hi there dcplatypus!!!! :p yj98 propaganda ahead:
okay SO LOOK. doylisticallyyy yj has solid arcs (that focus on the girls mostly even 🤩 (bc of their lack of solo books at the time 😔)) that really firm up characters & dynamics etc etc even though there are some extremely sus moments (like. anita. so much of anita) but overall i feel like it’s a Good Comic Series.
however WATSONIANLY. THERE’S SO SO MUCH THERE OKAY. over the course of the series you see yj growing closer; you see individual stand-out friendships developing, you see how much they Trust each other by the end!! they invaded an entire country of villains to help anita with at least fifty other people!! tim gives an entire SPEECH (that i’ll send in another ask ig (i hope it’s okay to ask to stay on anon, haha 😅 sorry for the bother!!)) about how & why yj love each other sooo much.
and that is i think the core of it all - there is so so much love and trust between yj’s members, even with all their tensions and difficulties. even the members that aren’t the closest to each other - at the end of the series kon is the first one to put his arm around greta, even though they’ve argued & clashed a few times. anita and cissie build a beautiful friendship from basically rock bottom after they finally take a chance and listen to each other (…okay, almost all cissie to anita, but still). cassie (and even, albeit to a far lesser degree, bart (esp early on)) will wish that cissie would be arrowette again but she (and him) (and all of yj, really) will always come to her aid when she needs it.
i’ve listed like three relationships here and that’s not even half of it - slobo making cissie & cassie confront their behavior toward greta! bart tagging along to help tim with things!! traya and cissie’s relationship, tim and kon’s, anita and greta’s, cassie and anita, slobo and greta, the anita-cissie-cassie friendship triangle, the tim-kon-bart friendship triangle, the like fifty billion other relationships?!! genuinely yj98 showed you a cast of ~eight to nine characters growing to care for each other and trust each other with their lives, who would never ever hesitate if anyone else needed them, and expected people to be normal about that much love. i am going to start chewing at drywall about them ok they just. THE LOVEEEEEE
(<- part two of the ask; cropped to not show the tumblr handle.)
thanks for your propaganda!! and i don’t mind if you prefer to be on anon & want to send me a pic or something; i’ll just do the same thing i did here. it’s your choice!! :D
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