you guys remember that episode in season 5 when dirk opens up about his true feelings regarding the universe? yeah? me too.
This is my first time attempting a full background, and I’m ever so slightly proud of how it turned out, all things considered.
Description in Alt, including dialogue for those who can’t decipher my horrible handwriting.
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How to make a show I will love:
1. Take a guy who has alienated everyone he cares about with his lies, who is afraid to even try putting things right so he just shovels more lies on top of them and acts cynical to everyone. He is convinced he can never be more than a total jerk and a failure.
2. Give him a huge falling out with his violence-loving sibling, who responds by joining a six-person team that fights against him. Both he and his sibling should blame him entirely for the falling out, but it should be obvious that some of the problem is his sibling’s refusal to accept any apologies. Oh, and give the sibling lightning powers.
3. Take another guy who was kidnapped by a shadowy government organization and brainwashed for most of his life. Make him radiate toxic optimism as a shield against the obvious guilt and trauma.
4. Force them together to solve mysteries involving time travel, much to the first guy’s annoyance and the second guy’s joy.
5. Make their best friend a woman who can kick anyone’s ass, but who is still allowed to be emotional. She starts the show wanting to be the perfect soldier, but ends up making her own path.
6. The titular character needs a narrative parallel in the form of a feral woman who has been raised entirely outside society. Her only real skillset is killing people, and she has negative social skills. Do not feminize her at all. She is going to be insane, violent, and dangerous. Her biggest dream is to find a new reality where she can just be a happy nobody.
7. Give her that dream, then make her watch it all fall to pieces. Have her blame herself for it, abandon that dream world, and return to the chaos.
8. The first season needs to be about free will vs. determinism, and taking control of your own narrative. The second guy should help the first guy find a way to atone for his past mistakes. It ends on a cliffhanger where the first guy does the hard work to be honest and vulnerable for the first time, but he ends up even worse off than before. He still chooses to commit to doing the right thing in spite of it all.
9. The second season starts with the first guy frantically searching for the second guy. When he finds him, the second guy is having a complete nervous breakdown because his toxic optimism has stopped being effective against the trauma and guilt. Now, the first guy has to turn the tables and be the one to help the second guy come to terms with his own past and take control of his own narrative.
10. Add a frat boy villain who represents the shadowy government organization. He has to be the dumbest human being alive, a total asshole, and have mental breakdowns every episode. He eventually betrays his older mentor for his own self-interest, and begrudgingly helps the protagonists defeat the shadowy government. He is still an asshole.
11. Throw in a lovable, hyperactive tech genius who is more interested in solving the puzzles than in the moral implications of his actions.
And boom! Instant classic.
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headcanon: in blackwing, bart never let anyone brush her hair because she didn’t like the feeling, the tugging and tediousness, and no one could force her — because she's bart. in order to manage her hair somehow, they would shave it off every month, keeping it in a short buzzcut; the only person ever able to get close enough to do that was osmund priest. the low buzzing and the steady hand movements were one of their older brother & little sister rituals. she never cared for looks, so she took it fine, but the adults cringed (only a little bit, because they never cared for bart) at how it made her look even more like a prisoner than the others.
after getting out she stopped having it cut, mainly because it's a hassle and she can't be bothered; she hasn't done it once in all of sixteen years since. sometimes, when she finds a knot in her hair big enough to be annoying, she cuts it out with the nearest sharp object, and that's why the hair hasn't gotten past her shoulders in length.
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It’ll always be you, won’t it? Time and time and time again
[ID: Digital drawing in a cartoony art stylle of Todd and Dirk. They’re despicted in full body and hold hands while looking at each other. Todd, to the left, holds an air gun up and smiles fondly at Dirk, his eyes are blue and he is white with short brown hair. He wears a striped hoodie in light blue and white, dark blue jeans with ripped knees and black sneakers, and he has black earrings and black nail polish on. Dirk has his eyes closed and smiles at Todd while holding a magnifying glass, he is white with short slightly red brown hair and he has yellow nailpolish on. He wears a yellow leather jacket over a button up with a pink tie with a cookie cat print, brown jeans with a black belt and brown dress shoes. A light yellow square is behind them and there is red string looping around the whole illustration, each end tied to their pinkie fingers.]
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Farah + 27 <3<3
The strange silence
Surrounding me
Grows closer
Feels colder
27. Black Water - Of Monsters and Men
anon im so sorry it took me like 2 months to get around to this 😥
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