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Love when a character's reputation precedes them.

Recognized for great deeds? Feared for terrible crimes? Chronically misunderstood in some interesting way? Overestimated? Underestimated? Others gaining importance, trust, or infamy simply by association? Excellent. Top notch stuff.

Can anyone recommend some entry level behaviours? Thinking of getting into being

it can't be good for you to play resident evil because you find leon s kennedy attractive. isn't the game largely composed of him getting brutally killed by zombies? surely that's going to give you some scary mental associations.

watches this gif over and over and you see something imperceptible shift in my expression

The thing that’s funny and relatable about Luigi isn’t that he’s a coward, it’s that he’s a coward with no sense of scale. He reacts to literally everything with exactly the same level of oh-gee-I-dunno apprehension, whether it’s hearing a noise in a dark house at night, or coming face to face with a world-devouring horror. This is more or less the root of his self-esteem problems; he’s the universe’s second-greatest warrior and doesn’t realise it because as far as he’s concerned, being scared of a spider in the bathroom and being scared of Cthulhu are the same thing – he just totally lacks the necessary context to appreciate that managing to grit your teeth and deal with the second one is any sort of achievement. It’s all spiders in the bathroom to him. He’s equally terrified of everything, and that makes him invincible.

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

I’ll admit I’ve sent a 👍 in my time