#terrifying!

[afflatuslux]

scares you

oh jesus fucking christ

[fire-on-fuel]

everyone hear me out one of the most underutilized character relationships in andor is bix and luthen. obviously not in a romantic sense, I'm talking bix thinking (maladaptively but not confusingly) that the way to stop her trauma haunting her is to get better trained as a spy and tactical operative and trying to get luthen to facilitate her doing that work, and luthen seeing a younger version of himself in her care-fueled pragmatism and lack of hesitation and deliberation and coldness under pressure and hypervigilance and not knowing what to do with it. because he needs bix healthy and he needs bix the uniquely competent tech engineer and he needs bix the communicator and negotiator that came prepackaged with a psyche that fits how he plans even if her priorities make his heart hurt but bix's mind won't rest until she's a hypercompetent gun toting special operative. and what the hell is he gonna do say no to the number one way for her to functionally move past this thing that keeps her ineffective? tell her to respond to her trauma differently? tell her the truth (that it always comes down to chance)??

[leagueofbats]

i think i know the reason why bruce has problems with all of his children when they grow up:

bruce decided who he was and what his moral code would be when he was 8, and that has never changed after that. so i really think he just does not believe that people CAN change because HE never did...

but most people, most children especially, change a whole lot. and children who live through a lot of trauma can change very very much.

so for bruce, who - after seeing his parents die, yes- had a rather normal childhood (no fighting crime, no getting tortured, no dying, etc).. he cant relate to them. at all.

look at the oldest two:

dick started being robin at 9 i think? that man is trauma central. no wonder he and bruce got i to fight after fight when he was a teenager.

jason got tortured, DIED, woke up in his grave, was taken and brainwashed by a cult, got dipped into the lazarus pit... there was NO chance of him being the kid he died as.

Bruce is unchanging, but all the batlings are growing up, changing a lot, changing all the time. and he does not understand that thats normal - to him they are either doing something wrong or they ARE wrong somehow.

[blanceau]

also do yall ever think about how powerful gambit is and he's literally been stunted by mr sinister. i shudder to think of him at his full potential

[fairyringlets]

maybe happiness is achievable...

[saaltskies]

was looking through some old notebooks and found quite the chirithy

[hellomyblr]

blue button is just for people who wanna skydive but are scared of planes and trust no one but themselves (and the other half of the population who doesn’t make aircrafts (apparently) to make the same decision as them)

i pray for you blue button pickers that someone made a toxic male podcast talking about how the red button is too feminine for them so every single alpha male rich man chooses blue

and that all colourblind people seek for vibrant colours

and lastly, for every single child to stress their parents put by pressing the dopamine button