rick & morty doing age regression is a concept that has been floating aimlessly in my mind forever i find it super compelling. angsty
cg!rick and little!morty using age regression as a excuse to be close and affectionate with each other without all the baggage. morty getting to live out the fantasy of being a normal kid/grandson without having to play adult and rick getting to live out the fantasy of being a normal & stable & present caregiver. morty regressing (voluntarily or involuntarily) after a really difficult adventure and rick taking care of him and helping him calm down enough to go back to the real world.
(alternatively a big fan of morty struggling with involuntary regression while rick doesnt know or understand or care. rick accidentally berating and dismissing morty while hes in littlespace and not understanding how much extra weight his actions held in that moment or why morty is suddenly destroyed over something he should be used to by now)
inversely fond of the like harrowing concept of cg!morty and little!rick. morty being so used to cleaning up ricks messes and having to take care of drunk rick that it hardly feels like a change or escalation when he starts literally falling into the parental role. rick involuntarily regressing when everything is just too much for him and morty is just there because morty is always there and how could he just leave him alone in such a vulnerable position? involuntary regression slowly turning to voluntary regression and of course its still mortys job to help and of course he can't just turn it down because for once in his life rick finally has an outlet for everything hes been pretending isn't wrong and morty can tell that its good for him and what kind of a friend would he be if he pulled the plug on that?
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Actually kind of obsessed with the idea that Rick c-137 isn’t attracted to Morty because he’s still a child. Like, literally treating him as a romantic partner in every way minus the sex because he just isn’t into him like that, despite how profound their bond is. And Morty being 14 is horny on main so he totally would be dtf If Rick showed any interest in him like that, but he doesn’t. And Morty’s SEEN other Rick’s and Morty’s in actual sexual relationships so he knows it’s a thing that happens… just not with C-137. So Morty spends the next 4-5 years going through the cycle of ‘what the fuck is wrong with me’ to ‘planetary mindset blah blah blah’ before finally accepting the fact that he has a crush on his grandfather and their relationship is unique but Rick doesn’t love him in the same way and that’s ok and he’s FINALLY at a point where he can be ok with that. Then suddenly is 19/20 (and a very late bloomer) and Rick starts acting weird. Pet names, kind words, praise, and worst of all he’s very handsy. Pressing their body’s together against a wall to ‘hide’ on a mission. Brushing Morty’s longish hair away from his forehead. Rubbing Morty’s shoulders as he tries to talk him into something dangerous. Shoving him while they bicker, and Morty thinks he’s being crazy because they’ve been fighting more over nothing meaningful, and it just seems like Rick is starting shit as an excuse to put his hands all over Morty-which is CRAZY, right? And yet Rick keeps finding more absurd ways to touch Morty until he can’t actually play it off as nothing in his own mind. So Morty risks it all and flirts with Rick, and is flabbergasted when Rick flirts back because 1-what the fuck, that’s never worked before and 2- Grandpas got game to the point where Morty is red faced blushing, stumbling out of the garage before he does something stupid.
And yeah now that Morty is an adult Rick literally can’t help himself.
Rick getting into a genuinely healthy relationship with someone, and Morty's conflicted about it. He's seen Rick have other love interests, but this one has gotten so close that they're almost integrated into the Smith family. He sees them all the time, doing things that usually only Rick and him would, and even more. He can't help but feel uncomfortable, and he doesn't know why.
He tries getting over it by simply asking Rick if he would try to hang out more like old times, and they do, but the hangouts have gotten shorter, and their relationship more shallow. Even though Rick is visibly happier and friendlier to him, Morty's still not happy, even though that should be what he'd always wanted.
The lack of attention gets unbearable. Morty secretly tries to ruin the relationship, taking advantage of the fact that Rick still trusts him, feeding them both small lies one step at a time, and when it works, he feels both guilty and satisfied when he's the one who Rick looks to for comfort about his breakup.
Morty thinks he got away with it, until one day, Rick comes up to him, drunk and wobbling, telling him that he knows all about what he did.
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+ personal thoughts, clip analysis, & em (evil morty) contemplation? also sorry again for the fat essay down below, i got carried away bc of how excited i got :D
honestly, this episode was so sweet. i did not expect snowball to come back into the picture, but the absolute happiness in his voice when morty came out in the first clip was just AUGGGHGHGH SO SWEETTT. i love how snowball's voice actor was changed to someone older bc dogs age faster than humans! also the episode recognizing morty's penance for uprisings is hilarious because i'm pretty sure that happens a lot of times in the show, morty just being like. a leader and symbol of good. it really contrasts rick's symbol as like, destruction, death, and chaos. my theory is that the brain waves between rick and morty cancel out because they complement one another, not because smart and dumb cancels out. but i'll make another post on that.
like i always do, i see parallels in this episode. more specifically, between morty and snowball and em and rick.
reflecting back on season 9 ep 1 without rickorty shipper goggles, i was trying to think of why em would suddenly change, suddenly reach out to a rick that he's so obviously wanted to keep away from in the past, and suddenly drag on adventures with. em so obviously wanted to deconstruct the CFC (and did), and we've seen his obvious disdain for ricks and blatant disregard for morties. so, why reconnect with rick? why reconnect when em is so obviously capable by himself? why try to make morty jealous in the first place? why would the writers disregard this trait of em's--hating ricks?
this episode brought the reason why to light: em is the snowball in this equation. think about it. at the end of the clip, rick treats morty like a dog, mirroring snowball's relationship with morty! morties were selectively bred for forgiveness and to be ricks' companion across infinity. snowball was selectively bred for unconditional love and to be man's best friend across the entire world--and in turn, morty's best friend. morty, in this relationship, is the rick. he was basically god in the original dynamic they both had--similar to rick's role as basically a god. in snowball's monologue, he admits he was trying to be like morty and emulate man, but failed in doing so. he felt ashamed. we even see that after all this, even after trying to kill morty (similar to em killing ricks), that he still loves morty. we can see it in how snowball clearly still loves the little pets, keeps morty in the bunker with him when he could so easily rip out his throat, have fun little banter with morty, and confides in morty about his insecurities.
and i think that this, everything that happened in the second clip, mirrors what happened with em. em was, or is, ashamed. even though he didn't want to be anything like rick, as snowball with morty, em ended up being exactly like rick. he killed indiscriminately across the multiverse. he was manipulative. he was cunning. he tortured morties. he killed ricks. but despite it all, he's just that little boy who wants rick's attention and wants to be just like him--just like a dog to his owner.
i think that's why em was trying to make morty jealous. he's jealous that morty's rick actually cares about morty, and he's ashamed that he wants that too--on either side of the relationship. em is everything like rick so why doesn't morty want him? he's everything like rick and they work so well together, so why doesn't rick want him? that's the real reason em went back to rick and morty. basically, he wants to be their third lol.
i cannot think of anything within the episode that doesn't allude to em's personal relationship with the rick and morty dynamic right now, so i can really only think of this episode of a flashlight, bringing light to what confused me in the first episode. this season is really proving to be just... super heart wrenching and full of nostalgia, especially with all the callbacks and wrap ups to side characters. i remember when season 4 was still coming out.
oh! jerry getting a job is also a sweet little wrap up! i'm thinking that the dunking on jerry was a bit justin roiland really amped up, and the writers were trying to get away from that so they've been focusing jerry on some of the sci-fi bits. cause honestly, jerry is just an average guy. maybe a little below average, but with all the sci-fi nonsense, anyone would be pathetic. it looks like jerry's getting used to it though. i'm also the person typing up a rick and morty analysis on tumblr at 3 am so i'm probably just defending the guy who's the most like me. again, i will be utterly surprised if anything i said here is revealed to be true in future episodes--but we'll burn that bridge when we get there!
also also i watched this episode really late at night, like 1 am-ish, so i probably missed a couple of things. in my sleepiness rotted brain, i legit thought at some point that morty and the dog were gonna kiss. idk, i saw friends to enemies to lovers somewhere in that episode. another thing to mention: sorry if any formatting seemed weird. i used my laptop to type this up because it was faster than typing it up on the phone, so here you go! a goddamn paper. thanks for reading through this.
edit: just as a i posted this another thought came to mind. morty is different from em in that morty accepts the fact that he loves rick and wants his approval. that's the whole reason why morty's been able to comfort snowball if snowball was the metaphorical em in this conversation. morty accepts the fact that he's ashamed of what he is, and lets it run over him. he processes it and embraces it! em has claimed before that morty will end up like him, parallel to how rick ended up like rick prime--but morty won't because he has the EQ to deal with his feelings. just a little food for thought.
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I’m aware I have shipper goggles on, but the impression Rick’s interactions with Morty gave me in the last episode is “you made me a pedo. I’m gonna kill you.” And it’s so pathetic it’s hilarious.
