I dont understand DC writers aversion to writing Thomas and Martha Wayne with personality traits more than just "nice". Bruce barely remembers his mom's laugh, but he knows it was loud and sharp. He remembers his dad smelled like cigarettes after certain days in the OR. He remembers how they would act funny when they got drunk at parties. His mom was a sore loser. His dad would humble brag about going to a prestigious medschool. His mom was a terrible cook.
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gonna be honest i've never understood or resonated with an ena video quite like power of potluck
like the mask covering her sad side and changing her mannerisms, only for it to disappear and her characteristics return.
like it was so different between the two that when she spoke for the first time without her mask i jumped for joy because YES! THAT'S MY ENA!
It's about masking.
It's about fitting into neurotypical society where everyone puts on a role in a system.
Her desire for "fun" is a place to fit in in this society.
the therapist saying "you will not find joy here" is referencing how by pretending to be someone she's not, she's forever unhappy.
Power of Potluck tore open and laid bare the reason why I was magnetically attracted to ENA, because she's like me.
She's also autistic.
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It’s kinda funny that Jason is, in every sense of the word, the most normal Robin. Unironically, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about him before he was Robin. He was a street kid. His dad was a goon (which makes sense for Gotham. It’s a goon breeding ground) and his adoptive mom was a girl who fell in love with the bad boy, got disowned by her upper middle class parents and adopted her boyfriend’s infant son. Even his biological mother isn’t anything special! She was just a doctor who ended up becoming corrupt.
Jason Todd was no circus kid who could do an impossible signature trick. He wasn’t being scouted by some evil hidden organization.
He wasn’t the rich boy genius who lived next door.
He’s not the son of a supervillain (as lame as cluemaster is, he still *counts*).
He’s not the secret son of Bruce Wayne.
And he’s not a metahuman, nor did he led a whole organization of teens to fight when Batman couldn’t.
He’s the most regular boy to ever enter become a hero in Gotham. He wanted to do good things for the sake of doing good. He grew up poor with regular parents, where bad things happened to them. The kinds of things that could happen to *any* person living in Gotham.
There is nothing about him, pre-Robin and as Robin, that makes him Not Like Regular Kids.
His dad was a goon (who, depending on the run, was either killed by Two-Face OR. Just sent to prison and killed in prison! Which makes his backstory even PLAINER-) and his mother was a drug addict with cancer. Jason ends up homeless, and almost steals the bat mobile tires. The only thing that makes him stand out from any other tragedy befallen kid in Gotham is the fact he was bold enough to do that, get Batman’s attention, and continue to be bold enough to go against a crime lord (who was apparently his grandmother, the most interesting person in his family, but since she’s almost never brought up, she’s likely no more significant than a one-issue villain in the crime lord power hierarchy). Batman realized that Jason wasn’t going to really stop, and honestly he kinda grew on him, so he decided to adopt Jason, and eventually allow him to become Robin.
There just isn’t anything amazingly special about his backstory. The few moments where something could have been done to make it more interesting (like his biological mother) but ended up taking the most boring option. You can’t do much of anything now to enhance his past without upsetting much more well established canon, and not without making people wonder “well if his grandmother was such a big name in crime, why hasn’t she been brought up before?”
Jason Todd was a wonderful Robin (providing that he actually has a writer who likes him). He has a golden heart, he’s the voice of reason. He’s everything that a Robin needs to be for Batman. But compared to everyone else, he was nothing special. In a way, his lack of Not Like Regular Kids makes him stand out in a much more subtle way.
As if someone asked the question “Do I need to be someone special to be Robin?” And the answer was “You don’t need to be someone special, you just need to be brave, like Jason Todd was.”
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The thing about the "ACTUALLY this kid show isn't actually for kids" crowd is yes that mentality is pretty ridiculous but also like 99% of the time the reason those people act like that in the first place is cause they're talking about a show that's like, objectively just a really good show and is written to appeal to people of all ages and so they naturally get defensive when people dismiss it and compare it to idk Bluey or whatever. Like yes it's pretty ridiculous to take shows like Adventure Time or Gravity Falls or The Owl House and claim that they're Not Actually For Kids, but I also think anyone who's ever actually watched those shows and given them a fair chance would agree that it's equally ridiculous to act as if they belong in the same category as shows made for literal preschoolers.
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For the record: I do not hold a secret position in Kensington Palace.
However, my former neighbor’s boyfriend is the scandalously gay grandson of Earl So-and-So (living in sin with the son of a Texas Democrat - the horror), and he liked my cancer theory so much he told all his fancy Oxford friends about it before the news broke, and they apparently got several very stern call from their fancy peered parents about where did you hear that and stop gossiping, it’ll get out.
So while I’m not a palace papers source, I did get Earl Black Sheep Jr. calling me at 6am this morning excitedly confirming that I was right about the third cousin once removed of his childhood friend having cancer 💀
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when sora first woke up in quadratum he's dizzy and confused, can hardly walk, and then strelitzia finds him as soon as he starts to lose consciousness and takes him home.
she takes care of him, lays him down on her soft couch and tries to get him as comfortable as possible. as she does this sora starts to somewhat wake up, but when he realizes his necklace is missing he starts panicking: his eyes grow wide, they were already wet with how exhausted he was and he can't exactly speak but he desperately tries to find it.
the ex-dandelion panics as well but quickly realizes why the boy was this distressed when he finally spots the crown pendant on a small table near the couch and pathetically reaches for it. strelitzia gives it back to him with no hesitation and sighs when he finally calms down, fainting again.
she doesn't bring it up later on, when sora's "better". after all, getting used to the city while also having his mind fogged up is really taking a toll on him.
when she does talk about it though, they're on sora's balcony. it's night and the stars aren't exactly visible but it's nice nonetheless.
"do you remember when you woke up here?"
sora blinks at her, surprised yet not annoyed by having their peaceful quiet interrupted.
"vaguely. i just remember the migraine i got – thanks again for looking after me, by the way."
the redhead shakes her head, then she continues, "no, it's okay, i wasn't bringing it up for that i just..."
she could sense sora was special, that he was there for a reason. another keyblade wielder suddenly spawning in her neighbourhood? that had to mean something, so she was going to try her best to help him remember.
"when i took you in," she continues, "i put you on the couch and i took off your jacket and shoes and also... your necklace."
she points at it, her gaze softening when the moonlight reflects its light on the silver crown. sora automatically follows her finger and looks at it too. he suddenly feels warm. safe. protected.
"you were so shaken when you realized it wasn't with you even for a moment. can you remember why is that?"
she's met with silence and wide eyes.
"what does this necklace mean to you, sora?"
and only for a moment, a comet can be seen away from them, travelling fast in the deep night sky then disappearing. they both quickly turn their heads to look at it.
strelitzia is so mesmerised by it that she almost forgets her question, but is reminded of it when she sees sora crying from the corner of her eyes.
"i don't know," he croaks, "i don't remember and it's making me go mad. i just – i just know that without it i–"
he reaches for it once again, with trembling hands, gulping as the cold metal meets his warm skin.
"i just don't feel safe without it," he simply states.
silence falls between them again, until strelitzia takes sora's free hand in hers.
"sounds like a very powerful lucky charm," she tries. luckily, sora laughs weakly.
"you could say that."
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every day the fanon idea that shinomama is abusive and/or neglectful like shinei is ages more and more poorly . like. yeah sorry this family dynamic reads much more like a genuinely kind loving mother who married a man she thought she knew - perhaps at too young of an age - and overestimated his capacity to handle children. and is likely overworking herself to make sure her babies feel loved despite HIS neglect and harsh words. she's been shown to be nothing but kind, and the fact that some people take her kindness and either ignore it or turn her into a copy of mafuyu's mother is a little ...
i won't say it's explicitly misogynistic but it's probablyyyy worth examining why you saw shinei's abusive behaviors and started automatically attributing them to shinomama by virtue of her being married to him
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