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Sooo I watched Jentry Chau
I was hoping it could fill the void of The Owl Houseā¦.
But there was a lot of similarities to other things
Also how dare theyā¦ the Neji reference was a dead giveaway
It almost felt like the old Sabrina cartoon mixed with American dragon and Juniper Lee.
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The soundtrack ripping my soul right out of my body didnāt help either
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- love in the mundane
warsh_tippy and zelda- whatever, dad/ minari/ new years day- taylor swift/ @death-born-aphrodite/ stay, stay, stay- taylor swift/ everything, everywhere, all at once/ i will- mitski/ @death-born-aphrodite/ fleabag/ sweet nothing- taylor swift
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Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
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Enjoy this and forgive my absence :)
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None of you understand Amber Bennett: She's just a girl, your honour. A review of the show writers' least favourite love story from Invincible season 1.
Now let me just preface this by saying I have 2 points to make. Just two, very long, super rambly points that does have mild spoilers for Invincible season 2. Read at your own risk.
Point 1: Amber isn't "understanding" enough is utter bullshit.
Thereās no indication that civilians outside of the ones associated with the GDA have any idea how brutal fights are for superheroes. Amber quite literally has no idea what the hell Mark is going through, even after the superhero reveal. The only thing she has a smidgeon of understanding of is his dad beating his ass on live TV. And even that is a heavy maybe because we donāt know how much of the fight the cameras could cover and how much was broadcast to the general public.Ā
Point 2: Amberās dated Losers before.
This is stated explicitly in canon, she's ābeen down that road." Furthermore, sheās also the daughter of a single-parent household. She used to hang out a community centre as a kid because her mom did late hours. Daddy Issues anyone? Sheās got a lot of her own problems that we never get to unpack or linger on because the writing decided she wasnāt going to end up with Mark.Ā
What if sheād already dated an absolute bastard before Mark? Someone who seemed sweet and genuine at first, but then he started slacking. Heād be late to dates, stop taking an interest in anything she did, and just never show up for her in any way that mattered. Amber would make up excuses with her friends and family, oh heās busy, heās studying; he cares, I swear, he just has a strange way of showing it.Ā
Her friends and family donāt believe her completely but they humor her because she really seems to like him. And the ex-boyfriend isnāt a douchebag the whole time.. he brings gifts to make up for being late, he plies and pacifies her with honeyed words and promises to be better.
But each time the lies get more and more difficult to believe. Traffic and science projects, traffic and science projects, even when he shows up smelling like weed and alcohol. Her friends and family give her tight-lipped smiles when her ex-boyfriend gives her sloppy kisses and proclaims over and over āSheās too good for me, this one.ā
She tries to be empathetic, she tries to be understanding when theyāre alone, he can tell her what it is thatās wrong. But every-time she brings up giving them some space, he takes it as an indication of her not believing him and he guilts her with one sob story or anotherā she knows him, he was so gentle and respectful before they started dating, does she really think heād do this to her if he didnāt have a good reason? Just a masterclass in gaslighting. So she gives him a second chance, third chance, fourth even.Ā
But then he begins cheating on her. Whenever she confronts him about it, he plays victim and accuses her of being ācrazyā even though the entire school knows otherwise. She catches him one fine day, and dumps him on the spot. For a short while, Amberās very proud of this but as time passes she starts to feel extremely embarrassed that it took that long for her to catch on.Ā
No one blames her, of course, but they all say something along the lines of āWe never liked him anywayā which makes Amber doubt the perception of him she had. She internalises their support as a failing on her part to be vigilant, she didnāt want to end up making the same mistakes as her mom, after all.Ā
Amber becomes guarded. She doesnāt entertain male attention (from Todd, for example) but then she finds out resident wimp Mark Grayson takes a beating for her and she feels bad.Ā
So she gives him a chance. Mark was a nonissue, a nobody with no track record of being amazing or awful, just an in-between, normal guy who was maybe a little soft spoken and needed to stand up for himself more.Ā
But every time they try to hang out, something comes in between them. The excuses are laughably obvious this time and Amber is caught between trying to understand if Mark Grayson is trying to let her down easy because heās not interested or if heās just another douchebag taking her for a ride.Ā
He leaves her alone during their study date for an hour to do something shady and/or potentially related to Eve (I know she overheard him yelling at Cecil in his bedroom); Mark tells her heās been to Mount Everest, but canāt tell her How he got there, and leaves on a non-specific trip for two weeks, right after their first date, and canāt even tell her Where heās going or what he did when he was there?
So she does what sheād wished sheād done in her first relationship, she sets her boundaries. Firmly. She gives Mark multiple chances to come clean when she tells him sheās not riding that wave again. Itās been brought up a few times that Amber has lingering relationship-trauma.
During their study date Amber tells him sheās been in relationships with violent potentially abusive guys (āMet plenty of guys who were willing to throw a punch for me.ā); or when he stands her up for the Dinner with her mom she tells him that he needs to make a choice because sheās āBeen down this road before, and once was enough.ā
But he still keeps at it and she starts getting tired of defending him to her friends and her mom. Heās just busy, heās just studying; he cares, I swear, he just has a strange way of showing it. And this time they shake their heads and lightly imply that sheās stuck in a pattern. Amber can feel them comparing Mark to her old boyfriend and it all becomes a bit too much.Ā
Either heās a no good drug dealing prick or heās just wasting her time, whatever it is, Amberās had enough of being left in the dark.Ā
The soup kitchen is the final straw, but then she finds out that he gets run over by a bus. He actually gets hurt, this is the first time Amberās seen him hurt, and she feels awful because if she hadnāt pushed him to show up for her again and again maybe he wouldāve been more careful.Ā
He doesnāt let her visit him in the hospital. A hit and run on the wrong side of town was the story this timeā he canāt even tell her this, the specifics of his accident! Eve was his first point of contact after his parents?! At this point Amber is convinced that heās involved in something violent or something to do with Eve, or both and sheās not sure she wants to keep going with this.Ā
Amber is confused and hurt but she also feels responsible for Markās injuries. Maybe she Was too paranoid, maybe she Was projecting all her relationship-trauma on him and he would tell her what happened at his own pace. So she backtracks, gives him another chance.
College is really the best of all worlds, Mark makes her promises that this time will be different, and Amber tentatively agrees to college together. (Sheās still stressed out about his injuries and on edge the whole time though and asks if he has a concussion).Ā
This is really important because Amber ends up at Upstate U later. She decided to go to college with him, basically because of Him. This wasnāt any specific plan she had before, this was her making room in her life for this boy and potentially everything their lives could be together.Ā
Then the Reanimen Incident happens. And she loses her shit. Mark Grayson is not the flakey but well-intentioned boyfriend she thought he was.. Mark Grayson is not even a good person! He LEFT her and William at the drop of a hat to save his own slimy skin, that bastard! Her intuition was right, she never shouldāve given him a chance.Ā
Amber was no longer going to give Mark Grayson the time of day, much less share a bed with the self-serving jerk; she wouldnāt give him the satisfaction of spinning another tall tale. Or seeing her cry. She closes the door to the shower rooms behind her, and overhears Rick leaving to get them all some beer. Dorm room walls are thin, after all.
Then she hears something else.
āYouāre Invincible!ā Williamās voice carries over excitedly, āAnd you never told me?ā
Here goes the "problematic" bit.
I think Amber was lying when she told Mark she knew he was Invincible weeks ago. Amber didnāt even know who Invincible was until a few minutes after the Reanimen attack. She isnāt acting for anyone around her, sheās genuinely confused when the superhero jets off because sheās never seen him in her life.Ā
I think she overheard William freaking out about it in the dorm room and she pieced together Markās absences with his vague excuses and why couldnāt visit him at the hospital. She takes a shower to cool off but sitting and stewing on all of it just makes her angrier and she decides to go to the frat party just to get away from Mark for a while.Ā
Now why wouldnāt she just tell him she overheard them talking?Ā
Amber is an assertive independent character with a lot of pride. And thatās not a bad thing. Amber has a lot to be proud of. She has a strong sense of justice, she doesnāt take crap from anyone and she has too much self-worth to put up with liars.Ā
You can clearly see this in the way she approaches Mark in the beginning. She asks William if heās dating Eve, and then instead of calling him herself, she gets Todd to give Mark her number so he can call her if heās interested, despite the fact that she already is. She has too much pride to chase him. Itās one of her fixed flaws, and itās consistent to her character.Ā
So finding out that Mark is actually Invincible almost by accident, is kind of embarrassing for Amber. Not only because she yelled at him for disappearing but for all the times he misled her and lied to her only to actually have a good reason for doing it. Thereās a lot of mixed emotions there, shame, guilt, concern.Ā Guilt.
Admitting that she overheard he was Invincible would be like admitting she was a stupid, nagging girlfriend who had no right to be a part of his life (the way the fandom perceives her) so she doesnāt. She tries to distract herself with the party, flirts with someone she just met not ten minutes ago, and feels awful because he immediately drops the girlfriend bomb.Ā
Now sheās forced to confront the fact that she has a boyfriend, and her flakey, well-intentioned superhero boyfriend is sitting and moping in the dorm room because she doesnāt have the guts to tell him she knows. Because telling him she knows would remove the choice heād need to make when deciding whether or not he was serious about their relationship.
Amber was serious, Amber was going to change her life and potentially open her future to college with him, but was Mark really sure about Them if he couldnāt even tell her of his own accord?Ā
Telling him would be like giving him another out. And Amber was done giving him an out.Ā
When he finally confesses he doesnāt see why sheās mad at him, because he doesnāt see her at all. He canāt even begin to imagine what this roller coaster of a weekend has been for her because sheās been serious about him all this time and it took them breaking up completely for Mark to choose her back in the first place and go all in.Ā
Now itās true that Mark is entitled to his secrets but Amber is also entitled to being upset that he canāt tell her 1 solid thing about his life. Not one thing does he trust her enough to explain, and at that point why should they even be dating each other? Why should she change the course of her future for a guy who canāt tell her where he was last weekend?
Then Omni-man beats him up on live TV, and now that she knows that heās Invincible, she finally gets a glimpse into the bloody, gruesome world that is Markās. His Dad isnāt a superhero, his Dad is a Monster, and Mark is discovering this the same time as the rest of the world.
So she freaks out because she cares, and sheās so relieved to see him not beat to a bloody pulp like on TV that she kisses him. She likely had no intention of getting back together with him before that, but world-ending fiascos often come with heightened emotions, and theyāre just kids at the end of the day.Ā
Sheās not a manipulative, narcissistic villain, sheās just a proud girl, in love with a boy who canāt decided whether or not he loves her back.Ā
Now do I think Mark is a terrible jerk who doesnāt deserve Amber? No. I watched Invincible the same way it was intended, almost entirely through Markās eyes, and itās hard to assign blame in this case because we see how horrifying and traumatic being a superhero actually is. But thatās the point, we only see one half of the story.Ā
We see Amber through Markās eyes and in his opinion she could afford to be more compassionate to his excuses the moment she finds out heās a hero, the way Eve can, but thatās not true at all because Amber has no idea what being a hero is like. Eve does, and thatās the difference that Mark is wilfully blind to.Ā
But Mark also has no idea what Amberās life is like and itās easy to get lost in the sea of all the lives lost and villains fought, that he genuinely hasnāt spent any time with his girlfriend as a person beyond his Girlfriend. Amber isnāt a person to him, like William stopped being eventually; they became sort of tethers to Markās humanity, a way to distinguish himself from his Dad. A way to ground him.Ā
Seriously? When was the last time Mark even talked to William, his once Best Friend? Theyāre not his Mom, theyāre concepts to him. Theyāre civilians, potential victims he could end up losing if he doesnāt police himself and his powers. Mark slowly becomes disillusioned to his own life as a human, the more the leans into the Viltrumite half of his parentage.Ā
Itās a little tragic but itās the story weāre seeing. In season 2, when Mark and Amber break up and he gives up his dream for college, these two things are almost explicitly correlated. Mark is coming to terms with the fact that heās going to outlive everyone he knows, even his new baby brother and that is just the most chaotic example of a slow-burn trauma if Iāve ever seen one. Heās giving up being human, but maybe not giving up his humanity.Ā
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TLDR: None of you understand Amber Bennett because the writers decided that Mark would outlive her before he ever had the chance to see things from her perspective and I am SALTY about it
#invincible#invincible spoilers#invincible season 2#invincible show#mark grayson#amber bennett#invincible amazon#omni man#atom eve#eve wilkins#markamber#mark grayson x amber bennett#debbie grayson#invincible s2#invincible season 1#amber bennett hate#am I salty about the wilful misunderstanding of amber bennett?#Yes#yes i am#invincible meta#invincible meme#give us an amber-centric episode you cowards
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HC Mari koala hugs Luka before waiting for him to notice and greet her first
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Sketch pages of Hazbin and Helluva characters!
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Alastor, you petty bitch.
I 100% believe he just saw Lucifer and immediately realized how to get under his skin. It was hate on first sight. He also totally has an agenda that uses Charlie somehow. Two birds one stone.
Also, guess whose getting better at drawing in the style B )))
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OKAY SO-
Alastor lost his cool and flipped his shit immensely when Lucifer showed up - why would that be? and why wedge himself between Lucifer and Charlie? Why would he react so viscerally when his literal main-competitor for retaining his rank and respect is Vox, and Vox openly antagonises him first, trying to drag Alastor's reputation through the mud in his broadcasts
Alastor remains cool, calm, collected, and in doing so completely surpasses Vox's attempts
in many ways, Alastor is unflappable. Always smiling, always a step ahead, always the most powerful and domineering in a room
and then- Lucifer shows up. This short statured, rosy-cheeked, rather pathetic excuse of a man
he waltzes in to the hotel, a fumbling over-excited mess, the least threatening a person could possibly look in hell, barely reaching Alastor's waist
and yet, he outranks Alastor, he could over-power him easily, he is the predator
and Alastor simply cannot handle that
Alastor may be furious that such a week-minded, emotionally unguarded man ranks so far above him with no way for Alastor to even attempt to gain the same status
so what does Lucifer lack? what is the one thing Alastor can have that he can't?
a relationship with Charlie
his anger is calculated, he finds what hurts Lucifer, he finds his weakness, he grips onto it with both claws, and he drags it in front of him, mocking the fact that, yeah, sure Lucifer may outrank him, but in his daughters mind? one of the few things Lucifer can't control? Alastor has the power, has the lead - in all manners of 'power' and 'influence' that Lucifer cannot control, Alastor makes sure he knows he is on top - he is Charlie's favourite, he succeeds where Lucifer has failed her
regardless of his motives, he has been there for Charlie, and Lucifer hasn't, and that's all that matters
but why does he have this deep-rooted need to prove himself? why can he not accept that he is still the second most powerful in that hotel?
his need for power, for dominance, for control is shown again when Husk confronts him in the hallway
'big talk for someone who's also on a leash'
this time, Alastor doesn't even bother targeting Husker's, insecurities, his weaknesses
he drags him down the hallway chained at his neck, teeth gnashing and positively enraged
there's no typical Alastor intelligence or cunning behind this action - it is pure unadulterated rage, it's a: I can kill you, and I will
killing husk would be useless - Alastor obviously has a purpose for him, that's why he's been kept alive and the other overlords haven't, killing him would get rid of any leverage Alastor had, it would get rid of Husk full stop
Alastor has been gone for 7 years, and now he's back, supporting a cause he doesn't believe, forced to wander around the hotel halls and haunting its residents instead of freely roaming Hell
Lilith has also been gone 7 years - and she isn't yet back
Alastor just so happens to appear at the hotel mere moments after Charlie tries to talk to Lilith, marching into the foyer and wedging himself into the project with a showman's flair
he is chained, he is chained to that infernal hotel where he doesn't belong - he cannot be redeemed, he doesn't want to be redeemed
he is chained to Lilith, and by extension he is chained to Charlie
and in his eyes, he is powerless, so utterly and infuriatingly at the mercy of those above him, and that simply won't do
so what can he do? what can a man, whose greatest desire is power, who's biggest insecurity is the power and status he wields over others, do to reclaim some semblance of that power? how can he usurp Lilith? how can be make this soul-bond beneficial to him?
he can win Charlie over - he can replace her father in the process, he can mould her as he sees fit, he can play on her need to view the best in everyone, in the need to create friendships and her insatiable ability to care for those around her
he cannot get to Lilith, he cannot match Lucifer, but he can have Charlie
and he's nearly got her
and when he does? who's to say her naivety, her trust, the relationship he's intentionally crafted with her, leads her to strike a deal with him in a moment of need? when the angels attack, when the hotel begins to crumble, when heaven commands her to stop her efforts? why wouldn't she strike a deal, in her mind, he's as caring as a father figure, and a man who's been there since day one unlike either of her parents
she shakes his hand
he has her soul
he has Charlie, and he has Lilith, and he has Lucifer
there's nothing they can do, and isn't that really what power is? not raw-strength, not magic, not status, but the ability to control those who others may believe to be above your own station?
he's forced to the hotel, he's chained down and unable to grab for more power - if Lilith is preventing him from earning it himself, well, he can always just force her to give it to him
all it takes is one hand shake.
the cherry on top? he get's to show Lilith it's her own desire for him to be at the hotel that has allowed him to ensnare them all
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Alastor being all āCharlie is like a daughter to me!ā when in fact their relationship is usually polite antagonism at best is so damn funny to me. Like he never even really believed in Charlieās ambitions, he was at the Hotel for laughs, but then an opportunity falls into his lap to taunt Lucifer in emotionally damaging ways and get away with it and he ran.
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Pouring one out for the people that have been shipping Charlastor just for Alastor to refer to himself as a father figure to her several times in that episode. That's really fucking funny dude I'm sorry.
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Pfffffft
Y'all I CAN'T. Vaggie's face.
(Wonder if Charlie always reminded Vaggie of Em? Did Vaggie admire her? Hate her for her naivety but come to love it in Charlie? dgfdffgdhnghfg there's 10 000 different fics you could spin from this shot alone. For once the sapphics are eating good. There's layers.)
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ālilith got charlie in the divorceā ālucifer got charlie in the divorceā actually alastor got her
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Listen. I realize there's a decent chance it may just be a manipulation tactic of some sort but Alastor claiming Charlie as his daughter figure and willing to be ferociously protective of her in the newest episode has me in a fit.
His little pissing fight with lucifer and then the themes of found family being not just hinted at but explicitly stated? Ugh that episode is everything to me.
I'm just so interested to see more of Charlie and Alastor's relationship after this and I hope they keep those themes reoccurring because I'm such a damn sucker for them.
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