#arella

childhood

Arella - Bear necessities

Characters: Nightwing, Arella, Cyborg, Wally West, Starfire, Lilith Clay, Wonder Girl, Changeling as a bird, Jericho, Raven

like i remember rewatching spellbound semi-recently and being fucking HORRIFIED because malchior followed the abusive partner/friend dynamic to a fucking T - listening to raven's concerns/qualms and saying all the right things to ease her while also isolating her from her friends (and also feeding her insecurities that they don't actually care about her/are scared of her), teaching her dangerous magic all the while downplaying its effects and also giving her something completely novel to her so she's less likely to pick up on that danger, purposefully allowing raven to open up and trust him, blatantly lying about his identity/motives. do i have to continue this guy fucking sucks. arella's backstory is nonexistent in the show but i think it's safe to assume it's generally the same comic-inspired background? (ie ran from abusive foster homes, fell into a cult after experiencing heavy religious trauma, and manipulated into the whole "bride of satan" thing) and with that assumption - yea, everything malchior did is almost definitely whatever cult arella fell into would've had to have done to gaslight her into joining because that's how cults get people to join them - isolate your victim from everything around them (or find someone that's already isolated), and the slightest crumb of acceptance starts to look like literal paradise, of course arella joined them. did the writers mean for this parallel to be there? maybe not but i honestly wouldn't be surprised. it's still a complete gut-punch to think about - for all that azarath tried to train raven they failed to raise her in a way that treated her like A Human Person, and that directly led to raven making nearly the exact same set of decisions that led her mother to azarath in the first place. that's terrifying. hello. is this mic on can anyone hear me. hello.

they're at a cute lil bar or a party idk 🧡🤍🩷

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George Pérez the artist you were !!!!