the real question is: do i have ten fandoms? my autism doesn’t work like that. rut roh /silly (everything below the cut because this is a looong post lol)
to the surprise of NO ONE, lan wangji is up here at the top. i would have picked both wangxian but per the guidelines i will not. the fact that lwj remains so dedicated to protecting the few people he loves despite being subject to all that propaganda and classism around him,,, also he’s autistic and i feel somewhat protective of him because of all the ableist bullshit the fandom says about him LMAO
SHES SO ME CORE!! OH MY GOD SHES LITERALLY ME. her whole thing about shouldering the responsibility for other people’s problems and trying to act nice and helpful all the time is unfortunately incredibly real
3: Li Tianxi (Link Click)
she deserved so much better ;w; she literally just wants safety and kindness and she almost never gets that. she KNOWS that what her brother is doing is wrong and she wants to stop the injustice, but she’s not taken seriouslyyyy and the only one that really Gets Her is qiao ling!!
4: Hornet (Hollow Knight)
I NEED TO PLAY SILKSONG. aside from hornet just being a badass, there is so much angst potential with her being one of the very few people left alive in hallownest and essentially having to guard a corpse. that is a level of dedication that i could aspire to honestly
of course i have to mention my first blorbo ever <3 at the time when i was blorboing her, i was Going Through Some Shit so she was honestly. just me. unable to live up to insane expectations and believing she’s not a good person for it when she’s a great person and also a literal teenager struggling? yeah that sounds about right
6: Volo (Pokemon: Legends Arceus)
my blorbo-in-law at this point. shoutout to @cure-icy-writes (icy you are also welcome to participate in this tag game) for making me very normal about volo as well. i already liked him well enough, but reading ‘fall into flying’ gave me a new perspective on him and it started getting me thinking about, like, characters who are mentally ill, who deserve kindness, but still have done terrible things
past this point tumblr fucking ATE my post so. fuck you tumblr. ANYWAY. murphy is probably my fav character from interstellar bc she is so incredibly human. she’s smart asf but she’s traumatized from her dad leaving her! she’s rightfully confused and angry and bitter for most of her life! we need more female characters like this tbh
8: Twilight Sparkle (MLP:FiM)
guys i was not lying when i said i don’t have a lot of fandoms 😭 we’re really going back here LMAO but twilight is also very me core because. autism. anxiety. i don’t think i have ocd but the neurotic perfectionism is so real. i think that, at the time i was watching mlp, seeing that even an initial introverted recluse like twilight could become the literal princess of friendship unconsciously filled me with hope that i could form more meaningful connections too
what can i possibly say about mel aside from the fact that she makes me freak out lesbianly every time i see her. jokes aside, she’s a super complex character and i loved seeing her development and how she eventually chose to fight for a better cause instead of continuing to be complicit in political corruption and her mother’s manipulation <3
10: Sae Niijima (Persona 5)
idk how i thought of mlp before i thought of p5. i feel bad now LMAO i’m a fake fan 😔 anyway, i did in fact feel the need to include another character whom i have a raging lesbian crush on. aside from that, it was super cool to see her role in p5 and how she was also initially complicit in political corruption but changed on her own, but her struggle was still so valid! it is so hard to be woman in such a dominantly patriarchal society!
tagging @sejihaido @illusion-of-death @forever-spiky @kleeper123 @inkthecat @ghostkitty @colorful-chromatics @partum-corvus @fryingofthebrain and anyone else who wants to participate!
