#wolfgang bogdanow

[danburys]

@pscentral​ event 26: minimalism isolated above, connected below

[duladobepeeping]

The story lines at the beginning of Sense8 for each character are honestly insane…

Nomi - trapped in the hospital against her will with a potential brain condition and her transphobic family

Riley - witnessed a drug robbery and then watches people get shot as she’s being tortured by previously robbed drug dealer

Capheus - trying to fight the local mafia so that he can afford AIDS drugs for his mom

Sun - being forced by her family to take the fall for her brothers illegal actions and sent to prison

Lito - hiding his gayness from the public because if they found out he would lose everything in his life

Kala - culturally pushed into a relationship she does not want to be in with an in-law family that does not respect her or her religion

Wolfgang - fighting against the criminals he was raised with and trying to show them he is better than them and the father that beat him

Will - is a cop

[where-our-stories-start]

[eleftherian]

sometimes a family is just...

1. a rogue ex-cop 

2. a traumatized DJ

3. a bus driver turned political hero

4. a polyamorous scientist 

5. a trans hacker

6. a diamond thief who punches real hard

7. a gay actor whos really in love with his professor bf 

8. and obvs a disgraced business woman out for blood

[kiekiecarrera]

sense8 meme -  [10/10] scenes

"Bring it, bitch!”

[laufire]

whispers pulling the “I know you’re not going to harm us, will, it’s not in you, you’re not a killer” card only for him to go “lucky for me one of my besties is :)” before a wild wolfgang appears ready to crash into a helicopter if necessary is one of the best moments in the show. wolfgang brings a real “always down to go on a righteous murder spree even if it ends me” energy into the group project and everyone loves it.

[zanephillips]

Max Riemelt in Sense8 1x06 “Demons”

[priestessofcreation]

So Wolfgang from Sense8 was a complicated dude because the sheer brutality of the murder of his whole family is pretty terrifying… I mean, his father, his uncle, his cousin and that whole lot.

But the thing is, he is like the Punisher in the fact he kills when he feels he has to. You have to understand, I am more of a Batman/Daredevil/Avatar Aang morality set.

However, Wolfgang only killed these people because they were actual fucking monsters and it was literally a matter of “kill or be killed.” From his dad to his whole fucking family on his father’s side. And he only did it when Felix was almost taken from this earth. So he has a moral code for all of this (when he really just wants to be a master thief and NO MORE).

However, Wolfgang has serious problems with his ability to hurt people without any hesitation and now that I think of it, perhaps the writing is supposed to reflect that. You are SUPPOSED to have major problems with what he did because he did too, which if that is the case, then A+ writing.

And then we get to see who he is outside of all of that and he is really just a protector. But he grew up in Berlin’s gang scene and it is such a backwards culture that when he kills his whole fucking family, the other crime families want to make him king of the fucking city and Wolfgang wants NOTHING to do with it because these motherfuckers don’t seem to get that Wolfgang killed his whole family for the same reason he never engaged in his family’s crime shit directly to begin with - HE WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE.

And then there is Kala.

He keeps pushing her away but she is the best thing that ever happened to him and with her, his heart is wide open. She is a woman of duty, devotion, faith, science, family, and fierceness. She has everything he doesn’t and yet she is still trapped. She is not her true self, except around him. Sexually, she is selective and he is liberal. Generally, she grew up in a family that does everything the right way and he grew up in a family that does everything the wrong way. Neither one is happy. He liberates her and she brings safety to him. She loves him so much but he sees himself as the monsters he grew up with. He will destroy her like he destroys everything else.

Except he won’t destroy her. She heals him with every touch and look and word and kiss. If anything, she’s the hidden force that might blow everything up because she has all this repressed talent and rage and need for freedom. And he brings that out in her. She makes a bomb for him while he is burning him family to the ground, I mean 🤣

Wolfgang is not a monster. He grew up with monsters who only respond to monstrous things. What he did was extreme, but his family is not his family. They are his enemies. If they were not his blood, it might not be viewed as brutal.

I mean, they took Felix. WHO IS HIS FAMILY.

And Kala grew up with a loving (albeit hyper-traditional) family. And one of the things she does is heal him with the love of her family she has had all her life.

Wolfgang hates what he has to do. He hates that he earns respect of the whole city through killing. He hates that what he is initial skillset in the cluster is killing!

However, he needs to reframe that. He is also good at espionage, thievery, stealth, and strategy. Killing may be part of the skillset, but he can work with Will on repriotizing the mortality of his skillset and he can work with Sun to bring a sense of honor to his fighting style. He doesn’t need to be a monster. He just needs DESPERATELY to get out of the environment where the focus is on the brutality he can demonstrate.

The fact that Wolfgang has a problem with it (even if it in the form of self-loathing) goes to show you he is already ahead of the curb. He just needs to realize it is cultural more than his own nature.

Now go see Kala, Wolfgang. YOU DESERVE HAPPINESS AND YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON.

[gendergeezer]

mentally i’m here

[khruschevshoe]

Since sense8 is trending, I would just like to point out that I'm pretty sure the very first step in developing the beloved characters we all know and love today was literally just the wachowskis pulling out a white board and going "how do we put together the queerest heist team of all time?"

Seriously, look:

Getaway Driver: Capheus

Martial artist: Sun

Hacker: Nomi

Grifter: Lito

Hitter, Law Enforcement: Will

Hitter, Criminal With A Heart of Gold: Wolfgang

Chemicals/Demolitions: Kala

Translator/Infiltrator Who Knows Everyone In A Situation: Riley

Mastermind: They're Literally All Sharing The One Brain Cell

(Bonus:

Optimistic Newbie With Stubborn Streak: Amanita

Funding/Moneybags: Rajan

Plucky Best Friend/Lockpick: Felix

Veteran Hacker: Bug

Artsy Scholar/Love Interest: Hernando

Grifter/Criminal With A Heart of Gold pt. 2: Daniela

Love Interest, Defecting From Law Enforcement Addition: Mun)

[sharpesjoy]

SENSE8 | Happy F*cking New Year (2.01)

[podemechamardek]

It’s so silly to wish characters a happy birth- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY FAVORITE CLUSTER!

[lydiaas]

Sense8 S01 E12: I Can’t Leave Her

[myhyperfixationisiforgot]

It would have been so easy to make Wolfgang Bogdanow into this unfeeling ruthless monster who ~learns to love~ through the cluster. Sense8 could have tried to play Wolfgang off as a sins of thy father man, could have made a story out of dangling power in his face and running with the temptation to take it.

And then they don't.

He's violent and ruthless and angry and the show still goes out of its way to say that he looks like his mom! When bad things happen he thinks about his fucking mom!

He doesn't think of Felix as the sidekick because Wolfgang sees himself as another underdog and views Felix accordingly. His issues are rooted in his status as the eternal victim who can never get far enough away and it's all because he loves people so so so much.

Everyone keeps trying to see him as the up-and-comer and it never works because Wolfgang absolutely does not think of himself like that. He couldn't care less about building his own empire so long as the people who hurt his family are dead.

[throuple-tournament]

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[kiekiecarrera]

sense8 meme - [6/9] friendships > wolfgang x felix

He’s my brother. And not by something as accidental as blood, by something much stronger. By choice.