#it’s time to project on your favorite fictional characters o’clock folks

[forestmossling]

there’s one thing that i find incredibly unrealistic about robin’s canon (and fanon tbh) characterization. you’re telling me this girl speaks three languages fluently (excluding pig latin) and she never ever slips into any of them?? the only line in another language we ever get from her is “flambé”??

like, i fluently speak one foreign language, can more or less communicate in another and am in the process of learning a third, and i call bullshit. as a person who constantly struggles to articulate a point in my native language without using english words or phrases (and literally all people i know that are fluent in foreign languages are the same way) i do NOT believe that robin doesn’t just sometimes bluescreen because there’s a phrase in one of the languages she knows that would perfectly express what she wants to say that just doesn’t have an equivalent in english, but she can’t use it because nobody will understand her. or that she never subconsciously literally translates a phrase from another language in english because it’s so natural to her at this point that she just forgets words don’t collocate in english like that or there’s no such saying in english and steve just blinks at her and goes “yeah, literally nobody says that”.

and she’s a RAMBLER. it’s canon that she can’t control what comes out of her mouth half the time and you’re telling me she doesn’t unknowingly sprinkle in words and expressions in literally THREE FOREIGN LANGUAGES SHE’S FLUENT IN when she gets nervous or goes on a rant???????

and her just casually messing up the prepositions she uses with verbs from the models she learnt in other languages and the others understanding her perfectly but sensing there’s something wrong with the way she speaks without being able to pinpoint exactly what it is would just be so funny to see.

and just imagine her teaching steve some fun words that they use constantly like their own little secret code. the POSSIBILITIES. the POTENTIAL. because one of the coolest things about learning foreign languages, especially with other people, is being able to casually throw around phrases and words nobody else understands.

anyway, thank you for listening to my ted talk-

[forestmossling]

when i was younger (and i don’t mean like “a literal child” younger, i used to do this up until i was like 16) i used to go around barefoot all the time. literally. i would walk around my yard barefoot, i would walk my dog barefoot (i lived in private sector at that point so there weren’t as many people around on the street), i even walked barefoot in the center of my town a couple of times. when i went to summer camps i would just go around barefoot for a whole month straight (in the beginning the counselors tried to stop or reprimand me but at some point they just accepted it as i thing i did).

and i really think that eddie would be like that too. he would definitely walk around barefoot all the time when he was younger because shoes felt weird sometimes and he would like feeling the ground, the grass, the asphalt under his feet. and wayne would be really worried about it at first, but then it would become another “eddie thing” for him and he would just sigh and tell him to be careful and watch where he steps. and at some point, as he grew older, eddie would stop, but i can imagine him showing up to school with no shoes on at some point and just walking around the school barefoot the whole day for the chaos. and he would still sometimes do that around trailer park when he’s alone.