Quinneapolis
want... soft boy characters
Quinneapolis
boy who selflessly supports the female hero, while pining, then gets kidnapped by the villain and has to be rescued
Quinneapolis
beautifully useless boy who is super important in esoteric ways that leave other people with the major story agency
Quinneapolis
a gentleman in distress
Echo
Please consider: gentle compassionate healer dude, devout pacifist, in soft courtly love with badass lady knight.
Quinneapolis
yes
Echo
Lots of tenderly bandaging her wounds and letting her sleep with her head on his lap when she returns from slaying her foes in mighty battles.
Quinneapolis
honestly while the character... obviously isn't that
Quinneapolis
I think this is part of why I love the "You are my sheath" scene in F/SN
Quinneapolis
Saber only knows how to live as a blade so Shirou becomes her tether to gentle humanity
Quinneapolis
I would die for platonic saber/shirou
Quinneapolis
my true f/sn otp
Echo
Valid as fuck.
Valid as fuck.
Quinneapolis
shirou as a place where saber can go to stop being saber and just be a person
Gabiluzbad
Adventurous but profoundly naïve boy who longs to see the wider world beyond his isolated upbringing but has no idea what dangers are waiting for him
Gabiluzbad
Watched over by a cynical and jaded but extremely capable girl who keeps getting him out of trouble
Quinneapolis
y'all understand
moontouched
everyone in this plurk has EXCELLENT taste
Quinneapolis
I'm just feeling very soft today so this is the mood
Quinneapolis
I want to follow, not lead
Echo
Sometimes you just want someone to deal with The Shit for you, while you get to be soft and loved for simply who you are.
Quinneapolis
I want a girl to sing a musical number to the boy about how he's abstractly her motivation for doing all kinds of awesome shit while he watches supportively
oh i'm scary
I think it's absolutely, CRITICALLY important
oh i'm scary
that the boy be extreely adorable
Quinneapolis
yes
oh i'm scary
do not risk coming within a hundred miles of Bland Everyman
Quinneapolis
beautiful and weak and full of wide-eyed innocence
Gabiluzbad
He must have FANTASTIC hair
oh i'm scary
we're talking like
oh i'm scary
good fanart of Clark Kent
Gabiluzbad
(This was my frustration when searching for Winter's PB)
Gabiluzbad
(Ten thousand girls with long beautiful flowing hair)
Gabiluzbad
(Zero with anything shorter than shoulder length)
Echo
Oh, absolutely.
Echo
Also, no practical clothing. Soft, flowy robes and the like only.
Echo
I will make an allowance for cozy-looking cable-knit sweaters and the like but that's it.
Quinneapolis
for sure no armor
Echo
Lots of gauzy shawls. Maybe some impractical jewelry.
Gabiluzbad
If he's supposed to ostensibly be a fighter of some kind he can have like
Gabiluzbad
one gauntlet and one greave
Gabiluzbad
maybe a pauldron
Gabiluzbad
as a treat
Quinneapolis
if he's supposed to ostensibly be a fighter he can win a maximum of one (1) fight
Quinneapolis
not against anyone major, those are for the heroine
Gabiluzbad
obviously
Gabiluzbad
Against the token boy on the badguy team
Quinneapolis
his gentle and kind nature keeps him from ever being able to truly fight with a drive to win
oh i'm scary
he "wins" one "fight" because it turns out he has special guardian spirits he can summon to fight for him
oh i'm scary
they get instagibbed in all subsequent encounters
oh i'm scary
they're cutesy and non-threatening
Quinneapolis
listen we don't have to exactly reproduce Orihime as a boy
Quinneapolis
anyway I recall a line from some... TED talk or equivalent something
Quinneapolis
about how just as important as having female characters girls can admire to teach them that it's OK for girls to lead
Quinneapolis
is having male characters boys can admire to teach them that it's OK for boys to follow
Frozen Time
Not to be That Guy, but. /gestures to Crystal Exarch
Quinneapolis
...with a female WoL basically yeah