impulse is the earth.
he’s warm, he’s bright, he’s untapped potential. he’s resourceful, he’s nourishing, he’s kind. most importantly, he’s alive. he has humanity. so, so much humanity. so much humility and patience, so much love and care inside of him it flows out of him like waterfalls. he’s a person at his core, and he thrives with other people, people he can help and house and laugh with. he’s got a little bit of everything, things that make him a joy to be around, someone to settle down with, someone to love.
someone to use. someone to manipulate, and take from, and leave behind once he’s got nothing left. something that can only give so much before bits of him are lost forever, stolen from him unjustly, plucked from him like petals on a beautiful flower. a thing that is only good for providing, being a foundation to live on, that can be abandoned when the going gets tough. it’s dehumanizing.
there’s only so much he can give, only so much he can sacrifice. eventually, he’ll be used up, worthless without a purpose, without an ability to provide. and once all the green is gone, all the thriving plants and rushing rivers, he’s a husk. just some rock, barely even a foundation with all the cracks and bits taken from him. it’s then that he’s unforgiving. it’s then that he gets angry, and selfish, and relentless. some days he’s closed off, cold, reserved and unwilling to help. other’s he’s burning with an angry fire, but not his usual blaze thats always roaring in his heart. something manmade, something put inside of him that shouldn’t be there, that someone else left him with and now he’s forced to burn with it. he can’t help it. he can’t afford to give up anymore.
but, despite it all, he can grow. he can heal. maybe not everything, maybe there will always be parts of him missing, parts that will never be the same. it’s okay, though, because even if he’ll never be whole again like he was before the games, his warmth will soon return, his own warmth, core alight with love and compassion and something so, so beautiful. something human. and of course, he’s not perfect. he’s everything a person is. he’s loving and kind and helpful. he’s selfish and scared and stupid. he makes mistakes and is littered with imperfections. it’s incredible.
he’s one of the closest things to human left, at least to those who helped him flourish again, and that shines like gold in comparison to the carnage and dark days ahead. impulse is just one person, just one planet, and he’s nothing too big or special. but to those who love him, to those who settle down and live with him and take care of him, he’s the most important thing they’ll ever know. maybe all they’ll ever know, which is a daunting thought, but impulse can take it. he’s strong and reliable. he houses life so well for a reason.
nobody does it quite like him. he’s unique and extraordinary and a miracle. he’s the earth. he’s impulse.
listen I know he didn’t win but let me dream and have fun okay
people were characterizing on twitter and it gave me motivation to finally expand on my idea sorry traffic!scar people saying he’s the earth these are just my thoughts </3
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Watched through adventure time start to finish for the first time and of course it was great and of course I'm going to be drawing fanart at some point in the not-distant future (can't say near tho lmao school is keeping me busy) but my god the finale. I already knew the plot points tbh because i Am Online and Like Cartoons and if both of those things are things you are, you see the bubbline kiss and Finn saying "I always thought i'd go out a hero" and that's pretty much unavoidable, but what really got me was Time Adventure.
I saw someone on Twitter or something, maybe on here, say that the antagonist of Adventure Time is personal stagnation, and it was a comeback to someone else, but it really is true that from season 7 on the show starts leaning Realllllly hard into Growth as the topic the show's about (and season 7 is like. a pretty noticeable line for this switch tbh, NOT that the first 6 seasons are unimportant to the final end point, but the change is visible.) This is especially clear seeing as Gumbald and Fern, who refuse to accept growth and change to a unique extent, and are incapable of personal growth due to being an outgrown past version of the mc held that way indefinitely by a grass curse, respectively, are the main antagonistic forces of the final season. (Betty also counts as both an antagonistic force in the finale and unable to accept growth to me seeing as she was the reason Golb was summoned and, I mean, Temple of Mars is ABOUT her being unable to grow on an internal-beliefs level despite accepting the magic of the future as an external tool, so that checks both boxes, but i'm not sure of the overall Betty opinion and also she isn't the main point.) What I'm getting at is, with the major emphasis on changing as an individual, Time Adventure is especially poignant to me, because outside of being a (still very good) meta song about the show ending, in the context of the show it reads as a song about how sad growing as a person is when you're the person who's changing, and how it would be great if you could just. always be a 12 year old kid in the first season who doesn't understand that there are problems that can't be solved and fights you can't win, who can always go back to his treehouse at the end of the day. And how with the passage of time, it's inevitable to change, but at least that kid is and will forever be in season 1, even as the only physical version of himself from the past blows away in the wind as he asks to go back to a place that's now rubble. This isn't exactly breaking news but still, in a show that leans so hard into the way maturing means changing as a person the final message being "it's hard to be a new person and lots of things ARE lost forever but all past versions of you that you can no longer be exist in the past and aren't going anywhere" instead of like, "woohoo! Maturing is neat! Look at how much everything has improved!" is really good. Idk it just kinda means more really knowing that they're sad about the change.
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