#candybarber

what if tmmof not only tells about how abusive relationships work but also about some certain aspect that feels unreal at first

k'nuckles being a horrible person towards the world and towards flapjack as well and he simply cannot be a better person because ofc it's too late to change your entire personality and how the world raised you when youre already in your fourties, and flapjack kinda sees it? he knows that k'nuckles is just like this, k'nuckles betrayed him, neglected him, manipulated him multiple times, and every time flapjack ran to bubbie to cry out all this, and STILL coming back to k'nuckles later because he is just too attached to his captain like a father figure that can't be replaced. also all this talk about flapjack being like a guardian angel for the lost soul that k'nuckles is.

it's like the concept of destiny-belonging to someone who is abusive, but you cannot do anything to disconnect your both spirits from each other. you just belong to them, and they belong to you, you cannot change that, no matter how cruel the finale of your relationship will be. some soulmates are happy with each other, some are not, and you're unlucky enough to become the evil side of world's balance of yin and yang.

the same message can be seen in the peppermint larry's and his candy wife's relationship? such as candy colleague and dr barber [could be] too.

they belong to you, and you belong to them, because your spirits are tied together, and they're alive only for you, and only you have access to the sound of their voice. still, it doesn't matter if they use you, neglect you or abuse you.

and i can kinda tell where this message is going? because believe me, i talked and was a friend to a real person who told me about their partner all the time, shared their dreams, nightmares of this certain person, told about a lot of the abuse, conflicts with them, and every time my friend's words contradicted themselves, it felt unreal to realize that they don't process what they are saying. it literally looked like ''i hate them, they made me go through a living hell!'' and then ''they are not a bad person, really, i believe they are better than me!'' and then again ''but they are so ignorant and i want to get rid of them from my life!'' and then once again ''but i can't stop thinking about them and i love them deeply and i feel like we just belong to each other but they fail to see it!''

i'm not much into relatonships with people and this looks like pure insanity to me, but this is a real thing that people actually suffer from? we stopped being friends with this one person, but i've stumbled upon them and their partner interacting lately, so that means they are still together and kickin'

it's just the concept itself. sometimes you can't get rid of a person and cut out the connection. and that's what misadventures of flapjack also showing, not only the parental neglect issues.

1. dr barber is trans (i will not hesitate)

2. I ABSOLUTELY ADORE CAPTAIN K'NUCKLES and i also adore how much of a coward he is, in a way. and that's why i kinda think that he is not much aware of what 'human morals' are, because he is more like a sea creature animal that at one point of his life just went 'fuck it, i'm human now'. he learnt human language bc previously he used to just communicate by barking and growling, he is able to go feral, he is able to do stuff that humans are sick of doing, like consuming raw flesh or feeling comfortable sleeping in a trash barrel. his biology differs far from human-like, so his skin is literally just. grey-blue. but he's not like a real animal like a seal, this variant is more like a fun theory (mine too lol), he's just a mythic beast that decided to turn alcoholic. flapjack doesn't see him as such, he still thinks he's an average great adventurer man due to his naivety, but he personally likes to think that k'nuckles is a dog man. a man that is like a dog. he bites

3. dr barber is trans and gay (still will not hesitate) and married to candy colleague. i like to think that colleague is still alive please let him stay alive

4. peppermint larry has anxiety disorder (but undiagnosed and considered just 'weird' because that's the middle ages setting we're talking 'bout)

5. talking about middle ages, dr barber probably was the first one to actually invent an idea of top surgery, and practiced it on himself. he included it in his surgeon book, but yet he is uncomfortable to actually come out to anybody, 1 because he prefers to keep his identity in private 2 he doesn't trust anybody lol, especially in stormalong & everyone already sees him as male and he doesn't have the need to overshare something like this that no one educated abt

6. candy colleague, on the other hand, knows about doc being trans, 1 because julius actually trusts him, 2 because uhhh y'know, 3 he is great at keeping secrets because literally no one can hear his voice except dr barber lol