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i hope i am not just a mutual to you but also someone you’d befriend in the psych ward

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A little reminder.

Nobody knows Orm's father and how he treated his son. The comics are comics, not the movies.

What's more, Atlanna never said that she or Orm was abused. She just had to marry a man she didn't want. Nothing more.

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That makes three of us. and that’s until the most unrelated thing you can think of reminds me of him for whatever reason and I go “hey, my fish man would totally say something like that…” and the brainrot is reignited

people are gonna move on from Orm fast but I’m still gonna be here for years probably, sorry I have an incurable brainrot for him

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Arthur: Has anyone other than Mom ever told you they loved you?

Orm: Does my Father count?

Arthur: Sure, I guess so.

Orm: Then no.

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It’s both funny and beautiful that Nereus made such a dramatic fuss about trusting Orm with a gun while Arthur spent the entire movie letting him steal every gun he wanted

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Okay but have you ever sat down to contemplate the possibility of Orm ever thinking—no matter how fleeting the thought—that he was partly to blame for Atlanna’s unhappiness? 

I have reasons for this. Hear me out. I’m going to focus on comics!Orm here.

This is a man who grew up witnessing horrifying fights between his parents. He had to watch his mother, who was most likely the only person to ever show him any sort of affection, get beaten by the extremely abusive man she was forced to marry (and then get beaten himself in turn). He grew up with the knowledge that he had a brother, whom he idolized and loved deeply, on the surface world, and you can’t convince me it took long for him to realize his mother had been forced to leave her surface family in order to fulfill her duty to her kingdom—to marry a cruel man she didn’t love in order to have Orm, the heir Atlantis needed.

And it doesn’t matter if Atlanna never did anything that even remotely implied she felt any sort of negative emotion towards him. Pretty sure it was the opposite: if anything, I’d say she doted on him quite a bit. Because even if she wasn’t always the best of mothers in the comics, I have no doubt she loved her son. In fact, nobody can tell me Orm wasn’t a complete mama’s boy as a child. But look me in the eyes and tell me that teenage Orm, left to be a king with no living family left in the entire ocean, never had even the vaguest feelings of shame and guilt at the sudden reminiscence of his mother, badly hurt after a rough encounter with Orvax, glancing at him and forcing a smile with her face bruised and the most exhausted look in her eyes. Tell me that, despite the memory of his mother’s warm embrace and her gentle whispers of how much she loved him and how special he was to her, there wasn’t a small voice in the back of his mind suggesting that every time Atlanna looked at him, she was forced to recall all the times she ever suffered at the hands of Orvax—that she was forced to see Orvax every single time her eyes fell upon him.

Tell me he didn’t grow to believe, and accept as pure fact, that in his mother’s heart he was always second-best. He was his mother’s biggest treasure, sure, but deep down he was convinced that Arthur had claimed ownership over the biggest part of her heart. I’m sure Atlanna would have told him, entirely honest, the complete opposite time and time again every time she mentioned his brother, but it’s also not hard to picture Orm having trouble accepting her words after hours spent ruminating. In his logical mind, it was simple enough: Arthur was the child her heart wanted, born out of love in a union of sweet passion with the love of her life, while Orm was the child her body was forced to have, out of duty and obligation to Atlantis, in a deeply unhappy marriage she’d had no choice in.

And I’m not saying it troubled him. Not always, at least. I’m sure it was difficult to come to terms with it at first; he was probably deeply hurt the first time his brain created the idea during his adolescence. However, with time Orm would have gone from viewing things emotionally to analyzing everything rationally. It is the only way for an Atlantean king to withstand the pressures of the crown without going mad, after all. As a teenager, the idea that he had a role in ruining his mother’s life was an insecurity. As a fully grown adult, it was merely one of the many ugly realities of life. His mother’s torment had begun with the monster she married, and it culminated with the child that finished tying her to Atlantis. And Orm had no choice but to learn how to adapt, to ignore the ache in his chest every time the thought popped up, because otherwise it would have broken him.

And in the end, it all played perfectly into his father’s plans: he wanted to raise a king who would not be affected by something as ridiculous as emotions, and finally he was successful.

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Murk? Pfft, who needs him? Orm's got a brand new Best Friend™

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Spot the difference

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Which issue/volume is your pfp from omg

Volume 8! Issue #65

Right when Orm and Arthur are fighting. Completely unheard of, right?

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yes! he is THE underrated character. i had been putting off making a blog for so long, but the orm thoughts deserve to be externalized

what does it feel like to always be posting LITERAL GOLD?? best blog out there fr

aw thank u 🥺❤️ I’m glad you made an Orm blog though, whoever you are, there needs to be more appreciation for Orm!!

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another day, another endless round of hating on the throne of atlantis animated movie slay.

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Clearing up misconceptions about Orm as a character

“Orm killed his mother!”

No, he did not. At least, not in the comics. The only place he killed his mother was in that animated throne of atlantis movie which is NOT comic accurate in the slightest. In the comics, he was accused by Vulko of killing his parents to get the throne which was when he was about 12. Vulko later manipulated Orm into giving up the throne because he truly believed Orm was evil reincarnated.

Orm did not kill, Atlanna. She actually faked her death after killing Orvax and abandoned Orm in Atlantis to rule it.

“Orm is an Atlantean purist!”

No, he is not. He views all Atlanteans as equal biologically. He has never called Arthur a “half-breed bastard” in the comics. If he does, it’s just not Orm. I will admit though, I like dceu Orm (who says things like that) he was slightly inspired from the animated movie but I still don’t like that particular thing about dceu Orm’s character. And I hope this will be resolved in the next movie.

In the comics, Orm even had a kingdom of mutants.

So Atlantean purist? No. Xenophobic towards humans? Yes — mostly all of Atlantis shares the same view towards humans.

I hope this clears up some misinformation and misconceptions some people have about Orm.

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sad fish hours

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DC needs to bring OrmErin back to me before I start chewing on glass and climbing up the walls

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