🌸 : your favorite original character
🤫 : someone you secretly admire
📝 : a mutual whose headcanons you always look out for
🌸 Your favorite original character? Hands down @archmight [ Michael; ] I genuinely feel blessed not only getting to write with the character, but also being given permission to integrate him into Lute’s broader lore. Grimm’s writing is genuinely incredible; the amount of thought, care & thematic depth put into Michael as a character, his history, personality, relationships & symbolism is honestly insane. Everything about him feels intentional & deeply lived-in, & interacting with that interpretation has genuinely enriched my own writing & worldbuilding for Lute tremendously [ hint: Michael is also very much Lute's favorite 🙂↕️ ] I don't ship with OCs often; not because I do not love them [ I have plenty of fandomless & canon-divergent muses myself, ] but because I usually struggle reconciling original characters with established canon. That is honestly just a limitation on my end because I compartmentalize things very specifically. Somehow, Grimm’s Michael completely bypassed all of that; not only is he feel vital to Lute in basically every capacity imaginable, romantic or otherwise, but he has become one of those rare characters I know I will keep integrated regardless of whatever canon ultimately does. I genuinely cannot stress enough how unusual that is for me because I never operate that way. That is how much I adore Michael as a character & how deeply I respect Grimm’s writing. Yes, it's that good!
🤫 Someone you secretly admire? @bungem’s bunny gal, Elara. I absolutely adore the way she integrates Elara into practically everything & somehow makes it feel completely natural every single time. Interactions, dynamics, ships, aesthetics, lore; there is just something incredibly alive about the way she writes & positions her muse within the worlds around her. Elara never feels “inserted” into a setting; she feels like she belongs there intrinsically, which is such a difficult thing to pull off with original characters [ for me, personally... ] I genuinely love seeing her on my dash because every interaction feels thoughtful, immersive & deeply affectionate toward the character herself. She inspired me to start revisiting my own original characters again. As much as I love canon muses, I love writing OCs too, but I had honestly fallen off that wagon for a while & became weirdly hesitant about it. Seeing how confidently & lovingly Elara is written rekindled that spark for me in a really meaningful way. There is something very inspiring about watching somebody care for their muse so openly & creatively... I love it, 10/10, I will take two more please!
📝 A mutual whose headcanons you always look out for? @pridetempt! Poppins’ Lucifer is genuinely out of this world. The way she has woven Lucifer not only into what we have canonically so far, but also through her own original twists & expansions while still always feeling intrinsically Lucifer, is honestly incredibly impressive to me [ + I envy so much (affectionate) because that shit is so hard... ] Her headcanons feel thoroughly researched, deeply considered & seamlessly connected to the broader lore/context of the series in a way that makes everything click together naturally. I am always reading whatever she has to say regarding Lu because there is consistently something thoughtful, clever or emotionally insightful there to chew on afterward. [ I cannot say the same for Lute because that becomes terminate ON SIGHT immediately, but anyway; ] Genuinely one of those portrayals where you can feel how much care, attention & passion has gone into every aspect of the character...