#doomfisthero

Hi! I'm... better. Not great but better.

Caelan and Ruan are precious babies and I love them! And that's totally accurate, he's a shaggy boy.

Amaryllis Asmodeus- loves her son's friend! She's happy Sullivan isn't just moping about having no kids or grandkids anymore, and Iruma is a good friend and ally to Alice. She'd be happy to teach him one day, but isn't holding her breath.

Behemolt- Likes Iruma more than most other demon children, though he isn't around too many often. Very much would like to train him one day.

Henri Azazel- Likes Iruma fairly enough. Ameri doesn't really get a crush on Iruma here, at least not before she's 12, 13, and no reason to suspect they're human. Henri does realize more things about him are odd, but chalks that up to the fact he suspects Sullivan straight up made Iruma in a lab. He's ready to step in and help if needed, but doesn't expect to need to.

I've been better, unfortunately.

But yes, Ahab really is a ridiculously hot sea captain. His facial hair, his muscle gut, his hefty bulge when he's in his swimsuit skin, his pipe, and his honestly deceptively easygoing nature when a bunch of strangers ended up on his ship (he even gave his ship, his own sacred artifact to a kid!). Like that is all sexy.

And you know what's adorable? When he gets drunk. He seems to get a lot more honest about his feelings. Like he's usually more gruff but when he's drunk, he's cuddling you (the protagonist) and telling you what an important crewmate you are. Cute big old men are peak character design.

kanjuro’s from op, i think, would be really cool to have!

i’m bad at coming up with unique powers though asalkjdklasjd

hi!!! i’m so sorry i haven’t gotten to answering this ask for a while!! i saw that you sent me another one with the same question (which i’m grateful bc i got a notif for that one, but not this one) and didn’t have the time to answer it instantly and then it slipped my mind lmao. i’ll not respond to the other ask you sent considering it’s mainly the same question, but i’ll answer the things you added in that question here as well. also, im honored that you asked Me for advice on chatfics, im very glad my fics have left an impression on you!!

alright so! this is gonna get long, so buckle up bc i actually have a lot of thoughts (contrary to popular belief) when it comes to writing my chatfics and you can take out whatever you find helpful from this:

the first mindset i have when writing my chatfics is the “if the opposite has never been stated in canon, there’s no reason this couldn’t be a thing”-mindset. like, say todoroki has never said in canon that he enjoys listening to cascada, but he has also never said that he Doesn’t listen to cascada. this means it wouldn’t break his established character to throw in a random interest like that. it doesn’t break the character, but it adds some flare, which is where the comedy comes from. a serious character stays serious, but the funny part is them having unexpected soft spots and interests, because the reader is so used to the seriousness. a very powerful character having their own interests not at all related to what makes them powerful, or even insecurities to give them even more depth. it’s all about finding the core attributes of the character and staying true to that to some extend to not make the character feel like someone completely different, and then going HAM with everything else. as you probably have noticed, i take a LOT of creative liberties with side characters, especially with my pro hero bnha fic, Daily Lives of Pro Heroes, because most of the characters are more or less blank slates to go wild on. actually that’s another point:

use the side characters that barely have any established interactions or interests!! they’re perfect to drive story and situations forward that wouldn’t go anywhere with the main characters because of their already very existing characterization that you don’t want to kill fully!!

to answer a part of the actual question? a lot of my characterization may seem really surface-level and random at first glance and like i’m fully shitposting, but i usually have it decently sorted out. i Do follow what has been said in canon to some extent, but if i don’t like something or if something appeared later, i see no need to follow it religiously. people aren’t here for canon, they’re here for comedy. i like following the general mood and vibe of the characters, then exaggerate it at some points and also add some depth to the characters by giving them random and sometimes even meaningless interests to make them seem more like, you know, real people. i let my portrayals grow with the fic and derail more as i go, to give the reader more time to get used to MY characterization and canon of each character. so like? do spend some time giving each character you’re going to use some base values and points you find important in the portrayal.

i have a bunch of situations and conversations in my chatfics that are pulled directly or are closely inspired by my own life events or ideas ive had (i do a lot of dumb shit), and also a bunch of convos and situations that are closely inspired by my friends and things that have happened in actual group chats i am in. 

another thing i feel is pretty important to make the chat feel more alive and relatable is making them not Only talk about random and wild situations. there has to be some kind of downtime and some more mindless chatting, or even a character feeling down or sad, because groupchats aren’t Always wild and funny. a perfect example is actually when someone stole parts of my bnha chatfic and posted it on wattpad. the thing is that while most of it was stolen, the person changed some things and also removed a lot of the small-talk and less Wild situations, which ended up changing some of the situations and removing a Lot of of my characterization, which made the characters feel less relatable and just flat. clearly the person hadn’t understood why i wrote the characters like i did and managed to ruin that by simply cutting and pasting their favorite segments of the fic, without paying any mind to what the other parts contributed with.

it comes to actually writing the chatting, you may not have noticed, but i actually have slight different ways i write every single character. this is honestly inspired by my times of being a homestuck fan (lmao) and the many different group chats i’ve been in, and it Does make a difference even if people don’t fully notice exactly what it is. sometimes there are too many characters to have very distinct differences and still match the characters, but i usually spend a good amount of time thinking about what tone i want each character to have when typing and how to achieve that. if i take my bnha chatfic   Yikes™ again as example, you may notice that tokoyami always starts what he’s saying with a capitalized letter, but doesn’t fully care about proper punctuation after that, it’s like he has auto capitalization on. iida is the type to take his time and actually write with proper punctuation. ashido is very!!! excited!!! and uses a lot!! of exclaimation marks!!! kaminari writes in lower caps and doesn’t use apostrophes on words that should have them (like doesnt instead of doesn’t etc, with some exceptions where the sentence would get too confusing without them). sero is similar to kaminari but at least bothers with the apostophes.  note: sometimes i obviously personally slip up and forget what i’ve decided for each, but there IS a thought behind every single character in All of my chatfics lmao.

As far as I can tell with a couple hours into the game, the majority of the player characters are human. While there seems to be a couple of exceptions, I wouldn’t play the game solely if you’re looking for something like character customization or race/species variation in the main character lineup.

She generally gets along OK with the other Merformers. Ratchet reminds her of her Uncle Hank and he doesn’t like to admit it but he’s also fond of her. Arcee’s a little standoff-ish but it’s nice to have another female mer around when the boys are up to their shit again. Bulkhead can get on board with the new music she introduces them to, and OP is just very happy that she makes his son happy lol.