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also waves announcement! this kiddo now identifies as agender and male, so he’s...bigender? genderfluid? god we don’t know. we’ll figure it out later. he/they are both good \o/
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also waves announcement! this kiddo now identifies as agender and male, so he’s...bigender? genderfluid? god we don’t know. we’ll figure it out later. he/they are both good \o/
quality headcannons: he’s team mystic.
Hello, my name is Archie, and I don’t cry about Julian Carter enough. This is your Julian Carter appreciation/meta post of the day, as inspired by @chiibiya / @rinnyas (x).
Today’s topic is: character development. Warning: dorkmates-heavy. Heavy in general, with choppy sentences that don’t flow together but take this.
So, Jules came to Tumblr winter of 2013. November 29, 5 days after my birthday, to be exact. Witnesses can confirm that he was the literal walking definition of emo, angsty and ready to lash out at anyone. At that point, Jules had no backstory whatsoever; but at this point in time, that is his 15 year old verse. He was angry, lonely, wanted to pave his own road, away from his family, who he felt had been puppeteering him for a large amount of his life.
2014.
I don’t remember as clearly, but Jules was less of an emo shit, more of an apathetic one. He didn’t care about you, he didn’t give a shit about people he interacted with, and he still enjoyed speaking whatever the fuck came into his mind, even though it was less toned down now. This development was largely due to @noblessedenightingale, who was Jules’ first RP-made friend and sweetest person you will ever meet. To this day he has an incredibly soft spot for his bun princess, who makes him feel warm and fluffy inside. Dani is pretty much the reason he’s learning Japanese as an elective in college now. 8)
And of course, there’s @floofisms, who he’s been dating for two years. Aku’s made the largest difference on him, honestly speaking. Dani definitely opened him up first, but through Aku Jules learned a lot. He started off an arrogant, secretive pissbaby who didn’t tell people about himself. At one point, Aku got understandably annoyed with this shit. I’m not wording this very well, but Jules had a lot of question marks and they worked through it. To this day Jules still doesn’t share his problems with people, only Aku, but really…I think that’s a great improvement. Jules dislikes losing, but he dislikes being wrong and being vulnerable more. But with Aku, he’s—well, not happy when he’s in any of those situations mentioned above, but he only has a little reservations doing so. For the most part, he can swallow his pride and not sulk in the face of dorkmate, because he loves dorkmate too much to ruin the mood. And let’s be real, it’s really fucking hard to swallow your pride; I’m proud of my son. (Jules: “It’s not a big deal, Archie.” YES IT IS.)
We’ve lost the neat year-by-year pattern we had going on, but that’s part of what I think is good character development, right? It’s gradual, you can’t exactly pinpoint when it all smash-bang happened, but it slowly developed and snowballed and went on from there.
2015.
More like the Jules we know now—milder, still didn’t give much of a shit, still spoke his mind, beginning to show the little shit traits that were there all along, but always hidden away because of the whole angst thing going on. He’d met the Nanase siblings now, and truly experienced what it was like to have someone open up to you. Aku had walked into his life and willingly welcomed him a space into their own. Jules suddenly had a whole host of friendly, lovely people ready to accept him for no good reason other than Aku had accepted him. This secretive, defensive motherfucker suddenly had a bunch of good-hearted, kind people, doing something that he himself could not fathom doing in his right mind.
And because circa-2015, he’s an arrogant little shit and circa-always, he’s kind of dense socially, he doesn’t really think much of this.
The Nananses more or less adopted him quickly into their family, and Jules was making friends! At a ridiculous pace! Ahhh my darling son.
Finally, 2016.
Jules retains some of the core traits he’s always had: speaks his mind, has his own opinion on most everything, confident in what he’s saying. He’s bumped back down from arrogant because of Aku. He’s learned that you really don’t know people entirely, even if they’re the closest to your heart. People have secrets, and they might not always share it with you, even if your heart is in the right place. He does not know everything about dorkmate, and he will take what dorkmate gives him, but he will not force them. He’s confident in their relationship and the trust between them, but he’s finally not big-headed about himself and his own knowledge. Nowadays he’s blunt because he has something to say and he wants to say it, knowing full well the other person might not accept it, as opposed to being blunt because he wanted to rile someone up. This still isn’t the best thing someone with an opinion should do, but it’s pretty far from where we started, y’know?
It’s a really important thing to me that Jules has kept some of his traits from before, because that’s another part of good development for me: you don’t entirely erase your past traits, rather you refine them into positive things. That’s what he’s done with his arrogance/confidence and bluntness. He’s kept the things that makes him Jules, but changed them for the better.
This essay is 880 words not counting this paragraph and I am proud. I love Julian Carter and I would gladly yell about him for the rest of my life. Thanks for reading, friends. Archie out!
okay slams this down because i don’t think i do enough headcannons for jules??
he can’t draw. he basically passed any creative subjects through sheer diligence and hard work, not because of quality.
he also has no interest in drawing.
he gets that abstract art is like...self-interpretive, or whatever, but in his interpretation, what is there to interpret about a guy with his nose in the wrong place. answer him, picasso.
he’s not very talkative, so i wouldn’t imagine he has a lot of friends at school.
he’s one of those people that actually put effort into staying up at class. if he’s falling asleep he’ll sit up straight and blink hard to stay up.
on the other hand, he would also lie on the living room floor spreadeagled for all to see and witness if he was tired enough
he can only speak english fluently. he’s learning japanese and he’s...okay? he can take tests and then it’s all pewf for the most part
his smartphone has no cover, no ornaments, nothing.
he’s not bad at singing, but he’s not good either. if anything, his voice kind of lacks emotion, but he can copy the melody okay enough.
texting: types “r u” but types the full word for “seriously”. child.
one of those people that if you gave him a school uniform he’d wear it properly. it’s hot enough to melt outside? he still won’t roll up his goddamn sleeves
( 3, 14, 16 & 20! uwu )
uncommon oc questions!
3. How many pillows does your OC sleep with?
answered here!
14. Happy birthday! What kind of present would your OC want?
he doesn’t really celebrate his birthday, but he’d probably like…earphones or headphones pop into my mind, for some reason. he’d also just like a lazy day to sleep and cuddle with the datemate. on a sadder note, if this is a wish-granting thing, he’d like the datemate to be happy, and the friends he hasn’t seen in a while to be safe.
16. Your OC is suddenly on an adventure! Where do they go and what do they do?
go inside buildings of nyc that he hasn’t seen before and just go in as far as he can before he’s stopped or somethin’. he’s a curious kid
20. A obscure/ridiculous fear your OC has?
i imagine he’s not very fond of spiders or cockroaches. he forgets about this, but he also doesn’t like the sound of plates clinking against each other.
1 - 10 for that oc question meme thing
uncommon oc questions!
1. A little-known talent of your OC?
he can whistle! nothing like the whole of twinkle, twinkle little star but he can manage like. two notes, maybe.
2. What trait does your OC like best about themself? (Eyes, guitar skills, random bird facts, etc)
the fact that he’s smart! he prides himself on being a smartass.
3. How many pillows does your OC sleep with?
two kinda flat ones, or one biiiig pillow.
4. Is your OC good at keeping secrets?
yeah! he wouldn’t betray anyone even if it was a five year old telling him not to tell anyone that they ate the last cookie. he will carry the identity of that goddamn cookie eater to the grave.
5. Your OC's worst habit?
he often thinks, or sounds like he thinks he knows best/all. i think that’d turn out extremely annoying, but so far nobody’s gotten irritated yet.
6. Does your OC prefer tennis shoes/sneakers or flip flops?
sneakers! it’s kind of rare to see his toes outdoors.
7. What is your OC's opinion on body modifications?
it’s your own body, do what you like with it as long as it doesn’t affect him.
8. Your OC is given a full-ride scholarship to any college they could want to go to. Where do they go and what do they major in?
definitely a good college! and a major with something to do with computer science, probably. something techy. logic stuff.
9. What chore does your OC hate the most?
.........washing the dishes. thankfully, there aren’t a lot to wash, and he and aku usually get takeout anyway. he also doesn’t like mopping the floor much, but haha when’s the last time that happened the floor is full of uncleared junk
10. Would your OC prefer to live in the city, the suburbs, or the country?
CITY. he is not in touch with nature at all.