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Izuku and Katsuki Hospital Comic - Thoughts and Process

I wanted to talk about the process and my thoughts while making this comic! Cause it was A Lot of planning and I feel like talking about how I went about it could maybe be helpful for other people who wanna make comics too ?

Also I just like talking and I've had So Many thoughts about it over the last few months, I just need to get them all out lol

everything is under the cut (it's Very Long) ↓↓↓

Initial Thoughts

I started planning the comic in January, around the time the chapter with the second user's plan to transfer ofa to shigaraki came out. I remember feeling so anxious and sad seeing how devastated Deku was to lose the 'gift' that All Might had passed to him :'((

It made me start thinking about what it would be like to not only go from having all this insane power at your fingertips back to nothing, but also how it would feel to lose the vestiges, which had been his advisers, yapping in his ear and keeping him company for months. How it would feel to go from constantly having people looking over your shoulder back to silence.

Then I thought about what that would mean for his and Bakugou's relationship, which has developed so much over the series. How Bakugou would feel about Deku no longer having ofa, how the two of them would wrestle with old feelings now that Deku would be quirkless again. Bakugou having to face the kid he bullied and Deku going back to a state where the world saw him as "useless" with dreams too big for somebody without a quirk.

I feel like sometimes it's not really taken into account how Deku's past affects him in the present, and that goes for in the actual series as well. Considering he's the main character, it's funny that we never really get too much of a peak inside his mind lol, especially not recently, which is most likely intentional, but I digress.

What I really wanted to do for this comic was circle back to Deku's question to All Might at the start of the series, "can I become a hero without a quirk" because while yes, deku can be a hero, he had to get a quirk to do so. So what happens now that he no longer has it? After all of Bakugou and Deku's development, would Bakugou's opinion on deku pursuing his dreams while quirkless change?

I really didn't want that answer to be no. I didn't want to believe that Deku would have to give up and "be realistic" again, it just didn't feel right for that to be the answer after 400 chapters.

So I wanted to make something that would encapsulate those thoughts! And I felt like the best way to fully get that out was through a scene in the aftermath of the battle, the two of them in the hospital with nothing to do but talk about their feelings.

It was important to me that the doubts they both felt about the future were stomped out, and for there to be reassurance that things between them wouldn't snap back to how it was before UA. That Deku could still reach his dreams even if they did become harder to obtain.

I also felt like narratively it would be a good parallel if Bakugou were to lose something tied to his power too, and with his arm being so bad off in canon, I thought it made sense that there was a chance he could lose it forever.

So it's like they're both coming out of the final battle worse off with huge losses, but no matter what, they're going to fight to achieve their dreams, and they're going to do it side by side :')

At its core, it’s very self indulgent lmao, I didn’t think that we’d get something that sappy and gross in canon (😳) so I wanted to make something for myself :')

Planning

So then I made a first draft!

When I’m making bigger comics, thumbnails are super helpful! They help me see the full picture of what it could look like, and let me change things without putting in too much commitment. So most of the drawings are loose, but occasionally I’ll put in a little extra detail into things that I want to make sure are included in the final work.

There’s three main things I consider when thumbnailing for comics; expression, composition, and dialogue. Each of these things have a huge influence on each other, so keeping them all in mind when roughing out your drawings is important!

How it usually works is I play out the scene in my head like a movie and roughly come up with dialogue, then I draw characters and expressions based on that dialogue and the visions I had. Simultaneously I plan out approximately where those drawings will go/how much space they'll take up and finally, I add in the dialogue and move things around as needed so everything fits nice together.

Having the dialogue there in the draft lets me know around how big the speech bubbles are gonna be which is a massive help when figuring out paneling. It lets me plan around the bubbles and make sure nothing is too squished!

General tips:

Something I learnt from storyboarding is that establishing a setting for your scene at the start is really important! Most of my comics will start with a long shot or include one early on for this reason. It’s good for making sure readers aren’t confused on where everything is taking place!

Having a variety of shots is good for keeping your story engaging! This comic has a lot of closeups, but I tried to add variety where I could and used a lot of different angles to keep things entertaining even if there isn't that much going on

Final thoughts on this draft:

At this stage, the ending was really different from the final version I ended up with. It was a lot more focused on Bakugou's losses too and the vibe was kinda "well we're both nerfed now but that's chill we can still be heroes." I axed most of that cause I thought it was dumb and wasn’t really the conclusion I wanted lol

After the rough draft, I started sketching everything out and adding in panels based on the composition from the og thumbnails. I also changed the dialogue as I went, focusing on making it sound more natural and easy to read.

This is where the nuances in movement and expression became a bit more refined and speech bubbles where better planned out.

At this stage, establishing clarity and imagining how readers are going to move their eye along the page is really important. Comics are generally read left to right, but you can’t just assume people are going to automatically read it in the order you want, which is why panels and speech bubble locations are so important.

Tips:

A general rule is that along with going from left to right, speech bubbles should be in descending order. This can be broken a bit, but it’s important to remember that the rule is there in the first place for clarity's sake. So if you do plan on breaking it, make sure it's not at the sacrifice of legibility. The human eye is lazy and will jump to whatever seems most logical, so planning things out in a confusing manner is going to make your comic hard to read!

This is another thing I picked up from storyboarding, but keeping in mind the 180° rule is good for clarity as well! In the simplest of terms, if you have two characters in a scene, it’s good to keep character A on one side and character B on the other, and not switch those sides willy-nilly, otherwise it can get confusing. This isn't as important in comics as it is in film/television, but I still like keeping it in mind.

Final thoughts:

I hated the original ending but I couldn't exactly figure out how I wanted it to go, and I was too busy at that point to dedicate the time I needed towards it, so it stayed as these four panels for while :’)

During the period I stopped working on it, Deku lost his arms which had me panicking lmao, so much of the comic was devoted to his emotions and body language, specifically in his hands. I just went "am I gonna have to redo everything? Do I give him prosthetics?" and I was fully ready to rework the entire thing but Eri came in clutch for Deku (and me) <3

After Deku started getting hurt, I didn't really like the idea of him being discharged and sitting with a still injured Katsuki, and wanted it to be clear that they were both still in the hospital, so I had to axe poor Deku's "hospital gown" shirt for actual hospital garb </3

At some point during april-ish, I finally added in a new beginning and end, which took the comic from four pages to seven. I felt like the new parts added a lot more levity and humour which were needed, and I think it helped make Izuku and Katsuki feel closer than before.

For these pages, I skipped the thumbnail stage and jumped straight into full page stuff, which felt easier because they were kind of just add-ons.

Something I specifically liked were the first two panels in the last page. Fun fact, but a few days after I sketched those out, horikoshi released that art of to two of them smiling together and I went !! That's the vibe I wanted !! Me and Horikoshi are on the same wavelength! That was a good day lmao.

At this point, though, while new parts added a lot more to the story and brought it closer to the vibe I wanted, they also messed with the tone and overall pacing and it ended up feeling really off. Deku was now doing this weird 180 from being super sad and upset to then immediately joking around and goofing off with no acknowledgement of anything Katsuki was saying, which had been fine enough when it was just 4 panels, but very off-putting once I made the comic longer

...So I decided to add even more panels :')

I went back to my original ideas, and part of what I wanted to get across originally was the doubts about Izuku's future from here on out, and the worry that things would go back to how they were before he got ofa. I realized those initial things which had fueled the comic were no longer really part of it, and I wanted to change that.

When I thought up the idea of visuals surrounding their middle school selves, I felt so smart LMAO. I think it ended up being the thing that brought the entire comic together.

Izuku reverting back to that anxious, unconfident state, spiralling into himself, and mumbling out all his insecurities, including his fears about losing Katsuki's friendship (and yet still somehow more worried about Katsuki's feelings than his own). And in turn, Katsuki remembering and seeing Izuku as that kid again, and his own fears of becoming a bully once more.

It better explored what I wanted to originally get across and delved more into their feelings, so that the jokes and levity at the end felt like they were earned, rather than being a rapid shift in tone.

(The only other thing that changed was the some of the panels in the first page. I changed up the speech bubbles and got rid of a panel so it would be less cramped and easier to read.)

At this point, I was still having trouble figuring out how to tie everything in and segway pages 6-7 into the ending organically, so it sat like this for around a month.

Then chapter 423 released and the battle was over and I realized how little time I actually had to get the comic out. I knew that the next chapter could possibly make my entire comic obsolete, so I hauled ass :D

These were the final plans before I cleaned everything up! I changed around some of the panels to make the story flow better, I figured out how to tie everything in, and I finalized the dialogue!

At this point all the panelling was redone because I wanted more space in between them. Before, it felt really cramped and I think adding in more breathing room made it feel slightly less overwhelming for readers.

The biggest changes from the previous draft:

First, obviously, I finished the middle school stuff and figured out how to get from one part to the next. This was the hardest part of the planning, but I ended up deciding that Deku would spiral, Bakugou would kind of bring him out of that, they'd hug and then Bakugou would reassure him. I also included motifs relating to their childhood to be reminiscent of The Apology, and Katsuki's thoughts going back to them sharing the special All Might cards, them at the lake, etc. As if this was another healing moment for each part of them; their current selves, their MS selves, and their childhood selves too

I then changed some of the panels in the first page. I switched the direction of the diagonal line in the first few panels because I thought it made it more clear which way to start reading and made the comic flow better.

In the fourth page, I added a panel after Deku starts crying, because I felt like it worked better with the dialogue, and brought in more of Katsuki's POV into the story

The sixth page doesn't really look different, but there was a lot of resizing going on panel-wise. The bottom panel doesn't take up as much space and the panels up top are a little bigger

The final big change was the eighth page. I added in an extra panel and changed up a lot of expressions/dialogue so there was more of a natural transition between the heartfelt moments and the two goofing off

I then made some final changes and drawover notes before I started a week of cleanup and colouring!

Cleanup/Colouring Stage

Cleaning up my sketches usually just means duplicating the layer, putting the original layer at 5% opacity and.. cleaning it until it looks nice lol. It's the easiest way for me to work because I hate doing lineart.

This is what my sketch vs final usually looks like. The biggest change was adding in bandages into all the drawings lol.

For speech bubbles, I drew them all by hand, created a flat colour layer underneath in white, duplicated that and filled it in with black and shifted it with the transformation tool to make a drop shadow effect.

It took me two days to colour the whole thing :')

Usually when I colour, I work in a pretty painterly way, but I thought flats/cell shading would be a lot faster for this. I was right but it still took Very Long.

The smartest thing I did was put colour swatches of each colour I was using on a separate layer above everything else so I could easily use the eyedropper and get the right colour without having to reference them from another page. It was a big time saver!

I colour all on a single layer so I don't have progress photos to show, but for each drawing, I roughly added in all the colours in the approximate locations they'd be, and once I did that for every single panel, I went back and cleaned them up one by one.

And that's that! After colouring was done, I added my signature, posted it, and took the nap of the century.

Final, Final Thoughts

I worked... Very Hard to get the comic out before leaks night and even if it was just a few hours, I'm so glad I was able to do it cause when I saw the actual chapter I lost my mindddd

I feel like as the comic progressed, Katsuki's feelings took a backseat and if I was to redo it, I'd probably put a bit more emphasis on that than I did in the final version. I feel like his ~inner turmoil~ didn't fully come through the way I wanted it to. I didn't want it to be an immediate acceptance — I wanted the fact that he was struggling with his past to be evident too — but with the focus being so heavily on Izuku, Katsuki's inner thoughts get a bit lost which is too bad </3 Good thing is Horikoshi had the exact opposite idea as me, so it all worked out :D

I'm really proud of how the comic turned out, and I'm so happy to have gotten such a positive response to it! Thank you for reading if you got this far and thank you for reading my silly self-indulgent hospital comic :)

#bnha #art tips #bnha manga spoilers #long post

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decepti-thots · 2 days

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rodimus for the villain ask meme?

Rodimus is an interesting one, because there's multiple potential ways you could do it. I guess the obvious one is a canon split at the point Autocracy happens, where he becomes a Decepticon instead. But personally I prefer the version where it relates to the Functionist Universe.

It's maybe a little bit cheating since it's not the 'main' universe, but I do think the ultimate Rodimus-as-villain concept is the idea that two steps to the left, in the functionist universe, Rodimus becomes a kind of figurehead Prime flattered into doing some bad shit. What if, when the LL went to the Functionist universe, they found Rodimus as a major player- someone who had been convinced that by accepting the Primacy, he could fix things? Since they need a figurehead they can tell what to do, and all. Some combination of flattery (he wants to be important in a way that makes things better) but also the fact that in a pre- or no-war setting, Rodimus was desperate to fix things in Nyon, with the main thing being to prevent the destruction of his home city, a place that maybe otherwise noone cared about... a deal with the devil situation where he agrees to be a figurehead for a corrupt force by way of the primacy instead of blowing it all up. And now the 'mainline' LL crew are here, decades after all that, popping in externally- and Rodimus has convinced himself it was not just the right decision in a bad situation but actually what he's owed. I think functionist universe Rodimus Prime who sold his soul to look after his home and in doing so became the kind of person who lets his ego tell him to maintain his figurehead status at all cost would be great as a tragic villain. I wanna see what 'our' Rodimus thinks about that.

#i am doing these still btw. just slowly. i am Thinking about them enough i have realised i need to draft them out fhfhd sorry #ask meme

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certainty2witch · 2 days

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For Crocodad theory, imagine if the way everyone finds out isn't either of them admitting it. It's Sengoku being mad after the events of Marineford and deciding to hand over declassified info on the revolutionary army, collected by Cypher Pole, which proves that Crocodile is Luffy's birth parent, to Big News Morgan. Imagine everyone has just started their two years of training when they pick up the daily newspaper and right on the cover is confirmation that Crocodile is Luffy's parent.

Since you mentioned the revolutionary army, I suppose you’re talking about my revolutionary crocodile au, even if you talked about Marineford.

And i take some time for adding a bit of lore for my au because is important:

(Answer for anon’s ask after the ‼️‼️‼️)

Crocodile was never evil and with so he never did something wrong in Alabasta. But, he’s still a warlord, and a fake pirate, because he’s a revolutionary undercover.

But let’s say that the marines discovered Crocodile is a revolutionary and that’s a way for putting him in impel down?

Iva obliviously, since is there too, save him and bring him at level 5.5, they both wait for the right moment for escaping (imagine Croc being uncomfortable around all that extravagant people, he doesn’t like loud people, and Iva likes to torment him because they think Croc miss Dragon and Croc says he doesn’t.

Is the truth btw he just wanna run into Dragon’s arms and kissing him).

And with so, Impel down arc happens, but Croc is always with Iva instead of being locked at level 6. His reaction to his son almost dead is pretty devastating, just imagine that… I mentioned in a recent post that they have a deep and special bond when Luffy was little. With older Luffy this keep existing!

So Marineford is pretty the same with Doflamingo bothering him (lmao, sorry babe your love is busy with the world’s worst criminal, he’s not a single man), with him protecting Ace (this time for Luffy and only for him💕) and other canon stuff.

And he suffers seeing his son losing his sense after his brother’s death. He obliviously protect him and Jinbe from Akainu (in every au he always saves him in that scene *sigh* good daddy).

So after Marineford he and Luffy separate, and he finally reunite with Dragon.

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And now about the ask.

But first i add little warning.

Cw //mention of gender dysphoria!

Somehow Sengoku knows and decides to reveal everything (my god you should just close that trap sometimes, stupid marine) I honestly can’t imagine why he would know something like that, maybe due to Garp? (Close that trap too!!) because yep Garp knows Croc is trans and Luffy’s other dad.

Crocodile never liked the idea of people knowing his secret: him being Luffy’s other parent. He knows in that world people like him are seeing in a bad way and if others will discover he isn’t cis, my god I’m sure people will keep misgendering him… and he would hate that. I imagine his past full of transphobic people, keep using wrong pronouns with him and forcing him to just be like “Mother Nature made him”… you know useless things like this. So well he grow up frustrated and angry, Iva was his light, the revolutionary army were his light. Even after hrt, Crocodile felt the oppression of not being cis (mostly when he got pregnant of Luffy). But in this Au, he with the support of others started to feeling more and more comfortable just being himself. He’s not cis? Who cares!

But if people will discover he is Luffy’s dad too and with so, the father that gave birth to him, i like to imagine him asking his friends (and love) some support. He is more comfortable being trans, but something like that is hard to handle anyway, because nobody asked for his consent! If that was his secret, and he wanted to keep that hidden, well there’s a reason.

I hope I explained everything at least in a decent way, feel free to ask for some more if you are curious or to ask something else in the ask box.

And correct me or tell me to change something, if you think is inappropriate please.

For a dear anon that i still didn’t answer, if you are seeing this, just know that your idea inspired me. I will draw what you said, because I know what to draw hehe but i need time because i have other art first 🙏🏻

#cw mention of gender dysphoria #anon ask #ask #revolutionary crocodile au #sir crocodile #crocodad #trans crocodile

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idreamtofmanderleyagain · 3 days

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Finished Fallout Prime. I really like both BarbxCoop and LucyxGhoul dynamics and am super excited to see both explored...

But I just wanna say how alienating and awful and daunting it is to want to engage with fandom creative content. LucyxGhoul has exploded as a thing, which tbh was entirely expected and not surprising at all because it's dramatic, fun and cool. But pretty much immediately I can see resentment being flung around fandom and it's so exhausting. There's been some purity bullshit flung at LucyxGhoul, yeah, but I really don't feel comfortable in LucyxGhoul spaces because seeing Barb hate - or even just indifference - leaves such a bad fucking taste in my mouth.

To me, LucyxGhoul doesn't exist without BarbxCoop. The Ghoul is an appealing character and romantic lead precisely because of how he loves Barb, the way he dotes on her and his child, the way he just blatantly, sensuously desires his wife, cannot keep his hands off her. They way he treats both Barb and Janey like princesses. The way he supports her, roots for her, dreams for her, I mean god!

I mean, the sheer romanticism of him basically keeping his deteriorating body alive for 200 years just to find them. I fully believe that under all the grit and horror and brutality, under the trauma of what happened before the bomb fell, this man still feels a devastating devotion to Barb. Whether he finds her again and they can somehow build upon all that pain, I don't know. But I do know one thing: if LucyxGhoul becomes a thing at the expense of Barb, why would I be compelled by that? If he were to forsake Barb and treat Lucy like the only one worth loving, how could I not feel sick inside? A Cooper forsaking Barb completely or acting like nothing but her victim, instead of the man who was brought to tears by the pain and fear she was hiding, instead of the man who could so instinctively intuit that something was wrong, that she was bearing some horrible weight?

I want a Cooper who, even if he was too devestated then to understand, understands now in retrospect, what it means to lack the privilege to do anything but make monsterous choices. I want a Cooper capable of understanding the terror his wife was feeling, who knows she was suffering in silence until it was too late for her to protect her own soul, too late for him to shield her.

No matter how much pain and anger might have lodged in his heart, I want to see him still go the distance. I want him to be clawing through the desert for her, just as much as for Janey.

Ship in fucking solidarity. This guy was primed to be a fandom heartthrob. The woman you identify with and want to see him shipped with, in canon or fanon, is your business. Have the love in you to share wholeheartedly with others who experience it too. It never seems to fucking occur to us to root for each other.

#fallout #fallout prime #fallout spoilers

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wordsvomit101 · 28 days

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High heels lover

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/34kjb7xMfsU

Author notes: short interaction inspired by that video above and one of Mammon's chats.

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(At Mammon's Imperial Palace)

Mammon: Master, why do you choose to walk in those shoes?

MC: What? *look over from their waiting spot in their high heels boots*

Mammon: We will have to do a lot of walking during our trip to the countryside. I'm worried that your feet won't be able to handle it.

MC: It's fine! I can walk on my own like this. I'm already used to it.

Mammon: Could I fancy you to a new two-wheel automatic scooter then? It is one of Tartaros Corps' latest editions.

MC: I like walking in these *demonstrate by walking around* I will be fine.

Mammon: ... I will tell you one thing my dear Master but I wouldn't be able to give you my shoes if the time needed for it. *points down at his gold-covered feet*

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(Radiant Highland - After the tea ceremony at the town mayor's house)

Mammon: Doesn't it feel better to get out of those shoes for a minute, Master? *genuinely smiling*

MC: I don't know what you're talking about.

Mammon: If it is nothing why are you looking away from me, Master? *not a single mischief behind those eyes*

Mammon: I like that you're passionate about this topic, but Master, this trip has lasted more than 8 hours. Your feet are certainly throbbing now, my dear.

MC: I am not in pain! I just didn't want my favorite walking shoes to get wet with angel's blood on our way here.

MC: I'm completely fine! You should try to keep up with me! *wobbly speed walk away*

Mammon: ... Oh dear. *lovingly stare at MC as he dial-up Eligos*

(15 minutes later)

Mammon: Master, can you sit down for a second? *walk over with a bag*

MC: Again, I'm not in pain Mammon... *sit down on a nearby stone bench*

Mammon: I'm sorry my dear, but please, you might not be in pain but I'm in pain just by thinking that you're in pain, Master. *knelt down and pulled out an extremely expensive, cartoonishly fluffy, and comfortable short heels shoes*

Mammon: So humor my request for one minute.

MC: What are those?

Mammon: Apology Master, but I have Eligos pick out the best option as quickly as possible at one of the boutiques in the nearby city and have them transferred here. *gently put the shoes on for MC*

MC: That's sweet of you but I cannot walk around in public with this thing. *standing up*

MC: They're so jello and funny looking *stepping around a bit* and they're so soft... *stepping around a bit more*

Mammon: *giving MC the stare that could make a married couple question their relationship*

MC: And so comfortable, and- And- *about to cry* Mammon what is this?

Mammon: I take it that you like it, Master.

MC: *hugging Mammon around the waist* Thank you for doing this for me, thank you for worrying about my feet.

Mammon: Anything for you Master. *smiling as he leans down to kiss MC*

#whb #what in hell is bad #whb mc #whb mammon #the greenest flag devil I ever seen #I wanna see this happened in canon so bad #mammon is so rich loving husband coded

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citricacidprince · 9 months

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Thinking about Psychonauts and how much I love the Aquato family once again

They mean the world to me your honor

#They are a strange little family with so many issues and generational trauma and YET they still LOVE EACHOTHER #DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS TO ME???#Nona; Augustus; Donatella; Dion; Frazie; Rasputin; Mirtala; Queepie-#I love you all and I owe you my life #DION AND DONATELLA ESPECIALLY; Y’ALL GET SO MUCH HATE FOR HAVING UNDERSTANDABLE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL :(#Aquatos get behind me; I’ll protect you from the people who think you abuse Raz and should just get adopted by Sasha and Milla #that’s a bad take and they should feel bad. like; he can still see Sasha and Milla and alternate parental figures; that’s fine-#But Raz; CANONICALLY; would NEVER give up his family; EVER #That boy would force everyone to have a heart on heart with him until everything is better because he DOES that in the GAME #When you talk to you family in Psychonauts 2 you can tell how much he loves them and how much they love him; even if it’s strained at the-#moment from how stressful the past THREE DAYS have been #YES EVEN DION AND DONATELLA #They love Raz so much!!! They’re both just going through it™️ atm and need time to clear their head: remember; everything that has happened-#has been in the span of 3 DAYS and their whole lives have been completely flipped upside down #I think they’re allowed to be upset; in fact; it would be weird if they weren’t #sorry this is word garbage I just love that family so much it makes me wanna drink paint #prince rambles in this chilies tonight #aquato family #psychonauts aquatos #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts

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tennessoui · 4 months

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the to the point of distraction au is incredible and i have so many thoughts,,, is tatooine working on taking down any of the other hutt systems, and are maybe trying to like, seduce the jedi and the sith back to see who will help their anti-slavery quest??? is kitster like, making fun of anakin in the evenings while they watch their coruscanti day time holos together? is obi-wan gonna be the jealous one this time?

oooohoho good thoughts!! to address in order,

i think any new kingdom of tatooine is going to have to eventually take down the other hutt systems, but also they'll need to strengthen themselves first - which is probably why shmi is entertaining both the jedi and the sith right now for sure. if neither faction feels good to her, she'd be fine going alone, it'd just be quicker to allow one to help her.

kitster and anakin definitely get together at night and kitster drags anakin for filth over all the shit he's said or done with darth solence because it's genuinely hilarious. kitster's never really seen anakin like this with anyone. half the time he's mooning over solence and the other half he's trying to stab him with a knife. kitster was half afraid anakin would stab him with a knife during a banquet where darth solence had, apparently, remembered his mission and was showering kitster-who-is-pretending-to-be-prince-skywalker in attention and flirty asides

which brings me to the last point where honestly i think my understanding of anakin's character in general is that he's jealous. or greedy. or possessive, which is why it shows up in my works so much. i think he's irrationally jealous a lot which then sneaks into his narrative when i write things from his perspective. im sure people are sick and tired of this facet of my anakins, but honestly it's one of the things that, for me, make his character read as a version of anakin skywalker, despite the crazy situations i put him in. sorry!

at the same time i really don't see obi-wan kenobi's character having that same nugget of irrational jealousy or greed or possessiveness that i see anakin skywalker having and that's why a lot of my fics have elements of jealous anakin but not jealous obi-wan - jealous/possessive obi-wan is more au dependent than essential to the character for me

that all being said, for this au i do think obi-wan would be jealous or possessive - after all, he's Fallen! He's dark! he can allow his jealousy to run rampant! now...how many situations crop up where he can really be jealous or possessive? like it's not kitster the manservant that anyone's trying to seduce, it's the prince! obi-wan's kitster isn't in the line of fire, so to speak, so while i'm sure there are moments where obi-wan feels that sweet sweet green-eyed monster, the plotty identity shenanigans really thwart more openly jealous obi-wan here

#asks #to the point of distraction au #NOT that i want to say anakin's irrational jealousy is always a bad trait #or inherently Dark or evil or something #i see it as like on a sliding scale #where sometimes its at the end thats 'i don't wanna share my toy with someone :( '#and then other fics it's at the 'i will choke my pregnant wife because she is clearly fucking my master'#not to like. bring canon into it or whatever #but like take my last fic a more perfect union #where BOTH anakin and obi-wan are jealous #obi-wan's jealousy is like. eruptive for that chapter where he has to see padme and anakin together #but mostly it's simmering and or overcome by his heartache/guilt #anakin's jealousy of obi-wan's time and attention is rampant #but it's not evil or dark #it's just codependent #and irrational #more on that 'i'm NOT sharing MY toy' end of the scale rather the 'oh you touched him? ok i will take your hands so that can't happen again

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skunkes · 9 months

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playing dolls with ocs in the brainzone is also so ^_^ to me with recent subjects bc. Idk! Its not in whatever his canon story would be because this all exists outside of that but something about "vampire guy who feels unsafe around men and avoids becoming attached to people due to centuries of unending grief" healing and getting attached to and feeling safe around 2 guys of the Good and Sweet and Patient genre is really ^_^ to think about. I like having him around

#ykwim....like no matter what happens to you In There (the Canon canon) you can also exist like dis outside of it #idk how id put talon in the furryverse #in the sense of like. him having fangs and claws isnt anything weird in there #he could be a vampire kitty but idk loses potency #but i wanna put him in there he needs to be full body enveloped by cow al hug #talkys #ugh. idk i like him. ''i can fix him'' but REAL #but also because the walls built up are already old and crumbled #think those posts that are like ''when u go to school and decide youll be in a bad mood to see if anyone notices but then ur friends make u #smile'' like he avoids forming bonds but he's also so eager to and it causes turmoil for him #sorry im just rambling without context neow #horrified when he realizes why he does What He Does and spirals #i really cant make Guy Who Sucks character everyone changes everyone changes #well this is also all subject to change he's changed so much in just this past yr already story wise

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rexscanonwife · 1 year

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The ‘cat batch’ AU by @/cloneenthusiast has me feeling some type of way and I couldn’t rest until I drew doggirl Brea for catboy crosshair 😳❣ so...nya I guess!

#artfarts #self insert #self ship #self shipping community #self insert community #self insert x canon #star wars self insert #the bad batch self insert #crosshair tbb #again. a bit bold of me to tag as such -blows note on pitch pipe- im..insane in the memembrane!#on god its a little too late for me to care #im sleepy and I JUST WANNA THROW THIS OUT HERE TO FORGET ABOUT IT #DIE CRY HATE #HOW CAN I HELP IT WHEN HE'S SUCH A PRETTY KITTY #gghhhhhh #and its kind of a whole thing when he normally calls the reader 'kitten' in fics im throwing up #how did this happen #anyways i was gonna schedule this #but tbh i dont want u guys to see it YOU'D BETTER BE COOL #so ill go ahead and post now at 1;15 in the gd morning \#im mentally ill #but i had my friend jude help me out with the dog/cat ear anatomy a little bit #theyve been a furry ever since ive known them #and for coloring the fur at least for brea i went a bit chili heeler for it #my bff pointed that out which i thought was kinda cute #anyways turn your eyes away from this wretched thing good NIGHT #🎯 baby shot me down 🎯

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animecreator3000 · 1 year

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Every time I rewatch some episode of Boueibu HK I wonder again how the staff even planned this season. Like. Almost nothing meaningful happens with the characters

TLDR the characters with the most developement in HK are the monsters

Kyoutarou is there as a complete contrast to Yumoto while keeping the battle speeches so his characterization doesn't make much sense. Nanao is mere fujoshi bait. Taiju and Taishi have random bits of dialogue that hint at possible arcs for s2 but not enough to tell us what it really is. Maasa has an unfinished arc in his episode, where supposedly he's putting fatty butter in his cookies to make everyone else overweight because he resents Ichiro not defending him when they were little, but then his friends tell him it's fine and then he can move on??? This would work with Ichiro's theme of not wanting to be immature or dense anymore, except they only ever used this theme as a gag (misunderstanding the meaning of whatever the others have said) or to straight up humilliate him (ep4) and continue treating him like a stupid baby. At the end of the season Maasa and him have made peace somehow and that's it. Ata gets in my opinion the closest thing to a complete arc, even if it's just staring angrily at Kyoutarou for ten episodes, then explaining his problem while fighting him and finally getting his apology and reconcilliation. At least it's something. And poor Ryouma is just there to be the butt of a few jokes about how he lets Nanao and Kyoutarou use him, be in a couple of cute shippy scenes, and also for Ata to completely dismiss him from the flashbacks to the point where if they had first met in high school nothing would've changed.

The relationships barely have developement either. Love had anime episodes and manga chapters dedicated to the different close friendships solving their conflicts and becoming closer. There were also many instances of seeing how close the Hakone brothers-defense club and Beppu brothers' relationships were, and even though they didn't have any conflict between themselves, they made them strong sides for the final fight. Yumoto didn't get a character arc but through the entire anime he was revealed to be strong, considerate, forgiving and mature, willing to kindly befriend the Beppu twins for his brother but not let them walk all over him; contrary to how he was presented in the first episodes, like a stereotypical magical girl protagonist. Anyway in HK there's no meaningful conflict between any of them besides Kyoutarou and Ata. Taishi and Ichiro argue constantly but don't show to genuinely like each other after all like IoRyuu or EnAtsu did. Ichiro and Maasa never make any progress to be together again, Maasa hints once at liking Taishi and nothing comes from it, and Nanao and Taiju have the most artificial friendship in the cast that I just do not understand. They just ran an ice cream shop once with again unexplained success and make sassy remarks at each other ever since. And I guess Karurusu and Furanui had a bit of developement thanks to Kyou and Ata in ep12. Idk about the aliens, this time it's like they didn't do it completely well but also not as bad as with the rest of the cast. Maybe bc they didn't appear as much as the humans in most of the episodes

I'm realizing now that a few of these complaints are related to Nanao acting weird

Idk where to put this but I'd like to point out Kinshiro's principles of halting the fight with the Battle Lovers as soon as he finds out that the s1 conflict was set up for a reality show and actively defending them from an attack because they're Binan students, despite still not having received his apology from Atsushi. Ata might've done the same if the HK finale's events had gone in the same order (travelling to Honyalaland to fight Wao, then Kyoutarou apologizing to Ata), but he doesn't feel as a character as deep as Kinshiro in that sense bc they didn't really show him to be in other ways.

Love feels more like an actual group of people while HK feels like they were filling in friendship group roles or something

#boueibu #binan koukou chikyuu bouei bu happy kiss!#marine talks #sleepy rant might delete later #this is all talking about what happens in canon not what could happen in fanwork #how do y'all write kyou correctly in fics with how little sense he makes in canon? props to everyone that does this #anyway pls tell me i'm wrong bc i'm unimpressed abt all this #i get that some media don't need character developement bc it's not the point #but boueibu has proven that it worked well with the rest of the material so what happened with hk?#i haven't written in so long i constantly shift between wanting to write and to throw my fics in the trash #well writing this post made me wanna write a proper story for hk #this rant is all messy bc it's just thought vomiting but whatever #sorry #problem is love has a lot more media than hk but even if we just had s1 to compare i think that might've still been better in this sense #i think the only time ata has talked to ryouma directly was when he yelled at him for defending kyou in ep11. very close friendship i see #i'd say even ranmaru and juka in f-ran have more character developement than some of the guys in hk #i'm still mad about the way ichiro got humilliated in ep4 and didn't defend himself and there were no consequences #good friends don't do that to you! like please edelstein are the angry bad guys and still treat each other better than the defense club do

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moe-broey · 23 days

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Brain still soup but like. I think making one or both (or more!) characters involved in relationships with each other aromantic makes the dynamic soooooo much more compelling. Because if you remove romance as a motivator, you really get down to the nitty-gritty as to WHY that character is seeking out/involved in those relationships in the first place. Whether that relationship involves romantic factors or is more of a queer platonic thing. Much to think about....

#like i WANNA give examples but also it's always so difficult for me to parse it out too #but sharena being someone who longs for love but can never quite grasp it for herself is sooo real to me #while maintaining her harem like. how she still seeks out these relationships anyway. BECAUSE she wants it so bad #because she can't quite grasp it fully herself.#also veronica taking one look at sharena and not even fully able to grasp it herself. and going 'sharena clearly doesn't know what love is'#recognition of the self through the other (derogatory)#also this is something i'm exploring aaaall the fucking time w moe/alfonse.#juries still out on if i hc alfonse as any flavor of aro (i do think it'd be funny/if he was i think he'd be demi)#but like. w moe being 2 for 2 demiro/sexual. you might think that would make things easier?#but no. bc it's also extremely romance repulsed. as much as it wants to spread love and cheer. it is a hater. fervently.#and then there are cases like lif/thrasir that read as a qpr to me. only having each other in this deep intimate way #that's devoid of any romance/sexuality.#BUT IT'S ABOUT THE OBSESSION. going back to moe. IT'S ABOUT ACCIDENTALLY BECOMING THE SAME PERSON #which i think happens to a degree w moe and ABSOLUTELY happens/happened w sharena/peony #it's also about asking what does this character WANT. what is the core of their desire #is it to fill an aching absence? is it to feel safe? to feel understood? to feel loved?#when your entire life you've felt you've been loved wrong/were unable to love correctly?#is it friendship? is it sexuality? esppp in the case of aro/allos!!!! like!!!! that happens!!!!!#and ofc! you have your aros who just don't. and that's okay!#but i never want being aromantic to be like. an easy way to write off a character who 'gets in the way'#or rewrite something you didn't like in canon. like. there are ways to do that second part #without doing the same shit i see people do w autistic people. writing off a character #or a hc in the most abliest way fucking possible. it's egregious.

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neptunite-stars · 10 months

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i need to be stopped

#delete later #rambles #neppy's game talk #anyway ive got the cute lil chibi icons for like 5 characters now :D #aoryugrhgrhrghgr i wanan see whats in this fandom so badly.. but also im scared im gonna see some rly bad takes #but also theres like two sides to this game. the story/art and the gameplay.. im more of a story type guy but idm learning new kits i could #build :O but also like. theres this thing i have where i specifically dont wanna get into a fandom / read fics for a fandom/ship bc i fear #that theres gonna be bad takes and people are writing characters dynamics wrong and reducing characters to one single trait etc etc #to which i find that canon (and the ideas in my head) are good enough for me < this has happened with so many things #to name a few: tri.gun; gomens; hades.game; link.click and a couple of others #i just think Thinking About Them is better than diving deep into the fandom ykno. however this is not true for en.stars because there is #both not enough and way too much to read! anyway ill stop ranting in the tags lmao

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cold-neon-ocean · 4 months

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2, 9 for LOK?

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2. A headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like!

Ooh this one is kinda tough~ I'm generally rather removed from the fandom at large so I actually don't really know of a lot of popular headcanons out there, let alone ones I initially didn't like and came to like~ I really only ever consumed content about Baatar and Kuvira as they're my favorites, and with them I'd either like a headcanon outright, or dislike it outright. I will say, at least in the limited fan content I've consumed, there is a common idea of Baatar having gone to university in Ba Sing Se for a period of time. I've seen at least 3 folks use that in their writings for him, and while it was never something I was "unsure" about, I didn't initially include the idea in my version of him. I don't know who penned that headcanon first but I was always hesitant about being seen as "copying" anyone lol. I do like the idea though, especially with my very codependent versions of Baatar and Kuvira, some time apart like that during their "good years" would be rather interesting, since they have been in each other's lives for most of their lives, Baatar choosing to go where Kuvira can't follow- even for a short period of time, I can see her holding against him for a little while. Especially with her preexisting abandonment issues.

9. A ship that isn't your OTP but you enjoy

Once again I'm pretty singularly invested in Baatar and Kuvira but there are definitely some canon and fan ships that I like! Canon wise I'll always have a soft spot for Bolin and Opal, just because they're cute and I like the potential dynamic it creates with Baatar specifically. A lot of it is pretty contingent on my rewrite versions, but what can I say, I'm a bit of a sucker for puppy love. Lyn and Kya was an early ship I'd see in the fandom that I always was like *Kermit nodding gif* ooh yeah I like that, and I've also seen Lyn and Bumi which I also really like, but I never really delved into fan works of either admittedly. I'll confess that lately the crack ship of Baatar and Zhu Li has been on my mind, but definitely not as a positive ship in any way, more like a mutually waged psychological warfare that they aren't even trying to hide from each other kind. I don't remember what sparked the idea- I'm not usually one for crack ships as I tend to be pretty single-ship through and through, but it's been a fun dynamic to think about, especially the kinds of conversations they'd have.

#Ask Matsu #LoK Thoughts #[ The Baatar/Zhu Li thing is something I'd love to play with but it definitely would not be canon to my main AU lol #as fun as that would be Baatar does not expend any more energy on people than he needs to save for Kuvira and to a lesser extent Bolin #But the idea of him and Zhu Li waging war with each other behind the scenes is very interesting to me #especially with her really just trying to get information she can use against them out of him #and he's fully aware of that and just letting whatever happens happen to both see how far she'll take it but also to keep the leash drawn #in the event she actually choses to do something drastic #also for the sake of clarity Kuvira would be 100% fully aware and find it entertaining on a number of levels #her and Baatar do not keep secrets #she was probably the one to be like “lol you should see where that's going”#though I do think Baatar and Zhu Li would have some very interesting conversations #they're in very similar positions and I'm sure he'd wanna know why she put up with Varrick for so long #i mean he'd have a good guess but he'd wanna hear what her rationale is in her own words #and on Zhu Li's part she wants to know what twisted Baatar up so bad #but she'd also find a lot of his viewpoints about being a non bender rather gratifying #because he's willing to say out loud what a lot of people don't want to hear #I didn't meant to go on about that singular aspect lol but it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately #and crack-ships are rather new for me so this is uncharted territory #does this even count as a crack ship tho? maybe not #it definitely started out as “hehe the two glasses people on the train” but now it's like “hehe psychological warfare”#idk maybe it still counts lol ]#orangepanic

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