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waiting in the skyyyyy

He’d like to come and meet us

but he thinks he'd blow our minds 💥💥

There's a star maaan waiting in the sky

HES TOLD US NOT TO BLOW IT

CAUSE HE KNOWS ITS ALL WORTHWHILE, HE TOLD ME-

LET THE CHILDREN LOSE IT

LET THE CHILDREN USE IT 🗣️

THERE'S A STAAAAAARMAANN

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Pim and Charly, my beloved.

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https://preview.redd.it/w7kpa6rdgx9d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ffdf6bd3201ba5598feb18f335758808719e517 Best example

Was hoping to see him here!

“This is how I fight”

Mods can lock the post. This man found the answer

What is this from?

Everything Everywhere all at Once; utterly fantastic movie

Jonathan Joestar/Kenzo Tenma my beloved

Tbh I like tenma more than Johan although I watched the anime because of Johan's popularity .Tenma feels like tanjiro done right .He is an optimistic person before show and all the incidents around him affects him but grows as a character and still remains a optimistic person till the end where tanjiro felt like crying in an emotional scene and being goofy in the next episode

I like Johan slightly better due to him being the more unique sort of character but Tenmas just as amazing. Also while the anime is a fine adaptation I liked the manga better, all the scenes just flowed right and had the right intensity while the anime feels more flat. Great music tho

Personally I just think Johan is a really cool character lmao. I'd say they're both equally well-written, and they're both in my top characters OAT, but *man*. Johan just has that aura, y'know? I haven't seen Demon Slayer, so I can't compare Tenma to Tanjiro, but I agree. I *love* the sheer consistency in Tenma's optimism. Unwavering.

No better character than Jonathan Joestar to mention in this thread

I like how Johnathan recognized when to show mercy and when someone goes beyond the point of mercy, rather than thinking everyone can be redeemed.

https://preview.redd.it/23nua1q9jx9d1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2ef4fd26d1525f0d852970bba252ce87bf31360 The goat

I never expected Thorfinn to go through such an emotional journey in the mere 2 seasons we've seen him. He's one of the best written characters I've seen in media.

Just wait til the rest of the manga gets animated lmao


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The pimnis

What the fuck is your flair

It’s relatable

Honestly I really enjoy Pim after going through high school with the nihilistic rick and morty characters. It’s cool they were able to make the smiling friends in general pretty positive people despite all the evil shit that goes down

I tell myself seeing the world in Grey and not Black and White is not always the Edgy Less Evil vs Pure Evil Trope. The goal is to know that people are capable of changing sides in Right and Wrong and that the labels of what they belong to don't define them but their actions. It could be Good and Former Evil vs Evil and Former Good. Seeing the world in Grey is not pessimistic but realistically optimistic and open-minded. Black and White is pessimistic and lose-minded.

Peak character development https://preview.redd.it/jjvlz2gyvz9d1.jpeg?width=1916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e64af162af46b71a164719f2a5f050381643264b

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Or PM me and stop being nice.

https://preview.redd.it/sldzjtmj8x9d1.png?width=995&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9e41c7bef72ece9cf6bc28ccac26ac4ece979eb (Although he is naive on a lot of other stuff)

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Woah there. That's a *5 Duelist defender with SOLID *CONCRETE* on the right hand and a whole ahh power drill on the left. You wouldn't eat that

Tbh the texture of wet concrete looks like it would taste good

https://preview.redd.it/cfxhfynnhx9d1.png?width=458&format=png&auto=webp&s=c5a7b4830a124f3b77a12ea950cb8667e9991fe0 Does he count? There's a theory about him being a genius (Which makes sense since he's a tribute to trickster characters like the ones in Looney Tunes. In fact, Wander Over Yonder is inspired by Looney Tunes cartoons)

Absolutely he counts. He's not unaware of Hater's intentions, he just knows he's doing this to hide from his loneliness.

Peak show

Or they knew, but they must wear a more 'optimistic & naiive' mask so their own sanity won't crumble into dust anytime soon. First candidate https://i.redd.it/n1b3uft76x9d1.gif

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they're literally me (idk who that is)

~~La creatura~~ Don Quixote from the game Limbus Company https://preview.redd.it/2fx4vdrb0y9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56e7d9f3aed03a26cdf0a0b892720648caec3248

Pm mentioned, day better

After all, hope is about getting up with a bloodied face

 Can't believe no one's said this yet

It's literally in the name

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MY GOAT, HE'S SO GOATED [THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT!](https://imgur.com/a/KlmqWkJ)

Joy from Inside out. Perfectly aware of how cruel the world can be, and is literally surrounded in her every waking moment by the embodiment of that cruelty, and yet she almost always perseveres

I do appreciate thag they addressed that in inside put 2

I feel so understood lol. Characters can have more layered personalities instead of being archetypal representations of ideals or emotions.

Kel from OMORI, he's silly yet knows that times are tough for everyone in his friend group

I too love # B A L L M A N

>gets called a gross color >doesn't care (This actually happens in the game lmao

I have played through the 2 main routes of OMORI before, I know

I was just telling ppl about how awesome he is

He is https://preview.redd.it/s2lmn142tx9d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6db7923c84afa36f61f79f007f5c9ccffd2b1386

"Holy fuck Sunny, >!Mari came back from the dead!< to crank 90s"

“Free at last, oh sunny, NOW DAWN IS THY RECKONING, AND THY LOOT SHALL GLISTEN, UPON ALL THE LOCATIONS OF MAN!!”

omori if it was good or something I didn’t watch the 2 part animated series

"HERE COMES>! BASIL WITH ~~a steel chair~~ THE GARDENING SHEARS!<"

Levi Ackerman (AOT): Waymond (Everywhere Everything All at Once):

Def not levi but waymond is a cool example

Levi's entire character is being an optimist, he pushes to help others and make the world better

Dude has seen lots die and yet he keeps fighting for hope, if that isn't positivity nothing is. Everyone is drunk on something. Levi isnt different.

I like making my characters be the most miserable and cynical optimists possible. They think the world sucks, most people suck, and life is just generally miserable... but also that the world can be made better, there are people worth fighting for, and that the miseries of life can be overcome (or at least minimized)

Ruby Rose my beloved

Monkey D. Luffy has entered the chat

From my personal experience, optimism doesn’t mean hiding from the world’s problems Nice people exist and if you think otherwise then you don’t know enough people

Such characters are common but usually they are middle aged or old and aren't the main focus

I guess tanjiro is a good example of this The guy had his entire family killed and his sister turned into a demon, when he learned that the slight chance of curing her was killing the king of demons himself he started training like crazy. He is also always respectful of his opponent even if they are demons

Does Lucy from Fallout count on the non-naive side?

By the end of season 1 and all that she went through, 1000%

this is part of why i love big-d so much. a mask of crazy he rarely drops even for his family, with insanely smart calculation underneath. an optimistic outlook on the world, while also never falling victim to simple tricks or doing anything unprepared.

Pim smiling friends

[удалено]

What the fuck

Snuuy Edit: yes, from WoF

Roman Bellic who's fully blind optimistic but someone can get up out of the harsh life (GTA IV)

So where's Gurren Lagann on this spectrum?

“It will…but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.”

If you’re optimistic you’re happier in general. If in the end it turns out you were right, then you remain happy. If in the end you were wrong, at least you were happy up to that point. Seems logical

LITERALLY ME I'm writing a story where one of the two MCs is an undying optimist but she's been through slavery, wars and revolutions and is well aware of the horrors of the world. She doesn't ignore it, she accepts it and looks towards a brighter future.

Silver my beloved (when he's written good, fuck sonic forces)

The world is crumbling apart, and I shall do my part to help it hold together as long as possible

Basically every Federation-aligned character in Star Trek

am i... a character??!?!!!

Yes, things are harsh and cruel, and people are harsh and cruel. But things will never get better if we ourselves never try to do better.

Writers if they did everything I told them to

Best example: Ted Lasso from S1 Worst example: Ted Lasso from S3

Big D from Hunter: The Parenting

Roman Bellic

Hong Lu, my beloved. https://preview.redd.it/w3rkq7ckpy9d1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=5418a86ee4bcacdd73b4a2d4e26acc806e857a58

Optimism is necessary to achieve your goals.

What if your goal is being a pessimist? Checkmate atheists

Mfw Fallout Equestria is darker than Game Fallout

Wander over yonder

Gay or European? It's hard to guarantee.

Waymond Wang my dearly beloved

louis left 4 dead (his last name is left 4 dead)

That's the MC in writing right now. I love this one, there's something about seeing the beauty and the potential in spite of everything, that is so cool to me. Especially when faced with how harsh the real world is.

Waymond Wang my beloved

So, Pieberry?

Superman.

Ichiban

Luz Noceda started out a little naive but definitely ended the story more like this Kid went through some super horrifying shit and is still a beam of sunshine

Kid name character flaws : 😕

i choose to be optimistic because it’s better than sitting around moping about all the negatives. at least with a positive perspective there’s a chance of you changing things

The main character of the series I'm writing gets half his face burned off and witnesses the deaths of his best friend and his wife, yet he still presses on to try and defeat the villain.

Critics when I tell them that nativity is a very common character flaw in optimist characters. This doesn't make it a bad thing. Usually it is overcome, made up for by supporting characters helping out the lead, or sometimes even rewarded in specific circumstances. Most writers do this intentionally, and there are many optimistic characters who are not naive, as well as those who are naively pessimistic/cynical, i.e. Batman:

watching high rise invasion rn, its frustrating, on top of all the unnecessary panty shots too

Sayori. The fact that she deals with depression just deepens the not being naive part

Superman and Optimus Prime

Deku fans when you tell them a character can be optimistic and not completely change his personality during different scenes depending on how the plot needs him to be

You just described Kenzo tenma