#But they dynamic has the misfortune of being in PH where basically every other character and even themselves has imo | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

jacksintention · 11 months ago

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This artist is so good and paints such poignant pieces with such intense yet subtle expressions and gestures that they are able to make Jack and Oswald look semi interesting to me

#The problem with Jack and Oswald is that they belong to PH #They would have been extremely interesting and compelling to me written slightly different in a slightly different context #belonging to a different story #But they dynamic has the misfortune of being in PH where basically every other character and even themselves has imo #way more intense and interesting dynamics than these two have. Because they have a semi normal fictional dynamic #So they come out to me as extremely dull #(which happens also in idk Wutherin.g Heights. Har.eton and Catherine give the impression of being an extremely dull and boring dynamic #to a lot of readers but they'd be The Couple in any other book. The problem is they belong to a book in which even the secondary characters #have a more intense love-and-grief-to-destruction dynamic with someone else)#I also personally dislike Oswald in great part for his relationship with Jack in the context of his sister #(which I would adore in a darker gothic-like AU because of the implications) but I truly think the main issue here for me is that they just #come off as extremely dull to me #And also that most fans portray the dynamic in a way that feels very ooc ngl #Like. I've seen descriptions. And. It's not that at all. You're attributing them traits they don't have #At times explicitly so in concrete chapters and panels #But that's not a them problem it's a fandom problem (though fandom makes me dislike them somewhat when otherwise I am neutral in interest)#The them problem is the dull-in-context thing #I would have gone mad for them in idk Tsubasa which is what I was reading/watching before PH #A pity they aren't but who they are in the context in which they find themselves #A pity that they too as fictional character suffer this small curse of mediocre real people haha #But yes anyway shfkjsks this artist is soooo good it's like getting a glimpse of what I imagine other people see in them #And I appreciate that a lot both because of the art itself and because of how they play with the story and the concepts of the characters #I love their art a lot #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later

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