@superfamilyweek Day 6: Fashion: Decided to play barbies with Mae Kent
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CLICK ON THE GIF IF THE COLORS ARE DESATURATED OR CRUNCHY, I PROMISE ITS SUPPOSED TO LOOK NORMAL. I just don’t know how to make good gifs….
I Think Muse Should Be Associated With Renegade / The Apprentice Arc
So, I made a Renegade playlist. And while making said playlist I realized, hey, oh my good God, there's a lot of Muse on here! CW for some implications of Sladebin and it's inherent toxic and abusive nature, the relationship depicted below is not supposed to be seen as healthy and/or admirable.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
"You'd never dream of breaking this fixation"
A song where you're unsure if the speaker wants it to be over or wants to dig their claws in. Perfect, isn't it? The idea that Slade is hurting him isn't a question to Dick. Slade will probably kill him some day, literally or figuratively, and Dick knows that. None of it means he doesn't keep coming back. He wants the friction.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
"This is the last time / I'll forget you / I wish I could!"
Stockholm Syndrome is another obvious pick, for anyone who knows what Stockholm actually is. However, the song has some allusions to the abuse cycle (Like Time Is Running Out) which I believe fit Slade and Dick's relationship very well. Whether you view the track from Slade's perspective, purposefully trying to manipulate Dick by 'not standing in his way', or from Dick's perspective as he keeps promising himself this is the last time he goes back.
PSYCHO
"I'm in control motherfucker! Do you understand?"
Holy crap! A song that isn't from Absolution?! I couldn't not pick Psycho, alright. While the obvious reasons... Are obvious... I want to focus on the first verse. Even more specifically, 'You're on your own / lost in the wild / so come to me now". Slade, at the end of the day, makes Dick feel special. Useful, and talented, and capable. And if you want to draw a comparison to another type of person who makes teenagers feel special and needed, well, there's definitely a comparison to draw. Psycho doesn't just match Renegade because he's been broken down and rebuilt, it matches because of the manipulation.
Please be gentle. I am no expert on Muse (You probably noticed, these songs are all quite popular), nor am I any kind of expert on comics or Nightwing specifically. These are just my opinions and are in no way a definitive way to view the Deathstroke/Apprentice dynamic or these songs.
I feel like, often, people get stuck writing Damian either before or after he's done healing. Which makes sense, both are very compelling—A child who is deeply scared and confused, but has been trained to hide all of that fear, or an adult with the wisdom to reflect on their super unique upbringing. However, I feel like I rarely see people write him during his inevitable therapy arc.
Because if Damian is like, 16, they've been living in Gotham for a long time at that point. It makes sense that they'd speak more casually, and have worked through some of their most obviously harmful habits. They might even appear like a normal teenager. But it takes a long fucking time to work through the level of abuse Damian suffered. They're not entirely normal.
Give me Damian who is entirely aware it's unnecessary, but sleeps with a knife under his pillow. Who still has the urge to hide most injuries, even if they know they won't be punished for the failure. A Damian who will, in one breath, say the most heartbreaking shit about feeling unlovable, and then send his best friend a fourth KATSEYE meme today alone.
The digital circus is about this the digital circus is about that in my heart TADC is about a situation where you have to make eachother better. Even if you never wouldve before. Even if they don't deserve it. Even if you hate eachother. Because you don't have a choice—You're all they have.
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