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I FORGOT TO MENTION SOME OF THE NAMES THEY ADOPTED AFTER WHITE’S DEATH

Junji: “Sozo” meaning creation in Japanese

Teddy: “Seraphim” because angel

Leslie: “Thunderstruck” *AC/DC plays loudly in the background*

Toby: “Snake Eyes” it fits his brand!

Evelyn: “The Snowdrifter” ow the edge

Raven: “Miss Umbra” elegant AND gender affirming (btw, Raven changed her whole identity after transitioning, including her last name)

Urban: “Ouija” g-g-g-ghost!!!

did I mention Cami had friends???

Sorry the pics had to be uploaded like this, Tumblr tried to explode on me

more info about the characters below!!

The top three are Cami’s coworkers. They aren’t really that important to her story, just some non hero (and non human) characters I wanted to add to spice things up

here’s some facts about them

Sable and Milo are dating and live together

Charlie Jay sometimes goes home with Cami when they don’t feel safe going home by themselves (post secret invasion)

CJ has no memory of coming to earth, only living on it

Ok, now it’s time to get into the major stuff

so, the rest of the characters shown are Cami’s fellow soldiers who she lead during her PK:PR days most of their basic information is one their sheets, so here’s some additional facts and details

Junji: After Dr.White’s death, he moved on to own a library in Nebraska in a quiet town. He’s considered “the mom friend” because he always puts his friends first before himself. He joined Dr.White after his dad gave him up during the war, making Junji move to America at a young age (around 6-7)

Teddy: After PK:PR, Teddy moved in with his half sibling, Urban, and basically is a stay at home brother if you will? Idk, he doesn’t have a job because his wings make it difficult to get one. Known as “the dad friend” because, like Junji, he cares for his friends more than himself. Has a Wakandan accent. Nicknamed Teddy because of his huge stature, but soft personality. Joined Dr.White after his village was burned down by a “mysterious force” (He knows, but isn’t upset)

Leslie: After PK:PR, Leslie became a bouncer at Toby’s casino. He always feels like he has to be in fight mode because of his trauma and always being told he wasn’t enough for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes he “short circuits” if he gets ticked off, meaning that if you start seeing sparks, stop what you’re doing and apologize. He joined PK:PR after Dr.White found him wandering the streets because Leslie got lost while his orphanage was evacuated.

Toby: He became a casino owner and basically runs the show there. The name of said casino is “Snake Eyes” and is quite popular among people. He developed a coping mechanism of getting high and totally ignoring the world around him. He was raised by his uncle in Ireland, who always took him to bars and other places no child should be. Mother is dead and father was a sailor, which is why Toby knows a lot of sea shanties. Joined PK:PR after actually introducing himself to Dr.White before any “accidents” happened. He was too young to understand why White was really there.

Evelyn: Evelyn went on a man hunt trying to find Cami after she helped kill Dr.White. One of the only people to believe Cami was still alive after her “disappearance.” Out of everyone, she was the one who was most affected by Cami’s disappearance. Hadn’t moved on from her and Cami’s “relationship” (they were like 13, so does it even count?) Joined PK:PR after her mom told her to run off into the woods where their “secret hiding place” was and White found her (didn’t join without a fight of course)

Raven: Raven joined Junji in his library, helping stack books and other assistant jobs. Her shadow, named Shady, sometimes takes over if Raven starts to dissociate to make sure she’ll be safe. Raven communicates with ASL, but Shady speaks. Was the last person to develop her Provectus power. Joined PK:PR after White found her hiding under a pile of rubble.

Urban: Urban became a part of an underground fighting ring in order to win money to support them and their brother. They joined said ring because it felt like a bit of normalcy to them. Really misses the others, but refuses to acknowledge it. Lived with their mom in Brooklyn. Joined PK:PR because they they were promised that Teddy would be there.

I'm not going to hold your hands when I say this. No, you don't deserve it, I'm going to pull your ears and SHOUT OUT LOUD: I'm TIRED of this fandom being UNABLE to interpret a text.

Kalim doesn't need to become a macho man who protects Jamil from everything, and he's not a "uwu boy" either. No, Kalim is a child who was emotionally neglected by his family, and INFANTILISED by them AND BY JAMIL. Do you know why Kalim is so incompetent? Because even Jamil doesn't let him TRY to act like a person, in the Lab Card he even says that HE CANNOT USE KNIVES TO COOK.

And God, why are we ignoring how much Jamil abused this ignorance? Jamil's outburst was fair, but it EFFECTIVELY makes Kalim act more childish and useless and also cuts away a lot of his own freedom.

Kalim has shown COUNTLESS TIMES, during the events and in the main story, that he is not helpless, stupid or incapable of learning. But it seems that when you see Jamil's point of view, which is not 100% reliable because duh, you completely ignore that Kalim accepted being used by Jamil because he thought it was okay if it was Jamil. You forget how much Kalim was tortured in his childhood, and even though he went through a lot, he is still treated as stupid and imbecile. Kalim is very capable, he improved his magic in a matter of months, he can easily make contacts and has the sense not to reveal who he really is to strangers. Besides, his kindness got many characters out of trouble.

JAMIL'S FANDOM MAKES ME WANT HIM TO DIED HARD AT THIS POINT.

It took Tapis Rouge to remind me that I actually really like Jamil's personality and his interactions.

OKAY TRAUMA OLYMPICS TIME!

Ranking every Overblotter based on how sad their backstory makes me: THAT MEANS IT’S VERY BIASED AND SUBJECTIVE!

Waves hands in a manic gesture towards the disclaimer* (Now is your chance to turn around!)

7: Azul Ashengrotto-Got picked on for being different. The thing that takes me out about Azul’s backstory and its connection to his overblot is how basic it feels. I’m not here to invalidate his feelings, I understand those insecurities, but apparently the only thing stopping more people from overblotting is that they can’t accumulate blot at the same rate because of lower magic output. If you ask me, the real tragedy of his character is his inability to acknowledge his own achievements. He says, “I’ll show them!” and, yes, hon, you did. Calm down. You are 15, nothing is stopping you from becoming the person you say you are (unlike half the other people on this list). (0/10 He tried to take advantage of my compassion and took my home away. He can cry harder into his money for all I care. Also bottom tier Overblot design.)

6: Vil Schoenheit—Hates being typecast and treated like number two. Bro’s real crime is checking his socials too much and letting it get to him. I feel nothing for Vil and he’s only above Azul because his situation is a little less common as a one in a million super celebrity which can come with outlandish amounts of stress I can't comprehend. Again, the tragedy is his inability to be satisfied with his current state of his career and acknowledge his success because someone’s always above him. YOU ARE 18! YOU HAVE YOUR WHOLE CAREER AHEAD OF YOU! Give yourself some space to breath. He’s the one character you’d think would know and see a therapist. He’s so perfectly managed about every other element of his life it seems almost out of character for him not to be considering his mental health. If you consider he's even taking time away from his career to go to school and have "normal teen experiences" I don't know why I should feel bad. (0/10 Attempted murder. Jealous biotch. Probably, less sympathetic than Azul actually.)

5: Leona Kingscholar—Also hates his life situation and being treated like second fiddle. Leona is above Vil because he DOESN’T have a way out of being “typecast.” Time and talent can't save him. He was born into a situation where he can’t be anything other than the second prince and when he finally got a chance to be number one at something (Spelldrive at NRC) Malleus shows up to put him back down to second place again. Life seems to have a karmic way of making Leona nothing more and I feel that. Honestly, Leona’s state makes me cry but I can’t rank him higher because the canon content for his character is sparse. Most of the elements about Leona are things you have to look into and read out of his actions and backstory and while that’s not bad, it’s frustrating that a lot of people overlook them because they aren’t as explicit as the other characters. Leona’s depression is very real, but because the symptoms manifest as less sad-boy and more tired jackass a lot of people overlook his failing mental health. He’s badly written and I feel like the first iteration of his backstory (Book 2 in game) does the worst job about making you feel anything for him considering his actions. (4/10 Smart character with lots of potential but written like an idiot where it counted. Also attempted murder.)

4: Malleus Draconia (TENTATIVE)—Doesn’t want to be alone. After all, what’s the point of being so powerful when it’s so lonely? Loneliness is a feeling that I think doesn’t get explored enough in the media I consume (maybe I need to look harder), so Malleus can be a little higher for what I currently perceive as his reasons for overblotting. He’s an immortal being constantly ostracized by the position he was born into and suffers from the classic conundrum of having to watch everyone he cares about go before him. For all intents and purposes he’s an orphan. He doesn’t have a lot of people he’s related to and can really consider close, so it hits him extra hard when they can’t be around anymore, and for all of his age, as a fae he’s really very young, immature, and inexperienced. The game is doing its darndest to make sure that he gets as thorough an explanation as possible and actively wants you to understand where he’s coming from and feel bad. So he gets the halfway point because as much as I love this kind of thing, favoritism and getting the longest time to explore his feelings only gets him so high. (6/10 I like that the MC has a personal stake in this one, and he's not actively trying to kill anyone.) (Since Book 8 isn’t over yet, his position is subject to change later.)

3: Riddle Rosehearts—Anal retentive to the extreme. Riddle’s mom is so hated by the fandom she is never getting a face reveal. Is now the time to express how bad I feel about Riddle being traumatized by strictness and rules to the point where he honestly believes that bending the most absurd rules will result in disastrous consequences? Maybe. I appreciate that we saw exactly the inciting incident that made Riddle the way he is now. So much of his character falls back on that one time he broke the rules as a kid, and it HAS SO MUCH IMPACT. He gets a lot of props for being one of the few overblotters to actually have character growth post-featured book. Riddle is a contender for second place, but his potential ability to grow beyond his circumstances makes him less tragic. (7/10 Riddle is a surprisingly strong first antagonist in the main story. Almost killed someone, but that was notably AFTER he broke down and turned into a rampaging monster.)

2: Jamil Viper—Can never be his true self. Jamil is another guy who was born into his lifestyle and has no feasible way out of what’s driving him up the wall. It’s not just about Kalim being naïve and sheltered, it’s about how Jamil himself can’t ever use the gifts he has or escape from that fate. He is better than Kalim at a lot of things, but has to act like an amateur so he doesn’t outshine the guy he’s been sworn to protect and serve. He has expectations set on him, and duties to fulfill, and his best route in life as presented to him is just to be as average and boring as possible despite his innate talent and potential. I don’t know if there’s supposed to be a way for Jamil to get out of his family’s servitude to the Al-Asims that causes him to be so bitter, so at this point I kind of assume he’s stuck and that makes it extra sad. The fact that he really just wants to go on vacation makes it hit harder that he’s not even that bad for a guy at a villains’ school. Book 5 giving him a chance to break out of that shadow is great, honestly. (8/10 I can't hate him. He just wants a break, man. He wasn't even trying to hurt anyone, but loses a point for dragging Yuu/MC into his scheme. [Don't y'all dare throw Kalim hate in here. That's not what this is about. I will fight you.])

1: Idia Shroud—Survivor’s Guilt. Book 6 really went there and we are going to talk about it. He did something he shouldn’t have as a kid and now he has to live with the fact that his kid brother is dead. He wanted so badly to undo what he did that he built a new version of him even though he knew deep down he could never replace Ortho. No. I’m sorry. You’re not beating that. That’s not event including the fact that he’s also stuck as a fracking guardian of the underworld in a family that is supposed to be incapable of overblotting in the first place. Idia has textbook depression, and that’s not a bad thing. He feels just as trapped as everyone else and doesn’t see a point to doing anything the conventional way if he doesn’t have to. Idia is NOT a perfect person or character, but as far as his writing for why he ends up doing what he does, I think he easily takes the cake. (10/10 Will weep again. Character writing, with a little dash of hope that he can find some bright spots in life. Extra points for Ortho telling him to keep living. Also, he has the coolest Overblot design. 100/10 for Technopunk Hades.)

This is a super abridged version of what I have to say regarding each of these characters, so I may have to write out actual essays and character analysis for them eventually. I tried to get out the gist of my rankings in as short a form as possible, but that might not be good enough for some people. Feel free to tell me how I misunderstand and mischaracterize your fave.

why exactly is geto such a good character?

(not compared to naoya but using naoya as an example lol. i have no opinion on naoya other than that hes apparently a misogynist but some ppl like him for some reason idk.)

geto is arguably jjk's best written character —which isnt an indictment of naoya but an anime only's premature opinion lol— and a testament to jjk's initial narrative strength. reducing geto's motives down to toji massively undermines the layers that catalyzed his breakdown, which ultimately, was loss and disempowerment leading him to break. it was him being unable to reconcile his moralistic outlook with the mechanistic nature of jujutsu society and the utter dehumanization it demanded of its sorcerers, it was his disdain for the self-sustaining nature of human vice and negativity and its perpetuation of their system of futile sacrifice and loss.

this disdain stems from the bleak reality of being surrounded by its grimiest depths, by the thanklessness of choosing platitudes and lofty ideals for those who spit in your face for it, who exploit you, objectify you. which is why amanai dying is what truly began his undoing, the personification of everything he believed to be worth fighting for snuffed unthinkingly by those he's told are too feeble to know better. its the malignance of pure ppl like haibara dying while evil endures, of the godless nature of being a sorcerer, and how its ungoverned and unphased by any morality or goodness or purity. and why it ended with him discovering the girls in the cage, the most innocent of society, who couldn't have possibly deserved it, who were persecuted for their nature, the actual people endangered for it. its him flipping the ontological framework jujutsu society operates on, questioning why they have to pay for humanity's vices and fallibility, why they cant fight back too, prioritize their own pitfalls, and thusly him giving gravitas to humanity's evil underbelly. while also recognizing the strength and brilliance of sorcerers and choosing to be selfish with this excellence, self-serving instead of self flagellatory, not leaving them to be fed to the beast of human weakness but instead unabashed in their talents and strength. bc at every turn he's told to temper himself, to fight for goodness, but is only ever met with cruelty, haunted by sorcerers' disenfranchisement looming over him.

contradictory to his newfound ideals, geto chooses family and love by vowing to sacrifice humanity instead, he reframes gojo and all those relegated cogs in the jujutsu machine to the ppl really worth fighting for, as precious enough to matter, to be sacrificed for. its why he forms a pseudo family while pursuing his plans, and why he embodies such a performative personality thereafter, bc ideals consume geto. he has to expunge himself of humanity and embody hatred bc that's whats contrary to his former ideals and disposition. that's what he thinks he has to be. but when the heart of his wants shine through, when he allows himself grace around those close to his heart, we see the core of who he is and always has been shine through (e.g at his death scene). geto sees vulnerability and sympathy as inherent to humanity and the things indenturing sorcerers to them, despite his fight for sorcerers being grounded in fighting for the weak, but he doesn't want to give into that human aspect to his motivations. he wants to determine his own future, beholden to no one. (e.g the reason he fights against kenjaku, and is given strength by gojo's words)

now naoya very well may be a better character and commentary on jujutsu society than geto, but using his attire as reason for it isnt exactly equivocal to the aforementioned layers i've outlined. geto's brilliance is in how aptly they condensed all these angles relative to his screen time. now that doesnt mean he's beyond critique: his characterization post-defection is a bit too caricatured for me, and amanai wasnt utilized to the extent that she could've been to complicate his motivations and expand/clarify his thoughts on humanity, plus his plan to exterminate humanity is just as futile as his former sorcerer work, but thats the point. that ideals are fallible and often arbitrary, and that being governed by them can be detrimental and self-destructive. geto wanted to protect those he cared abt above everything, and conjured smth just as grand and insurmountable as the jujutsu system to rival it without taking into account how that obfuscated things, that ultimately, ideals weren't ever what was important, but actually those around him. bc in actuality, what he's doing doesnt center them, it centers him. he who literally tasted the rot and gore of humanity, took it into his body and used it as a weapon for their service, until that poison metastasized and he vowed to amputate his brokenness, without realizing that he'd just opted for another poison instead. he's a tragic character.

having said that, you dont have to care abt him. but he's defintely not badly written lol.

I haven't literally felt this sickened about a character ending since Azula's entire character ended with her chained to a grate and crying and screaming without her brother even lifting her finger to uh, give her a fucking hug or something.

Praying for Idia actually because why is malleus so scary

soulmate bond au but one of sskk accidentally breaks the bond before it fully develops on their side (think red string of fate that grows redder as the people get to know each other, positively or negatively) and the other is suffering the consequences but doesnt wanna burden their other half by that knowledge until the person who accidentally broke their bond finds out their dying and tries to get them to tell him and eventually breaks down and admits they love them and dont want them to die and accidentally re-bonds them

also. happy pride month to all the villains out there

his heart pirates... do you want me to kill myself

Namesake | How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

So like, I just rewatched the first movie of httyd and I thougt wouldnt it be fucked up if Stoick had decided to lock Hiccup with the other dragons or what.

Cus you know. He said Hiccup "chose" His side with the dragons, and those chains they put on Toothless looked pretty sturdy, so they know how to contain dragons. If he did wanted to be cruel he could have put Hiccup in the chains of smaller dragons and left him with Them.

Thinking about httyd. Migth do something silly and get deeper into this.

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

*sigh* my fyp is full of httyd edits. So if you see me suddenly write a fic just know it’ll have been a long time coming.

I'm curious--how do you guys go about creating your OCs?

"love is touching souls"

coming across a post from a mutual who hasn't opted in yet

pov you’re on tumblr for halloween:

T~T

TUMBLR LET ME BOOP PEOPLE PLEASE

IT'S HALLOWEEN!

@theunfortunate-01

You little shit, this is what you were up to!

Thank you, though, genuinely, your interest in the story means a lot to me <3

This is an older comic I made when I was first playing around with the relationship between Hino (orange) and Jaxon (pink) in Exorcise The Gods, I've got half a mind to re-draw it now that I'm more comfortable in my art style... Cause I swear I do comics better now lol

I distinctly remember not being bothered to actually design the people they're fighting because it was supposed to be about them-

UHH

Are we allowes to use Hailwind as a character in fics?? Asking for a friend

Yes absolutely!! I've had a few friends use him in fics already and I'm honored folks like him enough to do so! ; u ;

You're welcome to do whatever with his personality too, though if you want a guiding direction, he's inspired a bit by Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist.

(For context for anyone who hasn't seen him, Hailwind's a Far Frozen yeti OC, he/him, and is Frostbite's partner. He's a sculptor that works with ice, and designs prosthetics among other things.)

Absolutely foul of Asagiri to tease us with this omake

Happy Lunar New Year!! 🐉

I love him <3

painting a whole bunch of toothlesses is good for therapy

Spreading my anti fyodor propaganda

I'm never gonna get over them

I want to read it so bad y'all 😭

I dunno where to read it though, might look it up and see if my local bookstore has it

The Flags

Guess who read Storm Bringer, and guess who needs therapy... 😃

Why, good morning.