#charecter analysis

The watchers made this series to mainly feed off the emotions of the players. Out of all the emotions they have had, grief was their favorite one (they generally preferred negative emotions). So, they put them in a game that one could not really win.

The first season was Grian's win. To the watchers this was almost perfect (the only thing they were unhappy about was that Grian had won). After killing Scar he was a sea of grief, and the watchers could feast.

The second season, they considered a failure. This time Scott won. They would have preferred almost anyone else. Even after winning the death game he did not have much negative emotions. In fact, he had a sense of victory. The watchers out of anger and shame killed him on the spot.

Double life was much more successful in their eyes. Pearl had given them a constant stream of negative emotions. Upon her death she left behind a huge amount of rage and not enough greif. She even left behind relif. This was far from perfect.

In limited life Martyn gave them a huge mocktail of negative emotions, but his cons overweighed his pros. He was aligned with the listeners. He asked much too many questions. Upon his win they sped up the clock and waited him to die. He left behind grief but it wasnt nearly enough.

Scar constantly radiated greif and lonliness in this season. They decided to keep him and feed off him until the next games. But they still longed for the huge amount of grief that had cured their hunger for weeks during the first game.

I think real life was not something the watchers had control over. It was a regular minigame conducted by the players which they subconsciously built to resemble the watchers games.

Anything but black and white disavowal is thunderous applause for bad actions apparently.

I’m so tired of it, especially in a fandom for a book where the whole point is the complexity. “Things are rough all over” is good because you know the other guy is human too!

Acknowledging complexity and humanity is not veneration/ apologia. Trying to explain bad actions in a calm away is not excuse or acceptance. Or god forbid blaming another character for everything.

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just rewatched s3 ep17: "in heat", and I have a lot to say:

as much as I love will and jj, by all creative writing choices made this episode, that conversation with will at the end should've led to jj coming out. people talk about emily a lot, but no, jj is one of the most queercoded characters I've ever ran into.

the expirence of the hidden relationship you're not exactly ashamed off but you also wanna keep all to yourself because sharing it means dealing with other people?

having your partner upset at you because they feel you're ashamed of them?

the awkward conversation with emily about will's looks?

those are expirences almost every queer person I've met had. including me.

the voice crack when she's analyzing the unsub and talking about being queer and freedom to be yourself?

will telling her he doesn't care charles was gay he just wishes he told him so he could've supported him?

how deeply affected and understanding jj is with this whole case?

having all of these happen in a case that is specifically about queerness and suppressing queerness?

and that's just the first time a case dealing with queer themes that affected her specifically. It does, in fact, happen again.

s8 ep15: "broken" -

the team run into a convertion camp within their investigation, and the moment jj is faced with it her focus gets put on shutting it down.

while all of them are shocked and upset by it, jj is angry in a way that seems so personal.

she's affected by it in a way non of the others are, and she makes it a point to make sure the police gets involved as fast as possible when everyone else were ready to just skip forward and leave it alone.

her relationship with her mom and growing up:

jj describes feeling trapped in a small town. saving up and working her ass off through high school so she can get into college as far and as fast as she can.

she felt so trapped, that after first leaving she never ever came back.

she grew up in a small town where everyone is all up in each other's business and no one can be themselves.

she also personally mentions it in north mammon, and scolds the parents for fighting, specifically in relation to one of the parents hiding being a homosexual man.

again, it's personal for her. she seems angry, personally so.

s14 ep12: "hamelin" -

"one daughter who never saw seventeen and the other..."

there's a stop, they're giving space for implications. her mom looks disappointed and sad, she's clearly judging in that way only a mother can. she has something to say but she can't, because it's too much.

"the other what, mom? the other what?"

jj clearly knows what her mom wants to say. she looks like she's heard it a million times before, like every conversation they have somehow ended with the same complaint.

"..who left. went away, and stayed away."

however, the fact that they portrayed suicide as the only way to get out of abuse really pissed me off, why is that the message we are trying to send??

that along with the fact the only POC main cast (Lucas) was portrayed as only a love interest and the very few POC characters were mostly irrelevant or unlikeable (literally just Erica and Kali). like u look in all of them in a room and just see white people, like i can just feel the isolation and lack of representation through the screen

and Will was basically treated as a joke even tho the whole plot happened because of him.

sure will, in mike's imagination, would end up with someone and finally get a chance to be happy - but like what about EVERYTHING else. i get its just a short snippet of mike thinks would happen (which is homoerotic in itself because epilogue boyfriend looks strangely like mike) but in all, with will's whole story there is more to him.

most of the main cast was sidelined imo, their entire purposes were just diminished down to them being seen as 2d characters. maybe we would have been able to see more if 2 hours werent cut out of it, but the whole sense of purpose behind what they were doing was barely there

i'm not gonna outright hate on the duffers for the lack of authenticness we feel for the season, or the fact that byler was unfortunately not portrayed in the best way possible but like we should not be sending death threats over this

this idea is not rlly original, i was inspired by @nerdyfan1 (go check out their post abt carl n meeple on their account)

i just wanted 2 analyze these guys as accurately as possible, in my own way! C: (i luv them sm i couldn't resist)

their individual selves

we r not comparing or contrasting yet! im gonna talk abt each of their characters separately first C:

Carl

He's very much your stereotypical nerd character. A know-it-all who likes to rub it in your face how smart he is. Despite this, he's very passionate about geology (more specifically rocks n minerals bc geology is the study of all of earth's materials n stuff) There aren't many examples/voice lines of Carl being arrogant, there is DEFINITELY more about his love for rocks/geology, this is just one of his personality traits. He also seems to have a big vocabulary (i had 2 look up like half of his voice lines bc i did NOT understand what he was saying) He is also shown to like reading. In this photo and in his release animation, he is shown reading and there are books on the floor (and also possibly not liking loud noises? him and dynamike look rlly annoyed at all the sound jacky's making)

Meeple

They're a HUGE geek. Loving board games is practically their entire personality, other than being extremely arrogant and smug. They use the fact that they love board games so much to their advantage, to cheat. They are a hypocrite, saying they hate cheaters and people who break the rules when they do just that! Meeple is a sore loser. They are shown whining and complaining when they lose (in their voice lines) They also are shown getting very angry and upset (in their animation and voice lines) when they lose as well. They also make tons of jabs at the people they play board games with, about them "not following the rules", according to Meeple.

comparing and contrasting!

Susie is my favorite character in Deltarune, so here's a part character analysis, part appreciation, and part me gushing about how much I love her.

Something that really annoys me about k pop demon hunters is that when Rumi pushes Jinu, it's a weak push. He has just ruined her career, relationships, and life in general. Regardless of how she feels about him, I feel like she'd push him a bit stronger than this:

This is a pathetic push, and would be a great opportunity for her to dicover being stronger due to being more demonic, especially if it happened later in the scene. What if stuff aside, they have so much confict in this scene and she's clearly just as strong if not stronger than him as shown in the bathhouse scene, so she can push him more than that.

She was his first friend and he was her first introduction to the magic world. You can clearly tell that when they were younger their friendship was very strong but Hogwarts obviously changed it.

The moment Lily was put in the "light" house and Severus was put in the "dark" house, their friendship was doomed.

The mudblood incident was just the breaking point.

Their friendship was clearly strained and it seemed as if they were only still friends due to neither of them wanting to address the elephant in the room.

But it was bound to break because each person was surrounded by people who hated people like the other person. However, Severus was surrounded by people who were dangerous for both him and Lily as they are both not pure blood.

His roommates would have clearly disliked him and treated him horribly if it wasn't for two things:

1. He was a brilliant wizard and a valuable asset.

2. He parroted blood-purist ideologies or at the very least shared their hatred for muggles.

This was not a healthy person, Lily should have surrounded herself with.

Lily would've also at the very least been told by multiple people that she was doing charity or that Severus was evil and no matter how much one defends their loved ones, there's a point where they start believing it.

On top of this, it seemed as if the Marauders were hellbent on making sure Severus wouldn't be able to "corrupt" anyone else. Making the only social interaction he can have to be between the blood-purists and Lily.

But I have a feeling Lily wasn't so innocent in this as well. I can't go off on much as Lily in all the books has always been idealised or glorified to some extent.

However, if I, and as far as I can tell most people, were in her place during "Snape's worst memory" where a friend I held dear to me was hanging upside down (with possibly their underpants exposed), I would have punched the tormentor in the face. Doesn't matter if the friend takes it on their ego. Doesn't matter if they use a slur. It is horrible, yes. The "mudblood" part is inexcusable and unnecessary on Severus's part. But no one deserves to be hung upside and be threatened to be pantsed in front of a crowd.

Their friendship was over because each of them expected something that the other couldn't fulfill. Severus couldn't defend muggles in front of his housemates (It would be like trash talking Taylor Swift or defending Kanye in a room full of Swifties with weapons) or stop talking to them. Lily couldn't be the girl who Severus put on a pedestal, she was a human and humans have flaws.