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My personal reimagining of Jervis Tetch, AKA: The Mad Hatter.

So I noticed that it is really common for Gotham rogues-- but almost especially Jervis Tetch-- to get redrawn and redesigned! Which I just thought was such a fun exercise, so because I'm me and predictable my brain immediately leaped at the chance to imagine my own Jervis.... set in the 1920s. Now, the drastically different time period causes a lot of interesting dynamics. For one, I'm fairly certain Jervis Tetch's character originates from a time period of comics where people wore a lot more hats, so setting him in the past is very fitting for him. It makes a lot more sense for him to literally be an artisan hat manufacturer, as in a real hatter. BUT what's interesting is that hand made "hatter" style hats were actually beginning to fade out of favor, and one of the reasons is actually partially because there was a growing moralizing around the hatting industry's overhunting of birds for their decorative feathers, and so Jervis ( as you can see ) having this big, real peacock bird feather on his hat is sort of a defiance, a subtle expression of his bad intent. And I imagine his introduction to crime will be marked with the sudden unprompted rise of vintage style hats "regaining popularity". He's very much still a hypnotist, a master illusionist, and a scientific genius, and I was thinking- to shake things up- the hat is actually what drove him insane. Originally the hat band was created to counteract nerve damage he developed from mercury poisoning some years ago, but ended up also giving him heightened focus and an incurable bout of severe insanity. Then he later repurposed it for mind control. What insanity? Ok, look at the face I drew for him. This was on accident, but I've been looking at his face...... and I cannot shake the feeling he's a dad. Like, he has peak "wacky inventor father" energy in his face, but more sickly and evil. So I was thinking.... what if for this Jervis instead of his usual romantic Alice fixation... Alice was instead his daughter. And he loved having pretend tea parties with her, acting as the hatter. Some point after he put on the hat, his behavior was a little off but not worrying yet, but he lets his daughter wander off too far in this dangerous city and he just... never sees her again. He calls the police, they're kinda apathetic- probably corrupt tbh, he puts up posters-- nothing, she's just gone. Probably dead the more time passes. A senseless tragedy in a nonsense world. This breaks his brain! And so he decides he's going to take over all of Gotham and turn it into a game of Wonderland, part out of spite, and mostly out of total denial that his daughter is gone no matter how many years pass, in hopes that the little lost girl will find her way back to him or even that more puppets means more help finding her. But with time his insanity becomes so severe he doesn't even remember Alice was his daughter and not literally the book Alice, but he is slightly more lucid when without the hat. However, he feels sick and anxious when without it.

But as it goes in Gotham, by the time they consider you Arkham levels of insane, incurably so-- a 1920s insane asylum mind you! Which practically makes him more ill-- you sort of have no choice but to stay in the crime life forever. Which is where the tommy guns come in.

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she willy on my wonka till i chocolate factory

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the candy man can

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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET as Willy Wonka WONKA (2023)— dir. Paul King

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WONKA (2023) dir. Paul King

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Wonka (2023) dir. Paul King

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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET as Willy Wonka WONKA (2023) — dir. Paul King

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ohh i am connecting the fucking dots. wonka almost drowns in chocolate, and so does augustus. he’s pushed down a laundry chute, veruca falls down a trash cute. his chocolates are poisoned, violet eats a defective piece of his candy. he’s almost blown into a thousand pieces while travelling, and mike is scattered and reassembled while travelling. did he fucking take inspiration from his own tragedies and near death experiences to psychologically torture the kids. what the hell

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Timothée Chalamet as WILLY WONKA Wonka (2023) dir. Paul King

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Willy and Noodle!

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ᴡɪʟʟʏ'ꜱ ᴄʜᴏᴄᴏʟᴀᴛᴇꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ɪɴᴄʀᴇᴅɪʙʟᴇ. ᴛʀʏ ᴏɴᴇ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴋɪɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜ, ɴᴏᴏᴅʟᴇ, ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ʜᴏᴡ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʜɪꜱ ᴄʜᴏᴄᴏʟᴀᴛᴇꜱ ᴀʀᴇ, ɪ- ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴅᴏ ᴡᴇ ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛ?

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Wonka is a thrilling and heartwarming tale about 5 mentally ill and neurodivergent adults and an abused child destroying the lives and careers of 3 billionaires in order to achieve one man's dream to resurrect the dead and legalise maladaptive daydreaming.

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there’s 367k people on this tag. somebody on here has to live in atlanta, so i need you to take one for the team and go figure out what’s going on on that set!! apply as an extra!! lmfao get us the tea!!

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in all seriousness it's very alienating knowing theres Something Wrong With You. like seeing your mental illness come through in your behaviour and thought processes and knowing it's irrational and unhealthy, knowing other people are reading you as weird or stupid, and not being able to do anything about it is such a lonely experience

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I literally cannot overstate how important creative hobbies are when dealing with mental illness. If you can’t draw, there are coloring books. If you can’t write a novel, you can write in short journaling bursts. If you can’t sing in the shower, you can listen to music. Sometimes with mental illness it feels like we have this dark presence inside of us that is bumping around in our brain and organs, causing problems. It helps immensely to let it out.

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I hear that relationships, they, um… take effort.

I’m all for effort.