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stupid piece of shit teenage spy can’t ever keep his mouth shut

(guy who tags every single post as the same exact character) you know who this post reminds me of?

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actuallytalldumbass

gay is okay! but its alex rider

tom and sabina thought he was going to say smth else

artistfingers

danny n alex!! this is the cover i made for a mixtape, 2022 👻💣

magicboxoftwine

Book bag.

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

rainosa

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

Comms open!

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.

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

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

#coughs up blood yeah

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.

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