The Alex Rider Fandom Is a Sock Drawer

This is where I post a bunch of Alex Rider and personal fanfiction related crap. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! Kofi

[deadrobinsclub-est1988]

Mrs. Jones: Nightshade is the most evil organization we’ve ever encountered. They take children, turn them into killers, and force them to go on dangerous missions where they could die

Alex: wow. sounds terrible.

[rainosa]

Wanted to do a Scorpia Rising Alex Rider piece that’s just absolutely filled with rage and contempt for MI6

Comms open!

[actuallytalldumbass]

digital versions of AR prints

>traditional prints version

[natequarter]

what's most harrowing about the alex rider series is that the adults aren't useless, they intentionally endanger a teenager for fun and profit. like, kids series often have adults being useless or incompetent so that kids reading the books can feel empowered, but alex rider does something different and, if you ask me, more interesting: the adults manipulate alex on purpose. the only adults who would help alex are generally either unable to help him or literally out to kill him and everyone around him. alex has very few friends, his age or otherwise, because the adults in his life keep him isolated and helpless. his parents are dead. his uncle is dead. he is alone. and frankly, that's a relatable experience for a lot of kids.

[pbaintthetb]

saddest and truest alex rider tag

[greenslght]

The worst part of Alex's life is of course the murder attempts. The second worst part is that half of the people trying to kill him wanted to fuck his dad

[lostfairyart]

🎶He’s seen it all, he’s seen it all‼️🎶

Today I offer you a little messy sketchy screenshot redraw of Alex Rider. ❤️ This scene in S1 was CRAAAZYYY, definitely one of my favorite moments in the season, maybe even the whole show. (It’s one of the first times Alex gets to show off how intelligent he is!!! I’m so proud of him!!)

Reference photo and a little blabbing underneath!

This poor guy. 😭 He was going through it. But man, I love the aesthetically pleasing blood splatter and how dark Alex’s expression is here. I love the trope of young characters that have a dark layer underneath that doesn’t show up very often but when it does, when that layer gets peeled back for just a moment, other characters are taken aback and are like “um, so, that kid is incredible and a little terrifying and maybe a bit crazy.” Idk, I love seeing interesting and complex characters like Alex. We need more complex characters!

Anyways, I’m just yapping at this point. I love Alex Rider, I love both the character and show so much. ❤️

[actuallytalldumbass]

[natequarter]

the alex rider series is crazy because it opens on a boy learning his only living relative is dead, an event which incites the plot and changes alex's life, and then for the rest of the series we learn negative information about ian and alex never gets to truly grieve him

[point-two-two]

the alex rider weird repressed obsession with older man chain famously goes Alex is obsessed with Yassen is obsessed with John but if you are innovative and insane enough and dare venture far beyond the frontiers of canon you can add another link: John being obsessed with Blunt

[artistfingers]

things that bleed cover concept :> from 2022

[snaplight-anxiety]

alex rider is so awesome because I think too hard about it and get a nosebleed. like yeah it’s already a subversion of the child hero fantasy but it’s also a total narrative about avoiding grief. about being kept away from it. it’s about the support of denial as a reaction to death. Alex is never allowed to sit down and grieve for his uncle— he avoids having to think about Ian at all, and is never made to; he is proven right when he sticks to the belief that Jack is alive instead of having to deal with what it means if she isn’t. so what is alex rider but a story about grief? what is alex rider but a story about the incredible lengths a boy will go to to avoid having to grieve at all? what is alex rider but a boy who is unable to face reality and whose reality refuses to face him. all of the books and the paths alex travels are just metaphorical time loops, repetitive adventures where he cannot get back to reality. He can’t escape the cycle. He can’t help but return to it. The whole thing is just a testament to how far someone will go to avoid their grief. so like. how am I supposed to get past that.

[deadrobinsclub-est1988]

Agent Cody Banks: I’m a Cool Teenage Spy!!! I work for the CIA!! Sometimes I have to sneak off and go rogue because my handlers don’t trust a child to deal with grown up problems :((( But everything turns out alright in the end :). I get to kick ass, save the world, and run off into the sunset with Hillary Duff! SICK AF SPY GADGETS!!!

Alex Rider: MI6 has stolen my childhood. I’m an indentured servant to the government. Every single adult in my life has been complicit in my abuse, neglect, and reckless endangerment. I was groomed to be the perfect spy by the man who has raised me since infancy. I have survived torture and assassination attempts. Everyday I grapple with the blood that stains my hands as I try to hold on to the shreds of my innocence. Sick AF spy gadgets

[natequarter]

the peak of "wouldn't it be awesome to be a child soldier? JUST KIDDING! it would be incredibly fucked up. anyway here's the main character getting eaten by wolves" is the alex rider series, which takes the wish fulfilment premise of being a teenage spy and then makes it explicitly clear from day one that alex is being blackmailed into acting as a spy for adults who have neither love nor even basic care for him and will let his life fall apart the moment he says no. coincidentally it's due to this career that alex is both an orphan and without a guardian in the first place; spying led directly to both his parents' and uncle's deaths. alex is repeatedly traumatised and nearly killed in increasingly horrifying manners, and it becomes clear that the only way for him to protect himself is to keep throwing himself in danger; he hates this and is completely aware that the only person he trusts could be ripped away from him at any moment and that his social life and academic standing is being ripped to shreds the longer he continues living his double life. the kicker is that he was raised in, perhaps intentionally moulded for, this lifestyle and the longer he continues it the harder he finds it to leave; he's essentially addicted to life-and-death situations and almost doesn't want to keep coming back to it. he turns to the other side only to turn that his bosses' enemies are just as bad as they are; at the age of just thirteen he finds himself completely alone in the world. and it slaps both as a thriller series and a deconstruction of the horrific violence both literal and structural that undergirds alex's life and job and the ethics of using a literal child to do your bidding as the lines between work and home life blur beyond recognition

[actuallytalldumbass]

MI6 be like:

[emziess]

endless gifs of Alex Rider - 75/∞

[ridergeddon]

My niche…