blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): . maybe it's no one's business. did you think of that. maybe it's no one's business that i think about particular evil little goths and their moms huh
scrunkly (my "baby," character that gives me cuteness aggression): GINGER LEO... but also avery and rahma. so many scrunklies in AMT they all deserve so much better
scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): is hawk underrated. maybe he always will be because no one can appreciate him enough. hawk stevens best character in AMT. also REUBEN oh my fucking god i don't talk about reuben enough
glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and i won't shut up about it for a week): i know everything about gwen farley it's insane the woman has like four lines in the first ten episodes
poor little meow meow ("problematic"/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): INDRAJIT.
horse plinko (character i would torment for fun, for whatever reason): . also indrajit. i like to see his underdeveloped coping mechanisms whir at high speeds
eeby deeby (character i would send to superhell): how can i be a prison abolitionist but also want claude farley to rot in jail forever. also paul thornton i can't even talk about paul thornton it's literally insane how much i hate him. jurgen leitner rant about paul thornton
yet another AMT character intro! hawk damon stevens: isaac’s best friend, the town of ellisburg’s most experienced ghost expert, and the resident sixteen-year-old who dresses like a sixty-year-old homosexual english professor.
also the best character in amt on an objective level i will not be taking questions at this time.
ISAAC: You don’t think I’m a crazy person.
HAWK: It would be rather hypocritical of me. You don’t have to keep asking me that. I hope you know I wouldn’t lie to you?
ISAAC: I know. I just… I mean, I’m willing to believe I’m a crazy person right now, so I don’t know what I’d do without you. Like, if my best friend wasn’t a junior ghost-hunter.
HAWK: “Hunter” sounds inhumane.
ISAAC: You know what I mean -
HAWK: Tagging and releasing spirits, yeah, but you didn’t specify.
listen to his playlist here!
tag list (ask me to be added/removed): @sunlight-and-starskies @harehearts @bisexualorlando
the ask game: pick a character i’ve written and i will explain the top ~three to five ideas/concepts/etc i keep in mind while writing that character that i believe are essential to accurately depicting them
hawk stevens of AMT (high school horatio, ghost aficionado whose main social media is goodreads, an english professor on all levels but physical)
- AMT is written in script format, obviously, so having distinct character voices has been critical for me to keep track of. the main thing i try to remember when writing hawk is that his voice isn’t stiff, but it’s definitely the most formal of the cast’s. specifically, he has this very matter-of-fact tone. there are certain hawk lines that simply make me absolutely sure that he has a smile like the mona lisa
- he’s also very quiet! partially because he’s shy (i’ve joked that this vine is hawk talking to strangers), but partially as... a sort of defense mechanism? he’s never really gotten along with people his age, for various reasons, and he tends to fade into the background. which he prefers. he really really does not enjoy being the center of attention, because it’s hard for him to open up outside of very small groups of close friends.
- ...and even then. it’s hard for him to open up. one of the most critical things about hawk is that he has a really, really hard time talking about personal things - he tends to bottle everything up. which is a specific kind of loneliness. because even around his friends, even around his dads, he sometimes feels very distant. and he’s not sure how to bridge that gap.
(jesus, this sounds bleak. i promise his arc is about this im not just like “hawk is sad forever end podcast” ghdfbbfwbw)
gracen stayer of darkling (emotional support eldest daughter; chessmaster figuratively and literally)
- the anger. the anger. the anger. if i had to break gracen down to her core: she is so fucking angry all the time. she’s an abuse victim who’s been basically fending for herself for most of her life, and that’s resulted in a LONG slow-burn of fury...
- ...that she keeps inside of her all the time! hand in hand with the anger goes the repression. externally, she is the most stoic person you will ever meet. she’s afraid of what will happen if she lets her feelings loose - so she doesn’t! she just bottles it all up inside. and she doesn’t talk about it to anyone - cressida’s still gracen’s baby sister, in her eyes, and she and ruby have been at odds for a few years now, and gracen doesn’t really... have anyone else. so she just keeps it all to herself.
- beyond “you did it you broke gracen stayer down to her bare essentials” - i often have to remind myself that she’s not as stilted as i’d like to write her! something about her makes me want to write all of her dialogue like she’s living in a victorian period fantasy but like... if anyone in darkling talks that way it’s cressida fdbdsbfsjbfsdnfs gracen’s just. mean
- because, like... she DOES care. intensely. about everything. she pretends she doesn’t; she keeps tabs on literally everything happening around her but never interferes in any of it and pretends she does not give a shit. but she does care! she very much does! she’s just also. [veronica sawyer of heathers voice] a mythic bitch. and i love her for it
Bro talk about all of the damn characters for the prompt thing I care abt them so much (Rhama tho do Rhama plz)
victor you said this and then i posted the rahma ask and then i dm’ed you to ask who ELSE you wanted to see and then i was ALMOST done writing up the ask and i accidentally refreshed the page. which is why this has taken so long because that defeated me. i would die for you tysm
anyway! i am going to do this for reuben (rahma’s best friend; benvolio character; king of skateboarding places) and hawk (isaac’s best friend; horatio character; objectively the best character in AMT but it’s not like i have favorites-)
(the WIP) (the ask game)
REUBEN
B A S I C S
full name: reuben felix katz
gender: cis guy
sexuality: gay
pronouns: he/him
O T H E R S
family: it’s just reuben and his mom; his dad passed when he was young. reuben would die for his mother and so would i. perfect parent. they also have a cat named smokey who is approximately three thousand years old.
birthplace: like most of the other characters, reuben grew up in the fictional town of ellisburg, wisconsin. unlike most of the other characters, reuben’s family is decidedly not on the “rolexes and boat shoes” side of the wealth spectrum in ellisburg, and that’s something he’s very aware of (even if he often feels his friends… aren’t).
job: he canonically works at a papa murphy’s which is one (1) throwaway line in the middle of an episode and exists because i used to work at a papa murphy’s. gang gang
phobias: he doesn’t really scare easily or have a lot of common phobias (would definitely keep snakes and rats as pets; type one diabetic so he got over any potential fear of needles; canonically played pokemon during a school tornado drill). probably he’s not so into heights, but he wouldn’t show it.
guilty pleasures: watching golden girls with smokey (”he’s like seventy in cat years; he’s the target audience”)
M O R A L S
morality alignment?: neutral good
sins - envy. he’s very conscious that he’s had to deal with a lot of things his friends have not (medical stuff, monetary stuff, the loss of a parent, a lot of responsibility as a child), and while he’s not resentful, he can get bitter about it.
virtues - diligence (he works very hard at everything!!); humility; kindness (at least he tries; he doesn’t think he’s as nice as he could be, but he wishes he were); patience (kind of a given when your best friends are rahma “zoned out or in love or both” ashiq and bitty “complete goddamn wild card” chopra)
T H I S - O R - T H A T
introvert/extrovert
organized/disorganized
close minded/open-minded
calm/anxious
disagreeable/agreeable (he’s very much not a fan of making waves)
cautious/reckless (in any other group of people reuben would be the Chaotic Friend. as it is. he’s in the only trio where he could possibly end up the responsible one)
patient/impatient
outspoken/reserved
leader/follower (bitty pretty much calls the shots in their trio; reuben can only try to be the voice of reason)
empathetic/unempathetic
optimistic/pessimistic (he wishes he were more optimistic! he hides his pessimism very well. he would probably call himself a realist.)
traditional/modern
hard-working/lazy (very much so)
R E L A T I O N S H I P S
otp: reuben x bitty but only with the caveat that they’re sixteen and have some relationship issues to work through
ot3: …reuben somehow dating hawk as well as bitty would be. an incredibly healing concept. hmm. i will keep this in my mind
brotp: reuben and rahma!!
notp: isaac and reuben used to be friends and now they are not! and their dynamic is very tumultuous and bad for both of them! and if AMT by some miracle of god had a fandom people would ship them and that makes me want to break things
HAWK
B A S I C S
full name: hawk damon stevens
gender: cis guy
sexuality: gay
pronouns: he/him
O T H E R S
family: he’s an only child with two dads! they are very good parents and thus don’t come into the story much at all. oops.
birthplace: hawk was born and grew up in milwaukee! he lived there until he was about ten, at which point [redacted] [redacted] and his family moved to ellisburg.
job: N/A
phobias: he does not care for needles at ALL.
guilty pleasures: buzzfeed unsolved and documentaries. (mostly he watches documentaries about ancient rome and whatever else is on the history channel, but, like, if he’s left alone long enough he will eventually get really deep down the true crime rabbit hole and end up feeling like that cursed emoji with the bloodshot eyes.)
M O R A L S
morality alignment?: lawful good
sins - sloth (as in, inaction and a lack of standing up for himself or telling people no)
virtues - charity (sometimes to a fault. he gives too much of himself to other people); diligence (especially in school); humility; patience
T H I S - O R - T H A T
introvert/extrovert
organized/disorganized
close minded/open-minded
calm/anxious (i mean. yes. but most of the time he’s very level-headed)
disagreeable/agreeable (to a fault.)
cautious/reckless
patient/impatient
outspoken/reserved (reuben is reserved because he’s a private person; hawk is reserved because he gets anxious in social situations)
leader/follower (side-eyes isaac farley)
empathetic/unempathetic (sometimes too much!)
optimistic/pessimistic
traditional/modern
hard-working/lazy
R E L A T I O N S H I P S
otp: …well he and isaac do have a Situation going on but i’m not sure i can uncritically call them my otp because of the way their dynamic shifts and [redacted as we go into spoiler territory]
ot3: again i will state hawk and reuben somehow dating each other is a high quality concept
brotp: hawk and ginger’s friendship doesn’t get a lot of page time but it is so very sweet i love them
notp: hawk and ginger. they’re a gay man and a lesbian don’t even LOOK at them romantically or i’ll stomp you to death with my hooves
