what are your writing john egbert essentials? - fan
I am going to refer to these gender neutrally because I want these to be universal postulates.
I’d say there are 7 invisible rules to keep in mind, and 1 hidden invisible rule:
1. Jegbert enjoys fucking with people… a lot. And yes, it can get mean spirited if they find an opportunity to fuck with the brain of someone they don’t like.
2. Jegbert doesn’t like thinking too hard about things, for better or for worse. John is a chill ass guy. They just kind of go along with a lot of things. They especially don’t like thinking too hard about themselves. They’re at their *worst* when they forget that they have their own autonomous values and desires. It can make them really condescending and take away a LOT of their charisma.
3. Jegbert is simple. Deceptively simple. Most of the charm is concentrated in the hypersimplicity of Egbert. It’s easy for people to forget that they’re extremely observant. It’s easy for them to forget that themselves, too.
4. Jegbert wants the world to be tactile, meaningful, honest, and a bit challenging. If they feel it isn’t, they get antsy and start looking for trouble.
5. Jegbert is a critic at heart. They have a very relaxed, therapeutic vibe which makes people think they’re content… even when they aren’t. When they do feel the need to express their thoughts, they are *very* expressive and almost theatrical about it.
6. Jegbert is an endless tap of pure, unfiltered love. And quips. But mostly love. Their primary desire most of the time is just to make sure their friends are ok. They would do literally anything for their friends.
7. Jegbert can be really, really curious, because they love new things and novel things. Their ignorance does *not* come from disinterest in inquiry, they LOVE asking questions and paying attention to people. This is critical. Jegbert is *curious and observational*, sometimes to a fault. It’s *very* easy for John to see right through things and understand people at a very fundamental level. A lot of the time he just doesn’t care though, which is what makes him a bit gullible.
Case in point: John immediately clocked that Terezi was tricking him in act 4, but went anyway because he didn’t care about that, and it sounded like a neat thing to explore.
Those are 7 rules that about sums up how I write John/June. All of these traits can be twisted into being both really admirable and really detrimental. They also mean I think it would be really funny if they had a HUGE thing for single mothers and everyone noticed it but them. I also enjoy people using John as a big slobbery therapy dog.
Also the 8th hidden rule is that John is mine and you can’t have him, so discard everything written above.
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