Hi pasta!
Have you seen Stranger Things? Do you ever think about the similarities between Eleven's and Jane's backstories? I rewatched everything in prep for season 4 and couldn't stop thinking about Jane
Eleven even uses the name Jane as a fake name for a bit🤣
I have! Not the current season just yet beyond all the stuff on tumblr, since the reno and unpacking is still happening, but have full intentions to when I get some time to sit and binge it.
And I have thought about it! It’s not something I intentionally meant to do when I started, but I have a feeling I was pulling inspo from it anyway. ST uses a toooon of the scifi backstory tropes I love and wanted to try out for myself - the mad scientist, the experimental/psychic/mutated runaway, the runaway not knowing how to Do Normal Things. I eat that shit up and STs has some of the best examples I’ve seen that I can remember.
Something else I find hilarious in hindsight is how Ciro essentially operates like a murder-y version of Hopper that essentially adopted her and taught her how to operate in the real world; and that part really was coincidence since I was pulling inspo from another affably evil mobster character, but STILL. El and Jane have a lot of similarities, and they’d prob have a lot to talk about tbh. 🤣
