#kankri.prtsc

Love when Meenah walks in on people (Read: Kankri and Cronus) being complete unabashed ableist fuckheads to Mituna and immediately is like

Emphatically, yes. He has Brain Damage. The TBI was caused by an extreme overexertion of his Psionic abilities. It's canonical. It's called what it is in text.

He also has a Speech Impediment or two, which is also referred to by name. That's generally why he talks like that.

Are we going to talk about the fact that he’s bad at slang even after like eight trillion years? He’s really fucking socially awkward. He also knows what he’s doing, he is self aware. He also says acronyms in their full forms out loud. He wants to be a rebel and he doesn’t know how. Kankri is extremely out of touch and he knows it. He just doesn’t know how to get in touch.

Anyway, here’s some fun dialogue.

(Including this anon as well as to not leave them out. Thank you both for your interest!!)

I wouldn’t say you’re harping, just asking a genuinely valid question. Questions are always welcome.

I’d like to first clarify that my point was not that Kankri’s character is offensive to AroAce people- it was that his Celibacy was set up in a way that’s meant to have overlap with/be analogous to his textual AroAcehood. Which, yes, is actually a thing:

I’m not denying that his character is offensive to AroAce people. It, in fact, very much so is, speaking as an AroAce person, but the focal point of my argument was that his Celibacy was set up to also be a shot at AroAces. Technically the same argument, but tackled from slightly different angles. One is addressing the real-world effects of the writing, the other is addressing authorial intent. As always, I am pedantic.

The reason this is a- as much as I loathe to use this word- problematic analogy within this specific context is because Kankri’s Celibacy is clearly defined as a choice that he made that he is bad at mentally and emotionally committing to. It adds a whole new layer of upset to his extremely creepy, almost stalker-ish behavior towards Latula. Hussie seems to view AroAces as nothing more than sexually repressed closet creeps that are actually secretly AmatoAllo.

It’s practically physically impossible to argue against the notion that Kankri’s Religiosity is deeply and purposefully intertwined with his status as a Tumblr Parody. The setup is actually pretty clever- if you lean too hard in either direction, it’s a failed reading. Yes, his religious theming is backed by the fact that he is a Pre-Scratch iteration of The Sufferer, but when you take a step back… Not only is it a very literal approach to the fact that Online Political Discourse in that era specifically was known for being “preachy,” but it’s also a pretty clever nod to the idea of a Savior Complex.