#wolfbad

the werid part (and im saying this as someone who hasnt watched the show just read your fic) is that sexually manipulative is so fucking gross its normally what people do mental gymnastics to avoid characterising their favs as

it seems that would hold true for frank in every other context except the one in which he’s kissing the wrong girl. suddenly the average k*stle fan would rather make frank creepy than accept him as a grown ass man engaging in a consensual encounter with a grown ass woman

granted bernthal’s performance is a departure from the comics in certain (i would argue necessary) ways but the characterization still draws heavily from the source material, particularly the max imprint. and y’know what frank does in the max imprint? gets laid from time to time

y’know what’s consistently antithetical to frank’s characterization throughout all punisher media? sexual manipulation and/or predation. 

the chief issue i take with k*stle fandom’s characterization of frank is that it’s more about wanting bernthal’s face and body to enact their fantasies than it is about examining and/or representing frank castle with any depth. 

I think the show picked up a BUNCH of new followers who didn’t watch Campaign 1 because it was too much to catch up on. I also suspect a lot of them came from happy-go-lucky D&D fandoms like TAZ. There’s nothing wrong with TAZ but it’s definitely a big change of pace from CR.

Kenny has just fantastic everything (except hair). I dont understand his muscle definition. Kota is similiar, like how are those muscles real

Honestly, even Kenny’s hair has looked pretty good this G1! Love clearly agrees with him.

Kota looks like a statue come to life, like he’s so physically perfect he’s actually a special effect. He’s one of the wrestlers I’m secretly convinced was built in a lab or is a highly advanced wrestlebot (like Astro Boy) who was programmed with too many emotions (like Astro Boy.)

so uh i dont actually know shit about VtM and its lore, so i have no idea what 90% of what you said means. i had no idea what anyone was talking about re: the gang being houses or clans or whatever. could you break that down for me cause it sounds cool

hOOO boy well... “Vampire: the Masquerade” is a biiig universe, and i am mostly familiar with the 20th anniversary edition - which you can find here, amongst .pdfs of probly half the books ever written for this setting (it’s. a big setting, there’s maybe two, three hundred books all told).

so, first off, you know how you have races/classes in dnd? “clans” are basically kinda both of those things in one. all vampires are vampires - they burn up in the sun, have to drink blood to survive, are somewhat wonky on the whole “morals” thing - but clans are sort of sub-races of vampire. for example, different clans get different powers, the “magic” stuff you saw the guys do in game - if you want to learn a power (or “discipline” as it’s officially called) that doesn’t belong to your clan, it’s more difficult / costs more xp. clans also have their own specific weaknesses - some get entranced around beautiful art, some are hideously ugly, some have refined tastes and can only drink a certain kind of blood, some are more likely to go into a bloodthirsty rage called “frenzy”... and, as a result of these things and their histories, each clan has its own general profile for the people they embrace. ie. toreador are artsy hipster vamps and tend to embrace artists, gangrel are werewolf-y vampires and tend to embrace loners and wanderers, brujah are kinda spoiling-for-a-fight vamps and so tend to embrace bikers and gangsters, etc.

generally, you get your clan from your sire, the vamp that bit you. so if your sire was a ventrue (fancy vamps, basically), you’re gonna be a ventrue (or a caitiff, if something goes wrong - caitiff are like shitty clanless vamps). however, the gang were all different clans, which means gary couldn’t have been the sire for more than one of them. where did he get the blood to turn them from, then?? it’s a mystery. maybe he had other help. maybe he stole blood from other vamps. idk. (it was a dumb idea on his part, tho, because part of the bonus of feeding your blood to your baby vamp is something called a “blood bond”. basically, if a vamp drinks another vamp’s blood, they become kinda... emotionally attached to the owner of that blood. the more times they drink, the more attached. fledgling vamps are born with a low-level blood bond to their sire, to make them more obedient and biddable.