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Our dearest boy becomes surprisingly consistent if you try to describe him as a fae.

mischievous, isn't concerned with social rules (it's not his society) mostly just wants to be entertained but has strange archaic ideas of honour likes kids but not grown ups doesn't lie but is good at tricking people without lying values dreams, poetry and good stories above survival has a capacity for loyalty far beyond what would be typical for a human (disregard the fact that his concept of relationships is similar to that of a cat. will bring you a dead mouse and be incredibly proud of himself) fierce, weirdly proud, pretty returns favours with favours of his own (this sounds normal but actually it's extremely rare in teyvat)

It all works very well… with one tiny problem. He isn't a fae.

kicking my feet twirling my hair giggling and blushing over women who went into the forest and came back wrong ✨😍🌸💗😘🥰💖💖

"came back wrong" trope except she came back normal she just has depression from the events of her life even before being pulled out of heaven when her friends reanimated her & she wishes so badly she did come back wrong because it would explain this emptiness inside but she didn't come back wrong because her friend checked and she cries "please tell me that im wrong please don't forgive me please god don't forgive me" because she is buffy summers and you are watching buffy the vampire slayer season 6

Ok. Ok but. "You came back wrong." No you didn't, darling. You came back changed. You may as well say that you came back and I was wrong, because I changed too. How could someone go through what you went through without changing? Your skin feels too tight? Those limbs, not your own? Memories scrambled, crying when most would laugh, shadows in the corners of your eyes. Yes, you came back different. And maybe you'll never be the way you were. That's the curse of being alive, love. You'll never be who you were yesterday, and yesterday you were not who you were the day before. But I loved who you were last year, last week, yesterday, and I'll love every you every tomorrow. And you've never turned your back on me for changing, so why would I do that to you? You came back and I was wrong, because how could I go through losing you without changing? Hold your hand a little tighter, listen to your breathing a little closer, and maybe one day I'll change again and relax in your arms again, but for now you belong resting in mine, whoever you are, because I didn't bring you back just to blame you for being alive.

came back wrong because they didn't expect to come back at all and now they're just kinda there. not sure what to do now

You know what i think is an underrated sub-genre of the "Came back wrong trope"? Well there's multiple but I'll elaborate anyway (and lets assume all characters were brought back from death) "Came back changed" - The process of dying and being dead then suddenly being brought back changed the character. They didn't come back wrong, they came back traumatized, they came back needing to bear the mental anguish that comes with coming to terms that they died. And everybody they knew is now acting like they are lesser or different for something they had no choice over. How can they be expected to be same person after dying? Why is everybody they relied on and trusted now acting like them dying wouldn't be traumatizing. Why aren't they helping, they did this, and now they don't like the results. "Changed perceptions" - The character died so long ago that all that's left in everybody else's head is an idealized version of them. Somebody who could do no wrong. Somebody perfect. But they aren't that, so when the character is brought back, everybody thought it went wrong. They never changed, but everybody else forgot who they really were. And because they dont fit the idealistic little fantasy version of them, they came back wrong. "Didn't want to come back" - The character died and went to the afterlife. There were no struggles no heart aches, just them with the people they lost, patiently waiting for their new friends to join. Then they get pulled back down, back into a rotting aching body, everything hurts. The first thing they can do is scream, they scream until they can't anymore. They forgot what pain was, and now its everywhere. All their friends are crying tears of joy at their bedside, happy to have their friend back. But the character is full of hatred, how dare they bring them back.

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

I died but I came back exactly the same. You though, I came back and you were wrong. Did the fact of my dying really damage you that much? Was bringing me back worth what it cost you? Would it have been better to just leave me?

"Came back wrong" trope and "the thing that was not a deer anymore" monsters as being about living through abuse. I think all the time about the person I was, I meet new people, I sit quietly in groups and watch them interact, their mannerisms, interests, turns of phrase and I want to say 'i used to be that person, I know someone and you would have loved them!!! But they're dead!' I have to reach out to family and friends that I lost contact with and pretend they are people I know and not people she knew. I have to pretend I am not now fragile and angry and tired and different. I have to pretend that I still know them when now I don't feel like anyone who doesn't know every detail of what I went through knows me and more than that I don't feel like I know them at all, I died under horrific circumstances and I came back wrong. I was once a deer, I still look like a deer and you'll mistake me for one until you get too close. And see that I was once a deer but I am not a deer anymore, something at the core of me has changed. I am SomeThing in possession of a deer's body. I have to pretend that talking about her and what I went through isn't the only thing to me now. There's nothing else inside of me. And I'm the only person that knows I'm dead??? That knows I've come back wrong?? Everyone else says "you'll have to stop thinking about it at some point", "there's no point dwelling on that". And I want to scream But she's dead!! She isn't here! There's just me, and I'm only this!!

Came back wrong except the person you revived is actually their soul from another universe in their body from this one and they are very, very confused.

My blood tests came back wrong

came back wrong trope but the character knows that they came back wrong. they’re so acutely aware of how different they are now from how they were before that it drives them fucking insane. they’re stuck trying to return to somebody that’s long dead. they can never be the person they once were. everybody around them knows it. deep down, they know it too, but they’re trapped in a cycle of their own making. of trying to revive someone that no longer exists.

Characters who die and are brought back, and have reverse survivor's guilt. Intellectually they know there was nothing they could have done to prevent their own death, and it isn't their fault that they weren't there for the other characters, but that doesn't stop them from feeling anguish for not being there when they were needed.

not enough posts/art/fic about post hell bent clara being a straight up nightmare creature. like. she’d already turned into something a bit horrific its not like immortality + access to all of time and space was gonna help that. and ashildr isnt exactly a companion who’s gonna make her better lmao

Came back wrong as something you choose. Being so traumatized by the coldness of death. The pain of the wounds. The loneliness of the tomb. Taking your fear and weaponizing it against those who were with you, those who should've laid at the ground with you. Swearing to destroy everything so that they'll feel the emptiness you felt at the grave. Make them pay for leaving.

Coming back just to take someone else with you.

Babygirl your evil identify crisis and rockin dead bod have bewitched me body and soul. Now let me please know what the Fuck went wrong w u off screen