#makes sense since she's arguably the sanest

[thenightwolf51]

What if Jack and Maddie Fenton were actually Jack and Janet Drake?

The Drakes are their actual identities but they created the Fentons as a why of letting loose, of getting to be their truest most unhinged selves and pursue their true passion without the eyes of high society Gotham judging them.

Whenever the Drakes are supposedly out of the country on archeological digs they are actually in a little no where town in the midwest.

The Drake wealth is perfectly capable of funding their experiments and prototypes and every now and then they do show up to a dig for a week or too, but the Fentons are who they truly are.

So of course Gotham never finds out about Janet's first pregnancy and little Jasmine is welcomed into the world as an Amity Park Fenton, not a Gotham Drake. Janet's second pregnancy however.

Well as i said, the Fentons are who they truly are at their most unhinged and unfiltered. And upon finding out that their having a set of identical twins, well, can you really blame them for passing up this perfect opportunity to test Nature vs. Nurture.

One boy would be a wealthy Drake raised as an only child in a hostile city, the other would be a Fenton raised with his older sister in a peaceful small town.

That's what they decide and thats what they do, and everything is as cannon goes. Tim doesn't know that his parents "archeological digs" are really an excuse to spend most of their time as the Fentons, and Danny and Jazz don't know that the longer "ghost conventions" are an excuse to handle Drake affairs and check on their unknown brother.

At least until things start to get complicated.

(Im not sure if Maddie fakes Janet's death or if she really dies, and if Jack's coma is fake or real and he lost his Fenton memories. Or maybe the death and coma dont happen at all and the truth comes out some other way like Danny finding the Nature vs. Nurture notes or a school trip to gotham or maybe Jazz desides to go to college in Gotham and it comes out that way somehow.

This obviously works best as a "bad parents Jack and maddie" though how bad they are can be entirely up to you. Maybe everything comes out sometime after a "reveal gone right" and Danny and Jazz think their parents are getting better only to be smacked in the face by the betrayal of "secret billionaire parents who essentially abandoned their brother"

Dont know but im tossing it to the void.

To me the most important scenes in this idea is Tim angst at the fact that his parents were never actually too busy to be there for him and had instead chosen no to be there, the somewhat bitter consolation of learning that even when their parents were physically there they still weren't there there for his siblings, and then some good ole slightly unhinged sibling bonding.

Maybe the measuring of ecto contamination and debate in if their parents presence did more damageto their health or less

They honestly might be tied on mental and physical scars. All three kids tend to come with headcanons about neglect and malnourishment)

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[nawaazishein]

Broken but beautiful (2018)

“Broken but beautiful” (ALTBalaji) is the story of Veer, a guy who lost his wife to a car accident four years ago, and Sameera, who cannot accept the fact that her relationship of five years ended. A year ago. Their tracks are connected through Kartik, Veer’s cousin and Sameera’s ex-boyfriend. The show revolves around how both refuse to let go of their past, how it effects their present, and how they manage to break out of that with the help of one another. [Spoilers from here on] It’s one of the oldest stories in the book, boy meets girl, they help each other get over toxic periods in their life, possibly fall in love, life is beautiful, done. There’s nothing mind-blowingly new about this concept, but that’s fine, the trailer didn’t promise anything else. I was hoping for a couple of hours of shallow entertainment and nothing more, however I was still disappointed. Let’s start with the main characters. Veer blames himself for his wife’s death in a car accident because he didn’t make sure she put on a seatbelt (ok??) and has been living a very self-destructive and secluded life ever since. He copes by sleeping with anything with a heartbeat and talking to his dead wife. You’d think he should see a shrink but he really still is the sanest of them all. Sameera’s the one to really takes the cake. When Kartik and Veer first call her “psycho stalker ex” I thought that was a tad bit exaggerated but boy, it was not. She is so obsessed with Kartik and their relationship that she behaves like a brainless dummy for 10 out of 11 episodes. Girl, please google “Stockholm Syndrome” when you find the time. She sits in a cab in front of his house and just stares at it for hours, drops everything at the blink of an eye when he calls only to get stood up or looked in an almari, basically makes a fool of herself at every chance given. These two meet because Veer moved into Kartik and Sameera’s old apartment without her knowing and she walks in on him working on another notch on the bedpost while she’s actually looking for Kartik. Kartik is undoubtedly a dick ‘cause he sold the house and got right of all her shit without telling her – including the dog, which a couple of episodes later turns out to have hidden in Veer’s bathroom and he didn’t notice?? Veer is done with Sameera’s shit right from the start, as are her friends and I cannot blame any of them, wants her missing signature for the purchase of the house and be done. That’s where things, or rather the timeline gets weird. The scenes are not shown in chronological order but rather jump from their first meeting to a fake relationship to make Kartik jealous to “I think I love Veer” confession in front of the whole family back to the fake relationship, which is super confusing. It took me a couple of episodes to understand that they were going back and forth in the first place, and up until episode 9 or 10 to figure out the actual progression of their storyline within the universe. It makes absolutely no sense for them to tell this story that away, and if it’s just a creative choice, theek hai, but then it’s very badly done. The first nine episodes are spent with this back and forth while Sameera continues to be an annoying psycho, stalking her ex, and Veer wants her to leave him alone. Special shoutout to him when he loses it after having to save her from being locked in Kartik’s almari and when he yells at her, wanting to know if this is some weird bimbo fetish she’s into or just a mental issue. I was cheering for him a bit there, ngl. In episode ten, all of a sudden, both realize that they’re attracted to one another. Actually Sameera goes so far as to call it love on the spot and instantly goes from projecting the need for affection from Kartik onto Veer. She even says so herself and for a second I have hopes she wasn’t asleep jab akkal baanth rahi thi.

The show ends with Veer defaming any kind of positive feeling towards Sam in front of his friends, her hearing that, the inevitable heartbreak, both of them milkar delivering his friend’s baby, that event changing their outlook on everything for whatever reason, Veer realizing he does have the hots for her, Sam forgiving Veer and realizing she’s a strong independent woman that needs no man. If you’re like “Wtf, where did this all come from all of a sudden?” that makes two of us. What the first nine episode might arguably lack in progress and speed – they don’t imo but when you only have 11 episodes to work with… - the last two episodes try to make up for and fail. The only thing making it a tiny bit worth watching, and the reason for me suffering through it, was Massey. He was great as usual. His acting has got a certain rawness to it, which makes his characters so much more real and believable by proxy, and he was the perfect fit for Veer. He was, as expected tbh, the saving grace of this whole entire show. Can’t say too much about Harleen because this is the first thing I’ve seen her in and I really hope the director made her put on the blank, somewhat spaced out expression she walked around with 95% of the time rather than it being her style of acting. To sum it up: The whole thing was just plain… bad. Awful. The concept was not developed enough, the writing made it worse and the actors couldn’t “outact” that. Whoever’s responsible for this probably thought exactly what I did minutes before handing in a half-assed uni-assignment, “Ah, fuck it, I can’t be bothered anymore.” and that’s exactly what comes across on screen.