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bion-art

my babies❤️

heisoark

Isn't my little brother so cool

ratiishu

Keep going forward

I found this world rlly beautiful that I had to draw it !!

glitchinmatrixx

Look at my lawyer dawg, i am goin to be publically executed 😭😫🫩

lamuliz

the straw hats!!

no bubble version

pierogiy

situation unfolding over at strawhat headquarters

nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos

Guys I'm WHEEZING—

yellowistheraddest

the guy i said i probably would never draw ever again yet here we are

[also he had crazy yaoi hands when i first sketched this out lol]

melgillman

lettersiarrange

New writing rule: Checkov’s friend

If you introduce a named character with a relationship to a protagonist, their character arc must be resolved in a way that feels reasonable and satisfying

Which is to say: they can’t just dissappear when they’re no longer a convenient plot device

cluegrrl

Thor’s Mum rule – If you’re going to kill a character who’s carried any part of the plot, take a bit to reimagine the plot as if she were the main character, and the story ends when she dies. If it’s unsatisfying, rewrite either her plot points, or her death, to make both more meaningful.

Which is to say – don’t treat side characters as ammo with which to hurt your main guy. ESPECIALLY if they’re women.

dr-dendritic-trees

I’m reblogging because this second part is the best explanation of how I distinguish between fridged characters and other characters who just die.

And yes, it is intrinsically a bit subjective and that’s okay.

vaspider

"... bought... copper... from... this... shady fucker... bad quality... zero stars... "

vexwerewolf

theanxiousfireblossom

Kaz Brekker is such a wildcard of a human being. This teenager is one of the most notorious criminals of the Barrel, but is also the most fair person you could make an agreement with. Don’t get me wrong, he is merciless and really will only do what benefits him, but those traits are what make him trustworthy.

I haven’t read Crooked Kingdoms yet, so everything is based off of SoC, but we get to see MULTIPLE times how he doesn’t go around sharing secrets. He knows almost everything about Nina’s backstory with Matthias, but never said a word about it. Later, Wylan tells him he can’t read and Kaz again keeps the secret until the moment it needs to be revealed, and even then I believe it was Wylan’s father that revealed he couldn’t read, not Kaz. He really is someone that can be trusted not because he is a good person who will protect you, but because the value of the information stays higher if it doesn’t get spread around.

Then there are the deals he makes. He never makes a bad deal that the other person cannot pay off. Almost all the crows talked about that at least once. He makes it possible to get out so long as they are smart about their money. He does not want to do to someone else what was done to him. Unless it’s Pekka Rollins, which is fair.

I really love how Pekka Rollins managed to make a very fair, business minded criminal simply by not being fair himself. He made a terrible person in the process, but a trustworthy one and the juxtaposition is really cool to me.

Also, it kills me that the reason he is so good with magic tricks has absolutely NOTHING to do with being a criminal mastermind. He just liked the funky little tricks.