OOC ☼ Charloft: "Munday" May 09
For today, we challenge you to tell us ways in which your character has changed from their initial depiction/initial concept. If it's an original character, ways in which they've changed as you've written them; if it's a fandom character, either ways in which they've changed in their canon portrayal, or ways in which you've deviated from how they were initially presented in canon.
I'm going to have to work on fixing her speech pattern, first and foremost. Thief King in canon - or at least the Viz translation - is far more ominous all the time, and doesn't ever actually use "punk" abbreviations. They've crept into Papyrus in part because of Thief King's occasionally vulgar demeanor and in part as an attempt to mimic the speech patterns Rica Matsumoto uses for the character (despite Papyrus being based off manga canon). I'm still trying to figure out how much she should swear- I keep wanting to have her swear a blue streak but TK doesn't need to cuss in canon to make his point. In fact, like most Yugioh villains he errs on overly-formal more often than not.
Everything else that's different is just me trying to extrapolate for situations we don't get to see - we don't see him having to speak honestly about close personal feelings (other than revenge), we barely see him in lulls between battles. He's always got his game face on, he's always performing, he's always interacting with his enemies. So I have to work with my understanding of the character, and how he might change if he grew up female instead, to fill in the quiet periods and give her some more introspection and depth behind all that concentrated awesome.
Being from an AU isn't exactly in the scope of this question, but it's affected her too. She has someone to perform for, she has someone else's high standards to live up to. I keep dragging Gurren Lagann into this, but it fits: she can howl defiance at the world and exult in herself because Diabound is there backing her up, being her strength and her inspiration. If anything, she's got an even higher opinion of herself and even more bluster because there is someone always at her shoulder ready to catch her when she stumbles, but who will never hold it against her, who'll just smile and take her hand.
One thief will start a war, but she can't do it alone.
I'm going to have to work on fixing her speech pattern, first and foremost. Thief King in canon - or at least the Viz translation - is far more ominous all the time, and doesn't ever actually use "punk" abbreviations. They've crept into Papyrus in part because of Thief King's occasionally vulgar demeanor and in part as an attempt to mimic the speech patterns Rica Matsumoto uses for the character (despite Papyrus being based off manga canon). I'm still trying to figure out how much she should swear- I keep wanting to have her swear a blue streak but TK doesn't need to cuss in canon to make his point. In fact, like most Yugioh villains he errs on overly-formal more often than not.
Everything else that's different is just me trying to extrapolate for situations we don't get to see - we don't see him having to speak honestly about close personal feelings (other than revenge), we barely see him in lulls between battles. He's always got his game face on, he's always performing, he's always interacting with his enemies. So I have to work with my understanding of the character, and how he might change if he grew up female instead, to fill in the quiet periods and give her some more introspection and depth behind all that concentrated awesome.
Being from an AU isn't exactly in the scope of this question, but it's affected her too. She has someone to perform for, she has someone else's high standards to live up to. I keep dragging Gurren Lagann into this, but it fits: she can howl defiance at the world and exult in herself because Diabound is there backing her up, being her strength and her inspiration. If anything, she's got an even higher opinion of herself and even more bluster because there is someone always at her shoulder ready to catch her when she stumbles, but who will never hold it against her, who'll just smile and take her hand.
One thief will start a war, but she can't do it alone.