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the-gayest-show · 4 months ago

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consumed by thoughts about cedric the sorcerer, forced to be a normal high schooler

#posts #sofia the first #GUYS YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HES GOT A COMPLEX STORY AND DEVELOPMENT AND GVSNSJU #i rewatched day of the sorcerers and REALIZED MORE THIGNs #LIKE HOW WHEN CEDRIC EVEN SUGGESTS HE COULD BE KING EVERYONE LAUGHS AT HIM #JUST LIKE IN HIS CHILDHOOD!!!!!! FURTHER CEMENTING INTO CEDRIC THAT HE SUPPOSEDLY NEEDS THIS #BUT THEN HE CAN'T ZAP THE ONE GIRL WHO ACCEPTS HIM FLAWS AND ALL IM DONE FOR GUYS #if i EVER got a chance to present a character analysis on this man i would pull out the reciepts.#like guys. how do you turn from a man who feels like he HAS to be evil because society has been telling him he's a Bad Person #a man who genuinely thinks the only way he'd ever gain respect is being the king #because everyone loves the king #and being king comes with POWER AND FORCED RESPECT #they cant LAUGH AT YOU if you're king #how does he go from that to #a guy who found that his real want was people that wouldn't make fun of him #like sofia #the people who treat him like the man he deserves to be seen as and actually is #because sofia #unlike the rest #SAW him #REALLY SAW HIM i say #because she saw unerneath all that grumpy and pessimistic stuff and saw a guy who is just trying his best #i can't FUCKIN do this my brain rotatin thoughts miles per minute #i need to gather the balls to write a devilshy long character analysis #because in my head it is FORMED

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strawberryblondedoll · 3 months ago

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sweetlikeophelia · 3 months ago

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roseforviolet · 6 months ago

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dangeroustaintedflawed · 23 days ago

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very-cherrybomb · 4 months ago

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𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩?

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casscainmainly · 2 months ago

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God this panel kinda drives me crazy. From Batman & the Outsiders #17, Shiva asks Duke about his suit, whether it was his choice. And how does Duke respond? He... doesn't. He parrots what is clearly something Bruce said to him, but never clarifies whether it was 'his choice' at all. Because both him and Shiva know it wasn't. And he acknowledges that his suit, with all the Batty-ness (ears, symbol), was specifically designed to make him like Batman.

Then Shiva suggests dark red, which is what Duke wore in We Are Robin and has connotations to Robin as a whole. Duke's reaction - can we let it go? - can be read in many ways, but to me it suggests Shiva's words hit home. He does miss the Robin colours. Becoming the Signal wasn't his choice, but becoming Robin was.

(And throughout this run, Shiva says both Cass and Duke are being held back by Bruce. With Cass this is a clear allusion to being Orphan over Batgirl, so it's not farfetched to read this conversation as being about how Duke was denied Robin to become Signal).

Duke-as-Signal is a symbol of 'people like Batman', but Duke-as-Robin was a symbol of youth, of community, of diversity and of choice. He was a Robin formed without Batman. I know there's no going back, but having Bruce choose the name, the suit, and the time of day that Duke goes out makes the Signal such a fraught identity. I love the yellow, the suit, and the daytime aspect, but I just wish they were Duke's choices, not Bruce's.

#duke thomas #lady shiva #batman #speaking of which lady shiva is always here to put bruce in his place i love it <3 #in batman & the outsiders she gives choices to all the poc kids - duke cass and sofia #it's actually vitally important that freedom and choice for these characters of colour is represented by a woc and not bruce #this is not saying bruce is to blame for the signal. he just lacks the perspective to understand what duke needs #like no bruce it was not progressive of you to be like 'this one's different'#um anyway sorry this is my hundredth 'duke should be robin' post i just have feelings about it #meta

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rahabq · 1 year ago

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