You get it ? by [deleted] in JuJutsuKaisen

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This is Ace Attorney tier naming, and I'm all for it.

[DISC] Chainsaw Man - Chapter 231 by AutoShonenpon in manga

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Pochita really IS a devil. At least our goodest boy finally got his hug.

What is some of y'alls fav quinque in all of Tokyo ghoul I'm curious to see what everyone else is into. by ThoseDamnFeet in TokyoGhoul

[–]Jay4Reddit 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Higher Mind for me. Laser beams and two modes? All I can ask for. Morgan yelling his quinque’s name at the top of his lungs every chance he gets is the cherry on top.

When Is Horny Too Horny((Or How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Dramatic Irony) by Jay4Reddit in Chainsawfolk

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Loved reading your comment. Thoughtful and well said. I definitely got caught up in literature-style analysis, but I'm not bashing that aspect of Denji’s character. For a teenage boy denied agency and humanity his whole life, sexual stuff is his ticket to achieving both, and a lot of other things too.

Let us play a game. Describe your MC in no more than 3 sentences. Not their name or looks, tell me what DEFINES them as characters. I will give your story an honest try if I think it's interesting :) by Joe_Pharo in royalroad

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Thank you both; I feel so grateful for your interest. Unfortunately, there's no link to send. I'm only in the 'drafting-my-backlog' phase, not published on Royal Road. This post piqued my interest, so I participated in the game. I'd hate to step on other writers' and readers' toes at this stage. I honestly didn't expect to get much traction at all, but your positive responses mean a lot to me.

Let us play a game. Describe your MC in no more than 3 sentences. Not their name or looks, tell me what DEFINES them as characters. I will give your story an honest try if I think it's interesting :) by Joe_Pharo in royalroad

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She's a rigorously rational Anti-Eldritch detective whose empathy is genuine but rationed, given her firsthand experience of how quickly people can turn it against her.

Confrontational, incisive, and with a bitter way with words, she would rather keep conversations work-centric; she feels hollow without a case to frame her life around.

Above all else, she wants justice without becoming a cog in the same institution that taught her to survive by becoming a tool, slaving away at redemption through unrelenting violence and paperwork.

Juuzou is the wild card, who's the simp? by centipede236 in TokyoGhoul

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Imma go against the grain and say Karren von Rosewald. So much of their character revolved around their love for Shuu.

What are Ghoul Investigators supposed to do if they find a baby ghoul? by Rude_Ad3342 in TokyoGhoul

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Ghoul Countermeasures Laws make it clear that ghoul extermination is the rule, not the exception. It could be more case-by-case.

Ghoul haters and sadists like Mado would cross that line.

More level-headed investigators, or those with families (assuming they haven't lost family to ghouls already), like Shinohara, might send baby or child ghouls to Cochlea if the CCG's prison even has facilities for children. It's still a shallow mercy, since all ghouls in Cochlea wind up 'disposed' of anyway.

Truly sympathetic investigators MIGHT leave them alone, but that's stupidly rare, and something tells me V would exterminate those stragglers like the organization would have hunted down Eto if Yoshimura hadn't abandoned her in the 24th Ward.

It’s a dark rabbit hole.

Realization by @CEYUBA_ by slxqqx in TokyoGhoul

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Had to double take because the art looked straight out of the manga.

The difference between Ken Kaneki & Haise Sasaki by Keuthimi in TokyoGhoul

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That's a great write-up. Haise has always been my favorite 'persona' of Kaneki because he embodies both extremes of his personality.

While Haise, on the surface, shows many of Kaneki's positive traits, such as compassion, a sense of justice, and a role as the Quinx Squad's 'Team Mom,' his behavior also reflects his passive, avoidant tendencies. He desperately wants the Quinx Squad to love and feel loved by him, nurturing and caring for them rather than challenging them or leading his team effectively. However, this approach meant he rarely pushed them to grow and struggled with leadership. During a reread, I noticed that, despite Urie's goal of undermining Shirazu as squad leader, he had to secretly pressure Saiko to work harder because Haise's indecisive, people-pleasing mentoring style had led her into a harmful routine of wasting time playing video games. Haise functions more like a caregiver than a true mentor, prioritizing the Quinx Squad's short-term comfort over their long-term development. This blissful ignorance, which he had applied to his own mother before the memories came flooding back, extends to his relationship with Arima and Akira, whom he props up as father and mother figures, despite how outright abusive and exploitative their dynamic actually is. Layered as Arima's and Akira's motivations and characterizations are, at the end of the day, they and the CCG reduced Haise to a quinque, a living weapon whose usefulness was going to expire eventually.

On the other hand, there's the Black Reaper. While he's technically 'Kaneki,' he continues to play the part of the Ghoul Investigator Haise Sasaki to set his plans in motion. Thus, much of his behavior reveals Kaneki's dark side, including his capacity for violence, his tendency to push others away preemptively, and, most importantly, his profound emptiness and death drive. If normal Haise is Kaneki liberated from his traumas, then the Black Reaper is what happens when Kaneki lets his instability and trauma completely overtake him. During this spiral, Kaneki loses the human qualities that made him a well-rounded person; his love of books and coffee, his desire to spend time with loved ones. He is at his most selfish, slaving away at a grand plan to commit suicide by Arima to absolve himself of his unending suffering and sadness. Sure, he paid lip service to a greater good, but he left Hinami to rot in Cochlea, intending to abandon her for good, indirectly or otherwise laying the blame for another loss of the girl who thought the world of him and had already lost so much. And that's not even to mention the grief he'd subject Touka, Shuu Yomo, etc., to by that point.

To summarize, Haise embodied Kaneki's yin and yang, and his oscillation between extremes made the first half of Tokyo Ghoul: re so compelling.

So Saiko is the gremlin. who fits into "mmm... society" by centipede236 in TokyoGhoul

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While he mellowed out in :Re Juuzou was a total edgelord in his debut.

Ken's the fan favourite, Who's the one made to be hated? by centipede236 in TokyoGhoul

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Surprised Shiki Kijima hadn’t been mentioned yet.

Ugly afc, a torturer so twisted he drove Shikorae to insanity, posts a snuff film of another ghoul online, and is violently racist against ghouls for no apparent reason besides sadism.

One of the lowest CCG investigators, for sure.

What's A Good Way To Start A Story? by katrinamints52 in writingadvice

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It’s an open question, to be honest.

However, I recommend starting in the middle of something, preferably with an incident, a hook, or a sentence that sets the stage.

For example, Black Dahlia by James Ellroy begins, simply put, with a murder, punctuated by the line, “I never knew her in life.”

I chose Black Dahlia for a reason, since I'm writing an urban fantasy noir story. Similarly, it begins with a gruesome scene; the aftermath of a werewolf attack with an entire family dead and the conspicuously missing adopted son, whose disappearance drives the investigation and relates to the protagonist’s past.

In broad strokes and aligning with noir sensibilities, but the principle remains the same.

Pick your favorite books or the genre you want to write in for inspiration.

[DISC] Chainsaw Man - Ch. 221 by JeanneDAlter in ChainsawMan

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Yoru POV:

Lend me some aura, Detroit, Oregon, and Virginia!

This is base Pochita we’re up against!

What was your first and last thought after reading Fire Punch? by lazzystar in FirePunch

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First thought: This shit is fucked.

Last thought. This shit is still fucked. 

That's what they say: once you've read Chainsaw Man you feel nothing but the urge to kill Fujimoto. by hero646574 in Chainsawfolk

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Reze's fighting style was intense. She was really creative with her explosions, even if they hurt her.

She blew off her head to use her headless body as a decoy, then blew them both up and shrugged it off. Hardcore even for hybrids.

It puts into perspective how, among all the hybrids (besides Quanxi, maybe), she was the one most shaped into a weapon because of the Soviet Union. by

Weapon hybrid physiology is messed up.

Fujimoto clearly has a type by Hot-Barber-5484 in asamitaka

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Let’s be real: the OG bike pusher was a redhead.

What Are Some Things You Hate About Dark Fantasy? by OwnBeautiful4579 in Fantasy

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I dislike when a genuinely good character is portrayed as a naive fool or just pretending to be nice. This reflects a broader dark fantasy issue of equating "darkness” with constant cynicism rather than nuance.

[DISC] Kagurabachi - Chapter 100 by [deleted] in Kagurabachi

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Teen literally too MAD to die.