I mean I get the feeling of what you mean with tongues & teeth, but who am I to pass a chance to ask -taz
guy who hasn't stopped thinking about the post since they reblogged last night: good being taz please imagine i am gesturing unhingedly at the conspiracy wall while you read this
bc i mean the main most obvious bit of it is. well. they Are all mob bosses (*and right hand) who do kill and torture and commit crime so yeah the blood on hands is pretty clear to see they are not hiding that
the fun part is the way it applies to all the dynamics just in different ways/to different extents
mumbo and scar probably have it the Least because like. theyre both bosses, they both know what they're doin, scar has a thing for blood and all of them have a thing for torture, honestly this is like flirting to them. mumbo says i have blood on my hands and unfortunately this makes him irresistible to scar
mumbo and grian have it but in a funny like, almost reverse way? i have a different post that kinda touches on this already and it's pretty well established in the fics that they Do Not Care what crimes/evils the other is committing, but they both deep down wish the other Wasnt in the business™. not because they want them living a life on the str8 and narrow, but because they want the other to be Happy and Safe and things you cant be in a literal killer of a workplace. but despite the fact that either of them would immediately quit and abandon the South the second the other did, they both have this thought process that. the other doesnt want to leave, so it would be cruel to ask them, and of course neither will leave the other so theyve sorta deadlocked themselves in a situation that doesnt really exist. i need you, i need you to be safe, i want you to leave but i cant ask that, i want to stay with you whether that's here or there or the ends of the earth, i cannot overemphasize how ridiculous it is that these two will do Literally Anything for the other yet neither ever seems to put two-and-two together that that could also include things like Being Safe and Saying I Love You
none of that paragraph made any sense but the feeling is there . ok
now . scar and grian . boy oh boy. putting this one under a cut bc a) gets a bit long b) technically touches on stuff that hasn't yet (but will!) come up in the fics themselves so like. idk if anyone cares about slowly written fanfic spoilers but yknow youve been warned
just. to Start. as very recently established scar has a Too Close thing. anyone getting too close is a threat, for scar and also themselves. scar (accidentally) lets mumbo get close and now it's all I Trust You And Because Of That I Don't Trust You I'm Sorry, scar (accidentally) lets grian get close and now he is not beating the allegations from bdubs
but GRIAN. oh he's the real one of all this with him and scar
see this is the thing i havent got too much in fic but the main reason grian obviously knows he likes scar and vice versa but wont do anything Real about it is like the epitome of the post. in grian's view of self, Everything he is can be summed up and finished at 'mumbo's right hand'. mumbo and scar, they can be somewhat normal, they can be something outside of the business (ignoring all their torture dates), but grian- he cant
grian is mumbo's right hand; mumbo will always be his number one priority, no matter what. he cant- and wont- give anyone else an equal amount of time/care/etc. grian's a facade and sharp edges and the Essence of the business and it doesnt matter what he thinks of scar or what scar thinks of him, that will never change
(this isnt a problem for grian, he prides himself on being Mumbo's Right-Hand as his entire identity, but he knows what it costs the one other person who might want to get close to him)
(this also isnt a problem for scar, as we will later see and have already kinda seen, bc scar has no problem with sharp personalities and he's arguably much too onboard with being mumbo and grian's third, he's just in denial about it)
but. Despite. Despite that. grian does want scar close. he already kinda is by default, given he's dating mumbo, but he wants to be close past that too even tho he knows (he thinks) they cant be, that it would only be cruel to scar. he sticks by mumbo and refuses to drop the professionalism and Mr. Chronos but also he sees scar struggling and he goes
im going to Get Close, and that's a Threat, and i know you know that, i know you know the danger, but you're still letting me and i wont stop myself. cant i want to get close? say no, you're saying yes, you think ill kill you and i Will, hand on your neck i could kill you right now, are we enemies? say yes. say yes and let me stay here anyways. i dont want to hurt you but i want you close and this is a contradiction. i will continue to make our relationship oddly tension filled until whenever we reach the point that i realize you Do Not Care about any of the warnings i have been trying to give you. why do i always write scarian like this
anyways. i think that was a lot of me saying nothing but still do you understand. how they are all making things harder for themselves then they need to be
I'm continuing my long slow haul through Graduation, and the current mood is a mix of a. I love that doing good isn't always easy for characters, how even if they're ashamed that it's hard for them, it's presented not just as a thing that comes easy and you are, but as a choice and b. Oh god what just happened I'm reeling at implications and the worst part is I can't yet conceive of what all the implications Are -taz
ahhhdshjbfdshbfjdhsb taz anon i think i left off at ep26 so i can’t offer any insight past that but yeah.
the finale,,, oh my GOD I WAS UGLY CRYING !! what did u think angel? ♥️♥️♥️
Okay one, calling me angel? I died, not gonna lie. Pet names are so cute and I love them 💙
In regards to the episode, I absolutely cried too. The finales always hit me so hard, not just for the heart wrenching emotional scenes, but also because endings are always bittersweet to me.
Also can we talk about how good Griffin is at those little moments that are just straight up terrifying? Like Thacker connecting to the hive mind near the beginning, and when Billy showed them the story of Locus Prime and Reconciliation. I got real chills.
I can’t even get into how I feel about the epilogue, but it’s a good feeling for sure. I’m so proud of all of them, doing everything they can to continue helping the worlds they chose, and in Duck’s case try and find himself now that he’s no longer the “chosen one.”
