What are your thoughts on Nikolai Gogol so far?
Using the two chapters we have of him, and with zero knowledge of the RL author and his works:
Out of all the characters, I think Gogol is the one who is most concerned with and acutely aware of the power of performance. I feel that a character like Dazai is well-versed in the art of wearing masks and using deflection, but he’s more subtle about it, and if read carefully enough it’s possible to see when he drops his masks and what his true feelings are. With Dazai, everybody can sense the wall that he puts up, but it thins or disappears entirely depending on whom he’s with and what emotion he shows (be it positive or negative).
In contrast, Gogol is in an almost constant state of performance:
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“Loneliness wasn’t a king lording over us forever. Loneliness is just a soft, puffy cloud forming and vanishing on a whim. Many people on the ground carry wounds the way we do. Abandon them, and you’re abandoning your past self.” (Nakajima Atsushi, Though the Head May Err)
Like, yes, this kid is a fanboy to rival fanboys, but, what if under some miracle, he actually saw the weirdness in having someone’s face on his underwear?
Like:
Person (trying to make fun of Midoriya): Ha, you probably have All Might underwear, you fanboy
Midoriya: What? No? That’s just weird. Yeah, I’m a fanboy, but that’s crossing a line that even I don’t want to cross.
What if he was self aware?
[Terminal illness & Death CW]
Hospital AU. Hannibal realized that his patient is the only one who can truly see him, but he also knew that man is slowly dying.
when will i learn
I may be an absolute disaster of an adult but when someone younger than me asks for advice I turn into a Wise Professor
Bilbo, being dragged across middle-earth by a group of dwarves he just met:
jesus was called the lamb of god his fursona is CLEARLY a lamb fuckin fake fans smh...
i resent signing up for this site
the j stands for “just cuddle with me already”
me while drawing: damn i wish i could draw