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FC/OC's "Most in Need of a Hug" awards

This Boi. Lets go through the list of shit he's seen!

  • Watched as all his mentors literally gets torn out of his reality
  • Even after getting dominion and power of over time, the enemy uses Fate Manipulation to ensure that his friends will always die no matter how many time rewinds and Time Travels Mebius does. He tried for over several human centuries to no avail.
  • Was unable to prevent the deaths of his mentors after he finds them in a new reality because his powers meant he existed as a conceptless and therefore formless entity
  • In order to ensure that the big bad never returns, he allows himself to become lost into a Tier 0 entity, losing his independence and self-identity
    • Is reincarnated as a Mortal Enforcer of Order in the Multiverse and is completely unable to take personal actions no matter what they are; his actions completely dictated by Lord Order
      • As the Mortal Enforcer of Order, he's Timeless and Omnipresent throughout all of History of the Multiverse; AKA he perpetually sees the death of his friends and his failed attempts at saving them for every moment he exists
 
Weak.

Gal

I will be spoiling some prequel content I'm planning to write in a collapsible, so if you're in DO and you care about that, don't open

Spoilers

  • On the literal day of his birth, something his mother died to complications of, an Oracle came down and told his father to get rid of him, as in his future, he would bring a great deal of chaos upon the entire world.
  • His father agrees, and having lived for less than an hour, he was then thrown into the river
  • Out of the universe's will to not end his suffering, he manages to barely survive long enough to wash up into a village, where a guy running an orphanage takes him in and heals him up. Since there's nothing indicating his identity, the man decides to give him the name, Gal, (which means Wave in Hebrew), before immediately running off to deal with some rowdy kids. This trend of neglect does not stop here.
  • Gal grows up, being socially awkward and generally weird to the kids around him and thereby having absolutely no friends, and with a father figure who can barely pay attention to him for more than a minute, making Gal ask himself, "how can I be appreciated", to which some random flower girl goes "Be an adventurer!"
  • Gal decides that this is the best direction to take his life, and there is absolutely no way this can go wrong.
  • So, how will he train for this daunting task? Go up a mountain to talk to a jaded hermit to learn martial arts and stuff. Should be easy enough.
  • Immediately upon hitting their doorstep, Gal is told to leave him alone
  • Obviously he doesn't give up that easily, so it eventually boils down to the hermit punching the poor guy in the chest, making him double over onto the ground and vomit, with a less than healthy amount of blood, before the hermit heals him and tells them to scram
  • Madada, Gal gets back up anyways and keeps asking
  • The hermit decides "fine", and makes the first part of his training to punch him some more until he passes out
  • Training ends, the old hermit, who from here on out will be called Sensei by Gal, throws a blanket at him until he inevitably wakes up, and tells them to go back home for the night
  • Repeat a cycle of borderline abusive behavior Gal considers training and Sensei generally just barely putting up with him for years, until finally, he surpasses his master and moves out
  • Finally, he's an adventurer, going around making tons of money and sending plenty of it to his hometown
  • A few years of this, he gets tasked with taking out a chaotic assassin before they kill a mayor
  • That assassin wasn't actually an assassin at all, just someone trying to expose his dark secrets and needed to be dealt with, though Gal still brings them in anyways
  • Gal is raising his eyebrows at this point at the general situation, but before he can dig too deep, the Mayor just leans back, points an Auratech gun at them with more than enough power to at least hurt way too much, and tells them to shut up and take the money
  • Though he's immeasurably suspect, Gal just figures there's nothing to be done and walks out, before an angry dog made out of darkness runs at him full speed before being obliterated from existence with the snap of Gal's fingers
  • Unfortunately that didn't hit his mind or soul so said dog started to possess him, and in the process of desprately trying to crawl into their mind and body, gives them flashes of what they currently fear, being that some terrible torture would happen to the person they turned in
  • Eh, that's just what always happens when you get attacked by a dog, just take a nap, it'll be fine
  • Gal wakes up to witness them declared a witch and burnt at the stake, chained by flow stopping shackles as they screamed in agony without any hope of escape
  • Gal's hair literally turns grey and he runs off, having no idea how to handle this whatsoever
  • Eventually, they hear about Sister Gwen asking for adventurers to go to Lemniscrest, and he figures he might as well. Maybe he'll find answers there.
  • So, upon arriving, blasting an old man, punching a Chimera, and having a crowd cheer for his efforts, which feels way worse given how he lead to someone being lit on fire
  • In the middle of night, he decides to wander outside and contemplate if he sucks or not, all while being taunted by that dog that possessed him
  • A woman with no significance shows up and talks with him for a bit, before handing him a medallion that helps him shut out the beast within his being so he can finally sleep
  • He goes to sleep
  • Wakes up in the middle of night, feeling a Svectral being born from some poor dude's lifeforce, dropkicks them
  • Things go pretty well until said Svectral busts out AOE vector EE stuff and his cloak gets ripped enough to knock that medallion out of his coat
  • Gal realizes what just happened and has a panic attack, Dog tells him to shut the fork up and deal with the Svectral
  • Gal says sure, blows up the Svectral and ends the fight, tries to grab that medallion but ends up being forcibly held back by d a r k n e s s
  • Decides to leave it behind, only for it to be picked up by Rickert, who takes it to Sister Gwen, who realizes it's a Raven's Orphic Egg, something either made by Fortuna or the Goddess of Chaos, IE the antithesis to all of creation
  • Some stuff happens, long story short Gal could probably turn into Griffith if things go wrong
  • Gal decides to go to sleep and directly confronts the dog in his head
  • He decides to reveal himself as the Mad dog, and says that Gal's entire idea of a hero is a lie and he just wants to bang that one flower girl
  • Gal punches them in the face, initializing them beating eachother down for hours
  • Eventually Gal wakes up, finding his entire bed is covered in blood stained in darkness, as he screams really hard
  • A maid shows up to help him and he immediately starts wanting to bang them
  • Gal represses this for a bit, and tries to immediately get to the fight with Sister Gwen and co as soon as possible, brushing off minor things like the fact he's probably going to die and that another unimportant lady has a thing that makes them very dangerous
  • Gal goes to fight, throws a sun at Chimerad Helen, leaving him entirely vunerable to being shredded inside out by that dog guy
  • The universe's will to not end Gal's suffering convinced said dog guy to not kill them, and let them go off to fight Helen
  • Helen tells them they could never be on the side of order with that level of libito, and since humans suck and will probably destroy all of nature at some point, he should join her instead
  • Gal decides that joining chaos is totally something he'd never do, and that humans would absolutely never be able to destroy nature, and punches them in the face hard enough that all their sisters tell them to stop trying to commit genocide
  • After kissing Helen's hell powers out of her, Gal pulls out hellfire and then immediately tries to kill himself
  • The universe's will to not end Gal's suffering tells Helen of this before he actually tries though, and she pulls his hand back so the fire is launched in a completely different direction
  • Helen tells him that he's much stronger than her on the inside, and that they should instead use that fire to beat that totally unimportant person they met earlier
  • Gal thinks about how a clearly evil power can be used to beat evil, and figures out that his darkness is totally okay as long as he actually saves people and stuff
  • So, he runs up to the castle to start fighting that totally unimportant person, should go pretty well
  • After getting his rear end handed to him for a lengthy period of time, eventually decides to manually shove chaos into his being with darkness and then throw that at the ritual so the nation doesn't get End of Evangelion'd
  • This causes him to internally explode for the second time today (this will become a trend), before eventually, they beat that totally unimportant person, and Gal immediately goes into a coma. Hurray!
  • 13 days later, Gal finally wakes up to find that totally unimportant girl with the very dangerous sword on his bed checking his condition
  • Gal tries to get up to go find Helen, but is stopped because his legs don't work yet
  • After some more dialogue, they do eventually start working and he walks up to the door and tries to open it, only to find it locked
  • Luckily, he is able to open it by using the chaos still in his blood, as he stumbles into the hallway with existential agony and walks up to the front door to see that an entire band of soldiers are there surrounding the place
  • More dialogue later, a clown fairy gets yeeted at him and slides onto the floor in a bloody heap
  • Unfortunately, Gal actually likes that fairy and their totally unimportant mom, as Gal does enjoy bonding with people that punch him in the face telling them they don't have to fight
  • This results in him attempting to stop their capture, only for his arm to be immediately cut off. By the way, that was a UniquA. He's never getting that back.
  • Eventually after being yeeted into the wall, the clown fairy is taken away, that totally unimportant woman from earlier (it's getting really painful to not just call them Alhazred but luckily this meme will only need to go on for a tiny bit longer) is also dragged off, and Gal is hit in the back with a lightning bolt, just to make sure
  • Gal then goes into a coma for a month, and eventually wakes up thanks to the totally trustworthy Vlad drinking the chaos out of his neck
  • After being reasonably upset about the whole situation, eventually some exposition happens and he moves on to the Port town Dal'Sealinem
  • He then immediately gets petrified by a rock monster trying to save some kid in the cave he was supposed to go to, and gets yet more reasonably more upset
  • After trying to drown his upsetness with a potion, he then straight up murders some gnome assassin and says "hey you know what that's not so bad, I actually won" before backpedaling and realizing he shouldn't be so murdery, cause that was the dog dude's thing
  • They go back to that cave, get the tablet they were looking for, get attacked by that rock monster again, before Gal straight up murders them with a giant sword made of light and ripped right off from that unimportant person
  • Eventually they get on a boat, and while Gal laments his loneliness, and Undine comes up to him and asks what's wrong
  • After explaining the fact he's depressed he can't see Helen, they offer to take them to a water temple, and they agree
  • On the way there, they get attacked by Death's Maw, the father of all Krakens, and straight up murder them
  • Gal then realizes that Helen said humans may one day wipe out nature and immediately has a mini panic attack
  • After going off into his cabin and getting barely anything helpful from Vlad, he goes to sleep
  • They get to the water temple and meet King Dragon, who sends his regards and goes to sort through the memory of water
  • Some fairy chick shows up in the name of that unimportant lady with the dangerous sword, and Gal immediately blows them to smithereens, before they abuse Mid godly to show back up
  • Gal and the gang murder the fairy again, and this time they stay dead for awhile
  • Eventually, some world eaters show up and start wrecking the place, and Gal gets pretty annoyed that nothing he does works and yells at that one kid they picked up at the cave
  • Eventually they get to the big bad of these world eaters, and Gal throws a big explosion also ripped off from that unimportant lady, before he ends up blowing himself up due to the world eater throwing the equivalent of antimatter at them
  • Being throughly beaten to the ground, Gal realizes he only has one attack left, and the second that one kid from earlier makes an opportunity, they blow them both up
  • Gal immediately regrets the fact he straight up killed on of his allies, only piled on further by one of his allies who I glossed over joining the party punching them in the face really hard
  • Gal asks the entirely trustworthy Vlad to give them some extra power in the most painful way possible so they never do something stupid like that again, and they agree, shoving chaos into him before bailing through a portal
  • After immense existential agony and nearly ceased existence, Gal decides to give up the equivalent of one whole existence to chaos, with that dog person from earlier giving himself up as one half of Gal
  • After being in a coma for awhile, Gal gets up and immediately finds cultists clamoring around him and immediately regrets everything yet again
  • After some planning, they eventually invade the auramental research facility, since Helen is there and they're doing bad stuff
  • After personally seeing the atrocities of modern science, Gal decides the empire is really bad, and pushes further downwards
  • Eventually, after punching a science lady in the face for trying to absorb the lifeforce of the planet and forcing them to flee, he rescues Helen
  • Who's in a coma because the existential strain of nearly being turned into a world tree for the new world that unimportant lady with the sword is making
  • Oh by the way, the world is ending and Helen was totally right
And that about brings us to the current state of Gal in Dominion Odyssey, with yet more pain on the way.

I spent hours making this and I don't regret it, even if it probably doesn't make sense at several points due to how much I had to abridge.
 
Well, that's mostly referring to the plot, there is some extra context that makes what he goes through a bit more painful but otherwise this is Gal

From the very beginning of his life, no one has ever loved him and his desperate attempts to be a hero so people will appreciate him ended up backfiring to literally cataclysmic scale, as in his attempts to save people and make things better, he opened the floodgates to an entire world going under and his entire life being a complete lie

To which you must ask yourself, what's worse, having your friends die and then going to the top of the tiering system, or trying to have friends but having everything you try to fix go horribly wrong somehow to the point your entire life is built on lies and all you have left is half your being and immeasurable depression
 
"To which you must ask yourself, what's worse, having your friends die and then going to the top of the tiering system, or trying to have friends but having everything you try to fix go horribly wrong somehow to the point your entire life is built on lies and all you have left is half your being and immeasurable depression"

Ehh that's a little oversimplified. It's more "Having your friends die and you watching them die for centuries on end doing everything different with each time rewind but it always failing" and "You sacrificed yourself to prevent the big evil from coming back only to get reborn as a Slave to the Multiverse who sees everything at once- you see yourself failing for those centuries for eternity rather than only a few centuries"
 
If Ultraman just had to live one life, then gal would be at the top, but being stuck there for literal eternity seeing it on loop is far worse tbh
 
This might sound bad but I think what makes Mebius a little worse is that he was born into a warm and loving family, awesome mentors and fantastic friends. He was basically born a hero.

Gal had none of these.

So while yes, Gal arguably has the worse events, they also were sort of "born" into it. Mebius has had 4,700 years of successfully being the hero to save the day and always managing to protect his friends.

Arguably, it's far worse for you to be used to all these successes in comparison to just always failing y'know?

And it's not even like he can object to seeing all of it since he has 0 free will at that point.
 
I fail to feel proper pity or a need of hug for Mebius when half of the premise for his sadness involves being gigantic tiers and having become a being well beyond the scope of capability, comprehension and any relation to suffering of all of humanity in its ludicrously limited existence by comparison.

Compared to even a normal person with so many garbage in the world who can't deal with stuff or possibly change anything either way (As Adachi put it in P4 "Nobody really likes the way Reality is, we just put up with it because no one can do anything to change it"), that doesn't seem all that sad.

I particularly don't care who gets first and I don't mind if Gal doesn't even get a spot up there, but Mebius does not seem at all in need of a hug from where I stand when he's this godlike gigantically powerful tons of dimensions above kind of entity --- his problems could just as well fit into 3D and then would sound more relatable.

Not to mention how hard it is to take such an idea of sadness as convincing when it comes from a being utterly transcendent to all that humanity as a whole can perceive or relate to on a personal level, with timeless terms, Omnipresence and Tier 0 related shenanigans defining so much of his thing, as though that is a way to make it look bigger here as well.

So yeah.

I most retired from these things because of how bleh I feel these ideas are applied/executed at times, but basically seeing even the "Most in Need of a Hug" thread be half decided via tiering system/power premises makes me want to facedesk at Mebius' existence rather than give him a hug, no offense intended.

If you want a char to be related to and feel human, don't start with "removing their humanity" as the premise or giving them lows whilst having a bunch of highs that don't make them feel as low.
 
You also have to wonder how Tier 0 someone is when such concepts as human suffering still apply to them and they're still effected by seeing the same death an infinite number of times
 
Suit yourself. I should probably mention that overall reception to how sad Mebius actually feels or how much desire of a hug he induces was mostly an "Eh" or a "Meh" or a "None whatsoever" or "poor execution" to those who saw or discussed this, so sticking to your singular opinion as matter of fact in these kinds of threads feels cheap.

Just saying.

It feels like

"He needs a hug."

Nobody:

Everyone: "Not really."

"I said he needs a hug so he definitely does."
 
In other words, leaving that first spot open for future contenders is probably a better approach than "Because I, specifically, think he is the big sad despite the thoughts of pretty much all others that aren't his author on the matter, he gets to stay there."

I'm not even suggesting anyone with this.

Just saying it's the kind of approach that makes the thread not even worth the thought or discussion, if you'll be using your personal compass as this invariable law that determines what is the most sad on your own, while ignoring input and perception from others.
 
Mebius... isn't Tier 0...?

The very act of fusing with the Tier 0 meant he was no longer Mebius, and he was spat back out with 0 free will afterwards as a mortal being once more (So again, not Tier 0)

The whole sadness comes from the fact that he has ascended to **** off levels of power and yet he can still do jack shit to save anyone.

You're literally saying "He's a big tier, therefore none of the shit that has happened to him matters" which sounds completely ignorant since he started off as a 3D entity and his mind is still the SAME PERSON as said 3D person at the end up until he quote en quote "ascends".
 
Re-read my comments. You didn't at all grasp what I said and I'm not bothered enough to rewrite that for this.

I don't find him in need of a hug, his situation doesn't evoke much of any sadness on me and, like pretty much everyone I discussed this with, I find the execution pretty meh.

So I'll be 100% blunt here and say "nope".

If you want to evoke sadness in people here or make them relate to this char let alone "make them the ones in most need of a hug", well you're failing.
 
When it comes to char execution and emotions they invoke, I tend to look objectively at things. Sometimes we need to be direct, and make a clear analysis to see where things may improve or be structured once more for better results.

Also of note, to anyone who writes things they may expect way harsher analysis from people who A. Don't share a community with them. B. Something like an editor if they ever decide to publish their work. Compared to the overview editors give just about anyone, any piece of criticism I gave here is at most a "Hello."

A piece of advice to keep in mind --- everyone here (myself included) is learning, so sometimes bumps in the road are inevitable.

In any occasion, have fun with the thread --- this was my last comment in it.
 
If all you're measuring is the sheer capacity of one's suffering, I may be inclined to give it to Mebius, but if sheer capacity is all you're measuring, you might as well just make it a tier list, since characters that can experience more planes or aspects of reality at a time automatically become superior to those who don't, 90% of the time.

Part of what makes a character "in need of a hug", to begin with, is emotional vulnerability. That is, to say, mindset. It's not enough that bad things happen to them, or that a lot of bad things happen to them, because there is no necessary causal link between those things happening and their eliciting the normal negative emotional responses we, as human beings possessed of the context of a human experience, tend to associate with those experiences.

...comparing Mebius, in this instance, to Gal just as an example- and, more broadly really, most any other contestant I can think of probably- Mebius is a countless-millennia old godling, with the intellect of a supercomputer and the ability to outright break higher-dimensional psyches, travel to any place or time, and so forth entirely on a whim. Suffering barely even matters to an entity way below the point that Mebius has reached because there's nothing stopping him from experiencing just as many simultaneous happy possibilities, or literally rewriting the Plot of the story itself to suit whatever his whim happens to be. There are, in the profile's own words, zero meaningful limitations to how he can use his immense array of busted powers to make any setback he faces completely trivial.

Now, compare Gal. Gal is comparatively a child, still in his 20s, one whose entire identity and aspiration is founded upon his desires to do heroic adventurer things, and who is confronted by the rules of the world around him, mere happenstance- cruel fate- actively going out of its way to violently and traumatically deny him that one thing with acute visions of what the end result of his actions will be. And, in this case, this is happening to ostensibly a normal perso, more or less- hence, he fails. Which, really, is the crux of what makes a character in need of a hug- their setbacks and the darkness plaguing them actually weighs on them in some meaningful sense. Gal can't simply change the rules of the world he's in at a whim, or otherwise trivialize what bad things he goes through- and that, I believe, is what people want to see, when they want to see a character that "needs a hug."

Remember, a mere man lifting a boulder is far more impressive in the ways that it actually matters than Atlas holding a mountain like a tiny pebble in his palm.
 
I suppose I'll throw in my lot.

Rynild Ras'Aul

-From the start, orphaned due to war in his home country

-Sent away literally halfway across the planet because it's the only way he won't be hunted down

-Lives a relatively peaceful life until he's 13

-Finds a sword and hides it from his adoptive mom cause he's afraid she'll take it

-Said sword just so happens to attract a bloodthirsty empire that murderes literally everyone he's ever known and burns down his home forest

-Fast forward through a few years of ups and downs including his best friend betraying him to join a terrorist cell

-Ultimately finds his home country again

-Immediately imprisoned after nearly having his head crushed

-Comes face-to-face with this witch lady, who reveals that she murdered his mother personally (Read: she described in great detail her death by burning while Ryn was literally paralyzed to a chair)

Aaaaand since then he's been a quivering mess that's barely said anything that isn't incoherent crying, all at the tender age of 16


Granted Jay just had to live through a month of torture, but like, he also learned that he's basically a demigod so it evens out
 
So for Blackjack, and all the other Project Horizons pages I have the mature content warning plastered all over them. I'll use this as an excuse to explain why and to nominate Blackjack.


BIG SPOILER WARNING HERE.

  • Blackjack grew up in Stable 99, a Fallout Shelter that is dominated by females, males are so low on the pecking order that they're outnumbered 10 to 1 and are only meant to be used for breeding. Because of this Blackjack also did the following.
    • Heavily implied she took in her father to be gassed/executed for her first job.
    • Drunkenly raped and beat P-21, a extremely broken, intelligent secondary character. He holds an immense grudge towards Blackjack for this and sending many of his brothers to die. She didn't even remember raping him and the situation is a dark subject for both of them (They do get better.)
  • Daughters are assigned from birth to succeed their mothers position to maintain unity. Blackjack is set to become chief of security yet is more known to be the town idiot as it were.
  • Stable 99 had only one way of providing its occupants with food. The deceased are thrown into a machine called The Recycler, which recycles and processes corpses into edible yet tasteless chips.
  • Gets a child killed in her first real fight above ground because she wasn't taking them seriously.
  • Is forced to gas 40 children to prevent them from becoming horrid beasts/genetic experiments.
  • Watched a child, who she had recently saved, die moments after burying her mother. The killer, Rampage, one of her traveling companions, had been possessed by a serial killer, a side effect of her immortality and low godly regen. Blackjack had to literally blow her brains out to return Rampage back to normal.
  • She returns to Stable 99 after hearing that a deadly virus had affected the surrounding area. This virus turns anyone who eats infected materials, into meat, blood obsessed lunatics. The first thing she sees when she opens the door is her mothers head on a pike. The stable had been the source of the virus outbreak. She goes on a berserk rampage killing as many infected, and former friends as possible before being subdued.
  • After being escorted to a non infected section of the Stable, she leaves to save some of her friends, who had been captured.
    • She finds Rampage bolted to a table, and being used as infinite supply of food. Blackjack is ultimately forced to eat Rampages heart to not blow her cover.
    • She then finds P-21 in the Overmares office, also bolted to a table, being raped. The Overmare is younger than Blackjack and often bent the rules pre virus to rape him.
    • After regaining control of the Stable she horrifyingly learns that the corpses of the infected are being recycled and consumed by the stables inhabitants. Blackjack saves one lone uninfected earth pony filly before going back into her stable, locking the door from the inside, and filling the stables vents with chlorine gas as means to stop the outbreak/to commit suicide. She is ultimately saved by The Goddess (Fallout Equestria) who still saw her as useful.
  • Her recent exposure to chlorine however ultimately accelerated the complete breakdown of her body, she had become completely wrecked by radiation to the point where she lost all of her limbs and was completely blind.
    • This did not stop the seething hatred of those who had been wronged by her, and while her friends were trying to a find a way to help her, she was attacked. The only other pony with her was the filly she previously saved. Not wanting the filly to suffer for her, Blackjack exposed her position to her attackers, who instead of killing her, sought to make her last moments as painful as possible by continually raping her.
  • Blackjack later dies medically for the first time, but through Rampages immortal body her friends maintain enough essential life functions to put whats left of her into cybernetics. Her soul is nearly absorbed by the eater of souls in this time frame.
  • This did not stop however her mutations however, she had since mutated to such a degree that she had become more alicorn than unicorn. The Goddess took full control over her and she eventually became a stringed puppet, and was ordered to kill Littlepip before Littlepip had a chance to betray The Goddess. Blackjack ultimately talk not jutsus her way out of this before Littlepip kills The Goddess.
  • Blackjack also during the previous event dies again through means of having her soul forcibly ripped out.
  • After being horribly transfigured in a fight against a rouge war criminal, Blackjack discovers she is pregnant, the father is P-21.
  • Once again Blackjack dies for the third time, as a result of being betrayed by Rampage (who herself is actively seeking a way to die.) by means of having her soul forcibly ripped out. However unlike last time she is forced into the body of a clone. Her original, pregnant body is taken over by Cognitium, a mad AI designed in Princess Lunas likeness, who seemingly planned everything that transpired in the story thus. Cognitium feels that she had also attained and overcome Blackjacks heavily hinted at Fate ability.
  • Blackjack, her friends, and the rest of the wasteland make a last ditch effort to stop Cognitium from unintentionally letting The Eater of Souls consume the planet, many of Blackjacks closest allies and friends sacrifce themselves in this ultimate battle, P-21, Morning Glory, Rampage, Discord, and many others give themselves up. However, they are unsuccessful in stopping The Eater of Souls from being brought back despite Blackjack getting her body back.
  • The Eater of Souls is a cosmic entity who has for the past 80 million years been absorbing the souls of the deceased all around the planet of Equs, Cognitium thought she could destroy it with a space based weapon, but in reality that weapon had been unintentionally designed to aid it in regaining its full power.
  • Blackjack entered the domain of The Eater with a ragtag group, and ultimately forced the rest of them to retreat so she could deal with The Eater alone. She proves victorious ultimately seeing the souls of all her dead friends swirl by her be freed as she dies for a 4th (and seemingly final) time.
  • Before said battle Blackjack undergoes a surrogacy spell to transfer her children to another suitable host, her children go on to be raised in literal luxury. Never knowing who their true parents were, and what they had to go through.
 
Since I've finished Astyana's profile, Imma nominate her ovo. Do I have to present the thing in bullet points though? The backstory is already rather short (it actually leaves out about 1500 or so years.) and should still suffice to at least give her a spot here o v o
 
Not sure if a character not on the site counts, but I figured Frankie counts since I planned on making a Blog for her here . Why ? I'll tell you a extremely small snippet :

  • Was subconscious genuinely given due to the expansiveness of her powers, by her demented caretaker, the ability to do every possible sin that has, is, ever been done by any single individual or group, or ever will be, and even sins that make the concept of evil look tame. She had to do every single one of these every single day , and due to her submissive behavior and unwillingness to do violence she did it without her subconsciousness annihilating him for it . Keep in mind this was done when she was 6-18 and was forced subconsciously to do it.
  • Constantly hears the echoes & screams of every person she affected in the form of ghost, who torment her without end, all without even remembering that she was the cause of their deaths / suffering.
  • Her very birthday is the very first day she commmited all these sins, so it's an anniversary of torture for her essentially.
  • She was given Split Personalities at around the age range 10-12 for every single sin she did subconsciously, meaning at a subconscious level, she always will remember every single sin she's commited, which explains her depression , even when she doesn't even remember them and wasn't her fault for doing it.
  • Sometime later she was given parents who managed to accept her until one of the sinful personalities came and overloaded her with the pain of every person her sinful exploits affected at once, which scarred the parents to such an extent they became vegetables, unable to take care of her, just to end up with the exact same caretaker until she was 18.
  • Less than 1/2 of her personalities are the embodiments of the sins she has performed, have the exact same powers she does , meaning she can't get rid of them.
  • She managed to make it to Highschool, and one of her friends finally knows the truth, her entire world saw a broadcast of everything she did in retaliation by her caretaker . Each human being in planet's history in response, all revived for this sole purpose, each having an entire day to do with her as see fit, gave Frankie the most unbearable forms of torture ever conceptualized, only able to barely hold on to life due to her powers. This includes Murderers, Rapist, and every sick person
 
I mean, that does sound pretty bad, but:

1. It's kinda hard to feel for her when all the stuff she did is as vague as "all the bad stuff. Like reaaaaally bad, ya know?" A lot of "doing bad stuff" is also very context heavy. Depending on the situation, something mildly fcked can become very fcked up.

2. It doesn't really convey her mindset or state of mind doing these things. All I know is that she probably isn't quite too happy about it, since she isn't a fan of violence.

She also has split personalities, but apparently they were given to her, rather than being an effect of her mental health, so~... idk.
 
You know, not only does that sound like a gross misunderstanding and misuse of multiple personality disorder, which I already absolutely despise, but also a nonsensical edgefest I literally could never take seriously. That entire list of things provoked zero emotion from me.

Simply writing down "They faced all the worst things ever and did all the worst things ever because mind control!" not only is incredibly boring, but just tells me that this character has zero personality and their decisions were forced upon them.

The worst sadnesses are the ones, at least partially, brought upon by one's own mistakes. Trauma ***** people up. Seeing edgy backstories be portrayed as making people totally moral heroes or completely vile supervillains with no in-between just hurts, because even in small ways, being tormented over and over can alter your way of thinking. It's even worse when you know you can't blame anyone but yourself, in some cases. But for Frankie? Absolutely nothing remotely interesting to be had here.
 
Oh, ok. So I'll have to give an explanation after all. So does that mean an in depths analysis or just bullet points like everyone else?
 
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