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Babylon 5 text posts part 11
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alfred bester wants close family but never figures it out
One of the main themes of Deadly Relations is Alfred Bester desperately wants family, but he either never realizes it, and/or he can't trust enough to develop such a connection, or it's taken away from him. All while constantly saying that the Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father (irony!).
The guy has Trust Issues after the Cadre Prime child abuse (thanks grandpa Vacit!) and years of his boss actually being out to kill him.
As a child, he gets Bey as his father, until the Psi Corps Director had him killed.
Walters telling him about how great his rogue parents were and that they loved him hurt him so much, he repressed hard enough to lose use of his hand.
As a mentor, he likes Byron a great deal, despite everything about the kid screaming he's not cut out for the life of moral ambiguity, ruthlessness and vigilante murder that Bester wants to pass on to him.
Byron is kind, oblivious, and guileless. He's safe. Everything Bester wants out of a family member without realizing that's what he wants.
Really, all Bester had to do was adopt him and stop pushing him into field work/vigilante gang initiation killings.
My ranking of all the characters in Babylon 5 that I have strong feelings about, in one way or another!
Here's an explanation of the tiers (I simply cannot help but over-clarify everything)...
Tier 1 - My favourite
Tier 2 - I love them
Tier 3 - They're great, I have a lot of love for them, it's just a bit more casual than the first two tiers
Tier 4 - Depending on what part of their arc I'm watching, I either like them a lot... or I am about to shout at the TV screen because, as much as I appreciate how good their arc is, they've annoyed me
Tier 5 - This tier is mostly for villains because, yes, they make my skin crawl, but that's the point. I love a good villain to hate! You may notice, however, that there are non-villains in the tier. Lennier is a tricky one, because I really like him, and then I really dislike him. I can't just ignore that, so that's why he's in this tier of complex feelings. And as for Sinclair, I don't really have any strong feelings about him. I have ranked him because I simply couldn't leave him out, but there isn't a perfect tier for him. He ended up in this tier because, I have to admit, I will always spend season one waiting for him to leave so that I can be reunited with Sheridan ahaha oops--
Tier 6 - The quote says it all
I have made this tier list a template, so please feel free to do it yourself! As I said, I made this with (pretty much) just the characters I have strong feelings about, so if you have any you'd like me to add to the template, please let me know!
Rank an assortment of Babylon 5 characters
BYRON GORDON from BABYLON 5
JUSTIFICATION:
"Not every character who is irrationally hated by the fandom for having characteristics associated with femininity while being canonically a man is a transfem egg, but Byron specifically has so much transfem egg swag that I do not know where to begin describing it lol. I mean, if you met someone who was an ex-member of an incredibly restrictive organization that probably gatekept transition like all hell, who did things like always try to take as good care of their hair as possible even while on the run from the government, wear a plausibly deniable piece of androgynous jewelry at all times, and intentionally speak in a higher and softer register, what would YOU think?" - @roguetelepaths
COULD TRANSITION HAVE SAVED HER?
Yes
No
It would make her worse
It would make her worse (affectionate)
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how was the s5 telepath arc done so badly?
the only episode i liked is the last one in the arc (where byron died lmfao) as in my opinion it deals with the fact byron and his telepaths are just the same as a corp when it comes down to it and byron realises it has to end with him. so why the FUCK is that the only episode that has that sort of premise why are the rest just the telepaths being in a lowkey cult?? i don't get it
Byron + 5x11
Writing 8 whole pages (and counting) of fanfic for a character that next to no one in the fandom likes should be diagnosable as a mental illness
All right this is two scenes in Babylon 5 where people are having sex with a crowd right outside the door.
I am not going to speculate on the possible reasons for this.
