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The thing is I do get the, like, instinctive suspicion of JGY? Orâwell, no, I think a lot of it is classism. But suspicion is honestly a really reasonable response to JGY's activities under JGS! It's worth it to ask: was he really in danger of his life? And even if he was, having had to do this to surviveâwhat will he be like, when he doesn't have to anymore?
They're fair questions! The problem is they're questions we can answer from the text. He absolutely was in danger of his life. And as to what he'd be like when he didn't have to anymoreâ
I've talked about the watchtowers a lot because they're such a good example, and the kind of thing that would never have happened without him. But sometimes I want to shake people and say, look at the result of his governance! Look at the world WWX wanders through, post resurrection! Look at the peace, look at the way the juniors really get the chance to be kids!
This isn't something that happens automatically. Or really what I want to say is, it means something about the powers of the cultivation world. You can't just treat it as an interesting background fact to the juniors' characterization, with no depth beyond that! The cultivation world under WRH was the way it was because of WRH; the cultivation world under JGS was the way it was because of JGS; the cultivation world under JGY was the way it was because of JGY, and the way it was was better than any other time we've seen it.
#jin guangyao#you wouldn't have this peace if he hadn't actively been working for it!#and obviously it's not only him#it matters that JC isn't interested in stirring anything up#and LXC of course is pretty much his partner in this from the get-go#but it is /more/ him than anyone else#he's xiandu!#idk man I wouldn't want to live in the world of mdzs at any point for a whole host of reasons#but if I had to pick I think 'during JGY's chief cultivatorship' is really clearly the best option
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One of my favorite trope for Steddie is Steve hunting down Eddie when the kids join Hellfire and giving him a long list of dos and donts.
At first Eddie thinks heâs just being a prick, and worried heâs going to turn the nerds into freaks like him. Especially when he says not to mention drugs in front of Dustin.
But then he starts pulling out lists of monsters that canât be in campaigns. And like what??? Why canât he use demagorgons? They were gonna be in the next combat! Heâs tempted to ignore the warnings, in fact heâs all set to, but something about Steveâs face when he was laying it all out haunts him. Something so deadly serious about it. So first he decides to test the waters to see if heâs full of shit.
When the session starts, he makes a throwaway comment, âyouâre acting like thereâs a mindflayer around the corner.â
All the kids freeze but Wheeler especially looks like heâs going to be sick. He even grabs at the bracelet around his wrist. The one he always said his best friend made him before he moved.
Eddie curses himself for even trying to test it out after that, and immediately bullshits the whole session so he can scrap any hint of demogorgans from the campaign.
After that session he drives straight to Harringtons house and demands they go over all the things he canât include again, in detail, while he takes notes.
He doesnât know whatâs going on with these freshmen, but he knows trauma when he sees it and well heâd gotten attached to the gremlins.
When he leaves that night, he thinks Steve is looking at him with approval. Like he trusts him with their well-being now.
#stranger things#eddie munson#steve harrington#mike wheeler#lil bit of byler#just a hint#also I firmly believe thereâs not enough Eddie and Mike content in this fandom#like Mike worshipped him too#styled himself after him#and arguably needs Eddie more than Dustin does since heâs already got Steve#idk why I just feel like if anyone can kill season 3 and 4 Mike itâs Eddie#bring back my sweet season 1 and 2 leader who puts his friends before everything else#steddie#mine
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AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.
Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him
#I have IDEASSSS#but only if people are interested#fop#fairly oddparents#dev dimmadome#dale dimmadome#fop dev#fop dale#fairly oddparents a new wish#fop a new wish#fop nature au#moral orel nature#hurt no comfort#blood#child abuse#child neglect#medical trauma#implied gun violence#Dev only gets a week or two off school because his dad doesn't want people to think anythings wrong#Dale doesn't care thattt much about public optics but people knowing you permanently disabled your son is absolutely not good for business#Dev hates the leg and keeps it as hidden as possible#as far as anyone else knows he just took a week long vacation and came back lazier and crabbier than ever#Dale did it out of his own sick kind of love but to Dev its just a reminder of how replaceable his dad sees him.#just the same as any other of his machines#The doodle in the corner is Dev coming into his own a bit more. He stops trying to look like his dad#Did you know Dev and Dale have naturally curly hair?? They just hair gel it to all hell#I think in this timeline Hazel shows up pretty soon after he returns to school so the accident is pretty fresh#art#digital art#fanart
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SPIKE: do you need a dog. i can bark caps frm
#spike#spike btvs#spuffy#spuffyedit#btvsedit#buffy the vampire slayer#you know you want to dance#it's terribly simple#honestly i know plot reasons demanded that things progressed past this and i do enjoy their relationship in s6 and s7#but i LOVE s5 spuffy and i think we should have gotten twelve seasons of this dynamic. buffy and her vicious chained dobermann bf#who whines and whimpers whenever she's too mean to him. big bad wolf who is both big and bad and would happily eat out of her hand.#and buffy not really liking him but also being obsessed with him and clicking with him and getting him more than anyone else in her life#and being kind of a brat about it too i think thats a great part of the relationship as well
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forced friendship bonding time
#i realize now that caine is a lot bigger than pomni its kind of funny#i watched the second part#it was alright#still just here for caine and pomni though#zooble is cool but im not that attached to anyone else#maybe kaufmo if there was more about him#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc caine#tadc pomni
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Unmasked & unguarded
#ghostsoap#soapghost#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#my art#cod fanart#more painterly than my usual stuff#wanted to try something new#this type of rendering is not for me I think#took so so long#love the idea of the total trust Ghost has in Soap that he will sleep completely bared to him#in a way heâs never been with anyone else#and soap just staring at him in awe that he gets to see this side of Simon#they make me ill#the colours got a bit muddy but Iâve fiddled with this for ages and I give up đ„Č
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lol arthur realizes with the other knights after watching merlin flirt and being hit with a wave of deja vu: holy shit you asked me out
merlin and the rest of the knights around a campfire after leaving a village bc lancelot and leon somehow started a brawl in the tavern: ???
arthur points at merlin: after valiant! you asked me to buy you a drink! you were asking me out!
merlin is busy cooking dinner and confused out of his fucking mind: what???âŠ..valiantâŠ.oh the knight with the snakes.
gwaine who was slightly tipsy now stone cold sober and sitting up straight against a tree: wait. explain. what do you mean merlin asked you out??
arthur snaps his fingers as he recalls the memory: i apologized for sacking you and you said that if i bought you a drink weâd be even.
merlin now remembering how he had stumbled into camelot, picked a fight with a pigheaded bully which quickly turned homoerotic and flirtatious, and continued their teasing-flirting for days before merlin shot his shot and asked the prince out only to be rejected: oh yeah, i forgot i did thatâŠ..wait, you mean you didnt realize what i was asking?
arthur: no?? we argued everyday, how was i supposed to realize you were asking me out??
merlin now abandoning the dinner and staring across the camp at arthur while the rest of the knights watch their back and forth like a game of tennis: to you we were arguing, to me that was very much flirting. i thought you were flirting back so i decided to ask you. then you rejected me
arthur, mentally beating his past self up for fucking up their chance: i didnât reject you!!! i just didnât realize what you were asking me. how was i meant to? we fought every chance we got
leon, nudging elyan, glee and excitement riling through him: its happening!!! its finally happening!!! seven long, grueling years is finally paying off!!!
merlin, realizing the misunderstanding and acknowledging the fact that he wasnât rejected, his flirtations just werenât noticed - realizing he still has a chance: ohâŠoh i see. arthur, my dear, our fights were extremely flirtatious. need i remind you of what you said? âdo you know how to walk on your knees? would you like me to teach you?â or âi could take you apart with one blowâ
arthur, mental capabilities at an all time low: mâŠmy dearâŠ.?????????
merlin grinning devilishly as he realizes that his flirtatious persona he had hidden away after falling head over heels for arthur can make a come back: that is what i called you. should i call you something else? sayâŠmine?
percival gags in elyanâs ear: cheesy
elyan hides a laugh: at least theyâre finally getting somewhere. better than the hopeless pining
arthur, flushed from head to toe: ah uh no um im uh
merlin thoroughly enjoying himself: oh come now, your majesty. use your words.
#meanwhile leon is praying his thanks to every god and goddess above for their mercy#his pain and suffering is so over#merlin is going IN on arthur who is red as fuck#gwaine is enjoying himself immensely#lancelot pulls out popcorn to watch the two idiots finally get their acts together#flirty merlin x flustered arthur#i think yes#listen. merlin lived in ealdor. a small village of maybe thirty people - four or five being his own age#he was thrilled to be in camelot and have new faces and people to meet#he was definitely the village tease or flirt or whatever#he was gonna be a rake in camelot but unfortunately managed to fall hopelessly in love with the prince of camelot#he burned his dreams of being a rake in exchange for arthur#the issue? arthur rejected his advances. next issue? merlinâs feelings remained and grew#so merlin is a lovesick puppy for a prince who doesnt feel the same and he cant find it in himself to look at anyone else bar a few cases#he and lancelot def slept together at least once. him and gwaine tumbled into bed a few times together#but his heart always belonged to arthur he just never imagined hed get a chance to let his affection be known#now that he knows arthur never knew of his intentions in the first place and was quick to deny he rejected him#merlin is more than happy to let that part of his personality come back and terrorize arthur is a way he hadnt been able to before#hes living his best life rn#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#merthur#knights of the round table#fanfiction ideas#prompts#headcanon
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Been having Secretly Smart Steve thoughts except it's less that his intellect is a secret and more that nobody ever noticed lmao
The initial thought for this is based on my mom's stories about acting like a ditzy airhead in high school but then graduating with honors
Within five minutes of walking into high school Steve definitely clocked that being cool was more important than being smart right? So he didn't really let on that he was good at class stuff and just let people think he was a simple jock
And Steve graduating isn't a huge thing cuz it happens during UD stuff which means they all miss graduation ceremony and just get their degrees later, so it's not like anyone saw the honors tassels that steve was given to wear with his grad gown
And the first real hint is Lucas trying to make a basket and getting frustrated. And Steve is like "here I'll show you" and proceeds to make every throw he makes from anywhere on the court and when Lucas asks how the fuck he does that Steve shrugs and is like "well, i mean, its all angles man"
Later Mike and Will are working on an egg drop project (you know the ones) and getting worked up cuz the eggs keep cracking. Steve has been watching TV or something the whole time and outta nowhere is like "yall are missing shock absorption and proper wind resistance, duh"
Nancy is trying to decode some number based cipher for fun but it's becoming rapidly Not Fun and Steve looks over her shoulder for like two seconds and goes "group the numbers into twos, subtract 18 from each, and then it's the alphabet letter based on the number" and then just walks off
Dustin is taking an engineering class and is having trouble building a bridge cuz it keeps collapsing when he sends a hot wheels car over it. Steve tells him he needs more load-bearing beams and to distribute the weight evenly and Dustin is surprised when it works
And, of course, Eddie sees all of this so one day when Max or Erica ask for help with some geometry homework he takes the worksheet they give him and immediately passes it along to Steve, waves off their disbelief, and sits all smug while Steve explains concepts they'd been missing entirely
#steve harrington#stranger things#stranger things the party#subtle steddie#bc of course#anyway im sure theres more to come but i wanted to share these main thoughts#i do love when a character is smart in ways people didnt expect#like yessssss subvert those preconceived notions#and then the angst potential of course#of steve realizing before meeting eddie and robin that not even nancy really knew he was good at this stuff#and hes wondering if anyone will ever actually know him as more than a jock or king Steve#and then platonic stobin and he blurts it all out cuz truth serum#looking thats all nothing else nothing at all your honor he definitely wasnt staring at steves moles and freckles
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"I have many fears, most of them about Lucrezia." â Cesare Borgia (The Borgias, 2011-2013) + hints of insecurity
that she adores someone that much / if she will reject his dark nature and act of love and violence as Ursula did / if he truly is not part of her desires / that she easily forgets him
#i have so many thoughts on these two#hes such a clingy brother wth#as much as he soothes her it is only by asking lucrezia verbally or#by looking at her that his fears and insecurities in her life can be soothed#cesare torn between - being relieved she had some joy in the ruthless marriage he had no power to prevent and did not even want to bless#or being envious there is someone else now when his little sister once said she will not love anyone as much as she loves him#but Accepting it anyways because it is impossible loves and maybe he is starting to become aware his love falls in this same category.#âshould i envy this narcissus low-born who shall never see you again because of his impossible love for you when i love you just the same?â#the knife more surprise than fear. in a time when he did not love himself...âshe accepts me as i am? as i do herâ#biting her as if another black panther pet looking for reassurance that their love#that HE is still included in her perfect world even if he himself pulls away#âsurely you're in agony as much as i am? are you already satisfied with your child and husband if we cannot share our love openly?â#âyour eyes drift to mine when you say 'husband' am i not he? do you see me as so even when it was just 'tonight'?â#and then his sudden gaze as if to look for truth because how can she forget him when he only thinks of her#AND AGAIN pulling away being eaten by shame and guilt of corrupting her (when their relationship is not just his doing)#torn between hope (we have the capacity to forget and move on) and hope (our love has that much devil power over her)#cesare as the god or the devil or whatever it is that overwhelms whether at war or in love#cesare is one confident man and even if his insecurities has layers of righteousness and importance..it is still insecurity nonetheless#and only for lucrezia#lucrezia borgia#cesare borgia#cesare x lucrezia#the borgias#dailyborgia#perioddramaedit#perioddramasource#weloveperioddrama#onlyperioddramas#romancegifs#the borgiasedit
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i need ghoap frantically making out against a door finally taking the leap on their feelings. need ghost grinding against soap, expecting to find him just as hard as him, only to feel nothing
and in all his wisdom and experience, he concludes soap was tortured and never told him
heâs trying to think of a delicate way to say he understands, that heâs been through it and it doesnât change anything about how he feels (and who the fuck touched him so he can hunt them down and rend them limb from limb)
meanwhile trans!soapâs just trying to find the best angle to grind his cunt on ghostâs thigh
just it never even entering ghostâs head bc heâs never known a trans person but he has met plenty of people whoâve been tortured - himself included - so of course thatâs his logical leap
soap takes off his shirt and he sees his top surgery scars and ghost asks if he wants him to kill the one who did it and soap just hums like, âactually, man did pretty good, they healed real well,â and ghostâs just teary-eyes with awe at how well heâs coping, âlooking on the bright side, thatâs my johnny.â
imagine he thinks johnny was fully castrated but sees heâs determined to still have a sex life with him so he buys packers and straps to help him bc hell yeah healing and soapâs just like, âholy shit iâve never had such a thoughtful partner before, such a sweet man, lt.â
#he a little confused but he got the spirit#its so good bc it can be super angsty of ghost really dreading whats been done to his sergeant and trying to make it right#or just go full crack treated seriously and have fun with it#i love just completely oblivious ghost#in any military context hes the smartest guy in the room#he always knows the play and has more experience than anyone#but stick him in the normal world? man is Lost#ghost just thinks hes had some kind of reconstruction surgery after being tortured and accepts thats what johnny looks like#bc hes never seen a pussy before#it takes years for soap to actually come out to him bc he just never thought to#hes seen him naked theyve literally slept together what else is there for him to say#then he shows him like a family album or something and ghosts just like âwhy arent you in any of these i only see girlsâ#and he just goes âhang on a secondâ#soap gets one of his sporadic periods one night and panics a little thinking it would weird ghost out or remind him that hes not cis#but ghost just thinks its a normal part of such a thorough reconstruction that hed bleed sometimes#and doesnt question it when soap grabs a pad out of his drawer bc âthats such a good way of handling the discharge my johnnys so smartâ#just really supportive ghost for the wrong reasons#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#weâre a team. ghost team#soapghost#ghostsoap#simon ghost riley#ghost cod#john soap mactavish#soap cod#save post
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Last part for old GF sketches
(Actually, most of these aren't old at all, but their average is brought down by the last picture, which I drew back in August and kept forgetting to post)
#fanart#drawing#gravity falls#stanford pines#stanley pines#i wish more people talked about Ford's piano skills#and his shadow puppet skills#i forgot what i was thinking when i rushed these out#something about Ford only taking pride in his skills because of how other people (ie Stanley) appreciate them#and how he attributes everything exceptional about himself to his hands bc that's where his deepest insecurities/motivations come from#but that isn't something Stan or most people think about at all#but he also IS really talented#and so he gets this big fragile ego#stemming from his mother and brother's praise#but also filbrick's neglect#so it's like outside validation is a substitute/reminder of the people that really loved him#bht also he thinks he's different from them and better than them#but he does love them#and he likes making them proud because he likes seeing them happy#maybe he doesn't know how else to make people happy#something something#Stan being his biggest supporter is a double edged sword#because his opinion matters the most and then he's gone#and Ford doesnt have anyone to show off to anymore#OR anyone who can call him a showoff when he gets too into his own head#OR the person he was pitted against in the first place that made him feel special#because- knowingly or not- they always compared themselves#idk man#Ford is an interesting guy and his head fascinates me
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Impulse: talking about how cool it was to reach 1 mil subs Someone in chat: Skizz is gonna overtake you soon
Impulse, no hesitation, with his entire impussy:
G O O D.
I can't wait. I can't wait! Honestly I would LOVE- I would ABSOLUTELY love to see Skizz pass me in everything. Subs, views, everything. Dude deserves it. I've been dreaming about that since I started. Him coming along and making his way up and overtaking me and me riding- I'll ride his coattails for a while, you know!
#impulsesv#skizzleman#imp and skizz#they are so besties#don't look at me#impulse loves skizz so much it's not even funny#a man with an endless thirst to be the best at what he does and yet he dreams of his best friend succeeding more than him#a guy with unstoppable ambition and all he wants is that his bestie reaches beyond anyone else#they are so platonic ideal i don't even know what to say#imp and skizz everyone#this was from the 19/2/2024 stream btw#just for those who are interested#dose of impulse#dose of skizz
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tgck and bkdk parallels make so much more sense when you think of it as Katsuki paralleling Uraraka and Izuku paralleling Himiko instead of the other way aroundâŠ
#it took me way too long to figure that out#like I saw it#but Iâd try to parallel toga with Katsuki and it wasnât clicking in my brain very well#but the other way around?#omg?#Himikoâs self acceptance and willingness to show her true self is something Izuku needed but lacked nonetheless#Urarakas confusion about her own feelings and not really knowing what she feels but later accepting that she wasnât feeling what she thought#she was feeling#kinda reflecting Katsukiâs confusion and unwarranted anger towards Izuku until finally realizing accepting that he was wrong#and that he feared him because he always secretly admired him#Izuku being shunned by society being a direct parallel to all of the villains tbh but more so toga than anyone else#Katsukiâs feelings for Izuku in the beginning holding him back from reaching his full potential#reflecting Urarakas feelings for deku at the beginning holding her back as well#oh my god it all makes sense now#SOMEBODY SEDATE ME#tipsy thoughts with puff#bnha#bakudeku#bkdk#midoriya izuku#bakugou katsuki#toga himiko#uraraka ochako#togaocha#togachako#tgck#puff speaks#I think I tried to parallel Himiko with Katsuki because theyâre both aggressive blonds#and Izuku with Uraraka because theyâre both dark haired sunshine characters#theyâve been practically the same ship all along
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Helena's not a killer (yet)! Let's party!
Previous / Next
Lilith: What surprises me more is not that youâve had it all along but that I had no idea. I thought I knew all your secrets.
Caleb: [under breath] Hardly voluntarily.
Lilith: Speak up, baby brother.
Caleb: [slightly louder] It wasnât a secret. I simply never wished to revisit the memories. But the record seemed worth preserving, so I tucked it away for safekeeping and did my best to forget it.
Lilith: Until you decided to hand it over to her without my permission.
Caleb: [laughs bitterly] Cut the outrage, Lilith. If anything, you should be thanking me. I can already tell she likes you better because of it. I did you a favor by chipping away some of your hard edges.
Lilith: [amused] Maybe you should be thanking me. I havenât heard so much force in your voice since-
Helena: [sudden frantic shriek]
Lilith: Is she all right?
Drusilla: [agitated yowl]
Caleb: Is she all right?
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Lilith: Helena?
Caleb: Drusilla?
Helena: [breathlessly] Look! Look!
Lilith: What are we looking at?
Helena: My sister finally updated her feed. Theyâre alive! I didnât kill them!
Lilith: Well, thatâs certainly a relief.
Caleb: You could say it like you mean it.
Lilith: Of course I mean it! I would never advocate killing children â unless they were particularly nasty ones. How do you feel, Helena?
Helena: Lucky. Grateful. Relieved.
Lilith: That particular storm cloud has been hanging over your head for far too long. Now, we can all finally relax. In fact, we should celebrate, the three of us together for once! And I think I know just the place.
#ts4#sims 4#ts4 story#sims 4 story#story: hzid#caleb vatore#lilith vatore#helena zhao#julia zhao#guy aoki#elli ball#alma nishidake#drusilla the cat#caleb has gone full cat dad#him being more worried about dru than helena đ#oh lilith is going to steal her out from under his influence easily#the last shot đ„°đ„°đ„°#my precious baby angels who have never been wronged or done anyone else wrong in their entire lives!!!
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I am generally Nervous and Embarrassed abt posting my lawlu comics but I simply love shachi and it feels like my duty to share every piece of shachi content I have
#my art#lawlu#lulaw#law x luffy#luffy x law#one piece shachi#ok so this is pt 2 of my accidental 3 pt shachi continuity#donât get me started abt heart bro dynamics#I have a lot of thoughts on shachi ok#shachi aside I just think law spends more time than he would ever admit scared that he will have to see anyone else he cares abt die#itâs much easier for him to imagine he wonât live long enough to have to face that again#but then SOMEONE helped him get out of dessrosa ALIVE#and now heâs gotta be WORRIED#anyway I also think heâd smoke for anxiety#u can decide what heâs smokin
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what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.
batman (1940) #456
Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.
and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.
and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.
teen titans (2011) #18
to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.
i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.
#necrotic festerings#batcest#jaytim#dicktim#damitim#this post was first going to just be about tim hallucinating damian but i got carried away thinking about the identity crisis arc#have whatever this is.#idk if there's much of a thesis other than âtim's fucking weird about the robin mantle and that should extend to shipping tooâ#been meaning to post this for forever#finally got around to it though so yay me.#now i need to go work on my jaytim in the new-52 thoughts bc. i have a whole post planned.#a stack of comics next to me for research and everything. god help me.#ALSO while rereading to grab panels#why is it that everyone talks about how jason says ârobin is magicâ in an attempt to mischaracterize him as sunshine boy#and not the fact that tim *also* says robin is magic?#like it's not a jason thing. it's a robin mantle thing.#that's just what robin *is*. it doesn't say much about jason's character for him to say that when he's robin. it just means he's robin.#the robin mantle is magic. that's the point.#and you could argue that's more of a meta thing that exists on the wavelength of how children where supposed to project onto robin#moreso than an in-universe commentary on what the robin mantle is#(honestly the same argument applies to tim hallucinating here for like. meta intent vs in-universe meaning.)#i hesitate to even call it hallucination it's more like. daydreaming coping.#giving a face to his internal monologue type thing and this is just how the medium depicts it#also it was just sexy and cool for characters to hallucinate loved ones in the 90s in comics. it was a convention of the genre.#but still my point stands. tim pictures all of these ppl as robin first internally#and he self soothes using their image in his head. that's wild of him like what#tim you are weird about the robin mantle more than anyone else i give you that.
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