“Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.”

get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

taking off a mask to reveal what lies beneath as a romantic gesture is overdone, and besides i want to see the romantic or even platonic potential of protecting someone's identity beneath the mask, without any expectation of ever being allowed to see what's under it. picking it up and holding it gently to their face when it's knocked off and they're in danger of being exposed, without trying to catch a glimpse of what they "really" look like under there. throwing yourself in front of them to hide them from view while they put themselves back together without taking advantage or looking back to see what you're protecting. learning to read them by body language, tone of voice, and behaviour so well that you never need to see their face to feel like you know and understand them.

and needless to say. the mask stays on during sex.

"Will you match my freak?" No. I'm freakier. I am insane. This is a competition and I'm winning.

I will escalate your freak through dedicated competition until I either eliminate your freak or our freaks diverge to occupy distinct, non-competitive ecological niches in our shared freak environment

Shout out to the phrase “I’m going to become the joker” for capturing a very specific and real emotion

dead dog-coded character is OUT dog-coded character that outlives their "master" and spends the rest of their life lost is IN

"bun you've been making a lot of characters that get weird and desperate about protecting their people to the point of falling into insanity when they inevitably fail are you okay" mind thy own business

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

More male characters who are interested in their mother's legacy. As a trope there's a lot of sons and daughters who follow in the father's footsteps and there's yes, girls who honor their mother, ect. But let's have more dudes who are like. Stumbling on their mom's secret fairy cottage or some shit. And they're like aight gotta make the tea

so glad we all agree being cut open is sex

[me performing grounding ritual] okay name 1 person that would die to be you, 3 people that would die to fuck you, and 5 people that would die to kill you

you can add shorts or panties to a nude mechanical creature to make it clear you are a senseless pervert

when the punishment for the crime is having to live with getting away with it 😁