#dark angel ben

[typicalopposite]

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S TAKEN ME THIS LONG TO NOTICE THAT YOU DID BEN EP FINALLYYYYYYY

nomral anon, sorry for the all caps lol

how are you approaching the next episodes, whenever they happen? enthusiastic, impatient, excited, bored, etc?

glad you got to the ep though!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love the enthusiasm!

And yesssss I have arrived! It was a bumpy ride but I made it to the first destination in one piece… however I may be taking off a little more broken than when I landed. It’ll be fine tho! Because the next stop is…

I requested we try to fit in a couple NCIS episodes because I miss it lol and then we will resume DA! And oh boy!! I am SOOO excited for Alec now! Like… SO SO SO excited :)

#answered asks #dark angel reactions #dark angel ben #dark angel series

[soulmates-for-real]

Catching up with some Ben from Dark Angel 💗

01x18

#ben #dark angel #jensen ackles #what an actor 😍 #01x18 #my post

[arcanespillo]

"Pollo Loco"

Dark Angel S1E17

#jensen ackles #pollo loco #1x17 #dark angel #stills #caps #screencaps #alec mcdowell #ben mcdowell #?

[dontlookheswatching]

ITS FINALLY DONE AND THE QUALITY IS ABSOLUTE SHIT AND THE ICONS ARE BARELY RECOGNIZABLE I HAVE WASTED MY TIME

Anyways, I have 9 versions, with each type of relationship, and I highly discourage trying to figure it out from the general chart because it's a absolute mess.

I'll gladly answer questions and help point to who is who of they're unrecognizable like I think they are.

This will be updated from time to time whenever there's a change or something to add.

A lot of my designs tend to be inspired by those I see here on Tumblr mixed in with my own ideas, so keep that in mind!

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General:

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Dating:

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Crushing:

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Best Friends:

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Friends:

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Family/Adoptive Family:

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Hate:

Everyone hates Offenderman, I just didn't put it down because it would cover the whole chart up💀

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Exes:

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Complicated:

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#creepypasta #creepypasta fandom #art #creepypasta art #gaymer art #gaymer ramble #ben drowned #bendrowned #jeff the killer #Nina the killer #Jane the killer #Homicidal liu #Ej #Eyeless jack #Lj #Laughing jack #Judge angels #Nurse ann #Slenderman #Zalgo #Splendorman #Trendorman #Offenderman #Lazarus #Lazari #Lost silver #Dark link #tim wright #Masky #brian thomas

[imdonnalynn]

I implore Jensen Ackles fans to go online, purchase season 1 and 2 of James Cameron's Dark Angel that aired on FOX from 2000-2002 before being unceremoniously cancelled at the end of season 2.

Jensen Ackles first played Ben/X5-493 in season 1 episode "Pollo Loco", his character died. But he was so popular he was brought back as a series regular in season 2 as a twin to his character, his name was Alec McDowell/X5-494 and it is truly one of his standout performances.

Jensen Ackles has stated a lot of Dean Winchester was based on his character Alec. So I, as a writer and reader of fan fiction find it a disservice when avid writers discount looking into the role.

He's better than Dean is any day. Such a shame his fan fiction fans don't see it or seem to not want to.

James Cameron's Dark Angel was a series before it's time and cancelled and forgotten about (even by Cameron who has devoted his life to his Avatar franchise).

#jensen ackles #alec mcdowell #x5494 #x5493 #ben dark angel #alec dark angel #alec x5494 #ben x5493 #dean winchester #dark angel #james camerons dark angel #dark angel on fox #supernatural #fan fiction #jensen ackles fan fiction #dean winchester fan fiction #alec fan fiction #dark angel fan fiction #supernatural fan fiction #imdonnalynn

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

Hello my lovelies!! ❤️ Above is my SECOND @jacklesversebingo card!

*does a happy dance*

I'm going to circulate it here for a little while because I'd like to get as many requests for this card as possible.

Fluff, angst, smut, or anything in between are all welcome for requests. Feel free to request anonymously or not. We're in the holiday season, so I'm happy to write something holiday related. 😊 But it doesn't have to be - let your imagination fly. ❤️

If you're not familiar with me, I write for Dean, Jensen, Beau, and Soldier Boy/Ben. I'd be willing to try and write for Alec (Dark Angel) and Priestly (Ten Inch Hero) but, request those characters at your own risk as I've never written for them before. 😁

So, send me an ask, DM me, or just reply to this post. Looking forward to reading and writing some requests! ❤️

Edit: All nine squares have been claimed! 🙌❤️

#dean winchester #jensen ackles #beau arlen #soldier boy/ben #priestly #alec mcdowell #spn #jensen rpf #big sky #the boys #ten inch hero #dark angel #requests #requests open #jacklesversebingo23 #new card #second card

[deansraspberrypie]

🧡😍🫶🥰🩵

🍰 Tag list: @avanatural @undisputedchick @jranutter @fortheloveof-jackles @kazsrm67 @muchamusedaboutnothing @breath-of-snow-and-ashes @bluedragonflylady @mrsjenniferwinchester @unabashed-lover-of-fictional-men 🥧

#jensen ackles #alec mcdowell #dark angel #soldier boy #ben #the boys #then and now #jensen ackles edit #alec mcdowell edit #soldier boy edit #deansraspberrypie edits #he ages like a fine wine #drp

[sun-ni-day]

Whoever wrote Dean Winchester most definitely saw Jensen playing Ben on Dark Angel. Because it the same hunter/killing machine/good little soldier/messed up older sibling we all know and love from early seasons of Supernatural. It's like watching s1-3 Dean test run. In barely 20 min screen time Jensen packed every drama and action talent he would later use in Supernatural. Creators must have seen it when deciding on casting him as Dean.

#jensen ackles #dean winchester #Ben 493 #dark angel #1text

[kimberkingrivers]

Started a new book today…

Not actually about Jensen in Dark Angel but I mean why can’t I imagine him as a Navy seal??

And yes I’m aware that’s not a Seal, but it’s Jensen dressed as a sailor

Also one of the other main characters is named Ben. Just thought I’d leave that information with y’all and let y’all do with it what you please.

Definitely not getting some new fic ideas over here. No none at all. Would Dean fit in pretty well in this particular universe… uh maybe. They are hunting some pretty ducking evil things here. And dealing with thing you can’t see.

Crap did a find Christian version of Supernatural? In a way?

I think I did. But like the alternative universe Dean and Sam.

So yeah that’s what I’m up to… what are you up to?

Whatcha reading? I’d love to hear what it’s about. Comment below or shoot me a message!

#rants and ramblings #yeah i get exactly why i’m supernatural target audience #supernatural #navy seal #dark angel #book #shepherd series #Jackles Charcters #dark angel Ackles #Ben soldier boy #Soldier boy #dean winchester #jensen ackles #things that go bump in the night #the things we can’t see #spirtital warfar

[bowtied-pasta]

All the characters in my canon and what the fuck they’re doing here with some factoids sprinkled in for fun 🎉

This is a very long post… so….

Splendor (Oliver) - Owner of a small but growing candy store and bakery that creates sweets and treats that contain magic and are often incensed with emotions for enders to feed on. His hands were cursed to look the way they do now, hence why he wears the gloves. Has been best friends with Fen since childhood.

True - My self insert oc. She gets to marry Splendor because I simp. 👉👈

Kevin - Splendorman’s proxy. The very first of all of them, he is very much a basement lurker. He’s rarely seen, though he’s basically just a tech guy that gets to live in Splendor’s basement for free as Splendor’s way of apologizing for how Kevin became the way he is.

Nina - Splendorman’s proxy. The newest of all of them, she is also the youngest at 19. She was found roaming around the Veil in the woods by Splendor, who decided to take her in as a proxy when he discovered her prior operator had somehow gone and disappeared. She was one of several proxies that had scattered from the unknown ender’s residence. She now manages the social media page for Splendor’s candy business.

Finley, Gage and Damien - Splendorman’s proxies, but oc’s. I actually use them to display different personality traits of Splendor in more detail in the stages of True and Splendor’s relationship where they aren’t very close at all. 🤷 You may see more of that when I get more fics out.

Fen (Adonis) - Owner of a nightclub that has entrances in each of the realms, but in order to keep the humans out of the loop, only visitors capable of glamour are capable to move about as they please between the different sections connected to each realm. (This mostly only applies to associates of the club anyway, as they’re the only ones with reasons to switch it up.) A stalwart, which means half ender and half incubus. Polyamorous. Has been best friends with Splendor since childhood.

Kagekao - He has no paying job, but he has snatched so many wallets and is so good at stealing that it doesn’t matter. Dating Fen. Comes and goes as he pleases though, and is often very difficult to find unless Fen’s the one looking for him. Knows Fen is polyamorous and doesn’t really care.

Lorelei - Not really a dancer at Fen’s club, more of a soloist that works on her own and takes gigs where she likes. Animalistic (cat)/succubus. Not “dating” Fen, but a relationship in the sheets is definitely happening. Knows Fen is polyamorous, and is really only interested in more “open relationships” herself.

Trender (David) - True’s (whole lot of greats) great grandfather. He is… very old. Was exiled from the Veil a long time ago, having broken the law by unintentionally impregnating a proxy. He closely monitored the bloodline when the child was born, but lost track after several generation showing no signs of any abilities. He is currently a very successful designer.

Jocelyn - Shadow/Shifter demon that works for Trender, sometimes as a model and rarely as a secretary. Closely enough that she would ordinarily be labeled a proxy, but since Trender has been exiled, he rarely cares enough to follow traditional rules regarding work partners that are “below him.”

Zalgo - King of the Abyss (the underworld). Governs over all of the Abyss, though will often leave actual law making up to a very diligently and carefully chosen group of delegates, but every law written goes through him before it’s approved. Blah blah blah, he actually gets to fuck around a lot and is basically only there to sign papers and look official so the grumpy old delegates don’t have to.

Dark Link (Erembour) - Zalgo’s main guard and lover, not that it’s a publicly announced thing, but it’s also not like they’re doing much work to keep it a secret. A shadow demon. One of very few demons trained on the ability to destroy a soul.

E. Jack - Zalgo’s medic, otherwise known as the royal medic. Animalistic (wolf) demon. His “demon puberty” hit a few years into college, forcing him to disappear. After several years of causing chaos in the form of organ theft, Dark was sent after him and brought him to Zalgo.

Dina - Zalgo’s judge, also known as the royal judge. Abrahamic demon. Her father was an abrahamic demon, but seeing as these things are genetic, she became one too. Her abilities made her perfect for being a judge, as she can tell with 100% accuracy if someone is telling a lie. She was found by Dark after she had raised a lot of chaos and drawn a lot of attention.

Tenderman - Slenderman’s younger brother. Lives alone in a comfortably reserved home. Not many know, but he’s versed in dark magic, as well as some other more friendly things. Has not ever taken proxies and never will.

Slenderman - Tenderman’s older brother. Runs a small and secretive hit man for hire business, but otherwise runs an also very secretive dark magic side gig. A lot of what he does is illegal and the only reason he gets away with it is because the elders all love him for how traditional he acts.

Jeff, Jane, Ben and Toby - Slenderman’s proxies that run errands and complete tasks and missions for him.

Phosphorus - The older twin. Feeds on serotonin, the happy chemical in the brain. He manages the day shift at the fairgrounds for this reason, as it allows him to more effectively feed on the reactions of the patrons.

Hesperus - The younger twin. Feeds on cortisol, the fear and anxiety chemical in the brain. He manages the night shift at the fairgrounds for this reason, as it allows him to more effectively feed on the reactions of the patrons.

Laughing Jack, Helen and The Puppeteer - associates at the twins’ fairgrounds. LJ during the night shift, Helen during the day shift, and Pup switches it up from time to time.

Kat - Singer/Idol in the Abyss. As a shifter demon, she is able to perform sets of stars that most demons are not able to go and see for themselves, as they lack the ability to glamour themselves.

Tim and Brian - Cryptid/monster hunters. Theyre life was effected horribly by an ender and they set out to hunt him down, only to find the operator was not the only one of it’s kind.

#splendorman #nina #offenderman #kagekao #trenderman #zalgo #dark link #eyeless jack #judge angels #slenderman #tenderman #jeff #jane #ben drowned #toby #laughing jack #helen #the puppeteer #tim #brian #my oc #true #finley #gage #damien #lorelei #phosphorus #hesperus #jocelyn #kat

[wench-and-jezebel]

Dark Angel Reaction: Pollo Loco

Jezebel (@typicalopposite) reacts [with occasional asides by Wench (@scripted-downfall)]

The pre-episode conversation:

Wench: Here it is.  You ready?  ARE YOU READY??? 

Jezebel: YUSSSSS

Wench: I CAN'T HEAR YOU: ARE YOU READY??!?!?!

Jezebel: YUSSSSSSSSSSS

Wench: Okay.  OKAY.  Here.  We.  Go.

Jezebel: AHHHHHHHHHH! READYYYY????

Wench: YESSS

Jezebel: 3!  2!  3!  4!  5!

Wench: alsdkfjladskjf Gooooo

Jezebel: 4!  3!  2!  1!  GOOOOO

– – – 

GOD DAMN NOW A LIVE CHICKEN…  Ma’am!

Foreshadowing

I FEEL YA OC

I FEEEL YAAAA OC! ☠️☠️

It’s Ben  [Ben ded]  Oh?  [That's what they just said; they found a dead body with a barcode, and it's Ben]  Well now I’m confused

Bby Ben  [He was a storyteller :(]  😭😭😭

Wot?  [Was this about the Nomlies?]  I think yeah lol  [Nomlies are, essentially, Manticore rejects.  Flawed genetics, personalities, etc, to the point that they've been moved to the basement for reprogramming or permanent retirement]

…. Wait.  Wait.  🤔🤔🤔🤔  WAIT.  Isn’t that how she… Is this 🤔🤔🤔  [SPEAK]  Is this the future and the episode is leading up to the death?  [*whistles*]

[Nope.  I just lied to you]  You.  My friend.  Are a *redacted OFMD!Izzy cursing*

[Ma'am didn't say the nickname :(]  LINTLICKERRR  [There we go]  🙂

OOOOHHHH AHHHHH  [This is a thing now :)]  LIKE FUCKING NAILLSSSSS ON A CHALKBOARD

Bruh  [Ma'am didn't even wait for a response]  WHY NOT TELL HIM  [Max is being Max again, what can I say]  *sigh*

[I'm actually starting to recognize the kids this go-round]  

Holy hell deep voice

[I don't know if that kid's dealing with the tryptophan thing btw]

When he said the blue lady was he referring to the Virgin Mary?  [Yup.  Ben storytelling again]

ACKLESSSSS HAS ARRIVEDDDD  [He has indeed]

BUDDY WHATCHA DOING 👀👀👀  [Being homicidal.  As one does.]  

👀👀👀

Well damn

[Okay, look.  I know we know that she was lying.  But to be fair.  It's kinda ridiculous that they act like the kids would all be recognizable.  It's been.  11.  Years.]  Yeah that’s fair… But I mean I think I look like me from 11 years ago ☠️  [You didn't go through puberty in that time tho.  I think they were like.  9]

["Closest thing to a brother"  Bitch, ZACH IS SUPPOSED TO FILL THAT SPOT]  Excuse you Zach doesn’t need to be filling no spots 👀😮‍💨🤢  [MA'AM WATCH THE SHOW]

‘Cause I’m an angsty bitchhhhhhh  *sigh*

[Church]  Time to repent.  Then kill the priest.  Then repent again.  ["There's things, there's…people… feelings that I want to experience differently than I have before"]  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Awww man… Teef.  That’s brutal.  Blech  [“Summer teef.  Sum 're teef, sum 'ren't”]  ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

☠️☠️☠️☠️ Noooo

Priest is like… ma’am you gud  [No, she ain't]

I had stuff to say but Ackles has reappeared instead (like an Angel)

Oooh jumpscare

The smileee

The smile is gone  🙁

Uhhh no… I don’t

Speed run  ["Blurring," in the in-universe speak]

☠️☠️☠️ I swear he comes in so randomly WITH GROCERIES  like

– – – 

Wench: What were you saying when Ackles showed up? alskdjf

Jezebel: 😮‍💨😮‍💨  It was a joke and I don’t fully remember it enough to retype ☠️  Ackles just rewired my brain and it erased.  Irrelevant.  Non existent.

Wench: :))) Fair

Jezebel: But noooo the smile at Max 😮‍💨😮‍💨 I-  I swoo— I’m married sir how dare you

Wench: Nooo

Jezebel:  I- I have forgotten how to midpoint! All I wanna do is fangirl rn ☠️ and he’s only been in two scenes

Wench: I almost spilled my cereal at that one alksdjflaksdjf  But I understand completely

Jezebel: Will be a better endpoint

Wench: Aight… on we go?

Jezebel: YESSSS

– – – 

The priest is gonna get ded

“Faith in the lady”  That’s… ok  🤣🤣🤣

Priest is like… shit.  Time to find another line of work

[The eagerness with which he seized on the soldier explanation 😭]  😭��😭

“The lady”  I’m dying

Oh noooo

I fucking jumped

["I'm not a liar"... murder = okay, lying = not.  This says something]

Ok I see what he’s doing I think

I’d be ded.  “Slide the wot IN WHERE!?!  Pretty boy help!”

“Click”?  Oh, or maybe it was loaded after all

Poor priest

A lot, lady.  A lot

[Poor Ben having a crisis of faith :(]  💔💔💔 Damn.  It be like that kid

Oooop  [He invaded her perch]  He gonna start talking in circles now  [He already did... Devour-coded]  ☠️☠️☠️☠️

[THIS IS THE "SHE"!  (The one I said to be concerned about)]  Ohhhh… That wants the kids killed?  [Yup]

[X5-493 = Ben, btw]  494 Alec?  [Yup.  And X5-452 = Max, iirc]

Ohhhhh military Karen  [She calls him Deck]  Milataren… Lintlicker and Militaren.

[Oop- Ben is back.  Important scene!]

Bruh he looked back like oh shit  [She annoys me here too btw.  Like.  bro, your brother is clearly losing himself.  And you're more interested in being bitchy about it than being caring.  “Bet he’d love to figure out what the hell went wrong with you.” Whyyyy did that need to be said?]

Lintlicker is like a fucking dog fighter with his little gaggle of pit bulls

Oh shit, crazy kids  [Azazel-coded]  Ooooof, trueee  [I heard it in his voice alksdj]  

[he wears fine blood well]  ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️  [Sorry, kinda had to]

Logan whatchu doin  [He sneak]

Lintlicker whatchu doin  [He protecc his kid]

Oooop- Logan you been had

["You think because she's so pretty, she isn't as dangerous?"  Bruh, there was a whole unit designed to use attraction as a weapon asldkfj  *cough cough* Alec]  ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[I'd be concerned about Ben too, tbh]

Ooooop  [“Do you hate yourself that much?”  Yes  He does.  Have you not been watching?]

[This woman sees her brother losing himself and is like.  Aight.  I got this.  Let me make it worse!]  ☠️☠️☠️

AHHHH 

NOOOOO 

THE SAD

OMG HIS HEIGHTTT.  It’s visible here

YOU COULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT THE WHOLE TIME???  [Her physical acting there was so weird]

Ooooop

Oh.  The forest.  THE forest.  Ack.  ACKKKK.  [:)]

[This man playing the actual original comic book villain: "It seems his faith wasn't strong enough."]  RIGHT

OH CRAZY SMILE

BRUH

HOLY SHIT

Oh.  Oh that’s broken.  Ack

OH SHIT

ACK

AAAAAAACK  ["Ben, I can't carry you; we'll both get caught"  Bitch, tell that to your pilot-episode self]

ACKKKKKKK

HIS VOICE  [I KNOW]

ACHKKS

Nooooooo

Why couldn’t you just do it

Why

We don’t need a story

Ack

Ooooof

Ack  [Coherency has gone bye-bye]

Welp… Ack

Mood, Max

I’m

Um

Ack

Also tho.  The thing back then isn’t entirely fair they were kids

The priest is gonna be like…. Nope

[Priest survived, but he also has a weirdo barcode tattooed on his neck, and that's gonna make his life hella tricky in s2]  Ohhhh, he comes back?  [Nope.  They forget about it.  But everyone learns about the Manticore barcodes.  And that's the main way of IDing transgenics.  So like… Buddy boutta get slammed.]  ☠️☠️☠️☠️ Fair

– – – 

Jezebel: So, like, endpoint….  What even is an endpoint?

Wench: "Ack,” perhaps?

Jezebel: What even is life?  I’m not ok

Wench: I broke you alskdjf

Jezebel: … Ack.  Which is like ack…les. So even more ack.  I hope you and the minions are satisfied.  Evil.  Evillllll!  ACKKKK!!!!!  I AINT EVEN GET ANY JAM PONY TO MAKE IT BETTER

Wench: Okay, but s2 is better!  Alec is only three episodes away!

Jezebel: I got two seconds of OC- THAT’S A WHOLE THREE HOURS AWAY!  😭 180 minutes

Wench: Do you see what I mean about it being the best episode of season 1 though?

Jezebel: Yes!  It very much so was!

Wench: HAH!

Jezebel: Also noooooo the titleeee makessss sense nowwwwww!!!  Ackkkkkkkkk  What am I doing with this pain????  It’s like a reverse gift

Wench: You just kinda acked your way through the emotional scenes; I sent the script so you can compose your thoughts :)

Jezebel: Ohhhh.  Well… That was a lot of 😦 Like, I get him going crazy.  Also, I think I missed a part of Logan saying he had been doing this for a while (How long is the part I missed)

Wench: I don't think they said how long it was.  But, regardless, Lydecker's been covering for Ben.  Shutting down the investigations and all.

Jezebel: And, about that… On one hand I could go the anti Lintlicker route and say he’s only covering his ass because the woman wants to put them down and he doesn’t want to. And it’s nothing about him caring about them or anything.  But I could also go the pro Lydecker route and say he was trying to cover it up to get to him so they could in his eyes fix the problem and he would have another “kid” home.

Wench: I think it's probably a mix of both, tbh. He does care about them, but, like we've discussed, in a twisted kinda way?  So it might have been a "bring him home if we can" kinda thing.  And… thoughts on Max?

Jezebel: She was meh at best this episode but the end, with the story, I really felt for her.

Wench: Yeah, I get that.  I don't fully agree --- I think her handling of the Ben situation was pretty atrocious, tbh, even if it did end up working for a bit --- but otherwise... yeah, not bad.  And the end was kinda hard to fully hold against her.  (Also, talk about a picturesque death scene alsdkfj)

Jezebel: Right?! Like, oh, let’s have this lovely scenery, and plop a dead kid in his sister’s arms… oh, and sister is the murderer… Like… Wot?  Ack

Wench: Also, the childishness of the way he was speaking tho 😭

Jezebel: I KNOWWW  😭😭😭😭  Budddyyyyy

Wench: Honestly, the character as a whole has that quality.  He's so... beseeching.  Legitimately, all he wants is someone to understand 😭  He tries to get that with the priest in the confessional --- "I'm a soldier"--- and with Max at the tower --- "Don’t tell me you don’t wake up with the sound of your heart pounding in your ears." --- and then again with Max at the end.  Even the goading-Max-into-hitting-him bit.  He wanted her to understand the violence and she didn't even give him that 😭

Jezebel: 🥺🥺🥺 I just 😭😭😭😭 He’s such a good actorrrrr  😭😭😭

Wench: Agreed... *sigh*  But there ya go!  Ben episode!

Jezebel: *sigh* indeed!

Wench: Final thoughts?

Jezebel: … ACK

#dark angel #dark angel reactions #reactions #episode reactions #s01e17 #pollo loco #max guevara #logan cale #ben #jensen ackles #jezebel (pr)

[typicalopposite]

How are you feeling as the days tick down to Ben?

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

IM SCUUURRRRDD!

Only because I know how that one ends!! 🤣

But excited cause… ACKLES! 💕

#answered ask #dark angel #dark angel series #dark angel ben #jensen ackles

[scripted-downfall]

The parallels between Ben and Alec though. The first, 493, so scared of the Nomlies in the basement that he went insane trying to avoid them; ripped apart by the conflict between Manticore's training, so innate to him and the others, and the '09 group's conviction that Manticore was horrible. The second, 494, so scrutinized in case he goes insane too that he's scared of becoming his brother; ripped apart by the conflict between his own emotions and Manticore's insistence on order compliance that he gets sent to solitary with all the other Nomlies. Both struggling against inner crises too irreconcilable to overcome, and both raised to hate what the other became.

#dark angel #alec mcdowell #ben #anti manticore #manticore's a+ parenting #symmetry and parallels my beloved

[arcanespillo]

"Pollo Loco"

Dark Angel S1E17

#dumb ass name for an episode #well #jensen ackles #dark angel #pollo loco #1x17 #caps #stills #screencaps #alec mcdowell #ben mcdowell #?

[cylonbarnes]

wait there's a parallel scene to the dean/cas fight in the prisoner in dark angel s2e3 where jensen ackles' (or judd snackles, as my mother calls him) character alec fights the main character, max (or jessica alba, as the world calls her) and goes to stab her even though he doesn't actually want to and stabs the ground next to her instead... judd snackles how are you always getting yourself in these situations

#truth be told alec is a dean prototype. alec + ben (his s1 character) is a even more FASCINATING look into dean prototyping #i'm sure post-spn dark angel watchers have noticed this before but i watched dark angel before season 10 came out okay #dark angel

[guiltye]

also ben conquering up a whole religion to his unit when they were kids genuinely started as a way to help the others cope with the horrors of their upbringing; to give them answers that they have been searching for as to why they live in manticore being raised as children soldiers. he never intended to drown in that belief, or even believe in it at all? not until he started to go down the rabbit hole, and realize that there is a better answer to all of this; and it all comes down to the "blue lady" (virgin mary, a picture of her was handed to max by the janitor when she was having a seizure, and all the kids called her the blue lady).

even after season two, when ben escapes from the manticore fire that was started by max; he struggles between what is real and what has been conquered up in his own head to cope with the answers of his upbringing. whenever he sees imagery of the virgin mary, he flinches almost because he wants to pray to her, but he also knows in some way that it isn't real. not after he was sacrificing lives that associated with manticore in "her name."

ben suffers from his own form of religious trauma, at the hands of a religion that he conquered up through his own fanaticism and hyper imagination, having to find his bearings once more with the outside world when he escapes manticore a second time.

#i. ben mcdowell. #i know maybe only one or two of my folks know dark angel and probably whatever the hell i am talking about. #but ben was such a neat character for being in just ONE episode? #we see so much of him? #and i would have loved to see zack's reaction to him tbh. #because i'm sure that ben and zack leaned on each other a bunch since zack was the leader of the group; but ben was giving them something #to hope for. #even if none of it was real. #ben just lost control of that along the lines tied with his own wavering mental health. #also talking about religious trauma is so interesting because it's a very real thing but this is to a religion that he genuinely made up. #and genuinely thought was a good thing. #and was sacrificing people in the name of some being that he made up. #MANTICORE LITERALLY broke ben and when he escaped when he was only 10? to the real world? he had to desperately grasp at straws for answers #answers that it seemed that no one was giving him when he was alone and on the streets as a KID. #who didnt know that there WAS a world outside of manticore.