GUYS OH MY GOD IVE HAD A REVELATION.
I have no idea if anyone else has noticed this, but In Undertale, flowey’s face that he defaults to is Chara’s.
ITS CHARA’S GUYS. YOU CANNOT TELL ME THEY DONT LOOK SUPER SIMILAR. WHAT OTHER CHARACTER HAS EYES LIKE THAT??? AND THE SMILE???? CHARA’S ONLY SPRITES ARE OVERWORLD SPRITES SO WE CANT REALLY SEE IF ITS SHOWING TEETH OR NOT BUT IN FLOWEY’S OVERWORLD SPRITE ITS CLOSED LIKE THIS TOO.
IM-
FLOWEY HAS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE HIS FACE TO REFLECT OTHER PEOPLE, THIS IS A KNOWN FACT THAT HE UTILIZES THIS SHAPESHIFTING THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME. PARTICULARLY DURING THE NEUTRAL ENDINGS.
GUYS.
HIS DEFAULT FACE IS NOT HIS OWN.
THE ONLY TIME HE USES HIS ACTUAL FACE AS FLOWEY IS DURING THE GENOCIDE ENDING.
THE ONE HE USES OTHERWISE IS CHARA’S.
Maybe he’s using it to deflect. Maybe he’s using it to push the blame off of him. Maybe he’s trying to put on the bravest face he knows-
Maybe… He’s trying to put on an unassuming face, the least threatening one he can think of because THATS HIS BEST FRIEND.
Or maybe…. He’s even trying to keep a piece of them with him, something to remember them by now that they’re gone. Because despite everything, despite not having a soul, flowey still cares about them and thinks about them every day.
Idk
Do with this rant what you will XD
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Soooo badly want to combine twin!au with the “chuck has been mindcontrolling luci for years and it’s only just now stopped working so he’s back in s5 character” because can you imagine how distressing that would be for everyone involved?
Like Lucifer’s in full control of himself for the first time in years, after all the shit that went down post-s5, dealing with the repercussions of actions he performed but now honestly can’t tell which ones were things he would have actually done of his own volition and which were God yanking on his strings. And ALSO during that time he had sex in order to have a kid, but instead ended up with twins who no one wants him near! Because everyone hates him! And Heaven’s gone to shit, most of the angels are dead, the only archangel left alive is Michael and he’s still caged and Luci’s got no way of getting him out if he even wants to. (Which. Presumably he does. If only because at least he knows Michael and Michael hasn’t been on the receiving end of the shit he did the past few years and yeah, might still think of him as a monster but at least that was an image Lucifer was almost in control of.)
And then of course when he finally gets to see the twins, he gets to have a horrible moment of going “oh. Oh no. Oh no they’re me and Michael. God’s replaying the story again and with my kids.” Which is! Horrifying! For someone who has only just gotten free of having his entire character rewritten for the sake of being villainized easier by his own father!
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Idk I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but the fatal flaw of tumblr blaze is that sometimes humanity is not inherently good but inherently evil and selfish. You click on a blazed post about people promoting a project they’ve spent months on usually like a book or a comic or a store that’s something like a love letter to the queer community and the comments are just filled with people saying shit like “go kys” and “I don’t care about your shitty project I hope it flops” etc. etc. I’m not saying every post is like that, I mean I haven’t see a lot of negativity when people blaze pictures of their animals but the idea of blazing something I’ve worked really hard on and want more people to see is great until I click on other people doing that and I’m met with the most vile comments I’ve ever seen in all my time on tumblr.
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Hey I wanted some insight on how to write James with more depth. I saw on a one of your post you mentioned not liking that he matured for a girl, and I can agree. And I saw you mentioning his elderly parents and how they died around the war. How do you think being raised by older parents affected his character overall?
oh hey anon 💜💜 i’m not sure i’m the best person for advice on how to write a character w depth (since it’s something i routine eschew in favor of self indulgence) but i can certainly try!
so, i’m not sure if effie and flea dying from illness (dragonpox?) is canon or not but i certainly treat it so. i think they passed away around his 7th year, maybe midway through, and that just strengthened his resolve to join the order. plus, it gives me a more plausible reason for why him and lily married so young.
regarding how growing up with elderly parents might’ve affected him, here’s a few possible options:
- kind, kind, kind. he’s sincere and polite and has impeccable manners (does he sometimes give up on them if the situation calls for? sure) because it’s been instilled in him from birth. i think family portraits going back generations also played a huge role here.
- he’s great with small talk and endearing himself to old people. he’s used to his parents’ friends and often, he prefers being with them over his peers because he can understand them and their motivations better. i think while he was an extrovert and definitely loved hanging out with people, his social skills were a bit rusty bc he’s not grown up around a lot of kids so he doesn’t rly know how to relate to them. (enter: my hc that james uses old people swears like good heavens and goodness gracious) he had to stumble around to get better with his batchmates in hogwarts and even then, he sometimes slips up and goes into geriatric mode and gets teased a lot for it.
- i also think he’d be big on like, tradition and superstition? even when he stops actually believing in them, he still does it bc of habit or ‘what’s the harm?’ or he wants to keep some part of his parents alive. he’s probably thought up all kinds of things he wants to do with harry and teach him and habits to instil in him which just makes it that much more tragic that he didn’t get to
- his nurturing nature came from an acute awareness of his parents’ mortality and taking care of them from a young age. i see flea and effie as realists, treating james as an equal for all that they coddle him. so they’ve never hid this part from him and he’s always had a low grade fear? anxiety? about when time will run out so he tries to over compensate for it by doing the most. (sometimes i hc a james with control issues but that’s a tangent)
- on the flip side, his arrogance definitely came from being a miracle baby. he had all the silver/gold/platinum spoons in his mouth and so much privilege he doesn’t know what to do with it. while his heart is in the right place, effie & flea were cut from the same cloth so his understanding of these nuances came much, much later as he started interacting with people in hogwarts who had very different lives. i think this made him a bit insensitive at times, but definitely the aforementioned heart makes sure he makes amends, even if they’re fumbling and based on trial-and-error.
- he was a lonely kid!! as much as he loved his parents and their friends and his life, he still grew up mainly alone in a large manor with nothing but portraits to talk to and that had to have had an effect on him. combine that w his never ending energy and always being switched on and is it any wonder he keeps doing The Absolute Most when he finally gets to hogwarts? how hard he latches on to sirius?
- oh also, i think he definitely has some form of rejection sensitivity. i’ve mentioned this before but i think, despite his confidence, it can be easy to make him self conscious by bringing up say, how loudly he talks or how he ‘never shuts up’ or ‘oh my god ur so annoying potter do u ever just, chill out’ (one reason why a lot of jily fics don’t agree w me tbh), partly because he’s never really been criticised before so he doesn’t know how to constructively deal with it and partly bc he’s always thinking in extremes and doesn’t want to be a bother so he decides completely shutting himself off is the only acceptable solution. (another hc: sirius knows this, understands it as an actual problem, and is therefore the only one who can bring up his faults/tell him to cut it out without sending him into a guilt/hurt spiral)
i’m...gonna stop here. i don’t know if all of these make sense but it’s how i see james (i think) so i rly hope it helps u! if u end up writing a fic/post (even if it doesn’t have any of this lol), tag me so i can read it <333 happy writing, anon!
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