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characterization

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27 works open to everyone here carry this tag; 59% are complete. The average one runs about 12,200 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.

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Genshin Impact (Video Game)

act IV

by xiaoscribbles

It was the way Zhongli’s warm amber eyes suddenly were not as warm anymore. The way he looked at him with a piercing look, void of remorse, as he handed his gnosis over willingly to go on a whole tangent about how his “duties were done”. It was the way he turned and treated the precious traveler with the same amount of kindness and gentleness the Childe had received the previous night, with such ease; it was a look he thought was reserved only for him. It was the way he was able to turn back around, stare at Childe with an unreadable gaze, and walk away without so much of a goodbye.Or, Zhongli and Childe finally have the conversation that was long overdue.

General 2.9k words 1 ch Complete 1.2k kudos

Angst with a Happy Ending · Character Study · Friends to Lovers · Idiots in Love· +7 more

Miraculous Ladybug

Speak

by Evil Teddy Bear (TheDragonRider), MiraculousAngels, TheDragonRider

Adrien’s mother taught him three things before she died: To be kind, to find the truth, and to always fight evil.

Teen 10k words 2 ch Complete 378 kudos

Gift Fic · happy birthday brownie! · this became longer than I expected · characterization· +13 more

My Next Life as a Villainess - Yamaguchi Satoru (Light Novels)+2

Don't go yet

by KarlyHill

One year to wake, or be lost forever. Seven years after Keith’s earth golem attack, Katarina Claes still hasn’t opened her eyes. Geordo dreams of the girl he refuses to mourn. Keith sees the sister he has spent years blaming himself for losing. And somewhere between her sleeping body and the academy she now haunts, Katarina is beginning to forget her own name. The kingdom is preparing to move on. But dark magic does not preserve what it touches, it takes. Canon divergence: What if Katarina fell into a coma before she ever had the chance to change everyone’s fate?

Teen 21k words 9 / ? ch In progress 206 kudos

Angst with a Happy Ending · Canon Divergence · Dark Magic · Devoted Geordo Stuart· +40 more

DCU+1

Rivers of Henna

by nursal1060

Damian has always been an artist and knows how to do henna.With Eid quickly approaching, Damian procures henna and proceeds to decorate his, his brothers, and the superboys’ bodies with his artistic talents.**Information about the Batboys in this specific AU can be found in the first post of the "Adventures with the Reversed Robins" series!

General 1.7k words 1 ch Complete 151 kudos

Batkids Age Reversal · Domestic Batfamily (DCU) · Caring Batfamily (DCU) · Batfamily Shenanigans (DCU)· +29 more

Star Wars - All Media Types+3

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by Shadows_of_a_Dream

1. Anakin Skywalker was a Sith at heart, thinly cloaked in the robes of the Jedi; Kylo Ren is a Jedi desperately donning the mantle of the Sith. 2. Luke Skywalker was always a hero, forced to scavenge for flashes of the life he ought to be living; Rey is a scavenger, her fear like an ocean around a faint blue-white flame of faith. 3. Han Solo was always a good man, albeit stained with questionable deeds; Finn is a villain for whom redemption is like a new suit of armor – his First Order uniform still trapped beneath it, the helmet bright with blood-stripes. 4. Leia Organa was always unexpected; Poe Dameron is presumed, puffed up, pretentious, built on public praise and renown. (A quintuplet of character studies, juxtaposing the original trilogy with our new heroes.)

Teen 1.2k words 4 ch Complete 139 kudos

Character Study · comparisons · Anakin Skywalker vs Kylo Ren · Luke Skywalker vs Rey· +5 more

Unstable Universe (Web Series)

Beyond what the Eye can See

by woweboo

Wemmbu didn't respond. He craned his neck instead, staring up at the structure that loomed over them, casting a shadow over any block that dared creep too close. “The Farlands.” Wemmbu identified easily.“Is bro ‘boutta start monologueing?” Egg added, earning a harder-than-necessary smack to the back of his head. ————OR The Farlands were never “normal”, but when you have unfinished business, not even your senses can be trusted. (Set after Wemmbu’s video “I became a Minecraft Killer”)

Teen 2.8k words 2 / ? ch In progress 116 kudos

(At point of writing) · Action/Adventure · Adventure · Angel Eggchan (Video Blogging RPF)· +34 more

Original Work+1

Apocalyptic Tea and

by BNZG

A cataclysmic event of two worlds colliding have lead to the fall of one world and the rise of the other. But humans are adaptable, cunning and resilient. At least, that's what Minnie believed.In the ruins of a conquered world, there are those who are trying to survive. Those who are picking up the pieces of the lives they once had. And those who still possess the will to fight against the invaders who have already long since won the war. Minnie's a mix between all three, but all in all, she's just a lone scavenger with a knack for bombs and a mission to find her baby brother. Hardly special in a world gone topsy-turvy.At least until she crosses paths with one of the conquerors. Then things get mighty complicated.

Teen 42k words 6 / ? ch In progress 81 kudos

Macro/Micro · Giant/Tiny · giant · TINY - Freeform· +38 more

Half-Life

Half Life Headcannons

by ArdeaWrites

All the collected scattered thoughts, worldbuilding, characterization ideas and headcannons that go into Crowbar & Stray Physicists continuities. I have been posting these on Tumblr but am collecting them here because it was getting old to scroll through everything to find it again :P I read a lot of other worldbuilding / headcannon posts. If I have amalgamated and swallowed someone else's thought and regurgitated it here without credit, I apologize. If you see something here and say Hey I want to Use That, 100% go for it!

General 7.3k words 18 / ? ch In progress 79 kudos

CP Calhoun · List Fic · Mute Gordon Freeman · Worldbuilding· +10 more

Good Omens (TV)

Armegedont Its Weird It

by RandomPersonOnTheInternet_008

Muriel is enjoying their time within the bookshop cleaning when they find something. 8 journals spelling out one strange message. One strange message that concerns them about one particular angel. Aziraphale. The content of the journals and what the message showed did not make the least bit sense. So they realize they need to find one person, or rather demon, to help with them on this. What does this message mean? Is Aziraphale in danger? What is really going on? Now come with me in this fake season 3 fic to unravel fake answers for comfort. Insert Good Omens theme song.Also thank you to those on Pinterest who supported me I love yall’s!

Teen 25k words 15 / ? ch In progress 65 kudos

Light Angst · Pre-Fall Crowley (Good Omens) · Sad Crowley (Good Omens) · Ineffable Idiots (Good Omens)· +42 more

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

Raya and the Last Dragon: Rewrite

by ChuckTaylorUpset

[Black screen.  Voiceover from CHIEF BENJA and YOUNG RAYA, a bemused father and his enthusiastic little girl.]YOUNG RAYA: Ba, Ba, tell it again![BENJA CHUCKLES]BENJA: Alright, alright. Once upon a time, there was a land called Kumandra.[Music swells.... This is a script style/formatted fic which imagines an alternative version of the movie Raya and the Last Dragon. If canon is a song, this is the remix. If canon is a meal, this fic kept the ingredients but threw out the recipe, with minimal additional seasoning. If canon is pottery, this is a mosaic, and I am Mr. Link Zelda-LegendOf, screaming and smashing canon to the floor.In here there will be no first act that is entirely exposition. There will be no morals about your duty to offer yourself up to others so they can stab you in the back. And hopefully, if I want you to know a character likes dragons, I will not have a scene of them looking two inches to the left of the camera and them earnestly saying "I love dragons." As for what it will have... why don't you come and find out? Come on, I promise it'll be fun.

General 9.1k words 1 ch Complete 50 kudos

Alternate characterizations · Character Arcs · Characterization of secondary characters · Flashbacks· +9 more

Pokemon (Anime)+2

Baton Pass

by ItzGlitchy

The torch is passed, Chosen One to Chosen One.Ash to Liko.

General 339 words 1 ch Complete 44 kudos

Takes place in ‘Cinder Snagem’ verse · Pokemon · Pokemon Battles · Legendary Pokemon· +11 more

My Next Life as a Villainess - Yamaguchi Satoru (Light Novels)+2

Si el amor salvará, vivirías por siempre

by KarlyHill

Katarina quita las penas, nunca impone sus expectativas a nadie, es casi como si pudiera mirar a través de la gente, como si viera la humanidad que prevalece en las personas y les ofreciera su mano para que no tengan que recorrer ese camino solas. Pero no llegó a hacerlo, a los ocho años un golem de tierra le arrebató esa oportunidad.

Teen 6.8k words 2 / ? ch In progress 36 kudos Spanish

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst and Feels · Angst and Romance · Angst with a Happy Ending· +18 more

Cookie Run (Video Game)

The forgotten Keeper

by Herb_Eater

There is a long forgotten legend about a sacred garden, and its former Keeper. No one remembers what it is about, or who. Words that the wind blew away long ago, and that only chance and improbable luck could bring back.A hero in search of salvation for his kingdom will be next, one among many, another story that the mysterious garden caretaker will keep in the hope of not being forgotten again, unless of course his petty destiny has different plans....Is he really in that garden of his own free will? Why does it seem as if something is preventing him from taking more than ten steps from the garden's boundary?OrMidlife crisis of an immortal. Dark Cacao will have more than one mission in Beast Yeast. Breaking curses and blah blah blah

Teen 3k words 1 / ? ch In progress 26 kudos

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst · Anyways · Author Doesn't Know How to Write Romance· +28 more