Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.
Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now
Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.
Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!
Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.
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Morningbloom doesn't mean to haunt anyone, she swears it.
But when she dies, and she's welcomed into the ranks of Starclan, she finds herself lingering. She lingers as her loved ones mourn, as they hang their heads and tears stain their fur. She lingers more often than she should, to simply see and watch, because her loved ones still live there.
Morningbloom lingers as she sees Sunwish refusing to grieve. Out of guilt, out of feeling like she doesn't deserve to. The molly watches as the medicine cat throws herself into her work, into her duty. She watches as the medicine cat pushes herself again and again, learning more of her role, pushing aside bitterness to ask the other clan healers for help or advice.
Morningbloom tries to be there, she really does. She lingers every time Sunwish helps a queen successfully kit or anything of the sort. She tries to wrap her tail around the other and whisper, "Look, you're doing well! You're an amazing medicine cat."
Morningbloom finds herself often gesturing to the kits or the newly patched up warrior. She tries, and she tries her hardest to let Sunwish know that her death wasn't her fault and to please, please, allow herself to grieve.
It doesn't work, as much as Morningbloom wishes it did. She doesn't know if it's Sunwish's guilt, or her fear, but the medicine cat never listens. Shuffling away when she's no longer needed, throwing herself into making sure the herbs are always stocked.
It aches Morningbloom, but there's not much else she can do.
..
When Morningbloom descends on day, seeing Scorchstar silently stalking Sunwish, her heart drops to her stomach.
No. No no, please, no.
She races, she runs, and she tries to stop the leader. "Scorchstar," she'll try, her voice so echoy yet so desperate, "Scorchstar no!"
But she's a ghost. There's not much Morningbloom can do.
She can only watch, her starry pelt dimming with her disbelief, as Scorchstar pounces upon the medicine cat. There's an exchange of words, blame placed upon Sunwish by the leader. She can tell that the leader isn't in her right mind, but what can Morningbloom do?
As she watches Sunwish's spirit rise to Starclan, Morningbloom follows.
They meet there, and Morningbloom smiles at the other. Sunwish's ears pinned back, and she could see the former medicine cat was grasping for words.
All Morningbloom does is approach, wrap her tail around the other, and say..
"You did the best you could, Sunwish. And that's all anyone could have ever asked for."
- 🐆 (If that's not taken? ALSO OUGH SORRY FOR THIS MAYBE BEING LONG AND POSSIBLY OOC.. I JUST FOUND THIS BLOG AND READ THROUGH SOME STUFF BUT THE BRAINWORMS ARE REAL...)
IM DEVASTATED...... YEAH. YEAH YOU GOT IT. HOLY SHIT DUDE
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girl you are like a neurotic cheetah and link is the golden retriever they put in your enclosure so you don't lose your shit
A what.
i'm a what now?
I'm not an animal. I don't need to be enclosed or encaged or
Zelda?
I won't 'lose my sh*t'! I am a human who is perfectly capable of controlling herself like any other human can! I'm not some mindless beast! I'm not! I'm not a monster! I'm not a DRAGON!
...Little bird?
oh fuck
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