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Thinking about the early days of Robotnik and Stone... They're both orphans with a dislike of humanity and a fascination with machines of mass destruction, so I wonder if they ever talked about their personal lives and private traumas.
...Probably not. But maybe they came close?
Sooo I binge-watched all 50 subbed episodes of Astro Boy (2003) and I cried a whole lot and ended up desperately hoping Dr Tenma gets proper psychiatric care and wishing that someday, maybe, if Atom's okay with it, they can try and reconcile on more equal footing...
My headcanon is that Dr. Tenma is both on the autism spectrum and suffers from severely unmedicated bipolar disorder (which he frequently Refuses to be medicated on so his episodes often are mixed type with psychotic features). His most consistent psychotic features are delusions of megalomania and grandiosity consistent to a typical manic episode, but also paranoid delusions that the government is gonna get him/steal his work/use it in a way he doesn't agree with and that robots are going to turn on him and humanity. he also has auditory hallucinations that devalue him and others, and compel him to do bad things to himself and others. As the years go on and he remains poorly medicated, the auditory hallucinations stop going away, and are always going on, and the baseline paranoia remains no matter what. he functionally develops schizoaffective disorder ;;
I like to think that after the show's wrapped up Ochanomizu (and maybe Atom, too) vouch those in positions of authority to Get Dr Tenma Medicated and maybe, with time and patience and stability, he can finally reach euthymia. Or, at least, become stable enough that he can properly apologize to Atom.... a guy can dream ;-;
Atom's such a good kid. He deserves the world okay!!!!!!!
I have a lot of Jean and Judit feels!! and those days they spent at the Whirling-in-Rags, watching Harry....
Don't take your partner for granted 😔
(I headcanon Cor taught Mors how to die.)
I find King Mors fascinating!! The King named 'death'-- (gosh, his parents must have been downright wretched)-- yet another sacrifice born to die waiting for the prophecized King, by order of Bahamut, their God. Why? When? For what? His questions are unanswered and he is still dying for a country that despises him, that he is losing as his body fails him.
How frustrating! How absolutely maddening! To die a mere stepping stone...!!
What kind of a king choses a fifteen year old boy as his bodyguard as he nears death?? One that craves the company of youth, or envies their vitality...? (Imagine: the Death King being afraid of death!)
Cor may be a kid, but he's a soldier who has countless times faced death and walked out alive. He's made his peace with his end, whenever it may come.
Both of them are servants to fickle masters, who may decide when they die at any time. But of them both, only Cor knows how to die a proper warrior's death. To the Lucian King hailed as coward for drawing back the Wall to extend his life, this Crownscur's kingly resolve must've been quite something...
cor's youth told through six relationships!!
mors - regis - clarus - gilgamesh - weskham - cid
I headcanon Cor went down for one final jaunt into Taelpar Crag when he decided he'd done all he could in this life.
Gilgamesh welcomed him back with open arms.
totally self indulgent headcanon tied into this: upon death, cor becomes another sword that gilgamesh wields, and the one he takes off-world with him when he finally leaves Eos.
Gilgamesh in final fantasy lore is a unique entity that trapezes around worlds looking for fights and weapons. he is nearly always encountered with a local-world sword as well as multiple weapons of his own personal arsenal. cor -- naturally -- becomes a katana, probably named lionheart or sword of kings or somesuch moniker, it probably changes from world to world.
when used in battle, if fed spiritual energy, a spectre of cor can fight alongside him like a vergil clone, either as the >55 year old cor died as or as the 15 year old gilgamesh first met, depending on whether the wielder requires finesse or feral brutality.
In this manner, cor truly becomes immortal, and used in the way he liked best: in battle, fiercely defending those he has deemed worthy and given his loyalty to.
man of many names and faces, consistent only in station: always second in command
I LOVE THE CANON OT3 YA’LL megaera/zagreus/thanatos poly is LIFE
that being said, god, imagine magaera and thanatos quietly waiting for zagreus to resurface from the pool…. fearing he might never come back……..
fml i have too many useless feels
i stan one (1) depressed frenchman and his perpetually agonized eyebrows
truce over food
(aka, my hc for why nicky likes cooking so much is because it’s what first managed peace between yusuf and him)