#Ender Wiggins

[afdg10]

random question, in the Drew Brown AU im curious how you chose the names of his dogs and cats if you are willing to share!

I was actually just working on something like this and I’m happy to do that

These are the meanings of Ender’s name and the names of his brigade of emotional support kids animals.

Just so everyone knows I also made myself sad with some of these

[fuck-em-up-your-grace]

I’m super surprised that homophobic, misogynistic, racist Orson Scott Card could allow such tender, vulnerable, platonic love between two boys in his book, but God am I grateful for it

[smoiesaustine]

Enders Game as Power Rangers Zeo

[kenonade]

an ender painting i made a while back,,, beautiful boy :)

[meat-loving-meat]

Nona the Ninth // Songmaster

Nona the Ninth // Ender’s Game

Harrow the Ninth // Ender’s Game

Tamsyn Muir // Orson Scott Card parallels

[transrevolutions]

"ender wiggin is ontologically evil and the real villain of ender's game" ender is like. eleven years old. neurodivergent and a minor in the most literal sense of the term.

[theotherpacman]

orson scott card: there is no tragedy greater than the violence we teach to our children before they can understand it - violence against those who, despite how completely and irrevocably different from ourselves they may seem to us, deep down, are people and that's what matters

orson scott card: homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to be members of society <3 and I also hate black people

[theonlyendersgamefan]

My mentaly ill 20 something year old emperor of the world could really go for a hamburger right now.

[gailhai1storm]

Achilles (the illiad) was able to walk away because he knew he was needed.

he was powerful enough, useful enough, important enough, that the most harmful and powerful thing he could do was say no.

and no one could stop him, no one could punish him.

they could be angry, and tell him he was a fool, but he had the power and he knew that.

so when he was broken, when his whole paradigm of trust was crushed, he walked away.

he didnt try to kill the person who was doing the injustice, he didn't need to

and honestly it was a better move, a more harmful thing to remove himself, to simply say no.

Ender did the same thing, he was so broken after battle school.

he did not care anymore and he was angry and hurt and betrayed and lied to.

so what did he do?

he walked away, he said no, he built a raff and laid on a lake and refused to do anything.

because he was important, he was necessary.

so the thing he could do, was walk away and what could they do about it?

nothing, cause it was him they needed his mind, his skill, his passion.

he was nessisary to them so the worst thing he could do, the most powerful thing he could do was walk away.

[wellwhatnowlove]

“He looks down at his feet, searching for words. When he finds them, he looks up at me with the raw emotion of his father, but without the anger or the pain. “Mother, your inheritance was guilt. Father’s was surrender. Because of you, because of Father, mine is struggle. That is better than guilt. It is better than surrender. I do not blame you. I thank you. You never pretended the world wasn’t broken, even when a broken world favored you.”

Light Bringer, pg.144

I GOT TO THINKIN TODAY ABOUT WHAT PAX SAID ABOUT HIS PARENTS’ INHERITANCE AND I HAD A REVELATION. okay sorry VERY LONG WINDED ESSAY BELOW. (Light Bringer spoilers too)

If Darrow’s inheritance has always been surrender and Virginia’s has always been guilt, then Light Bringer is a study in how they’ve swapped those burdens, and both grew immensely because of it. Virginia is forced to face the reality of surrender to keep Mars from falling. She must learn to sacrifice lives on an unimaginable scale. She literally has to surrender Phobos in order to hold Mars and save lives from a bloody battle over pride. She routinely seeks out the injured and dying to confront those she sacrifices. It’s heart breaking and hard to read at times, but not once did she not feel like the character we grew to love. She stays true to herself while mentioning multiple times that she now understands Darrow’s plight more than ever from the last decade.

Then on the flip side, Darrow is forced to reckon with his insurmountable guilt when he is put on trial before the daughters in the rim to answer for betraying them in order to secure a victory for the core rising/republic. He talks about how that guilt put a wedge between him and his family. That guilt made him feel unworthy of love, and, therefore, unable to properly express his love to those he would give everything for. This mirrors Virginia’s past struggle with one particularly potent example being her inability to believe that Darrow could love her after he reveals his true identity as a red in the tunnel under Lykos at the end of Golden Son. She says

“They are my family!” she shouts, face collapsing into grief. “My father hanged your wife. He hanged her. How can you even look at me?”

I think it’s this guilt (and probably some feelings of utter betrayal, panic, and overwhelm) that led her to leave Darrow in that tunnel and indirectly led him into the Jackal’s trap. Which I’m sure she also feels immense guilt for. But I think a large part of her journey off page and into morning star is her coming to terms with that guilt. In confronting it she learns to be vulnerable with Darrow again and comes to accept that he loves her despite the insane complexity of their history. This culminating with her leaning into her understanding of her part in the society and realizing that it puts her in a place to make a true change. All of this accomplished with an education in immense humility, flexibility, and compromise. Which is the lesson Darrow grapples with and I think truly leans into throughout this book. In a way, he is forced to reckon with how his guilt drove him away from Virginia and Pax and even veered him away from Eo’s dream.

I think on a character based level, this will exponentially strengthen their relationship when (please please Pierce) they finally reunite, and will make them a more formidable pair than even before. They now understand each others struggles in such intimate ways that idk if anyone can stop these two.

Then, on a plot based level it speaks to the larger themes of resilience, understanding and the fight for humanity. Virginia finds strength in surrender and Darrow finds redemption in humility and compromise. 

Then, add in some struggle, grit and pixie dust (and a cool head tattoo I guess. WE SEE YOU OVER THERE PAX AKA ADEPT AUGUSTUS. HELL YEAH KEEP IT UP BABY WOO) and the rising might just have a true shot. Not only at victory, but at redemption and continued effort in the name of what is just and good.

[radiobatter]

hegemongg!!!!!!!! hedge!!!!!!

been art blocked ☹️

[afdg10]

The bones for the “Drew Brown” au I have

These aren’t all concrete and up to changes at anytime but I would love to hear people’s thoughts on it!

(I also gave Ender 3 dogs rather than the 2 I mentioned earlier because he deserves it!)

[rrcenic]

so,,, i finished my summer reading,,,

have an enders game doodle dump :)

if the enders game fandom is like. alive and queer please please please talk to me!!!

[endearingwiggin]

Hello endernation I’m alive again sorry! Here is art I made last month or so? Idk

Brief tbhk ref bc i hfx on it for like two seconds and gave up

Also the peterachilles was moved to a new canvas and is being worked on as a separate project fyi and like guys so honest it all started as stupid recreation of the vocaloid butterfly headphone yuri like look

Ender’s hair made me mad just remembered I didn’t finish it but wtvr I’ll post his full design later plus updated ones of these bc this is so OLDDDDDD I’m sick really someone hit me repeatedly so I’ll draw them again

Wait I lied one more thing actually

Rotterdam design of Achilles, unpopular opinion I fear but I really liked his stupid shirt in the comics

okay the end bye for an unforeseeable amount of time

[kenonade]

learning calligraphy to write the most important messages throughout all time

[paginanilol]

I find it funny that people fandomize (new word!) Enders game. Like to me it is a deeply disturbing and interesting study into ideas of kindness, manipulation, character, and more. But then on tumblr I see people babygirl-ifying them and making them into cutesy little playthings. It feels exactly like Miku binder Thomas Jefferson.

And I guess do what you want, who am I to stop you, but it is just so strange to me how differently we can enjoy things.