#the character development you go through...

[azalea4u]

"I promise…I'll come home."

[starteas]

thank you for everything 📺❤️

[loriache]

Thoughts of a newly resurrected girl

[cattoncondy]

Thinking back to when Moon sacrificed himself to let KC live and it’s like

No Moon, you can NOT kill yourself to avoid being nice to your brother.

[ineed-to-sleep]

Some of you people are such purist snobs about writing tbh you make the experience of discussing writing online really unpleasant. Saying to your peers they should just "suck it up and take [your] harsh criticism bc otherwise you will never make it as a writer" is just you being an asshole. If you think there's a right and a wrong way to write, and you're trying to force what you think is right down other people's throats like you're the world's most qualified writer and everyone should listen to you, you're just being delusional. Nobody will thank you and kiss your feet for being a dick to them. You're a stranger saying shit on the internet. That high horse you think you're climbing on is actually a pony. Wake uppppp there's a reason why nobody wants to listen to you

[i1ovetonystark]

I love how IWTV plays with memory : through visual and narrative inaccuracies/inconsistencies

It's so interesting because we already have a vampire with reason to lie/omit truths -> Louis ripping pages out of Claudia's diary for her privacy, Louis being dropped from space, etc.

But then the intentional lies/omissions tangle with the unintentional inaccuracy of remembering events: Louis not being able to be sure if it was raining or not when Daniel inquired abt it(when louis met with the soldier in the woods), Louis thinking Lestat created the wolverine blues, and Armand editing Louis memory in 1973 etc.

Even tangible evidence : Claudia's diary, photographs, Claudia's dress etc. Can tell another story on their own

The odyssey of recollection

[peepreadscomics]

Thinking about the nightmare 90s!Tim has in YJ01...

Tim's kneeling on the sidewalk, gawking in horror at his hand. His wrist is wrapped with bandages, and his hand has been replaced with a batarang.

His actual hand, glove, and all have fallen off, swarmed by the killer cockroaches of Gotham's streets.

Young Justice 1998 01

Idk, I can't stop thinking about how part of him is replaced with something Batman made, honed, and curated for efficiency and vigilanteism.

A part of Tim is just laying there... swarmed and consumed by the unkillable vermin of Gotham streets.

Here it is again; Tim's fear of slowly becoming someone that he isn't. Becoming a tool and a weapon, less human and more machine.

And then there's Batman in this nightmare. Standing tall, ready to move on... nonchalantly asking Tim to grow a beard so he can make a personal use of his shiny new appendage.

But it's the,

Don't worry, Robin... No one will notice.

that's just smacking me across the face.

A part of Tim is dead and gone, but dont worry, kid! No one's gonna care enough to notice! (This is not a dig towards Tim's parents btw. Ill talk abt the Drakes in a different post.)

Batman brushes off Tim's horror—when lil bro's literally choking with horror—with an assurance that everything that Tim's afraid of will come true and, hey! it isnt a big deal.

Of course, this is Tim's nightmare view of Batman and not a characterization on Bruce, but it's just another example of how Tim sees Batman as a symbol that has consumed Bruce. (So, also not a dig towards Bruce, btw. He gets his own post later, too)

Since Tim's first few appearances, he's been terrified of becoming consumed by justice (?), vengeance, and vigilanteism.

Between his visceral fear at the comfort/hug from Bruce when his mom died, to a different nightmare featuring nightwing, to this nightmare, to rejecting comfort from Bruce at Steph's funeral, to hating Robin and himself after his father's death, and faking an uncle to get away from Batman??

It just shows how terrified he is of becoming someone he isnt...

And this nightmare in particular adds this: he's afraid no one will notice.

Young Justice 1998 01

It makes sense how his attempts to try and prevent the erasure of who he is would slowly escalate with every death. And with so many other heroes just... coming back... and coming back the same or even "close enough"?

It's easy to reach the point of rejecting death entirely. (am i side eyeing people who compare his reactions to certain people's death as a valid measure to who's more important to him? Maybe. Thats a different post tho)

Anyway. Fast forward like 3ish years later...

Red Robin 2009 01

Haha. I love self fulfilling prophecies.

Bart's Nightmare

Kon's Nightmare

[laughter-loving-thalia]

Propaganda I will never fall for: Chapter 43 showed how much growth Fitz has achieved.

Because if you ask me, I'll tell you that Chapter 43 showed a regression in Fitz's arc rather than a progression.

But I'm not surprised to hear people believe that Chapter 43 showed growth from Fitz, since usually this opinion comes from the Sokeefe shippers who see Fitz's emotions as a nuisance and who couldn't care less about his characters. Do I blame them for not paying attention to what his arc is about? No. I don't care about Keefe's "arc" either... though I think at this point he needs a therapist intervention, not an arc.

Fitz's arc, in a nutshell:

KotLC: the perfect prince charming, raised by a father that is just as perfect, bottles up any socially undesirable emotion, raised by a father who convinced himself that there was no reason to worry, Fitz will forgive anything and everything (even someone throwing up on his clothes!)

Exile: picture perfect prince faces the biggest, most traumatic event of his life. His father who is the ideal of emotional regulation turns out to be unable to wear his mask any longer (and he breaks from it). Fitz's mask shatters for the first time. He realises that the only reason he was so good at keeping the anger bottled up is because he was never faced with enough pressure to make it explode. Fitz is now terrorised by this imperfect side of him, and by the imperfect side of his father, that they both let through.

Everblaze, Neverseen: Fitz is convinced that he needs to make up for letting Sophie see what's through his mask. He refuses to acknowledge that the anger was already there and also justified (stages of grief? Never heard of 'em!) He blames himself for not bottling his emotions well enough.

Lodestar, Nightfall: Fitz is back to his prince charming era. Despite betrayals here and there, he's back at bottling things up, and because of the trauma from Exile he's even better at it now. He believes he is safe from any future slip-ups.

Flashback: enters Umber and the echoes. Umber's violent rage is added to the pile of anger that Fitz was already bottling up. Despite searching for it throughout the entire book, Fitz is unable to find a place where he can put all this rage. Fitz explodes for a second time, almost taking down his brother and breaking his mask for good like his father did back in Exile.

Legacy: Fitz realises that there is no going back from last book's explosion. Everyone and their mother saw who Fitz Vacker "truly is". Fitz is full of guilt and tries to make up for it by being the most meek and passive golden boy ever. He turns the other cheek to everyone: Cassius, Sophie, Ro, Keefe, the Council... because he hopes to fix his mistakes and find Alvar... until he is slapped with the worst of betrayals. Keefe and Sophie let Alvar go. They let Alvar go, and with that, his only chance to fix his mask (or, at least, the illusion of it). Fitz explodes a third time, though this is less strong as before because the bottle was already broken.

Stellarlune: Fitz is mysteriously back to being the prince charming, and he's doing it better than ever before. He is incredibly patient and listens to Sophie and forgives every mistreatments he receives, even from an ex-terrorist who told him his temper was even worse than his terrorist brother.

Chapter 43: Fitz has an unnatural and unexpectedly underwhelming reaction to learning that not only Sophie was now dating Keefe (despite saying she wasn't ready for that) but that she also kissed him.