insteading reblogged
Small things about Ed that make me take video game poison damage irl
- the fact that he's villainized by everyone for "sneaking" around when we're shown that he grew up in a tiny house with an abusive father who was passed out drunk enough for us to see it in a flashback, making it verly likely that he's getting blamed for a habit that he learned as a child to keep himself safe
- the way that, absent external factors, he's just a silly, goofy, funny guy who is very easy to get along with and very charismatic, and he's been made to think he's a monster who is bad with people and inherently dangerous
- how he's so desperate for softness - the way that he tenderly lifts the cashmere scarf to his cheek to feel it against his skin lives in my head rent free
- how when Pop-Pop tackles him he shouts at the kid to "control your Pop-Pop," like he just assumes it should be the responsibility of a child to control his father's behavior
- how he is such an extraordinarily gifted sailor that when he feels something Just Wrong at the start of s2e6 he's standing around looking for stroms, something just so haunting about it. I can just see him standing on their front porch watching the sky and the waves when he gets anxious
- how he's been beaten down time and again but he still keeps hoping and trying because he is a much stronger and kinder person than he'll ever know he is
THANK YOU for having "punished for sneaking" on your list. That has been bugging me for the last year.
#ed hates being out in nature#so it's not like he learned to walk quietly in order to observe local fauna#i have quiet feet b/c i had a scary parent#and i've startled housemates just by walking in a way that's normal to me and 'shimmering into and out of rooms'#i literally had a housemate say 'we should put a bell on you'#stop assuming other people's trauma responses are deliberate attempts to fuck with you challenge#ofmd meta#edward teach