literally how is an autistic 11 y/o with ADHD who's DEEPLY obsessed with Voldo from Soul Calibur supposed to engage, without doing some amount of puzzling & taking artistic liberty? 🤣

these were the mines i was forced to work in from a young age.... they made me strong... but they fucked me up...

characters are still "doing things" off-screen. they have a personality beyond w/e you see them do on-screen. fanfiction 101.

i'm equally as interested in the "negative space" of character depictions as i am in their canon scenes; what could they be doing off-screen during xyz events of the story?

i struggle with "Zenos doesn't do shit" comments bc i'm operating on "neither do most fighting game characters" logic lmao;;

RPGs are expected to have more depth than FGs, so when a character from the former has the same kind of development as one from the latter, ppl say they don't do shit.

as a kid, i loved piecing together the crumbs of personality i found in fighting game characters, filling in the blanks in my head.

sure, i overthink underused characters, i attribute more importance to them than writers intend.
but it helps me find joy in characters with un-realized potential.

Guilty Gear fans on tumblr saw my shit and kept making vagueposts about me in the same tags that i was posting my art.

you have enough impotent rage to shout about how much i suck in the town square, but not enough guts to just come directly to my house?

*Slayer is also a trans man

sad that Strive doesn't give Millia a wide variety of hair colors like Xrd does. missed opportunity. terrible oversight.

Xrd colors 3 & 8..... he's just like me fr

y'all better be being bad mwah ilu