part 363 paper snowflakes

[aphanon_meme]

It's... December! I can't believe it's almost the end of another year. Time is weird. Anyway! There's been a lot of neato Hetalia news in the meantime! That game (that I can't get working but will look at videos and screencaps of so I can play vicariously)! The image of the first doll! The musical promo images!! What are you most excited for?

Enjoy part 363!

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[(Anonymous)]

What is a character type you always dislike?

[(Anonymous)]

woobie

snobby/princessy

+1

[(Anonymous)]

blergh

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen any snob or princess type character done in a way that's actually interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Just about any "Too Cool" types, but one of my least preferred is Stoic Girl.


Also not a fan of Martyrs and Woobies

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[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

<+1

Did I do it right this time?

[vuri]

Do you want to do a subject-only reply?

Put your +1 in the Subject: field, and then < (just <, nothing else) in the Message: field.

[(Anonymous)]

that's what i needed, thanks!

[vuri]

No prob :)

[vuri]

Perfect/pure/must-be-protected-at-all-costs = I'm pretty much guaranteed to loathe this character, unless perhaps this is pure porn and you're only setting up this slice of sparkly-sweet angelcake in prelude to smashing it to smithereens. I hate precious princess characters, I hate damsels in distress. Ditto the rarer but equally fucking annoying dudesels in distress (though that usually occurs in yaoi, where I can at least be like whatever just get to the dick already).

I'll make exception for Miyazaki and a few others who can pull off very sweet and innocent character types because their sense of sweetness is tempered with a down-to-earth authenticity - rather than some flouncy lofty piece of high-handed spun-sugar saccharine bullshit.

And I also hate when there's a character who exists to be The Girlfriend or The Boyfriend and holds no interest whatsoever aside from being the protagonist's reward for his/her great adventure. Especially when this character just about invariably pulls a tedious damsel/dudesel subplot.

+0,5

[(Anonymous)]

personally I don't mind pure characters as long as they undergo character development and become more jaded in the end, or if 'pure' is only a mask

Re: +0,5

[vuri]

For me it's all about whether that quality of goodness can feel ordinary, unromantic, have a genuine scuffed-shoes dirty-nails hardworking everyday appeal. Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service is a pretty decent example of a very good kid whose goodness and innocence I could believe in and relate to.

But yeah, what you're talking about works for me as well. Also, when a character is sweet and kind and all but has significant other flaws and failings to offset that - Hetalia's Italy might qualify as a good example of this, being such a slacker and pain in the ass and childish/self-indulgent on top of being a sweet little puppy.

The more a character is treated by the author as sooooo SPECIAL and PRECIOUS and sparkly fancy rarefied untouchable unicorn in a crystal castle, the more I'm repulsed by the whole shebang.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

This. THIIISSSSS. ALL OF THISSSSS.

Re: +1

[vuri]

/BROFISSSSSST

[romanon]

ok, so this one isn't a type of character as much as a type of character-driven subplot

a nice, hardworking protagonist A sees all of their niceness and hardworkery being destroyed by a character B who bursts in, does half the work of A for double the results, and everybody immediately trusts and likes better than character A despite the fact that they've know A for longer because B knows the meaning of spontaneity and fun! or B says what they think without thinking of the consequences! or some shit!

I loathe character B with a passion. Always and invariably.

just to clarify: I don't mind a nice foil character. In fact those are often my favorite ones. But I hate it when the narrative keeps on telling us the foil character is basically Everything That The Protagonist Isn't and So Much Better Than The Protagonist and The Protagonist Could Stand To Learn A Thing Or Two From Them because it's almost invariably not true, they're just dicks that everybody loves for some reason

also just to clarify: I always hope this subplot will turn into a horror subplot at a point. like it turns out character B is a witch thralling everybody and now character A has to enlist the help of a sexy vampire and a brooding but hot werewolf to save the world. I hope this even when the setting is a gritty crime drama