#backwards husbands

[che2rybomb]

I hope someone out there on this hellsite (deeply affectionate) will get me when I say that Lestat saying “I’m happy it was you here with me” to Louis, the love of his life, at whose hand the said life of his is about to end, speaks to me as a distant echo of Neil in Tenet (2020) knee-jerkingly responding “so would I” — to the Protagonist who just told him that if Neil were ever to be killed in a mission, he’d rather that the decision to end Neil’s life be his own — all the while knowing that that scenario — Neil happily dies at the hands of the Protagonist — is exactly how things are going to be, having literally been sent to the present mission by the future/past Protagonist so that Neil can die protecting the man he would die protecting.

[hermywolf]

people complaining that the protagonist doesn’t have a backstory,,, WHEN TENET IS HIS BACKSTORY

the “tragic thing” from his past that y’all say is lacking is neil’s death!!!! everyone at tenet will look at him and know that he has a tragic backstory, which is watching his soulmate die for him before his soulmate even actually met him, from his point of view at least.

he tries to kill himself, joins tenet, sees the love of his life sacrifice himself for him, and then goes off to create the tenet organization and save the world. this IS his tragic backstory.

[no-gorms]

I said I wouldn't, but that just meant I would, so I wrote a Tenet coda:

Matched Set (4821 words) by scaramouche Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tenet (2020) Rating: Mature Relationships: The Protagonist/Neil Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Getting Together, Time Weirdness, Second Person Protagonist POV

Summary: The Protagonist figures out his next steps, and where Neil fits into them.

[clownmacready]

might uhh delete this later but here’s a wip of a protagoneil comic i have brewing, where i went to myself “i will draw a simple comic and not focus on detail” and then immediately drew a fully detailed protag so you have these 2 polar opposite panels

[hermywolf]

okay okay okay but can we TALK about how when neil takes the protagonist’s mask off he immediately looks horrified and RUNS OFF. he RUNS because he knows that the protagonist is unknowingly about to kill himself!!! and he knows he needs to stop him!!! to save him!!!! I’m crying!!!!

[hermywolf]

what do you MEAN its not canon that the protagonist and neil were married and neil is the only one who knows the protagonist's name and it hurt him to call him his "friend" when he wanted to say "husband". what do you MEAN thats not canon have we watched the same movie-

[hermywolf]

the face neil made when he took off the protagonist’s mask and recognized him in oslo is not the face of a man who’s been working in tenet for years and is used to seeing doppelgangers.

that is the face of a man who sees the love of his life in front of him and thinks for a split second that maybe that’s HIS protagonist. the one he spent years with. the one who knows him. the one who loves him.

[hermywolf]

how DARE tenet just fucking! do that! to us! did chris nolan THINK about the gays when he wrote the ending?? did robert pattinson even CONSIDER what it would do to the gays when he decided to make heart eyes at john david washington in every scene they’re in??? did jdw even BEGIN to IMAGINE how much it would hurt the gays when he smiled at robpattz like that!!!!! what the FUCK!!!!! tenet is a HATE CRIME