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talentforlying · 9 months ago

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the mermaid: do you think ever really loved me? constantine: ah, now. listen, you can go back and forth about what's genuine, what's lies. none of it matters. you take it from me ... all love's magic. and all magic has a price.

behold: a guy who has been so starved of affection and approval and visible love his whole life that he takes whatever he can get when the opportunity presents itself to be loved, regardless of what it will cost him. who loves unapologetically and hard and without regret, regardless of whether it's good for him.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS.#i've resorted to analyzing the 2019 run to keep my sanity bc this latest issue made me BERSERK #but i think about this panel all the fucking time #i know i have true detective on the brain but i do feel like john's an optimist/romantic much in the way that rust cohle is #with a deep & painful knowledge of self and an understanding that he will inevitably close his eyes to that self if it means being loved #knowing that there is enough to love in the world to make loving worth the risk. even if you Are one of the risks #i just think. empathy and compassion in situations where you have every right to be hard and cold instead is at the heart of hellblazer #and we see some of that again in this latest issue #and yes he can be selfish and a bastard and cruel. but he tries to choose not to be and the trying is the point.#sometimes he'll fail. sometimes he won't. it's the TRYING. it's the trying even when you're scared to #am i being normal today? probably not #( character study. ) A WALKING PLAGUE OF A MAN.

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