#was a metaphor for teenagehood

[jackieshaunalives]

you might find this strange considering the context but i just realized that yellowjackets is actually a very healing show for my past angsty teenage self

like i wore a lot of leather and listened to rock bands like nat

i wrote in my journal and liked 'tragic' things like shauna

i fell in love with a girl like jackie

completely gay and in the closet like van and tai

and raised christian like laura lee

as for lottie didnt really have one of her but alas

still makes me wanna cry no wonder i love this show so much like im serious take away all the cults and cannibalism and i would still love this show just as much but having that be a metaphor for what it feels like to be a teenage girl is perfect the trials and tribulations the ups and downs the chaos the hormones like jeez

def one of my fave shows of all time <3

[ange-writes-if]

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ LINKS: - DEMO - PINTEREST (TBA) -

[ this is a secondary wip! my main project is Unwilling Souls on @unwilling-souls-if ]

Spring Panic is an interactive story about a talented and affection-depraved spellcaster, with elements of slice-of-life. Navigate through ancestral feuds and familial pressure in a colourful magic world. You'll have to deal with extremely serious matters, such as choosing the meal of your talking cat or what flowers to grow in your garden.

Follow and shape the Main Character from birth to early adulthood, and become the best witch this world has ever seen (or don't. Maybe you'll crave something else 🌟)

TW: The game contains depictions of emotional neglect (of the MC and their brother), (optional teenage) alcohol and drug comsumption, references to bullying.

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ CUSTOMIZABLE PARTS:

~their name

~ gender identity with separate pronouns, and the ability to transition between childhood and teenagehood, or during teenagehood

~ general physical appearance

~ most relationships

~ magical preferences

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ SET PARTS:

~ emotionnally stumped by anxiety and pressure

~ their love for their little brother and their best friend

~ sensory issues and overloads

~THE FAUNEUS FAMILY— yours. [ detailed post here ]

~GATSBY. Your familiar. He's a talking black cat. And a prick.

~SANEM. A tired spirit that haunts the woods of your middle and high school. They're bored and sardonic, but at least they're like that with everyone and not just you.

~THE COUNCIL. [ detailed post TBA ]

~THE VYPERLYN FAMILY— the one your family hates. [ detailed post TBA ]

note: the story follows the MC's life. Some ROs are met during their childhood, some later.

note pt2: detailed character sheets will be posted later for each RO.

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ CERISE. (she/her, only romanceables by f!mc and nb!mc)

tropes: childhood friends to lovers, idiots in love

-Character sheet-

Cerise is the daughter of a witch and a fairy. The both of you had no friends. What started as a tentative first-try at friendship quickly became an unbreakable bond. Cerise wiped your tears more times than you could count, and you held her hand during hard times.

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ BARTHELEMY "Please-don't-call-me-Barty" VYPERLYN (he/him)

tropes: academic rivals to lovers, possible one-sided ennemies to lovers, Romeo and Juliet/ stars-crossed lovers

Barthelemy has been made your rival by your families, your schoolmates, and the council. When they come back from a childhood abroad, they immeditaly snatch the first place that you occupied. Oddly enough, he's one of the few people that treat you with respect.

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ DAPHNE (she/her)

tropes: enemies to lovers, ice queen, forbidden love

Daphne is a fairy. More than that, she's the fairy that everyone loves and fawns over. She smiles and backstabs like she breathes, and she has dug her nails in the metaphorical throne of Amaranth Institute. She wants you out of her way, but you recognize in her the familiar cracks caused by unbearable pressure.

｡+ﾟ☆ﾟ ASPEN (they/he)

tropes: golden child x troublemaker, secret relationship, player in love

Aspen is walking 'danger' sign. Toying with laws and rules, their sticky fingers always seem to 'borrow' the wallets of the wealthy. They are a hero to the kids of the city, a pest to the authorities, and a mystery to you. They keep theri cards close, and you sometimes closer.

[manuinout]

So, I have a theory about Inside Out 2 after the read below! (in relation to my previous post)

So, people say that our childhood molds who we are as a person, right? I've been analysing the new emotions and I saw that Riley has indeed already felt them through the first movie without them necessarily being present! Here are the scenes where they are (probably) shown:

Envy:

It can probably be related to her seeing the cool kids in her class with Disgust's statements. Of course, it's not explicitly shown any signs of Envy, but I can see some hints

Anxiety:

The same scene where the first day of school takes place. When Riley starts crying in class, we see the cool kids give her a concerned look, and we clearly hear one of them whispering "Is she okay?". However, despite all of these signs, Fear claims that they are judging her. Other scenes can show the feeling of anxiety growing throughout the movie, but I will just show one example for now.

Ennui:

Honestly, I had a hard time with this one, but it could be related to the fact that Riley started to lose interest in hockey in the first movie. Although I could be wrong, but the scene of Riley talking to her parents could possibly show a hint when Riley replies with Disgust to her mom's question about her new hockey team. (This is just an hypothesis, don't come at me)

Embarrassment:

And lastly, we see Embarrassment take control in the last few scenes of the movie + Riley's First Date short! One where Riley's parents come to her hockey game with face paint and the other, which is very clear at this point lol

And here is where I'm trying to get at:

The new emotions are based on Riley's thoughts in the first movie, and that includes the classic emotions' interactions as well.

Of course, she felt the new emotions indirectly, but now with them taking a more physical form in headquarters, it will only make them stronger, especially Anxiety since she was metaphorically more present in the first movie.

However, these stronger emotions will only make Riley feel worse while she grows in her teenage years (bonus points if they are not aware of it, but if they are it would make the plot interesting either way)

And if the classic emotions don't take care of them before Riley's teenagehood ends, they would stay in Headquarters for the rest of Riley's life, which would affect her adult age negatively

So yes, according to my theories, their stay in Headquarters will be temporary, as long as they are taken care of properly (judging by how stable the classics' teamwork is nowadays, and/or if Riley gets therapy)

But that's just a theory. An autistic theory lol

( @killedbyfrank made me do this /j )

[schibi12]

Okay so about Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken it reminds me a lot of Turning Red and not to compared it to it or in a bad way but in a good way it sort of has the same beats of having a female protagonist starting or going through teenagehood, they come from an ancestral line of mythical creatures and while they just want a normal existence during this awkward phase weird stuff start to happen because they are a mythical creatures.

And i don't know much of the themes that Ruby Gilman is going to have or is it gonna be like Turning Red where the puberty metaphor was pretty straightforward but from the few info we got on the movie it looks like it's a coming of age story.

Also i think we girlies deserve more fun movies of female main protagonist who turn into mythical creatures or monsters without their monstrous design being super sexualized.

[jellogram]

Hate when people say It Follows is a metaphor for STDs. That's such a basic boring entry level interpretation. That's the conclusion you come to if you know the definition of symbolism but haven't actually thought about what it can do. You made the basic step of "bad thing happens to you because of sex" = STD, and stopped stepping.

Like stop thinking about the sex in the movie as just sex. What does it mean? How do the characters feel about it? What does a person's first sexual experience usually entail, or represent as a rite of passage? The movie has a lot to say about the loss of innocence, the trauma of teenagehood, and the baggage that comes with becoming an adult. And you miss 100% of that if you decide "Haha sex monster means STDs!"

[ghostsanndstuff]

So. I rewatched the second Narnia movie today. And that is one of the stories I absolutely cannot think about too much because it makes me feel feral.

The books were the first ones I was absolutely obsessed with as a kid. I have always loved and coped via daydreams and escapism (and definitely went way too far with that for a few years there during teenagehood) and it was always the Narnia chronicles about which I felt a particular way. But it took rewatching it a few times now that I'm a bit older to see why.

Somewhere between 11 year old me wanting to be there instead of here so badly it physically hurt and the scene in the last book where everyone except for Susan chooses to end their lives in our world to return to Narnia forever.

Somewhere between there and being raised catholic while Aslan and Narnia are C.S. Lewis' metaphor for God and Heaven and talking to my mom sobbing on the phone for the 5th day in a row as she tells me that whenever she has felt utterly hopeless and like there was no way forward she would take all the pressure and all that she was and put her life, put herself entirely in the hands of god, and how it felt like someone was squeezing every last bit of air out of my lungs as I desperately wished to fullheartetly have faith in something like that for even a moment.

Somewhere in between the way I see myself in Lucy and the way I fully understand Susan I'm going insane.

[frostcorpsclub]

I got an ask about what Jack's hobbies might be but it's like disappeared??? I wanted to answer it anyway though

Well we have a few things we can extrapolate to think of some because that's what we do here!

The whole putting people into pies thing, the most obvious of Jack's hobbies, murder and baking

Baseball metaphors

Barbecue reference

I know he makes a swimming reference, considering Jack's lifestyle, though, I'd wager words like "breaststroke" are part of his vocabulary from being a peeping tom.

The drinking age was 18 for part of his teenagehood, but he was probably doing it already. This man is Gds drunkest driver it's a shock he didn't crash and die before the prison accident.

He's like...old? I tried asking my dad about what people did for fun in the 70s but it wasn't very helpful lol

Besides that a lot of people stayed at home watching TV which is timeless lol and something I very much think he'd do. He would like the drama of reality TV but still want to watch something manly, hence the love for pawn stars but that's just my headcanon

Besides those, consider this an open discussion! Reblog with your own headcanons and explanations!

[asher-writes]

Hi dearie! For the space ask game: 🌙 Crescent moon and ☄️ Comet, please

Hiiii! Thank you!

🌙 Crescent moon - Do any of your character have to hide a part of themselves? Why?

Have to? Not...really, or at least it depends on your definition of having to.

Ari and April both went through the sort of childhood where they felt their feelings were not taken seriously, they were generally emotionally (and in april's case, physically) neglected, and that caused them - moving into teenagehood and adulthood - to internalise and hide a lot of their emotions. Furthermore, in both their cases there are often times where they can't discern, notice, or control their feelings in any capacity.

For April this tends to externalise in a very "happy-go-lucky" exterior, which is how he largely presents himself to those around him. He's fun, he drinks, he parties, he blows things up for fun. Except that he's also having numerous breakdowns in between. He doesn't tend to show that because he never untangled the physical and emotional harm caused to him for expressing emotion as a child, largely in the form of being outright ignored and, under some circumstances, left to the edge of starvation and death by his parents.

Ari, on the other hand, tends to externalise and filter all of his emotions through anger. He tends to hide his more anxious, avoidant, and lonely side because he's never been taught that he deserves care and love in any capacity. Instead, he keeps pushing everyone away from him because the only thing he's certain of is that he deserves isolation as penance for what are essentially make-believe crimes. We love some religious guilt.

And don't even get me started on how the only person, at the start of Out of Sight and Mind, who knows Ari is trans, is Ember.

☄️ Comet - Who is your most self destructive character? Why are they like that?

I've answered this one before, but it fits quite nicely after talking about April's past to say, April. Hands down. He's an addict, in the literaly and metaphorical sense. He loves pain. He chases self-destruction, and I think some part of him just continuously relives the trauma of his childhood by doing so. It's such a complex thing that I could write a whole post on by itself really. A lot of April's coping mechanisms come from a very personal place and a very personal expression of childhood trauma.

I'd say Ember is a close runner-up because of the adrenaline junkie thing. He practically uses April as a way to get himself in a fuck ton of terrible situations. In some ways they calm each other down, in others...oh boy.

Then it's probably Ari, but more emotionally self destructive, though he is an alcoholic.

[misanthropesheaven]

in this same line of thinking, i came to the coclusion that i hate the whole "cannibalism as a metaphor for love" discourse because: 1) love is not about consumption, desire is about consumption. love is about letting go. 2) cannibalism, in the way i view it, functions a lot better as a premature representation of sexuality. think about how teenagers who have a crush will resort to the first impulse of being passive-aggressive towards the person they like, because hormones & the emotional turmoil that comes with that won't let them verbalize their feelings in a comprehensive way. everything about teenagehood is extreme & definitive, so is cannibalism.

thinking about how horror is both the early & ultimate stage of eroticism

[chushanye]

between neverafters Little Red and dndads Scary Marlowe I have seen some mind-boglingly amazing essays, think pieces and metaphoric ramblings on the monstrosity of girlhood and teenagehood. I love it here

[folxlorepod]

Queer Time: themes in Folxlore

Queer time is a nebulous term that sometimes describes time with the same fluidity that we do queer identity, and sometimes refers to the phenomenon of queer people missing out on traditional ‘adulthood’ milestones. It can describe the ‘second teenagehood’ a lot of queer people experience once they feel comfortable enough expressing themselves to an extent they didn’t in their actual teenage years, or the tendency of queer people to fill in their lives with friendships, housing situations, lifestyle choices and methods of parenthood that don’t fit with the timeline of traditional, non-queer lives. It’s also the main focus and narrative device of season 2 of Folxlore.

In season 1, we chose to use an old and well-loved (in the way one might say well-loved about a worn down sofa) narrative device: found footage. We wanted to see how we could stretch this trope to fit our queer stories, how it could serve us rather than limit us. We even neatly tied the season up with a reason why the listener was being presented with this particular found footage! I don’t think we always succeeded in innovating within or avoiding the traps of the trope, but I do think we wrote some pretty cool episodes and made up new ways of using this narrative device: the sentient CCTV cameras, the use of audio image description as an access aid to present a blog with an increasingly anxious narrator. We had a lot of fun with it!

In season 2, we are dropping the focus on found footage. It was never something that we wanted to restrict the show too: our pilot episodes don’t use the narrative device, and we feel pretty happy about letting each season stand alone (after all, Folxlore is an anthology: one with an overarching narrative, but we still take the anthology aspect pretty serious). When we were having early chats about themes for season 2 with the writers team, a couple came up: one was that of choice, now that the residents of our favourite haunted building have been transported into a strange, terrifying, beautiful world. Do you stay and make something good out of the odd and repulsive world full of possibility, or do you return to the familiar, even if it is bad? This choice feels incredibly queer to me: it represents (found) family, the contrast between old and new traditions, and jumping into the unknown of what it is to live a queer life, when all you know at the start is that it won’t be like what you have been promised.

A theme that came up much later in the process, when we were already throwing episode ideas back and forth, was queer time. We realised we wanted to expand the time over which the season took place. We also realised nearly every idea we had had related to time in one way or another. Perhaps it’s the influence of the pandemic, of the endless stretching and contracting of time that happens during a traumatic event (with the way we ended season 1, we definitely set ourselves up for something reminiscent of the abrupt change to life we all experienced, although we tried our hardest to hone in on what makes the story in season 2 unique: it was never meant to be nor is a metaphor for the pandemic.)

And more interestingly, in a similar way to how we used found footage in season 1, queer time is often not the focus of the episodes, but rather a narrative device that helps us tell the story. I’m incredibly excited about all the different ways in which time plays a role in how we tell the different stories in season 2. It mimics the different things queer time can mean to different people, how time shapes us as queers, and how queers shape time, too. Time can be horrific: the melancholy of living a queer life, and the heavy weight of our futures. It can be beautiful too: the joy of ignoring the hands on the clock and setting your own pace; staying up too late talking to online friends in different timezones; the agelessness of queer love and lust, the hope in queer history and queer futures. I love queers. I love queers in the now, in the past, and I love the possibilities we represent. I hope we did this concept justice in season 2, in all its beauty, in all its horror.

[tamhrayis]

EMA antis are trying to sound smart by saying “they became too different to be friends” as if that is applicable to Eren receiving knowledge of a future where he becomes a mass murderer and has the appropriate traumatic response.

It’s a silly argument😭😭 Well, some elements of AoT can be a metaphor for people going through teenagehood and it’s only natural that friends drift away. But the way that people try to make Eren act as if he somehow got better is…are you serious?

[iwasbored777]

I'm sorry if this is random and I know this sounds REALLY cliché but, I have a theory on the Sentimonster thing

What if Adrien could break free of his father's control... through a true love's kiss?

So far, most of the kisses he's had were either when he wasn't fully conscious (Dark Cupid and Oblivio), constricted by unrequited feelings (relationship with Kagami) or in other timelines (Cat Blanc). Additionally, Adrien's father having been portrayed as a witch (Gabriel Agreste), he controls his son like an evil witch controls a creature they made, with Adrien as the princess under the spell and Marinette as the knight who saves her.

What do we learn in "Dark Cupid"?

In most fairy tales, the prince breaks the spell by kissing the princess, because only love can conquer hate.

What if the knight (our prince) breaks the witch's spell over the princess through a true love's kiss? To do that, Ladybug and Cat Noir would have to feel genuine love towards each other, but not under the mask.

Consciously, reciprocated and genuine pure love. Combined with another fairy tale, I don't believe Adrien would be released from the Amok's link for good, but perhaps much like a cataclysm, a kiss of true love would allow him to think for himself and, in a sense, "become a real boy" (I feel there's also a teenagehood metaphor there).

It'd be a cataclysm to his heart to do so, but a good one, one that'd allow him to go outside his father's control, but instead of going berserk and destroying everything, all he'd do would fall with his lady's love.

(sorry for the whole rant, I hope this doesn't feel too outta nowhere)

I didn't think about it, but it sounds like a good theory and because Miraculous Ladybug IS some sort of combination between a fairytale and a dark superhero comic book I can see that happening.

I had a theory something with Chat Blanc, that he will return and Gabriel will control him with amok so he can't disobey nor kill himself like he did in og episode, and this could be a great addition to my theory, that Marinette will kiss him, after a lot of fighting, and it will bring him back. She'll probably remember Dark Cupid with that one and she'll also face her fear of Chat Noir being akumatized again. That could be good foreshadowing and we know ML is great with foreshadowing. That's something no one can take away from the show.

It could work. I like it!

[bermudahq]

“ THE LEADER “

Full Name: Lukas Noah Vale Occupation: Leader of Bermuda / Healer Civilization: Ferns Village Time Stranded: 41 Years FC: Can Yaman

@crowned-lieutenant

BIO OVERVIEW

Lukas was born in Ontario, Canada into a military family. His parents were often absent on tours and drills, leaving Lukas to be raised by an ever revolving door of nannies.

To attend for the absence of love in his childhood, he turned to romantic love, and became manipulative and promiscuous in his teenagehood

He joined the Canadian Army and worked his way up to a Lieutenant Colonel before becoming stranded.

He and his team had been shipping off overseas on a Naval ship on the day it was absolved by the vortex. On any normal day, he would have never been on a ship, let alone near the Bermuda Triangle. It was with an unfortunate wrong time/wrong place event that got him stranded in Bermuda.

He was one of the handful of soldiers that survived the wreck of HMCS St. Laurent. By the time he had settled on the island in 1980, an entire community of the Lost had already been congregated. All had been from commercial flights and ships except for Lt. Charles Taylor, who functioned as the island’s leader at the time. Settlement had begun, but more military presence kickstarted the survivalism.

Lt. Charles Taylor stepped down as Leader of Bermuda 10 years into Lukas’ residency. He passed the torch off to Lukas, knowing Bermuda would be well run under his reign. Shortly thereafter, Lt. Charles Taylor disappeared from Bermuda. No one has discovered how, why, or where.

Lukas continues to put out metaphorical and literal fires within Bermuda and all big community decisions are run through him for final say.

He currently resides in Pointe Forest with Ferns Village. In his opinion, living in the Forest is the most dangerous place outside of The Tundra. He stays close to protect his community if need be from the creatures that lurk there at night.

He tends to be abrasive and bullish, closed-minded at first, but beneath it is extremely protective, empathetic and selfless.

[spacelesbiann]

Jasmine @eight-hearts sparked inspiration in me when she wrote about her 10 favourite debut albums, and tagged me to do the same. My music taste tends to be deeply obsessive, flighty, and rarely contained in an album, so some of these are pretty new. In no particular order, here they are.....

Something to Feel - TEEKS (2021) Listening to this feels like summertime evenings, where there’s a fire burning in an old drum, everyone has a drink, and there’s a body of calm water nearby. The sound is so quintessentially the New Zealand music of my childhood. I tend to find that difficult to sit and intentionally listen to, but there’s something somehow different about this. Maybe it’s the themes of yearning. Anyway, I’m momentarily in love with it . Special song mentions: Remember Me; First Time

About U - MUNA (2017) This is my ‘staring out the passenger window in the rain, watching the sky turn bruise-coloured at the end of a long day’ album. I love this album with all my heart. Idk what about to say that sums it up any better. Special song mentions: Around U; Winterbreak

Surf Music - Paul Williams (2018) This is delightfully bizarre. I listened to this because James Acaster raved about it. I didn’t have high expectations. Paul Williams is a comedian who runs a basketball podcast with his more well-known brother. But it’s so good. Everything you could want in an album and more. There’s a recurring metaphor about basketball. There’s the lyric ‘I might not be the sharpest crayon, but that’s cos I’m your favourite.’ There’s a whole song about eating chips.

I love this album so much i made a uquiz about it. Oh! And - he sings with my exact accent. To the point that some parts are almost unintelligible the first time through. Special song mentions: Braces; Number One

Greetings From Ashbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen (1973) This is Bruce as I imagine him. The kinda whining timbre of his voice that makes me see him as he is today, not the skinny little thing he was in 1973. It’s fun! Opening with Blinded by the Light??? It’s a perfect encapsulation of his lyrics: some are deeply meaningful, some mean nothing!

It’s not my favourite Bruce album (honestly I get a little bored in the middle) it doesn’t even include my favourite songs. But it’s the sign of such good things to come, and that’s enough. Special song mentions: Blinded by the Light; Growin’ Up

Westlife - Westlife (1999) Westlife are the boyband of my pre-teenagehood. This album is the first time I ever heard them. I used to spend hours at my dad’s laptop copying the songs onto CDs so I could play them in my own bedroom. Except I missed several of the songs, so this album is a lot shorter in my head. Special song mentions: Flying Without Wings; Swear It Again

2 Cool 4 Skool - BTS (2013) You know me. I had to include this one. It’s such a baby album - only 7 songs. But without this I wouldn’t have my favourite albums of later years. I think about how they made this, their determination, the fact that is was critically a bit of a flop... But it’s BTS at their core.

It explains basically everything that will come. Songs fighting to uplift teenagers, encouraging people to follow their hearts and their dreams, to be themselves... I’ll stop myself, but seriously. I could write whole posts about their lyrics. If all you think BTS songs are is Butter and Dynamite, come to me and I will enlighten you. Special song mentions: Like; No More Dream

Hope World - j-hope (2018) This is just a fun album. It opens “say hello to my hope world!” and okay, yeah j-hope! Hi!! It did take me a couple of listens to fully appreciate it, but I looked up the lyrics and gave it some time, and I really do like it. It’s not for everyone but it really shows who he is as a person. It’s hopeful (heh) and it knows itself and loves itself. Special song mentions: Daydream; Airplane

PINK PLANET - Pink Sweat$ (2021) This album is what being in love sounds like. It’s playing in the background of the scene where the two love interests realise their one sided pining isn’t one sided. It sounds pink. It’s very nice. Special song mentions: 17; Honesty

Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen (1967) Okay so this. This might as well be Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Hits. This is a debut album?? What??? The songs sound like poetry and arguments and speeches and ballads and everything that is good. They’re gentle and they’re cutting and they’re about love and loss and hope and hate and pain and joy. I think there’s a lyric and a song in this for everyone . Special song mentions: Suzanne; The Stranger Song

My Head Is An Animal - Of Monsters and Men (2014) This one was hard to be honest. I nearly didn’t pick a number 10. So to be honest, I’ll keep it quick. This is just so calming. I come back to this when I need a little rest from my head, which is fitting given the title. Special Song Mentions: From Finner; Sloom

I want to tag @pauldeyoung @coelura @relationboats @neonastronaut @loveyourselff and @clytemenestras just because I’m nosey :))

[antigonick]

Hey :) I just saw the ask about the non-human entities and you mentioned Wuthering Heights and the devil metaphor. Could you explain more what you mean by that? Thank you :)

Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert mention it at length in their essay “Emily’s Bible of Hell” and it’s really worth a read, but, in a few words : Heathcliff is compared obsessively to the Devil, most often by Nelly, but also by Lockwood, Joseph, Isabella…; and his chaotic cruelty is sometimes read as evil for evil’s sake. His close relationship to both the devil figure and the ghost figure (remember that he comes back in spectral form and haunts the moors with Cathy), as well as the mysteries of his existence (hypothetical ancestry; “gibberish” language as a child;  the disappearance in early teenagehood, only to come back unaccountably educated and prosperous; the devilish grin in death) make him a quasi non-human entity. Gubar and Gilbert make a very good argument toward Heathcliff actually being an incarnation of Catherine, her “whip”, the enactor of her power as long as she is united with him in her own paradise (i.e. Wuthering Heights: hell for others, heaven for Cathy and Heathcliff), and an irreplaceable lack as soon as she is separated from him (something that seems to me very rooted in the platonic principle of soulmates).

I digressed I think. To sum up : Heathcliff is often compared to the Devil. He’s actually the Queen of Hell/Heaven’s consort, in a way. And read The Madwoman in the Attic, it’s dope.