#terrence-tich

off the top of your head: notes for characterization? what are the most essential traits of this character to you (personality traits, important connections/dynamics, voice)?

Paintbrush to me is a very rigid perfectionist who gets stuck in their own head and quick to anger when those thoughts are pushed against and they believe the other to be wrong. Despite that tries very hard to be a good person which I respect! But their bluntness gets in the way a lot and can come off mean a lot of the time. Lightbulb is probs the more important connection, obviously, as they balance each other out between Lightbulb's whimsy and Paintbrush's grounding, but very fun character overall I like them

2. adjacently—do you think fandom does the above traits justice? why or why not?

Again I do not interact w the fandom much but I like to think so? Hopefully? Maybe? I dunno I feel Paintbrush could be a fairly controversial character in the fandom and that's scary. I don't wanna know

3. throw this character at any other character of your choice to bounce off each other as outsider pov to each other— regardless of timeline or logistics (crossovers allowed if you're interesting about it). why this combination? what insights would they have on each other?

Ok there is one crossover I'd be very interested in seeing out like. fully. if it's happened and I just haven't seen it then that's on me bc I haven't seen BFDI properly yet

but I'd love to see Paintbrush rly interact w any BFDI character and just exist in that world for a period of time. W how sensitive Paintbrush is to whimsy and chaos I fear it would be very entertaining but also press on Paintbrush to be in a position where everything and everyone around him is potentially nuts /lh (exceptions to this rule ofc but)

4. how do you think you would react to this character in real life and vice versa? would you prefer be a million miles out of range, be amicable classmates, or fall desperately in love? (bonus: arrange a hypothetical date between yourself and this character. getting silly with it is encouraged (fakedate them! escape a dinner date through a bathroom window!))

Well uh. they're a talking paintbrush so I feel I'd be very confused and probably think I'm dreaming and very apologetic they've been trapped with my unused paintbrushes for how long LMAO buuuut despite that I feel we would get along pretty well actually?

We have a fairly similar mindset and rigidity which can cause for friction but overall I think we would understand each other pretty well and communicate decently enough to make it work. I'd love to have paintbrush as a bestie. we could parallel play making art together. sweet

5. ideal flavor of rotating for this character? crack them open and dissect them— do you want them tormented, pining, or being loved + comforted? do you have any specific scenarios you like to think about?

Admittedly I don't think about Paintbrush enough for this but I like their dynamic with Lightbulb even when Lightbulb is not around as you can still see her influence on him even if her presence is not there. I just want Paintbrush to be happy tbh and I hope they actually get to have their questions answered LOL

one of the few characters i don't want to torment forever and throw around

6. weave a web of dynamics through the cast for this character: which dynamics are you most interested in? both canonically and through extrapolation/speculation— which dynamics are the richest to you, and why?

The reboot of s1 got me invested in this one for a rly obvious reason, but in s1 they put Paintbrush and Nickel together a lot? Like they seemed to be friends back then but that relationship is pretty much all but abandoned in the future? I wish that was kept and fleshed out a little more simply bc it's very interesting to me. W Paintbrush as a rly strict like straightman to Nickel's fuckall sarcasm shtick it's curious how they would interact in the long term or if they had a falling out due to this butting of heads which is why the relationship did not persist in the future

neat to think about. to me

7. do you have particular niche takes on this character? defend those takes. (openly controversial takes are permitted, but also: hyper-specific headcanons which you believe in and no one else has considered enough to disagree with yet. pick a hill to die on.)