homunculus-argument:
A social gathering of dudes who all have serious Main Character Syndrome, but all are wildly different genres. One of them is the “people don’t like me because I’m too smart” Misunderstood Genius who isn’t actually particularly smart, just mean. Another one thinks he’s wisecracking and clever by just talking like a character in a Marvel movie. Third one thinks he’s subtly pulling off a mysterious Film Noir vibe by wearing a fedora and spending most of his time internally narrating, and silently staring at people. The fourth one is a deeply dramatic purple prose self-fashioned Byronic Hero who is unaware that he would be a mildly annoying minor antagonist in a Jane Austen novel at best. The fifth one has gotten his entire personality from shounen anime.