#i'll clean this up in a sec && make it look pretty so I can reblog it to my study blog but for now i was really honoured
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halfdent · 27 days ago
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I just want to tell you that I LOVE your portrayal of both Harvey AND Two-Face. It's so insightful and elegant. It shows how much you truly understand not only the characters but the psychological conditions that they have. It also shows how much the character means to you. You don't demonize D.I.D. or people who have the condition(WHICH IS GREAT that you don't do that! but also very unusual. I hope more people follow your example in that way, it's sorely needed.) and their struggles within society, thanks to society's rigidity for neurotypicality as the "Norm". You also do an amazing job at portraying that "Alters" ARE full fledged personalities. You fully flesh out Two-face just as much as you do Harvey, which the DC writers still struggle to do. They mostly just portray Two-face as Harvey's anger rather than a full separate personality. You made me care about a character that I didn't really care about before.
Your Harvey / Two-Face portrayal will ALWAYS be my favorite.
OH  I  AM  SO  UNBELIEVABLY  TOUCHED  BY  THIS  MESSAGE  !  THANK  YOU  THANK  YOU  THANK  YOU  !  You  have  no  idea  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart  !  I  started  writing  these  two  almost  three  years  ago  now  &&  since  the  beginning  ,  hell  even  before  that  when  I  was  first  exposed  to  HARVEY  /𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  back  in  my  young  years  of  watching  BTAS  with  my  sister  &&  older  brother  ;  I  never  once  thought  that  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  was  just  "  𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋  𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐘  "  .  Since  then  of  course  I  took  up  reading  the  comics  ,  playing  the  Arkham  Games  etc  etc.
HARVEY  &&  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  might  see  THEMSELVES  as  GOOD  &&  EVIL  but  that's  not  who  they  are  or  their  definitions  only  what  they've  been  told  about  themselves  by  their  FATHER  &&  things  they  encountered  from  a  young  age  .  These  views  of  themselves  don't  stem  from  fact  only  unfairness  that  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  was  the  one  to  protect  ,  &&  he  could  only  do  so  in  mirroring  what  he  saw  ,  which  is  their  abuser  .  So  he  used  fists  to  protect  them  .  They  would  be  repeatedly  told  that  anger  was  something  to  be  ashamed  of  .  That  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  was  a  "  𝐀  𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍  𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆  𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐘  "  &&  poor  𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐒  plays  that  role  &&  he  plays  it  very  well  but  that's  not  who  he  is  .  I'm  not  saying  I  condone  some  of  his  actions  but  the  guy  didn't  have  a  chance  in  hell  .
People  forget  that  HARVEY  feels  anger  too  &&  t&  hat  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  has  so  much  charisma  just  like  HARV  does  ,  he's  funny  ,  quick  witted  ,  intelligent  .  Interests  &&  so  on  He  has  a  whole  personality  of  his  own  .
I  am  not  a  system  myself  but  I  have  people  who  I  love  that  are  a  system  &&  I've  always  told  them  that  if  there  was  ever  anything  that  they  thought  was  offensive  about  the  way  I  play  these  two  to  come  straight  to  me  !  &&  I  know  what  it's  like  to  be  a  protector  &&  to  be  blamed  &&  demonized  for  it  .  People  forget  the  tragedy  here  isn't  just  HARVEY  it's  HARVEY  &IT'S  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  .  The  two  of  them  really  didn't  stand  much  of  a  chance  with  their  beginning  but  there's  hope  if  HARVEY  can  just  learn  to  accept  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄.  &&  𝐓𝐖𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄  accept  the  guidance  he  needs  as  a  persecutor  who  was  just  a  protector  completely  misled  by  things  neither  of  them  could  control  !
&&  I  know  I  talked  a  lot  about  𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐒  here  but  it's  HARV  too  .�� Afraid  of  his  own  right  to  feel  angry  ,  afraid  of  himself  &&  afraid  of  the  one  person  he  could  always  rely  on  to  protect  him  .  So  afraid  that  he'd  work  himself  to  the  bone  just  so  people  would  believe  he  was  good  ,  that  he  was  somehow  this  "APOLLO"  unbreakable  ,  incorruptible  .
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