nassy and chunks for the ask meme! >;3
How I feel about this character:
i love this disaster woman. this terrible, awful, dumpster fire of a woman. i love writing for her, i love watching her try to keep the castle together and talk the count out of his plan at the same time in the game, i love the way her survival instinct buckles under her loyalty to this guy. the power of love nearly destroys her. and the fact that she knows heāll never feel the same... absolute disaster.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
in the comic i have her and the count kinda-sorta dating for a little bit before she, uh, burns that bridge. but the two of them are just terrible for each other, if left alone. their senses of humor donāt line up very well, so they tend to get dour and drag each other down...Ā
as before, i think nassy and mimi could be cute together. but honestly? for nastasia i kind of imagine the best-case scenario for her is that she eventually gets over the count and doesnāt feel the need to attach herself to anyone.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
i love writing her and oāchunks bounce off each other in my story. i think in the game their friendship is much more fraught and unbalanced, but i do genuinely think that oāchunks would be a great presence in her life in the postgame.Ā
i also think that she and timpani would get along really well, once they got used to each other. they have a lot of reasons to be bristly with each other, but they are both mature enough to put it aside and at least try to get along, until they find that they do like each other.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
sometimes i feel like iām the only one that figures nastasia had a very similar job with another group before joining the count lol. i depict her as a vampire because of the motifs- appearing as a bat, the hypnosis, the pallid skin, the fact that she takes a killing blow and then gets up a couple minutes later- and because it gives me a good way to explore what kind of organization she was part of before being rescued by the count.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
i wish she had gotten to interact with tippi even once.
chunky-
How I feel about this character:
i love the big silly man! i think he has a lot of really interesting qualities- that sense of honor and chivalry, especially- that go under-explored in the game compared to his teammates. i get it, heās the comic relief, he does 1 damage, and then he gets pretty good mileage out of theĀ āthat escalated quicklyā begging for death thing. thatās hisĀ ādepthā. but itās only a glimpse into hisĀ ādark sideā, as it were, compared to everyone else in the gang. i feel like heās just... missing a scene, somewhere toward the end?
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
haha, well, hereās my lāchunks flag again.Ā
if i want to get academic about it i could say i see him getting with a lot of people over time and not really being able to stick with any of them permanently. heās just a regular guy, basically, and heās been through so much weird nonsense (and some pretty traumatic losses) that most other people would have trouble relating to him, as fun and genuinely caring as he is. heād have a lot of friends, and he would have nassy and mimi, but i donāt see him getting married or anything like that.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
this guy is bros with nastasia for life!! and i think his boss fight would have been nearly impossible if he had teamed up with mimi and gotten some cover overhead. heās just so easygoing, i think heād be friends with most of the people he met, if he managed to calm down about the self worth issues.
i think i got the idea from a tattle in the postgame, that tiptron gives you about oāchunks, but i really liked the thought that oāchunks and the count were actually close, and i wanted to take time to really expand on that in my own story. i donāt quite have a word for the nature of their friendship- ābrothersā seems too familiar, but thereās not really any other family analogue that works either. brothers-in-law? haha. iāve seen a few people write oāchunks and timpani as siblings, and i think thatās a funny little parallel.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
i hardly ever see chunky get attention in the fandom and i can understand why- heās harder to draw, heās got less substance in the game, heās missing that final scene where we kind of have something to reconcile his darkness with his silliness the way we do with, say, nastasia. he just doesnāt talk enough after chapter 5.Ā
but i still want to see more of him. i think thereās a lot of potential to expand on his character, and the gang kind of does need aĀ āresident responsible personā to balance out their energy, because nassy sure as hell aināt gonna accomplish anything if literally 0 of the team members listen to her.Ā
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
i wish we had gotten more out of him- during chapter 6 or 7, maybe, or at the end of the game- to define the extra dimension to his character a little more strongly. i know heās hard to write for. i spent a week strolling around with my phone memos trying to draw comparisons to other characters that i DID understand well, just to figure out what i even wanted to do with him. nintendo could have made it a little easier.
