#character points

✨petty jealously

✨(seemingly) immature bitterness

✨petulant resentment

✨self absorption

✨a sense of identity loss with the hero’s arrival

are all valid motivations for your antagonistic villain to have. Not everything has to be *Deep*, and not everything has to make sense. The rest of your characters can be confused by such “weak” motives, and your readers can think “that’s dumb”—because reality is that people do things for reasons that are stupid, and childish, and illogical. Because it makes sense to them. As long as it drives your villain, it’s good motivation. Keep at it.

HERES SHE IS ITS RONTRA’S FAV GIRL (click 2 view)

90% of me drawing takano is about her hair, which i initially overthought and now am struggling to make easy again EVEN THOUGH ITS ALREADY EASY

no body shot for this one bc honestly i have nothing to say LMAO its All About that hot lady grill

YES

I was gonna include salem and the 2nd form lamia on the face sheet too but im SO TIRED so just imagine me comparing them and saying witty things abt the design differences (lamia is basically a bridge design between my salem and my cinder)

Her name is Angelina (yes, I went there, yes, it was on purpose, don't come for me, this is tame compared to other writers).

She looks like this (photo from Pinterest):

Why do I bring this up?

My mom keeps complaining that I made her pretty, despite how often I tell her that "being pretty" is an integral part of her character (because her pretty appearance means she gets away with murder, and she knows it, and so is obsessive about her looks).

She wants me to make her look like a swamp monster.

At this point, it's not even her trying to convince me, she just throws the comment out after reading about the character, like she's lodging a complaint just to have it on record. She doesn't even pause for a response, she just keeps talking.

Example:

"You shouldn't make her look pretty. She's evil, have her look like it. Anyways, I think this scene could..."

It's like a running gag. Which is weird to have about your written characters.

Hannah actually doesn’t give a shit about Val or her research as show in the whole scene they have together where Hannah is interrogating Val about her dissertation.  Hannah doesn’t know what Val is doing, and up until this point, where it is affecting her research, hasn’t seemed to care.  We know that this is not the case for Val, who is usually dismissive and put off about other people and their work.  Val reads poetry for Hannah, something entirely out of her field so that they may have something to talk about.