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No no you don't understand. It's not about Jason being always right or the person who suffered the most. It's that he's a victim's power fantasy. It's that he's fundamentally changed. The tragedy of Jason Todd is that he was the best goddamn kid - he was kind and thoughtful and smart and passionate and caring - and that that was taken advantage of, and that's what got him killed. It's that he can't ever be that kid again because his trauma is all consuming and yet he has used that to create a new identity where he is in control. That trauma defines him. It also leaves him frozen, incapable of true character development, makes it so he can never cross that gap between him and Bruce. He cannot separate being Bruce's son from being Robin, and therefore if he is not Robin, he is not Bruce's son. He cannot move on from being a victim, not ever, and therefore he is always going to be representative of victimhood being utilized for something else. When the anger consumes you and you mourn your past self because you can never be that person again. When it's the happy memories that hurt the most. That's where his narrative is the most powerful. It would be so satisfying on a certain level to see him grow past that. But he would no longer serve his purpose, not in challenging Bruce, and not in representing that need to empower yourself after the worst thing that ever happened to you.
Inside every broken teenager, there's an innocent child who witnessed the terrors of the world too early.
If itβs Mother Hawthorne, Jem will leave zero mercy if he even still has any, what she did to Matthew was already the first strike
Kaz's thoughts on Wylan be like. He's only useful as leverage. He's great at demo. He sucks at demo. He's terrible at being a criminal. He thinks like a lockpick. He is weak. He is like a younger brother. I see myself in him. He is insufferable. I wish I never met him. I want him to succeed. He's a liability. He is genius. I can trust him to do his job. I don't care about his shortcomings. I want to hit him. I am his mentor. He is nothing to me. He is too naive to survive. I will destroy his father's life and hand him the fortune. Understand??
youre his ex bc he'd rather break up than figure out how to ask if youre a werewolf, im the old love haunting him from countries away bc he cant forgive me for what I did, we are not the same
jem believes in reincarnation, that means every time someone does something explicitly Herondale-like, every time a blue eyed and dark haired boy smirks amusedly, every time someone flinches away from ducks at a park, every time someone recites terrible poetry but uses beautiful words and every time someone fights tooth and nail for their friends jem sees bits of his once-parabatai and probably wonders if he's looking at the soul he once binded with his own.
βOh, no, I thought I saw Jace for a minute, but it wasnβt him.β
THIS IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY.
*wheezing*
round tom and triangular jerry on their way to help the shadowhunters with their bullshit:
CC seeing us freaking out after todayβs installment
18 | she/her | can't live without books | TSC is gonna be the end of me
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