My TSC bingo card includes lots of angst, emo Jean, PTSD, "I have no idea who I am", Jean crying on the beach at night and me crying and losing my shit while I read everything.
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January 12th 2020 - March 20th 2023
Fan art for the start and fan art for the end of the show.
Thank you for rekindling my love for animation and stories
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THE SUNSHINE COURT SPOILERS!!!!!
Imagine how much it'll hurt Kevin when he realizes
a) How much Jean treasured that one bear magnet Kevin got him and
b) The fact that the ravens destroyed it just because Jean treasured it
He sees the shattered halves of it and he can't help but think that he never gave Jean a single thing that didn't become a weapon turned against Jean.
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Jean Valjean’s issues as a parent are so sad and complicated? Because unlike in adaptations, in the book he’s not abusive at all, and has a deep horror at the idea of taking away Cosette’s freedom/agency. But at the same time—
Jean Valjean is a deeply lonely person who relies on a single young child to fill all of his loneliness. He loves Cosette, and she loves him, but he turns that mutual love into his only reason to live. He relies on his daughter to be the Sole Thing That Gives His Life Meaning. He’s utterly desperate for family and companionship and he throws all of that desperation onto Cosette.
He is sweet, loving, gentle, kind, and willing to support Cosette in whatever choices she makes, and to give her the freedom to do whatever she wants. But if she uses her freedom to choose a life outside of the little world he’s built for her…. he will allow her to make that choice, but he’ll do it while spiraling into self-destructive loneliness and despair.
He refuses to communicate honestly with his daughter about his traumatic past or her own, instead papering over uncomfortable truths with polite nothings. He doesn’t tell her things she has the right to know, under the pretext of protecting her, but more to protect himself and his own feelings.
He is a traumatized person who (as a result of his utter isolation) unintentionally puts his young daughter into the role of his caretaker— so that this 15-year-old-girl has to struggle to help her father through severe PTSD symptoms and self-destructive behaviors that he does not explain and that she has no way to understand.
It’s such a complicated, difficult relationship with no easy answers. Jean Valjean and Cosette genuinely love each other, and take care of each other, and their relationship saves both of their lives— but their relationship is also still flawed and unhealthy, in so many painful nuanced ways that are hard to actually solve.
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