For the character thing, how about Penny from Gumball?
favorite thing about them:
Everything. I love especially her design to her character arcs and personality, especially the clear change we see in her being more rhan that of some loser's girlfriend/crush, but an actualy character we get to appreciate that has awesome shit going for her🔥🔥
Also love how mean she can get
least favorite thing about them:
She doesn't have enough episodes, dedicate a whole season to her i say
favorite line:
"Age doesn't matter when it comes to love."
"Legally, it kinda does."
This scene killed me
brOTP
Her and Darwin, and mostly all of the elmore girls
OTP
HER AND GUMBALL!!
nOTP
Her and Darwin, besides them noone else!
Random headcanon
Trans MTF allegory
unpopular opinion
I liked her design before The Shell
song i associate with them
I/ me / myself by Will Woods
(Less in the lyrics and more vibes tbh)
favorite picture of them
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what about characters who don’t break. No no no, they don’t become a shadow of themselves.
Instead they snap. Instead of a shadow you have a mutation
They’re harder, colder, sharp as iron. They laugh during the wrong times and they smile in a weird way that shows their teeth and its positively unsettling. They’ve picked up odd habits and people won’t outright say they’re scared of this character but
they’re scared.
anyway characters that snap are cool
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things to ask yourself when designing a female character:
how much blood is she covered in
are her eyes filled with madness
can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails
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Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:
In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.
A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.
In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.
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i really love it when people here are “not normal” about the things they love. yes!! break down the scene that you’ve been obsessing over for weeks! create incredibly intricate theories based on a few throwaway lines! explain why you love this character so much—458 reasons and counting, and with visual aids! i love to see people putting their heart and soul into not being normal!!!
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There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation
because WHAT are people talking about sometimes
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Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.
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