Hanging out with ur buddy at the vaping corner on break as she rants on how flawed the characterisations in the spiderman movies are to the franchise (as a non spiderman fan i know nothing on this subject, but also knowing what big corporations are like i kind of understood what she was on about so i just smiled and nodded along) then all life suddenly freezes as you see a 12 foot tree branch being hauled into the college by about 6 people, all with an alternative style and/or dyed hair and you approach cautiously just to watch from a distance to see if they make it into the building.
To set the scene, note that this was not too early in the morning but we were both sleep deprived and surviving solely off diet pepsi and lukewarm canned coffee
Friend: mary jane in the movies has NO persona- MASSIVE STICK????
*looks behing me*
me, in genuine awe: holy crap that is a LEGENDARY STICK
Friend: OOOOHHH ARE THEY GONNA GET IT INTO THE COLLEGE??
Me: no way theres no way they'll get past the security
Friend: nah theyll get in i believe in them
Me and her: PLEAAASSSEEE GET IT IN
* we move closer to watch them fenaggle their way through the doors*
They make it through the doors and everybody cheers
It's been really windy and rainy in the uk rn and thats usually about average for us but its a bit windier than typical which has me suspecting that we have a storm brewing and i bet as soon as i find out the name of it im going to be very disappointed
First pic we got the flesh, the spiral and a random horse i put eyeshadow on as an experiment
Second pic we have the eye and the web (very much unfinished)
Im just using breyer horses as a way to draft out the designs and im gonna be making them into little medallions :D
I actually did one with the spiral but i only have one crappy pic of him hes not dried properly yet so i havent gotten to paint him just yet (which is why ive been painting tgese little guys all day lol) i have no clue if u can see him properly but uhhh here he is
A lot of them (cough cough the eye, web, spiral) are very much unfinished i had to rotate between the horses while i let layers of paint dry and had to figure out what else to do so i was working on other horses for the time being im gonna ATTEMPT to do all of them, and im DETERMINED to find horse facts for each of them whether its random trivia or literal history involving horses and i already have so many plans *rubs my hands together evily*
I shall make a proper post of all these funny little guys and my thoughts on them when im in college tomorrow so yall can see these guys properly
My issue with Jervis in canon Batman media (and how he can be an actually engaging villain)
Gotham's Jervis will always be my favourite portrayal of him (though BTAS is a close second.) but it will always be a complicated first choice because unfortunately the writers of the show decided to do the same fucking thing all the other writers do, which is make him a digusting piece of shit.
[trigger warning, I'll be mentioning predatory behaviour and incest, I don't go into detail but if you don't wish to read those parts feel free to skip a paragraph or two.]
But here's the thing! Jervis is not required to have any sort of gross infatuation with young girls (or his sister in Gotham's case) because his main flaw is his toxic behaviour IN GENERAL. Jervis is an extremely lonely person who desires human connection and closeness, but had absolutely no idea what that should look like. He is also very deeply afraid and in pain all the fucking time! Escapism is his coping mechanism, since the outside world is often too much for him to bear, and when faced with just how little control he has over his life, he projects that onto other people.
Thing is, he can be appealing and attractive, and he is capable of getting himself an Alice. But often he is so used to living with this fantasy of what his perfect partner would be, he is unable to actually recognise the very real person in front of him. He cares very deeply for them, would do anything for them, he tries to be a gentleman and a good boyfriend. But when the tiniest cracks show, his mind goes straight into panic mode. He is going to lose them, just like the last time, and the time before, and the time before. And it just breaks him. Makes him abuse the one source of strength he has - control.
Gotham ALMOST did this perfectly. I fucking love the idea of Jervis being a hypnotist and a magician, a performer, capable of charm and wit and very much in control. But it's all a facade for the lack of control he currently has over the one person who matters to him in his life. It's also a different interpretation of Alice too, being someone who he had to protect growing up, afraid to lose her like they lost their parents, and so his actions are purely out of overprotectiveness and fear (or, it WOULD HAVE BEEN, had the writers not been dumbasses). But in that state of mind, his actions lead him to do terrible things because of his desperation. He will hurt whoever he has to, if it means Alice is safe. Even if she can't see that herself. I equally love the idea afterwards that Jervis doesn't move on from her, he doesn't try to apply her to another person, she is a ghost forever haunting his mind and he holds this intense fury and pain over losing the one person he cared for. And now Gotham too will know such pain.
BTAS also gets jervis right, and thankfully doesn't make him too much of a creep (I'm not against him being a bit freaky with a love interest, but there's a difference between 'jervis will still flirt and be possesive and obsessive even when threatening someone' and 'jervis is a fucking predator'). BTAS Jervis is far more shy and reserved and does actually treat his Alice right, but unfortunately for him she has a jerkass boyfriend. Jealousy is a theme that does work really well for him, and I don't mind a jealous jervis who crosses the line because again, he can't lose this person who is the only good thing on his life, even if she doesn't reciprocate. PLUS you also get his line of thinking to protect Alice from someone who actually is a piece of shit to her, and so again, his actions are understandable AND still villainous.
I think Jervis has the potential to be such a great villain, one that can mirror Batman's own form of escapism through vigilanteeism, as well as the fear of losing those you love. But no one's gonna do that if you keep writing unnecessary gross details into him when it's entirely unneeded and shouldn't really be part of his character!
If anyone's got a portrayal of jerv they wanna mention feel free, I also have my own characterisation in my ongoing fic See You Next Week (shameless plug, i know) BUT I recommend scouring the ao3 tag in general since a lot of fanfic writers also tend to do really nice interpretations of him.
Back into my undertale routes after years because of one of my friends😔🙏 anyway have this silly ahh sans sketch (still trying to learn how to draw him again it’s been so long😭) he’s so sleepy ⁉️⁉️
Blaming @penisslayer69 for this phase coming back😭 /pos