Quick Sketch I Did On My Desk While Bored.

i bring a real "this piece of media has incest subtext that you're ignoring" vibe to the function that nobody really likes

I just want to catch up on all our lost time

i have been listening to this on repeat for the past. month and a half and i just. oh its them im sick oh....

Look at his eyes!! The curve of his lips in the last pic!! Lord this man is FINE! Tamacti Jun has my heart and soul. (Ps. I need people to create bots of him on C.ai, it's a shame there's only one)

Don't read if you haven't finished watching Dexter and Dexter New Blood.

I'm gonna ask opinions to people regarding Dexter's "companions" (like Harry is) throughout the shows so if you haven't finished them yet, you WILL encounter spoilers.

If you ignore the show's logic, which would make them hallucinations/Dexter's own conscience manifesting as them/Dark Passengers, what do you think Harry, Brian and Deb are?

Cause the original story was more supernatural than what they made the TV show to be so I was curious to know other people's own interpretation. Again, don't mind what the show intended, or what's logical cause of it but how YOU, personally, interpreted their portrayals.

My own interpretation:

Harry has been Dex's own conscience (seasons 1-4 roughly but I could remember wrong, correct me if so) mainly due to the fact that when he appeared it was always Dexter zoning out and talking with him inside his own mind.

While later (seasons 5-8) he was a ghostly guide of sorts. Specifically due to a line he said in 8x12 that went something like: "I never thought this day would come, the day that you wouldn't need me anymore" which I always interpreted as a ghost saying goodbye after having been kind of a guardian for a long time.

With Brian too it was both depending on the situation.

In his first appearance post-death in season 2 he had a small line of dialogue with Dexter that went something like: "You're still here" - "I never left" - "Yes, you did. I killed you." - "You just took my life." And I always saw that as a, and read it in between the lines, "You killed me but I wanted to stay so now my soul is bound to you" kind of thing.

Same in Nebraska, i perceived him as a ghost throughout the whole episode.

In some other occasions though it was clear it was Dexter hallucinating so back to my point, he was a mix.

With Deb it's actually easier. Since she was always somewhat kind toward Dexter (excluding when she tried to kill both of them and her, very reasonable, crashout when she found out what he was) I hardly doubt her in New Blood to have been a ghost.

I'm fairly convinced she's always been Dexter's own conscience beating him up on it due to the fact that he was ridden by guilt for not having stopped Saxon in time and for having pulled the plug on her (even though she was already brain dead by then).

finally a person active to ramble about brian moser. his death is a pure tragedy. brian just accepted the fact that he got betrayed by his precious sibling after years of longing for him as a fond memory while desiring to get rid of this "foster bullshit" because adoption's not like true family, it's a gut-wrenching hoax that brian endured for years in isolation, trapped between walls with no possibility to reconnect with his only "salvation" alias dexter &. willing to embrace his younger brother's lack of humanity out of pure unconditional love. brian's peak fraternity &. dexter ended up throwing away his hope by eliminating brian due to his obssession with limbs &. "code"... well, controversial hot take but i wished that brian quickly got rid of dexter after the impromptu stunt or that brian secretly annihilated debra without leaving any trace before using manipulation skills to coax dexter to go back to old times with the promise of accepting all his ugly parts that he kept cancealing.

Believe me, I so wished for Brian to survive and take care of Deb on his own somehow. Not Dexter. He could never harm his baby brother not even if his life depended on it.

Also, I'm sure that he could've been, if not molded to the code, accepting of Dexter's own free will to follow it if Dexter had simply set him down and explained it. Nobody can't convince me of the contrary cause Brian obsessed over reuniting with Dex for like 31 full years and people still think that he simply would've thrown away all that simply cause Dexter didn't wanna abandon the code? Oh gimme a break. He would've accepted anything if Dexter had been capable of expressing his own worries and problems.

His death still has such a grip on me this many years later cause that "Am I one of your victims now?" broke me then and it still breaks me now.

And Dexter going like "you need to be put down" and Brian "Why? Because of your code?" and Dex "And the safety of my sister" TF YOU MEAN THE SAFETY OF YOUR SISTER?? HE'S YOUR GODDAMN BLOOD BROTHER AND YOU'RE WILLING TO OFF HIM TO SAVE HER?

This is one of those rants where quoting the books comes in handy too btw cause in Darkly Dreaming Dexter he quite literally realized that Harry had lied to him all along and after that, as he looked down at Debra's body bound to the table in plastic, his internal monologue stated, and I quote: "And more to the immediate point, what did I owe this squirming lump of animal flesh quivering beneath me, this creature masquerading as my sibling? What could I possiby owe her in comparison to my bond with Brian, my own flesh, my brother, a living replication of my selfsame precious DNA?"

Like, how did we go from that kind of devotion to "I have to kill him to save her"?

Brian's devotion and love were blind but there and strong, unrelenting and deep.

Dexter's devotion was misplaced since he himself regretted having killed Brian later on in the seasons, especially when Deb found out about his little hobby and tried to kill both of them by drowning them in the car.

I was searching for a sketch like this one and found nothing. I resolved the issue. Hope you like it.

"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.