Mask being too full of teenage angst to say how much he loves and appreciates Wars vs. Wars knowing Mask loves him and being unafraid to tell the kid that because he knows all Mask needs is love and stability VS. TIME REALIZING LATER HOW MUCH WARS DID FOR HIM AND FEELING LIKE HE HAS TO PAY HIM BACK FOR EVERYTHING VS. WARRIORS NOT KNOWING HOW TO ACCEPT SOMEONE ELSE TAKING CARE OF HIM BECAUSE HE’S NOT USED TO IT VS.
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one of my favorite teenchester dynamics is 18 year old Dean who SHOULD be by all standards the cool hot popular aloof older brother but in reality he’s very socially awkward and somewhat friendless and on top of all that is just completely and totally down bad for his brother in every possible way. He wants to hang out with Sam all the time and hear his opinion on things and wants Sam to think he’s cool because he’s so used to being worshipped by Sam up to this point. but now Sam’s 14 and he’s secretly battling all these new feelings that he thinks Dean could never POSSIBLY reciprocate and he’s also starting to become his own person with his own life and independence and if hes deep down honest with himself he sometimes wants, just for a second, to be out from under Big Brother’s thumb. And all that gets SO mixed up in him and he has no idea how to handle it so he just gets brutally mean and ignores Dean at all costs and always makes excuses for why he can’t hang out with him. which then turns Dean into this like pathetic little baby who’s soooo hurt that Sammy doesn’t like him anymore but also embarrassed by how badly he needs his little brother’s approval when it should be the other way around
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i have been obsessing over this extremely short moment post-sunshot campaign for weeks now trying to put together a lengthier post about it, but i think the screenshots themselves arranged chronologically speak for themselves. so i will just post them and then talk about the framing, because i’m insane about it.
just about everyone else on this side of the banquet hall within the scorching sun palace is looking towards jin guangshan as he speaks—everyone except for:
1) jin guangyao, who is staring straight ahead with a startlingly flat and resigned expression on his face, despite being seated in a position of honour beside his brother, and
2) nie huaisang, who is obviously TRYING to pay attention, but his attention keeps wandering between looking at nie mingjue, and looking at jin guangyao
(also he gets no further commentary/acknowledgement from me but look at jin zixun back there just lounging in his seat like a smug spoiled brat. ugh. step on legos forever jin zixun.)
the camera shifts its focus while jgs keeps talking to zero in on jgy’s expression. this deliberately highlights and provides us the chance to see his expression in more detail. and it is so hard to discern what he is feeling specifically beyond “not great,” but what stands out for me is: he isn’t wearing his usual polite, customer service mask, the one he managed to keep in place both during the introductory sequence at the cloud recesses in the face of so much mockery from the jiang sect disciples.
so what is that expression? what is going on in his head that he can’t play the part that he’s perfect for years now, when he has supposedly almost achieved everything he ever dreamed of accomplishing for himself and his mother? i mean, i have my suspicions of course, because we know what is going to happen very soon.
and then—
—the focus of this scene changes, drawing our attention away from jin guangyao towards nie huaisang where he’s seated just behind nie mingjue. because nie huaisang is not paying attention to jgs’s speech or watching his da-ge. unlike everyone else in this banquet hall in this moment, nie huaisang is looking at jin guangyao, observing him in this moment where his polite mien has failed him, and god what i wouldn’t give to know what is going through his head!! because:
1) i don’t for a moment believe nmj told nhs the details of what transpired between him and jgy during their confrontation in the scorching sun palace. i don’t think he did this as a favour to jgy or to lxc, either. imo this decision would be consistent with nmj shutting down any discussion of what caused him to exile meng yao from the unclean realm back in… uhhh, episode 10?? when nhs, wwx and jc all converge in the unclean realm throne room to ask about meng yao’s fate. (yeah it was episode 10.) anyway for all we know this is the first time nhs has seen his old body guard/babysitter since he watched meng yao totter feebly into the wild blue yonder all those months ago, and now here he is seated in a place of honour between jin zixuan and his da-ge, looking perhaps even more miserable than he did while bleeding from a giant sword wound in his chest. it is entirely consistent with nhs’s character to be like ‘???? what is up with this??’ but not even he is bold enough to ask jgy what is up in the middle of this banquet, not with da-ge right there.
2) his expression is ALSO harder to read than it would have been when they were last together!! but there are clearly gears and cogs shifting and ticking and whirring behind his eyes, and the fact that the framing calls attention to nhs noticing jgy in this moment when it’s quite clear no one else does is one of many hints the show is dropping for us that nhs is more than just a lackadaisical and absent-minded second son. he notices things that no one else does—but, as with jgy, we are left to guessing as to what he is thinking, and what conclusions he is drawing.
well okay it looks like i managed to write a lot of words down about this after all!! go me.
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one really fun thing to think about with gordonverse shit is serious stoic traumatized scientist gordon prime looking at loud neurotic complainer hlvrai gordon and being like. oh so he got carried through black mesa? and he didnt even deal with half of xen? he never got frozen in time and lost his whole world? and hes complaining about going to a birthday party??
like damn this idiot is constantly whining but his dumbass dimension didnt have to deal with the combine 😐<-internally shaking with resentment
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i just. love qpac and qcellbit and their weird complex relationships. like when I hear celltw i think of cannibalism and the prison and all the fucked up implications of just. everything that went on there. when i hear pacbit i think of cellbit telling pac e mike that he loves them and that he’s no longer cell and that that monster died, and cellbit telling pac after the happy pills arc that he’s not alone anymore and he’s a hero, and them raising a kid together and joking about their past. like. it’s insane that one character can change so fuckijg much that two different ship names can make me think of two completely different dynamics, even though cell and cellbit are the same exact character in different points in time and celltw and pacbit are essentially the same ship
LIKE cellbit has changed so much but pac has stayed more or less the same and i just wonder what the hell cellbit must look like from his eyes. yk. how one person can change so much that your entire relationship has flipped on its head and now you’re family but you still find yourself scared of who he used to be sometimes regardless of how he’s changed. the duality of these fucking guys. i’m going to eat the floorboards
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