#kifamy

[as-anecdotes]

been rewatching Futurama lately and I forgot how much I love this funky lil guy and his hot girlfriend. [bc essentially it's my boyfriend and me lol]

[fryandleelasbigfling]

can't wait for the epic follow up to the most tasteful alien mpreg story out there

[homefryboy]

(commissions open)

[redandfranticfeelings]

admittedly it took a while for kif and amy’s relationship to really get to me, but i think one scene in “brannigan begin again” -- which was before they even officially started dating! -- is what truly helped things click for me

this episode, i think, makes it clear that kif doesn’t just have a shitty job. his life is that shitty job. he’s used to constant abuse and belittlement from his incompetent boss, and he’s aware that it sucks, but he can’t exactly quit, and he’s dragged alongside zapp everywhere so he doesn’t have much time for himself. most tellingly, when he’s apart from zapp, he still has no idea what to talk about other than hating zapp. 

when leela treats him with a sense of decency, he absolutely adores it, and apparently any expression of joy is rare and vulnerable to him.

but who does he eventually end up with? a woman who is the epitome of freedom! amy is financially set for life, sexually confident, academically adept, and generally pretty happy with herself (internalized sexism aside). her job isn’t an obligation, she’s an intern, she’s doing this to further her own career. and she can be selfish for sure, but she does care about kif.

he’s just so charming and devoted to her, saving her and her friends at least twice, and he doesn’t reduce her to her financial status or try to push her into a box (there was the issue with their kids but they did work that out to some extent). he’s not as bound up in social norms and gender roles (being zapp’s employee, he’s seen them at his worst, lol) and i think that’d be good for her too, even if she takes issue with it in “prop infinity” (weird episode anyway).

they have shaky moments and weird writing sometimes but basically there is something sweet (and sad) at their core. kif literally had nothing in his life before amy. she gives him something else to think about instead of his nightmarish job. 

[sandyferal]

Why are they CUTE

[alcrystallcrits]

[makokind]

you could draw... amy & kif? 💖 or.... fry and mr peppy XD

always down to draw these 2....

[fryandleelasbigfling]

fuuuuck man, i can't stop thinking about amy's character development.

like amy's always been smart, albeit ditzy, but she operates largely on rebelling against what her parents want from her. she does not want to be a living uterus to make heirs and money for her shitty folks. she parties and sleeps around and generally still acts like a sorority girl because she values freedom.

and it's funny bc her parents introduce her to kif, but kif is a new way to keep amy grounded. kif isn't a one night stand, he tries to call her back and wants to get to know her. he wants to impress her family, and neither of them care that it doesn't work because he was brave enough to try. in fact, they can probably both bond over feeling like they're unfairly tethered to people who don't see them as individuals. he loves her and wants to commit to her, and she's flattered and realizes she loves him right back beyond just dating.

and amy is... not good with emotional literacy. she says things to insult people on accident a lot, and she doesn't usually seem willing to get very personal with the crew. and when kif dies in BWABB, her mom literally tells her to get over it mere days later, and then she copes by sleeping with zapp seemingly just to bring kif back in some way. so i think this is something else she internalized from her upbringing.

so i think when kif gets pregnant, obviously she's not ready to adjust to a life of responsibility, especially given how being a mother has been held over her head as basically a command for most of her life. but she wants to be with kif, and she's willing to adapt for him. and then she gets 20 years to prepare, and given this episode, i believe she spent those 20 years talking this over with kif, working out their relationship, learning to get her mind in order and eventually be a responsible parent. they had some real hurdles (and bad writing) but i think eventually, she felt ready to commit, especially after she earned her phd. she's financially secure enough to do pretty much whatever she wants after all, and having a family with kif is what she wants next in life.

i think this all made the "biological mother" thing so much harder for her. because leela has her own traumas, but it seems like she's naturally maternal, whereas i feel like amy had to really work for it. and she's worried that simply being exhausted is enough to make her a bad mom, and takes that out on leela, even though leela is also exhausted and far from perfect. i feel like in amy's eyes, leela has always been very capable and mature, even if they don't always get along, and i can see her worrying that the kids would innately bond with leela and amy wouldn't be enough. and given she outright acknowledges how terrible her parents are in this episode, and they reject the babies for being visibly mutant-alien, i can see her worrying she's repeating the cycle, and even though she's loving them as much as she can, she's only ever known parents who were harsh and critical, and being so openly loving is something she had to learn. (leela had to learn this too, but amy is too self-critical to realize that.)

so when amy says she loves those kids "more than [she] realized [she] could ever love anything"... i really believe that. i don't think amy knew how capable she was of expressing true love. i don't think she realized that she could commit to someone and not just fulfill her parents' degrading wishes for her. this isn't about her parents, this is about her and kif and the future they made with their love.

and by god, she's gonna be a good mother, and it'll be hard, but in the end, she's doing it because it feels good.