Author: plotdesigner

THOUGHTS ON MERLE’S ZONE OF TRUTH…

frqp:

it was described as the strongest, holiest spell he ever cast. And it’s Zone of Truth. It compells truth, it REVEALS the TRUTH.

and the Hunger? It started out as a mentality. Dissatisfaction. it evolved into violent greed and, hunger, all as a reaction to the dissatisfaction that came with the meaninglessness of life…

and this Zone of Truth BURNED the hunger, just shredded it. so one could argue that in this, the message was simple. John was wrong. Life isn’t pain, to exist isn’t bad, and things can be good as they are. THAT is the truth. The complete opposite of the Hunger’s birthing ideology.
To exist isn’t horrible. It’s beautiful.

abracafuckko:

Everyone always notices when Travis uses personal stuff in his character creation, but Justin radiates a fucking staggering amount of big brother energy, and he can’t seem to turn that shit off

Scene: The house is on fire, it’s collapsing around you, what do you do?

Justin: Where’s my little sister?

Scene: The world is ending, the Hunger is here, what do you do?

Justin: Where’s my twin?

This shit is bone deep, yo. He loves his little brothers so much!

elliewritesstories:

mareebrittenford:

writing-references-yah:

I think the best piece of character design advice I ever received was actually from a band leadership camp I attended in june of 2017. 

the speaker there gave lots of advice for leaders—obviously, it was a leadership camp—but his saying about personality flaws struck me as useful for writers too. 

he said to us all “your curses are your blessings and your blessings are your curses” and went on to explain how because he was such a great speaker, it made him a terrible listener. he could give speeches for hours on end and inspire thousands of people, but as soon as someone wanted to talk to him one on one or vent to him, he struggled with it. 

he had us write down our greatest weakness and relate it to our biggest strength (mine being that I am far too emotional, but I’m gentle with others because I can understand their emotions), and the whole time people are sharing theirs, my mind was running wild with all my characters and their flaws.

previously, I had added flaws as an after thought, as in “this character seems too perfect. how can I make them not-like-that?” but that’s not how people or personalities work. for every human alive, their flaws and their strengths are directly related to each other. you can’t have one without the other.

is your character strong-willed? that can easily turn into stubbornness. is your character compassionate? maybe they give too many chances. are they loyal? then they’ll destroy the world for the people they love.

it works the other way around too: maybe your villain only hates the protagonist’s people because they love their own and just have a twisted sense of how to protect them. maybe your antagonist is arrogant, but they’ll be confident in everything they do.

tl;dr “your curses are your blessings, and your blessings are your curses” there is no such thing as a character flaw, just a strength that has been stretched too far.

This is such a fabulous flip side of what I’ve always known about villians. That their biggest weakness is that they always assume their own motivations are the motives of others.

This is brilliant!!

prehistories:

prehistories:

sat through a lecture on paleolithic and neolithic culture and society and all i can think abt is how from as early as there have been anatomically modern humans (and even before in some cases) there is archaelogical evidence of gender and sexual variance, caring for the elderly and disabled, a drive to make art and music, a powerful affection for animals and each other, and a desire to learn as much as possible about the world as we can and yet people will still insist these things are not human nature and therefore unnatural, that the things we consider to be essentially human in nature are very recent in the span of our history or felt by only a rare few and not something integral to our humanity and success as a collective whole.

the more we study and analyse history the more we learn what it means to be human, all the good and all the bad, the closer we come to understanding that many things people have considered to be weaknesses of character, illnesses of the person, or meaningless in the face of our mortality are functionally necessary to our humanity and cannot be erased or ignored

khfriendlyreminders:

furtuka:

crossroaddreamer:

kaweebo:

a-crack-in-the-universe:

swapauanon:

snowembrace:

i am suffering

Hey, Aqua’s skin has changed color on her arms and legs, since they seem to be purple (red at the hands).

It’s so, freaky. As if she’s been infected.

Oh god… it’s like her clothes have seeped into her skin! :0 almost like her clothes are literally part of her. *shivers*

At a certain point, I guess the darkness just conglomerates everything about you into a single piece. 

Wait…that’s not right then. If Aqua was Norted she wouldn’t be suffering from Darkness like that. The Darkness is very literally seeping into her, it looks like something straight out of World of Warcraft with the Void. Xehanort is very adept at controlling and manipulating Darkness, if he was in the Realm of Darkness, or one of his vessels, he wouldn’t be suffering that kind of degradation. Is…is there actually a Darkness Eyes thing that we will learn about? Is THAT what happens to those who cannot escape the Realm of Darkness? Do you truly start to become one of the monstrous unique Pureblood Heartless? Holy cow there is a lot of ramifications for this reveal…

Waaaaaiiiiiiiit a second i remember there’s a heartless in khux that explicitly is born from fallen keyblade wielders and its hands were…

uh oh

Wasn’t it mentioned off-handedly that Aqua’s corrupted by being in the RoD too long and not Norted? That’s seeming more likely because oh my goodness her arms.

-Mod Sylph

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