#as a kid I felt so bad for him

[house-of-the-chosen]

Victor is such an interesting character to me and I don’t ever know if I can fully put into words on how complex he truly is.

But his quest for immortality is something that I can’t just help but feel more sympathetic towards to, because I don’t think it’s truly something he wanted of his own accord as a child. His father was a cruel and unfair man, constantly threatening to disown his son for not wanting to grow up too soon; for not spending his life to pursue immortality. And it’s just so saddening to see that flashback because Victor was happy, he was friends with Sarah and her parents were kind to him! But he couldn’t have that due to his father’s influence and he was cruel to Sarah because of that.

Even when she did forgive him, Victor still saw that moment between him and Sarah as an opportunity to interrogate her over the cup— but yet he realised it was too late to fix things after she died. Quietly attending her funeral and reminiscing while looking at a painting of her.

And at the end of season two where Nina passes on his father’s message and gives him the ring, seeing Victor sit there and silently grieve his lost childhood and process his father’s last words— the dawning realisation that his quest for immortality was over. There wasn’t anything else at this point.

His father was a coward, apologising when it was far too late and yet also continued to blame him even after his passing.

I think that’s why he’s practically unhinged in season three, he’s desperate to complete a quest that has been going on for far too long, kidnapping students and threatening them— but his desperation is his hubris and that’s what seals his fate when he becomes a sinner.

Man,,, something about seeking immortality is just so saddening because not only you lose everything around you, but you lose yourself too.

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

[dizzybizz]

i rlly like him actually

[ardentpoop]

you guys really don’t get him tbfh

[crippled-peeper]

no matter how advanced or “helpful” / “lifesaving” technology is for a disabled person they should still be allowed to hate it

[strayklds]

190629 / credit

[spkyart]

I CARE ABOUT THIS KID SO MUCH IT WAS SO PAINFUL TO LOOK AT HIM LIKE THIS HE DESERVE SO MUCH HAPPINESS IN HIS LIFE PLEASE LET MY SON BE HAPPY AND SAFE

[scentedcandlecryptid]

Impulse and Kid Flash racing in my comic/show crossover!

@givemewallywestorgivemedeath I think you mentioned these two racing in my main post, so this one's for you XDD

[dykedvonte]

Danse and Hancock work only after blind betrayal because it’s the equivalent of the one closeted person you kinda pity getting kicked out after being outted and you and your like 7 other faggot friends take them in and help them do a 180 on their outlook on life and personal style and get them to weed (possibly grape mentats in this case).

[matcha-x-matcha]

i hope we get Yanqing lore in the next update, I think he deserves it after getting the shit beat out of him like 3 times in the span of like a week, he's only like 14 guys

[compressedrage]

So I've been thinking about how Dark's mission code would register Orange

It's up for debate how much of Dark's actions during AvA "Season 2" (still weird to be calling it that) were purely Dark and how much were influenced by the code. I wouldn't say the code was completely absent– I think it was heavily influencing Dark's actions and how he responded to Chosen's attacks. Dark is violent person, and that is only heightened by his mission– Destroy The Chosen One.

Now Orange is The Second Coming; The Chosen One's Return. I've said before that they share code and likely act similarly because of this. But if that's the case, how would Dark's mission code react to him?

I'm not saying Dark tried to kill Orange simply because his mission code maybe made a mistake; he definitely saw Orange and his friends as obstacles to be eliminated. But I just wonder if for a split second his code made him pause because that kid looks familiar why does he look familiar I've never seen him before in my life–

Maybe it clicked as he was suspended in midair, staring into the eyes of a child, an avenging angel, and his mind is torn between oh he's like us and fearfearfear we're going to die

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

[weirdest-lights]

It's my own opinion but the more I watch the new season of the Bad Batch the more I feel like Tech's death was just cheap.

In a series focused on the Bad Batch, we saw more Rampart and Emerie than Echo . An integral member since the beginning.

So what if killing of Tech was just another quick way to get rid of a character they wouldn't have had time to write a role for? I mean, they barely talk about him and we never get to see anyone's reaction to his death.

It just feels like killing him was a way to get rid of a character easily to focus on others or just to make more drama in the new season.

"Oh Tech isn't here to do that so I guess we're going to have to risk our lives for this things."

"If Tech were here it would be easier but since he's not, guess we're going to have to take the long road !"

[saturnniidae]

"I should've seen the signs" I feel like Stoick was basically reliving the way he lost Valka.

To him, after a lifetime of wanting nothing but to kill a dragon, Hiccup's suddenly and inexplicably changed his mind. To him, Hiccup saying he can't kill them is just like when Valka refused to and tried convincing others as well, then as a result was 'killed' by one herself.

To him, way Hiccup tossed his weapon and shield to the side then approached Hookfang while speaking about how dragons aren't what people think they are probably bares an uncomfortable resemblance to the way Valka put down her weapon and stared a dragon in the eyes and as a result was taken.

To him, attempting to do anything but preemptively defend yourself against a dragon will only end in tragedy, so he has to do anything he can to stop Hiccup before it's too late.

(And just like with Valka, he unintentionally escalated the situation by trying to protect Hiccup but only agitated the dragon, causing it to panic and react, inadvertently putting someone he loves in danger. again)

Stoick of course, wasn't acting rationally, but it makes sense when you think about how traumatizing Valka's 'death' must've been for him (and how much Hiccup reminss him of her); he watched her get taken, presumably killed, and couldn't do anything about it.

[thatoneluckybee]

like 60% of the sbg tag right now is either people screaming about how much they hate Alex or how much they love him never change this

I DO NOT FASTPASS DO NOT SPOIL IT PLS...

[lullabyshark]

hi can i talk about shinooka "has a crush on a guy specifically bc he will never ever like her back" chiyo is so real and relatable to me a lesbian who did the exact same thing in high school. and can i talk about "abe will never look at me as a romantic partner" while the panel is him looking at mihashi. this page is too much. gayest page in the manga because its mlm/wlw solidarity multiple colors of the rainbow etc can we talk about chiyo PLEASE!!!!!!!