[ SECRET POST #6988 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6988 ⌋

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Favorite Character archetypes

[philstar22]

What are your favorite character archetypes? What do you love about them? What are your favorite versions of those archetypes? Are there any versions of your favorite that you actually dislike?

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

On one hand I love a good tragic villain or well-intentioned person who got in too deep and went too far, bonus points for if they win a pyrrhic victory at some point.

On the other hand I dislike most characters considered tragic villains because they get too woobified or try too hard to justify what they did. It's hard to get the balance right.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

Characters who have been alone all their lives but still have a heart of gold despite it all (ie Knuckles)

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

I like brutally efficent/competent characters but they tend to go the Mary-Sue route more often than not, which is a pity.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

Repressed, reserved, uptight aristocrats who are either:
(a) played straight and have an inflexible world view, or
(b) gap moé in some way (for example, less capable than they present themselves or they really want to make friends, but don't know how to because they think commoners are different species LMAO)

Reformers with the best of intentions who are too extreme about their own ideals and bring disaster onto everyone's heads (like Pale King from Hollow Knight).

People who struggle with the loss of a previous identity/their self being torn away from them somehow, such as Dr Jekyll.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[kaijinscendre]

Assholes with a heart of gold and/or one person they will protect with their life. I think Vegeta just cemented my love for them at an early age.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

I like bitch-ass villains in general, ones who know they're wrong and are doing it anyway, the ones who think they're right, the ones who are sympathetic but still need to be stopped. I just enjoy villains in general.

I like legitimately Good heroes as well, the ones who really do just try to do the best they can even if the odds are stacked against them. I just really like the heroic sacrifice for the greater good thing that comes with these characters, and sure I like them to live as well, but if they do die and it works? Narrative kryptonite to me tbh.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

Very laid back or out of sync character who is also the most proficient or capable person in the room. I like characters who are very confident and settled in themselves and don't care what others think. Examples: Chris Knight (Real Genius), Wei Wuxian (MDZS), Elle Woods (Legally Blonde)

I don't like it when the character has made being competent/smart their entire personality and it becomes arrogance hiding insecurity and then they use it as a cudgel to try to always get their way: Tony Stark (MCU), Sherlock Holmes (only BBC Sherlock), Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

I. love. LIARS.

I love any character with an intricately constructed facade-- not necessarily an alter ego. Not every superhero secret identity fits this for me, in fact most don't quite hit just right for me on that front. And not every duplicitous villain does it, either. With the right writer, (comics) Tony Stark, like Bruce Wayne, can meet the standard set by Percy Blakeney-- because my absolute favorite iteration is someone who is intelligent and skilled and trying to save lives... and if anyone asks, the absolute dumbest fancy-man to ever live. Complete airhead in very expensive clothes, seemingly guileless, you wonder how he hasn't lost his fortune through sheer idiocy sometimes.

And then from there, like... any heroic character whose life is enough of a lie will have me, but sometimes it does not have to be a whole other secret identity deal-- it can also be a character who puts a lot of emphasis on having the right Appearance while having hidden depths-- which can be anything from Rarity My Little Pony seeming like every shallow girly stereotype while being exceptionally *selfless*, to Dean Winchester being... Like That, and then hitting us with 'Lady, I'm Tolstoy.' It can also just be a character who has one big secret that they need to construct a false life around, a la Bashir DS9, who spends so much of his life pretending to be a little clumsier, a little slower, than he really is, while also having to put forth the idea of a man trying like hell to present himself as *better* than the idea of Julian Bashir he needs everyone to believe in is.

And while I do prefer heroic liars, there ARE villains that are so magnificent about their facades that I am ALL IN. (in telling a friend who my favorite characters were in a book he'd read before me, he had a Reaction to one, and I had to say yes, I already KNOW, I knew VERY quickly that she was a fraud and a liar, that's the POINT babey)

Of course, between the two, you have the morally greyer. Garak, my beloved. This is perhaps where I'd put Vetinari, not to mention one of his favorite victim/civic employees, Moist (his other favorite civic employee, of course, is far more forthright). I love spies and con men, and they are definitely liars, though few have one single facade. I would still put E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner here-- like Moist, he changes identities and scams on a dime rather than having a single false identity, and like Moist, there's a man who believes he can use his talents for good rather than for crime... he just does something for me. Harold Hill and Max Bialystock I'd put as con men with one singular facade and one long-running con.

Yes, I've been told I need to watch Leverage.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

People with really, really strong moral and/or political opinions who want to Change the World but it's more complicated than they thought. Both the idealist version and the angry version.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

Whatever the character is that has Serious Trauma (not sexual trauma, just emotional shit) and has the inability to get close to other humans because of their trauma, despite DESPERATELY wanting to be close to other humans. Bonus if they're super flirty and/or super snarky.

That shit is my CATNIP.

Re: Favorite Character archetypes

[(Anonymous)]

Weirdly, I love the good guy. Steve Rogers, Clark Kent, Optimus Prime, Thor, the great leader type that cannot see how they are actually flawed in how they approach life. I hated the grimdark Zack Snyder Superman — what a waste of Henry Cavill’s talent that was — but Steve not seeing the reality of Hydra, or Optimus not seeing the truth of Megatron’s battle for worker’s rights, or Thor not understanding Loki’s manipulations? I love that.

Reminder: "Secrets you don't want to make..." thread is still up!

[(Anonymous)]

It'll be monitored until Monday's FS post goes up. You can leave your comment secrets here:

https://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/3362230.html?thread=1152813238#cmt1152813238

Cheers,

a secret maker

Facial hair?

[(Anonymous)]

Is it finally going out of fashion? If you're younger (say, mid-20s or younger), do most guys you know still have it?

Also, why did it have to suddenly become popular right around the time I became an adult? Hipster beards were one thing - that was just one type of person, but after the hipster era it was like EVERY adult male had a damn beard.

Re: Facial hair?

[(Anonymous)]

I’m old but most of my friends and neighbors have children that age. They all still have facial hair. But it’s mostly the patchy, “I have terrible hygiene” kind of facial hair they’ve been wearing since they first hit puberty. Some have updated the look to the hideous caterpillar mustaches to go with their permed…mullets? Is it still called a mullet when they shave the sides? They look like Hall and Oats combined into one person.

Re: Facial hair?

[(Anonymous)]

I like the beards, what I can't get behind is the solo stach. It seems all the 20yos have porn mustaches these days. Not that it matters to me I just find it a baffling choice.

Re: Facial hair?

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer men with beards, so I hope it doesn't go out of fashion.

Tumblr

[(Anonymous)]

It has taken months but I've gotten my Tumblr post count from 20,000 down to 6,000.

Re: Tumblr

[(Anonymous)]

Wow that is quite an achievement! Honestly that seems like so much work I think I would have given up at some point.

Are you planning on going lower or happy with this number?

Re: Tumblr

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, what do you mean? Like you deleted 14,000 posts you'd made?

Where do you go for answers?

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like google and general search engines are such trash now. Either it is AI answers or Sponsored answers, neither of which I trust and rarely what I am looking for. Sadly I often find myself on reddit looking for answers to questions these days. Usually there are at least some people with solid links to follow.

Re: Where do you go for answers?

[(Anonymous)]

I used to use Startpage (uses Google results) and DuckDuckGo but even they are being overrun with AI shit. Brave as well.

Mojeek doesn't have that problem but its search results aren't always the most up to date either, which is still an issue.

I'd love to know of a happy medium, myself.

Re: Where do you go for answers?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the question, but I still use Google and just vet the sources more carefully.

Please someone chat with me.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so lonely and depressed.