#corrupted merge
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Total Eclipse
This story is for the incomparable @misseviehyde. Hope she and everyone else enjoys it!
Ally adjusted the tripod legs one last time, the soles of her sneakers sinking into the soft beach sand. She wiped the sweat from her brow and peeked up at the sky through thick rimmed glasses, the moon already beginning its slow crawl across the sun. She smiled. It would be a perfect view. Alone, finally, with her telescope.
She pulled out a small folding chair, scribbled a few notes in her weathered astronomy journal, and looked up again. Then laughter cracked through the air that made her shiver.
“Oh my God, look at her.” Came the unmistakable voice of Tessa. Ally tensed.
Tessa was the queen bee of their high school. All tanned skin, cropped tops, and cruel smiles. Her gang wasn’t far behind, beach bags slung over shoulders, phones out and recording.
Ally tried to ignore them, tilting her telescope higher. She knew she should have picked a more isolated spot.
“What’s that, your virgin detector?” Tessa kicked a little sand at the legs of Ally’s tripod. “Gonna find aliens with that thing, or just more losers like you?”
Ally flinched but didn’t reply. The eclipse was minutes away.
“I said.” Tessa stepped closer, eyes glinting, “What are you even doing out here? This is a beach, nerd. Not a science lab.”
Ally reached for her telescope again, but Tessa grabbed her wrist and yanked her away. The tripod tipped.
“No!” Ally cried, trying to catch it. The telescope hit the sand with a thud. Tessa snorted. “Oops.”
A sudden chill crept over the beach. The moon had almost fully covered the sun. Shadows warped. The air shimmered. Ally looked up, her heart pounding. “You’re ruining it.”
Tessa rolled her eyes and shoved her. “Relax dork, like anyone cares.” The light changed. Dimmed. A dark halo flared around the blackened sun. Ally could feel electricity in the air and watched as Tessa’s hair started to levitate.
Tessa’s smirk faded as her hands, still gripping Ally’s shoulders, started to sink into her like mist meeting water. “What the?”
Ally convulsed. A glow pulsed through her skin, violet and silver. Tessa cried out and tried to pull back, but her arms were stuck. Her face twisted in horror as she was pulled into Ally’s chest with one long slurping sound.
Ally collapsed onto her beach towel. For a moment, the beach was silent. Tessa’s friends, like everyone else on the beach, were transfixed by the eclipse to notice the weird science it was creating with Ally and Tessa.
Ally’s oversized hoody shrank and morphed into what could generously be called a bikini top, her old worn jeans turning into a matching bottom. Her skin started to glow with a golden tan.
Her body changed next, becoming curved, sculpted, with legs long and lean, breasts fuller, and a tighter waist. Her lips tingled as they plumped up, becoming instantly kissable.
She felt the heat of her new body. The strength. The power. And something else. Memories.
Not just Tessa’s. Not just Ally’s. Hers. A lifetime of being both. The hours spent stargazing and dreaming of more, followed by the day she decided to stop hiding and instead to start taking. She remembered being mocked… and then making them afraid to try. She remembered being invisible and then impossible to ignore.
These weren’t the memories of Ally or Tessa, but of someone new. The name came out of the ether and became as natural to as breathing. She was Alyssa. She had always been Alyssa. The bitch, the babe, the queen bee. Every dork’s nightmare and every guy’s wet dream.
She looked at her French manicure and rolled her hands over her body, feeling it as though she always had it. She was going to enjoy being the alpha from now on.
One of the girls turned around to see where Tessa had disappeared to but finding only a new beauty in her place. However after a moment the name Tessa seemed foreign to her, like it was someone she knew in a past life. “Alyssa? You okay?”

Alyssa tilted her head, letting the sun’s returning light gleam off her perfect physique. “Never better babes.”
They other girls looked at her for a long moment, as the new reality settled in their minds. Then they smiled and gravitated towards their leader, gaming over her.
“Oh my God, Alyssa, you have to tell me where you bought your bikini.” One said.
“Totes, you look banging babe.” Another added.
“Wait till the guys see you.” The last sycophant said but Alyssa ate it all up.
Alyssa smirked. “Well, let’s not keep them waiting.”
She walked away, hips swaying, the queen of a world rewritten by the eclipse, leaving behind the broken telescope, now half buried in the sand. A relic from another life, a life she was about to totally eclipse.

197 notes
·
View notes
Note
*PUSHES THE DISCOURSE OUT* Okay! I just wanted to talk about this bit of the story because I hardly see anyone giving it attention.
Remember there was this whole segment in BY 5, where it talked about the Soul Jams? It fascinated me of how it talked about the two halves shouldn't be united, since everything would perish because of the union. One could assume that it meant to emphasize the point that the Beasts should not get the other half of the Soul Jam, bu after the latest BY episodes, with the whole thing about PV and SM soul merging (no matter how brief it was), it feels like there could be more to the poem now.
Maybe it's my shipping brain making me delusional, but I feel like the poem might become applicaple in some way for the rest of the Beasts and Ancients later on in the story. I would absolutely go wild to see GC and BS soul merge-
Don't worry, I'm equally as delusional lmaoooooo and also, you have a point. As the Beast-Yeast storyline goes on, I feel like they're diving deeper into the truth of the Beasts and Ancients' dynamic: they're not just generic enemies, they're literal soulmates. Two halves of a whole. They want and need each other, they ARE each other in some ways, for better or worse. They went full mask-off with PV and SM but imo you see it in the other pairs and their episodes as well.
With the commentary in ep 5 about how the Soul Jams shouldn't reunite, I really think it's the more baseline thing of "if they reunite, BS will be unstoppable and evil wins". Eps 7 and 8 reveal the truth of the matter for ALL the pairs imo, not just PV and SM, which is that they belong together, it is actual, literal destiny, they are nothing without each other and define each other's lives and the virtues/vices they uphold. What is Truth without Deceit? What is Abundance without Destruction? These things simply cannot be, unless they are together. (BS himself even acknowledges it in one of his leaked affection lines: "You see, a world of Abundance can only be built on the ruins of the past". He admits that Abundance needs Destruction. That Golden Cheese needs him. And he needs her.)
I've said this before but I can honestly talk about the BurningCheese dynamic for SOOOOO long. They drive me insane. There's so much to dissect and analyze about them, but no one will do it except for me 😭 Look:

They even have their own "in the end, you will become me" moment 😭 their relationship is just as deep as PV and SM's, you guys... Please, I can't be the only one who sees and knows this......
(also... Dude. I would have KILLED to see them merge souls like PV and SM did. CAN YOU IMAGINE. BS already demonstrated that he cares about HER, not the Soul Jam, not really (he had it in his hands and he DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT. He just went "meh whatever this was supposed to happen" and then started whining and fussing about wanting to see GC again). Can you fucking imagine if they followed through with the line shown above and had GC give in to destruction, like how PV gave in to deceit? If GC had her own "corrupted" skin, like Truthless Recluse? I dare you to tell me BS wouldn't have been excited as all hell if she submitted to him like that. He was horny af throughout their fight, he would've busted a nut on the spot if that happened 😂 the concept has been haunting me since ep 8, I would've died happy if there had been a BurningCheese soul merge, God I need to learn to draw properly so I can bring that shit to life myself-)
#i know PV was technically pulling a fast one on SM when he “corrupted” and agreed to merge but even so#sigh... BurningCheese my beloved... save me BurningCheese...#guys... swap au costumes for BS and GC... just like PV and SM... please... please I'm dying...#beast x ancient makes me so ill... so so ill#cookie run kingdom#burning spice cookie#golden cheese cookie#burningcheese#goldenspice#merchant asks
88 notes
·
View notes
Text

“My name is Jack Marston - you knew my father.”
Hell’s Comin’ with Me - Poor Man’s Poison
#I know it’s missing his bandolier but the file corrupted and merged all my layers and I really don’t feel like fixing it#anyways. red dead is motivating my to try and learn how to draw humans!#so that’s fun :D#red dead#red dead redemption#rdr#red dead redemption spoilers#rdr spoilers#rdr1 spoilers#red dead redemption 1#red dead redemption 1 spoilers#jack marston#adult jack marston#1914 jack marston#john Marston
108 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Happy Halfsies!
A sequence I drew of Fayne and MadartRaven's OC Laezel! Half-fusion! Fayne was just standing there thinking no thoughts like he usually does, when the promiscuous boy-lusting Laezel decided to have some fun with him! After splitting herself in half, she merged one of her halves with Fayne! Now Fayne's mind is half-full of some extremely lewd thoughts... but he's completely unaware anything's changed, since his mind is half made up that absolutely nothing is wrong! This is a unique idea I had awhile ago, although I can't remember what inspired it. Still, it was a lot of fun to draw! Check out MadartRaven's wonderful art here: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/madartraven/
If you like the art I make and you want to support me to help create more of it, please consider joining my Patreon at www.patreon.com/FanterFane or my Subscribestar at https://subscribestar.adult/fanterfane for all of these benefits and more! - Access to the Patreon-only section of my discord server! - Complete art previews weeks or months before it's publicly posted! - Early sketches of most of the things I'm working on! (Discord Server Exclusive) - Vote in Semi-monthly Patreon-only polls! - Make requests on Semi-Monthly Patreon Request Streams! - Commission discounts based on your tier! - And my eternal gratitude! Alternatively, if Patreon isn't your style, you can also support me via a tip on ko-fi.com/fanterfane, or paypal.me/orwellian or by subscribing on fanterfane.fanbox.cc!
#fusion#merging#agglutination#takeover#skinsuit#livingsuit#mtf#ftm#possession#possessed#corruption#transformation#tf#tsf#tg#tgtf#mindcontrol#hypnosis#bodycontrol
27 notes
·
View notes
Text
man i wish i have a tree. and it should look like this:
20 notes
·
View notes
Text
sitting with myself thinking about kyle… yeah i think it’d be funny to give her a haunting npc game mechanic,
#. // ♡ 🌱 txt#kyle the host#for context those out of the loop: kyle is vani’s mom#who is dead in the current timeline of the story#which originally i was just thinking ‘yeah she’s just dead. her presence just haunts & dooms the narrative’#but as i kept thinking about her i got too attached#she’s too fun in a chic esoteric way#the idea of her ‘ghost(?)’ haunting that helps the pc in tough situations#but also damns them by giving them crumbs regarding auriga & the cult & adding to world corruption#and the idea of choosing to follow kyle’s ‘ghost’ can either mark the pc as a new sacrifice target for the cult#or doom them to dying in the same spot kyle died in ( the waterfall )#which if you’re wondering: hey basil how is kyle connected to the occult of this town?#spoilers for my next art post for those who read#kyle was very much a target of the cult who was slowly merging / becoming a mew body host for the IW#before she yknow. got killed. by vani’s dad.#but before her death she was very sweet!! and motherly!! and patient with everyone!!#she sometimes would say odd shit that she should not know about but she was a sweetheart!!!#tho back to mechanics#i need to think of the restrictions#cause it would make no sense if ANYONE can see her#cause i feel like her death would be less devastating if eden and bailey could just… SEE HER GHOST#but i’ll figure it out later
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
I finally did a bunch of Monster drawings like I’ve been wanting to but forgetting to







And I learned of Smol Monster. Excuse me who is this little dude man
Also did I ever share my concept for unmasked B-Side Redux Skid and Pump

#After learning what Monster looks like (as one does while drawing y’know)#It’s funny to me how he’s like. kinda chubby in a way?#And I love how he looks like he’s wearing a shirt or something (which he IS in sr pelo doodles)#And um <insert point about his fruit head>#Basically he reminds me of Pump and Smol Monster is a merge made in heaven#friday night funkin#fnf#fnf mods#fnf monster#fnf minus#fnf b side#fnf d sides#fnf hellbeats#fnf hellbeats corruption#fnf smol monster#fnf skid and pump#Oh boy that’s a paragraph of tags
52 notes
·
View notes
Text
Helping Hands
This is a sequel to my previous story 'A Helping Hand'. I hadn't planned on making a sequel but it seemed to be a hit and there were a lot of votes for who the biggest bitch was so it made sense that the winner would get a story of their own. Enjoy!
It had only been a week since Chad had accidentally turned into Chantelle, a bitchy gorgeous brat, but it had been enough time for her to cement her place as the Queen bee. She had beauty and ambition and was intent on getting what she wanted.

It had helped that the former most popular girl of school, his ex-girlfriend Millie was now a shell of herself. It was bad enough that her beauty had made Chad into Chantelle, but the cherry on top was that she couldn't help but be infatuated with what a bitch Chantelle was thanks to the main person responsible for this whole mess, Maddy.
Maddy had only wanted to become Chad's perfect woman, his equal but instead the magic spell she had gotten had backfired and made Chad into his own perfect woman. Chantelle was a force to be reckoned with.
Every hallway she strutted down felt like a runway, her high heels clicking with an authority that echoed through the school. Her new body, a perfect blend of seductive curves and striking features, drew every eye and silenced every whisper. Chad had used his strength as his weapon but Chantelle used her beauty to get what she wanted.
Millie and Maddy were now Chantelle's loyal simps, dedicated to doing anything she asked. However most of that involved debasing themselves in public for Chantelle's enjoyment. Millie's old friends had at first watched in horror as their former cheerleading head embarrassed herself day after day but they were soon corrupted to Chantelle's side and took pleasure in watching Millie play the fool.

"We can't keep going on like this." Maddy said one day to Millie while Chantelle was off fucking one of the football players.
"Keep it down, you don't want her to hear do you?" Millie replied with a whisper.
"That's the god damn problem! I do want her to hear. I want her to punish me. I want her to call me names and pull my hair! I'm so infatuated with her and I can't help it." Maddy said frustrated.
"I know. Trust me." Millie said, having the same desires. Suddenly the door burst open and Chantelle strutted in. Her hair slightly askew because of the sex she was coming from but still looking like a million dollars.

"Millie, lick the cum out of my pussy at once! I have a hot date tonight with Derek and I want my clit to sparkle." Chantelle commanded and Millie dutifully crawled over to her mistress' open legs and began to lick as Maddy watched on jealously.
"Well don't just stand there loser, come her and rub my tits." Chantelle growled at Maddy who quickly leapt to her feet. Chantelle was in ecstasy.
However, as the weeks passed, the thrill of her absolute power began to wane. The excitement of watching Millie and Maddy do anything she commanded was no longer enough. She had practically fucked every guy in school now and had every other girl in the palm of her hand. Chantelle craved a new challenge, something to stir her jaded heart.
That's when she made Maddy tell her about magic. Maddy after all had bought the spell that had made Chantelle in the first place, surely there could be some magic out there that could fulfil her new needs. Chantelle herself wouldn't bother herself with delving into the dark arts, no that's what a lacky was for.
"I found something. This spell… it's supposed to create a worthy adversary for you." Maddy said coming back days later, with a magic book in hand.
Chantelle raised an eyebrow at Maddy. While this wasn't what she had in mind, a wicked idea began to sprout. Snatching the book from Maddy's hands, she flipped through the pages, making note of certain spells.

"This will do perfectly. Millie! Come here at once!" Chantelle yelled. Millie ran in quickly from another room and stood next to Maddy obediently.
"Girls I have a gift for you two. With this spellbook I will create a link from you to your bitchy selves in another reality. Realities where each of you is the apex predator. It's hard to believe I know, but I am going to siphon their power directly to you, creating formidable adversaries for me at last." Chantelle smirked as the two girls looked at each with a mixture of hope and worry.
Chantelle's fingers traced the ancient symbols on the page as she began chanting the incantation. The room filled with a strange, pulsating energy, and the air crackled with a dark magical force.
A vortex of light and shadow enveloped Maddy and Millie, lifting them off their feet. They felt a surge of power flow through them, a raw, unfiltered strength that was both exhilarating and terrifying. Their eyes glowed with a new intensity, their bodies vibrating with the energy of their alternate selves.
Memories of their alternate selves flooded their minds. They were ruthless and cruel, beautiful and sexy. They were matched by no other, just the way they liked it.

Chantelle watched with satisfaction as the spell took hold, her lips curling into a triumphant smile as the bodies of the two girls began to change. Their breasts heaved out, their lips plumped up. Even though they were floating in the air, their posture took on an undeniable bitchy stance.
As the changes slowed, they lowered back to the ground. They radiated confidence and power, their former meekness replaced by an air of dominance. They were now Madison and Amelia.
"Welcome girls, together we are going to have a lot of fun." Chantelle purred. Madison and Amelia however looked at Chantelle with disdain.
"We don't have to do shit for you anymore bitch. In fact Amelia, how about we teach this slut a few lessons." Madison said with a grin towards her new bitchy bestie.
"Couldn't agree more babe." Amelia replied, stepping forward with an intimidating presence.

Chantelle smirked, unphased by their rebellion. "I expected as much." She said, opening the spellbook once more. Quickly flipping to the earmarked page, she began chanting a new spell, her voice steady and commanding. The air grew heavy with magic, and a strange force began to pull at Madison and Amelia.
"What the hell is this?" Madison exclaimed, struggling against the invisible pull.
"Chantelle what are you doing?!" Amelia cried out, trying to resist the force dragging her towards Chantelle.
Chantelle cackled evilly, her eyes gleaming with malice. "Did you really think I wanted two bitches to challenge me? No, I just wanted two evil bitches to add to my power." She taunted as Madison and Amelia were pulled closer, despite their desperate struggles. The moment they made contact, their bodies were absorbed into Chantelle's with a slurping sound.
Chantelle groaned out in pleasure as she felt herself changing, becoming even more beautiful, strong, and powerful. Her already impressive tits grew into two enormous breasts that were barely being held in my her clothes.

He facial features took on sharper more defined lines, accenting not only her beauty but her intensity. She knew in an instant that she would strike fear into all that looked upon her. Her skin glowed with an ethereal radiance as she felt the combined power of her adversaries enhancing her own abilities.
Chantelle stood tall, her transformation complete. She looked down at her hands, flexing her fingers and feeling the immense power coursing through her veins. She was now an unstoppable force, a true goddess among mortals. With a wicked smile, she whispered to herself. "Let the real fun begin."

#f2f#corruption#bitchification#magic#evil bitch#power transfer#corrupted merge#cc2024#helpinghands#helpinghand
193 notes
·
View notes
Text
would you believe me if I said this was the first time I've drawn Corrupt Merged Zamasu without some kind of self-imposed restriction
#goldic's drawings#vegito#corrupt merged zamasu#I even did a second sketch digitally over my first one to make sure I got his proportions PERFECT to the best of my ability#cuz MAN do I hate the model they gave him in sparking zero#he is BIG and UGLY and THaT is THe ENtiRE POINT#the goop didn't turn out how i wanted it to but i guess it works for now#idk feels weird straight up painting on the canvas. it contrasts so hard with my usual style#i also redesigned GSU vegito a little bit but you can't really see it under zamasu's giant goop hand#might fuck around with vegito's outfit colors more later. i just can't seem to find something i like#it doesn't feel like a proper fused outfit if that makes any sense#if it wasn't obvious i suck at drawing liquidy things#whatever. go my fusions
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
oh, right, i should probably. post those whiteboard doodles from a few days ago
the numbers near them are the order i drew them in, the first 3 being warm-ups (and yes, every word written around the 5th zamasu doodle is totally necessary); it was fun 💛
#goldic's drawings#zamasu#goku black#merged zamasu#corrupt merged zamasu#lucario#goldic (oc)#Zuka: Saiyan of Yardrat#fuck it that's zuka's tag now#everything except zuka was drawn from memory in the spur of the moment btw#had to pull up my own art for zuka but yeahh#goldic's messy sketches#I *guess* these count as sketches...#i totally didn't mean to go into character while doodling zamasu~ writing made-up quotes and stuff around him#i just couldn't help myself he's consumed my soul at this point#also sixsix if you're reading this i'd love to doodle with you again sometime!#even if my art looks like chibis compared to yours#there's not much i can do about that. everything/everyone i draw is inflicted with terminal cuteness 💔#no matter how cool i try to make something there's always at least one person that thinks it's cute#goldic's all-digital doodles#i guess the good thing about it is that it makes the things I draw cute on purpose extra effective
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
the more i think about s.otm's place in the timeline the more i feel genuinely insane. this isn't even me having beef with putting the m.imic and e.dwin in the games i like the concept in theory but the narrative execution is already... such a choice. if it's 1979 the company should not be the huge corporate entity that it becomes. the huge factory, details that we associate with the modern branding, canonizing an entire crew's worth of deaths before the first springlock accident and murder... i'm simply not into how that would undermine both its start as a tiny restaurant chain and the narrative weight of the earliest tragedies.
#it's haunting me 1979 is haunting me WHHHYYYY#honestly we'll see if we even get anything else that points to that beside the one frame in the initial teaser because ???#i love steel wool f.azbear they really capture the modern corrupt company vibe but a lot of those details being in s.otm doesnt work for me#put it in the 90s or something. it would be so easy. or even do it that early and SEPARATE the factory from fazbear#later implying that they merged eventually...#i think the books are fine i think implementing book stuff is fine *i also think the narratives are fundamentally separate at times and to#combine them you have to consider changing details to accomodate what already exists in the games rather than retconning everything*#i KNOW it's a mess but like. it's FIXABLE. IT'S FIXABLE I CAN FIX I-#anyway. f.naf moment over im normal again FDSGVHKBJSJ#⁂ ・゚: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc
1 note
·
View note
Text
i am TRYING to make something for sgrb’s anniversary but the canvas is literally posessed
#this drawing was literally the first time ever ive seen a layer get corrupted in clip studio#luckily i screenshotted it#BUT THEN I MERGED THE LINEART WITH THE SKETCH ORZ#AND BECAUSE ITS A SCREENSHOT I CANT BRIGHTNESS IT BECAUSE IT LEAVES AN OBVIOUS SQUARE#AUGH#worf opens their big mouth
3 notes
·
View notes
Text


MAR10 Day today, here’s Dr. Jumpman’s face reveal
head changes color based on the active element she wields for her chemistry attacks [ex: red = fire, yellow = electric], eyes are lighter in color but retain the elemental coding previously mentioned, and head bubbles/boils like Fuzzies
extra roughs:

#super mario#detective dynoraptor#oc#super mario oc#my art#giulia jumpman#what happens when one dunks in radioactive soda#this is inspired by the glitch in 3D Land where Mario’s face got corrupted by his cosmic clone merging onto him at the goal flag
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
was just prompted to consider what would drive my kind ocs to selfishness only to realize i don't have any kind ocs... at least none that started off nice and became mean...
like i have sort of "villain" ocs and ones who push others away and then they recover and move to the beach but like... no...sorry :))
#my ocs <3#ocs#like i even have a child oc#(who started as a sona)#but she was possessed/corrupted by/merged with an ancient divinity#and the church was so proud of her but she hated them for letting this happen#and then she destroyed and remade the world#:))
1 note
·
View note
Text
it took pax a week ( ref ) to reach haven after leli..ana asked for his help because he was munching on templars along the way and helping the apostates who were simply trying to reach redcliffe. she wanted him there at the conclave but, considering how it turned out, him getting distracted saved him. could you imagine if he had gotten the mark? oh, it wouldn’t have been him.
#❪ ⋅ ✹ ⋆ —┊ ❛ ooc. ❜ ❫#( could you imagine hunger in charge of a religious cult )#( i made a post about this but hhhh It Having The Strength To Merge With Pax Fully )#( whatever was left of pax is so corrupted…..it’s as if he’s simply gone )#( but now hunger has a true Intelligence )#( & political power )#( uhhhggggggg )#( idk if it’d even fight Cory lmao )
0 notes
Text
I think what bothers me most about how John is talked about in the fandom is the implication that a different (implied: better) person would've done things differently and somehow more right than he did.
When the text goes to lengths to explore how suddenly coming into an incredible amount of power in a fatally constrained situation cannot lead to a good outcome.
If you're putting John in dialogue with the concept of the "magical girl", which Muir has said he is (a little tongue in cheek, but)--these are young, often profoundly unready people, who often get taken advantage of by the people who give them their powers. And like, yes, John is not a teenager, but I think that's part of the point, is that at no point is a person really prepared to become as powerful as he did--even before he merged with Alecto. Even when he was fully in control of his powers, even when they were given with honest intent and trust, even when he used them with the best of intentions and tried to do the right thing, there was no way for him to be prepared, especially given the situation he was in.
And it's funny to talk about how bad John must be in bed, but also, this isn't a scenario where John is some self-deluding Elon Musk-like villain or loser. He is genuinely trying to do the right thing, in terms of rescuing the Earth's population, rescuing the Earth Herself, and doing it ethically (see: M--'s insistence that they perfect the cryo containers until they could transport pregnant women).
I really do think this is something people are blocking out, because it is one of the uncomfortable parts of Muir's message with the series. But ESPECIALLY because the people "critiquing" him as an embodiment of patriarchy and empire are failing to see that part of Muir's critique is of human vulnerability to power: That is, that power corrupts.
And this even has echoes with Gideon & Harrow's story! Harrow begins the series in a deeply unequal dynamic with Gideon! And she does horrible things, not just because she is traumatized, but because she is traumatized and has the power to act her desires out on Gideon. She might have the motive (trauma), but that's not enough without the means (power).
And, yeah, I do have a semi-salty angle on this because people are frequently loath to think critically not just about axes of oppression but individual relationships of power when it applies to them and to people they like. ESPECIALLY when there is a very vocal segment of the fandom that is enthusiastically pro-harassment. It's very convenient to villainize John and actively dis-identify with him, because otherwise, you'd have to face the question of whether you'd do any better in his place. But the thing is, the mission of revenge he embarks on is a lot closer to many peoples' hearts than they'd like to consider.
That's the whole point.
#the locked tomb#john gaius#tlt meta#and let's be real--this is made easier by the fact that john is a man#given who the author is that's a meaningful choice. but it's not an uncomplicated one either
3K notes
·
View notes