#misc parallels

But he became doomed in a particular way the moment he swung the sword down on Lady's neck.

The gods said hey, you're doomed, but here's the symbol of your house given mortal form to aid your children, and Ned killed one. His king gave a cruel, unfair order Ned disagreed with, that would hurt a child under his protection, his own daughter, to end the life of a creature that had done no harm, not for meat or furs to survive the winter but merely to satisfy the royal family's sense of offended dignity, and Ned carried that order out personally.

Ned killed Sansa's protector. He killed a gift from the gods.

Jason & Helena are…two Gotham vigilantes who are willing to kill. That’s uh…that’s about it. Helena gives us more mafia focused stories, and has not been dead for realsies or dealt with as much magical bullshit as these two.

Now, you know who Helena does parallel? Bruce motherfucking Wayne.

Came from wealthy Gotham families? Yep. At age eight, witnessed their parents’ murder? Specifically with guns? Yep. Voluntarily pursued martial arts training in their youths, outside Gotham, and then stepped up to be independent vigilantes as adults once they came home, financing it with their inherited wealth? Yep.

Have been members of the fucking Justice League? Yep. May take orders from team leaders (and be cranky about it) but have never actually been anyone’s sidekick? Yep.

Helena has more in common with Bruce than she does with Dick, let alone Jason. 

So they have to be forgiving, because if they aren’t, everything falls apart. They have to be trusting, have to want to work with people, be part of a team, because they’re not in a solo-protagonist story, and sometimes that works out amazingly and sometimes it burns them badly.

The Bats don’t kill because that’s the rule of their series, while the Ghost Crew are in a rebellion and kill in most episodes, but the framing is so similar. The Mission is everything. The Mission is endless. You have to sacrifice for it. You have to have hope, you have to be hope. This is aimed at a younger audience, so the protagonist is young, so ignore how terrible the adults are by putting them in these situations. But even with that caveat, how much do we ignore? At what point do we say of the adults, even for this genre you are being an asshole.

(Hera would be Batman. She would.)

Sabine is our expert with guns & demolitions. She did everything her parents wanted, she was at the Imperial officers academy, and then it all went wrong and she found her line and she ran. Jason is our expert with guns & demolitions. He did everything his dad wanted, he was Robin, until it all went wrong and he got murdered, and he came back with a new line in the sand.

Give Tim & Ezra creepy old men with suspicious magical green water far too interested in making them their apprentice, coercing them into working together. Kill their mentors, shove time travel into the story.

Tim lures Harkness to his doom and Ezra looks to the Sith holocron for answers.

Ezra has to let his mentor go and ends the story lost but triumphant.

I’ve met these people. You’ve met these people.