" ...Darkness, cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
" Hate, cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that. "
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No one likes to read about a character who is paper-thin. Unfortunately, in literature, some authors have a bad habit of giving their male characters complete back stories and rich personalities but limiting their female characters to a list of tropes and stereotypes.
According to the Internet, there’s a list of very specific traits that a female character needs to be strong. This list includes:
She can never cry.
She can’t be feminine.
She has to be completely emotionless.
She can’t rely on anyone.
She can never fall in love.
If you notice, these are all character traits that are often associated with male characters. Men don’t cry, they don’t show emotions, they don’t need help. Men are associated with being big and strong and masculine, while women are associated with being small and weak and feminine (These are what the kids these days call ‘gender roles.’) Men are strong and women are weak, and the only way to make a strong female character is to make her more manly.
This is bullshit.
So here’s the thing. Your female character doesn’t have to fall into these stereotypes to be considered strong. She can wear dresses and have a boyfriend and cry and still be strong. So here’s a better list of what you need to have a strong female character:
She must change and grow over time.
That’s it. Nothing else matters. When reading a novel, we as readers want a character who is like a real person, and real people change over time. What we don’t want is to read about the stoic badass spy who stops the bad guys and walks away, taking nothing from her experience and the novel ends exactly the way she started.
Your female characters can be feminine, they can be masculine, or they can be anything in between—it seriously does not matter. If someone tries to tell you your character is weak because of her opinion on the color pink, go ahead and punch that person in the face.
self care is actually getting in fights with randoms in dark alleys
No self care is stuff like taking a bubble bath or putting on a lot of makeup if you like it or taking a nice warm nap and stuff like that basically.
self care is the burning heat when rage washes over you. self care is when you feel the bones crack under your powerful fists. self care is the fear in your enemies eyes
Current Residence: The Batcave and Stately Wayne Manor; Gotham, New Jersey
Education: Varying Universities (all unfinished), various masters of battle, ventriloquism, and hunting, physical and mental conditioning, training in dealing with pain
Items on Person: Full-circle Jade pendant very similar to Thomas Elliot’s gift from his mother. The two charms fit together, a polished friendship necklace, something akin to hope for the old friend.
Belief(s): Not religious (Athiest if he hadn’t personally met a god or two)
Political Stance: Trust no one until they give a you a reason. (Generously Liberal)
Health: Passable. Knee injury acts up in damp or cold weather. Joint pain. Intermittent back pain. Wound to the gut abroad decreased the size of stomach to make up for loss of intestine from emergency surgery.
Burn scars from a malfunctioning suit sticking to his skin in the heat on his left shoulder. His back is crossed with long terrible scars from white lines to cuts into the flesh.
Superhuman Abilities: None
The Wayne Murders;
Bruce Anthony Wayne lost his parents at ten forty-seven o'clock in the evening after dinner and a show. Up until the gunfire burst the alley into a horrible collection of shadows and terrible events, that had been one of the boy’s happiest with his beloved parents, seeing the premiere of The Mark of Zorro. Martha and Thomas Wayne were a kind sort, giving back to the community that had done so well by their family for generations.
The killer may have left the boy alive to report his parents were killed by a robber, as Batman believes today. It may also have been the cold stare watching the gun that had torn the bodies of his family from the small boy.
They left their son on this mortal plane with only the Wayne family fortune and a loyal butler, Alfred Pennyworth, caretaker to the estate and its holdings. He was an orphan. Bruce was alone. This proved true in the boy’s mind at the funeral facing all the phonies and courteous well-wishes. A man was there that his father, an accomplished surgeon, life he had saved. Carmine Falcone would prove difficult in later years but then at the funeral of his mother and father young Bruce knew what the man meant when he said Bruce could call upon a favor for his father’s deed.
That was evil.
He was unaware of his fate then after, but ended up getting his wish to stay in his family’s estate looked after by a remnant of the family he had lost, the butler. There was one other soul that came calling that was always welcome in the mourning house of his father and that was Thomas Elliot. The two boys had many differences, but for a time they were together and found a kind of solace in the friendship they shared. But as young Bruce Wayne had learned early on, everything good eventually came to an end.
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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I can not answer everything. I will not get to everything. I will write with anyone I want, but not everyone I want.
Greeter starters are very nice, thank you, but I’m a little swamped with the starters I requested already. I will try to get to everything written specifically for me though.
*Note: Gotham’s a city in New Jersey as I play it (we can discuss details if your information differs from that location), this may help any who are confused in MCU crossovers*
OCs, AUs, and Crossovers welcome
AUs I would like to talk out, they’re more fun with thought
Picky about non-canon kids/family
Please no Godmodding or metagaming. Give and take is preferred; in action plotting its great.
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Please do not send me a starter in my ask box that is not from a meme, especially a long one.
It’s fine to send me short little things out of the blue
I just might not get to them, I have a lot in the inbox right now
NSFW is acceptable and encouraged with discussion;
Mentions of it are fine, but I will not role play a rape scene.
Sexual interactions will be selective. I will rarely write anything out.
I’m not adept at playing out a sex scene and I’d rather skip past the actual smut to after when it would benefit the plot
I’m fine with writing gore, but pictures of bad stuff (bone showing, veins, etc.) wig me out.
If anything is even just too icky for you, I’ll tag it if asked. I mostly tag obvious stuff if I reblog it at all, things that are well known to trigger people will definitely be tagged (blood, gore, suicide, etc.)
Plotting is preferred but winging it is fun too!
one-liners are awesome
longer threads are my preference
I ask that we both write in third person
In regards to shipping
its cool to have a crush on the muse, unrequited stuff is awesome & painful
this blog is Multi-ship
Shipping isn’t something I’ve explored at length, but if it becomes an option I would be happy to try it out!
I do NOT ship Bruce with any of the robins or kids he’s taken in
(I don’t care if you do, I just don’t want to be a part of it)
OOC;
I’m 22
I’ve made the majority of my icons, it’s been some work I’ll tell you, so please don’t use them without asking first. I do still use some other people have made to share in the tags but there A LOT of them I’ve made myself recently.
NEW BUSINESS:
I’m having trouble in my school stuff so I’m changing over to be officially;
Selective & Semi-Active
Old threads will be slowing down and new threads will probably be picked up mostly with my friends on here just a forewarning to new followers. I still want to do lots of stuff here I’m just going to try and limit my time spent on writing that isn’t for class or forwarding my long-term goals.
In all likelihood I’ll break every once in a while and still go nuts with rping with everybody I can but that’s already been slowing down before school started anyway.
<3 Tobi
Mixed Media
I am so not caught up with anything current just a psa.
currently reading; Watchmen
I have a Skype and I’m willing to share. I like plotting on there, but going through asks or anything is cool too.
Face claims
Ben Affleck
Young Bruce: David Mazouz
College age: Nick Robinson
Old Bruce’s face claim might just depend on how pissed off he is at the time, I’m torn for the face right now.
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P.S. I like humor but Bruce is allergic, so no promises
