An Intellectual Discussion Of Which 4chan Boards Boardwalk Empire Characters Would Use

an intellectual discussion of which 4chan boards boardwalk empire characters would use

This reminds me of a "dialogue scene" I came up with ages ago whereAngel and Arackniss finally meet, and maybe even get along for a bit, until Angel spouts off about how much of an asshole their dad was, and, finally crossing a line for arackniss, arackniss lets loose something like the following:

[if you've watched boardwalk empire, maybe read this in Charlie Luciano's voice for best effect]

"Listen, uhh. I know you're like, one of those homos, and if theres one thing they like to do its bitch and moan about how nasty and mean their daddies were, but uhh, i dunno, maybe your memories not what it used to be, maybe its the drugs, or you just blockin it all out for your egos sake, but maybe could you, i mean, just outta respect for my intelligence...

NOT play the fucking victim?

[angel is a little shocked]

[Arackniss stares him down contemptuously for a moment]

*sigh* It might have been hard to tell, and honestly who could blame you? Maybe he wasn't all touchy and feely about it like maybe your pansy ass wanted, but he LOVED you idiot! Hell, you were his favourite! not me! I wish! I was always doin damage control for your screwups and antics and taking the fall! The day he found you...

[beat]

He just.. sat there. For hours. Not talking. Like something in him had also died and stopped working. God, the look on his face when people asked about you… And what do you think that meant for me huh? did you think he was gonna let me end up like you? heh… and you wonder why im so cold? He made me into a fuckin WEAPON, anthony. THATS the kind of mess you left me to deal with, and now you're down here, you don't figure to stop with your shit? You go even harder with the sex and drugs and parading yourself around like this? You fuckin NAME yourself after the shit that did you in? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!?

[beat] you left us behind. left ME behind. and im never fuckin forgivin you for that. hope you're havin fun "finally bein yourself" anthony. oh im sorry, "angel dust". flicks away cigarette and marches out [under breath] fucking christ..."

Sloppy Arackniss Redesign (?)

Before I get into this, clarifying, I SAY SLURS IN THIS!!! I CAN RECLAIM SAID SLURS!!! That is all thank you. I kiss boys and love men. Carry on.

Arackniss’s design is bound to change drastically sometime eventually but atm this is just what im doing. My main problem is how he just looks exactly like angel but black. I know thats originally what the whole thing is and they’re opposites but it’s just kinda boring now. Angel is an entirely different character at this point now and Arackniss’s design should accommodate the changes while still being a bit similar looking. I want him to still look very similar to Angel in specific ways like that stupidass headshape but not because of a sibling thing. Honestly when the two were alive they hardly looked anything alike I’m 100% sure of that. Antonio (Arackniss) had black hair and much broader features and was relatively tall and kind of bulky while Anthony & Molly had light blonde hair and more subtle and soft round features and basically one of the only ways to tell them apart aside from personality was Anthony having polycoria and having bloodshot eyes pretty often.

Arackniss hardly looks how he did when he was alive anymore and has taken on many more features of Angel because of his deep rooted rivalry with his brother. I assume hating your middle-child brother that literally got named after you only to have him overdose and kill himself before actually doing anything with his life is enough to stir up more than a little bit of inner turmoil. These guys probably beat each other up OFTEN. Antonio was the first born son and dealt with so much shit before these other guys even were born and when they did show up, Anthony was named after him because their parents honestly just got lazy, and even though Molly didn’t have the name Molly yet, she was still treated like a golden child even though she contributed next to nothing to the family business which yeah that helped her in the long run but to Antonio that’s his number one priority in life. Appeasing his family is what keeps his brain running. And with that, seeing this random kid show up, get named after you, and be treated so much more leniently than you were AND he’s practically your problem because youre 15 hes like fucking 3 years old and your parents are busy all of the goddamn time AND when you DIE you take on the traits of this stupid fucking kid. He has a horrid case of eldest child syndrome and probably some insane identity issues.

This isn’t to say his hatred is only directed at Anthony either, he definitely has his issues with Molly as well, but she kept more to herself and even if she followed Anthony nonstop she was copying what Anthony was doing instead of what he was doing. Copying is the highest form of flattery but flattery gets annoying when everyone cares about the younger “better behaved” version of you. This is one of the biggest reasons Arackniss berates Angel now and in the past. Even though they havent spoken in years, Arackniss still holds Angel to the status of “faggot” because that was practically the only thing he was “worse” than him at. It was the biggest dirt he had on Angel possible to the point that became a genuine used name for him as Anthony “the fag” Benetti. Finding out your angel of a brother is gay during a time where it’s heavily frowned upon, especially by your own family is like a gold mine.

Arackniss is NOT a good person if you couldn’t somehow tell already. He’s homophobic, has a masculinity and classism problem, has little to no regard for other’s well being, and a bunch of other shit. For as distressed as he was over Anthony’s death, a lot of it was because it left their family even more dysfunctional. To him it was Anthony abandoning everyone because they weren’t worth enough to keep him going and then in return he continues to be praised and talked about so wonderfully as if he never did anything wrong “just because he’s dead”.

Thats just BEFORE Arackniss died too! AFTER dying shit got even worse to the extent he ended up even getting disowned! How fun!! This part delves more into Husk and his backstory as well which I think I may save for another time, but these guys know each other and have a lot of beef and also simultaneously are kind of chill in an odd way? By the way, Angel also has the big neck puff, he just shaves it because he doesn’t like the look and like association from trauma

I had this idea for a Human Bill Cipher design in my head for a while so this morning I decided to get around to doodling it (all I usually have the energy to do is mspaint doodles, I'm not really much of a typical artist type) and honestly I'm pretty proud of it.

Hot take of the day is I don't think "human Bill Cipher" being a reasonably attractive skinny white guy was ever an inherently bad concept, it works for him honestly. People just fumbled on the execution and did it in the least imaginative/appropriate way (aka the generic "hazbin hotel" twink way) because the "palette" for sexymen wasnt as broad back when Gravity Falls was airing*. (The recent hubbub about "old man yaoi" and people posting about 61-year-old Bob Odenkirks smoochers would probably be unthinkable to the tumblr of that era if I've got my facts straight).

But yeah I think this design really works, he's not conventionally attractive but not unattractive either, like, on the cusp of twinkdeath, it's believable that he'd be charming and a bit silly, but also twisted, skeevy, and manipulative.

The kinda guy who buys expensive clothes but doesn't take great care of them, or himself for that matter, a little out-of-shape from a life of decadence and debauchery, neck a little fat from eating carelessly but still thin from constantly moving around and neglecting to eat the rest of the time because god dammit this man has severely unmedicated AuADHD or something along those lines.

His hairdos inspired by the dude from Eraserhead, on theme with gravity being inspired by twin peaks, another work by David Lynch

cannot be fucked rn to draw his full outfit but his full pose is something like this and he's wearing a frock coat, black flared pants, black boots, and white spats.

*EDIT: with all due respect the doctor who or any other live-action tv fandoms were ahead of the curve on this, but thats sort of a matter of course

me every day

*holds it together on the streets, has an existential crisis in the sheets*

with the way the lore is going we might as well have something like this in the next game