#log: vb

Hank and Dean!!!

I wanted to try drawing them a couple months later from the movie bc i have an idea for a comic but this style kicked my ass so bad 😭

my hc is it’s Dean turn to grow a mullet (in his Brock era) and Hank unknowingly looks more like debbie (complementing her look not copying) without having met her yet.

🗣️HANK NATION HOW WE FEELING?!!🔥🔥

Mol (sexualized, assassin fantasy, “tease”)

Shelia (my man my man my man warrior, woman who fixes everything, only woman in male dominated field, male centric)

Rose (token woman, her past “doesn’t exist” aside from being a mother)

I used to be very mad about this, I dragged the show on my priv twitter about this point. But in realizing the whole thing being male centric informs the women themselves, what they allow, how they are used as characters, the writers and the age old roles women are in comics makes Mantila interesting.

She rightly pointed out Shelia competence and Shelia replies with she WANTS to be like this. Effectively being okay with her role and reinforcing the writers place of her: male centric.

Mantila however is motivated by women, yes she says her dad is the reason she believes she is owed the head of GUILD but I would also argue Bobbie refusal of the business in general is the bigger reason. Add her “interest” in Shelia and using men to add the salt to wounds I think Mantila was the first character actually motivated by the decisions women in the world chose.

This could also add the Mantila is a fem lesbian thing I truly believe in but, the women in vbros eventually or outright are constantly shown to be okay as the support to the male centric identity in this world. Mantila and Rusty are outliers in a way that would’ve been VERY cool to have seen. Rusty relationship with women is shit. But Mantila and Rusty relationship is one not only similar issues but beneficial to their hate of the role they were forced into as a child enforcing their gendered place in this world.

Rusty carrying the boys and Mantila being just a donor has more to do with how both, I believe, decided to abandon the roles put on them by their parents, by their world, and the writers slight change out of misogyny.

I think if we got more seasons Dean would keep doing things that strain their relationship, bc again he’s so Rusty and Brock destructive. It’s bound to happen again and he would keep wondering why Hank forgives him but for Hank he just loves him. Doesn’t make it ok just he does.

“He’s a venture, he’ll never shake it.” [let’s cuddle!]

I understand this episode shows that Doc is actually aware of his sons but the way Hank has never got resolution for himself as a son and brother haunts me. So much time was dedicated to Dean finding his shit out and you can say the movie was for Hank finding himself but I’ll be honest I still didn’t find that satisfying either.

It just sticks so sore to me, especially since that scene was very similar to my own experience with my parent (mom) that I kind of sat there floored and feeling unwell that a character in fiction experiences the same thing I did. You aren’t cursed because of your family line, or meant to fail, it’s that nobody really cares anyways about you. You’re fine, not someone I need to be worrying about. You’re just like me. You can’t do anything about it.

The let’s cuddle addition is just cruelty, for a show not affectionate at all to punctuate that in the end of that scene felt like wow, alright, fuck me then.

Hank didn’t seem like he had sex with Sirena, idk if it’s because of what happened to him before but idk if that scene was supposed to be a joke or indication of Hank having trauma/aversion to sex.

A constant I see is active/passive pursuit of sex in venture bros especially around sex. Now bear with me because I’m gonna word this weird but Hank is a lot like Rusty as in he isn’t an ACTIVE person when it comes to sex. While Dean and Brock match in the sense (Dean is….Dean but you get me) of actively pursue someone with sex as intention or interested.

Hank isn’t some guy who’s too innocent or whatever, that’s simply not true he had an interest of sex, of relationships before Dean. I think he still does. my point of contemplation is when Hank is put into a box he has the lowkey panic or tries to side step it. From gender, to his personality, to his perceived role in his family Hank likes to commit to the bit but not embody the idea. His self discovery journey is also proof of that, the attempt to fit into one hank going wrong.

Do I think Sirena hooked up with Dean because he was more sure of himself even in his self destruction?sorta. But I don’t blame her like I DO (bc wtf) but in your 20s you’re gonna make some weird decisions off the basis of not communicating, or not being able to communicate what you want from someone because YOU don’t even know what you want from someone.

It’s the shitty af thing to do to someone we never got an explanation for, and while Hank doesn’t owe anyone sex bc he doesn’t this is like the only way I could POSSIBLY fathom the sex that Dean and Sirena decided to mutually agree to do. Again Dean and Sirena agreed on this, Dean to reinforce his idea of himself, Sirena to fulfil a missing frustration that blew up on Hank the person who is related to both their mindset but not the direct reason.

I hold the firm belief that Hank isn’t the reason why this happened, Hank was definitely a thought in the line of thought domino but not the reason. In the end, vbros has a lot of insecurity at its core and the act of sex amplifies the insecurity.

Hank I think, would have trouble here on out. He will repeat this again, he will fall back into the sweet boyfriend trope but paranoid about what wasn’t enough (re Sirena) not realizing it’s good and well that you want to be a sweet guy. But people want to know that you WANT them, that you desire them, that you want to fuck them. I think Hank would meet someone who gets that and takes it slow, instead of Hank calling the shots it’s this other person, allowing Hank NOT to think about it and doing what Hank likes best: the chase. Only this time he gets caught, because he does like getting “caught”, his partner would be patient with him to open up the other side sex. But I think in a relationship that’s compatible it wouldn’t be a waiting game, it would just be Hank allowing himself to express sexual interest or yk both.