miqojak
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10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags
Basic rules: choose 10 fandoms that you are part of/support, and choose a favorite character from each of those. Then, tag ten folks!
Tagged by: @dragonsongmakhali and @thefreelanceangel (thanks! I get around to tagged things eventually, lmao)
This isn't in any particular order, they're just in whatever order they came to mind! I'll also note that I've never really understood the concept of 'being in a fandom'? I just...like the thing? So I guess this is more like "A handful of my all time favorite characters, many of whom went on to inspire me to write similar OCs whether I realized it at the time or not." Anyways, I wax verbose on this, so...buckle up, and thanks ahead of time if you decide to read it all!
I'll go through my recent notifications to tag some folks who've interacted lately (also thanks, I've been very ill and out of it for what feels like months now...) @ashenbun, @the-sycophant, @eorzeanflowers, @iron-sparrow, @briar-ffxiv, @merlwybs-wife, @sundered-souls, @superbolided, @ahollowgrave
1. Harley Quinn, Batman
What's not to love? She's quirky, she's (incredibly) smart, she's bi, and she's just one of many female characters I love for being flawed, but better for it! She's dealing with mental illness, and feels like only this one person understands her - and having been wrapped around a narcissist's finger before? I get it. You don't realize they're a piece of shit until...one day you do, or one day your friends get through to you that this is unhealthy, and you're not really yourself around this person.
I love that she gets to be her own character these days, and live her own life, and do what she wants to do (when she figures that out) - I actually love that she works more and more with the Batfam in recent material because...she was never a villain. She's always been chaotic neutral! She changed who she was for the Joker, and was always miserable and mistreated no matter how hard she tried to be exactly who and what he wanted (a mewling servant) - and more often than not, even when she did what she thought he wanted, he still punished and humiliated her (like when she almost killed Batman).
Bruce has LONG been on Harley's side, and long tried to talk some sense into her...but I think they'd been 'at odds' for too long for his words to get through to her, and it took the initial mutual compassion (and eventual love) shared between her and Pamela for someone's 'get the fuck out' speech to finally sink in.
And now she's a fully realized character/woman with her own goals, her own personality, her own style... and if people don't like that she can do crime AND do good stuff alongside the Batfam? They can fuck off - at least, I imagine she'd say that, tbh. It's her choice - she never wanted what the Joker wanted. She just wanted him to notice her. Now she can act on her whims, and live in the moment and live up to her fullest potential! (Plus, while I'm not Jewish, I love that she is! At least in most iterations that I've seen.)
I think 'hurt people hurt people' is another good tagline for her - because the instant she's shown real compassion...be it from Bruce-outside-the-suit, or Poison Ivy? You can see her heart. You can see the sweet, and loving person she is under all the performing...or 'masking', you might say. The tragic clown doesn't need your laughter... they need your compassion. They need you to listen.
2. Mackayla Lane, The Fever Series (I've read this series at least 6 times, and recommend you read it, too!)
Mackayla is a self-centered, pink-loving, girly-girl who doesn't think heavy thoughts - she likes to sunbathe, paint her nails, and enjoy lazy southern days by the pool, when she's not working part time as a bartender.
Until her sister is murdered on a trip abroad, and in her fervor to find out what happened - and why it feels like nothing is being done about it - she picks up and goes to Ireland in search of clues her own damn self...and finds out about this whole hidden legacy of the Sidhe, Sidhe-Seers, and why/how she and her sister are tied into this world. It's such an emotional journey! She evolves into someone different a few times throughout this journey of grief, self-discovery, and...eventually, love. She learns to be more introspective, to be more aware of those around her, to look deeper in herself for strength, so as to never be a damsel in distress again - she fights furiously for a sister we never get to see alive. (and I love a good story about a character central to the plot who is dead before the story even begins, tbh.) She goes from someone I'd roll my eyes at, to someone I'd look up to, instead. She learns to be fierce, but not to lose her compassion in doing so. She learns to fight for not just herself, but others. She suffers, and it breaks her for a time - but she comes out of it stronger for it. She doesn't let it hold her down, anymore - she can't afford to, doesn't want to...she wants to fight back.
I love character development, and she's got it in spades...and that's not even touching on all the OTHER amazing characters around her in this series. Also, if you like a spicy slow-burn, this is it. 'Begrudging allies to lovers' is how I'd term it, I suppose. (I still long for a high production value show of this series...especially bc it would appeal to all kinds of people - it even goes post-apocalyptic later on! But not for the usual reasons.)
3. Margo Hanson, The Magicians (The show, not the books, for once)
Feminist icon without being 'cringe' about it - and has a line I love, later on, about how her father told her she could be anything she wanted...until she wanted to be those things. Suddenly, the world wanted her to pick - you can't be strong AND womanly; 'you can't have both,' they told her.
And she said 'Fuck You', and did it anyways. She is impossibly strong, but even she feels deeply on the inside. She rarely, if ever, lets it show how heavy the weight of the world is...she just shoulders on, and does the things no one else will do. She stands up for what's right, and now and then she fucks things up, too...because she's only human. But she's never apologetic about who she is. She lives out loud, owns her body, owns her opinions, and the rest of the world better get the fuck out of her way, because she's got a witty one-liner...and a gun.
He's an alcoholic/addict, he's a wet rag, and he's basically the world's best occultist... whether you love him or hate him. (I love bisexuals getting the spotlight in media, so it's nice that he's that, too!) He's a rat bastard who's just trying to get by in a world that's chewed him up and spit him out time and time again - he drinks the pain away, he chases death, and...despite his best efforts, he lives. Because anytime he actually comes close to death, he realizes that it's all worth fighting for, actually - even if he always falls off the path again. Notably, neither he nor Harley Quinn were really supposed to be longstanding characters...and now they're both fully fleshed out people, and a couple of my favorites!
I like that he's complex, mentally ill, and still tries to do what's right, most of the time. But the world pushes his hand, and something's got to give, and unfortunately it's usually the people around him who end up paying the price...which doesn't mean that he doesn't carry that guilt for the rest of his life, mind you. But the world itself was saved! ...though he'll never not regret the harm it causes the few people he lets close, and how it then causes so many others to avoid him like the plague, as they assume he's just a shit who will sacrifice his friends at the drop of a hat.
He's the reluctant savior. The...anti-hero? I'm not even sure that's right, because he does want to do good. He just... does some fucked up things to achieve that good, because there's often genuinely no other way - and no one else has the fortitude or the know-how to do it but him. So he'll carry that load, so others don't have to. He'll smoke it away, drink it away...anything he has to, to quiet the guilt, and shame of saving the world from the shadows...never being thanked for it, because he doesn't fly around in spandex, or drive a fancy animal-themed car.
4. John Constantine, Hellblazer/DC Comics (An anti-hero I love, a rare bi-disaster MAN in media, and my favorite occultist/wizardy person in fiction, I think...besides Margo.)
Also, his Hellblazer comics are very politically left leaning and he shits on Tories and racists and homophobia, etc. He might hide his pain in ways that make him seem like a piece of shit, but at heart he knows what's right, and that his fellow man deserves better. (Also, it's implied that he slept with/dated King Shark...you go, king.)
5. Dracula, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Castlevania (first the game, then the show) I was obsessed with the book even as a kid, and when I saw the most iconic scene in a video game ever, I was in love with his Castlevania counterpart, too.
Not much else to add to this one - I just think he's cool! I love vampires! I love Mina, as well, for all the strength she shows in the face of almost-certain-doom...but I love a good villain, and Dracula is the perfect villain. Also, it turns out the whole book might just have been one big, gay metaphor from a man in the closet! That's pretty cool to find out, after all these years.
I do love the backstory from the film of him being SO IN LOVE with his wife that he cursed God and just...became a vampire. Because 'I fought in your crusades and you let the woman I love kill herself? Fuck you, I'm just never going to die. Now I'll kill all your beloved humans!' Castlevania's backstory is similar enough that I enjoy both iterations of it - a man driven to madness by love, and loss...and in Castlevania, it's not even his FAULT he keeps getting summoned back, which is where this scene below even comes from, which kinda cracks me up. He specifically points out what pieces of shit humans are...they say they hate him, but it's humans who always summon him back to do THEIR dirty work.
6. Taimi, Guild Wars 2
When you first meet her, she's a bobble headed child prodigy, even among the incredibly intelligent race of Asura, with big hair and an even bigger pink bow on her head - who has a terminal illness, and a physical disability from it that makes it hard for her to walk...but it never stops her. Not even once. Commander might be a badass, but they'd be nothing without Taimi's vast intelligence saving the world time and again - and you almost have to watch her die! She loses her favorite mech, which is both a walking apparatus and her best friend, and goes on to lose her best friend/love interest...and the pain never breaks her. She's a literal child, a teen/young adult by current story - and the endurance and compassion and strength she shows are just...making me emotional to even write about. And while she's still alive in story at present (and they've aged her up over time!)... we discussed with her not that long ago in story how she is dying - and she feels the pressure to get as much done as she can before that day. But one day, she won't be with us anymore...and despite all the people that Commander has lost? I'll never be ready to lose my little rat-daughter.
Go play Guild Wars 2.
7. Jaina, World of Warcraft
You meet her as a young woman, in Warcraft - an idealist who believes in peace, and stands against the open, and blatant racism against the Orcs, and the Horde. She strives for this peace so hard that she allows her own father to be executed - and for years, she stands with the Horde, and speaks on their behalf and fights for peace...until those same people go out of their way to not just screw her over, but almost kill one of the only family members she has who accepts her, and steal an ancient artifact that could basically just wipe out the Alliance much like the bomb that was used to wipe out the whole city she was in charge of. She suffers from the guilt of not trying harder to help Arthas. She suffers so...so much guilt, for so many things. She isn't perfect, and she has acted out of hurt, and rage at times - but she grows, and learns, and becomes this whole person comprised of beautiful flaws and complexities. I know what it's like to have your friends betray you, and want to burn it all down. I know what it's like, to need years to come to terms with that hurt. I know the pain of years and years of guilt and self-loathing and 'what-if's'. Jaina has become an amazing woman who has helped people, hurt people, and learned both difficult, and beautiful lessons along the way, to become an ultimately better person who still believes in the rights of all people...just with less of that youthful naivete that got her so hurt and blindsided.
8. Ahsoka, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
I put off watching Clone Wars, and thought I wouldn't like how they worked Ahsoka in...and boy was I ever wrong. Finally, at long last, there's a female character who is given as thorough a Jedi treatment as Luke, or Anakin...if not better! I love analyzing the 'family lineage' of which Jedi mentors which, and it's a bit funny how Qui-Gon was a rule-breaker paired with Obi-Wan-the-rule-lover...and then he ended up with a padawan even more about going against the grain, because Qui-Gon was supposed to have 'raised' Anakin, himself - then Anakin ends up with a Padawan in an attempt to teach him about how to move on from loss...because all padawans grow up and move on with their lives, one day - but he ended up with someone just as hard-headed and outspoken and out-going as him, and he got a taste of what it was like to be his master!
All that said, Ahsoka grows and develops and learns hard lessons, and...grows up as a child soldier in a war the Jedi never should have been a part of, anyways - and (spoilers) when she goes on to be wrongfully accused of a crime by the Jedi Council...they try to walk it back later by saying 'oh this was clearly a test by the Force and you've passed, hooray promotion'.
Ahsoka is having none of it. It's hypocrisy. It's a lie. They can't put their own pride aside, and admit that they were wrong! And why would she want to be a part of an organization like that? That's not a promotion at all. Now she'd be just like them, and that leaves a sour taste in her mouth. (Not to mention other hypocritical things she notices throughout the series.)
She goes on to learn to live in balance - not all emotions are bad. It's not about complete eradication of emotion, but learning which ones to cultivate, and which ones to set aside and think on. She learns what the elder (extremist) Jedi will not - balance. She becomes better than all those who came before...even Yoda, who is in her Jedi-family-lineage; he admits that the Jedi are blinded by their arrogance, but he's among them! I love everything about her story...so far, at least. I've got yet more catching up to do with Rebels and the Ahsoka show.
9. Asajj Ventress, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Honestly, I like her for a lot of the reasons I like Ahsoka - they're like two sides of a coin, and I think she even says this to Ahsoka later in the series. But Asajj suffered immensely early in life, and lost two father figures (even if one of them was her kidnapper) - to include a Jedi Knight who was briefly her Master, before he was slain in battle. She was picked up by Count Dooku, and had her pain and hate stoked like a fire...and in time he betrayed her, as well. And still...she went on to be resilient, strong, smart, and a master in her own fields of stealth and assassination. She learned hard lessons, and learned to think for herself - she learned that she didn't need any of those men who had come before, in her life...she only needed herself. Her own wits. Her own strength. Her own intelligence. Much like Ahsoka, she broke away from what others tried to mold her into, and became her own woman... whether people liked who she became, or not.
She's a badass. Watch Clone Wars. Read her books.
10. Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Does this one need a reason? She's an imperfect badass, too! She's a lot like Mac, mentioned earlier - she's girly, but not always. Sometimes it concerns her what people might think of that - being feminine, but strong - but she learns to embrace her strength and ferocity and role in the supernatural world... although not without bucking against the system just like Ahsoka and Ventress do - she makes it her own. She plays by her rules, not the Council's, not her Watcher's...and when she does so selfishly, and screws up, she learns a hard lesson about the wisdom and input of your friends and family, and considering how your choices affect those around you. She decides she will not be a dog on a leash for the Council (maybe she was some inspiration for Ahsoka...) - she's here to do two things: look fly, and kick monster ass. Oh yeah - and empower other young women to do the same.
Honorable mentions for Spike (from Buffy), Lucifer (from the self-titled show), Aurene (GW2), Eliot Waugh (The Magicians), Catra (SPOP)
You'll no doubt note that pretty much all the women on the list are people who suffered immensely/were wronged and eventually grew stronger for that, and overcame both the situation and their own flaws...I love a bitch who can overcome both her own flaws, and the world itself being against her!
#favorite characters#blorbo from my shows#ugh I hate that word#The list goes on but we'd be here all week if I went on about EVERY character I love
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Tagged by @why-raven ! Thanks!
Misunderstood Villain
Prepare for an onslaught of both the most dehumanizing and hateful takes, and flood of thirst comments. You are chronically misunderstood; even whether or not you’re actually evil is debatable. You may be acting out for revenge, to defend someone you love, or even just to protect yourself. You’re a pretty jaded person - you don’t trust or even really like most people. Maybe you did at one point, but that part of you is gone, and you don’t go a single day without grieving it; you think a lot about what your life could have been. You’re stuck in the past. You’re angry and maybe you don’t even want to be, but this is the only way you can see to survive. You’re open, but less in a trusting way and more like a wound. You don’t like to let people see you, but the hurt spills out of you before you can stop it. You’re impulsive, even as you try hard to plan and prepare. Maybe someday your side of the story will finally be heard. Until then, you can convince yourself that being hated is safer anyway.
Well what do you know, a quiz that hit it on the head! Even the term ‘villain’ is debatable when it comes to Jak - she’s not any one thing, at the end of the day, but this little quiz kinda summarized her better than I think I could have, given how long winded I tend to get when I have to do that kind of thing! (And indeed she/I have faced our fair share of both hate and thirst comments since I came around in 2019, lol!) But I always like to think about how the person she’s become is nothing like the person she was - the person she had to give up, to be able to survive Garlemald. She does mourn that girl, but she’s never coming back - she’s as dead as the rest of the tribe.
The only way forward is paved with the only things that makes sense: chaos and fury, because it is safer if you hate her.
Tagging some folks: @starforger, @cactusxwren, @xmimiteh , @uldahstreetrat , @sundered-souls , @nollette , @ashenbun , @archaiclumina , @dragonsongmakhali, @but-first–tea , @merlwybs-wife , @littlestcreampuff , @wandering-heart-ffxiv , @umbralaether , @mxkelsifer , @helena-ffxiv , @whimsyxiv , @angelinecarax and anyone else who wants to! I mostly just kinda grabbed names from my notification list to give some love back to those who’ve been giving me some!
#ffxiv rp#ffxiv oc#ffxiv#uquiz#what do you know it's spot on for her#catgirl loses her family and loses her shit
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Hey there! I've been considering whipping up something for 'MiqoMay', considering that MiqoMarch not only falls during a bad time for me (seasonal depression, ugh), but I couldn't come up with anything new for the same prompts as last year, with my creativity at an all time low (my physical health was in the dumps too)... and I miss being to engage with it! I miss writing and photography prompts!
Would people be interested in another round of Miqo-love? I was even debating keeping it to 3-5x a week, so there's less pressure to do something every... single...day. Unless every day is more appealing to others? Prompt ideas also welcome, else I'll otherwise just hit a random word generator and go from there to make it work with XIV.
#Miqomay#Miqo'te#Mayqo'te#ffxiv#gpose#ffxiv gpose#am I waiting until the last minute to throw this together? yes#but I have a good idea of what to do now!
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I haven't RPed in like 4 years and I'm severely more limited than last time, so... any disabled RPers got any tips for someone who's scared of dipping their toes back in due to their limitations? I'm a bit hesitant to just dive in given how much has changed in my absence, as well as worried about how my unpredictable health might affect the quality of my participation...
#honestly same here#between depression and just...migraines?#it's hard#and not many ppl reach outv even if your schedule is wide open... so don't disability stuff hold you back#decent people will work with you
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The Likable Sociopath Trope, Explained
This is a pretty good overview of this trope, and this type of villain - I inevitably end up playing a character like this, and/or end up involved with one ICly no matter where I’m writing. Villains that are made by trauma, or societal pressure, etc. inevitably tend to be what I gravitate to.
#sociopath#villains#dark rp#writing tips#writing villains#writing advice#likeable sociopath#ooc#know your tropes!
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Here smthn for y’all lmao
#if you didn’t watch OUAT for him and Lana Parilla what the fuck were you even doing LMAO#you know what. I should do a rewatch#unapologetically cringe#ooc#stealing your tags bc u right#plus the show was good for its first few seasons#but gimme Rumple#gimme Mr. Gold beating people with his cane#god I'm a villain fucker
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What Type of Villain Are You
Well... yes and no. Jak is, over all, more of an antagonist - antisocial because that's safer. She's only a Villain to those who have done her great harm - Garleans, namely. But it is true that she never wanted or intended to be so jaded and cynical - she was devoted to her tribe/family! Losing all of them... changed her. (I wax verbose about her nuances in villainy below the cut...)
Tagged by @sundered-souls ! But I don't know who else plays antagonistic/villainous characters off the top of my head (@thefreelanceangel does for sure!), so do it if it applies! Tag me back so I can see!
She hates Gridanians/the Shroud for turning her away as a refugee, but she's not a villain to them, that wasn't personal - she just doesn't like them. When it comes to Ul'dah... she actually sees the wealthy elite and the Brass Blades as worse than Garleans, these days - Garleans were sicko fascists who believed in something, at least. There was a fucked up reason behind it all - but what's the reason Ul'dah's people treated her, and other Mhigan refugees/people like them so badly? There is no reason. They didn't want dirty rabble in the streets? Didn't want foreigners taking their work? They got tired of seeing hunger and heartache? They're just plain racist? All of these are so much worse, to Jak. Garleans were brainwashed - every moment of their lives they were taught that they were superior to the 'savages and beastmen' - she doesn't forgive them, but at least they had an 'excuse' for their vile behavior, unlike Ul'dahns.
At any rate, that's all to say that many Ul'dahns are as liable to see this side of her as any Garlean... they made her this way, after all. Garlemald, in the confines of a camp - and Ul'dah dashed all her attempts to be good, and start fresh. They spit on her last hope, so why not give them some of their own medicine? (Thank you Ul'dah lore, and oddly... the Mandeville questline for teaching me how fucked up Ul'dah is.)
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Hey there! I've been considering whipping up something for 'MiqoMay', considering that MiqoMarch not only falls during a bad time for me (seasonal depression, ugh), but I couldn't come up with anything new for the same prompts as last year, with my creativity at an all time low (my physical health was in the dumps too)... and I miss being to engage with it! I miss writing and photography prompts!
Would people be interested in another round of Miqo-love? I was even debating keeping it to 3-5x a week, so there's less pressure to do something every... single...day. Unless every day is more appealing to others? Prompt ideas also welcome, else I'll otherwise just hit a random word generator and go from there to make it work with XIV.
#Miqo'te#Miqomay#Mayqo'te#ffxiv#gpose#ffxiv gpose#anyone who has a miqo feel free to vote and offer prompts you would like to see!#since MiqoMarch already does things like 'favorite zone' and all that I don't want to repeat prompts - toss out ideas you'd like to see!#reblog for more gposers to see it!#don't forget to reblog/queue it for different times of day for those in other timezones and who are at work etc#pls reblog even if you don't have a miqo#as the post says - please leave prompt ideas if you have them!#using prompts ppl actually want to see is the idea#please reblog
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Hey there! I've been considering whipping up something for 'MiqoMay', considering that MiqoMarch not only falls during a bad time for me (seasonal depression, ugh), but I couldn't come up with anything new for the same prompts as last year, with my creativity at an all time low (my physical health was in the dumps too)... and I miss being to engage with it! I miss writing and photography prompts!
Would people be interested in another round of Miqo-love? I was even debating keeping it to 3-5x a week, so there's less pressure to do something every... single...day. Unless every day is more appealing to others? Prompt ideas also welcome, else I'll otherwise just hit a random word generator and go from there to make it work with XIV.
#Miqo'te#Miqomay#Mayqo'te#ffxiv#gpose#ffxiv gpose#anyone who has a miqo feel free to vote and offer prompts you would like to see!#since MiqoMarch already does things like 'favorite zone' and all that I don't want to repeat prompts - toss out ideas you'd like to see!#reblog for more gposers to see it!#don't forget to reblog/queue it for different times of day for those in other timezones and who are at work etc#pls reblog even if you don't have a miqo#get ready to see this constantly
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absolutely love it when people are like why do you like this fictional character so much look at all their bad qualities. my brothersister in christ their bad qualities are why i like them
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Meanwhile: Jak, delighting in the complete collapse of these awful people and their stupid trees -
FFXIV players who want their WoL to kill the Elementals: "My WoL would be applauded for freeing the Shroud of their evil and their death will fix Gridania's shortcomings, prejudices, and xenophobia."
The actual likely consequences of that scenario:
#literally she has said she'd like another moon to fall directly onto Gridania/the Shroud#they want to blame talking trees for the racism that turned away refugees in need?#then burn them and their trees down!#Gridania#I get it... but Jak holds a grudge
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This is to gauge interest! Reblogs help others see this, know it exists, and give feedback - and if there's not much interest, I won't be putting this together, since... there's not much point in doing it just for me! Even if you don't have a Miqo'te/aren't interested, reblog for those who do/are!
Hey there! I've been considering whipping up something for 'MiqoMay', considering that MiqoMarch not only falls during a bad time for me (seasonal depression, ugh), but I couldn't come up with anything new for the same prompts as last year, with my creativity at an all time low (my physical health was in the dumps too)... and I miss being to engage with it! I miss writing and photography prompts!
Would people be interested in another round of Miqo-love? I was even debating keeping it to 3-5x a week, so there's less pressure to do something every... single...day. Unless every day is more appealing to others? Prompt ideas also welcome, else I'll otherwise just hit a random word generator and go from there to make it work with XIV.
#Miqo'te#Miqomay#Mayqo'te#ffxiv#gpose#ffxiv gpose#anyone who has a miqo feel free to vote and offer prompts you would like to see!#since MiqoMarch already does things like 'favorite zone' and all that I don't want to repeat prompts - toss out ideas you'd like to see!#reblog for more gposers to see it!#don't forget to reblog/queue it for different times of day for those in other timezones and who are at work etc#I like the idea of the 'free/extra' prompt being an optional little drabble with an image to accompany it to mix things up?
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Despite everything, it's still you.
(saw this trend happening on twitter and thought id do a rlly quick gpose bc yeah...its a good trend)
Context (hopefully not needed bc my gposes are just THAT good (lol)): She was born to a poor woodworker and his sake miller wife in Hingashi and her father was killed, her brother knocked unconscious and she was taken as a slave and sold off to a yakuza boss who she eventually married and had kids with. Husband is dead now and she's rich and living her best life.
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big furry women....... hot............
#ffxiv#ffxiv art#final fantasy xiv#oc art#hrothgar#hrothgal#ffxiv benchmark#femhroth#dawntrail benchmark#I love her!#OP your art style is AMAZING
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Other than various types of villains, are there any other character types that you really like?
oh there are plenty actually!
In general, I tend not to have strong feelings towards likable characters: if i feel the narrative pushes me too much towards feeling empathy for someone it’s unlikely I’ll form strong attachments for them [this is different from ‘you are supposed to have an OPINION on this character’, which is how you should feel when reading about any character really]. A character has to be at least a bit fucked up [but like... in a bad way, that makes them unlikeable, not just self-worth issues lmao] for me to really love them
Overall, I’d say I like characters who feel slightly out of place in the setting they are placed in, either because they are or just because their vibe is a bit off in general. I wouldn’t call them ‘outcasts’ because they usually blend in very well, but there’s something to them the strikes the reader (and occasionally, the characters as well) as different.
Characters who are very rational -albeit sometimes on totally irrational basis- fascinate me as well, as I myself pride myself for being very logical and get very annoyed at myself when I’m not.
I cannot stand passive characters (characters who just react or whose catalysis comes from an external source, rather than from personal aspirations), which is why i usually gravitate towards villains so much but i have met PLENTY of active characters [of course we don’t live in a bubble so they’re always gonna re-act to a point but there’s a different between your entire course of actions being set in motion by an event and you internalizing a series of events, forming an opinion on the matter and then acting on it].
Characters with a rather dark sense of humor also very much appeal to me but this is like... a plus, i couldn’t care less about a character being funny if they aren’t interesting first and foremost.
I also like introspection to the point of self-dissection honestly, but it’s even MORE fun when the character in question is at the same time deeply self-unaware of the basic stuff that propels them because they have rationalized themselves into a picture perfect image and refuse to see the cracks in their facade.
Oh, also I like characters who are competitive, extremely ambitious, goal-oriented and have a HUGE deal of willpower [and I don’t typically enjoy recklessness, but there are characters I love who play on that well enough]. Self-confidence is also very sexy. [oh, and I’m not usually for physically strong characters :/, but then again! things can change!]
I wouldn’t say I have ‘archetypes’ of characters I like, apart from villains, but I have a lot of stuff i love seeing in characters and if a character does that it doesn’t really matter what role they fulfill in a narrative, but if you take a look at what I’ve just written down you’ll realize why most of my favorites are villains or antagonists at the very least asjdsakdlasd
#ooc#this is like 100% my taste too#this helps explain it better than I could#same exact thing about not wanting to like a character a story TELLS me to like#I hate that#I now hate that character bc they're a prop and not a character xD#hope its okay to reblog!
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Thanks for the tag @ungrateful-cyborg ! Maybe I'll go do this on an alt's blog so I can ping you with an actual new result on this...
Tagging whoever sees this! And some folks from my notifs (I'm trying to avoid re-pinging people I saw @ungrateful-cyborg tag already...sorry if you've done it! If you have alts, it's an excuse to do it again!!) @chadhunkler , @briar-ffxiv , @xmimiteh , @alannah-corvaine , @twelvesblades , @hares-and-hounds (/boops you for confusing me with your handle change :P) @sunscale-ffxiv , @sarnai-dagra
CHARACTER ARC
Corruption Arc
"So. You got worse - and I'm not entirely sure I can blame you for it. Maybe it was in you all along, hidden and waiting, or maybe someone planted it in you and watched it grow. Either way, it's there now and you hold it in your fist like a second heart - this blood, this hunger, this thrill of having teeth and using them. Perhaps you are right to. You are a mirror for the hardness of the world, and a mirror that we could all stand to look in more often. It's hard to watch the bleeding bring about more blood, but it is undeniable that you are very good at wounding."
"They made me sharp, so I grew adept at wielding such sharp edges."
Quiz Here
Tagged by: @flamesworn (Thanks!)
#rp meme#character arc meme#corruption arc#no one is surprised by this answer#she wasn't always rotten#just jak things
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