#But Arthur is more pitying and prone to giving up for short whiles whereas orm will try to force things to be the way he wants them | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

haveyouthoughtaboutcomicstoday · 6 days ago

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Orm's journey from the full human half-sibling to half human, half atlantean half-sibling to full atlantean half-sibling. For how much he hates Arthur's human side in modern Aquaman books, it's only second to how much he despised it in himself.

#The first time I read Aquaman 1985 I spent like 2 days thinking about orm Arthur and parental differential treatment and antisocial outcomes #orm marius #he's so fucked in the head <3 #also the way precrisis Arthur was raised believing in the divine right of kings #and then new52 gave that to Orm instead #terrible reflections of each other where regardless of how their circumstances change and trade between them Arthur always comes out on top #something something doomed by the narrative #its like poetry it rhymes and all that #also I don't want to give across the idea that Arthur has it easy or is a perfect child #Arthur has had incredible instability in most of his childhoods as well and suffers from the same emotional intensity and anger issues #But Arthur is more pitying and prone to giving up for short whiles whereas orm will try to force things to be the way he wants them #Most importantly: Arthur accepts other people into his life and will adhere to other's choices even when he knows they're wrong #Orm when given the chance to have a wife and child who love him abandons them because he cant get out of his own way #and at the end of the day Atlantis hates them both but knows they can rely on Arthur. And Arthur comes with Mera and they love Mera (same)

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