I thought of this when I met them in the !! main story after having watched the anime
Alternatively, my personal wish of: Tsukasa entering university and the rest lowkey freaking out because suddenly their youngest is gone... Their baby is all grown up... They're proud of him, of course! But they still worry! It's so lonely without him...
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for the character ask meme... i mean do i even need to say it? prop joe.
☝️ Prop 💍 Joe 🤝
Favorite thing about them:
I could go on and SO I WILL.
There's a lot I could say about The Wire's depiction of Black America but to save the word count I'll say it's one of the few pieces where I've seen AAVE used in all its potent political, lyrical and intellectual power. Likewise, the lives of the speakers are treated with a similar respect and nuance, which is where we get (one of) the show's best guy(s): Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart.
My first impression of Joe was that he reminded me SO MUCH of my work wife, a woman named Delise. Like Joe, Del is a native of the east side of Baltimore, she has the exact same accent he does as well as the same build and the same quiet and pragmatic sense of how to do things. She is a favorite work wife not only because she's a dear friend but because we worked together as a perfect team and she outclasses every other leader I've worked for. We were in the trenches of sbux together and it galled me constantly that other people were promoted ahead of her when she was the one running the entire store. Why, you ask? Sbux's habit of promoting sycophants aside, it was always clear that Del was too black for the corporate structure to see what they had in her. All this to say, my first impression of Joe tied him irrevocably to a figure in my life I have the utmost love and respect for. He felt like a real character from the real city of Baltimore, not just a guy on a show.
And now onto my genre reasons for loving him: As his name suggests Prop Joe is a dealmaker. It's hard to get this across if you haven't spent time writing gangsters but let me tell you, it is INCREDIBLY HARD to write a competent, efficient dealmaker who is still interesting. In real life these figures got where they were because they did not stand out, act brash, or, say, get hammered drunk with a famous Hollywood writer and novelist. Being boring and lowkey was their preferred camouflage, the same way a proposition beats a gun for efficiency. Charlie Luciano can get drunk with Raymond Chandler because Meyer Lansky is behind the scenes managing the fucking money.
Prop Joe is a character who uses his influence, whether managerial, negotiated, criminal or otherwise, to make the best of his situation. To quote the man himself, 'Have you ever known me to be a stupid man?' He, like the other figures in The Wire's underworld, is playing a life or death game with opponents that range from kings and king makers to out and out psychopaths and killers. To maintain his position he primarily uses his intellect and connection with other druglords, muscle and martial potency being provided by loyal soldiers like Slim Charles. Again, it's hard to convey this if you haven't played around with this character archetype before but it is HARD to make these specific mob figures compelling characters. Largely, if you're writing them right, they're a guy who sits behind a desk and talks some and looks threatening a whole lot more. Not so with Prop Joe.
As I mentioned, The Wire treats AAVE with a respect you don't see often. In the intervening years AAVE has been co-opted by the internet, by young people, racist morons, the right, the left, white kids from the burbs and K Pop bands and basically everyone else. Like so much of Black culture, AAVE has become a major American export and in so doing the vernacular has been robbed of its intensely political history and, to my ear, a great deal of its lyricism. The writers for the Wire and Joe's actor Robert F. Chew were using AAVE before it was co-opted and they were able to instill in many characters a near Shakespearean eloquence because they were using AAVE the way it's spoken by the people who have always spoken it. Prop Joe is a tricky character to make interesting so he's played against more classic mob kingpins like Avon and Marlo, making Joe a more sympathetic alternate to these figures. But they also let Joe be the incredibly intelligent man he is, without making him talk white or adhere to white standards of intelligence. You can play a figure like Joe off other gangsters and you can make him efficient, but it was Chew's performance and the writers' rooms commitment to capturing the language of their world that really gave Prop Joe that particular life that made him one of the best characters in the whole show.
So that's my favorite thing. Onto the second question, lmao
Least favorite thing about them:
How things ended.
Three things i have in common with them:
Live in Baltimore, pretty smart, love and respect Slim Charles.
Three things i don’t have in common with them:
Girl I am a little white lady from the county. Our similarities end at the end of that question.
Favorite line:
Cheese, indicating a somewhat shabby home full of family photos: What you see in this, old man? All the money you got?
Joe, pointing to a wedding photo of a turn of the century Black couple: Your great-grandfather. First colored man to own his own house in Johnson Square. That mean something. Something you young'uns lost.
A short and intensely powerful line describing how the American Dream has been roundly denied Black Americans, even when they had fought to collect the means white people used to achieve it. Baltimore, the original home of redlining, robbed Joe and his family of a legacy that would have made them legitimate business leaders. Instead their means were turned, somewhen, to the only business opportunities available to them. Joe is a part of that legacy, he understands what it means and he feels the pain AND PRIDE of that was lost to the next generation. When I watched this scene the first time my jaw was on the floor and I have never seen a better distillation of just how much was lost to the racist systems of America.
brOTP:
Joe and Slim Charles, love a brain and brawn duo. Nothing like a kingpin and a loyal soldier.
OTP:
Not here to ship, but if anything it's Joe and the New Day Co-Op as a lifesaving and money printing endeavor.
nOTP:
Joe and Marlo. The mere thought of it tasks me...
Random Headcanon:
I don't really have any? I don't feel the need to embellish on the Wire like I would more shorthanded stories. If anything it would be some connection to a young Omar, like Joe set up him and his brother when they were young'uns or some such.
Unpopular Opinion:
Free my man, he did all that shit. Joe should have never suffered any consequences for anything ever.
your fiance gets a makeover to look just like bokuto, or bokuto and your fiance swap places completely (a world where you're engaged to bokuto and your favourite haikyuu character is the captain of fukurodani, -insert your fiance's name here-)
IM???
LMAO
Well I wouldn’t want to change anything about fiance, because he’s perfect, so I guess the other one? I FEEL LIKE WHICHEVER ONE I PICK I SEEM LIKE AN ASSHOLE
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It should be pretty obvious which characters I choose for the headcanon meme ask thing. So Hilda,Ash,and X-Ray (☾ ★ ☆ ♡ ♥♦ ☯ ▼ ♒ ൠ)
☾ - sleep headcanon
well, I mean, obviously they all sleep in the same bed when (by some miracle) they all end up asleep 1) at the same time 2) in the same place 3) together.
but usually it’s more commonplace to find Hilda or X-Ray just asleep on any vaguely comfortable surface
★ - sad headcanon
Hilda doesn’t talk about her parents, ever. at all. In fact she hasn’t spoken to them since she left home straight after high school. A few times, Ash and X-Ray tried asking about them, but Hilda always changed the subject.
(neither of them mentioned the small scar along Hilda’s hand)
☆ - happy headcanon
Their first anniversary, all three of them sort of agreed that they didn’t want to plan anything overly spectacular, so they only made simple plans for a nice meal. But when the three of them had returned home after that, the apartment was dimmed, with small candles lit everywhere and soft music playing and Ash’s sweet incense lit on the coffee table. A bottle of wine had been set out in a bucket of ice and three, beautifully decorated glasses had been set out alongside a chocolate cake.
(the next day, X-Ray hugged the crap out of Vav)
♡ - romantic headcanon
(sort of accidentally did that with the last one but oops, so I’ll just talk about the three of them)
X-Ray can be super romantic when he wants to be, but it usually takes an important event for that side of him to be brought out. Hilda isn’t really a romantic type, but she can see the appeal of it and likes to indulge herself and her partners on occasion. Ash is the most romantic out of the lot and will regularly surprise her partners with small gifts or flowers or food.
♥ - family headcanon
Hilda doesn’t talk to her family. X-Ray only has his mother and his grandmother (who he doesn’t see as often) but he’ll talk to her almost every day, even if it’s just a quick conversation over the phone.
Ash has a large family and an even bigger extended family. She has two siblings (older bro and younger sister, I like to think) and more cousins than either Hilda or X-Ray can remember. Family reunions with Ash are always fun and mortifying for Ash when her parents break out the embarrassing stories.
♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon
Ash is an old lady and will knit in the evenings if she’s not working (X-Ray makes fun of her until she knits him a jumper and suddenly he’s not complaining)
X-Ray plays video games religiously and has done since his teen years. His gamer score is ridiculous.
Hilda plays video games as well (not nearly as much as X-Ray tho) but her biggest hobby is usually tinkering with electronics around the house or making small and wonderful contraptions with spare parts.
▼ - childhood headcanon
X-Ray had a bit of a lonely childhood before he met Vav. Life post-Vav was much more entertaining for young X-Ray and the two of them used to play pretend and act out superhero scenarios until the sun went down
Ash had a natural charm about her and made friends pretty easily when she was a young girl. Her brother was protective of her but since there was only a year or so age-difference, the two of them would rough-house all the time. Ash’s younger sister was a fair bit younger than Ash and Ash loved playing with her sister and embarrassing her in front of her friends and stealing back clothes. Her childhood house was never a quiet place.
Hilda didn’t like to remember her childhood
♒ - cooking/food headcanon
the only person qualified to cook a decent meal in the house is always Ash, though X-Ray can make a nice meal if he doesn’t have any distractions around him.
(Hilda is not allowed to cook. She nearly burnt the kitchen down with a burrito)
ൠ - random headcanon
X-Ray got a piercing in his youth but never wears anything in it (it’s pretty sure it’s closed up at this point). Hilda has a grand total of five piercings about her body: four on her ears, and a tongue piercing. Occasionally Hilda will put a jewelled stud on her tongue and would stick her tongue out at X-Ray as often as she could that day.
Ash has two lobe piercings in her ears (and got her nipples pierced when she was in university)
