Go Little Rockstar

It's not easy being a fan of these underrated hottie

lift you up every time everyone pulls away (x)

/rp

There have been a lot of comments about how Doomsday wasn’t very satisying, and I think that’s the point? Doomsday wasn’t supposed to be a cathartic resolution. It was supposed to be destruction, leaving an empty void and making room for new stories.

It was a catalyst for many character’s arcs.

Fundy and Niki turned against the home that hurt them, that they didn’t feel was really there anymore, finally moving on. Dream, Tommy, and Tubbo were set up for a final confrontation to end the disk war. Ranboo realized that by choosing everyone he had chosen no one. He lost everything and started over with new allies. Quackity knew it was a losing fight and went back anyway. He risked his last life to stand against Dream’s power once again and further solidified his character. Jack fought for a nation and friend that had left him behind and gained nothing for it but death and a burning anger.

That’s just naming a few central characters, but no one’s current arcs were really in a place to wrap up neatly here.

If Doomsday resolved anything it was the Butcher Army Arc. I’ve said it before, but for Techno Doomsday was mostly retribution and self defense because of his execution. It highlights the futility and endless nature of retribution, of the cycle of violence everyone is locked into. No one came out any better after the smoke cleared. No one’s mind was changed, no one became a better person because of anything that happened, it was just destruction.

So if you felt empy and unsatisfied after Doomsday, good.

That was the point.

Bald Risu

The Al Ghuls and their Robins

When your bored so you draw on the school chromebook

something i think people tend to gloss over in ranboo's character is that he lies.

like, he lies! little white lies, he lies by omission, he straight up doesn't tell the goddamn truth. he twists it around into what people want to see/hear. he's actually a pretty manipulative character- not to the extent of say, quackity or wilbur, but he is. he is NOT innocent.

now, that's not to say he's a bad person. he's a person trying very hard to be good and by consequence, doing some shady things. it doesn't mean he's morally awful, just that he's struggling (which people are often wont to do)

he's smarter than people give him credit for. stop underestimating him, especially as he gets closer to unlocking the truth within himself.

Jason Todd’s (post crisis) early time with Bruce is a really interesting time period especially when you look at the fandom’s response to canon.

Most people familiar with this bit of Comic history will tell you Jason was really good with academics and really invested in school and would be super involved in extra curriculars if he could, especially theater. And I don’t disagree but I would argue that this period of Jason’s life was a period of post traumatic thriving and that toward the end of his tenure as Robin, the C-PTSD he’d acquired throughout his childhood was catching up with him.

Like that thing with Filipe? His responses to the kiddie porn ring they ended up dealing with? The whole situation with Nocturna. The way he behaved in these situations it’s clear he’s been destabilized.

The role that at first seemed to be helping Jason is doing the exact opposite by forcing him into situations where he’s flooded with triggering stimulus in an uncontrolled environment which shoves him back into the trauma of his past. And Bruce is grappling with that. Because this worked for him. It worked for Dick. But he and Dick had singular traumatic experiences. Jason’s had an entire childhood of one trauma stacked on top of the other. Bruce has no idea how to handle him.

But I would argue further, that even if Bruce had not made Jason Robin. Even if Bruce wasn’t Batman and he brought Jason in just to give him a home, the trauma would have caught up once Jason felt safe. Because that’s what trauma does.

I don’t think Jason would be able to get a full ride to college. I think he’d start high school strong, then get wrapped in his trauma, graduate with a c-d average, take a few gap years, go back to community college and then get into the college of his dreams. Because education is really important to him, that much is clear, but trauma doesn’t just let go of you because you had a few good years.

Post Traumatic Thriving is not the same thing as recovery and it only lasts so long. Once that period is over, suddenly doing all the things you could then is a monumental, Sisyphean task. And I think it would eat Jason up even more because as the neglected kid, he’s good at things. He’s more competent than even his parents. His inability must be laziness. What’s wrong with him? Which I believe would start a spiral of self loathing that would take years to climb back out of, leaving him ‘behind’ in life. Forcing him to enter college late. Forcing him, ultimately, to realize he’s not in control of himself and undermining the sense of security he had once he moved into the manor.

Trauma isn’t neat. Even if Jason had never died, had never been Robin, his life still would have been messy and if he had managed to get that full ride, he’d have ended up loosing control in college and flunking out. Which would probably be worse. Like… let’s not reduce the difficulty that is living with so much bad shit on you slate, all this fucking baggage.

Let’s not flatten Jason into the Good Kid, the Good Student, the Valedictorian. It’s just as bad as flattening him into the Bad Kid, the Bad Student, the Street Rat.

Hard lives don’t just suddenly turn easy because you catch a few lucky breaks.