#i don't have much on jake since i've only read like. two of the mk comics and he only showed up for 2 mins in the last episode

[erosire]

I GENUINELY JUST FORGET WTF. i swore i wrote moon knight. either way uhhhhhhh marc

LMAO that's alright. but okay, major spoiler warnings here we go

i won't give away much—if anything—about his childhood because,,,reasons, but what i WILL say is that if i were there at the time he would have become less of a sopping wet sad little man. not that i love him any less but you can tell he's been thru the ringer, it's all in his eyes. have i mentioned them before cause like??? they're so deep brown. i bet that when the sun hits them just right they look like pools of honey, and ik for a fact he's not getting enough sleep cause he always looks exhausted⁠—either from his hitman work, being konshu's avatar or trying to keep steven out of the loop by rearranging his apartment to look like nothing's out of place.

it keeps me up at night actually. marc already had so much on his plate, especially following his divorce with layla and his mother's passing, but even though he wouldn't admit to caring about steven, he still did everything in his power to make it all seem like a dream⁠—from the sand around his bed to locking himself back in the ankle restraint, re-applying the tape on the door and feeding gus.

now MAYBE i'm looking a little too much into it, but i like to think that this is marc apologizing for using steven as a stress ball when he was younger. marc gives steven a change at having a normal life through the impression that steven's battle with insomnia, blacking out for multiple days and missing a chance and finding love was a mercy compared to putting him in danger with marc's work as a superhero. which,,yk. it wasn't. in the end i think it hurt more to be lied to about his identity AND his mother for most of his life, but that's an entirely different thing that i would be more than willing to talk abt if you want.

you can already guess how i feel abt marc's appearance, the man is built like a greek god and i wanna thread my fingers through his curls and mold my lips to the shape of his face, but ion wanna get ahead of myself 😁

personality wise?? i'd trust him with my drink at a bar. obviously, he's become cold and callous over the years from having to do work he hates, and cutting people out of the narrative (which, good for him, since they were negative influences) but he still cares deeply for those who have stuck by him and offered a hand even after denying it so many times and swearing he doesn't need help. and ik what you're gonna say "ooh larkin that's so cliche, is he good with children too?" yk what, i bet he fucking is, and i'd have his kids if he wanted them, so there. despite everything, marc manages to be empathetic, especially when steven found out they were sharing a body and first experienced what it was like sitting on the sidelines while marc fronted, talking him through his anxiety before ultimately losing his temper and smashing the mirror they communicated through, which when i try to imagine how steven felt after that...i'm starting to get emotional over here, buh

SPEAKING OF, he only lost his temper because steven was saying things about him that marc had grown to tell himself after k/lling all those people. even if it was his job, and even if he was doing it to protect others, the guilt still gripped him, and it must have hurt even worse seeing and hearing a version of himself that (unknowingly) worked to protect him, suddenly turn around and call him a monster.

also konshu. he really took "mansplain, manipulate, manslaughter" seriously and gaslit marc into staying as his avatar by convincing him that if he backed out, he'd take his wife as his new avatar and set her up for a world of regret. i can't stand him. he's also a dramatic mf, but i'm getting sidetracked.

#um. i could say more probably. #i have so many thoughts on steven that are just eating away at everything else. #i don't have much on jake since i've only read like. two of the mk comics and he only showed up for 2 mins in the last episode #but i appreciate him v much and would gladly share everything i have on him. #also in case you're confused. marc has DID and steven and jake are the product of this

[xenonmoon]

A (totally not) brief consideration on the earliest Moon Knight comics

I've got roughly 8 issues left and I've finished the original Moench's run from the 80s. I'm enjoying it so far.

It's amusing seeing MK's lore build up and evolve issue after issue, especially the whole Marc-Steven-Jake business.

At first they seemed to be intended as merely fake identities, like he was playing parts to get specific tasks done (i.e. gathering intel). Other characters called him "schizo", since Back Then people loved using that word as a blanket term for everything and especially having multiple personalities, but always jokingly so.

Then it evolved into a sort of Lost-In-Character situation and became more and more ambiguous whether the "others" really existed or were just something he believed in a bit too much.

I don't think Dough Moench thought about it thoroughly when he first introduced the concept and figured it out on the go, but always tried to keep it fairly ambiguous.

Then this guy Steven Grant arrived while the main team was on vacation.

This madman decided to write an entire story from Steven's POV (and I mean, I would've done the same for the sake of the lulz if they'd commission me a story where one of the characters had my exact name and surname) and made it irrefutably clear Steven, Marc and Jake not only existed as separated entities but had their own opinions and say in what was going on.

(yes, in the last one they were talking shit about Marc)

While I didn't mind at all the ambiguity I loved this little insight on the MK system's inner world.

This Steve returned for another short (that I know, I've only read until #30 after all) and guess what?

He introduced the concept of the others manifesting as ghosts and talking / interacting with whoever's in control (Steven in this case) and the environment.

I'm bloody sure this concept survived through the ages since I've seen it in newer runs I've read (like the 2014 run and some from the Black, White and Blood series).

So this guy stormed in there with his own headcanons for the series and fucking decided to make them canon, establishing MK's lore one (or better, two) steps forward along the long road towards the modern interpretation of the character as having DID opposed to simply being ambiguously delusional.

Respect.

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