#bacharath

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i love their dynamic so much 😢😢 similar and yet so vastly different

also my kipp design because she’s very important to me (she’s wasian, dyed her hair blonde for whatever reason so now her hair is all burnt)

and also here’s the crazy amount of doodles I did of TRG (featuring baby Bacharath!) because lord do I love them

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

on some level I'm always thinking of Buddy Dawn and Bacharath. He got resurrected angrier and hasn't said at who (but it's easy to guess). He created his god through force if will, but her power brought him back. she creates and is created by his anger. they brought eachother back Wrong. Can't wait to see more of them (crossing my fingers for szn 4) because I think they'll make an iconic villain duo!

[friendofthedawn]

quick thoughts after the final episode, so massive spoilers for fhjy ep20!

buddy dawn creating a new deity, bacharath, out of sheer strength of belief is very comedic! of course i understand how it's funny to see yet another reflection of kristen bounced off into a strange new direction.

BUT. though i'll be thinking more about this when i've got time to totally wrap my head around the finale, i think that him creating this new deity out of blind devotion and running right back to his grandfather is very sad, honestly.

throughout the show, buddy has been shown to have a very impersonal connection to helio, the deity he draws his power from. when talking to kristen in the hallways, he mentions how helio uses him as a conduit to unleash his will into the mortal will, and that he has no control over what spell comes from his hand. of course, from the way we know clerics and worship works in the world of fantasy high, we know that this doesn't make sense and is not true. ankarna's followers used her powers to kill her sister's followers and kill in her name. she had no agency in this matter.

instead of a truth of buddy's relationship with helio, this moment read to me as a reflection instead of how his worship is conducted: muscle memory and memorization. he puts none of himself into worship and devotion because all that thought comes outside of him, totally impersonally, from his grandfather's ideologies.

we don't see this method of worship change when he changes his deity that is, to him, an unnamed god of rage. instead, he doubles down. "of course bacharath has to be the true name of the deity, we just aren't believing hard enough." the way he devotes himself (aka: impersonally, without introspection) has not changed. only the subject of his devotion has changed.

now, how did s1 kristen create a new deity in the first place? throughout fhjy, so many talk about how impressive this is. she creates a new deity by understanding deep fundamental truths about the universe.

this idea is cheapened by the fact that buddy dawn creates a new deity. he isn't shown to understand a deeper truth about the universe at play, and he isn't shown to change how he worships. instead, he believes so so hard, exactly the way he has his entire life, and this method of worship is then substantiated as legitimate by the narrative.

and then, he goes back to his grandfather.

now, i get that all this is a set up for a potential fh senior year, which is another can of worms that i won't get into now. but, in terms of just this season, i find this ending very sad for buddy.

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made this 2B2K tie to cope with the fact i cant buy myself a cool unique tie… maybe someday

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ok but if I was a cishet man and I had a baby and the baby was a god and also a reflection of my personal belief of truth, justice, rage, an righteousness (fundamental aspects of my character) and the baby turned out to be female/nonbinary idek what I’d do man, like, that’s not just me right I feel like the baby being woke says something about me

[casin0table]

Buddy Dawn finally teams up with Kalina, and his smile softens. Just a little bit. Not because he’s evil now but because the people he’s surrounded by somehow make him feel like he doesn’t have to try so hard. He can just express himself as he is, no matter what that feeling might be. Just that, he’s a really good person. Buddy Dawn has bad days, and he gets angry, and he can be a little cocky and mean-spirited in his playfulness, but he still thanks Kalina each morning, he still compliments strangers on the street, he cares so much and that was never his curse. His curse was it being taken advantage of, but Buddy Dawn never needed religion to smile. He’s just kind of like that.

[casin0table]

Buddy Dawn if he was turned into a weird cutesy thing

and also some actual art of him with Bacarath because I am a ginormous fan of them