Trolls Band Together Spoilers
(Transgender spice???)
I haven’t seen anybody really talk about it but I like Bruce has some trans swag
Like, okay I know his name change was supposed to be because he wanted to distance himself from the band but let me have my fun.
Bruce changes his name and Clay and Branch immediately start calling him Bruce. John Dory is the only one who still calls him Spruce and even Clay has to correct him bc John has trouble coming to terms with the fact that his brothers have forged their own identities.
AND Bruce was set having one body type (absolutely ripped) because that’s what was expected of him, but after he leaves he finds a life and a body he’s happier in and doesn’t feel the need to change for anyone.
I’m sure I don’t need to dig into the metaphors, Bruce with trans swag!!!
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given jantje friese's exquisite mind, i don't think it's too presumptuous to make leaps when it comes to the significance of things.
daniel’s surname being a prime example. solace.
there’s a point made in that second episode where he emphasises it by not saying first then surname, but rather having a beat or two in-between. it forces the audience to focus in on it compared to when maura introduces herself. (maura franklin rather than daniel - - solace)
and of all the surnames to choose, solace has to be the most apt for daniel as a character. solace meaning comfort and consolation. connotations of refuge, sanctuary, a safe haven. a light at the end of the tunnel. hope.
because that’s what daniel offers. yes he’s mysterious and dark and murderous, but for maura he is the epitome of safety. not only is he by her side and at her back quite literally every time she needs support, but several times he actively puts himself between her and danger. when tove lunges for her, daniel steps in front without hesitation, and then again when maura is protecting elliot and is almost shot, daniel jumps in front of a bullet to protect her.
i know there are so many theories already about whether or not daniel is even real, and what part he truly plays within the simulations. but no one can possibly doubt his love and sheer intense devotion for maura. he represents the purest and deepest form of love. entirely selfless, utterly consuming.
and it’s no wonder maura is drawn to him even though she doesn’t remember him. he is familiar to her, his presence triggers something within her, and it’s not too much of a stretch to think it goes back to that idea of solace. she recognises something within him which gives her hope and security. a feeling of home when all around her is in complete turmoil.
he is her solace. just like she is his.
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no because i’m so sad, naruto spent his whole life trying to build bonds because he wanted to experience love while sasuke tried to run away from bonds because he so cruelly experienced the loss of that love, then at VOTE2 they finally come to an understanding about how much they mean to each other, about how much they love each other and their hopes for the future, only to have that come crashing down in boruto where both naruto and sasuke are depicted as sad and tired and unsatisfied in their situations, and literally the only time they truly come alive is with each other.
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everyone's always on the percy hate train with the 'will solace after michael yew's death' thing. like 'oh, he didn't let will look, he just grabbed him to heal annabeth because he doesn't care about anyone else.'
like, a) will was probably volunteered for the job, seeing as he was the best healer of the cabin and later the head counsellor. its never stated whether he was forced, but he was pretty likely volunteered by the rest given the fact that we had never heard of him as a character before & percy did not/was not friends with him prior.
b) michael yew himself told percy to destroy the bridge, while he was still on it. basically, he sacrificed himself so that the rest of his siblings could live. percy did, a few seconds before, tell michael yew to get off the bridge. but he didn't get off the bridge. and that is, for the fact of the matter, his decision and his sacrifice that got himself killed.
c) they are in a war. people (one person in particular, but also in general) are hurt and they need at least one person from the magical healing cabin to step up so that they have a better numbers advantage when the battle continues (because they all know it will.) obviously percy is going to bring someone back that can heal everyone to their base to, you guessed it, heal everyone.
AND D) the rest of the apollo cabin stayed behind. everyone who complains makes it sound like will was the only person from the apollo cabin there. but, in fact, they had enough that they took on the defence of a bridge on their own. with CHB's numbers, thats at least 4-6 other people in the cabin aside from will. percy, who assigned the defences would not put only a group of 3-4 to defend an evidently large bridge. THE ONLY REASON that percy & annabeth were called in as reinforcements were because of the minotaur showed up (which percy had fought & won against before) + the increased monsters due to kronos' presence.
if the apollo cabin had faced the 'regular' horde of monsters that kronos was presumably sending over the other assigned bridges they would have been fine. AGAIN: the only reason that they needed reinforcements was because kronos himself showed up.
TDLR; percy is not at fault for michael yew's death, will is probably-definitely not mad at him about it & also about not 'letting' him search through the rubble. they are fine.
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so frustrating to have grown up in this family where everyone seems to thrive on playing passive aggressive mind games and assuming the worst of intentions from each other and holding secret grudges and chatting shit that way because i’ve always been the sensitive one as a kid who couldn’t keep up with them and became the overly reserved one and even now i’m clearly too earnest or gullible or whatever the fuck to them to really Fully Understand what the hell is going on and they keep on ascribing these same intentions they would to anyone else in the family when i have straight up always gone out of my way to be as. god i don’t know. understanding and agreeable and not two faced as everyone else? like i’m sorry you assume the worst from my parents yes obviously i know what they’re fucking like if you hadn’t noticed i’ve lived with them my entire life and coincidentally have worked so so hard this whole time to never come off as petty n cruel as they ever have
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