steve is genuinely one of the most complex characters i have but sometimes i worry people will misinterpret his inconsistencies with bad writing
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he’s inconsistent ON PURPOSE!!!! hes so mentally torn during stray nightmare and he has absolutely no idea on which path to take. some chapters he seems fine with killing and in others he wants nothing to do with it and it’s all because he puts on a front for krakrofis thinking that krak saved him and he knows best so he should listen but his heart is truly against hurting anyone
he knows that the night he made that deal with krakrofis to be his vessel was a mistake, but he blames himself for EVERYTHING that’s happened after that even if it was krakrofis using his body to do terrible shit without him being in any control. he still believes that it’s entirely his fault, delilahs death was his fault, adam getting his life ruined was his fault, and he ruined all the cult kids (although arguably he genuinely did save them, they wouldve turned out much worse if it werent for his intervention but he doesn’t see that) and he continues to isolate himself because he’s so scared of hurting people even though he “knows it’s his duty” (manipulation by krak) to do so
he occasionally does try to make it up to adam (i cant say how bc spoilers) but in the end he knows thatll never take away from what “he” did, and that guilt will always consume him even though adam KNOWS it isnt truly his fault. adam in general is also just a very forgiving person and tries his best to be understanding of other people but he is actually right about it not being steves fault. not that he’s required to forgive anybody but he does anyway because the only person in his life he’s ever held a grudge against is his dad LMFAO sorry side tangent anyways
this honestly isnt even half of steves character and all of his mental workings but he’s very torn between whats right and wrong and finds himself carrying guilt for actions that everybody except him knows isnt his fault
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silly draft i forgor to post:
Law being such a nerd he sometimes just stares at his figures/memorabilia, you’ll find him from time to time doing so
Maybe !!! You find him and reach up to his shoulders, he always jumps just a bit
But you continue, grabbing his shoulders and gently squeezing, trying to get his stubborn muscles to relax.
Law doesn’t exactly acknowledge you, at least not with words. He’ll sigh and lean a tiny bit into your hands, to attempt to let you know he likes it.
The first couple of times you thought he wanted to push you away, so you would retreat and drop it.
but one day law started staring at his figures, and you walked in. you didnt come close, since you wanted to respect his space.
but law grumbled, turned to you, and said "my shoulders hurt."
you just stared back at him, unsure of why he would sudden- oh
you laughed a little, to his protest, and walked over to start massaging his shoulders.
he stopped whatever mumbling had been going on and sighed in relief, saying how he felt like a kid throwing a fit.
you chuckle, and answer with something about how he was acting like a kid.
but every time he stared at his collections, or you wrote in your journal, you both were there.
rubbing each others shoulders :D
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parker in the inside job is so real to me
parker, who has had a very complicated relationship with the concept of ‘family’, who blew up her abusive foster parent’s house, who bounced around the foster system before ultimately making a run for it
who was caught pick pocketing a world-renowned thief and taken in under his wing where he molded her into the best thief that ever existed, where he then ‘released her into the world’
archie took her in, yes, but he didn’t really take her in. he kept her at arm’s length, letting her live in empty warehouses and learning how to pick locks and beat security systems instead of going to school or learning what familial love was
he raised her, but only barely
and leverage did a great job of adding subtleties to her to have her come off as neurodivergent, most likely autistic. she was never what society would deem as ‘normal’, especially back then. and then archie tells nate to his face that she would never fit in, not anywhere
(and nate is mad. eliot is mad. rightfully so.)
parker is different from most people, thinks differently and acts differently. but that’s not wrong, and not her fault. but archie couldn’t see past that and take her in as she truly was, not when he had an ‘actual’ family at home. she wouldn’t fit in and that was something he wasn’t willing to risk, try or explain
and then archie calls parker asking for her thoughts on the steranko situation and she doesn’t even hesitate because his family is on the line. his real family. and he’s her father in a way no one had ever been before and looked after her in the only way she knew how and that meant something to her and she couldn’t have something like that happen to him
not on her watch
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An exhaustive headcanon post about Bruce Wayne's unhealthy mentality.
trigger warning for: mentions C-PTSD, Survivor's Guilt, shitty dietary habits, insomnia, self-ableism, masking, workaholism, somewhat shady parenting, technically self-harm, and passive suicidal ideation.
Ok, so:
•Bruce def feels like he has to earn things. Like affection, respect, or just any form of a good thing happening to him.
•He earns his life, or so he says, but it's more like he's trying to earn the right to be alive, which is a wild thing to believe.
•Bruce is autistic as all hell, right? Diagnosed and everything, his parents used to pay for private treatment since the mental health system in Gotham is so ass. Well, after they died, Bruce just, doesn't do any of that anymore, he avoids therapists or psychologists like the plague, even ones outside of Arkham. He has a whole lot of Other Things™ outside of autism now, but he still refuses to go get proper help.
•Similarly, Bruce would rather die than to actually mention it to anyone. Like, yeah, as Brucie Wayne he's definitely masking hard (to the point where it's kinda upsetting and he gets overwhelmed), but like, he also doesn't tell shit to the whole rest of the Batfam, or the Justice League. The only person that knows that Bruce is autistic AND just generally mentally ill/traumatized, is fucking Alfred.
•This causes people to misunderstand him a lot, but part of him feels like that's more "deserved". Like, he thinks that he'd hate to be judged by his mental illness because he he dislikes the idea of his actions being justified retroactively of excused by his illnesses, not being self-aware enough to notice that this horrifically heightened sense of hyper-responsability about just fucking everything in his life is itself, a trauma response. Also, he's the world's biggest hypocrite, who famously believes that other rogues and people like Jason Todd need to be helped instead of killed or put down, going directly against his own attitude towards himself.
•He genuinely believes that whole "[insert mental illness here] is not an excuse to [insert a behavior or symptom of aforementioned mental illness here]", but like, only towards himself. To everyone else he rightfully thinks that stuff is bullshit.
•Bruce puts himself up to some crazy standards, actually. He works non-stop as both Brucie, Bruce, and Batman, always doing something, unable to stay still or even sleep. He skips meals, neglects his well-being, he puts everything on the line and expects himself to do it everyday, every hour, without fail, every single time.
•His kids think that he's neurotic, they're kinda right, the Justice League think he's too paranoid, they're right too, Gotham city thinks he's a saviour, it's true, the rogues think he's a monster, that's fair as well. Alfred? He just thinks Bruce is hurt, he's the most right of all.
•Part of this is a form of punishment, atonement for being alive, for surviving that fateful night when his parents didn't, for daring to go on with life when they're both sixteen feet under, for having the audacity to raise a family, the gall of having friends, the sheer nerve to even consider having a romantic relationship, when his parents couldn't even hug him. Not anymore. He's here, not them.
•And it kills him, because he saw it, saw them die, saw them gurgle on their own blood and sat with their bodies until the police arrived, this is what led him to become Batman, to mask as Brucie, to guide so many young people away from being like him as Bruce. So how dare he, how dare he be happy when they died? How dare he forget that alley, for even a second? How could he? Didn't he love them? Didn't he make a promise to live out the rest of his life in a mission to prevent events like this?
•It's like he's in a toxic relationship with two corpses, they're cold and their eyes follow him, he's hollow and blind to anything but them. Part of him would love to argue that his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne themselves, would prefer to see him happy and fulfilled. Another part of him remembers gunshots, blood spatter, and the sound of choked gurgling, and Bruce spirals all over again.
•Perhaps he's waiting for this life for kill him, finish the job that gun didn't do years ago, kill him like his parents, hurt him so deeply he can't recover, destroy him until he's repented for being so inherently horrible. Because he is, he knows he is, he's neurotic, paranoid, a saviour complex having monster, this is what he aimed for, he seeked out this outcome, just waiting to be put down like those before him.
•He's passionate about his cause, sure, but that's surface level. The front used to keep the image of an asshole neurotic paranoid man that has a saviour complex, instead of exposing the truth behind himself. Who he really is.
•A child, that's who he is, a kid reliving his worst bad day over and over and over again.
•He earns his life, he'd earned this.
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