#benson kipo

[mytoehurt69]

my kipo headcanons, some sad, some random

kipo and wolf dye their hair blue and pink respectively through the magic of their parents science in the time skip

also kipo ditches the short thang for a sick side part

also also she's just generally half jaguar all the time cus like why not

[ceruleasea]

I miss this show

[aliavian]

Recently finished doing a rewatch of one of my favorite series of all time, Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts. Felt the urge to draw some fanart from the ending epilogue. 💜 This show and story is an absolute masterpiece from beginning to end. The characters, writing, backgrounds, music, story, designs…. everything about it is 10/10 chefs kiss! 🥰🔥 I love these five friends so much.

[messyjessiethoughts]

i just finished Kipo. i know i’m late to the party. but i am crying just as many tears as everyone else.

[kipobipo]

I would like to take a moment to discuss Benson and his trauma for a moment

The first and most obvious is the fact that he lost his original family (wether that was bio parents, siblings, or just members of his group who were raising him is unclear) and was left to fend for himself on the surface as a young child. Now this is not a new situation for the characters in kataow. The whole show literally revolves around Kipo ending up along on their surface and separated from her family. Additionally Wolf and Hugo both also experience being separated from family and made to fend for themselves on the surface. However out of all these characters Benson seems to receive the least sympathy and concern from the rest of the team.

Of course one key difference in his backstory that separates him from characters like Wolf and Hugo is that unlike them he made an ally and friend pretty early into his time alone. He couldn’t have been more than 10 when he met dave which is pretty young to be in your own especially is you are (as I assume benson was) used to having an adult around to care for you. While dave was able to in some capacity take care of benson like a parental figure (as old dave, buff dave, and dave dave) he is also regularly not able to do that (as teen dave, toddler dave, and baby dave). This would have essentially made Benson, a very young child who until recent did have an adult to watch him, be forced into the role of a part time parent. I know dave isn’t exactly the same as a human baby but as we see in the show he would still have cried (potentially altering dangerous mutes to their location) needed to be fed, wandered off the way a toddler does and most importantly be rendered unable to protect or care for child Benson. Half of the time Benson would have been a child alone on the surface having to survive while also raising and taking care of the equivalent to a baby/small child. Even at age 16 we see him acting as the main caretaker of Dave in his younger forms.

I’m fact benson does a lot of being a caretaker throughout the show. He shows kipo ratland to cheer her up, he keeps her secret about being part mute, he runs after Wolf when she gets upset about kipo being part mute. When kipo transforms into the mega jaguar for the forest time and accidentally dislocates his shoulder he plays off his pain and injury as not a big deal so she won’t feel bad or guilty about it. When his backpack gets knocked into the gold along with kipo’s anchor he starts crying and later when kipo transformed and gets stuck he blames himself for the situation never once taking the time to mourn the loss of his personal items that were also lost.

So we have a young boy who has been placed in a caretaking role from a very young age in dangerous and hostile world. One where he has to avoid being eaten, starving to death, freezing to death, dehydration, and being kidnapped and sold to scarelemage all while being a part time parent from the ages of 10-16. AND THEN to top it all off Kipo (and the fandom) doesn’t ever seem to fully include him in the found family. Kipo calls wolf her sister within the first day of knowing her but never refers to benson as family I’m that way. When song gets transformed back kipo calls wolf to join in the family group hug but not benson. This kid takes care of everyone around him but is rarely shown that same care and it just makes me so sad. He may be the oldest in the group but he’s still just a teenager.

[mad-raptorzzz]

finished my rewatch of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Gotta say, loved it just as much if not more than this time around. It’s nice to see a show on Netflix, an animated show no less, get a proper beginning middle end. With a satisfying conclusion.

I love Kipo, Wolf, Benson, and Mandu. Dave can be kind of hit or miss for me. But the main 3 are all solid. I especially appreciate how Kipo slowly gains more friends in the muts throughout the show and they all support her. Especially the timbercats.

I love Hugo. He’s great. Love that his redemption took time. And maybe not everyone trusted him even in the end. Love that Amelia didn’t get redeemed but was given the chance. And that Kipo DIDNT kill her because that would fundamentally go against what she stood for. It would not have fit Kipo.

Love that neither Kipo nor Wolf end up with anyone in the end!!! Cannot stress enough how much I love that. Wolf is for sure aro/ace and Kipo is pan.

also love there were lasting consequences. Obviously Hugo’s death. But also all the muts who were ‘cured’ stay that way. Which is tragic.

And the music was always so much fun.

Now I’m off to rewatch Stranger Things before the last season.

[cicada330-1]

[romanticjunk]

On my way