#IM SORRY THIS POST GOT SO LONG . I BLACKED IUT AND WOKE UO WITJ 34 DIFFERENT ILLNESSES ALL FHOSTKICKS

[bizlybebo]

high to death. ghostkicks

this is such a supremely fucked up thing to do to a man you genuinely have no clue. hold the fuck on i’m breaking down how severely evil this is

^ this would clearly be a verse from william’s pov and it’s so soul crushing 2 think about because dakota’s watched people waste away, in a sense, before and even though william is #dying throughout canon for a different reason, it’s still supreeeemely fucked up . ohhhh my god.

^ 2 ME. THIS IS EVERY TIME WILLIAM PRETENDED TO SLEEP BECAUSE HE COULDNT ACTUALLY DO SO. CAN YOU HESR MEEE

^ ok. ok ok ok ok so obviously we have the smoke motif with william but considering that this is a callback to stop smoking (we love you) where the lyrics are essentially “keep smoking, we love you, and we don’t want you to die” this swap is OUGGHHH. OUGHH. because honestly this lyric 2 me implies someone breaking off the relationship because their lover is slowly destroying themselves but neither of them would ever do that #codependency <333 and so. i . ohhhohoh. to me. TO ME. i think it’s actually dakota’s pov at “keep smoking, i still love you”, encouraging william to keep going and keep trying to save ashe etc. and william’s pov is the “but i don’t want to die”, because he’s freaking the fuck out s2ep14 style about having no blood.

^ i’ve seen this lyric interpreted by some1 else before as william’s (wiwi here just 2 extra clarify) younger/pre-fall self talking to him now. and i think it could also be william talking to himself when he wanted out of the hero stuff (or “whatever this is”, like he said in s2ep14) . william “let me out” wisp and dakota “let me in (i just want to help you)” cole. im sick 2 my stomach

^ s2ep34 when william confesses what he did during greyscale arc. FUCKING. FUCK and i think if you stretched it you could interpret “hell is the sun, burning forever at the center of things” as some sort of reference 2 the spirit world and how it feels like it’s sort of taking over william’s life and is always omnipresent (like the sun) no matter how hard he tries to run away. also the sun like keeps Everything alive and william is, in a way, only alive cause of his wisp powers which he got from the spirit realm YKNOW

^ THIS IS LITERALLYYYYY THE MOST FUCKED UP PART OF THE ENTIREEE SOMG THRU A GHOSTKICKS PERSPECTIVE.

i (william) can’t turn this thing off, it (dakota) keeps following me

^dakota cole dog motif. dakota cole following william literally anywhere because of how strongly he looks up to him, william being the same but also being afraid because it’s such a responsibility to have somebody as great as dakota look up to and follow him like that

used to be so human, now it’s just a machine

^this could be william in reference to himself but i also think it could be either william or dakota and how they feel in reference to the hero system, whether or not they are seen as people or just machines now that they’ve gone through. all that they’ve gone through. of course dakota is still a much. bigger fan of the hero system but even he was having doubts, questions, etc., as seen in his “no more statues” speech and his address to the heroes at deadwood and things like that

WHEN’D YOU SAY YOU WERE LEAVING?? WHEN’D YOU REALLY LEAVE??

^ TIMESKIP. WILLIAM BEING BITTER ABOUT DAKOTA DISAPPEARING FOR SO FUCKING LONG GODDDDDD GOD. FUCK. AND DAKOTA BEING BITTER ABOUT WILLIAM NO LONGER BEING A HERO-IN-TRAINING AND WORRYING THAT HE MAY NOT WANT TO DO THE WHOLE Prime Defender (tm) THING ANYMORE. WWHATEBER. SURE. IM NORMAL

you could even take the hojin stella jung talking about their portfolio + The Lady at the end and make it ghostkicks. the world is ghostkicks

(i understand the importance of this piece and the speech given about it i do not want 2 diminish that this is simply leaning rlly hard into the ghostkicks lens)

^ william pov when dakota was gone for those 10 months.

^ this could be william or dakota in reference to their s1 selves but im kinda leaning towards dakota because of how strongly he fuckjng masked and all the shit that went behind it and all that he went through and OUGUHHHHH.

TLDR PHOEB WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU. WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU