#and Preston being introduced and how his sanity started slipping from loneliness right after bruce and silver st. cloud broke up?

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god i love the clayfaces, this just makes me want to do a massive reread of them all...

#and Preston being introduced and how his sanity started slipping from loneliness right after bruce and silver st. cloud broke up? #being a twisted and morphed mirror to himself—the only difference being preston is lonely and touch starved by force #instead of by choice? and that he wears his loneliness on his sleeve in such an obvious way (his literal clay face...) while bruce also #wears his in such an obvious way (bc what is the cowl but symbolism for the scared and lonely little boy bruce will always be in some way?) #chef's kiss #and basil karlo was hot. i think in a better weirder timeline he and alfred fuck nasty. maybe they still do. #(<- in a more real analysis thing i think he can be an interesting insight on pop culture as a whole and the obsession for internal beauty #since he was denied his role because he was too old/using the putty to morph his face and fit the ever changing demands of hollywood #can be an eery similarity to the consistency of plastic surgery and dangerous cosmetic surgeries (like cryolipolysis) #if you're known for your youth and beauty—what happens when it goes away? who are you afterwards? what desperation do you have to keep it?) #also the 2nd clayface was a thing. we dont speak much of him hes just some guy named matt.