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"Oh, you. No-one can figure you out. Some people love you, some people hate you, some people just don't care. You're hot, but also ugly, but also bland. You're funny, but also serious, but also a kind of weird grey zone. Honestly, keep doing what you're doing. It's pretty cool, in my option. Though a lot of my friends would disagree."

Fictional character!Zingenmir: apparently an enigma. And/or...a confusing type of neutral? Perhaps just very poorly characterized, depending on the in-universe justification given for half the stuff in this description.

~Z

I got Bastard (Good). I do not think that this fits me. In my opinion, I am practically the opposite of this.

Haven't got anything that particularly caught me this time, though, so sorry about that! But I enjoyed it all.

You're a good guy, but you shouldn't have been. Your appearance, your skillset, your backstory, it would have been perfect. But no, they had to make you a hero. I guess you were just too good to be true. You will always be a villain in our hearts.

Which is great and all, but perhaps fix that typo in the result's title first?

The Weird One You're the weird one, the one that half of tumblr babygirls and all of twitter is slightly scared of. You're probably autism-coded, and you probably also know some vital information that you shouldn't, for some reason.

As someone who recognizes his own weirdenss,who has been suspecting of being on the spectrum for a little while, and works on the assembly line of military jet aircraft... this feels scarily on point. Scarily, scarily on point. Help.

There are many things I would change if I were creating Tales from DOGA from scratch, because you can see a lot of the workings in what's there. For instance, Dafydd wasn't originally written as an elf! I'm pretty sure that only happened because I was one-upping Selene's vampire reveal. The fact that Raven took so long to write "Echoes of the Narbeleth" meant that the Maglor reveal ended up happening before the Elf reveal, which is bizarre nonsense (particularly since the original "Two Worlds United" mentioned elvish hearing before anything was revealed).

What I realised on thinking about your post is that I might be able to fix the timeline up a bit. By switching "Narbeleth" and "Blood of Those Betrayed" around, Constance becomes Dafydd's backup partner after Vemi leaves, but before Selene is allowed back. Then "Narbeleth" is Selene's first mission back, and the elf reveal turns into "I'll tell you something, but not as much as I did Connie". Then he runs into Constance again months later, under a table, and they realise quite how well they hit it off.

I think that's what I'll do (and it'll push me to fixing up "Narbeleth" anyway). No deadline or anything, but Watch This Space.

~

I think you're closer with "a bit scrambled" than "play-acting". Dafydd - actually, Maglor - seems to have a pathological need to be under light mind-control. First there was the Oath and the Silmarils. Then (much later) he acquired an evil harp. Then he joined the PPC, still under the destroyed harp's influence, and started a cult to GreyLadyBast. Then he acquired a Suvian ring that eventually drove him to blow himself up.

Both Selene and Vemi also tried to control him, mostly through threats of violence. As a Stokerverse vampire, Selene also has mesmeric powers - there's no evidence of her ever using them, but maybe Upstairs figured being a mind-control veteran would give Dafydd resistance if she acted out. Constance is the only person he spends a lot of time around who doesn't do that, which goes a long way to explaining their relationship.

Ultimately, I suspect the thing that stabilised him wasn't the harp Takua got him (though that helped as far as it went), but Ilwion the bronze fire-lizard. Having an actual benign mental influence finally gave him a chance to heal, and I doubt it's coincidence that D&C got their fire-lizards right before the birth of their first child.

hS

Because of how Smauging archaic the language is. I read a modern language translation, but didn't go very far.

Bastard (Bad)

You're that one character that everyone very impolitely wants dead. You're a constant [rooster]block, you try to stop the characters from saving the world, you insult the lovable ones in increasingly creative ways. You're not the big bad, but the fandom treats you like you are.

Given my answers, I can't help but think I'm just the adult in a YA book. I'm over here trying to keep the teenage protagonists from getting themselves and other killed, but nooo, listening to reason would get in the way of the plot... {= P

No, wait, it's worse than that. If this is how fandom sees you—with or without regard to actual characterization—then... I'm Evil!Thranduil. NOOOOOOO! {X D

Seems I'm in good company with the top percentage of results, at least!

~Neshomeh

How Fandom Would See You If You Were A Fictional Character. (Warning, there seems to be a decent amount of language.)

I think this would be fun as a basis for a Shipfest or Badfic Game story.

-Ls got Underrated

EDIT: I think Scape originally posted it.

Her biological mom smoked a lot when she was pregnant with Daphne. Seriously. That is an actual plot point.

-Ls

Congrats on another year of passing as an adult! {= D

~Neshomeh

There's something very satisfying about seeing gaps being filled in like this. Goes to show it's never too late, I guess, which is encouraging for anyone (read: me) who has a sliiiight tendency to take ages to finish anything. ^_^

I enjoyed the story. Dafydd is such a strange combination of old and inexperienced, it's often a little surprising what he doesn't know and what he just accepts. Like... going from "I panicked because the prospect of marriage was imminent after a single make-out" and "What's a date?" to "Sure, that sounds nice."

I guess I would expect elves in general to take courtship more seriously, and certainly not fool around with a human woman under a cafeteria table. And maybe he would have been appalled at such a thought when he was still Maglor. But since he's also a badfic character with certain select "passing as a human" experiences, plus the insane life of a PPC agent post-recruitment, his brain is a bit scrambled. And I mean that in an affectionate way. {= )

To be more generous, maybe "Dafydd" is more of a cloak that he wears to keep the strange weather of human life from touching him. He goes along with the general silly behavior around him and plays "charmingly befuddled" as a sleight of hand to keep people from looking too closely, seeing his real thoughts. But with Constance, we see the cloak pull back just a little, revealing the confusion of his existence as very real.

Or I'm reading into it way too much and I should really just relax.

Either way, I'm with Constance: I expect their date to have at least three different kinds of Shenanigans. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Draco f***s around and finds out insults a Hippogriff, and an accident occurs in Potions class.

Warning that Draco Malfoy is embarking on a faith deconstruction arc, so themes of religious trauma are going to get heavier with him from here on out. Also Hermione's Boggart uses the m-word on her.

I heard Daphne is supposed to be East Asian in this show, which raises the question: why does she have red hair, considering the show follows realistic coloring and doesn't have "anime" hair colors?

Have a cake-shaped hot air balloon, since cake deployment is making me think of something more like that than your average edible cake!

~Z

I mean, it really has everything, doesn't it? Maglor moments from Dafydd, character development, Constance and Dafydd getting used to each other, bits of misunderstandings, very well-timed "what" "what" "WHAT" reactions, hilarious moments for the minis...it ties into my memories of Dafydd's missions very well, with all the benefits of having been written with many more years of writing experience. I had a lot of fun reading.

~Z, making peace with some repetitive phrasing in exchange for a finished, posted little review.

For far too many years there has been a hole in the story of Dafydd Illian and Constance Sims. They met, went on a couple of missions, kissed for the first time... and then a year and a half later Dafydd sacrificed himself for Constance and they went off to get married. Their actual relationship happened entirely off-page.

No more. It may be 19 year late, but I've finally officially gotten them together.

First up, since it has been two decades, some context. The full Tales from DOGA spinoff can be found here, but Dafydd and Constance's story specifically is told in two missions that were... not super great. I've taken the opportunity to patch them up a bit, so this is the immediate context of the new mission:

• Background: In 2004, Dafydd Illian founds the Department of Geographical Aberrations. His partner is Selene Windflower, but after an incident involving her setting Agent Penny on fire, she is benched for a few months while Dafydd works with Penny's partner, Vemi. Vemi and Penny then leave the PPC, leaving Dafydd slightly at loose ends.
• June 2004: Two Worlds United (revised 2023) - Dafydd gets sent on his first mission with... Constant Sims? Something like that. (Labyrinth)
• July 2004: The Blood of Those Betrayed (revised 2023) - Dafydd and Constance have a second mission. (LotR)
• January 2005: Interlude 2 (unrevised; I think it holds up) - Dafydd and Constance run into each other avoiding a party.

And now the actual point of this post:

February 14th, 2005: The Heir of Feanor

With a title like that, you know Dafydd's gonna kick up a fuss, and Constance is going to be right in there with him.

hS