Random character project by jsfunction, shameless666 & thyla87 (set 7)

[neonspider]

30 multifandom icons (10 by jsfunction, 10 by shameless666, 10 by thyla87)

Fandoms: Fringe, Captain America/MCU, Teen Wolf, Supernatural,
Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Hannibal, Game of Thrones, Jessica Jones, Harry Potter

Set 7 of our random character project is finally here - this round took us a bit more time cause both me and thyla suffered from some inspiration loss. There are so many amazing challenges going on lately that this slower pace might just be the rule and not the exception for these last few rounds, but we'll see! Last round we had another very interesting poll, there were lots of ties and the voting situation was super close all the time, until again four characters moved on. Clearly just one vote can make a difference so we definitely hope you continue to vote for your faves! :) As always, you can find info on what this is, and our previous posts, in this tag.

The icons

Our characters for the 7th set were:

Moving on:

Olivia Dunham (Fringe)
Steve Rogers (MCU)
Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)
Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

New random characters:

Suzy Bishop (Moonrise Kingdom (2012))
Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
Jon Snow (Game of Thrones)
Jessica Jones (Jessica Jones)
Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
Isaac Lahey (Teen Wolf)

Maker	Olivia	Steve	Lydia	Dean	Suzy
jsfunction
shameless666
thyla87

Maker	Hannibal	Jon	Jessica	Harry	Isaac
jsfunction
shameless666
thyla87

The poll

Which characters would you like to see in the next set? You can vote for as many as you like, but only 3 will move on (unless there are ties). The voting will last for 3 days, it is open until Tuesday 12.4. 19:00 UTC. Please note that you're voting for characters, NOT icons, so you're just voting for characters you like, and not characters whose icons you liked the most!


[Poll #2041860]

Episode discussion

We also watched one episode of each of the shows these characters are from; if anyone is interested in our opinions or discussing the episodes/shows, you can read our thoughts behind the spoiler cut, and tell us your own thoughts in the comments - we'd love to discuss these fandoms :) This was just a bit of extra fun though, and we didn't have to icon that specific episode. Thyla didn't have time for this part now but this time shameless did have some episode thoughts instead. This section is however smaller than usual.


Fringe
js (1.10 Safe): Fringe continues to captivate me with imaginative, suspenseful plots. I knew this would be good when I saw the guy half inside the wall, omg. Loooved the science behind that as well as the whole point of the episode: to free that guy (who I totally knew would be important later, and was waiting for that!) from his cell. I really like what I've seen of Fringe this far and honestly, this is just A+ material plotwise, and I have to shamelessly admit that if the show had any shippy potential I'd probably already be watching full steam. It's just that one element I need to get really invested in something, which is shallow af but it is what it is...

Teen Wolf
js (5.20 Apotheosis): I quite liked the season finale, it wrapped up things pretty neatly. Thankfully the Theo's pack and Dread Doctors things seem to be over now. The 'Allison saved them' thing might be cheesy but also a little bit moving, so, I was all for that :) I don't really remember much else from the episode cause it's been a few weeks now, oops. But I did like it and I especially enjoyed badass Kira. I'm not quite sure if the desert wolf storyline is over now?? It's been on for so long, I kinda feel like it's dragging at this point but I also don't want it to end without having Peter involved in that family drama, so idk what to think.
js (2.01 Omega): I also watched Isaac's first episode for inspiration, since he wasn't in the 5th season :( . Back when I first saw this episode I was a little disappointed because it was a turn for much darker stories from the light fun that was s1, but after seeing what a mess TW has become after that I definitely have a new found appreciation for s2, lol. Really this was a good episode, I especially loved Lydia's parts because it was the start of her banshee powers getting activated! As for Isaac, well this introduction didn't quite succeed in getting me interested in the character yet, but later he grew to be such an awesomely funny and awesome character, definitely one of my TW faves, I wish he'd return to the show.
shameless (5.20 Apotheosis): It was a good episode. Every episode with shirtless Parrish is a good episode lol jk. There was lot of action and lot of fun. And thank god, they managed to wrap some storylines. There was lot of double-crossing this episode, it was like a giant chain. First, Theo killed Tracey to get her power and then turned against Deucalion, who eventually turned out to be working with Scott and ended up being shot by Gerard. Of course Chris was expecting that Gerard has it's own plan, so ... Anyway, aside from that, every character has like a perfect timing? C'mon everyone just popped whenever they were needed . And let's talk about how every main character (+ some side characters) bleed from a possible fatal wound and yet no one died? Lydia's throat was sliced, Stiles had a piece of glass almost in his heart, Braeden was shot by the Desert Wolf, Malia was shot multiple times by her mom and then some, Scott was almost killed by the beast, etc. And at the end everyone is magical healed and no one's dealing with mental trauma and it's all forgotten. Anyway, besides that crap which is nothing new, the episode was good and I'm glad they saved Mason.

Supernatural
js (10th season): Ok so I seem to have watched the entire 10th season during this time, and it was my favorite of the later seasons, actually. The mark of cain storyline was good. The Winchester drama was enjoyable and I loved that the focus was on them and there were no unnecessary characters involved. Castiel's parts got considerably better after Hannah returned to heaven. The season featured a perfect amount of Crowley (forever fave) and his mom who I freaking adore. The best female character on this show EVER. Of course you can't talk about s10 without mentioning Charlie. Personally I feel like a poignant, dramatic death scene (especially a heroic sacrifice one that contributes to the plot majorly!) is absolutely the best thing a character can get and the mark of an important character, so I don't get why fans would be upset. It's SPN, basically everyone dies. Anyway, not sure what to make of the cliffhanger, the 'darkness' could mean anything, but after a great season I'm definitely more interested in continuing this show which had been increasingly 'meh' for a few seasons before this one.
shameless (10.02 Reichenbach): Okay, it was a long time since I watched the show, so I picked up where I left. Cas's storyline is soo boring, I basically forwarded his scenes. But I loved the scene with the little kid, it was funny. The highlight of the episode is the music as always, I can't remember how many songs I've heard on the show that I absolutely love. And of course Crowley, I enjoyed every scene he was in, especially at the end with Sam. I laughed so hard at "Stop it, Samantha". The fight between Cole and Dean was fun to watch too, it seems like he will stick around. It was an okay episode, but not good enough to pick my interest again. But if Dean continues in this project, I might watch another episode.

Moonrise Kingdom
js: I had never even heard of this movie but boy did I love it! My favorite thing was the setting, there was something incredibly atmospheric about the retro vibe and the idyllic surroundings. And the plot was so cute, two young star-crossed lovers trying to run off in all seriousness. Idek. It was a relaxing movie to watch, not something super dramatic or 'big' but that's maybe why I liked it so much? I like movies that show the preteen phase as something less innocent than is normally shown in media, because that way it's more relatable to me. Idk if I was weird or something but I definitely had these larger than life crushes allll the time at that age (if anything, it toned down a bit when I hit my actual teen years! but only a bit.), so I liked that aspect of the film.

Jessica Jones
js (1.01 Ladies Night): I didn't think I'd like this show at all, since I had heard that it's pretty depressing. And that was definitely true, there were some really dark elements in this pilot but there was also something I liked a lot: an interesting, instantly likeable (because of her unapologetic unlikeability!) main character. I just really loved Jessica and found the episode compelling pretty much for that reason alone. I don't think it's my kind of tv, and I don't see myself watching this outside of this project, but I liked it way more than I thought I would and the shocker elevator scene at the end was definitely impact-making.


Feel free to snag any you like but please credit the correct maker. If someone wants to copy this idea for their own character voting project, we don't mind at all. If you would like to join our project instead, there's still room for more as long as you're easy to contact, have time for this, let me do the randomizing and are fine with iconing any fandoms and characters :>

Comments

[neonspider]

Thanks so much for choosing your favorites! Yay I'm super glad someone likes my weird Lydia icon, and also susprised that the HP icon has been in some fave picks cause it caused me excessive trouble. but the Suzy icon was possibly my personal fave so I'm super glad you like it!

Haha, yeah of course I get how people would jump right on the Olivia/Peter ship :) but um, they're friends, get along fairly well most of the time, neither of them has an obsession on the other, they're not rivals, enemies, may-december, or anything else that even slightly appeals to me, so yeah, gonna pass this one :s

aw, I barely remember Bela. But I don't think Charlie was hated? not that I've spent that much time in the fandom corners anyway, but I always got the impression that only characters who interfere with ships get hate, which lbr I 100% understand cause shipping is basically my entire fandom existence (aside from icons), so yeah. I'm more annoyed by the fans (who I think might be different fans? or not even fans at all, more like anti-fans?) who cry misogyny at the writers. I do think Charlie was pretty popular, and would like to think that most of the deaths and not-deaths(?) on that show as well as any show have more to do with what fits the overall vision for plot than with fan reactions. That's how I'd be as a writer/producer anyway, I'd just do my thing and not let the fans write the show. (I guess this hypothetical show wouldn't last for 11 seasons tho...)
still, I wish Cas was either developed in some way or put on a bus or killed off cause clearly there's not much to his character anymore, he's just a screentime waste now :s

[violateraindrop]

Both the Lydia and Harry Potter icon have such lovely colors and composition :)

Olivia/Peter are such a safe and obvious choice. I don't hate the ship, but I was never really into it.

I think some fans really didn't like that she was gay o.O
They acted like she was a consolation prize for Castiel/Dean never becoming canon which is ridiculous. And she was too much of a nerd apparently. But really, what ships are there on SPN? Sam/Dean and Castiel/Dean??? It's not like either of those would ever happen. I can understand this kind of hate with fandoms that have lots of ships that could potentially become canon, but here the hate for female characters is just ridiculous. I still kinda ship Dean with Jamie from Monster Movie (OMG! That was early S4.)...
It's one of the main problems with SPN, they let the fans interfere. That's why they killed off Bela and Ruby and yet Castiel is still there.

he's just a screentime waste now
I kinda love you for saying that :D
I'm so happy that vlc lets you speed up videos. That way I don't missing anything important during his scenes, but they still go by faster.

[neonspider]

Ehhh, letting fans interfere is always a bad move cause it encourages crazy and annoying fan behavior. I knew that had happened once or twice on OUAT (and both of the cases I know of were terrible writing decisions!), but didn't know it was the case for SPN. It sends the message that if you yell loud enough you'll get your way, which really shouldn't be how it goes. I'd be more like 'take it or leave it' if I was a writer :p
I had no idea anyone would dislike Charlie being gay??? wtf. Overall I've only seen positive reactions to her, except for some pretty mild stuff about her being annoying. (I agreed with that at first tbh but she won me over)

I know it doesn't make sense to hate on love interests when none of my ships don't have a chance of becoming canon. I mean, I don't even want my ships to be canon, cause canon makes things boring and also if something is safe and sane enough to have canon potential it's too vanilla for me to like in the first place! However, I'm not even pretending to talk about something that makes sense, just about pure emotional response that is far beyond my control. I can't just start liking a character only because I know I have bad reasons for not liking them, it's just an automatic reaction I get, even if the show has already ended so there's literally zero chance of the canon changing in any way! It's not just female characters that get this reaction from me btw, in some shows like OUAT of Buffy where my preferred ships are femslash or some alternative het ship for the female character, I want the love interest guys out of the way. My ideal show would have zero canon romances (for main / important / interesting characters) but lots of subtext for all kinds of interesting ships. And yes I get that this is super childish but yeah... :c

lol I can't believe you actually speed up his scenes. Doesn't it transform their voices in a weird way..?? I'd imagine it takes the drama out of the scenes if you're listening to squirrel!Cas :p or maybe that would make them slightly more entertaining, idk.

[violateraindrop]

I started to reply yesterday, made one wrong click and everything was gone. I was so mad at myself, I closed the tab.

It's not like writer would admit it, but it's pretty clear that it's reason Bela was killed and Castiel is still there. The (vocal) fans wouldn't admit it either since they'd have to admit their own misogyny and that's never cute.
I only see reactions on ONTD and occasionally tumblr (but that's pretty much a thing of the past since most people on my dash have moved on to other fandoms), but yeah, her being gay was not really see as a positive everywhere.

I actually have some canon ships, but as soon as they become canon, I stop reading fanfic or pretty much thinking about them. You're doing shipping right though and everyone has characters they just don't like (my list includes two female names I should never mention anywhere).
What I was talking about was the delusion some fans have that their ship has to become canon and it's actually already on the show. Yes, a lot of people read that into scenes between Dean and Castiel and get angry that there isn't more. And these are the vocal people. Most shippers are luckily not like that.

My ideal show would have zero canon romances (for main / important / interesting characters) but lots of subtext for all kinds of interesting ships.
That actually sounds awesome! The Avengers had that for me. No romantic relationships, but I did kinda ship Steve/Tony and Natasha/Clint at the end.

Some people skip scenes with characters they don't like. My thing is better lol
And noooo, everything is just faster. Most of the time I only do 1.5, so it's really like a person who talks a little faster. That's also how I watch the "previously on" sequences for most shows, my memory is not that bad that I need a full refresher every time. I actually do that with more characters and scenes. Whenever I feel like I'm not paying proper attention, I just speed it up a little because then I have to pay attention, but I also don't have to spend as much time on a boring scene.

[neonspider]

I think we'll just have to agree to disagree re: possible misogyny... I just don't see it, especially since the majority of the fans are female themselves. I think the obvious reason is just that they don't like love interest characters, they have the same NOPE gut reaction as I do, which has nothing to do with hating women and everything to do with shipping and the fact that most of them are probably straight so of course a cute male character with a (once) interesting personality has the potential to become much more popular than a cute female character with an interesting personality. They might still like other female characters that don't interfere with their ships, or maybe female characters in some other fandoms. I don't think anyone would mind if characters like Jody or Linda Tran got more screentime, but even if not, I don't really have a problem with SPN having a male-centric cast or fandom, it's no worse than the opposite. I love good female characters but SPN is so not the show I go looking for them, when there are so many other options to find them :>
as for writers, they could always just put a not liked character on a bus so if they choose character death instead, I think there must be another reason.

Thanks for saying that I do shipping right, I just don't see that much difference between my shipping and everyone else's shipping, except of course that I don't expect my ships to become canon. I'm not actually sure why I draw the line in the specific place I do: that I want canon to cater to me as in not having canon ships in the way, yet I get annoyed when other fans expect canon to cater to them as in making their ships actually canon. Maybe it's cause I hate all kinds of serious accusations (sexism, racism etc) and 'queerbaiting' is definitely on that list. Some fans like to throw it at the writers as an attempt to force them to write their ships into the show, as if that was ever going to happen. There are crazier fandoms (SHERLOCK), but Destiel is pretty close tbh. I just have never seen anything between them in canon so idek how anyone can get it in their minds that there's queerbaiting going on? where's the bait? Annnnd to open another can of worms, the thing called subtext used to be well liked at some point, what happened? I still belong to that old school slash shipper base that is happy to get any subtext, intentional or just up to my interpretation. The current fans are more 'all or nothing' about their ships, but making such demands to writers is not that smart cause if those are the options, almost every writer chooses nothing, so I'd just prefer to enjoy my 'queerbaity' subtext in peace. And for this reason I think I'm very much doing shipping 'wrong' :S

[violateraindrop]

Well, it might have been my mistake because I was still talking about Bela and that was six years ago. Tumblr has made people aware of misogyny and, more importantly, internalized sexism. Lots of women are misogynists and just tend to pit women against each other without realizing it. Since season four, at lot of that comes from wanting Dean/Castiel together. Like you said, crazy fan(dom)s! They are usually the louder ones.

Maybe it is the fact that the SPN writers just like to kill off female characters! Cole is still alive and after being in more than one episode, they could have also just killed him. Then again, so are Jody and Donna (I'd love to see a spin-off or mini-series with them <3), maybe they are getting better at it.

Queerbaiting is a term I see used so often by Dean/Castiel shippers and I don't get. Yes, they joke (one was "Cass get out of my butt" or something like that), but that's something you see everywhere and does imo not constitute queerbaiting. I don't even want to talk/think about Sherlock in that regard.

I don't interact with the Hawaii Five-0 fandom at all, but the subtext and shipping potential between Steve and Danny was just phenomenal on the show. Hopefully nobody called that queerbaiting.

Okay, we both doing it wrong then lol
I'm actually thinking that there's actually a greater divide between ages now then there was before when it comes to shipping. It's the often younger (SJW) generation that thinks like that. And with younger I mean mostly people under 20.