#free yourself from your ‘soft healthy durgetash’ chains and come have fun with us on the dark side !!!

[eye-of-yelough]

the thing about saying i prefer toxic durgetash over healthy durgetash is that even that can get lost in translation because the word toxic has been watered down to a joke nowadays. i say i like toxic durgetash and someone will run over and agree like “me too i looove how toxic they are!! gort tries to manipulate my durge but they just laugh and stab him and then they kiss 🤪”

yeah thats fun but that’s just normal durgetash activities. that’s our definition of toxic, as normal people who weren’t raised in cults and literal hell.

i think i just want more people to embrace the potential for abuse with these two horrible horrible characters specifically. a more clear cut power imbalance. a durge who’s straight up terrified of gortash, or a durge who feels strangely comfortable and trusting toward him, which gortash uses to manipulate them into betraying/killing their companions and enforcing his will in the city.

and the vice versa, a durge who abuses gortash, is interesting too, but a lot harder while keeping gortash in character. maybe impossible. it just goes back to my inability to see gortash as someone who’s capable of genuine, selfless love, and a person has to be extraordinary to be seen as a equal (and even then, they’re not getting treated like one.) he’s a master manipulator! durge/tav has to have inhuman level of willpower/fortitude to survive any kind of relationship with this man unscathed. if they are stronger than him, he will find a way to weaken them, if they are smarter, (doubtful) he will find a way to break their brain.

and again, most durgetash shippers agree with this. they agree that gortash’s aim, at the beginning, was to subdue durge and mould them into his perfect sentient weapon. “but then after a while he realised he met his match/caught feelings” … with all due respect. i don’t think his brain works that way. this man is not capable of giving up. this is not a man who lets his emotions get in the way. this is not a man who lets anything get in the way.