#first of all you've got mizu/jopson:

[boogiewoogieweeb]

I'm not saying The Terror in general and Joplittle specifically have definitively given me permanent brain rot but I am finding it funny that I'm picking up parallels and similarities with both in a series as far removed from it as Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai

#first of all you've got mizu/jopson: #black-haired blue-eyed hyper-competent people from poor backgrounds with a missing/awol father and an addiction-addled mother #both are considered weird-looking (mizu in-universe and jopson in fandom) and are usually aloof but can be witty funny and charming #both also have complicated emotionally-fraught relationships with a big red-haired irishman who serves as a pseudo father figure #oh OH and they both have severe abandoment issues and guilt-related trauma #then there's taigen/little - they're both cringe-fail dudes who suck at leadership but are good men at heart and #who are kind and loyal to a fault and will not suffer injustices done to others #they also both come from a place of privilege in contrast with mizu/tom and are good-looking well-bred men in positions of prestige/power #ned also contrasts with mikiyo (mizu's husband) bc of the whole stoic gentlemanly horse boy aesthetic #akemi is both hickey AND jfj in reverse but nobody is ready for that level of discourse so I'll just file it away to gnaw on later #then there's the whole colonial/imperialist narrative and the kind of damage such systems do even unto the smallest of scales #and how the colonial mindset is in and of itself usually its own downfall bc c'mon mizu also shares parallels with silna AND tuunbaq #just like mizu is both the samurai AND the onryo and she will be the very downfall of the colonizers who caused her to appear #AND also the sir john/shogun parallel of hubris coming back to literally bite you in the ass #i.e. sir john disregarding danger for imperialist vanity and gloryhounding vs. the shogun's imperialist mindset and greed #leading to him dying by a colonizer's hand #y'all I'm am experiencing fandom in the nth dimension right now but maybe that's just hunger and/or low blood sugar talking #idk man idk I'm seeing patterns I'm connecting dots #rant post #joplittle (adjacent) #the terror... sort of