my lady, the tiger

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

will and abigail make me HOPELESSLY sad bc he honestly loves her quite unselfishly and doesn’t deliver on a gift that had more to do w him than her (and also that would’ve made her uncomfortable bc it was a lure) and he gives her so much space and what he wants is first and foremost for her to be okay. will’s ability to identify even with people who are terrible made the association between him and her dad so strong but it’s honestly surface level - will doesn’t want to own her or possess her or consume her to keep her from growing up, he honestly projects his own loneliness onto gjh more than he understands his need to Keep abigail. the surface association is there but it crumbles upon a closer look, whereas hannibal’s love for her is far less obsessive but for all the ways in which he has nothing to do with her father, he’s quite similar to him in that not only is he a cannibal but he has no interest in letting her leave and grow up, he wanted to make her in his own image and once she no longer served his purposes, he tossed her aside like she was nothing while will clung to her, desperately trying above all else to keep her alive 

#godddd godddddddd yeah#there’s this like. narrative i guess. within fan content that hannibal is Her Father Figure and then they just cut it off there#without making note of the fact that if he IS that for her it’s because he’s the exact same genre of abusive as her real dad#setting things up so that she’ll kill things or let things die. making it their little secret. making her need him#whereas will is…normal. will keeps his distance. will doesn’t make himself her father figure because he’s well aware she doesn’t need tht#he WANTS to be that for her he WANTS to fill the void he made in her life but he doesn’t actually do that bc she wouldn’t want it#he’s the guy that killed her dad. he knows that. he doesn’t try to convince himself he’s something else like hannibal does#there’s the little fishing scenes yeah but even there the picture of her he has in his mind doesn’t see him as a father or even as family#and to go even further i think the fact that it’s hannibal and alana and not hannibal and will that abigail has that ‘i see family’ moment#says a lot about how that family was. the manipulative father and the unknowing mother who ends up bleeding on the concrete#just…a lot. yeah. just a lot#hannibal

@divinizations sorry for stealing your tags but just. god.

… Tell me, where did you get that from?

My father says she was born lucky. He says I was lucky to be born. (insp.)

I love that during the Tales of Ba Sing Se they show Iroh going through the stages of fatherhood. From soothing a crying baby/toddler, playfully lecturing the kids/teens who destroy a neighbors window with a ball, to correcting and ultimately encouraging a man who attempted to mug him. All leading to him honoring the death of his own child. 

why would you SAY THAT

This comment reminded me of the above lines–which are literally like two minutes apart.  One of the things that’s really well done about Anakin’s story that I think often gets passed off as “bad writing” is that Anakin is all over the place. He doesn’t have a strong stance about how he wants to be loyal to the Republic, he wants to blame the Jedi, he wants to do this for Padme, he loves her, he chokes her, he wants to create an Empire, he wants to follow Palpatine, he wants to overthrow Palpatine, he wants to follow Palpatine again, etc. And I think THAT’S THE POINT.  This is like how Hayden’s voice is not strong and clear and projecting well in his portrayal of Anakin because that, too, IS THE POINT.  This is someone brittle and fragile and unstable, who is coming unhinged and you’re supposed to feel awkward and uncomfortable around him. When you listen to him, it’s not a FUCK YEAH villain moment, but the tragedy of someone crumbling into this horrible, awful tragedy. This is someone who does not really believe what he’s saying, but he’s literally quoting Palpatine’s lies (“He’ll betray you just as he’s betrayed me.” / “You were right.  The Jedi betrayed both of us.” - “The Sith are not afraid of the Dark Side of the Force.” / “I do not fear the Dark Side as you do.” - “Good is a point of view, Anakin. […] yet they are considered by the Jedi to be –” “Evil.” / “From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.”).  This is someone who does not really believe in doing this for the Republic, but in a justification for the horrible things he’s done. That’s why he goes from “I have brought peace to the Republic” to “I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire” in the span of like two minutes, because it doesn’t really matter what he’s grasping for, just that he’s reaching for something, anything to justify the horrors he’s done, the children he’s murdered, the innocents he’s attacked, the loved ones he’s betrayed. I think that lack of core central beliefs often gets written off as Anakin not being a clearly written character, when I think the truth is that he’s not supposed to have a clear, solid point of view.  That, instead, we’re watching someone who is falling apart, who is scrambling to justify his horrible actions, who is coming unhinged in a really ugly, awful way and that is the point.  Having him be coherent about his motivations would have taken away the heart of what was so awful and painful about his fall, what was so heartbreaking and tragic about his fall.

I know you think you’re trying to make things right, but you’re not. Raphael’s been there for me when I needed him. Needed him? Look at yourself. He saved my life. You didn’t even notice when something was wrong.

Shelby, talk to me!

theriseandfall

- Family is everything to me, you have to know that. - I get it. You’re part of a “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” culture. I'm fine with it.