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So, it's like, core to the narrative that outsiders see Wish! Nikki as the problem because from the outside she's the one acting emotional when Bear's instigating her. Wish Nikki is the one acting out and acting aggressive, and when people ask her what's going on she has to tell them that she's on drugs because that's the plausible explanation Ian fed her. It's actually VERY common for men to play in women's faces, antagonize the shit out of them, then call them crazy for acting on being emotionally tormented.
No one knows about the wish, no one WOULD figure some magic wish is the answer. Even the person we interact with in the film who's made a wish can't comprehend why it's a bad thing because most people who've made wishes did it purely towards and for themselves. Bear doesn't outwardly seem like an abuser, and he very rarely in the film directly says anything that an outside eye would instantly clock as abusive.
Bear is a scary villain because he's meant to parallel the type of men who are at the crossroads of socially awkward loser to unashamedly benefiting and utilizing the patriarchy against women. He's scary because his narrative is a guy taking the opportunity to do something he knows he can get away with. He avoids telling anyone (and never does) about the wish or Sarah's death or anything, because of the consequences and embarrassment he could face.
Bear is scary because he's the type of guy who would be normal and unassuming for the relationship, then the second you move in together he's trying to guilt trip you into cutting off all of your friends. Bear's seen utilizing guilt as a tactic in the way he uses Sandy's death to garner attention and sympathy. That's why Wish! Nikki uses guilt back at him because her behavior is all a mirror of Bear's. He didn't KNOW Nikki to give the details to his wish on what Nikki is like for Wish! Nikki to copy her well, so it just copied him.
Bear isn't the type of abuser that's easy to digest, he's not punching holes in walls (or getting people too drunk to consent like Ian, source: script). He's difficult because he's the type where you have to prove that he's bad. No one is aware of the wish, so that aside, even if this was a normal romcom setting horror like Kevin Can Fuck Himself, Nikki is in a situation where it's a struggle to prove she's suffering at all. When it's only manipulation and mental torment, it becomes a struggle on catching him in the act. In that situation, the only hope is just having a community around you that believes you over him. Also why it's tricky with Ian and Sarah because they're also close to Bear, although Ian never liked Bear in the first place, they have more inclinations to try and judge them as "objectively" as they can.
Objectivity is an issue because Wish! Nikki fundamentally has to act in a way that proves her love to Bear as well as defends his pride. The whole "I consented btw" scene happens because BEAR wants her to say that to him because he knows he hit a VERY grey line with (Wish) Nikki claiming she was in a really vulnerable emotional state. She can't acknowledge Ian past when he engages with her because he isn't involved in her love for Bear, and Sarah is an active rival so she's aggressive with her. This tilts their scales which is sucky but also how we function as humans. Even now in the fandom along, removed from any real life parallels, there's an issue of removing Nikki's nuances because we struggle with wanting to support people we wouldn't personally get along with.
In the script they show in the party scene how Sarah is pretty hostile to (Wish)Nikki at that point, and we can assume they're no longer friends. We know they have texts back and forth to each other cause Wish! Nikki mentions the text she got from Sarah. We as the audience are the only one's aware of Nikki being possessed by Wish! Nikki because Bear does everything to hide it because it would reveal what he did to her. Their perspective of the scene is Bear reading out the challenge to kiss Sarah as a joke, then Nikki freaking out before trying to kill herself at Bear's unenthusiasm towards the situation. Sarah was focused on Nikki in this scene as well, so she never saw Bear frowning in annoyance, only (Wish!)Nikki's sudden mood shift again.
This fits into how Obsession fits into the rising genre of realistic mundane centered horror. It's about an incel getting his way, it's about a friend group looking at the surface of a woman's breakdown and not the person causing it because it's very normalized for men to antagonize even their partners. Wish Nikki resonates with so many women of color and especially those with bpd who get simultaneously sexualized and labeled as crazy, and men seek these groups out because of this! All it takes is successfully provoking them once in front of others for the label of crazy girlfriend, and that's why Obsession resonates with so many people.
Pop Quiz! What's the point of this post?
A. I hate everyone and want the world to explode
B. A perspective exercise, pointing out how the audience gets a high level of context in the film through the perpetrator's perspective
C. An observation on how real situations like these often have the same results against the victim because of rhetoric in arguments (The calmer and less impressions a person is can make them more believable) as well as of how misogyny affects women of color
D. I personally sent the rocket that will hit the moon soon
E. I wanna point out on my soap box how it's unfair that Wish! Nikki didn't have a chance to get help because people tend to avoid anyone in a mental health episode much less an unappealing one, and I'm pointing out how men will push non magically trapped women into these breakdowns to show everyone a narrative that will serve them later so they're less likely to get help from shared friends
F. I'm asking for YOUR personal anecdotes from about an ex/person you ran into in the past with bpd who was personally shitty and not about the rising trend in men seeking out women with autism, bpd, latinas, etc because they fetishize these groups of people they see as "desirable enough" while simultaneously much easier to manipulate in their eyes
G. B, C, and E
Starscream is a star-shaped pearl in different colors, and Megatron is an Obsidian.(G1/cyberversâFire ObsidianďźTFPâRainbow Obsidian; SGâBlue Sheen Obsidian)
I picked Obsidian for Mega mainly because I once watched a SU analysis on YouTube saying that non-fusion Obsidians seem to be more like army-based construction workers â basically labor-class Gems. Not super high in status, but very powerful. And since we also see Snowflake Obsidian having some unique abilities in the show, it just felt like a really good fit.
As for Starscream⌠no explanation needed. Pearl-coded from the start đ â¨
And their fusions will be likeâŚ
I donât think I have time to draw these but itâs fun to think about it.
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Bear is for men who say they want a BPD girlfriend but actually mean they want a girlfriend who has no life outside of them and is always at their disposal and get annoyed when she shows actual symptoms of BPD.
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The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit
Pop culture YouTube news truly is dire these days cause you find someone new and theyâre either racist or they jumpscare you by implying sex workers deserve abuse because âthey sell their soulâ oh boy
The ending to death is the only end still pmo. No oneâs brave enough to commit suicide and follow their lover to their world these days, huh? Anakin, you were truly ahead of the gameâŚ
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