#fish mooney

[melarooon]

Gotham is a cartoon to me

[tyrionstongue]

I really love that Oswald in Gotham develops paternal affection towards a boy who: - is disabled, like him - craves enough power to be untouchable and then some, but also paradoxically craves love, like him - has a bird name ("Martin")

And the fact that he has that kind of relationship in and of itself. For one, the famously devoted fatherhood of male emperor penguins. For two, it makes sense for someone obsessed with his own legacy that he would want an heir. For three, he is trying to be someone else's Fish Mooney, in part as an affirmation for himself; as Robin Lord Taylor remarked in an interview, Oswald truly had genuine affection for Fish.

[snow-bees]

“Yes Mother” 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

[atrenchcoatfilledwithbees]

Jim Gordon: my super cool girlfriend wants to work with me :(

Edward Nygma: My colleagues are bullies and the girl I like is weirded out by me :(

Average Fish Mooney subplot:

[escapedinmate]

Gotham S1E22 All Happy Families Are Alike

[jnephrite]

hook, line, and sinker. (details below)

DETAILS!!

— foxglove flowers: it means confidence and ambition which what fish mooney was.

but the flower is also poisonous and it could also mean deception / hidden danger and insincerity which is what fish mooney truly was to morgan (fakes being nice just to get something out of morgan)

— fish & morgan has similar themes: heterochromia, the colour cyan & red. fish having hooped earrings / gold jewellery that morgan subconsciously inherits

— the glass cracks on morgan’s orange eye which is the unnatural one that she got from getting hit by the joker and causing her to see through the fourth wall

— the glass crack by her orange eye is also diamond shaped. the shape often associated with harley and morgan herself (chat symbol is an eye shaped like a diamond)

— also glass cracks symbolises morgan’s reality being unstable while fish mooney’s hold on her face symbolises that she forces morgan to face it

— colour symbolism: purple is often associated with royalty as fish mooney wanted to be the queen of gotham underworld. and sometimes the colour scheme of villains in media is purple (aside from red which is ! also ! in this art)

pink symbolises naivety & morgan’s naivety caused her to fall into fish’s trap

[slingbats]

pecking order

[meranciaros]

I’m not a gangster. I’m a businessman, and my business is crime