I Feel Like Dante Is So Emotionally Constipated When It Comes To Expressing His Fondness And Affection

(you can try to guess who he is smiling at)

Capcom are cowards for not giving Nero an SDT. Have a WIP that the folks on twitter liked. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk.

he’s not sorry about shooting the gun tho

Finally got around to playing pathologic (classic first, against the recommendations of pretty much everyone) and i'm just on day four but... DANIIL IS SO NICE WITH THE TOWN KIDS?? He talks to them really sweetly and, while he has the option to be a bit of an ass (and end the conversation mostly out of what seems to be impatience and not intentional assholery), he is perfectly capable of going along with them and their games. Like one really has to notice the difference after reading daniil's lines with a drunk just after talking to the little shmowder girl, his tone is completely different. Like, he calls her pumpkin and all. I was genuinely baffled by this, quite a few characterizations of Daniil i have seen portray him as either bad with kids or at loss of what to do with them?? it's not that it doesnt make sense, one would expect such an attitude from him considering everything else about his personality, but the fact that he *is* good with kids is such a nice little subversion of his "trope" and it sucks that it gets overlooked so often

Eevee isn't a fan of costumes..

Love your regan stuff so much <3 Also since you like questions may I ask about your process of making comics? Yours are so neat! I always struggle with panels and choosing an interesting perspective,,

thank u so much!

firstly i describe the idea with text (it's easier to choose the compose)

compose depends on what you need to show

if its hard, I'm splitting the text into small sentences that will become future frames

when you compose frames, you need to remember about text panels where you about where to place it

so when i have text of idea, i do draft storyboard (like this) (this is for big thing, but you can do same with smaller things)

about compose

(sorry about russian and tv format but with comics its almost the same)

you can choose the most suitable option, based on what needs to be shown, what kind of atmosphere, what emotions, what actions

the first frame has a domestic and frivolous atmosphere of the second one evokes a sense of the seriousness of the situation-a conversation

also you can create frames of any shape how you wanna just for fun or for plot

i use something like this for fast strips

and dont forget about facial expressions and gestures

you can use references, you can remember how you behaved in any situations

something can be borrowed from other works - movies, comics, manga (manga in this sense is my favorite, I really like how emotions are shown there) also cartoons are a very good base, since most often there emotions are exaggerated (memes are also good)

also you can use some templates for compositions the analysis of paintings from museums or drawings from the Internet is suitable for training

also in comics, animation principles are often used for brighter movement (t is not necessary to study everything, I would highlight the preparation, stretching and compression, movement in arcs (this is what I use most often))

for me, the most important thing is that the actions are understandable from the viewer's side

if you have a mess in your head and there are more questions, ask, I will be glad to answer

Being fully honest Dabi coming to Endv after being ignored yet again doesn't change the fact that he has been ignored yet again. Even now endv has his eyes on afo and I can't see it changing

Nah, I get that. I feel the same. To be honest I see this as another set up for failure. So far the heroes have consistently been making the wrong choices and letting things escalate instead of trying better ways of facing their opponents.

I didn’t wanna say it in case I jinxed it with my prediction, but if we are to take Hawks and Mic’s reactions as the standard for how the old gen will continue to act moving forward, then I’m expecting Enji to be much the same. He’s gonna fight Touya like a villain who’s too far gone. Possibly he’ll even echo his colleagues and try to protect Touya’s idealized memory by killing the man his son has become.

I might be wrong about this of course… But looking back at Enji’s internal narration during the Central Hospital chapters and his thoughts as he fought AFO… He’s still nowhere near recognizing that Dabi and Touya are the same person.

Remember this line?

Well, here’s some translation trivia. In japanese he’s only calling him a mass murderer (大量殺人者). The only reason why we know that he’s even talking about Touya and not any other PLF villain is because the furigana (the little reading on the right of the aforementioned kanji string above) tells us he’s referring to his son (むすこ). Stuff like this is hard to translate because English doesn’t have an organic way to do the same kind of word play, so the only way to get across both definitions is to include them both in the line itself, like the character is uttering them at once. The famous “a dance with your son, here in hell” was another example of Hori using furigana that doesn’t match with the kanji they’re paired with, to get across a double meaning. But for the sake of understanding Enji’s mentality, I’d like to stress that he sees Dabi first and foremost as a “mass murderer”. Only incidentally, like an afterthought, as his son. You’ll also notice how in that same scene he’s thinking about “fighting him”. Not reuniting, not seeing how he’s doing. Fighting. Like he would any other villain, because to him this is still a matter to be tackled as a hero and not a father.

Point is, Enji still doesn’t fully recognize Touya in Dabi.

This is how he pictures him in his mind’s eye. This is not by far a flattering image. For all that Enji says that he recognizes the wrongs he did to Touya, the image he conjures when he thinks of him is not that of a man falling apart from the weight of unaddressed trauma and desperation. He sees a monster, grinning maniacally, reveling in Enji’s anguish with sadistic glee. This is not the son he abused, over and over, until he had an emotional breakdown and lost himself. This is Enji picturing an enemy, someone not to feel any sympathy for. Someone whose most prominent feature is his creepy grinning mouth, open wide as if ready to devour everything Enji’s been working for all these years.

Even in his thoughts, he keeps referring to Dabi as an abstract evil rather than a person:

He’s the physical manifestation of Enji’s “mistakes”, not his son. Not the boy he said he missed so dearly he hoped he could get a second chance with.

Touya is Othered as an abstract being, the sum of every flaw Enji possesses but never wanted to acknowledge.

Now compare that to how he saw Touya as an idealized martyr:

Here Touya is remembered as a good kid, not through the distorted lenses above, because up until this moment he’s still a “good victim”. Someone who died before he could become an obstacle, and as such still someone who Enji treats with humanity. He brings offer to his altar and manifests “regret” over his premature death, because this Touya is easy to mourn. After all, with Touya gone, who’s gonna complain about Enji using his memory as a justification for the continued abuse of Shouto and the rest of the family?

Certainly not Touya. The dead are the perfect people to idealize because they can no longer fight for their rights as a living person would. And Enji clearly knows this. He obviously ignores how training Shouto and punching him so hard he pukes goes directly against everything Touya ever wanted because Touya’s wishes are simply no longer part of the equation. Touya is no longer a person but just a a cause that Enji needs to honor (arbitrarily, and with even more abuse than before).

But when Touya comes back, and suddenly he’s a person with agency once again and not just an idealized memory anymore…

Suddenly, he becomes “a mass murderer”.

So… No, I’m not really expecting Enji to turn around and act like a good dad just because Dabi showed up. As you said, Dabi chasing him down doesn’t make Enji any less neglectful or any less at fault, and if Horikoshi knows what he’s doing, he’s probably about to make him do something extremely uncalled for and totally catered to himself, as Enji’s actions so far have only been shielding his own ego from any genuine remorse

they're silly

...And they were brothers.

From the start, Endeavor has pitted his own children against each other. Now we’re seeing the complex dynamics of an abusive household, Todoroki Shoto Endeavor’s  golden child and Todoroki Toya Endeavor’s scapegoat, play out on a battlefield. At first glance, Shoto looks like the good brother fighting on the side of the heroes, and Toya the bad brother who cares more for plotting villainous revenge than anything else. However, it’s more complicated than that: a look at abusive dynamics and the character foiling between Shoto and Toya underneath the cut. 

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