Can we talk about Jesper Fahey unintentionally being one of the most powerful Grisha in the Grishaverse? (Bear with me)
Okay, agreed, Jesper struggles with doing basically anything intentionally. Makes sense - he was never trained.
But if we consider what he can do; controlling the path of bullets. Taking tiny chunks of metal moving at ~120-370 m/s, and directing them. And not just a little bit. He literally managed to make his bullet curve 90° around a right-angle corner. This is a skill we see no other Fabrikator able to do, and you would have thought, if it was a common ability, or even ever seen before, the Darkling or the Triumvirate would have utilised it in the Second Army. They have not. The only people known to use it are Jesper and his mother.
(And let's just give an honourable mention to Aditi Hilli, who could extract poison from the bloodstream of another person. You remember how the tidemakers in the Ice Court needed to be on Parem to mess with a person's blood? But Aditi Hilli? ...I don't want to say no problem, because she did die, but she saved Leoni too, so... half-marks? I'm just saying Jesper has some serious badass genes.)
Actually, talking about the tidemakers on parem, Jesper, with no training and having all the blood in his body sucked out of him, still managed to kill them with dust. A rather dark trick, but one we've never seen David Kostyk, or Leoni Hilli, considered the two most powerful Fabrikators alive during canon, replicate.
But the real reason Jesper is so powerful has very little to do with that, so much as HOW he does it. Every grisha alive used their arms to direct their abilities. After being captured by the Darkling in S&S, Alina has her hands bound, and says something about how she can summon, but not direct light without her hands, so she's basically powerless. It's obviously a common tactic, because the Druskelle do the same thing with Nina and the other Grisha they captured, and only after they get their hands freed on the sharp edge of a broken cup can they use their abilities again.
The only people we see not using their hands for the small science, in fact, are Adrik, who has to relearn his technique after he loses an arm, and, of course, Jesper Fahey, who can direct bullets with his mind - no hand movements required.
If anything, it's probably this ability that makes him so good at directing bullets. After all, at the speed a bullet is going, you don't have time to be waving your hands around to control it. What's especially funny to me is that before Wylan pointed it out, he had no idea he was even doing it. He was using an ability no other Grisha can, and Didn't Know. Can you imagine him mentioning that to Nina... or basically any Second Army Grisha.
("You can control bullets?"
"...you can't?"
"...how?"
"I'm not sure. I mean, my mother sort of taught me, but also I didn't really realise I was doing it until my boyfriend pointed it out, you know?"
"...YOU WERE ACCIDENTLY CONTROLLING BULLETS?!!!")
This is, of course, all book canon, but somehow the show takes it even further. It hasn't been officially revealed Jesper's Grisha in the show, but there are enough clues - Jesper repairing Kaz's cane, Ivan's cut-off comment after their fight, not to mention the fight itself - that I'm taking it as canon. In this, it is accepted NO ONE can use their grisha abilities, except merzost, without first touching their hands together. Not The Darkling, not Alina, no one. Except, of course, Jesper Fahey, who can shoot his bullets and direct them to the exact same point on a kefta, after deflecting them off random objects first.
Tl;dr: Jesper Fahey is amazing and crazily powerful and should be appreciated.
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"what ultimately saves him and others is his choice to be openly himself " < thoughts on how some people are having the same attitude but think it to mean he'll grow his hair out again and get edgier/more visibly queer by the end? do you see any truth in it or do you think he'll show his progression in another way? i'd love to know what was meant by openly himself 🙏 because i agree but not always how others see it, i think it's probably more like yours
Making the choice to be openly himself is mostly in regards to his queerness. I don't expect him flaunting his sexuality all over town, but finally accepting himself for who he is definitely important.
This could mean a change in outward physical appearance to reflect the inside, and that could always include longer hair, although I think Mike as himself is more nerdcore than goth metal glam rock. Even the style change of s4 was Mike conforming to something even if it was the group considered to be outsiders. From how he is styled in these bts pics (and the choice he made to profess his love to El in the monologue) we can see Mike regressing into conformity.
The thing about Mike is that his queerness is invisible, as opposed to the rest of the party whose differences are all on the surface. Will is visibly queer because he's sensitive, likes art, and dislikes "manly" activities such as baseball. I wouldn't say that Mike is super masculine, but he isn't as outwardly effeminate as Will is. Mike got the choice to be able to conform and hide his true self while the rest of the party don't have that luxury. Mike is gonna be faced with that choice, risk the potential of becoming a visible target, or hide in the shadow of conformity forever.
And I do imagine this will lend itself to whatever larger plot the show has. I imagine it'll be not just a personal decision but some big story-altering emotional climax decision that has potential world saving possibilities. Being true to yourself saves the world and all that jazz.
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Kazui's Uniform in Half
I have a kind of old post circulating somewhere on my profile where I go in dept about how I interpret certain scenes or imagery in Half, so I'm going to steal some of my points from that post.
The mask Kazui wears in Half represents his lies, he is covering up his sin by literally camouflaging his true self
The stage and acting imagery represents Kazui playing a role, his actions aren't his own words, just lines he has rehearsed to make others happy.
So where am I going with this? Well.
Q: What was your father's job?
A: A policeman. It seems like from the start he wanted me to become a policeman as well.
I've also already explained a bit my theory on Kazui's parents, but the jist of it is that they're (specifically his father) quite controlling, most likely with traditional beliefs, who I think played a big factor into the reason why Kazui is so ashamed of himself / why he chose to marry Hinako in the first place.
If we take a situation where Kazui's father has either pressured or not so subtly hinted to Kazui from a young age that he wants him too become a police officer of some kind when he's older, then he probably feels obligated to follow down that path. It's a role he knows he has to fulfill to make his father proud.
But he also knows deep down that this is not him, even as a kid he mostly likely realised this, maybe even tried to act on it but he plays the role anyway because what else is he going to do? Defy the most important people in his life?
"I've tried to be myself! I've tried to be just the way I was born!"
"I can't live unless I lie. That's how I was born... I'm pathetic, aren't I?
So in conclusion, I think Kazui wearing his work uniform in Half represents his life before Hinako moreso then because they met on the job. I think it was early foreshadowing to the fact that this isn't really a new situation in Kazui's life. He has always been hiding his true self away ever since he was a kid.
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Your story and artwork is shit and nobody cares about your boring monotonous life with a pocket white boy who lives in your ladypurse. Please clean the eye boogers from your crusty white dog and focus on your job instead of complaining 24/7 about every weird white lady that comes within 3 feet of you that everyone on earth has to deal with.
pepper likes the smell ofmy drink
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