they DON'T #THEY'RE MAKING ME SUFFER WITH THEIR SILENCE #specially Yuma Ono he NEVER said anything about playing Do Contra #which is my favorite character since i was 6 i NEED INFORMATION ABOUT HIM IN THE LIVE ACTION #WE'VE BEEN WAITING ON THIS MOVIE SINCE LIKE 2012 OR SMTH WE. NEED. INFO. #I NEED TO SEE ANY PIC OR ANYTHING ABOUT DO CONTRA IN THE MOVIE I NEED TO KNOW I NEED TO KNOW I NEED TO KNOW #“Bat didn't you say you were heading back to the cave go fucking back to the cave and shut up” ok #but just bc i'm freaking out for no information #i will pretend everything's ok in my life and this movie doesn't exist #i will pretend i don't want to choke Yuma for being ashamed of the character he played hahahaahaaha :)) #BYE LOL GOOD BARBIE AND NIMONA MOVIE FOR Y'ALL #tio morcego tá pistola

[hoodieseasoned]

I've had this hermitcraft au idea absolutely infesting my brain for about a week now and normally with these things i just let them pass NOT because i don't want to write them but i just never have the energy for it

today, i sat down for the first time in like, maybe a year and wrote for like almost three hours straight,, tbh it was mostly just bullet points to frame out how i want to do this but i also ?? managed some short ??? scenes and dialogue ???????

i dont want to be overconfident bc there's still a big big chance I'll abadon this thing soon after i run out of energy but man,, it is pretty damn nice to be writing again

#hoodip #maybe it helps a little that I've combined hermitcraft with another one of my big big favorite interests #keeps the brainrot going #I've made a huge mistake in choosing my protagonists tho #i am so not confident with impulses character #and for some reason he's the first pov i chose to write #am having fun tho #can't wait to make him suffer #it's been 4 days and I've already given him trauma #don't worry tho he's in therapy it's fine #raahhhh i really want to push myself to make something out of this idea just so i can share the insanity #impulse my shining star.. #I've made him a horse girl I'm sorry #it will make sense tho #hopefully #if i don't end up ever posting about it again this will be a forever mystery #and i dont know if i can take that

[goldiipond]

at some point when i can gather my thoughts i would like to make an in-depth post (would probably end up being more of an essay honestly) about how tpn treats its characters of color because like. there's definitely a colorism problem with anime/manga in general and i think tpn has some really solid black and brown characters for a medium that is severely lacking in that department but there's also some things it handles poorly and it would be good to explore that i think

#skye's ramblings #idk i think about it a lot like. on one hand you have characters like don who is just. an absolutely wonderful character #never portrayed as overly aggressive and just a really emotional and sensitive person without being infantilized for those traits #the one time he DOES lash out in anger (a very reasonable reaction to the circumstances tht caused it) he's not demonized for it #my favorite character in the whole series after ray if you dont love him yuore wrong #meanwhile krone is an incredibly interesting and well-written character she suffers immensely from being drawn like a fucking caricature #like none of the other characters have this problem and demizu did realize that was shitty and draws her normally now but #it doesn't change the fact that those caricatures are still present in the escape arc and s1 (though the anime is better abt this) #and an especially bad impression considering she's the first significant black character to appear in the series #krone being drawn Like That is definitely the biggest flaw this series has #aside from that lke. phil is really good even if we dont see him much between the first and last arcs #i LOVED ayshe even if she deserved more development (and i wish she didn't have blond hair and blue eyes lol) #zack is a really great character and pepe is the only afro latino character ive ever seen in manga and i love him. also his design fucks #ANYWAY !! ANYWAY. 'i want to make a seperate in-depth post' [writes long tag rant] #saving my thoughts now. but i do have a lot of them