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#this is why his immortal verse is so intriguing to me too. because it condenses this into his character in a way that he is Very Aware of
guttersniper · 1 month
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mutt’s story could easily belong to a kid from fifty years ago. a hundred. two hundred. so on and so forth. there have always been kids that get bad hands, fall through the cracks, and that have to fight tooth and nail for everything. that get continuously fucked over by a system that refuses to acknowledge them—that they rally against because what else is there for them to do and wouldn’t you? that says it’s so much easier to treat them horribly because they aren’t some perfect paragon of Who’s Deserving Of Our Compassion, ie theyre a delinquent with a bad attitude therefore we don’t have to help them. we like to think child labor and child soldiers are things of the past, but they’re not. far from it. and that’s why, i think, it’s so easy for me to be like “okay mutt is in x era now because that’s when your muse is from” without changing much of his character. there will always be the mutts of the world.
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