Jazz becoming the next big Gothem villain is such a solid concept. Theres so much to explore.
She targets corrupt mental institutions. Corrupt companies who destroy their workers state of mind so they wont quit. She attacks landlords who make it impossible for people to live comfortably.
She is the staple anti-hero of anyone struggling to get back on their feet. People should have to work three jobs just to afford a crappy one bedroom, no utilities, half bath, in crime alley apartment, with a roommate.
Shelters should be aiming to gain a profit instead of using the donations to support others.
She is tired of these big name heros leaving children to clean up messes. She has watcher her own brother wither away to a shell of his former self trying to make a change and she is sick of it. Hell she herself is a child but if this is what it takes, then this is what it takes.
Enter from the left The Manipulator™️
Feared by all corrupt. People think she has mind control or something. When she targets someone they make almost a full 180 in their ways. “She will do anything to get her way or to make people into what she thinks they should be. And she mist be stopped” cries big business.
In reality she is the worlds best damn psychiatrist ever to be known. She doesn’t force anyone to change but gives them the choice to be better. To see how much more they can be. And it terrifies them. Helps them find themselves again and to move past their troubling pasts. No force and no mind control. No manipulating. No one but those who she has helped know the truth but when they tell the truth it only fuels the fire of her being controlling.
Theres one thing also fuelling the flames of mind control. Thats the fact that every single major hero to go after her can’t. Any who approach her find themselves no long near her. Superman just wants to talk, well she doesn’t, and he is then back in his city?!? Batman is stalking her to figure out how to deal with her but once he gets too close he suddenly finds himself in the batcave?
At first they think it’s teleportation but time is passing? Theres video feed and tracking of no they just went back themselves. No response from them the whole trip. As if possessed. (Lmao it’s just good brother danny pranking his sis a little by making her seem all powerful but also protecting her anyway he can. Or could be Dan instead)
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I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing. So you've had to struggle and connive and claw your way to power. But true power, the divine right to rule, is something you're born with. The fact is, they don't know which one of us is going to be sitting on that throne and which of us is going to be bowing down. But I know, and you know.
while azula’s speech to long feng in this scene is indisputably iconic and powerful, it is also blatantly wrong. azula cites “the divine right to rule” as her prerogative to take the earth kingdom throne over long feng in their vie for power, but the divinity of the monarchy is a hollow justification for the existence of any given monarchy in the first place, not some ontological imperative that demands certain families seize and maintain power. centuries ago, azula’s ancestors claimed power over the fire nation, and her belief system is the product of the rhetoric they created after the fact to justify their power and influence over the state, and some time later, sozin’s imperialist doctrine that it is also the fire nation’s prerogative to colonize other states beyond their accepted borders. what makes this moment so effective is that azula truly believes the imperialist rhetoric she spouts in this intimidating monologue, as it was the creed she was born into – but as we are plainly shown throughout the show, her belief system is wrong, and she possesses no inherent, divine superiority over others. her facade of power, strength, and domination ultimately guards an empty myth, a lie that nearly destroyed the entire world.
BUT.
out of context, her words are not entirely wrong.
you've had to struggle and connive and claw your way to power
but true power
the divine right to rule
is something you're born with
unlike in our world, wherein the existence of divine power(s) cannot ever be truly proven, the spirit world not only demonstrably exists, but is eminently accessible. only because of aang’s century-long stasis in the iceberg was there ever any doubt of the avatar’s return, reducing the spiritual/cultural/political/global significance of the avatar to a myth, and plunging the world into unrest, chaos, and despair. but the world of avatar itself spans a vast history, in which aang’s era is merely a blip. he is but one reincarnation is the vast line of avatars, the bridge between the human and spirit worlds, the bringer of balance, chosen by the spirits. if anyone has an ontological, divinely-necessitated influence over the world, it is not the fire nation royal family: it is, quite plainly, the avatar.
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One of my favorite episodes of The Bear is 1x02 Hands.
There's this song that plays twice in the episode. Have You Seen Me Lately by The Counting Crows. It plays during Richie's car scene with sydney- a ballad version of the song. At the end of the episode, the rock version plays for Carmy. Storer explained that this decision was made so the same song - different versions match Carmy and Richie's journey.
Lyrics for Carmy's ending scene:
Get away from me, just get away from me.
This isn't gonna be easy, but I don't need you Believe me
Yeah, you got a piece of me
But it's just a little piece of me...
And I don't need anyone
And these days
I feel like I'm fading away
I see a story about two men, Richie and Carmy, how they dislike each other but share one thing in common, and that's Mikey. It's about men facing their mental health. The ability to ask for help in order to heal. The journey of grief, toxic masculinity, and unknowingly, Sydney helping heal and representing a new experience for The Berzattos.
Carmy (and Richie) are resistant to ending the dysfunction.
When I watch the episode, I see Carmy and Richie have a way of telling Sydney to get away from me like the lyrics. Carmy is turning down her business ideas, and Richie denies help to find the right caulk. But Sydney affects Richie when she acknowledges and apologizes for Michel's death. This car scene gives the audience hope that Richie is starting to accept Sydney.
Eventually, Carmy becomes more accepting of her and officially hires Sydney. Showing that he wants to move on. While Richie hides the note Mikey left, because making changes to the restaurant is accepting that Mikey's dead.
Sydney, who had her own loss(Sheridan Catering), is looking to accept and move past it. While Carmy and Richie are in different stages. But Carmy- in his grief, in the stages of anger and denial, loses Sydney in the process by the end of Season One.
But there's hope in their grief when Sydney comes back in 1x08, and Richie almost demands she helps. Showing that he is ready to accept Sydney. I think Richie knew then what she meant to Carmy and how much she's helped change not only the restaurant but their personal lives.
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I've only now noticed Eva Yan's scars on your drawings of her, is there any story or headcanon behind them?
keeping it real babygirl [gender neutral] the story is that this woman canonically kills herself, canonically contemplates suicide, quite explicitly mentioning the method she intents on using to you (with implications that she has, at the very least, thought about it/thought it through before), and lives with broken mirrors so she cannot (/doesn't have to) see her face like i just think She Is Mentally Unwell. like as a long-term, enduring, persistent thing, She Is Mentally Unwell and the plague is just worsening her condition, while it didn't cause it. the storey/headcanon is that she is mentally ill, openly and canonically has self-destructive tendencies, so. the scars are here because she lives with a lil something something in her mind which drives her to plenty of destructive acts in ways big and small. ywkim
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okay but does he kiss her the moment he sees her again or is it the same as the reunion youve mentioned before
ITS THE SAME REUNION!!!!! he saves the payback kiss for later when hes not emotionally overwhelmed just by seeing her again (and everyone else is also there..,,he wants it to be an intimate moment)
so probably later that night or a few days later when he has her all to himself for a moment,.. @_@
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