You know those video games where the character has to complete puzzles and work through their trauma to escape/wake up/something? Obstacles getting in their way and being tied to their past as they delve more into their trauma and have to learn/heal from it before they can progress?
Danny has been around a loooong time. He's old, he's powerful, and has a space in the ghost zone that he controls much like a god. The ghosts have long since started leaving him alone, the ones he's friends with have their own affaires to deal with, and in his ever shifting labyrinthian layer he's too powerful, and even outside of it he can still kick their asses.
and he's without a purpose
His friends had long since passed on after leading long and wonderful lives with him, not even leaving a ghost behind. His Family as well. Jazz had never had children, and try as he and Sam might have, half dead as he was he couldn't have children. He had no one left and nothing to do, and all of eternity to do it in.
Thinking of Jazz is what made him do it the first time
She loved helping people with her psychology, and Danny decided to do it in his own way. It hadn't been pretty, and it hadn't been easy, but he had found his method. Some took to it better than others, and many had different theories about his lair and his motives, but he helped people move past their trauma. Some believed his lair was some kind of purgatory, and... they weren't totally off
So, when Danny moved on to the timeline of the DC multiverse, he had some experience under his belt
He just underestimated how much trauma superheroes can have
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Rei shooting himself in his dominant arm, most likely permanently injuring most if not all of his nerves so he could effectively only use his left hand.
Rei most likely not being able to play any video games anymore, his main coping mechanism and hobby throughout the show, something he did in the beginning to the point of neglecting to take care of Miri and doing house chores.
Rei most likely, after extensive physical therapy and relearning how to use his right hand as his dominant one, trying to find other stuff he could turn into hobbies except gaming.
Rei most likely finding true joy in not just playing games himself, but watching others play them.
Watching Miri and Kazuki battle it out in the kid friendly and later on more action video games together and having fun and bonding over how bad of a sore loser Papa Kazuki is and how well Rei taught Miri how to play by supporting her with tips from the sidelines.
Rei most likely finding that, even if he can't play himself, he enjoys watching his loved ones play his video games in his stead because he gained something so much more to hold dear in his heart by losing his arm.
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to everyone’s whose favorite found families are just a bunch of traumatized assholes, which of the following applies to you?
a) being queer
b) complicated familial relationship
c) loving enemies/rivals to lovers
d) thinking you’re unworthy of love (see above)
e) all your comfort characters are majorly fucked up, dead, or both
f) projecting so hard onto fictional characters it becomes a mirror
g) large greek mythology phase
h) allergic to emotional vulnerability but with the intense need to be loved (see b)
i) emotionally attached to childrens shows that get way darker than should be allowed
j) burnt out gifted kid to fanfiction pipeline
k) living vicariously through tropes you know you’ll never experience (or maladaptive daydreaming)
l) late age neurodivergence diagnosis
m) any/all of the above
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ok this is a random thought about AC Odyssey but a while back I said on stream that I intend on killing Alexios bc of his 👹major crimes against humanity👹
and apparently that's quite an unpopular opinion??? but hear me out. just bc he's blood related to Kassandra doesn't actually mean shit. I have cut off so many family members irl for being horrible people and so I don't think Kassandra would want Alexios to run around murdering people left right and center *just because* they share some dna. and I also don't think that fact is enough for her to believe that he can magically turn good either.
in my brain it's the moment she sees Alexios kill Perikles that it clicks for her that he's so much worse and evil than she realised, so to me it makes sense for her to kill him lol
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Acceptance
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of LotR and “acceptance” is…
…actually this old video by the youtube channel Cinema Therapy!
But far be it from me to just plop someone else’s content here and move on without any of my own effort, so let’s talk about this concept a little more.
In the video, Johnathan explains that the concept of radical acceptance is most famously encapsulated in the Serenity Prayer from Alcoholics Anonymous: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Radical acceptance, he says, adds another level: accepting what you choose to change for the greater good.
Much like Frodo accepted the task to carry the Ring, even though it interrupted his life and continued to cost him more and more, we too are often faced with unpleasant realities and responsibilities. Radical acceptance is choosing to embrace life as life is, without sugarcoating, blame-shifting, or denial. It doesn’t mean we have to like what we’re seeing, and it doesn’t mean we have to roll over and give up all hope. It just means embracing reality—and our responsibility in it—for what it is, so that we have a place to start.
I know a little something about this. I’ve mentioned cryptically a few times that a close loved one of mine is dealing with some serious mental health issues; it’s gotten to the point that said loved one is barely recognizable for who they once were, and it’s been that way for some time. This crisis has caused some major upheaval and restructuring of responsibilities in my family. One crucial cog in the machine is down for the count, and that means someone else has to pick up the slack.
Now, faced with that situation, I have a choice in front of me. I can rail at God or my loved ones or the world in general for bringing this tragedy and inconvenience upon me. I can spend my time being angry and blaming other people—some of whom might have legitimately contributed to the current state of affairs!—and focus all my energy on plotting revenge. I can ignore the situation, focusing only on myself, and take my wings and fly and leave the nest in total disarray. (It’s fine! I’m living my best life. Why should I care about anyone else?) I could begrudgingly shoulder my responsibilities, doing the bare minimum to keep the ship afloat, but secretly harboring resentment in my heart that the “best years of my life” are being wasted at home. What a shame that a gorgeous young thing like me is stuck here, wasting her life picking up the slack for an invalid, when I could be out in the great wide world, stealing hearts, climbing ladders, making a name for myself! Oh, woe is me, my life is so hard!
Or.
I could look at the situation for what it is—study it, mourn it, come to terms with it—and then get up on my feet and choose to do what’s right.
I have no control over my circumstances, but I can choose how I respond to them. I cannot choose my lot in life, but I can choose to put forward my best attitude and greatest effort. I did not bring about this tragedy, but I can choose to do good in response to it. And with every meal cooked, every chore completed, every grocery receipt in my purse, every Grown-Ups Board Meeting in the sunroom to discuss how we can take care of the rest of the family, I make that same choice all over again.
Acceptance.
And then—action.
I think this is why Lord of the Rings has been such a comfort to me over this past year and a half; why I’ve fallen in love with Frodo in a deeper way than I did when I was a kid. I know how it feels to keep putting one foot in front of the other on a journey that, by all rights, you never should’ve had to take in the first place. I know how it feels to wake up every day and have to decide to keep going. I know how it feels to accept a burden that you never should have had to carry.
It destroyed Frodo, in the end. I don’t intend to be destroyed myself. (That’s why I’m taking such intentional steps to take care of my own mental health in this process; and praying, praying like mad, too.) But even in those moments when the road looks dark, Frodo’s story gives me hope that one day, I too will see goodness and joy coming out of my sacrifice.
Until then:
Acceptance.
And after that—action.
WORD ASK GAME!
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For all these years I believed what wikipedia says. That Scrooge McDuck is the richest fictional charactee ever with Smaug in 2nd place
And yet Beautiful Katamari reveals that the King of All Cosmos is the richest person in the whole universe. Not just one planet but he owns the ressources of all the cosmos which does make sense for someone who rules over it
So Scrooge and Smaug are actually 2nd and 3rd, those who made the charts just didn't know about that game or that fact from the game
Behold, the richest man richer than all the biollionaires on every planets reunited
*EDIT*
SO I've been told by @papabirdurskeks that in We ♡ Katamari it is also revealed he has no idea what money is for
Meaning he is the richest man in the whole universe but is clueless about what it means
It is hilarious and full of himbo energy (he is a himbecile but it checks out)
I can see the Queen, since she did live alone before meeting him as a simple peasant, be the one who knows to deal with money and is the one who spends the right amount whenever he takes something not knowing he had to pay for it and self proclaimed as his accountant. He has no idea what it means at all but it is something his Queen does so he supports her all the way
That's also why people adore him. He must never make anyone pay and must give away free stuff when he feels generous lmao
Interviewer : "so Your Highness how does it feel like to be the wealthiest man in all the galaxies ?"
King "We Heard it is a good thing so if it is what fans want to hear We shall say it is a good thing"
Interviewer "What do you usually do with your money when you can treat yourself ?"
King "Wait you guys use money ?"
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