Babsie Wolf's Amazing Den of Awesome

It doesn’t have Shadow sadly (at least for now… idk if he’ll show up in later chapters) but it’s really really good and I need somebody to talk about it with. PLEASE 🙏

I watched it way back in the day and remember the general story I think.

(I’m giving a very minimalized outline). Sonic lives with Tails in a RV, making music as a rockstar and going all over the world. (Tails helps with soundboard, and the songs are the like. All the songs like Escape from the city) He gets a dream where Tikal tells him to reunite with his siblings and so he goes to Robotropolis to find them.

MANIC HAS EMPATH POWERS!! He’s also the sweetest little guy ever, you’ll love him 🥺. He grew up with Amy and he’s the underground’s Jester of the Court cause Ferrel (his dad) is the King of the Court (there’s also Kurt the Knight of the court. He’s cool; doesn’t show much but I like him)

and then Sonia comes along!! And her mom’s actually supportive of her joining Sonic’s band!!! :D. She has not told her or her fiancé, Barnebly, that she joined the resistance

oh yeah!!! Sally and the other freedom fighters are in the story! Sonic checks in on her and annoys her hehehe

SonAmy’s on the lowkey and it’s very cute, I love it.

MARGO!!!! She’s an oc but she’s literally so cool i love her. She’s the doctor and was IS a thing with Ferrel

@/aealzx is Happy’s friend and makes TONS of cool fanart that you should totally check out

when/if you start reading it read the rest of the collection!!!!! It makes it so much better!!!! (Ofc only if you’re okay with like. Whump. Specifically medical whump)

the writing is sooooooo goodddd!!!!

All this to say:

it’s awesome

you should totally go read it

the last update has broken me and just when I was beginning to “be okay” Confidante updated and now im grieving even harder

Idk if I can handle the medical whump part tbh I get too scared of stuff like that and end up having to skip over parts of fics 😭

She's a pal of mine, a heck of a writer AND artist and what's more? She made my Shadow fursuit!!!

She's on Bluesky!! Go follow her! https://bsky.app/profile/happyfoxxcreations.bsky.social

The ending of "Wish" would be perfect for a story that shows the victim breaking free from the control of a pathological narcissist.

Typically, a narcissist's biggest victim is their spouse. In this case, Amaya.

So, in the end, he loses his power, ending up in the mirror where he will be trapped forever, alone in a dungeon.

Narcissists have no redemption. The right way to deal with a narcissist is to use the gray stone technique and cut all ties with them. Their end is loneliness.

That's a great message for a movie to convey.

But that's not the case with Magnifico.

I can't see him as the pathological narcissist that the ending required, simply because he had no malice. Instead, we have someone who cares and shows empathy and respect for others.

Real narcissists are incapable of empathy. They are evil and enjoy causing pain. That's their pleasure. And no, he wasn't faking it. He was genuine. The movie itself tells us that he was good, but then he “turned bad.” That’s not how narcissists work. They were never good to begin with.

It’s a complicated subject. Many people can be mistaken for narcissists because of certain bad, idiotic, and immature behaviors. But they are not really narcissists because they can repent, overcome this, and become better people. Narcissists don’t change and don’t want to change, they don’t think they’re wrong. That’s why they have no redemption.

Let’s look at Amaya, who his victim should be if he were truly a narcissist.

Narcissists deceive and manipulate their victims into bonding, often through marriage. Then they show their true colors once the victim is trapped with them. They make their victim’s life miserable, disregard them, step on them, oppress them, and make them feel guilty about it. The only opinion that matters is their own. They know what they’re doing and they enjoy it.

Amaya and Magnifico have been married for years and… none of that happens. He genuinely loves her, shows her love, and respects her, her opinion matters, and he listens to her, changes his actions when she asks him to, gives her credit, and praises her. And he does all this when they’re alone, with no one to watch the “show.” He’s genuine.

He genuinely cares about people and wants to protect them; that’s his motivation. He showed empathy for Asha’s pain over the loss of her father and shared his own pain with her.

The movie needed the book with the curse for him to do bad things because without it he wouldn’t. And he was already known as the most powerful sorcerer. Why not use that power?

Because they needed a curse. 😑

Also, in films for children, it's important to be clear so that children understand the story. If there's a villain with a hidden agenda who fools everyone by pretending to be good, at some point he'll expose it, usually by bragging about how clever he was and how gullible everyone else was to fall for his lies. In this ''villain's'' case, there's nothing to indicate that he was deceitful before the curse or that he had an ulterior agenda, because, well, he really wasn't and didn't have any of those things.

Did he have a problem? He did. But it wasn’t pathological narcissism. I already talked about his problem in my previous post.

A perfect example of a pathological narcissist in a position of power is Fire Lord Ozai from "Avatar: The Last Airbender". No one was sad when he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

An example of a narcissist in the mother position is Mother Gothel. She gaslighted, treated Rapunzel badly, and left her feeling guilty and afraid.

Gaston is also one. He doesn't care about Belle's opinion. He doesn't care about stepping on people. Many people compare Gaston to Magnifico because of the cringe compliments in the mirror. But really put them next to each other and compare how they see and treat people.

When a narcissist loses, usually, he explodes in fury and revenge and curses everyone.

What we got was someone betrayed by everyone, devastated with sad kicked puppy eyes. (WHY????!!) 😑

I don’t understand why they did it that way. They just had to make the guy a true pathological narcissist. Since they didn’t do that, the movie pissed off a lot of people because the ending was unfair. Usually, unfairness makes people angry.

The movie shows that if it weren't for the cursed book he wouldn't have done any of that. If the wish system was bad, they could have resolved it peacefully.

Because he was completely redeemable, the ending was very ugly and unpleasant. It painted all the other characters as really bad, traitors, ungrateful, and selfish. Who only care about their own interests and gain.

In short: a tragedy.