#mace gardner

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AGAINST THE DARK AND THE MONSTERS IN IT.

my secret santa gift for @s-e-v-e-n-24 !! they asked for "guy hurt/comfort" of any flavor so i made a comic about guy being hit with some sort of alien fear toxin. this entire comic is based on the guy gardner 1992 run which introduced guy's childhood and the lobster monsters who retraumatize people.

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Return a Character from Limbo: Round One Match Fourteen of Thirty-Two

Mace Gardner (Militia)

Arnold Burnsteel

Voting ended onMay 16

[twentytomidnight]

I have some fun thoughts for you, S!!

Do you ever think that Guy is thankful that he has his mom’s hair color and texture(?)? Do you think he resents his nose or his eye color or his eyebrow shape for being the same as his father’s? Guy looks like him- he has the face of the man who beat the daylights out of him for nothing. Do you think that when he gets glances of himself in the reflections of windows of his hair frizzing in high humidity of Manhattan in the summer he’s reminded of mr. perfect, the one who could do no wrong, Mace? What would Mace think of him now- reborn angry, just like their father.

Okay so I’m about to get pretty deep with this reply, because damn these are fun questions in the sense that I will love answering this but…damn at what cost………ALSO SPOILERS DUE TO CHARACTER DISCUSSION BELOW!!!

I think it’s honestly something that I can personally relate to as someone who bears features that are unique to complicated family members and all the baggage that comes with it. I think that for someone like Guy, who feels everything so powerfully, and wears his heart on his sleeve, it’s hard.

It’s so difficult to bear the ghosts of the people that you fought for their love and approval only to come up with nothing in return, and then be forced to bear the legacy of that dearth of love on your body every waking day. I think that this goes double when concerning that those features are linked to someone who caused such pain, and makes that it that much more excruciating. Bearing that legacy when you want to live up to it, only to find yourself abjectly hating it, doing everything you can to deny it later, is a terrible gift that keeps on giving.

And it gets worse especially given the fact that there was that terrible dynamic that his father openly created between him and Mace—that of the scapegoat v. golden child dynamic, respectively, that ultimately becomes bastardized after Mace’s death. How terrible, that someone who was the golden child, but still fought to make you find worth beyond all of the devaluing that your father put upon your shoulders, that convinced you to make something of yourself, returns back from the grave.

Something that should, even in a universe of amazing fantastical things, be celebrated—only for your brother, who fought for you to turn your life around, to echo your father who was a vicious, mean man? To repeat the cycle again? To prove that nothing was broken, only postponed?

SHEESH

(Hope you enjoyed the take! I’m off to go make more fic and shed a tear lol)

[captain-knuckleduster]

Do I dislike the continuity where Guy is a cop and not a teacher? Absolutely. Do I adore the idea of him having 3 siblings instead of just one? HELL YEAH

Featuring my silly lantern headcanon about rings leaving permanent marks on the wearer's finger(s). They glow if you're still in the corps!

[theshippinghell]

Imagine mace gardner dating hal jordan

[gothamcitypublicworks]

oh... kay...

[tzigone]

So, Guy and Barry both had evil brothers introduced in the 1990s

I admit, I've never read anything with Cobalt Blue. I'd thought him extremely unpopular. I was surprised, when looking on DC fandom, that he only had 2 fewer appearances listed than Mace Gardner. Was also very surprised to see he showed up in Prime Earth (guess I was wrong about the unpopularity). I do not like his existence, myself.

I did read the Mace backstory. I did find the backstory with Guy quite good. I liked it. I didn't care for him coming back as a supervillain. Relatives as enemies just bores me 99% of the time these days.

So, what say you, oh people of Tumblr - do you like either of these characters or not?

[transguygardner]

tfw your supposed to be dead brother ambushes you and your on again off again gf while y’all are hanging at the polar icecapes