Doll Addict

Thank you so much for your ask and I am also so sorry for the ginormous text that I am replying to this ask with- This opened up a Saeed version of Pandora's box where I unleashed my many thoughts and ideas about these characters that have been sitting in my mind for decades. 😭😭😭 I appreciate you for giving me such a nice outlet for it though!! All of this felt so relieving to write down! Thank you again!! 💕💖

Here's a lil thing I'm still doing!

I really like how it came out, i did the classic series "kirby dot" transformation instead of UAF's cell one.

I do like UAF's but I personally prefer this one.

I'm still gonna color it, so expect it to look a lil' different!

So, there have been a few discussions in the fandom regarding Ben's "disloyalty" to Julie during "The Transmorgification of Eunice". A vast majority of the fandom is of the belief that Ben was entirely in the wrong and cheated on Julie because they were "still together" at that point. However, that's not entirely true.

I'm not sure why the writers had Ben & Julie be broken up/on a break at the beginning of the episode (knowing what was going on at the time, I blame the network), but at least they explicitly state that the two of them are not on good terms. It would be very different if it was clear that they were still together and Ben knew it. Taking this into account, Ben did not cheat on Julie.

Julie is at fault for not making it clear to Ben that she didn't see the two of them as being officially broken up, and she didn't bother to ask Ben if he understood what she meant. To me, Ben comes off as the type of person who needs to be told something directly or else he will misunderstand and provoke the ire of those around him (which is why I headcanon him as autistic because I myself am on the spectrum and I need people to be direct with me too). On top of that, Julie and Ben had been together for some time at that point, so you would think she would know her boyfriend well enough to know that he needs concrete information to prevent miscommunication.

The reason I bring this up (and the main reason why I am ultimately siding with Ben in this argument) is because my ex-boyfriend did something similar right before I officially broke up with him. We had been on break for about a week when, one day, I was reading one of his social media profiles out of curiosity and saw that he had added the phrase "single, but not looking." To most people, myself included, seeing these words would indicate that a person is no longer in a romantic relationship. This meant that I was also single. I brought it to his attention, but to my surprise, he not only claimed that that's not what the phrase meant (he specifically said it meant that he "was on a break in his relationship but not looking for anyone else" even though he included the word SINGLE), but he also doubled down by saying that's not actually how breaks work and that he still wanted to be with me (this was my first relationship, so I had no idea how breaks were supposed to work either). I was understandably very upset at the fact that, despite him explicitly stating he was "single" on his profile where ANYONE could see it, he insisted that I was technically still his girlfriend. I called him out on the poor communication, but we both had to stop talking for a bit to avoid further conflict. The next day, he finally relented and said that I could end the relationship if that's what I wanted, and I did just that. Needless to say, "single, but not looking" has pretty much the same vibe as "we might as well be broken up". Maybe it's a biased take, but I hope you get the point.

It's not just the miscommunication that makes me side with Ben. There's a YouTube video by @lunarisart that points out a lot of the major reasons why Julie failed as a love interest for Ben. I'll link to it below:

In "Why Julie was Never Good", Nyx makes a statement that perfectly illustrates why Ben needs a love interest that actually understands him (or at the very least actually WANTS to try to understand him):

"What more is there to sacrifice when you have basically given up everything so that others can have what you can't?"

Ben has already been through so much at such a young age. His confident attitude is a mask just waiting to crack. The last thing he needs is a girlfriend who nags him at every opportunity whether or not she actually knows the full scope of his experiences and never communicates with him in a way in which he can understand. It wouldn't surprise me if Ben had completely given up on ever falling in love again (which is sad because Ben seems very lonely in that regard).

Sadly, the echo chamber doesn't seem to be interested in listening to reason any time soon...

No person in the world is perfect, and that's also true for the characters within any piece of media in existance. Although my re-watch has given me a different perspective on Julie than I had before, I stand by the statement that Ben treated her far better than she ever treated him. She'd claim to trust Ben but then almost immediately do something that proved otherwise (or saying something to make herself seem all high-and-mighty first then claiming to trust Ben afterwards in the case of "The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2").

I haven't gotten to Kai yet, but I have re-watched "Rules of Engagement", which features both Julie and Ester. I can confidently say that, in that episode, Ben's treatment of both girls is better than the way both of them treat him combined.

Julie ghosted Ben despite the fact that he wasn't directing his frustration towards her and can very clearly be heard yelling at KENKO (the main villain of Sumo Slammers) right before Julie hangs up, and Ester snatches him up almost immediately after Julie leaves and tries to kiss up to him with her "I love Mr. Smoothy's too!" comment.

Meanwhile, Ben was trying to set things right with Julie while also helping Ester deal with a threat to her home, and said threat was being caused by yet another female character giving Ben unwanted attention. If his behavior compared to the girls in that episode isn't telling, I don't know what is.

On a related note: I still can't believe Julie dumped THE Ben Tennyson for some spineless loser with a camera. Compared to all of the good and heroic things Ben has done throughout the series, here's a list of literally everything Herve is shown saying/doing in his one episode:

Constantly compliments Julie and rarely ever criticizes her (not even constructively)

Chastises and antagonizes Ben without really knowing him

Tries to claim Ben & Julie’s situation isn’t “complicated” and not even bothering to think about the context

Gets intimidated by Fistina (a petty thief) of all people

Doesn’t actually throw hands with Looma at the Hot Spot and expects her to listen to his words

Calls Ship “the dog” instead of calling him by name despite how much Ship means to Julie, indicating that he doesn’t care about Ship as much as Ben does

Hides behind debris and takes photos of Julie getting THROWN INTO A CAR and BEATEN TO A PULP instead of helping her fight off Looma, even SMILING about it at one point

Runs over to Julie and kneels next to her without helping her up

Stands up (still without helping Julie up) and holds his fists up to try throwing hands with Looma, only to be immediately knocked away by her hammer

Dunks on Mr. Smoothy’s

...okay that last one isn't really all that serious compared to everything else, BUT STILL-

as “bro’s in space!!!!!” And conjured this

Like bro it’s your universe he saved all of you why are you voting against ben , i feel alot of them either hates ben because of jealousy or because hes a human , hating for the sake of hating

Great ep for more celestial sapient lore .

They are funny af for bringing a 16 years old to a universial court and charging 6 bucks for recreating the universe , also they looked so clean with their cloths on ( ignore ben’s chopped celestial look )

Yeah, I did Not like that legal proceeding. Actively want to rewrite once I get there

Like, okay, it’s the majority vote of all intelligent life in the universe on if he’s guilty or not— but why couldn’t that have been one part?

Like, the legal proceedings represent the voices of reason (the lawyers on defense) talking and hashing things out, the universe taking things into consideration for the vote (voice of compassion) with the whole thing being a “love of your fellow X” thing, and then the Celestial Sapiens themselves taking their own vote as a council for the Voice of Agression since they are mainly the prosecuting side? It could be like the function of Alien X themselves and in need of a unanimous decision in line with the Motion that is put forth by the Celestial Sapiens to punish someone.

It could have easily been a fucked up thing where the universe and all its inhabitants did vote in favor of Ben because, as is so blatantly and stupidly obvious, he has saved them all time and time again and the whole thing he’s getting put on trial for is literally saving everyone. It could be as simple as the Celestial Sapiens not being moved enough and their vote being majority negative against Ben because, good intentions or not, he broke the law and ig they don’t have a Good Samaritan law.

You could so easily make something thematic and meaningful out of their law system and show that the universe majority sides with Ben and give him and the audience a brief moment of joy like “He won! Ben won the case!” before pulling out the Celestial Sapiens vote that dooms him because the whole “Voice of Reason, Aggression and Compassion” system wasn’t unanimous as it is supposed to be. Same frustrations as the Alien X transformation applied to the legal proceedings dooming Ben, Serena and Bellicus so Ben could make the very valid point of “Hey, this checks and balances system is literally going to get all three of us killed because we did a good thing literally everyone affected decided, by majority, was a good thing. How about we just trust the Voice of Reason (cough cough) me (cough cough) with full control over Alien X to save us the trouble and you two argue in peace?”

Cue Ben kicking the Celestial Warrior’s ass in a Tetramand trial by combat and functionally proving that shitty system wrong while gaining control of his own with Alien X.

I hate to say majority of the characters in Ben 10 : Omniverse are just mean by displaying superiority complex towards him.

Honestly, I wouldn't blame Ben at all if he did do that. XD

I don't even remember Rook testifying against Ben, but it just goes to show how unreliable Ben’s allies can be. He's been thrown under the bus SEVERAL times, even when he's in the right...

Even Max and Gwen, Ben’s own FAMILY, have unjustly antagonized him! People use him as a scapegoat because they're not willing to take responsibility for their own actions, but they think a 16-year-old kid who's been negatively affected by a plethora of factors outside of his control can take all of their burdens for them. That he won't be even more hurt by it... even though he's still only human at the end of the day.

Personally, I think Ben deserves to crash out over it. Let the denizens of the universe get kicked around a little. Teach 'em a lesson. Make them regret taking the strongest person they know for granted.

Lol ngl i feel i could be in the shoes of any ben 10 villain and still get my shit rocked by ben pulling some bs .

Like prime ben is so lucky mf sucked eon’s luck

Vilgax is just trying to have a council meeting and Ben kicks the door in like “I am here on behalf of Ultimos to free his planet from your tyra—“

Vilgax: Fine, fine! Take the stupid territory, just get out of my tentacles about it!

Ben: … you’re not even going to fight me?

Vilgax, gesturing to everyone else in the room: I have more important things to do, unless you want to weigh in on the threat of famine thanks to those Incurseans attacking our agricultural sectors?

Ben: … Nah, I’ll go beat the Incurseans up tho, I don’t like ‘em either.

Ben is too trigger happy for rhythm games and gets a lot of misses for hitting a mark early on easy levels, but kills it on harder levels where there’s more beats at quicker tempos. The man can one shot Rush E but put him on a beginner level and he’s getting an F

Ben refuses to read manuals that come with his games (canon) and is of the opinion that if a game cannot explain it’s mechanics or story or how to progress to a vet like him in its own gameplay, it’s not that good and he turns the console off.

Guitar hero record holder, is working on copying his high scores in all his alien forms just to say he can.

Prefers fighting games, but is bad at them and has to retry levels a dozen times over. Thankfully it’s a learning experience he gets to use for irl fighting, but it still takes him a while.

Ben is also very much the “Being nice to people is my power fantasy” players in story based games. Someone had to sit him down and convince him to consider the Genocide run of Undertale and then force him to see it through just to get the ending. He still feels bad about it to his grave and did punch that person (Kevin) in the face when it was done

Some big Ben 10 youtubers who I will not name cuz they know themselves who they are . Where most influential ones unknowingly or knowingly inspire the other ones to follow. Cause their opinions matches which are included in the intro.

Then comes their subscribers. After the perceiving the information from different forms of the content , they make their own content out of it. Whether in tiktok, reels, yt videos or shorts or blogs in tumblr itself. It shows how information can spread like wildfire.

But in terms of powerscaling , he is best . He beats them this or that character.

Say it louder for the people in the back!!

I wish Ben 10 fans had more media literacy as a whole. Is Ben perfect? No, far from it. He may turn into aliens on a regular basis, but it doesn't make him any less human by nature. How can you expect a 16-YEAR-OLD HUMAN BOY to be completely infallable??? It's utterly unrealistic.

On the other hand, Ben is not nearly as bad as many fans (and some others outside of the fandom who just repeat what they hear in the echo chamber) may portray. The fact that he was willing to SACRIFICE HIS LIFE ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS says a lot about him by itself. He wouldn't do half of the things he does in the show if he actually was a narcissist or sociopath. He's even a better boyfriend than others may claim! It's his love interests who are the real problem for setting expectations that he literally cannot meet in some cases and then getting mad about it as if it wasn't their fault in the first place (I saw some Ben 10-centered videos focused on the romantic aspect of the show in some regard, so I may talk about the misconceptions in those videos once I go back and watch them).

The seemingly endless cycle of big-name Ben 10 content creators spewing what they heard from the echo chamber over and over again and (whether intentionally or not) gaslighting a significant portion of the fandom into believing it's the truth and leading them to make their own content has never sat well with me. Even when they literally record themselves watching the show, they still hold the same takes before and after. It also feels like they sometimes take elements of the show out of context after forgetting something else that may have been connected to the moment they're criticizing.

What if I said like.... maybe... perhaps... ben 10 asks and doodle requests.... Are open for a bit.... ? :0 Could be aliens, characters, my aus, stuff like that. Maybe a curveball thrown in there... surprise me! (If you are curious about the aus I have, just shoot me an ask cus like... I have over 40. They are complex and difficult to explain all at once lmao) (I know I don't post often/consistently but like... >:) this could be fun! I wanna get a bit back in the swing of things on here. And also I see a lot of mutals too HI MUTUALS!!! I want to DRAW for y'alll!! :) )

It didnt let me post this for some reason..

Anyways I thought this was funny

Every time he appears I giggle like an idiot and I deadass sound like Fistina.