Can Someone Give Me $100,000 I Won't Pay You Back

Man, I need that Dorohedoro Season 2 like stat

Jason Todd’s (post crisis) early time with Bruce is a really interesting time period especially when you look at the fandom’s response to canon.

Most people familiar with this bit of Comic history will tell you Jason was really good with academics and really invested in school and would be super involved in extra curriculars if he could, especially theater. And I don’t disagree but I would argue that this period of Jason’s life was a period of post traumatic thriving and that toward the end of his tenure as Robin, the C-PTSD he’d acquired throughout his childhood was catching up with him.

Like that thing with Filipe? His responses to the kiddie porn ring they ended up dealing with? The whole situation with Nocturna. The way he behaved in these situations it’s clear he’s been destabilized.

The role that at first seemed to be helping Jason is doing the exact opposite by forcing him into situations where he’s flooded with triggering stimulus in an uncontrolled environment which shoves him back into the trauma of his past. And Bruce is grappling with that. Because this worked for him. It worked for Dick. But he and Dick had singular traumatic experiences. Jason’s had an entire childhood of one trauma stacked on top of the other. Bruce has no idea how to handle him.

But I would argue further, that even if Bruce had not made Jason Robin. Even if Bruce wasn’t Batman and he brought Jason in just to give him a home, the trauma would have caught up once Jason felt safe. Because that’s what trauma does.

I don’t think Jason would be able to get a full ride to college. I think he’d start high school strong, then get wrapped in his trauma, graduate with a c-d average, take a few gap years, go back to community college and then get into the college of his dreams. Because education is really important to him, that much is clear, but trauma doesn’t just let go of you because you had a few good years.

Post Traumatic Thriving is not the same thing as recovery and it only lasts so long. Once that period is over, suddenly doing all the things you could then is a monumental, Sisyphean task. And I think it would eat Jason up even more because as the neglected kid, he’s good at things. He’s more competent than even his parents. His inability must be laziness. What’s wrong with him? Which I believe would start a spiral of self loathing that would take years to climb back out of, leaving him ‘behind’ in life. Forcing him to enter college late. Forcing him, ultimately, to realize he’s not in control of himself and undermining the sense of security he had once he moved into the manor.

Trauma isn’t neat. Even if Jason had never died, had never been Robin, his life still would have been messy and if he had managed to get that full ride, he’d have ended up loosing control in college and flunking out. Which would probably be worse. Like… let’s not reduce the difficulty that is living with so much bad shit on you slate, all this fucking baggage.

Let’s not flatten Jason into the Good Kid, the Good Student, the Valedictorian. It’s just as bad as flattening him into the Bad Kid, the Bad Student, the Street Rat.

Hard lives don’t just suddenly turn easy because you catch a few lucky breaks.

New sketch book

Same stupid boy kissers

hc that kris can only emote with their eyes (which the player can’t see)

also, it’s real fucked up how we show Kris at the end of snowgrave that no matter how much we let them call out and scream, we’re the ones holding power to ACT not them

c!ranboo: hello!!! i just learned what a gender is!! what’s your gender buddy!! what are your pronouns?? :D

dreamXD: my fucking what

John yayyyy

"Hunter isn't trying hard enough to be redeemed"

"He betrayed Amity 2 times"

"Hunter still needs help but not from Amity".

Hmm...I DISAGREE!!

So about Hunter "Not trying hard enough", he actually did try,2 times to be exact, and guess what happened those 2 times...

And not only that but the fact that he opened up to Luz in "Hunting Palismen"

Only for her to share his identity to the world! And not only that, she called him a "bad but sad boi" and now Eda's teasing him! (Not to mention he's a coven head so if someone knew they'll-)(What happens if rumors got out of Hunter using wild magic? Belos don’t kil-)

Imagine trusting someone, and then realizing they wanna be your friend, and you now have a friend! And then that friend goes out to share ALL YOUR SECRETS TO ALL OF HER 10 CLOSEST FRIENDS! (That was not what Luz was trying to do but that's likely to be what Hunter was thinking) Won't you, have some trust issues after that?

I've already explained the manipulation scene, but I'll say it here anyway.

"Come back with results or else...you can figure out the rest" -Hunter (Eclipse lake)

"Come back with results or else...we're done" -Amity (Eclipse lake)

That red arrow CLEARLY means turn back

Those 2 charts mean results cuz you put results on a chart

And the bat and the sad cat means Luz (aka, the bat) leaving Amity (aka, the cat)

And who would think of just spinning it around right? Hunter doesn't know "Human culture". He was most likely projecting himself onto Amity without knowing it.

And finally...

Why didn't he accept Amity's offer?

First thing, he did accept it (or want to) but then he saw the key, and ooohohoho, all those thoughts just went straight away. Why?

Option A (for Amity), is just a chance game (This is Hunter's perspective btw) he could choose it just for the CHANCE of maybe finding someone that would actually care for him. Since Amity said, quote:

"But there are people out there that won't make you feel worthless, you just...have to let yourself met them."

(So Hunter needs to wait until he can find someone like that?)

Or...

Option B (for Belos), get the key, there's a 100% chance he will be happy. Belos cares for him. And if he just gives Belos the key then and there, there won't be any waiting needed! Belos is right there and he loves him!

And option A (Amity) has some flaws too, The Owl Lady absolutely hates him, and (as shown in the earlier scenes) ignores him even when he tried to help her! Luz hates him now for trying to steal the Paslismen, and she just called him a "Bad but sad boy". They even teased him about his lack of magic! And he only met them for like an hour. Plus, all the good interactions with them are only like- three minutes or at MOST 15 minutes (cuz of interruptions like Kikimora and the key).

Meanwhile...

Belos on the other hand loves him! He's important to Belos, and unlike the others, Belos would never say anything about him being "Powerless". Even though he IS still hungry for eye drops and Hunter does have some...But Belos adopted him, and he's been living his whole life with Belos. Why would he chose The owl gang after Belos has cared him for all his life and they- just insult him and say some words of encouragement? And he doesn't even know why Belos is dangerous (and is planning to harvest his teeth to the Titian! (joke)).

And it is hard (saying from personal experience), Very hard, to cut off an abusive person- it's just not that that easy as, POW, done. And even more so in Hunter's case since he's a "Powerless witch" and could never survive on his own/without a home. (Have you seen how DANGEROUS this place is? The fairies can eat your skin! Hunter "no magik boi" won't stand a chance!).

And he also acted out of instinct, (aka Golden guard side) and he wasn't thinking properly since he just had a mental breakdown and was using the things that he's known before (aka teleportation, the hand...not to mention he was using a different staff but was so desperate he somehow knew how to use it-), I mean seriously- Hunter you could have just levitated it away!

Conclusion:

Someone needs to give him some good interactions (for a few hours at least) and teach him about how bad Belos is. And Eda needs to stop bullying Hunter, because (According to Newton's law) you can only push at something as much as it can resist your push, so in the end, you'll have this barely supported Hunter that just moves out of the way when the actually good interactions come. (And most of the owl crew probably doesn't even know that Belos is manipulating Hunter and thinks that Hunter is the guy that's being bad)

So if these kinds of bad interactions continue, Hunter may never be redeemed...(Unless if Rascal comes in but...there's Belos(Honestly that bird is the only thing that's keeping him happy and is the only good relationship he ever had!))(Not to mention, Belos is also the only other good relationship he had) because if he thinks that "friends" are only meant to hurt him and make him sad...he won't want any friends. And if these continue, we'll lose Hunter, and all we'll have left is a brainwashed and Belosy Golden guard...

And I'm scared that that's what gonna happen since most of the owl crew probably doesn't even know that Belos is manipulating Hunter and thinks that Hunter is the guy that's being bad...and Hunter's gonna think that they're bad ones, until it's too late...

Can I get a round of reblogs? Cuz I spent like, 3 days on this...

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