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LET ME ROMANCE THEM BOAF PLEEEEASE
[ID: throuple fanarts of Robert, Invisigal, and Blonde Blazer from Dispatch.
1: The girls, smiling, sandwich Robert, who looks flustered. Hand raised, he says, "What is happening right now??"
2: Robert obliviously leans forward on a table in the foreground. Behind him, Invisigal and Blonde Blazer check out his ass. They are both thinking about pegging him. End ID]
I do think a lot of people don’t realize that the point of dispatch isn’t just the idea of redemption. I mean yeah, that’s the most blatant theme in it—the game about redeeming villains is about redemption, go figure—but dispatch is not only that. I think it more so explores the idea of a bonafide hero, which (you can say I’m wrong because I only have tumblr/yt but) I don’t really see discussed??
mecha man is slandered on LIVE TELEVISION for failing to avenge his father. even after years of being a hero the world only admonishes him when he finally can’t do so; invisigal tries to rebut robert’s criticism of her in ep. 2 by claiming that he’s “no real hero”; mandy confides in robert about how tired she is of the “Blonder Blazer” identity, saying that people see the hero before mandy; flambae refers to mecha man as a “real, actual hero” (really interesting considering how fast he called out mecha man in the superhero bar. . .); and there is a continuous choice in terminology when it comes to royd and robert’s conversations in “making the man mecha”.
there is a consistent theme of attempting to be a REAL hero— and the utterly crushing toll it takes when finally achieved. people don’t care that you’re a hero, they don’t care how well or long you’ve been doing your job, they will only watch and stare at you for doing what is considered the minimum. it only matters when you slip. one of the strangest writing choices in my opinion (and I think a lot of people share the same sentiment) was robert being forced to cut someone. I remember distinctly getting to that part of the game, hearing blonde blazer say it’s to “raise the bar” and being so utterly confused?? like, gee whiz what an easy way to make your team hate you. and the fact it happens so early in the game as well? you barely know this team. you don’t know a lot about the team members, none of their motives, stories, etc. you are essentially taking a complete stranger and deciding to cut them off from their support network, friends, and job.
and I do think the game understands this— when cut, sonar/coop both go to red ring, which while sounding extremely banal, does make sense when you think about it. they have no other place to go to besides the phoenix program. with criminal records like that, they won’t find any work other than that of crime. as I stated before, you basically strip everything they had from them when you cut them from the team. where else are they to go?
invisigal plays a HUGE role in this convo as well. we know that she is probably newest to the program, compared to the other z-team members who are all extremely comfortable with each other (blonde blazer saying she “sees a lot of potential in invisigal”, meaning she couldn’t have been in the program for that long); she’s the rowdiest, insubordinate, and generally a wildcard. she’s impulsive and reckless and extremely immature. these are likely the traits the player likely gets from her first impression, and that’s why her argument with robert was so confusing to me when i first watched it. why is this defiant, arguably least hero-like hero out of the whole z-team trying to define what it means to be a hero, and to mecha man of all people? and not even to mention that this convo comes right after invisigal’s failed attempt at capturing thunderstruck, ending with an injured civilian.
and I think it’s all really just a heady dose of projection. invisigal understands the standard on what it means to be a hero because she’s always trying to hold herself to it. it’s very explicitly stated that invisigal WANTS to be a hero, she wants to be good. she is always holding herself to the framework of being a hero, and yet it is so unattainable for her. to not just be one, but to look like one; she patently states that she isn’t like blazer in the manner of which she can effortlessly be a hero, but that invisigal innately has “villain powers”. she is destined to be evil, because she doesn’t have the look, or the powers, or the destiny that allows heroism within the life that was bestowed upon her. that she’ll never be viewed as anything more than vermin, an average villain.
except that’s EXACTLY what the z-team aims to disprove, and that’s why I absolutely love them. the z-team is a fucked up group comprised of infamous, boisterous, unruly former villains, with their dishonorable lives and lewd humor. and yet they also saved the city. and yet they were able to pull together as not just a team, but the team that rescued la from a crime gang. and yet they care so very deeply for one another with their own flawed yet so very loud ways. yes, they were never the ideal group of elite saviors— they’re an insanely strange bunch of people. but they’re heroes, and they protect lives and community and their city. because they were given the chance to finally grow instead of being perceived as outcasts.
what I’ve been trying to say (very verbosely) is that the point of dispatch isn’t just the idea of redemption— it’s that, and the support, tenacity, and courage it takes. it’s that and the care for the person underneath it takes. it’s that and the understanding of an individual not just as an emotionless worker set to certain standards, but a moving, breathing person who needs someone to guide them, to support them, to see their potential and let them through the door. and that person is you.
Loved this analysis arghh
Guess my favorite 98 frame (lvl impossible) AHSJIDJBF
Also, first time i met someone on magma who not only recognized vash, but also DREW ONE NEXT TO ME oh im in heaven
[ID: Digital drawing of Vash from Trigun. Vash is a tall and thin man with light skin and spiky blond hair wearing a red coat and leather satchels across both shoulders to make an X shape on his chest. He is popping out from behind a wall to grin and wave at the viewer. End ID]
after the game if you cut coupè and bring her back in she tries to apologize to sonar by bringing him dead animals to eat like some sort of repentant cat.... and it works
this is so funny… they’re the same genre of freak.
of course coops first thought would to be bringing stuff as an apology to blazer, considering she smashed her through the goddamn window of the SDN building. but that doesn’t exactly work, and subtly gets her written up.
she’s already apologized more than enough to Robert so then comes the z-team,
specifically sonar.
She knows he eats rats because they’re constantly in the back of the break room fridge. so she starts there. does he have a rat dealer? does he hunt and kill them himself? she sort of figures that out for herself over time.
then mysteriously sonar has lunch prepared for him every single day, placed at the front of the fridge with a sticky note on it. For Sonar, it says in cursive which arises some suspicion on his end.
So now the bat is on a mission to figure out whose handwriting matches the notes, especially after they start increasing in quality and quantity. one day it’s a tupperware container full of crickets. the next it’s more rats, and one day he even gets a dead bird in his locker. how sweet. meanwhile everyone else is fucking terrified.
now, like, months into this endeavour sonar is leaving notes in his locker for this person to find. they’re like love letters… just a bit more gruesome and weird as he tries to get to the bottom of things. but at this rate he just doesn’t care. coupè has practically pavloved him into expecting a fresh meal every time he opens his locker. but she’s too scared to write back and admit that it’s her, even if this has become routine for the both of them.
hard to be a coupé fan when you dont give a shit about punch up 😔
saddest thing that can happen to 2 guys with freak shit going on is people calling them boyfriends. yes i know theyve got something homosexual going on but brother it is NOT that
you guys realise that the point of media isnt just to find 2 white men and make them fit into your boxes. right? "suburban husbands" is not the end goal for every relationship. sometimes two guys just have to have freak shit going on.
listen to me. ok? i take your hand very gently. not every person is going to love each other in the way you've been taught. sometimes people just want to fuck around with each other. sometimes they're special to each other without definitions involved. sometimes soulmates are never going to get married. even when they love each other. yes, even when they love each other romantically. sometimes theres freak shit going on and that freak shit won't end with "boyfriends". ok?
the world can be so beautiful. sometimes they just get married for tax benefits and then never address it again. the characters' self-reflection doesnt HAVE to fix their freak shit. the bit doesn't have to stop just because people go to therapy
THEY WOULD NOT FUCKING HAVE KIDS.
I think part of why I resonated so heavily with Trigun is the contestant theme of objectification. The characters are in a constant struggle against the various ways they’ve been objectified, and in a struggle to view themselves as, well, not objects for the use of others, and how both their own objectification and the objectification of those around them influences everything they do.
Trigun Maximum | Volume 5 | Chapter 5
[ID: A single horizontal panel from the Trigun Maximum manga.
Zazie the Beast is drawn from about the shoulders up with a gun in each hand, one aimed at Wolfwood and one aimed at Hoppered the Gauntlet. Their back is to the viewer, but their head is turned to look at Hoppered, who lies on the ground to their left with his own gun aimed straight up. Wolfwood, meanwhile, stands to Zazie’s right and aims one of his guns at them. End ID.]
The Humanoid Typhoon
A Vash to match the Wolfwood😊💗
*Yurifies your Dispatch* InvisiBlazer for you 🥰
honestly... I don't think Robert Robertson II was a totally bad dad. not overtly abusive. he doesn't die thinking he abused his son in any capacity. that's almost what's worse about it.
Robert wouldn't have continued on the Mecha Man legacy if his dad had no redeeming qualities. he admired his dad's heroism. he compartmentalised years of neglect because it was "justified" to him so thoroughly by hero work that Robert figured the only way to keep his dad with him was to... be mecha.
Robert II was a nice guy... but a neglectful father. you know the sort. gifts at every birthday and christmas, a nice house in a good neighbourhood. personable, and if you saw him on the street your head wouldn't turn at how grouchy he was. it wouldn't turn at all. sort of... not a particularly stand-out character. despite his efforts to provide materially, Robert II wasn't ever in that house, or at those birthdays. never really made Christmas. and always looking anywhere but his son for approval.
something which can be said about Robert II is that he was extremely selfish. Robert obviously has a family outside of just his dad and mom, but I think his dad purposefully isolates him to avoid putting their extended family (again, likely not supers) in danger. he is so protective of his civilian identity, especially after him and Elliot have their falling out (which I headcanon as something which happened before Robert was born), that he only clings to the one person who he both can't (parental responsibility) and refuses to set free from the Mecha Man legacy.
i hate hate hate the way fandoms at large interpret the found family trope. so often people seem to think it means just recreating the nuclear family structure with characters who aren’t related to each other, and shoving those characters into either a mom role, a dad role, or a child role. when really it's supposed to be about finding/building a support system outside that traditional model, and illustrating that sometimes that isn’t always the best model....aka the exact opposite of what people do.
Flambae and Robert wearing Prism's merch! 💙💖✨️
There was an idea that I saw on Tiktok not too long ago, and it's of Flambae wearing Prism's concert merch as part of his civvies wardrobe. I thought that it would be fitting for him to convince Robert to wear some of her merch too, so I HAD to draw them both! It's baby's first flambert art, kinda nervous… 🤖🔥
I'm not very good with designing outfits, but I think the little details I placed on them are cute, wouldn't you agree? My fave bits are Robert's eyeshadow, the cuts on his hand, the little gray streak on Flambae's hair, and his belly button piercing 🤭 (See ALT text for a more detailed outfit breakdown!)
What are your fave parts on this art?
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The doctor told us that because of severe bleeding and malnutrition, Qais fell into a complete coma, and his tiny body may not survive much longer without urgent treatment, blood units, and proper nutrition that I cannot afford alone.
I beg you as a devastated mother in Gaza watching her child disappear between life and death. Please, don’t leave my baby Qais alone in this nightmare—donate now and help me save his life before it is too late.
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