aphel1on: i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eddiegettingshot: “their relationship is strictly platonic” “they’re so in love” well, more importantly, they are fucking weird and abnormal about each other in an undeniable way
I’m really glad I’m not the only one who feels that way, anon. Thanks for reaching out, it means a lot. 🤝 context link
chaumas-deactivated20240115: narratively I am a fan of romances that don’t ever actually become romances I don’t mean in an aromantic life partner way, I mean romantic tension that is never resolved or acted upon for whatever reason but by the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
all characters regardless of gender are allowed to have extremely nasty sex be covered in their own blood be covered in someone else’s blood suffer horribly torture people engage in toxic yaoi engage in toxic yuri make poor life choices[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: Some of y’all are trying to found-family your blorbos into a nuclear family parent/child dynamic in a way that suggests you have profoundly misunderstood the circumstances under which the one would plausibly call the other “daddy”.
*pointing at a shambling wreck of a fictional man* “I want that one. He compels me.”
whmp: joy-yet-again: @hurt-over-comfort
hellshire-harlot: mack-anthology-mp3: you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
His obvious childhood trauma and damaged, kicked puppy swag have captivated me.
miyagi-hokarate: Characters covered in blood is the new wet t-shirt contest
wonderland-mp3: characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies
My absolute favorite kind of mentor and protege relationship is when the mentor absolutely cares about their protege and wants them to succeed –but they are passing on lessons that are just so, so incredibly toxic and harmful, fully believing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kitten, sometimes daddy just wants a sandwich and some pleasant conversation.
I love flawed, morally dubious characters who don’t realize when they’re in the wrong, and have complex, multi-layered, messy romantic and sexual relationships where they make mistakes, have miscommunications, prioritize their feelings over their partner’s sometimes, and accidentally or even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
meg-moira: evavalor: underrated trope: “i’ve lost my memory and idk who you are but i just have this feeling that i’m supposed to trust you” This – but the feeling is absolutely, completely, 100% wrong. Person 1: “I don’t know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
woobifiedvillain: woobifiedvillain: Going insane about kicked dog with rabies type characters On a more serious note though perhaps I’m obsessed with this because I want more sympathy for characters who externalize their problems. Fuck being a perfect victim fuck being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“how can you headcanon that character as bisexual– they’re so obviously gay!” Easy; I don’t believe that what a person acts like or dresses like, or their mannerisms or habits of speech correlates to who they’re attracted to. A character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m going to be brutally, bluntly honest and vulnerable for a moment. I don’t have any positive familial connections. I don’t have any mothers or fathers, or sisters or brothers or aunts or uncles or cousins who were supportive, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
me, pointing to the man who is the most doomed by the narrative ever: “That one, I want that one, I love him!”
dangerouscommiesubversive: I think a really good relationship dynamic is when one partner is an entirely absurd person and the other partner’s perpetual thought process is, “I adore you. Why are you like this? I’m going to kiss you at such[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
glumshoe: appreciation post for characters who can say “at your service” in a tone of voice that suggests they will gleefully do anything within their power to cause problems for you on purpose
saraswritingtipps: Good Traits Gone Bad Exploring good traits gone bad in a novel can add depth and complexity to your characters. Here are a few examples of good traits that can take a negative turn: 1. Empathy turning into manipulation:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
andhumanslovedstories: Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
daz4i: love as a weapon not in a power of friendship way but more like using someone’s love for you to get them to hurt others for you, or alternatively to hurt *them*, making someone love you so you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
johntorrington: toxic codependent familial dynamics this. toxic codependent romances that. what about toxic codependent coworkers. i can’t do my job without this guy here or i’ll kill myself.
really, deeply in love with the term “hatchet man” for someone’s personal killer. It’s evocative. It’s personal. It’s a euphemism, but not a delicate one. “my hatchet man.” “i’m his hatchet man.” 😳😳😳😳 — hatchet man (plural hatchet men) A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤝 hell yes! Don’t get me wrong– mind control can be fun in certain settings. But what I really prefer is *corruption*. The slow creeping and decay of morals as you become more and more entangled with someone that your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
trashy-greyjoy: really love dynamics that are like ‘it honestly doesn’t matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it’s there’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
notquiteaghost: notquiteaghost: notquiteaghost: once again opening a ship tag on AO3 and opening a dozen fics and closing out of almost all of them immediately because they would not fucking act like that why is it – i know why.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the absolute vibes of “I’m a fan of your work” when the work in question is violence and/or death. <33333
Character who was never taught to speak the language of softness. They were only taught the language of blood and fire. Still, they love. They express that love the only way they know how.
Domme who communicates entirely in facebook wine mom minions memes and forces you to play really bad video games while she laughs at you.
sangled: shipping win! they have different but equally terrible coping mechanisms
i just really enjoy fiction about mentally ill, emotionally twisted up criminals and obsessive losers finding bright spots of often fucked up joy in their nasty, grimy lives.
grimeclown: grimeclown: grimeclown: Masks are kind of hot actually A well-designed mask does more for making a character hot than any amount of cleavage It’s about SYMBOLOGY it’s about MYSTERY it’s about an ABSTRACTION OF SELF and most importantly it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
galaxy-of-me: hi, i love dynamics that r like “we make each other worse” on the surface but when u look deeper it is actually just “we understand each other on a level that no one else does and nudge each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
insomniac-arrest: The first rule of tragedy is to be yourself. The second of rule of tragedy is to be literally anyone else. The third rule is that however much you try there is no escaping being yourself forever.
OTP true love that is biting, and punching, and kicking, and suffering, and torture and screaming and crying, and cursing yourself for loving them, and reuniting, and dying for one another, and it still isn’t enough. It will never be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eiralivered: she has that sadness in her eyes that you only see in alcoholic captains of doomed arctic expeditions
revui: genfagloser: im making this its own post actually found family is “i have endured the fucking horrors with these guys. i would both kill and die for them. i would rip my own bones out to make splints to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-overanalyst: it’s always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
screnwriter: i just think that unhinged fictional characters with some blood on their face and wrath in their eyes is pretty hot. that’s all
nazumichi: i love it when characters are package deals, i love duos i love trios i love quartets, i love groups and squads, i love it when you can’t find one without the other(s), i love it when they’re glued[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
raayllum: i love it when characters are unfair, actually. i love it when they’re uncouth and cranky and hypocritical, i love it when they have cognitive dissonances, i love it when they make good and bad choices for the wrong[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🎉 Write characters that you find interesting and compelling. 🎉 Don’t worry about making characters too over the top, or ‘too much’. 🎉 Write characters who want big things. 🎉 Write characters with conflict between what they want and what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
what-a-bastard: I love characters who blur the line between romantic and platonic and it literally just doesn’t matter, like this isn’t drama they’re just besties that share a bed most nights and would die for each other without a second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Enemies to Lovers: Descent to Darkness 💕 A hero who is so tired of forcing themselves to fight the villain they love every single time, just because it’s the right thing to do. 💕 A hero who is so tired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lester Crest is cool! He’s a snarky, devious hacker, a bank robber, an anti-capitalist assassin puppet-master archetype! But nobody pays attention to him because he’s fat and disabled! 😭 The point of this post is I need to make more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dead-pidove-do-not-eat: I love it when a lost kid joins with a villain tbh, I too, am a lost kid and I would commit crimes if it meant hanging out with a mean guy who is nice sometimes and only tolerates[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gotta love a gross middle aged man with the attitude of a tsundere anime girl.
We have 60+ years of comic books exploring exactly how destructive to your health, emotional well-being and personal relationships trying to save the world is. Unfortunately we also have 60+ years of comic books exploring exactly what happens if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think it is really indicative of what our society considers virtuous that ‘you have been fighting for so long, why don’t you put down your sword and rest’ is so often used in fiction by the villain as a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
toxic masculinity in fiction is so sexy actually. Yes, give me the broken men who can’t relate to their own emotions and only manage to emote in a human way once they’ve broken. Give me the men who keep pushing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
toxic masculinity in fiction is so sexy actually. Yes, give me the broken men who can’t relate to their own emotions and only manage to emote in a human way once they’ve broken. Give me the men who keep pushing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…