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steddielations · 6 months

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Hey, you read Flight of Icarus, right? Can I ask if it links up with S4 'Eddie's a coward/runner/not a hero' thing? I read some of your lore posts, and in the show I always thought it didn't really fit the narrative they were going for, but it seems there's some incongruity between show and book details so I'm curious.

I always thought that message was a bit skewed in the show too simply because it's so clear to us that Eddie didn't need to be a hero, he had nothing to atone for and the situations where he ran were understandable and not cowardly. But Eddie still sees himself that way and it's the same in the book. There's not an overarching theme of "coward/runner/not a hero" in the book, but I dug around to find any links.

You could say the whole theme of the book is Eddie trying to escape the hell that is his life in Hawkins and run away to California. Ronnie accuses him of running away, trading the town fuckup image for the rockstar image. In the end, he only stays in Hawkins because he doesn't have the choice to leave. Also, Eddie runs away from bullies once and he's not ashamed of it. This moment aligns with what he says about "there's no shame in running" in the show. (I'll put the excerpt below) There's another fight where he doesn't run, but it ends badly. He gets Tommy on the ground once, but he gets beat up a lot in the book unfortunately, doesn't really consider himself a fighter. When he protects ppl, it’s by making himself a literal or metaphorical shield.

The questionable part is toward the end, when the police officer gets shot in front of Eddie, he doesn't run. The guys that shot the cop run and Al runs and tells Eddie to run, but Eddie stays and helps the officer, despite hating him. Eddie definitely looks down on his dad for all the times he ran out of his life, so I feel like this could drive Eddie more in the direction of thinking running away is always shameful. But because he stayed, that's the reason Eddie gets arrested, despite trying to help. So maybe this is why he "gets smarter" about when to stay and when to run.

Eddie doesn't think of himself as a hero in the book. He calls himself a coward a couple times. He keeps repeating "Barback turned front man turned rock hero," as the vision of himself that Paige put into his head. Rockstar thing aside, Eddie does several things that are very self-sacrificing and heroic (dropping out so Ronnie didn't lose her scholarship, basically ruining their friendship by not telling her bc he doesn't think he's worth jeopardizing her future, getting beat up protecting Gareth, when the principal convinces him that Hellfire is the reason his friends are bullied Eddie ends it despite not wanting to, then at the end he goes back to school and pulls a pretty risky stunt blackmailing the principal to get Hellfire back because he wants to give all the outcasts a place to go, protecting Will despite not knowing him by making the jocks hit him instead) but he doesn't consider himself heroic at all. He won't give himself any credit. To me, if anything, he feels like he's only deserving of being a martyr.

eddie running from the jocks ⬇️

#i hope this makes sense for what you asked 😭#flight of icarus #eddie munson #asks

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yandere-southpark · 4 years

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Hello!! I saw that your requests were open and I wanted to ask if you could do a yandere Kenny? I think it'd be pretty interesting since he could in fact die for his s/o lol.

HCs for Platonic and Romantic Yandere Kenny

A.N. - Y'all really want some yandere Kenny, huh? I've been getting several requests for this boy, and I can see why. He's the ultimate martyr.

Kenny McCormick

Platonic:

Patron saint of the silent protector. Kenny's sense of self-preservation has all but perished, and he has made it his mission in life to uphold the safety of his friend. Everything else is optional.

His presence often goes unnoticed by them until a threat presents itself. He rushes from the shadows and acts as a human shield, shoving his friend out of the way or stepping in front of them to take one for the team.

While Kenny does believe that endangering his friend should be repaid with death or at least serious injury, his top priority is getting them to safety. If that means taking a beating, being run over, or having his insides become his outsides as they flee, he will lay down his life in a heartbeat. Even when it's a fight he knows he cannot win or one that promises only the cruellest and most agonizing of deaths, Kenny never hesitates to sacrifice himself.

In his mind, no lives have more value than his friend's and Karen's, and he will die as many times as it takes to prove that.

While his protectiveness is not as violent and oppressive as Kyle's or as overt and suffocating as Tweek's, Kenny is always keeping a close eye on his friend and will go to any lengths necessary to prevent them from falling prey to nasty habits, making grave mistakes, and putting themselves in stupid situations that ultimately harm them.

He is quite hypocritical in this regard, as he often gives his friend advice or tells them to never do something only to turn around and do the exact opposite. However, this is because Kenny believes that they are better than him. He views himself as already having a damned soul, so he doesn't care what horrible fate befalls him this go-around.

His only desire is to ensure that his friend is protected from the many dangers and pitfalls of the world and gets to live a happy life, which is something Kenny worries is beyond him. It's a sweet sentiment born from good intentions, but all too often it ends up wrecking lives and sending many to an early grave.

Kenny always crawls out of his grave, but his victims are stuck in their caskets. Assuming there is enough left of them to put in one. It's best to make it a closed casket funeral. Kenny gets a bit carried away when he thinks his friend is in danger.

Romantic:

A more behind-the-scenes type of yandere who generally likes to keep his murderous impulses under wraps until he's certain that no one else is around to witness it. He knows how loose-lipped the residents of South Park are. Someone will talk, and before long, his partner will be terrified of him and want nothing to do with him.

Still, Kenny will make a mistake eventually, and it will be the one he never recovers from. Perhaps he overestimated his perceived opponent and wound up killing them when he meant to maim them, and now the police are hot on his trail and most of the town is on the lookout for the culprit.

Maybe he simply lost control due to the presence of a particularly persistent and bothersome rival and began to wail on them in the heat of the moment the second they touched his partner, temporarily forgetting that he had an audience.

No matter how much he tries to convince his partner that the person he killed deserved it and wanted to hurt them, they will never look at or treat him the same way again, and no amount of death will change that.

Kenny likes to think that he has come to terms with being the thankless saviour and accepted the fact that his partner will never be grateful for his protection, but it still feels like dying all over again when they look at him with fear and hatred in their eyes and shy away from his touch. This only makes him more desperate to reconcile, which leads to a series of unwanted advances that achieve the opposite.

A new flame has been ignited within Kenny, and it burns for those who would dare to consider themselves to be an admirer of his partner. He views his partner as one of the few positive aspects of his life, so when someone comes along who believes that they can take his main source of happiness from him, Kenny gets an itch to use his immortality for a more creative purpose.

He takes his stalking of his partner down a notch in favour of tailing a rival and making them be collateral damage whenever he is inevitably killed.

If they are walking down the sidewalk and he happens to see a fast-approaching vehicle barrelling towards him, the rival may find themselves standing in the middle of the street with Kenny lining up behind them. If food poisoning or illness is brought into the equation, he will nearly force-feed the foul fare to them and make sure to get sick all over them if the situation arises.

He "accidentally" keeps running into the rival whenever he is sick to try and pass it to them. If he's feeling especially spritely, Kenny may even intentionally give himself a severe and potentially fatal illness and then refuse to leave the rival's side, acting like their best friend until they catch it and keel over.

He will die horrifically from the disease, come back, and then give it to himself again as many times as it takes to kill them. If great heights are involved, Kenny may do his greatest trick of all and effectively bearhug the rival before jumping off.

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