#despair deserves better

[lightdancer1]

It's one of the stranger ironies of Death as a sibling that one of her biggest flaws just gets overlooked:

There are, of course, reasons for that. Why? Because it's specifically connected to this sibling, one of those underappreciated in comics, show, and fandom alike:

You do see Death at different points with other siblings, or at least statements. She is there with Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Desire, and is noted to spend a lot of time doing things like watching Disney movies with Delirium (no joke, this is a line Delirium casually notes in Brief Lives). Despair? She's never around her at all, outside of a family gathering. This is a consistent rule and I think there's a very direct reason for that.

"It made me sad, you know. I mean, I was sad too much of the time. I thought about giving it up-walking out. And one day I did."

I've mentioned before that between this and her dialogue in the series proper, and even arguably in her miniseries given she very arguably engineered an entire situation purely to have a character tell her she loved her. It's not really a subtext there that Death is clearly smitten by Hazel MacNamara and it indicates she does have a type and what that type is.

On the whole, Death is very much a character who's marked by depression, by the ultimate awareness that she does her job in the end not because she really wants to, because she saw the alternative 'and it wasn't very nice.' Her entire arc is marked not by success in abilities to navigate what she is, but failure.

The Endless, at their core, are personifications, ideas that have complications in all ways from being who and what they are. But and admittedly Death's spectacular example might have shaped his approach there but even so, there is this single truth. None of the other Endless broke beneath the weight of her job like Death did. None of them tried to stop being what they are, none of the others, like she can, will one day be able to treat the job as one complete with punching out at the end of a shift.

So for a being that broke in what was essentially a depression-induced breakdown and went back rather unwillingly, to be around the very concept of despair and depression could potentially either reactivate all that or break open that mask she's so carefully built.

Does this justify her neglect of her younger sister? Not exactly, as the approach she's taken to coping with her own challenges is anything but healthy. She's not entirely truthfully cheerful, she's more of a Stepford smiler as TV Tropes would define it, a smile frozen in a professional work grimace while the actual person beneath it is not doing very well at all. Despair, with her mirrors, would expose too much of that truth and Death cannot quite take that risk.

And yet, in the end, Death is at her very worst as a sibling, and as a person, with Despair of the Endless who is shown to have a further ironic parallel with Death herself. Out of the three youngest siblings Despair is the kindest and the gentlest. Like Death and Destruction she labors beneath a function that asks terrible things, unlike either of the other two she, after her murder and her own death, has made her peace with it, too.

And I think too for Despair there'd be a further factor as well, probably a lesser one. Despair (and then Daniel-Dream) showcase that her siblings can die, that truth that one day she shall have to do a part of her job she'd hate most. It does, in the absence of anything to show otherwise, seem probable that the neglect predates that and it'd probably be a thing where the one and only time the old Despair and Death spoke would have been in the wake of her murder.

And as far as what I've noted with Desire, one of the most obvious roots of their mutual antagonism with Death would be this very pattern, that Death speaks to them in threats and treats Despair as someone to be shunned and avoided, because if there is one unfettered soft spot even with the Desire of the comics, it is their concern for their twin sister.

This is one of her most obvious flaws, it is if anything a complete antithesis to her relationship with Dream, and yet it almost never comes up and there's something fascinating in that. Despair deserves better.

[aeymii]

"She forgave my existence.. my beloved"

[meyerlansky]

the atmosphere on this ship is fսckеd. everyone knows why.

[bi-dykes]

Caitlyn is so ewww

[kiwibongos]

pining dumbasses who dont realize the feeling is mutual

[weanwinwhester]

I love you …

[theholyprocrastinator]

Day 24 of daily making 5 random Danganronpa/Fanganronpa roblox memes that people cares about

+extra bonus meme for Emma since it is Emma’s birthday

Emma deserves better, and no one’s changing my mind.

[emilightniing]

Saw fact thursday:

did you guys know that Jonas from Saw II is the most underappreciated character in the whole franchise?

it's true!

[rosakuma]

Sorry for another post guys, Imma be annoying about this chapter a lot with everything that happen but I also wanted to say this

Y’all and I swear, none of you all better not hate on Eden just because she wasn't the culprit. I know some of y’all wish it wasn't Ace and I wish it wasn't too. You don't know how so bad I wish it was someone else and I didn't even want it to be Eden. I only thought it was Eden because at the time, she seemed more suspicious than Ace + I didn't think him being the culprit fit narratively(I see now tho). If you want to get mad at one of the characters for what has happen, get mad at the ones who caused it in the first place. Get mad at Veronika(although I still love you Veronika), get mad at Arturo(I still like you too), get mad at David, get mad at Hu. Actually Hu and David is really the entire cause of this chapter’s deaths with David causing fights over the motives and Hu fricken defending Nico constantly when she could’ve just understood both sides. But noo she had to defend a almost murder instead of the guy who almost died and now is gonna die.

Sighs.……Look at the end of the day these characters are fictional and Dev is allow to write however they want the story to be. I think even if I would’ve preferred a different route and that this trial felt off in the second half near the end. This chapter has been amazing and I cannot wait for when we eventually get to ch.3 or even extra content like the bonus episodes, FTEs, or even maybe another Mv. So let's not get mad at each other or blame the wrong person or character over what happened okay? We don’t want us to end up like the cast with how their infighting and distrust caused everything to go hill for them.

EDIT: Okay just adding this to be safe, but also I know I gave examples of characters to be mad at instead. But y’all also don’t go crazy about them okay? Or at least don’t go crazy towards any of characters I mentioned above’s fans(I don’t want to see any potential drama of some people getting at any Hu, David, Veronika, or Arturo fans kay? We’re all humans here and Arei and Ace proves that).

[mypeopleskillzarerusty]

This pretty much sums up how I'm currently feeling on this Destiel eve

[myfanganworld38]

ace as carrie white (first post yey also may make this an AU)

[spittyfishy]

7: Mikan Tsumiki

Could everyone just forgive her already god

[shangerez]

Underrated trio fr

Blood warning + slight DR3 spoilers below//

[giddlygoat]

reminder for myself! i do have moments of clarity through all the grief and pain i’m experiencing where i realize that the world is a lot bigger and brighter than it feels sometimes. with all the horrible shit that comes with living, i know that living itself is always worth it. and even when i don’t deserve the pain i still have to push through because no matter how long it may last it’s still only temporary, and those equally temporary moments of sunshine and bliss are what it’s all about.

so i gotta just keep going. even when everything hurts. i gotta just be kind to myself and not punish myself or get in a deep pit of self loathing or despair. it’ll happen, but it’s temporary. and being alone and scared is temporary too

[youchangedmedestiel]

Here's a little awful thought

Dean prefers not having Cas at all than having him and then losing him.

That's why Dean never told Cas about his feelings for him. And he was right because as soon Cas did, Dean lost him.

(Might put that first sentence in one of my fics one day).

[the-black-bulls]

I watched the BC movie with friends and I have a lot of thoughts about it. I loved the animations, the voice actors, the fights, the teamworks. It’s a must watch movie for every Black Clover fan.

However the movie also reminded me why I think Clover Kingdom is a shitty hellhole of a place with no hope for changing and that Julius is an incomptent Wizard King and the Black Bulls should’ve been vigilantes or anti-heroes or their own self-proclaimed squad untied to the system that is built to discriminate them.

I like this series but it’s full of hypocrisy and pro-authority agenda that were only ever truly highlighted by Zora before he also ended up indirectly serving it.

(TW: rant in tags).