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So I'm gonna be writing a series of posts about how the trauma of different characters in adventure time can be seen in the way they interact with the story.

There are definitely spoilers ahead for adventure time, adventure time distant lands, and Fionna and Cake.

So if you want to, go watch those first. And if you don't want to, then do it anyway because they kick ass.

I'm gonna start with Finn and Fern, since they have the same trauma.

Finn's mental state is heavily affected by the fact that so many people rely on him. It's the child hero trope. Especially with how he puts bubblegum on a pedestal for most of the series. And when he fails or he can't do something, he's typically devastated about it.

This might stem from the fact that Joshua and Margaret weren't the best parents. Joshua, as seen first in the episode "Dad's Dungeon", sees Jake in a higher regard than Finn. Maybe not as in more valuable, but he spends a lot of time falling Finn a crybaby. It kinda makes sense that when Finn finally caught hold of a sense of importance and strength, he is decimated when that sense is cracked by failure.

But the way that Jake seems to have been consistently viewed as a stronger child than Finn also seems to have made Finn incredibly dependant on him. In earlier seasons when Jake disappeared or was seemingly killed, Finn would almost go into a catatonic state. Like when he was kidnapped by a demon and Finn seemed to go into shock of some kind.

This also intertwines with Finn's negative hero complex. When Jake is injured, Finn sees it as his own fault that he wasn't able to stop whatever caused Jake harm.

In the tenth season though, we're shown another side of this. When Jake's alien dad takes him into space, he leaves the brb note.

Jake is gone for five entire weeks. And Finn doesn't worry at all about it.

Jake is capable. He can handle himself. Better than Finn.

At least, that's probably what Finn thought. When the thought that Jake might be in trouble is brought up by Jermaine, Finn immediately rushes to Magic Man's house and uses the mars teleporter because it's the fastest way he can think of to get into space.

As well as that, Finn meets his bio dad so many times, and every time he seems to just be hoping that his dad will somehow be a good person this time. You can see this hope dwindle over time as Finn starts to resent his father. He called him "dad" a couple of times, but eventually he just starts calling him Martin.

(Martin also has some issues, but that's for a different post.)

Fern also gives us an entirely different view on how Finn's trauma affects him.

Fern has a slightly different personality from Finn, due to the effect of the grass spirit parasite thing. Not only that, but Fern also has a heavy inferiority complex because rather than seeing himself as being the same as Finn, he sees himself as being lesser.

Fern seems to try to ignore this completely. He also tends more towards violence because of the nature spirit, while Finn usually tries to find a peaceful, or at least a low mortality solution to situations.

Before the events of Elements, Fern already had an inferiority complex, although he was trying his best to keep it under control. He already went through several phases of depression, like when he just laid on top of the treehouse for several days, trying to cope with his perceived reality that he wasn't needed because he was somehow lesser than Finn.

When LSP turns the world back to normal at the end of elements, Fern is incredibly upset about how hard he failed, despite the fact that he literally could not have fixed the situation on his own.

(the events of elements also helped Finn get over his inferiority/hero complex somewhat, because it forced him to learn that saving absolutely everyone you care about immediately isn't possible. When he loses Jake to the slime, Finn goes catatonic and almost lets himself be absorbed. LSP basically had to drag him away, because Finn wanted to go back and somehow save Jake, despite there being no feasible way to do that. This is probably why it took him so long to do anything when Jake disappeared for over a month.)

It's no wonder that one of the first things Fern tried to do after Elements was trap Finn forever and steal his identity so he could feel needed and important. There was probably nothing Finn could've done to survive the fight with Fern other than "killing" him, but it still messed Finn up.

Finn perceived the event as him failing to save Fern, despite the fact that Fern was literally trying to kill him. Finn got over this, of course, but probably not entirely.

Fern so readily joined Gumbald because with Gumbald, he could be important. He could be better than Finn.

When Finn helped Fern conquer the grass spirit, it probably alleviated some baggage, but Finn was still carrying around a lot of guilt and trauma. Not to mention that when Finn realized he messed up by not trying to find Jake for five weeks, it definitely didn't help his dependence on Jake.

In the events of Fionna and cake, we see Finn after Jake died. Finn is still very obsessed with helping people, jumping at the opportunity to take Simon on a dangerous adventure. He also has Jake tattooed across his chest. Which is kinda sweet, but also kind of a symbol of how dependent he was.

The third episode of distant lands starts with a sort of dream from Finn, where he and Jake went on a "classic adventure". During the adventure, Finn is constantly trying to both help and kill everyone. Finn will switch from trying to slaughter enemies, to immediately trying to help them when they ask for it. It was kinda shown in Fionna and cake, but the dream definitely shows that Finn is a lot more willing and ready to kill than he was before.

Finn is excited to finally be dead so he can see Jake again. But when he hears that Jake is somewhere completely different, Finn is literally ready to tear the afterlife apart to find him.

When new death gains access to the fiftieth dead world, Finn immediately blames himself for "helping" new death destroy the afterlife, despite the fact that Finn the entire time was trying to work against new death.

Jake definitely has some issues, but not in the same way as Finn. They both care about each other a lot. But when they're both fighting each other to try to be the one to stop death and become him, Jake is doing it because he cares about Finn. Finn is doing it not only because he cares about Jake, but also because he feels he needs to always be the hero. He feels like he has to be the one to always make the sacrifice.

By the end of the episode, when Finn goes to be reborn, he's finally gotten over his dependence on jake. This is shown by him being willing to step through the portal alone.

When Jake decides to run in after him, it's a twist that manages to not undercut any of Finn's development. It's definitely a twist, but it slots right into place on another of the major elements of adventure time, which is Finn and Jake's bond.

When Jake goes with Finn to be reborn, despite Jake having already reached nirvana, it's not because Finn needs Jake, or because Jake needs Finn. It's because they're brothers. They're best friends. Finn goes because he's finally okay with being without Jake, and Jake goes because even though he doesn't need to be with Finn, he wants to.

So that's why that episode gave me legitimate chills.

#omg.. #perfect analysis😭 #adventure time #finn the human #finn mertens #adventure time distant lands #fionna and cake

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nothing can replace 'kurwa'

english swear words are so tame none of them can hold a candle to kurva

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LMFAOOOO

#adventure time

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It's Finn and Fern hours babey!!!!! (I'm sobbing uncontrollably)

(Song: The Deal by Mitski

Show: Adventure Time)

#adventure time #finn the human #finn mertens #fern the human #fern mertens #adventure time edit

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The adventure to put Simon's head right wasn't the first time Finn traveled with Simon Petrikov on an adventure of some kind. And honestly, he counted the times he traveled with Ice King in the same spirit. A lot of people didn't; he didn't understand why. He didn't understand why people wanted to believe that Simon Petrikov and the Ice King weren't the same person.

It took some time, at first. But he saw it, soon enough.

It was easy, Finn thought, to look at the maniacal attitude Ice King had when he was at his best, and how... calm Simon was most of the time. Like someone's dad, or the ideal of a dad was. Maybe one day Simon had just woken up and decided 'yeah okay today I will be Everyone's Dad' and just stayed like that. A dorky guy who liked to poke at things and see how they worked.

People wanted to believe that the screaming, shambling ghoul vomiting snow or catapaulting ice spikes at people he didn't like wasn't Simon Petrikov.

Other people, who saw Ice King in a kinder light years after people forgot the things he'd done, saw a happy little strange person just bouncing around without shame or guilt, and they thought of how self conscious Simon was. They didn't think it could be the same person.

They thought, the day Golb departed the world and left Simon behind, that the Ice King had died.

Finn didn't think so, anymore.

He wondered if, maybe. people didn't like to think about the implicaitons; that you were a collection of impulses and memories and conscious thought. That everything you thought you were could be torn away just by tweaking a few things about you.

That they had to believee Ice King and Simon Petrikov were so different, when all it took was a bit of magic to bring out the parts of him he didn't want to believe were there, and enough to make him forget himself, and eroding his ability to stop himself.

Finn thought about violence, and Simon. He remembered an adventure, before Jake... left, and after Golb had been called down.

He remembered how much Simon yelled, or cowered, or hid away, and it was easy to forget how much Ice King did the exact same thing.

Until something made him angry.

And he saw that the look in Simon's eye, when a monster hit him hard enough to surprise him, but not hard enough to scare him. Something to tear down all the comforting illusions Simon had about himself, in the moment.

And he remembered that monster halting at the look of naked murder and hate in Simon's eyes.

It wasn't there for long. But Simon had a weapon, and neither was the monster around for much longer.

And Finn remembered, later, after the violence, after the screaming, and after Simon tried to pretend it hadn't happened:

The look in Simon's eyes had been just the same when Ice King had tried to kill you.

And years later, he listens to Simon talking about Ice King like he's some other person.

Finn thinks about facets of being; about parts of yourself you don't want to think about. And he thinks about the lies you tell yourself.

He's told plenty of them to himself. He's learned to recognize them now.

#woahhhhhh #adventure time #simon petrikov #ice king #finn mertens

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sorry, but i just love the "vampires" mini serie so fucking much for too many reasons:

for example this moment:

finn shouted here something like "we won't let you to touch her" (about marceline) and my heart kind of melted, bc they're all much weaker than her, (she's fucking queen of vampires!) and they know it, but still stands between her and hierophant to project her, like she was sweet tiny flower;

here when PB was blaming herself on killing Marcy. all of their experiment was so cute, but as you remember it was 100% Marceline's idea. also, did you see Bubblegum crying? did you saw that before in the show? it's not even bubbline thing, bc PB called marcy best friend then, but i love how close they were, romantically or platonically, i don't care;

another Bonnibell, but i swear, when i saw this scene i paused and was like "did she ever panicing that much before?" just look

also bonnie carrying marceline all the time later:

(PB crying again) (and "it's spring again" moment)

Candy's lil fangirl moment over the Vampire King

and Finn's adorably stupid song

also fact, that after Marcy has recovered and gained almost all of her powers, they still protect her as much as when she was weak :3

bubbline "you think i'm nice?" moment

+ when Marcy forgot what hunger is and called the feeling in her stomach "love"

(it will be probably something like part 2, bc i'm not finished)

#adventure time #finn the human #marceline abadeer #marceline adventure time

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Based on Mary Shelley’s post apocalyptic novel The Last Man. It’s very interesting, before I’ve read it I’ve seen it described as Mary’s expression of loneliness after most of her friends and family passed away, but interestingly, up until the last chapter the novel is filled with the feeling of community and affection. I liked it very much.

#the last man #mary shelley #mary shelley’s the last man #the last man 1826 #WOAHHHHHH

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does anyone want to give me asks about Frankenstein??🙁🙁

#frankenstein #victor frankenstein #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #mary shelly's frankenstein #the modern prometheus

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I'm sooo late to reblog this but everyone's welcome to join our server and read the doc!!!

Louis's story is still in development, and probably still will be for quite some time but it's been very exciting to develop the story thus far<33

frankenstein spin off wip!!

for the past few months my friends and i have been working on a frankenstein spin off based around this man, mentioned once in the novel, louis manoir. we decided its finally time to share him to the public, so here the summarisation google doc!

* FMS standing for Forgotten Man's Symphony. comments on the doc and reblogs are appreciated!

of course, many things on the document is subject to change as louis manoir and his life aren't exactly fully developed yet and is still not in the actual writing process (of which i will be doing). please give the other two people involved love also if you like it <3 this is also just a summarisation so don't expect any like. Flowery writing or anything oops. Also js send an ask if you want to join the discord server btw

and!! additionally, here's the paragraph of manoir's mention, as i think its needed. this is said by elizabeth in her letter in chapter 5 of the 1818 edition:

Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva. The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. Her ugly sister, Manon, married M. Duvillard, the rich banker, last autumn. Your favourite schoolfellow, Louis Manoir, has suffered several misfortunes since the departure of Clerval from Geneva. But he has already recovered his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a very lively pretty Frenchwoman, Madame Tavernier. She is a widow, and much older than Manoir; but she is very much admired, and a favourite with every body.

#frankenstein #the modern prometheus #gothic lit #victor frankenstein #henry clerval #elizabeth lavenza #louis manoir #original character

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weewee

ewweww

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i should start posting my art again..

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FRR WOW U PUT IT PERFECTLY INTO WORDS?!?!? it's literally the only song that evokes such feelings in me. And me and my sister loved this song since childhood!!

i love the island song/adventure time ending song so much but it’s a bit hard to put into words why… it just has this certain type of nostalgic melancholy to it, not really in the sense that it’s a deep sadness but that it somehow evokes a feeling of longing, like idle dreaming wishfulness for a different time, maybe one that never existed or never will. at the same time though it’s calming and makes you feel like you’re both at home and missing a home that never existed. 

#adventure time

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"don't look" is genuinely one of my favorite episodes of adventure time. its already a really cool concept, to see how finn perceives of all the other characters, by having them physically transform into more caricatured representations of his perceptions he looks at them. but even more interesting when he starts to see himself as "selfish and monstrous" because of the way he thinks hes putting all his friends into boxes. and that he worries he doesnt really care about who they are inside, especially with nepter. and when he looks in the mirror, the "monster" that he turns into... sure looks a whole lot like his dad! thats what hes afraid of being, thats what a selfish monster is. its his dad. i just think its a really good short delve into his psychology.

also that part where he sees princess bubblegum and she turns into a hot guy, and she asks him to explain, but he's just like "I DON'T KNOW! IM NOT A PSYCHIATRIST!" like this is a woman he's had a crush on for like a decade. what did he mean by that

#adventure time

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"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

#desperately hoping for this #im turning 18 next month #but yeah wtf even was 15 i would never go back to being in early teens #insanity

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It's crazy to me how people criticise Victor for making the creature without any thought of the consequences, but then also criticise him for not going along with creating a second one after considering the potential consequences

After being given life, the creature became his own person, developing his own identity. If Victor created another one, they would also develop their own identity and it is reasonable to imagine that their values would be different and they may not want to go away with the creature, or agree to live in solitude away from humanity. I think Victor stopping to realise that shows an amount of character development that people don't really acknowledge

#YES #im so glad victor chose to not create fem creature #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #frankenstein's creature #frankenstein's monster #gothic literature #classic literature #mary shelley #goth lit

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“Were I an atheist – a man devoid of conscience – a wretch with coarse and brutal instincts – I might have found peace, long ere now. Nay, I never should have lost it!”

I still hate how this looks but I’m NOT working on it any longer I hate this book it’s not worth it (drew a whole piece of elaborate fanart for it)

#classic literature #classic lit #the scarlet letter

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a sequel

original image below

#frankenstein #the modern prometheus #gothic lit #victor frankenstein #henry clerval #clervalstein