#isn't that what you mfkers want? >:(

[roseamongroses]

its called the parker curse not the morales curse 😒

atsv spoilers under cut

ok...jokes aside. after a certain point when miguel was going in on miles, i don't think he was talking about miles anymore.

and to be clear, what he said and how he said it can't be easily taken back--scorched earth yada yada-- so its impact still stands. but if you've ever had an argument as a child with a traumatized + unhealed adult-- it felt like that.

had me sweating in the theatre because you can feel him projecting HEAVY mid-way through. the way he dealt with miles, even before he started the hunt, def felt like he was punishing his past self / trying to stop his past self rather then understand a new situation +person

the assumptions he was making about miles and how he handles multi-dimensional travel, seem to lean heavy on fear. and that makes sense considering his past, but i do think only viewing justice within the lens of fearing what may happen isn't productive in the long run.

they still don't know how these initial dimensional slip ups happen before the collider exploded and bagel guy showed up. (or do they???lol) nor do they know what decides canon and non-canon (i remember the comic book authority approval at the beginning of the film and i wonder if they get mentioned again or if its just a one off joke)

(getting a lil meta there, do you think we'll get a lego movie esq ending next movie???mfkers wake up and realize they're comic book characters)

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on the conflict

personally i love a good "hero tries to save them all, and realizes their innate limitations" type storyline, but i don't think that's the conclusion they're going for.

for example i thought Pavitr would def get his shit rocked after his spiel about being spiderman being easy and that he's happy. and he did go through something (and probably will go through something else considering he has a living girlfriend )

BUT he was able to reach out for help instead. he couldn't do it all, but he didn't have to. and i think that plot line is just as compelling as him failing outright and dragging himself out of the trenches as a lonely hero.

the "save one person vs. an entire dimension" conflict is interesting because miles is a believer in "why not both". often times with these trolly problem esq. situations, the person who questions the existence of the dilemma is dismissed.

miles is considered naive because he thinks he can "do it all". but i don't think thats the case. miles considers both because despite the trauma, he's been surrounded by a loving community who sees the best in him.

so he knows (consciously or not) that he can do both because he's not alone. he is the lone spiderman, but that doesn't have to be the case. that's why he was so excited for the spider-club cause he thought he wouldn't have to endure alone, but instead he was met with the fact that the club was meant to reaffirm their loneliness rather then circumvent it.

(also the possibility of this franchise introducing other heros later on is something im begging for btw but ik copyright will nuke that)

if miles is an anomaly, the possibility of his events deviating from the norm does exist. miles had the right to question if it was really the only way or if miguel just didn't want to try otherwise. and to be honest im questioning if miles was really the first anomaly considering we don't have all the details about miguel's backstory

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on comics

what does it mean to be spiderman? to uphold goodness? to be a compelling hero?

For a lot of the characters explored, their justice is tied to their suffering. they are good heros because they've seen the worst and wil. endure the worst and that's what makes them compelling. but with this "new" generation of heroes, that doesn't hold up when we consider intersectional identities and what the audience desires to see from their hero's.

if the audience is already enduring and suffering in their day-to-day lives what can they get out of a story that only reaffirms the daily injustices of their reality. i don't want heros that look like me if they only uphold the status quo "suffer, work, live, be good". that isn't enough. i love me some angst, but what else makes the story compelling???

i read the superhero genre because i want better. I want to be able to fight back, to question, to explore. to stretch the idea of what goodness and justice looks like for communities that are used to being told to accept the bare minimum and just survive.

[hanniejji]

ANGST IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maple is now extremely strong because all of that training and stuff. So Kokomi thaugh that Maple could really help in a battle. Ayato didn't let Maple, because after all, Maple is just a kid. But Maple took this opportunity to see how strong they are rn. So Maple told Ayato that they will go see Yoimiya or smth.

AND

Now Maple is fighting, everything is going well for now. But then Maple saw someone familiar.

"Kazuha...?" They kinda freezed at the spot and didn't notice that a soldier was shooting them with arrow.

NOOOWWWW😋😋😋YK what happeneds UwU

Anyways happy ending:

maple wakes up in hospital or whatever, in bed with Kazuha sleeping on the end of bed. (YK YK LIKE HE IS ON HIS KNEES AND HIS HEAD IS ON BED YK YK)

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i dread the moment i see peach anon in my inbox because they always bring angst to me and i don't know whether i should be grateful or not

KOKOMI WHAT IN THE WORLD MADE YOU THINK THAT BRINGING A CHILD TO A WAR IS A GOOD IDEA?

so yes i really think it would be just them sneaking out and trying to prove to ayato and internally they want kazuha to know of their strength too that they're capable of taking care of their own

and yes i prefer the happy ending goddammit

seeing kazuha beside them would turn the events so fucking much. imagine hating your brother for a year and seeing them in battle and beside your hospital bed when all this time you thought they didn't care about you? maple's conflicted and is emotionally overwhelmed. they don't know whether to be happy or not. deep inside though, they know they're happy to see him. no matter how much they deny it, they miss him terribly. but they're also still upset and frustrated and confused to the point that they just end up bursting into tears.

this would wake kazuha, who snaps to sit up the moment he hears their cries after a year of not seeing them.

when he tries to comfort them, this is when maple just... explodes on him. they yell at him—something they hadn't done before—everything they bottled up just pours out and into kazuha's trembling hands. they curse him while telling him how horrible it was to be separated from him, tells him they hate him but complains about how painful training was but they persevered because they wanted to be good enough for him, tells him that they don't want him back and that they don't need him but whimpers how lonely it was and to "stay, please, i don't know what to do without you."

in the middle of this, they hadn't noticed that kazuha had taken them in his arms and they have been hugging him tightly. they'd panic, trying to push him away and crying harder because they hurt him and he'll never want to be with them anymore.

but kazuha keeps them against his chest—they suddenly notice how fast his heartbeat was and the tears at the side of their head, his tears.

contrast to their yelling, kazuha speaks in the softest voice—a little shaky because of his tears—and admits how it was foolish of him to think that they'd have a better life in the care of the kamisato and that they won't suffer as much if he doesn't take them with him. he admits that he wanted to go back and bring them with him, but we feared that the tempest of storms will hurt them in their journey. he tells them of nights that he'd see them in his sleep, ten years from now, cursing him and hating him. tells them of the nights he'd cry himself to sleep because he missed having them in his arms and that maybe they're feeling cold without him too. he keeps apologizing, "i'm sorry, i'm terribly sorry, i'm sorry."

maple whispers that they too felt cold, the whole year they had been separated from him.

and for once, maple forgot everything and held their brother in a tight hug.

kazuha would later ask kokomi for help with the ache around his torso.