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This ⬆️ for one. But personally Will has had to mature at a very young age without the upside. Honestly one of the only thing that Will has that is truly "childish" is dnd and his friendship with the party.
(Will is very different compared to his friends by being on the poorer side of life, having to make some of his own meals because Joyce and Jonathan working, the abuse inflicted by his father, and etc. Will has gone through alot in his life that most people don't think about intill they are living on their own, without their support system, or having significant impact in their lives.)
This has gotta be one of the worst Will Byers characterization I've ever seen
His "flaws" being: getting upset when his friends ignore him and push him to the side (aka just having human emotions) and "lashes out" by getting upset and leaving after being made fun of for hours trying to play a game they all loved. This person seriously thinks he's in the wrong for feeling alienated. "Anger in his body" he's gotten angry like 3 times since S1 what are you talking about. Have you seen Mike? "Finds the world unfair" because it is unfair, that's the whole point. He's been struggling with finding a place where he belongs because the world just doesn't understand or accept him.
"Selfish at times" I highly doubt this person would call El "selfish at times" for wanting to spend time with Mike, or dumping him because she was having more fun with Max. It's not selfish to have wants. "understanding what it means to be selfless" as if being selfless hasn't been his #1 trait since s1. "Move in from fantasy and into reality" wanting to recapture his childhood after losing it for so long isn't wrong or makes him lesser of a person. This is just mean to the people who've had a similar experience to this.
Will does screw up and say and do the wrong thing sometimes, but that doesn't define him as a character. Getting upset at times (for a good reason, mind you) doesn't make him an angry person. Wanting happiness doesn't make him selfish. I don't think I've ever seen such a genuine characterization this bad before. The double standards are insane.
Lmao ok so, because I haven’t been doing my homework I have two C+ which is the lowest grades I’ve ever had for more than a week. So my mum comes into my room like ‘are you okay? Cause your grades are dropping?’ Like 1 no I’m not okay but we ain’t finna y’all ab that and 2 a C+ is still at average chiiiilll out
seriously why is the trans character tag on AO3 full of the most deranged shit I've ever seen 🙄
As an introvert, having a roommate that is a family member is not fun. Like pls leave me alone I don’t want to go to your friends surprise party. It’s not that I don’t like her but I like to be alone and not surrounded by your friends family members that I don’t know. K thanks (:
You know sometimes being on social media sucks. Every time I go on my Insta I see a new posts from my peers about how they got engaged, they’re married, the just had a baby, etc., and I can’t even stay in a stable, non-toxic relationship for longer than 2 years without getting cheated on. Which really sucks bc I would like to settle down soon with my “Mr. Right” but frankly, I think no matter how long my relationships last, I’m still going to get cheated on and heartbroken and that’s on trust issues. 🙂
I am unlovable, no one has loved me. No one has held me and looked at me like I’m a pretty thing the way cool people look at rocks. How can I keep telling myself I’m worth something when no one else makes me feel that way? What’s the point in loving myself? It does nothing. I am such a feeble, ugly thing that nobody will ever want to sleep next to or care for. And I don’t know how to cope with this.
Okay- Okay, so, I don't know how many other people in the UTMV fandom care about this, or if it's just me; but does anyone else get annoyed over the fact that none of the AU Sanses have character tags? Every last one of them is an additional tag. This means their relationships are too! It gets on my nerves because I've seen characters from fanmade AUs get their own tags before! Character tags! Ship tags! Why can't the UTMV get them too?
It was a bigger problem to me back when I started writing for the fandom and still regularly ticks me off when I'm reminded of it. I got reminded of it from a combination of getting back into Gravity Falls (and by extension rev falls as well) and a post about ao3 and tag wrangling.
For those unaware, all the Reverse Falls folks have their own canon character tags on ao3. I understand that not every AU is going to get character tags, but the UTMV has so many well known characters. They have canon tags, but all those tags are additional tags. For why??
If we're going with "oh rev falls is so big and popular and just a swap au" that I've been mulling over in my head, shouldn't, at the very least, Underswap have its own set of canon character tags?
I dunno, I think I think about this too much...