The party, pointing to an NPC that the DM never intended to be a recurring character: That’s My Child Now
@caffeinatedwriters Now you gotta write them a quest where they get the chance to bring him back!!
The first dungeon-boss that my group was meant to just quickly kill at the end of their very first session, they saved from death. Repeatedly. She’s now a reoccurring character who despite the fact that she is defs evil and showing no signs of redemption (yet) they keep. Saving?? So I guess I’d better write a redemption arc?
I love your players so much. I’m imagining Local Villain turning good mainly out of confusion because why they save me tho????
We’ve adopted our first small villain to the party as a DMPC. During the interrogation he suddenly bursts into tears, says the villaining was his last desperate try to unfuck his life and now we can do whatever we want with him, cause he’s done. He’s out of ideas and his life is still fucked up. The whole party went all “aaaaww there there pat pat poor thing” and now he’s our token pretty boy and an in-game DM’s snarky voice.
We found a 20 ft cube of gelatinous acid in the underdark. He wanted to see sunlight. He was perfect. So he became part of our party. He’s slow so he always follows behind us and every now and again he has a few new skeletons inside of him of the fools that tried to sneak up behind us. He’s my favorite.
I love this. I support you and your sun-loving acid dog
We accidentally deafened a goblin and we inexplicably felt worse about that than we did about killing all his friends so now he’s librarian/curator for all the junk in our bag of holding
anti shipping servers for villain ships blow. my mind. like
“this character has a giant death ray, and has literally killed people, and regularly endangers children, but we don’t allow noncon or underage/aged up characters because we’re ETHICAL and GOOD PEOPLE”
The argument I always get is that “abuse of any kind is unquestionably worse than death”.
It doesn’t matter if the villains are killing adults with families, high school students or just hoardes of faceless background characters. Noncon/underage/aged up/domestic abuse/rape is always always worse than cutting someone’s life short and that mindset just … kind of blows my mind. It’s as if they’re treating these things like the end of the world and like life can never go on past that point which (as a CSA survivor) seems very disingenuous to me. It’s almost belittling to the victims of real world abuse by insinuating that we would’ve been better off dead instead of enduring.
It seems like a much more dangerous mindset to normalize than shipping freedom but I guess that’s just an opinion. 🤷🏻♀️
It’s why they’re so cool with harassment and suicide baiting—better people die than think abusive thoughts about fictional characters.
You know, I think what makes Papyrus and his boastfulness so endearing, despite egoism usually being a negative and unappealing character trait, is the fact that his self-confidence does not exist at the expense of others. He doesn’t build himself up by putting other people down; he thinks highly of everyone! He can consider himself great and admirable while still genuinely being impressed by the people around him and celebrating their accomplishments.
Papyrus understands that greatness is not a competition; it’s something everyone can win at! And even if he is the greatest, it’s only so that he can show everyone else how to recognize their own inherent value.
Papyrus believes in himself! Papyrus believes in me! Papyrus believes in you, too!
Once upon a time I was a little girl, and like a lot of little girls, I sometimes enjoyed monstrous things. I loved ghost stories and horror fiction and creepy crawly monsters – wrote about them, too. Mind controlling wizards, soul-consuming ghasts; trickster fae conducting weird proto-BDSM at garden parties. All the Forbidden, Scandalous things they said girls weren’t supposed to like, because what middle schooler doesn’t have their bullshit Deviantart phase?
Well, when I was that same young girl – when I was pre-pubescent young, when I was a braces-wearing, big-eyed kid – there was also a year when some older boys and a man made my life a living hell.
Now I want you to look me in the eye and tell me: was it my fault?
If the dudes had stolen my notebooks and read my Edgy Noncon before sexually harassing me, would it have been my fault?
Because I was ~~normalizing abuse~~ and making it seem ~~okay to fantasize about abusing girls~~ and every other bit of rhetoric I see floating around here 25/8
Or, if some other kid who was getting fucked over had taken my (clearly labeled) notebook and read it, then had a panic attack:
Am I ‘just as bad’ as my abusers because my fae story triggered them?
Is it a sign that I must be an abuser now too because the horror I wrote then is the same shit I can still write now, because my mind is my own and fiction does not mind-control me?
Because that is what I hear every time that antis speak. I hear you saying ‘you are permanently damaged’. I hear you saying, ‘you caused this to happen’.
I hear you saying ‘you deserved it’, because your focus is on media and fiction, and not actual crimes committed by actual people.
And I am not telling you this to prove that I have the right to speak about this topic. I don’t believe in the Trauma Thunderdome where we all compete to explain how damaged we are. I despise the notion that we need to whip our Survivor Cards out for every Concerned Carolyn who wants to say some shit about our coping mechanisms. I am telling you this because you need this context to understand how very, deeply angry I am.
Because fiction is not what actually terrorized me, it was human beings.
Because remembering horror is still not as bad as experiencing it in real life.
Stop telling survivors that they are responsible for their abusers’ actions.
Stop telling people they are ‘just as bad’ as people who commit real life atrocities if they can write about it in fiction.
Stop acting like trauma is a zero sum game where some of us just have to stop existing to protect others.
By that logic, drawing fictional characters sleeping, eating, going to
school/work, living their every day life is the same as a person
stalking someone!
How do these people not understand the difference between 1) a drawing of fictional characters 2) sexual video/photo content of real life living breathing people?
KIBA. Now, let’s keep in mind that while Kiba does have a bit of class and dignity and all, he is still a thot. With that in mind, I imagine him wearing lots of LL Bean but in sizes that happen to just be a little too-small. He can’t help it if his lovely cashmere sweater rides up when he’s stretching!
KayjsCage 
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