Daybreak is special because every single character is flawed in their own way, yet is so brilliantly written and is so beautiful, that you find yourself actually feeling for them.
When he shows up, you think he’s going to be a hero, a perfect Ferris Bueller mixed with a Hercules of some type. He’s going to save the girl, and along the way, save countless others, right? Wrong. Well, partially. He’s made countless mistakes, turned his then girlfriend into a pixie dream girl that existed only for him, kind of tossed aside another amazing girl the minute he found out that his ex was still out there (after having slept with her), and threw out the people that cared most about him along with the kid whose mall he stole. Yeah, pretty bad, pretty flawed, but you know what’s beautiful about Josh Wheeler? He owns up to every last detail of it, he knows he’s messed up and tries to fix it. That’s really all we can ask for.
When you first meet her, she’s in a flashback of Josh’s, who, as I said previously, turned her into a pixie dream girl. From the time she was introduced, we saw her through the eyes of others, we never once saw through her eyes. You either think she’s perfect or think she’s the worst character to exist. Well, she’s neither. Sam is not perfect by any means. She’s made mistakes, plenty of them; she let Triumph loose based on a false sense, an old sense, of trust she had in him before the bombs, she may have had some questionable sexual partners (none of which should determine whether or not she is a good person, because seriously guys, who are any of us to judge at all). Sam Dean is not perfect at all, but do you know what’s beautiful about her? She knows she isn’t perfect and she never tries to be. All she has done is try to be kind to anyone she meets and stepped up to lead the jocks. She’s beautifully imperfect.
Turbo, Turbo, Turbo, where to begin with Turbo? When we first meet him, he’s ruling over the jocks with Mona Lisa at his side, a dumpster full of bodies (mostly Ghoulies, I assume seeing as Mona asked for Ghoulie wranglers for American Ninja Idol) and a dangerous temper. He’s jealous, possessive, and typically doesn’t play well with others that aren’t jocks, even before the apocalypse. He’s a kid that always played second to the thousands of kids around the globe for the love of a father. However, the thing that makes Turbo so beautiful is his ability to love completely and all consuming. His anger and his rage all come from a place of love, the drive to protect his tribe, the knowledge that they all just need someone to love and care for them? That’s what makes Turbo so fucking beautiful.
Angelica, our lovely, foul mouthed, little pyro. Angelica is a certified genius, a liar, the queenpin of Glendale with an affinity for making things explode and catch fire. Yet, with all of the things that make her question herself, such as if she drives people away, all she wants is a family to love and accept her no matter what. What makes Angelica so beautiful is her passion to find herself a family, a group of people to care for her and for her to care for in return. Everything she did was to protect them, even if her methods were not the best and overall wrong. Angelica Green is beautiful because of her love and passion for her found family.
Before the apocalypse, Wesley Fists was all over the place. He watched as Hoyles and Turbo beat Josh to a pulp outside the mall, stood idly by every time it happened in school, stole Eli’s prized possessions that he saved up for. After the apocalypse? Boy did everything he could to make up for all the mistakes he had made in the past, only to slip up again in the case of Turbo, the boy he loved. He lied, conspired to kill his best friend, yet in the end, he didn’t go through with it. That’s what makes Wesley so beautiful, he values his friendships, he tries to make amends for all the terrible shit he had done in the past.
Ms. Crumble is the perfect example of an imperfectly perfect human. Before the bombs, she made countless mistakes; sleeping with Burr, not being able to stand up for Josh when he was getting harassed (though she did try to help him the best that she could at the time). Yet, even through her Ghoulie transformation, she still cared so much about the kids in her found family. Ms. Crumble is so beautiful because she owns up to her lapse in judgement, her refusal to harm any of the kids that have come to trust her, and because she proves that even adults tend to make mistakes. After all, she is only human.
Eli, Eli, Eli. My baby, the love of my life, my heart, even he is flawed. When Eli is introduced, he is seemingly selfish, self centered, a douchebag at best, and ignorant. Yet, when you dive deeper, you see that he isn’t as he appears, but he does own his flaws, he flaunts them. What makes Eli so fucking beautiful is that despite all of those flaws, he genuinely cares what happens to the people he “didn’t care about at all.” What makes Eli so beautiful is that he owns his flaws and never once tries to be anything he isn’t.
Not a single Daybreak character is perfect and that’s the beauty of it. These are kids, these are humans, these are people that make mistakes because that’s what it means to be human. Daybreak isn’t just about the apocalypse, it’s about what makes us humans, what makes us monsters, because we are all perfectly imperfect, we are all flawed. We are monsters.
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