some stupid ideas for dnd characters while i fight depression and boredom:
half elf, half tabaxi, full asshole
demon pretending to be a tiefling
doppelganger who took over someone’s life but had no idea they were an adventurer or into shady shit and is having a lot of trouble with trying to keep his identity up
some more:
monk that is DEFINITELY not saitama from opm but beefier
orc bard with low charisma and gets very nervous around cute people
someone who doesn’t have a tragic backstory. their parents are alive and well, they write to them all the time about their adventures, and their parents support their adventuring and send them things they might need
low intelligence wizard
low intelligence female barbarian whos just here for a good time
a cleric or warlock who’s married to their patron and very in love
warlock whose patron is their parent and they’re basically studying abroad on the human plane
a ranger whose companion is actually the ranger, but their bodies got switched
If you wanna use one of these lmk and send me updates on them
A human who’s from a family of tieflings. Someone in the family made a deal with a demon and the magic got weirded out so much it turned them human.
a druid who is just poison ivy, or dresses just like her
Dragonborn who look like crocodiles and speak with a southern accent
Shardmind or warforged who speaks like GLaDOS
Gunslinger dragonborn, but instead of using a gun, they shoot bullets from their mouth in a breath attack
A bard who uses an omatone
A timid human who looks like ur run of the mill wizard or librarian, but turns out to be a barbarian. All their rage comes from thinking about people who’ve bullied him or thinking about library late fees
Todoroki is literally a human chimera and we don’t talk enough about that
Ever since Todoroki was introduced his abilities are described as a single quirk, half hot and half cold, but his quirk manifests in a completely different way than any other in the manga.
In the bnha universe quirks are determined by genetics, and when two parents have a child it can either a) inherit their quirk from one of their parents; b) take aspects from both of the parents’ quirks and combine them to create a new composite quirk, such as Bakugou, whose parents’ quirks are glycerin and oxidizing sweat, and result in his explosion quirk; or a rarer case, c) where the child doesn’t inherit any quirk traits from their genetic lineage, resulting in a new quirk, like Eri’s quirk. Quirks are passed down through mendelian inheritance, meaning that a quirk’s genetic traits are technically predictable (with exceptions), hence the existence of quirk marriages.
Todoroki’s case is described as case b, and supposedly it just looks like he has two quirks, however, his quirk just isn’t a marge of fire and ice, he literally keeps the whole quirk from both of his parents. In order to use both of these quirks, he would need to posses two distinct quirk factors, since they aren’t related in any way and work independently. This, in addition to the fact that each half of his body presents different physical traits which would mean his halves a have distinctions in a genetic level.
This would make Todoroki a human chimera, meaning that both halves of his body are genetically distinct from one another. Genetic chimerism can happen when twin (fraternal rather than identical) zygotes merge during early development. The merge of the zygotes is distributed in different patterns, there’s mosaic chimera, a mix of both throughout the body, or bilateral chimera, separated into two hemispheres, which would be Todoroki’s case.
As for now there is no record of a real chimera case in humans, but in a future where evolution and mutation has brought our kind to develop unique superhuman quirks, this kind of genetic anomaly doesn’t seem so far fetched. Still, Todo is quite the oddity within the bnha universe.
“why can’t female heroes kick arse in heels” because it’s not practical and will literally snap your damn ankle you can scream weaponised femininity all you want but first off, you need to admit that they’re not an almighty symbol of empowerment, and secondly that if you do a job with a lot of physical activity in heels you’re risking your own safety. all these women fighting in heels on tv are going to end up seriously injuring themselves.
weaponised femininity is a concept made up in an attempt to get us to embrace the industries created to hold us back/profit from our insecurities so that we can continue to fit into the male expectation of what a woman should be and not question why we are forced to spend thousands on our appearance every year
just a small anecdote. I had a friend who worked in theater; she was the stage manager and an actress came to her in tears one day because the director absolutely refused to let her do a choreographed fight scene in less than 3 inch heels because “they’re platforms so you’ll be okay.” My friend, who is a woman’s size 10, brought her own heels in the next day and DEMANDED the director put them on and try the choreography before the actress did it. He finally agreed to change it, without putting the heels on.
so like I know you might think of “all those women on tv fighting in heels” as fictional woman who WOULD hurt themselves in real life, but its fiction so its okay…except those women are portrayed by real actresses who are actually fighting in actual heels, being directed by dudes who have never worn a pair of heels in their lives, alongside men who aren’t expected to constantly wear things that make their stunts 2x more dangerous than they have to be. Just a thought.
Men take “let’s see feminine women being badass” to mean “let’s see women impractically focused on their appearance in combat situations.“
That’s why I loved Black Panther even more Nakia took off her heels and used them as weapons and was running and driving around barefoot in that one scene
A number of stuntwomen have spoken out about getting injured on sets because the character is wearing heels and skimpy clothing that provide no protection or padding. It literally harms rl women.
The only way I wanna see a women fight with heels is if she takes them off and fights with them a la Mulan/Nakia style.
sorry i can’t hear the noise of male entitlement over the sound of Evangeline Lilly and every other woman sighing in frustration
They photoshopped the heels onto wonder woman. Not even Gal Gadot could fight in them, but it was so important to The Look™ that they frame by frame added them. Gal wore flats to the red carpet in protest.
‘Always show, not tell,’ is a big fat lie. If you always show, you’ll have half a novel of descriptive words and flowy sentences that will be hard to read.
Here is a quick tip:
Show emotion.
Tell feelings.
Don’t tell us ‘she was sad.’ Show us- ‘Her lip trembled, and her eyes burned as she tried to keep her tears at bay.’
Don’t show us ‘her eyelids were heavy- too heavy. Her limbs could barely function and she couldn’t stop yawning.’ Tell us – ‘she felt tired that morning.’
Showing emotion will bring the reader closer to the characters, to understand their reactions better. But I don’t need to read about how slow she was moving due to tiredness.
Likewise, when you do show, keep it to a max three sentences. Two paragraphs of ‘how she was sad,’ with no dialogue or inner thought is just as boring.
