Isaisacrackhead - Devaneios

KIM OK-BIN in THE VILLAINESS (dir. Jung Byung-gil, 2017) SEJEONG in TOP OR CLIFF (dir. Hobin, 2023)

I’m sure it’s because not many people know but kon actually has a lot of different sources for angst potential! He’s engineered to be a copy of earths greatest hero yet constantly struggling to find out who he is outside of a given purpose. He galavants around with the idea that he’s independent enough to be his own boss, but from the moment of his creation he’s been told who to be or exploited by the people he meets. He’s both treated like an adult yet punished for acting like a kid. He makes mistakes and often feels like a screw up but he gets up and tries again every time! He’s acts like the S symbol is both something he already deserves (because that’s what he was made for) yet acts as if he constantly has to prove he’s worthy. He didn’t have a name for the first years of his publication history, and for a long time he didn’t know how to be anything other than Superboy (and maybe he’s still figuring that out). He cried tears of joy when Superman finally gave him his very own Kryptonian name and verbally accepted him into the family, a testament to how important that journey of identity and belonging is to him. At the same time, why did it have to take so long?

His life is constantly being uprooted, and he can never settle in one place long enough to call it home. He deserves agency and stability, yet his life is often slipping out of his own control. He yearns for a mother or father, and maybe if he had one, he wouldn’t feel so lost. For a while, he thought he would never grow up and be who he needs to be, which is ironic given how many people are quick to call him immature. He cares so much for his friends and family, and he is pained when people leave and feels immensely guilty when he hurts the people he cares about. Regardless of what he may think, those people are happy to remind him that they think of him as family too and they’ll travel across time and space and to the ends of the earth for him.

Despite being created in a lab to be a copy of someone else, ironically he is brimming with a unique personality that is sometimes sought to be stifled. But he’s tied so much worth into who he’s supposed to be that shaking that foundation shakes his very core and is a source of insecurity. He acts so differently from Clark, yet so similarly as well. He wants to be Superman, but both emulates him and fights to be Different from him. He believes in seeing the good in people, even if it lands him into trouble, and though he may doubt it or question it he really is a hero at heart. He’s like Clark where it matters, but everything else—his personality and style, his connections to his friends and family, his struggles and triumphs—all of that is completely his own.

He may not have figured out everything it meant to be human, but he’s loved enough to die for it. To die would indeed be an awfully great adventure, but like J.M. Barrie said, “To live would be an awfully big adventure.” And Kon has certainly experienced it all, good and bad.

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i don't think there's anyone out there who's more gothic haunted house narrative tragedypilled than domeric bolton. being an ok softhearted dude trapped in the dreadfort with your slimy turborapist dad i think won him that award. he was really doomed by the circumstances of his birth. roose saw him decent guymaxxing and was like 'well i guess my only known bastard son will kill him oh well.' what the fuck was up with domeric dude.

"Your style has changed. What's with the blood-red eyeshadow?"

— "I don't want to look kind-hearted."

Lady Vengeance (2005) dir. Park Chan Wook

Mystical Conversation (1896) by Odilon Redon

Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors (2007–2010)

ANNE PARILLAUD as Nikita in La Femme Nikita (1990) (dir. Luc Besson)

I cannot take seriously any self proclaimed Targ stan who’s “horrified” at the mom and son Alyssa x Daemon scene but wholeheartedly and with their whole chest defend - niece x uncle, nephew x uncle, sister x brother, aunt x niece usually with an absurdly repulsive age gap added into the equation 🙃

Also we already saw weirdo psychosexual subtext in canon - in the weird sexual ownership Jaehaerys felt over Saera and the Alysanne’s mommy knows best dynamic with Baelon. Whatever Maegor & Visenya had going on, like why are we shocked here.

This is extremely on point for House Targaryen and yall are fake freaks.

every single time someone tries to call clark a bad parent and bruce a good one in the same post, an angel loses its wings. violently

Lady Snowblood being the blueprint