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ionomycin · 2 years
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adelrambles · 3 months
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Tips on Writing Bishop
I've been asked a couple times for advice on how to write a good (03-style) Bishop, and I'm well-aware he can be a bit tough to get a grasp on. As someone who's studied him specifically to learn how to write him as accurately as possible, I figured I'd compile some thoughts in case it'd be helpful to anyone else. I know a lot of Rise takes on him are basing off the 03 version, so maybe this could help generate ideas, too. SO!
Big Overall Points!
At the core of EVERYTHING Bishop does are two primary motivations. The first: the protection of the earth. What this means to him can get tricky, because it doesn't necessarily mean protecting the people, at least not all of them. But it will be better understood alongside the other:
The second: The protection of his sense of safety. Bishop has been deeply traumatized, and everything he does is born of a want to avoid that pain ever again. In his mind, earth is a safe area, a controllable factor, and anything outside it is a danger that must be eliminated. This is why he will still be willing to put himself and other people on the line in service of this; any sacrifice is worth the greater goal. (It's worth noting, Bishop will claim the first as his motivation freely, but is likely not consciously aware of the second.)
Bishop deals in Big Picture ONLY. Another reason Bishop will willingly throw away anything, including the lives of the people he claims to protect, is that he seems incapable of understanding things on a small, individual basis.
Bishop is a cold personality. He does not have strong displays of emotion. He does emote, but for the most part it's muted, so I recommend using emotional bursts very sparingly. (In my own writing, as an example, I try to limit my use of exclamation marks in his dialogue as much as possible.)
At his core, Bishop is afraid, and his response to fear is aggression. This also makes it particularly difficult to talk him down, if he's put in an emotional state. His response to not being in control is often violent retaliation.
With those basic tenants understood, let's move next to some major personality traits:
Bishop is a controlling personality. This is a direct result of his trauma response. Things that can be controlled are safe, therefore he must control everything. If something cannot be controlled, it's a threat that must be eliminated. If he doesn't know why something happened, he becomes angry (including even when it benefits him.)
Bishop is very low-empathy. When writing him, I try to keep in mind that he cannot put himself in the perspective of others. (Or if he can, he doesn't care to.)
Bishop is a sadist. He gets personal enjoyment from hurting others.
Bishop likes fighting, but only when he's winning. He will quickly leave if he can't see a guaranteed victory.
Bishop is paranoid. This is probably self-evident, but it's the reason he's often so well-prepared even when things don't go to plan.
Bishop genuinely seems to enjoy science. He's shown to be far more lenient with scientist characters than anyone else, and he seems to involve himself in his scientists' projects to a degree. Enough to, at the very least, understand their work. (Given he was the one set to dissect the turtles, it might also be argued he has some medical or biology background, himself.)
Bishop is an opportunist and scavenger. He can roll with failures as long as he can find something to get out of it. If he's presented with an opportunity to stab someone in the back, and he has something to gain? He'll take it without a second thought.
Bishop is deeply self-blind. For all his perceptiveness and strategic prowess, Bishop is not very self-aware in the slightest. He is completely blind to his own hypocrisies, and thoroughly confident in his own righteousness.
Bishop adapts fast. He accepts situations for what they are and acts (Though he may still be angry about them, or what have you.) This is likely a skill developed via longevity; the world around him has changed rapidly, but he doesn't feel out of place at all.
Bishop will take extreme risks and thinks wildly outside the box. Also self-evident, if you're familiar with the plans he enacts throughout the show. He'll put a lot on the line if he thinks the reward is worth enough, and he's willing to go to extreme lengths to get what he wants, even if his plans would be considered crazy by normal standards.
Bishop is persistent. If he wants something, he won't stop until he gets it. If he fails, he'll retreat, make a new plan, and try again. It is very difficult to convince him to back down (and certainly not on moral grounds.)
Habits and triggers I've noted:
Being restrained of any sort puts Bishop in a panic. He is more likely to have an emotional response in these scenarios, and seems to have (an albeit muted) desperation to escape. (See: Leatherhead restraining him in the first encounter; His reaction to being trapped on the surgical table in Head of State.)
When being duplicitous or suppressing a reaction, Bishop will go to adjust his tie. This could possibly be considered his tell.
Bishop seems to have a particular fear of aliens blending in as humans. His slayer project was built around the assumption that this is a common threat. (Worth noting: This makes The Shredder the model of the exact threat Bishop is afraid of. Technically, Bishop himself may also fit the description of a threat shaped like a human.)
Writing considerations:
In 03's narrative, Bishop is EPF and EPF is Bishop. Narratively speaking, any organization Bishop is head of acts as if it is an extension of his will and character.
Bishop is shown to strike fear and/or discomfort into most characters he interacts with. Anything beyond this is an outlier, and will draw a reader's attention.
Dialogue-wise, Bishop is generally succinct and blunt. He does dabble in gloating, though, and especially likes to upset others. If he's given a chance to be mean, he'll usually take it. It can help to consider he has a Mission Mode and a Normal Mode. When it comes to Mission Mode, he gets straight to the point and hates unnecessary talking. Otherwise, he's still not very talkative, but will take the time to make pointed jabs or talk through a plan. A lot of his sense of humor seems to be rooted in how He's Better Than You (And You're Going To Die Painfully.)
It's a common pitfall that Bishop is depicted as seeking out the turtles. In 03, once he gets their DNA, he's done with them. Any encounters after that are incidental. Bishop does not care about anything that won't effect his greater goal. If he's targeting another character, it should have to do with a greater plan.
Bishop is an extremely competent combatant, shown to be able to handle up to 7 opponents at once. For a breakdown on his fighting style check out my other post on that!
Bishop is hard to kill, and oftentimes he accidentally contributes to his own defeat. (The hook from Bishop's Gambit is an example I get a LOT of mileage out of, as a perfect symbol of his self-defeating prophecies.)
We almost only ever see Bishop in the context of his work. While it could be construed that he depersonalizes himself, it's much more clear that the narrative depersonalizes him. As far as we, the audience know, Bishop's work is all that he is.
It's unclear if Bishop was released from his abduction or escaped. Depending on which you ascribe to, this can have ramifications for his mindset on how to deal with the alien threat. (Personally, because so much of his inability to cope hinges on a feeling of helplessness, I believe he was released. If he escaped on his own power, that undercuts it, somewhat.)
Thematically-speaking, Bishop parallels both his own torturers and his own victims at the same time. He has perpetuated the cycle that traumatized him in the first place by trying to fight fire with fire. (In that vein, I don't think he's capable of understanding that, not seeing aliens as people in the first place, just dangers. Considering how deeply ingrained his trauma is in his worldview and actions, it would probably ruin him, if he were ever able to actually grasp it.)
Bishop and EPF are likely a commentary on the military of the time 03 was coming out. This can be something worth keeping in mind, when figuring out his greater themes in your story, though it can just as well be discarded if it doesn't fit.
Adding to that, Bishop has an extensive american military background. His skills and knowledge will reflect that.
Bishop also plays on and references a number of real-life alien conspiracies. It can be worth digging through conspiracy history to drum up ideas and themes, too.
The ethical and philosophical quandaries of Bishop's body-hopping and humanity tend to not hold too much weight, because Bishop, himself, doesn't seem to care.
If I think of more I'll certainly be adding on to the reblogs of this post! Or, if you have more thoughts, please feel free to add! If you're in the mood for more Bishop ramblings, that's practically most of this blog atm, but this post is a particular favorite. If you're interested in Fast Forward!Bishop, specifically, consider this post! (also read Taking Pawns. slipped in that self-promo, nice.)
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frenchonionsoop · 8 months
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this guy amirite?
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monarchamos · 7 months
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“Even Dazai forgot to breathe as he watched the storm that was Chuuya.”
wanted to try something new and tried digitally coloring over a traditional sketch. Personally think it looks alright but probably won’t be doing this again haha (unless…👀)
original sketch under cut!
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drawsmaddy · 1 year
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[ID: A digital illustration of Kunikida Doppo, Edogawa Ranpo, Edgar Allan Poe, Izumi Kyouka, and Dazai Osamu from Bungou Stray Dogs. They are all in the office of the Armed Detective Agency. Kunikida is centered in the image, sat at his desk and writing in his notebook. He looks stressed as he works, with a pile of books, a closed laptop, and a mug of coffee around him on the desk. Dazai is in front of him, facedown on the desk next to Kunikida's laptop. Behind Kunikida, Poe and Ranpo are at Ranpo's desk talking to one another. Karl the raccoon is perched on Poe's shoulders. Kyouka walks past in the background, carrying files and looking to the side at Kunikida. End description.]
He's gonna give himself a stress migraine
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zukkaoru · 2 months
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❤️‍🩹 i want your dreary mondays ❤️‍🩹
It’s far from the picture-perfect ideal life Kunikida had planned out for himself, but…he’s realized that you cannot plan for everything. You cannot anticipate every attack, and just because life doesn’t turn out looking like you expected doesn’t mean you can’t find happiness anyways. He took both his own life and Yosano’s ability to heal for granted, and now he’s suffering permanent consequences. But he also has support from people who understand.
kunikida has a bad pain day, and his partners take care of him
❤️‍🩹 2.7k words || kunichuuzai hurt/comfort + fluff ❤️‍🩹 written for pamper kunikida week 2024 on twt
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mood-owl · 2 years
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nitw marcy b/c i said so (also your lying to yourself if you dont think Marcy played NITW and didnt relate to Mae big time)
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do not repost or use w/o permission
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blvcklizard · 25 days
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Bungou Stray Dogs really managed to have an arc where the story goes from 0 to 100 without killing off half the cast and I have nothing but respect for that
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hachitamaa · 11 days
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Sunday collage 💫🌟
art, stickers and kitties! A simple collage for now while I get my life together! I hope y’all have a good Sunday and a great week!! 🫧✨
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cottonwoolsocks · 2 years
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one of my favourite things about stray is the way it portrays humanity. humans were intrinsically good. the soft ones. they are remembered only through stories, and the robots speak of them with such fondness and admiration. they were good, and they were kind to us. they are gone now, so we cannot return this kindness. instead, we shall remember them. we shall remember them in our music, our paintings, our dance. we shall remember them in our words and in our voices. after all, what makes a human? body or mind? and what are we but the same, though our hardware may differ? we shall create art like theirs until we learn to create our own. we shall remember them through things they loved that we do not need — we shall care for the plants they cared for, wish for the sun they wished for. we shall light candles we cannot smell. we shall read books, accrue knowledge, seek to be even a little like they were, for they were so kind. so soft. we shall create community. humanity may be gone, but they live on through our memory. they live on through their actions, our actions, their words, our thoughts. they were kind to us.
the humans are gone. though it may be built from metal and wire, their humanity remains.
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merrcurrrrry · 1 year
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”Happy birthday Paul. I’m glad you were born and I’m so glad I got to meet you.”
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camellias-stray · 1 year
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My wardrobe got updated so I have to draw my self-insert wearing them coz I’m too lazy to take pics.
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dafry · 1 year
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Aight first off have cat because this have been left there sitting in my drafts for way too long XD
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blossom-hwa · 2 years
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recs game!
Tagged by @chaninfused​, thanks so much furat <3
recommend 5 or more of your own works that you would rec to someone asking what they should read first & explain a little bit about the work. these can be the most popular, the ones you think are underrated, or your own favorites! then tag five other writers!  
BREATHE, AND LIVE | SKZ CHAN — single parent!au, an ongoing series
Breathe, and Live holds a very special place in my heart. I often use writing to explore my perspectives on different situations, and as I was working through this universe, the fondness I grew for every single character is unfathomable. It was inspired with the help of a good friend I met here (@deathbykpopboys​ - sunny, if you’re seeing this, I adore you) and consists of single parents chan and mc trying to get through life with their rambunctious kids (twins Jilix and Hyunjin, respectively). While I haven’t worked on it in a while, it is not a finished series by far, and I look forward to writing many more drabbles for this universe in the future. For anyone curious who also happen to be a deobi, I have a The Boyz series called Touching Stars set in the same universe :)
LAVENDER MIST | TXT TAEHYUN & BEOMGYU — apocalypse!au, no pairing, drabble, 1.7k
I’ve written a lot of angst in my life (my mutuals will very much agree), but this is, I think, one of my greatest pieces when it comes to the genre. Inspired by two unrelated thoughts that I somehow threaded together (if you must know, one was about Febreze and the other was about an apocalypse), it was an attempt to convey an emotion I was feeling for some reason that I couldn’t quite describe to myself - something between wistfulness, longing, nostalgia, heavy and light and suffocating all at once. Lavender Mist is about reminders of the past, what empty cans of Febreze and friendship bracelets left on the side of the road come to mean when survival in an apocalyptic world is the only goal. While it’s short, I think that it was the first time I managed to write how I felt, and for that, it’s incredibly precious to me.
A YELLOW SCARF IN WINTER | SVT JUN — unspecified!au, drabble, 1.5k
A Yellow Scarf in Winter came a short time after Lavender Mist, and it’s another drabble based on emotion. While Lavender Mist does have some plot,  however, this story does not - it’s the only fic of mine that I think I can label as no plot, just vibes. If I were to try and describe it, though, I guess I could say that the moon is trying to find his home, and mc happens to be there as he takes a rest along the journey. It was inspired by a Chopin piece I’d recently relearnt called Feuille d’Album, which translated literally means an album leaf. It’s short and brief but incredibly beautiful, and this story was an attempt to write the feeling it evoked in me into words. For all the world I don’t think I could explain to you the emotion I was trying to convey, but I think the fic does it just fine. 
PARADISE | ATEEZ SEONGHWA — witch!au, completed series, 48.1k
How do I explain Paradise? It’s a world where witches exist and freely roam the earth under the guidance of their Goddess Mother. Seonghwa, a simple kitchen witch, learns early on that he is the reincarnation of a past life put back on Earth to complete a goal he left unfinished, but with the realization of that goal will come great heartbreak and sacrifice. Because a promise made with the blood of the dying is binding, and as Seonghwa learns more about the love he left behind, he begins to understand that it is not by duty to his Goddess Mother that he seeks revenge, but by will and will alone. I love Paradise - it was my summer 2021 brainchild and I think it was ridiculously underrated compared to many of my other pieces, but no matter. The comments I received for it told me the story touched many of those who read it, and really, that’s all I could ever ask for.
WHISPERS OF NATURE | SKZ — nature spirit!au, ongoing series
I feel like I’m almost cheating a little with this recommendation because it’s a series of stories rather than a single one, but I love all of them so much that I couldn’t pick just one. I think this series was probably my breakthrough work as a Stray Kids writer - I met a lot of my current mutuals because of it, and besides that, it was just a very fun series to write. It’s about Stray Kids as nature spirits - forest guardian Chan, fae Jisung, moon child Changbin, shrine messenger boy Jeongin, water nymph Hyunjin, princes Minho and Seungmin, and star Felix. If I tried to explain the plot of each one we’d be here all day, but all of them, even those I haven’t finished yet, deal with love and loss and learning to live for oneself and no one else. I think it’s one of my best attempts at world building yet, and for that, I’m super proud of it.
Tagging: @wingkkun @applejongho @itsapapisongo @thepixelelf @blueprint-han <3 (feel free to ignore!!)
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lume-nescence · 2 years
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i’ve been writing a lot for genshin and this is meant to be a multifandom blog,,, well, i have some wips in the making. it’s just a lil harder since i mostly consume genshin more than my other interests ☹️
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iggy-hands · 2 years
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It's over a month since the finale aired now and my grasp on actual canonical Izzy is really slipping.
I just look at him now and feel like, heeheehee my sweet angory boy, what a lil scamp! 🥰
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