#until he succeeds that is

[myoonmii]

I think the downright most horrific and brutal detail in the show is that Kilgharrah actually used Merlin to make sure Arthur's death happened with the pretence of protecting him

#kilgharrah when i catch you #this is why merlins “ i failed? ” destroyed me to my core #you were never supposed to succeed love #I honestly believe Kilgharrah knew Arthur was supposed to die at Camlaan and just wanted to make sure he didn't die BEFORE that #thats why he was like ooh but Merlin you must protect him and make sure he survives ( until its the convenient time) #and merlin genuinely thought he could protect Arthur until the end #say what you want about Kilgharrah and what his intentions might be behind this but this is SO FOUL #and now Merlins waiting for Arthurs return for a thousand years on Kilgharrah's word alone because thats the only hope he has #what else can he do #lets just hope he's right this time #bummed my self out with this thought while doing my class work #merlin #bbc merlin #merthur #cannot take much more of this guys send help

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #122

Peter is always reluctant to let Tony buy him things. It's a point that they argue about constantly (not in an angst way, but not in a joking way either). Every time Tony tries to spend money on him, Peter struggles to accept it and argues that it's too much. Especially when it's for something he just wants rather than needs.

One day, after trying and failing to get Peter to accept some gift, Tony finally gets him to see his side like this:

Tony: What if you had $100, and you saw someone who was hungry and you could just buy them a meal. Wouldn't you do it?

Peter: Well yeah, but-

Tony: What you had $1000 and your best friend Ted was cold and you could just buy him a coat. Even a $400 coat. It'd keep him warm every winter for years. Wouldn't you?

Peter: Yes-

Tony: If you had infinite money and you could just get May jewelry she wanted or just get MJ the art supplies she'd been saving for-

Peter: Okay, yes, I get it

Tony: Kid, you'd spend your last dollar on a stranger. I couldn't spend all of my money in a lifetime if I tried. And I've tried. If you had the kind of money I do, you'd be spending it on everyone you love, all the time. Can't you let me do the same?

#irondad fic ideas #bonus if this is a 5+1 #irondad and spiderson #iron dad and spider son #tony stark #peter parker #peter: haha yeah I can't even imagine having that much money honestly that's crazy. kinda good that's not something I need to worry about #tony: ....should I tell him? #may: nah. wait till he's done with college #reader- tony did not succeed in keeping the heir secret until peter was done with college #legend says the shrieking could be heard from the penthouse of stark tower all the way to the ground floor #ironfam #iron man #spider man

[kawaiichibiart]

I need more fics of Zuko working at a teashop with Iroh (be it Pao's (iirc) or the Jasmine Dragon) but he's just really fucking short. Because can you imagine, be it Jet, Katara, anyone who's met Zuko (either as Zuko or as Li) stumbles into the teashop, makes a scene and comes off as a bad guy because they bullied this little boy?

I think I've read just one fanfic where this was a thing and I need more people to adopt the idea.

I just think it'd be funny if Katara tried to do what Jet did (let's say this happened a few days prior to Azula capturing Ba Sing Se), left because she realized no one believed her, returned later with the rest of the Gaang, Sokka tried backing her claim, he ALSO gets reprimanded for making stuff up about a little boy, and meanwhile this is all happening Aang and Toph are having a delightful time with their new friend "Li." Should they do something? Maybe. Will they? Nah, anyways Li what tea would you recommend?

#zuko #katara #aang #jet #sokka #toph #li from the tea shop #atla #i love the idea of zuko just accepting his new role as a child (you are one honey but whatever) #and using it to get out of trouble with people who recognize him #''how dare you say such things about mushi's nephew?'' #''the audacity of some of you; you're older than he is you should know better than bully a child!'' #''li is such a darling i wish he'd smile more and maybe he would if SOMEONE didn't make him feel uncomfortable.'' #etc. etc. etc. #of the gaang i think toph would be the one to go with it #know her friends are saying the truth #and just straight up deny what they're saying #she knows that this little boy is her friends enemy (and hers but like they haven't fought so is he really?) #but it's so much more amusing to see katara and sokka scramble to get support #she's not sure where aang stands until she hears him try to befriend ''li'' #bonus points to aang if he succeeds (like actually succeeds)

[thatgirlonstage]

Holds Natsuki Subaru in my hands

#re:zero #tal reads #I have. my current super loose overarching theory is #that in some grander Fate’s Design sense this boy is SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD #I don’t know WHY but I think he’s not supposed to survive #and that whatever Satella did with the return by death thing was basically a like #glitch in the universe that forces it to keep retrying until it finds the one (1) reality where he survives #you know your dr strange ‘in how many realities do we win’ ‘just one’ type thing #my WILDLY speculative theory about this is that there was another whole timeline that Subaru has forgotten #and that the entire story is a time travel/resurrection spell to save him gone wonky as hell #where the universe knows he isn’t supposed to be alive so IT KEEPS TRYING TO KILL HIM #but every time it succeeds it has to reset and let him try again #I HAVE VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE FOR THIS. TO BE CLEAR. #like I have a LITTLE but it is 92% just me Making Shit Up that sounds vaguely possible #but. regardless. my theory is that it’s not Like This just bc subaru sucks #it’s like this bc the game is rigged both for and against him simultaneously #so he’s gonna survive but it’s gonna suck the WHOLE time

[applegreenrunnerbean]

modern au!Rimmer is a consummate fanny pack bumbag wearer but not for fashion reasons but because it's practical and he Hates that they've become fashionable now. Lister starts wearing a cross body one and Rimmer has to be stopped from burning it.

#the Cat hates bumbags out right (thinks they're ugly) so he is also trying to burn Lister's bumbag #Rimmer and the Cat meet in the middle of the night sneaking into Lister's room to steal it and are like *spiderman pointing meme* #they succeed and Lister's like where has my bumbag gone guys? #and they both feign ignorance in a way that is completely suspicious #Lister just buys another one #he refuses to give in #its war for like a month until something new comes up #Red Dwarf #Rimmer #Lister

[martyrbat]

driver's seat — dc holiday special (2017)

(ID in alt!)

#AHHH SO MUCH HERE !!! #WHY IS HE LIKE THIS !!!!! #gift giving and acts of service as a love language.... #which isnt a shock. afterall hes superman. everything he does everything he goves to the world—hope and peace and someone protecting it—is #acts done out of love and adoration for the planet. even earlier in the comic him hiding the jetpack and WANTING that man to succeed and ge #proper income from his invention. acts of service on a larger than life scale but also.... hes still a kansas boy and just doing little #things that matter just as much as the big ones. cooking for her. moving and rearranging furniture until shes happy. unpacking. cleaning. #carrying her when exhausted. spellchecking but never rewriting or rephrasing her work.... #like from him saving the world from destruction to giving bruce kryptonite in an act of trust to just hugging her and letting her cry #just his love language always is through those acts of service before anything else #lois loving her shitty old car.... do you think she and bruce bond over it. the polycule lover in my head says yes. #the basketball seat cover... #the john mayer.... #clark flying her across the sunrise painted sky and humming to replace the radio #and that adoring gaze he gives her that speaks more than words ever could.... #hes such a sap and a loser i hate him :( #c: dc holiday special (2017) #crypt's panels #posts from the crypt #transcrypts #superman #clark kent #lois lane #clois

[echo-delta]

Thinking about this poster

And this poster

And how they're inverses of each other.

In the first movie, (as often quoted), Miles isn't falling, he's rising. He's offset from all of New York, but that's not the focus. It's dynamic. It's fun. It's believing in yourself when no one else does, and the exhilaration of pushing yourself beyond what even you think you can do.

In the ATSV poster, Miles is offset from every single other spider-person. We see their faces. They're a group and Miles is not a part of it. In the bottom third of the poster, we see the NYC skyline in the white space. It's an inverse of the first poster.

But this isn't exhilarating, it's solemn. It's still a leap of faith, but in the sense of doing what you think is right, even if everyone disagrees with you. It's still believing in yourself when no one else does, but much more difficult.

The viewer's perspective isn't aligned with Miles this time. He isn't rising anymore. Is he falling? I guess we'll find out.

#miles escape being doomed by the spider-man narrative challenge #and i hope he succeeds #i hope he does his own thing #across the spiderverse #into the spiderverse #itsv #atsv #miles morales #my english literature side is coming out #we'll see how this analysis holds up once i actually see the movie #i didn't even see the skyline in the bottom of the atsv poster until halfway through writing this post lmao

[pulchrasilva]

Ohh so that's where the "she's dead, scar. you won" screenshot that people go insane over comes from feeling really normal about that one 👍

#sorry but the way he didnt even realise hed won #theres LIGHTNING it's not exactly subtle but he keeps hunting he keeps going for the kill #and then grian tells him shes dead. he won #and he stops. he starts laughing and it sounded surprisingly close to crying #he stands still in shock while a zombie hits him over and over and he does nothiny #he didnt want to kill pearl. he refused to turn on her until they were the only players left #'how did this happen?' he asked 'how did the guy with no friends win' #well he killed th only friend he had left #as happened time and again in the season. every ally he made he eventually turned on for a task or because he wanted to win #but he wanted allies he wanted friends #and he didnt even realise it was over when it was. he was still going #and he goes back to the secret keeper and succeeds his task. and he gets a new book #what does it way? 'win secret life' #as if it's never truly over as if scar never truly won as if it keeps going forever with no rest no peace #im so ill right now #secret life #what the fuck... ough #storytelling masterpiece and it was like. improv but even less planned than improv #girl

[hiphopcherrrypop]

what if MK found the spirits & such consultations office and payed for reigen to help with LBD

what a hero

#mk regrets it so bad he is just like 'is this fr what i paid for.' #mob is busy with school he can't go on vacay to china 💔 #mp100 #mp100 fanart #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lego monkie kid fanart #lego monkie kid #lmk #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #lady bone demon #white bone spirit #lbd #but then serizawa does his thing #u can decide if he succeeds or not #omg reigen's special move is so powerful he gained a finger #i have drawn LBD exactly zero times until now #which is a bit crayzee to me

[gayofthefae]

The real reason I want Byler is because I am an unhealed Lucaya shipper actually.

#i NEVER want a self sacrificer to succeed at self sabotage wtf is that #her ending was totally ooc and the AUDACITY to say that lucas only liked the parts of her that reminded him of riley when there was a WHOLE #EPISODE in which she pretended to be like Riley and he DISLIKED it #byler #lucaya #dynamic #parallels #byler = lucaya = laurie x amy #m*leven = r*cas = la*rie x jo #not 100% consistent but YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING RIGHT #i will fight for the little women parallels until the ends of the earth just like i will cut a bitch who says that laurie settled #*breathe* #WAIT AND ALL THREE ARE ARTISTS OML THE CONNECTIONSSSS

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl the episode with Dani's return in Danny Phantom really makes me more annoyed that A Glitch In Time really went and tried to redeem Vlad.

#and dark danny #but like mainly annoyed with vlad #cause throughout the show hes your standard evil villain #whose obsessed with maddie who he cannot have #and then danny who he also cannot have #he basically does alot of evil shit #and the whole finale is him going beyond redemption #but when it comes to dani you got him cloning danny constantly until he does finally get dani #but instead of just focusing on creating a family with her #he still obsesses over danny #and basically is fine with the idea of disgarding her if he succeeds at cloning danny #and literally was fine with telling her to overshadow danny #despite knowing it would kill her and she obviously doesnt want to die #and in her return episode basically wants her captured so he can disect her and make a perfect clone #and dont care about her even when shes dying basically #hell in this episode we see she has trauma from her debut episode #having to reassure herself vlad isnt here #like how the fuck did the book think vlad was redeemable again #no wonder dani didnt appear in the book #the book would either be barf inducing with forcing her to forgive him or...actually thats it #it'd be bad #and dont get me started on trying to redeem dark danny #just...why the fuck did the villains need redeeming in this book...

[your-girl-circe]

"Why u are always alone" "why don't you find someone?" "there's so many who want you" blaaaaaa bla bla blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Girl chill, he has to differ from the mass.

#my choices are always good so chill #to pique my interest its difficult #he has to be unique #like the man who deciphered Linear B in Greece #otherwise meh #circe #honestly I want to succeed no need to waste my time at this point #im focused to more serious things #if he approaches and he is واحد في المليون like I am #then yes #until then these conversations need to stop #I know what's good for me better than anyone else #<3

[stupid-dyke]

stayed up til 3 when I have an 8am again. I do this because I hate myself so sos sososososososososo much. It's really funny because I don;t fall asleep in class thanks to my meds but I've noticed every time I go to class after 4 hrs sleep people act weird around me which is how I know im acting really weird. And I am so extremely angry at myself. I spent 4 hours. well 8 hours. Well all day. Pretending I'm going to do homework and distracting myself with various other things on my laptop or crying on the phone to my parents. Got zerooooo work done at all i stayed up most of the nihght for literally no gain whatsoever this is pure self harm. Which I do becauase again I hate myself. Because I didn't do my work. Which i won't do tomorrow either because i'll be so tired I wont be able to string a sentence together even though I'm supposed to give a presentation haha. My favorite activity is staring at the clock on my laptop getting later and later and later. new high score etc. Who's a hypersomniac now. Imagine how much easier this semester would have been if I'd gone to bed before 2am ever. I'm so fucking angry at myself I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep now even. If I fail my classes again my parents are gonna make me live at home forever and say im too crazy to live on my own. I know I was supposed to get a therapist but I hate them all so, so, so much. I think people get that job bc they feel powerful telling some pathetic person what to do knowing I literally cannot do it and will come back week after week admittingn failure and paying

I know I was supposed to take the new experimental FDA approved drug for IH but the list of side effects is fucking terrifying and I live and sleep alone so i really don't want to take a super powerful sedative that can make you stop breathing. So I'm gonna keep taking stimualnts and lying to myself that today is the last day I stay up extremely late for no reason.

#it's really sad I'll skip the meds sometimes to try to sleep and it doesn't even help. I just feel worse while awake. #The real reason i can't sleep is because im screwing myself over by doing no work and im terrified im going to fail my fucking classes #and theyre all going to say im crazy if I fail my classes. theyre going to say im crazy and I self sabotaged on purpose #bc i dont want to succeed. Dad says that every day #Dad loves telling me everytjhing wrong with me multiple times a day every day so i never ever forget #hes so helpful. He's trying so hard to help. If i dont answer the phone he starts worrying ive committed suicide #again i was suicidal one week in 2019. Get the fuck over it. You've literally threatened to kill yourself multiple times. Fucking hypocrite #a bunch of my friends are going to graduate this semester and best case scenario i graudate next semester and then I'll lose touch with eve #ybody #and then the good times are over and life is boring and hell forever and ill get more disabled every year until I can't work and then I'll #run out of money and die #you know when I talked to my genetics professor about the alzheimer's results he said somethign will kill you eventually and it #wont be that unless you live to old age which will be good! #so true bestie. so ture #Guys lets be real here. Why the fuck. Do we live. why. It is so goddamn hard. Maybe it;s easy when u get sleep . But that hasn't happened t #me for a while #all my classes end next week and i havent done most assignments since spring break #also over spring break my parents met w a lawyer to revise their will adn afterwards dad told me im executor and explained to me what will #happen after each person in my family dies. #the assumption is that I will outlive everyone. they don't think my sister will live to old age adn they are already old #the lawyer apparently has clients with the same disability as me and all of them had the same thing happen. Once they get another disabilit #and get older it becomes impossible to manage IH and they cant work til retirement age #i just spent an hour typing this shit instead of sleeping. 4am-730am sleep lets go. I should kill myself #i hate my parents fucking advicce bc they;; be like well when i was ur age I was married it sure must suck to be single!!!! fuck you guys f

[hybridkilljoys]

I know people say youre never too old to improve your art but hoh boy does it suck when burnout has made it impossible to improve as an artist as much as you wanted to in the past ten years and now im slowly accepting im going to feel like a mediocre artist forever :')

#And yeah my art is Ok #better than it was before but like #i am just so disappointed i havent improved as much as i wanted and also having a narcissist father who for years has discouraged my art #journey and he isnt subtle about thinking its a waste and how i should find a better career that gets me money faster #But my guy i am so fucking burnout and just not the brightest of people i am not fit for anything But art #and if i cant succeed in this field literally what is left for me #work some shitty retail job until i die? #literally worst fear #it also sucks bc being stuck in two soul sucking food service jobs in my late teens and early twenties made #trying to improve my art nearly impossible bc i was always so tired and so burnout and ive still felt like this even after quitting idk #point it ive tried but i havent tried enough but i dont have the energy to try more but if i dont try more im just going to keep being #a mediocre artist in my eyes and will never accomplish anything memorable #idk #i forgot where i was going w this but ig im just tired of feeling stagnant as an artist and not having the strength to fix it #Im just tired dude i wanna enjoy drawing again but everything feels like a chore

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Bsjdhdi oh my god Eddie being like "FUCK IT" and grounding Roxy in Meteors for the first time. She just pauses, mid-crime committing, turns to look at him and just says "I'm what?"

He just said it. He didn't think too far into it at the time but once she's been arguing with him on what the fuck he's talking about for a bit, (he can't ground her! How dare he!) and she's eventually sent back to her room to cool off, he realises how fucking hard it's gonna be to actually ground her. She's had nothing her entire life! How do you meaningfully use taking something away on a (kind of) kid when said kid is only just starting to get used to having something to take away? He doesn't wanna impose any kind of old restrictions that she's still learning she doesn't have anymore! He wants her to feel like she does have freedoms, that she does deserve them and that nobody is going to take them away ever again! And taking them away again so soon, even if just temporarily, wouldn't exactly help!

Like!!! He can't just stop her from going out on the grass by the tower block to play with Cassie!!! She's lived most of her life never knowing what grass looks like or what the sunshine feels like!!! It'd be cruel to deny her of that again, even for just a day!!!! He can't take away any of the toy cars she's been excitedly digging through cereal boxes for either, cause she's only just grasped the idea that something other than her keytar can belong to her (nevermind does) and that she doesn't have to give her stuff away to nearby kids!!! Limiting her video games??? She's lived her life lacking the dexterity and strength control to play any of the arcade games she's been surrounded by constantly!!! He can't do that to her again!!!

What's left?? Deny her of her favourite cookies when Fazbear denied her adequate food and time to actually eat it during her short time in their custody as a biological being??? Stop her from going to the Plex that she's pretty much one hundred percent emotionally reliant on going to pretty much every single day??? Don't give her the pocket money she's only just learned she can use to get things she wants??? That she earns herself on the paper round she and Cassie share???

How is he supposed to follow through with this and actually ground her now that he's said he's going to? He can't bare to give her a repeat of what she's already had when she's supposed to be safe from all of that!! But if he goes back on it, he's just telling her she can get away with everything and never face the consequences of her actions. Sometimes she just wants to be a troublemaker and he feels it's good progress that she feels she has that choice, but it's his job as her guardian to somehow teach her about consequences to being a little shit and a half, he can't just let her get away with it! Especially when Cassie doesn't! It wouldn't be fair!

Eddie sat at the table agonising over what to do for ages, eventually coming up with a possible solution. The next morning, when Roxy is about to rush off to the Plex like always, she stops in the hallway. Eddie's just sat there, on a chair, against the front door, reading the paper like this is perfectly normal. She stares at him for a sec and then asks what he's doing. He explains that he promised a while ago that he wouldn't mess her around and that he'd always keep his word, which unfortunately for her, means he wasn't joking when he said she's grounded.

"What do you mean I'm grounded?! Are you just gonna sit here all day?!" Haha of course he's not gonna do that! He promised he would never stand in the way of her going home to the Plex! It would be wrong of him to do so and he can accept that! But she is still grounded...

So he's just gonna sit here for an hour and slow her down instead. If she can get through the door? Well, she earned it so good job! But otherwise? She's gonna have to wait.

Listen, she is not fucking happy. How dare he!! She'll just make him move!! He didn't say she couldn't do that so it's fair game!!

This does NOT go to plan. Eddie planned for this. His chair has been weighted with every heavy item he could cram into the bottom of it. He's hidden the key to the door in his pocket so even if she does move him on the weighted chair, she'll still have to get the key off him, which he knows she's more than capable of doing, but also knows she wouldn't think he'd have it for a good ten minutes at least. And the deadbolt at the top of the door is locked and she can't reach it unless she gets something else to stand on.

Roxy tries every trick in the book but there's fucking tungsten cubes in this chair man, she's strong as hell but that chair's not budging. How did he even move this here?! She's so frustrated with it, she's tried pushing it, pulling it, biting it, tying rope to it and pulling on that with her teeth like tug of war, getting Cassie to help, scratching at it, getting in the tiny gap between it and the door, and finally, whining with the sad puppy dog eyes as she sadly nuzzles him and tries her damn hardest to look like she's going to cry. He doesn't budge. At all.

He and Cassie are kind of enjoying this ngl. Cassie had originally been annoyed at this plan because, well, she would have had something confiscated or not been allowed out to play with Roxy later. It didn't seem fair that Roxy wouldn't get the same punishment, but nah she gets it's now. Roxy's too impatient for this not to work lmao

She's so frustrated and annoyed with it, complaining about how unfair it is while Eddie just sits there, cool as anything, and patiently explains again that it's just until the hour long timer runs out. Literally as he's automatically started reassuring her that he's not preventing her from going anywhere, just slowing her down, she suddenly yells really loudly, then shouts to Cassie at the other end of the hall that her dad sucks, dramatically falling backwards on the floor to sit there and sulk about it.

She's got a whole week of this ahead of her and she's so fucking mad about it. She's taken to just seeing how much of her annoying the shit out of him can he take before he caves and gives up. She started small by flicking elastic bands at him, hitting him with a pillow and throwing a few eggs at him. By the end of the week with him still not budging on this, she threw a bucket of paint on him, then the bucket at him in sheer frustration. This is after her master ice water plan failed along with several contraptions she came up with to move the damn chair. She's taken this as a challenge and she's throwing everything at him, but he's just not fucking budging!!

She has until the end of the hour on the last day to successfully move him and she tries everything, right up to the very last second. The timer goes off. The grounding is over. She screams in frustration, she's genuinely devastated she's lost this battle. She can't stand it! She's free to go again, and just like every other day of this, she rockets away to the Plex again to take her anger out on random shit over there.

When she's cooled down and she's back at the flat several hours later, they have to have a long chat about it. She ends up with one more day of this because of the absurd lengths she was going to all week, so she spends half of it sulking in her room and the other half whining all sad and mopey Eddie won't let her out just a little bit early, come ooonnn Eddiiieeee it's just twenty minutes it's basically nothing, pleeeaaassseee let her out now please please please she'll never dunk him in ice water ever again she pinky promises so pleeeaaasssseeee-

This man is like steel. Never in all her life has she known someone so unwilling to cave to her. Fazbear Entertainment were awful, but she knew she could make them cave if she didn't let them break her. This guy though? Not even wasting any energy trying to break her. He's just fucking sat there. He's not hurting her, he's not taking anything away from her, he's not threatening to scrap her, he's just sitting there. She can do whatever she wants, she just has to wait sixty minutes first. Not even a day, it's just one singular hour, that she could easily fill with something else if she so chose too, but she's too fucking committed now. And that was the god damn plan.

The consequences of being an asshole are that she's now actively choosing to throw an hour away on this every single day for no reason. Her efforts even mean she ends up adding to that hour in clean up. She's caught by her own hubris. By her own stubbornness. The sunk cost fallacy has claimed another victim. She's gonna win eventually, it's just a matter of when.

#meteors au #meteors roxy #meteors cassie #meteors eddie #he's so mean and cruel and unjust and she's so nice #so cruel!!! so unjust!!! how could he do this to her!!! </3!!! #he's a fucking saint though oh my god he KNEW she'd take it as a challenge and would do all sorts of shit #and he did it anyway!!! and god damn did she not disappoint!!! #he's genuinely ASTOUNDED by some of the shit she pulls to get him out of her way!!! #she's getting her ideas from the construction equipment at the plex and it's FASCINATING to watch her improvise a fucking crane #it probably would have worked too if she'd have known what she was doing!!! #there's no saving him once he starts teaching her robotics and she has a better understanding of automatons #the tungsten can only save him for so long. after that? he's on his own lmao #by then she's probably more content to just ya know... do something else for an hour though #like even if she succeeds in moving him she's gonna be more interested in the fact she fucking did it then the fact shr can leave early now #'wait... wheres the key??' and then she has ti he reminded when her hour is up because she was too busy looking for it #but ya know by that point it's probably not really effective a deterrent to little shit behaviour dndjid #how long until hes just turning the flat into an escape room to ground her and the only actual deterrent now is the fact- #she can't always be bothered to play the game anymore #but ugh fine whatever she'll play... she's gonna complain about it the whole time though

[aquariusdegel]

There are many story elements to look forward to in October's upcoming T&B Season 2 cour 2 release. Admittedly, I have been fixated on what they will do with the elephant in the room- the absolute wild card- which is the direction or fate of Judge-turned-Director Yuri Petrov.

First off, it's actually hilarious how his character and position changes between season 1 / The Rising and season 2. This guy starts out as an antagonistic vigilante who hates heroes and heroTV due to his personal traumas to becoming heroTV's director. This guy who canonically insults heroes and thinks about defeating them in a fight in his internal monologues to the point he loses track of his surroundings. This guy, Lunatic, has tried to kill half of his employees in the previous season and now he's giving Kotetsu and Barnaby counselling and pep talks. Comedically, it's fantastic and rife with shenanigans. But thematically, there are huge implications for Yuri's character arc and for the message of the show as a whole.

Did Yuri take the director position because he's starting to care about the people under the masks after his encounters with Kotetsu throughout the series? Does the judge want to change heroTV for the better and becoming the director allow him a unique position to do so? Could we see Yuri fixing the very system that destroyed his father?

One of the unresolved threads of season 1 is what will happen to Lunatic. Sure, Lunatic could just never be captured and stays static, continuing to do what he's already doing in the background as we've seen in season 1 and The Rising. Alternatively, we've seen in T&B that it's easy to just let the villains perish (Though, do the writers really see Lunatic as a villain?). Other people have commented that Yuri should be in jail, alive - but repenting for his actions (like antagonist Andrew Scott from The Rising). And while those might have been the thematic decision for a show about superheroes created in 2011, I argue that letting Yuri die or putting him in jail would not be the satisfying moral conclusion in 2022.

Let Yuri change. He already has changed a lot between seasons from his promotion to director (Although, most of his actions and decisions as director are rather passive in the first half of season 2). He cares about heroes enough to rush into action with Kotetsu while still as a civilian. Furthermore, Lunatic hasn't showed up for the first half of the season (much to people's disappointment to not see their favourite vigilante after a 10 year wait, but within the context of his changing character this absence does makes sense).

Then, let Yuri change the system. Let the same person who was traumatized by what heroTV did to his family work his way up to judge and director and then slowly fix heroTV as only someone in his position can to save his new family. Let him break out of that cycle of trauma caused by greed and corruption instead of perpetrating it further as a murderer guided by his guilt and hauntings. Look, I desperately want Lunatic to show up again and do his cool murder thing but it doesn't have to be within the same context and motivations as season 1.

Killing Yuri wouldn't solve anything. He would die as just another tragic figure and I daresay it's the lazy way out of interesting storytelling for his character. Isolating him in jail wouldn't be more torture and punishing than what he already put himself through. Instead, let Yuri's arc be a metaphor of change and becoming much better than what intergenerational trauma caused someone to become - mistakes and all, damn it. Let the victim try and fix what hurt him so that no one else will go through the same suffering that created the misguided and tragic Lunatic.

This is the modern story that I hope Tiger and Bunny will tell.

#Yuri Petrov #Tiger and Bunny #Tiger & Bunny #long post #character analysis #Lunatic #do i tag this as an argumentative or persuasive essay? #cough read the epilogue of If At First You Dont Succeed on Ao3 for a similar take on Yuris fate #Director Yuri you came out of the left field and have so much potential #besides kotetsu and barnaby your position has changed the most #and i cannot wait until october to see your arc #if they do it... maybe yuri will get sidelined again....... #well as long as hes alive :P