#which makes the relationship with gk even more toxic than with mk cause he is lacking personhood outside of the traits drawing him to gk

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GK and DMK is one of those ships I don’t seek out a lot because a lot of characterization I see of DMK is... rather shallow? Not trying to police writers, but it’s kinda unappealing to write him as being Meta’s opposite and therefore just an annoying horrible person, when he could be much better used as a reflection of Meta to explore sides of his character y’know?

And because of the way I write him in my headcanon to explore Meta’s character he represents a really hyperspecific side of him, which is how messed up he was post Revenge of MK when he had his lil’ wildstreak and fought GK. Which makes him rather dysfunctional and un-romancable as a person, but actually does make that aforementioned relationship kinda interesting with my headcanon, it’s just that they can’t possibly interact lmao.

BUT, I have kinda already thought about the dynamic of that relationship, just in an au with Meta. Cause I explained in one post what that fight between GK and MK meant to Meta - about him facing the sort of monster he was letting himself become - but the idea is like, well what if he just submitted to that? If he just let that bitterness and resentment towards Dreamland consume him and found solace in the man from the myth he once saw as a boogeyman and now sees as a fellow outcast?

I guess that would be the dynamic my GK and DMK, and especially thinking about how DMK also got his ass sealed away in a little prismatic prison, they have even more reasons to relate to eachother lol. So now that’s something I actually want to explore, and I kinda hope there are other people who write that but like idk.

The other thing though is that I really REALLY don’t think this relationship is healthy, it’s literally built on the two’s bitterness and specifically on MK/DMK having a massive morality complex. And in general I feel like fandom shipping as a culture likes to lack nuance in stuff like this, so I might have to be the change I want see in the world (not actually adding anything just sitting and thinking about this in my head).