#this is deep

I loved the moment in Stars in His Eyes and Blood on His Hands where he does exactly that!

I was inspired by the fic but it isn't a direct reference

I was playing Spiritfarer, a game about giving spirits their final journey before they finally pass on.

A character was being taken to the Everdoor, the place where the spirits, when their journey is fulfilled, go to finally rest. And she was talking. This was the fifth spirit my dad and I (I play this game with him) have taken to the door. But earlier in the game day, another spirit simply disappeared.

No final hurrah, no goodbye, no Everdoor. He just left.

And the spirit we took moved on, her constellation added to the sky. My dad and I were silent after that, but the game decided we were being idle.

And when you're idle in the game, it moves the screen to the sky where all the constellations are of the passed on and I saw the constellation of the spirit who simply disappeared.

I lost it, and then I looked back, and for the first time in my life, I saw my dad crying. I asked him what got him, and he answered "She reminded me a lot of Dudu." Dudu is the Bangladeshi name for grandma, so in short, the character that had just passed on reminded him of his mom.

i remember watching it on the plane but it really hit me tonight for some reason.

the whole idea is that this guy Arthur is like really mentally unstable (from childhood trauma in the 1st movie) and in the second movie he is going on trial for a murder he committed.

the whole question was whether he intentionally committed the crime. now his lawyer said no because he has an identity disorder (the violent joker) and wasn’t aware of what was happening

now everyone loved him because he killed like 3 rich people and joker soon became a symbol of like anti-corruption and billionaires which everyone needed at the time.

Arthur meets his lover Lee while in trial and she is obsessed with Joker not Arthur but JOKER because of his crazy chaotic and brave personality. actually so much people love him because of Joker and not Arthur which is how he becomes so popular

but in the midst of it all his last trial he fires his lawyer and decides to represent himself CONFESSING he intentionally murdered those 3 billionaires.

this literally causes an uprising and so many joker fans wants to help him escape and they r ultimately just being violent, but Arthur never accepts the help because there’s a change in him

he hates his violent self and the moment he drops the Joker act everyone turns on him: all his fans and Lee

soon enough he’s killed in the prison cell and it’s all because he “betrayed” Joker.

Just to be clear: joker = violent, chaotic, escape from the oppressed Arthur

so my analysis here is first the use of Joker as a symbol is beautiful but very stupid it reminds me of code geass and Zero being a symbol.

The reason I say is stupid is because the person who made the symbol , Arthur, is turned upon all because he takes accountability and tries to make real change. Everyone hates him and are too ignorant to accept the fact this symbol they r fighting for is/can be wrong.

This happens so much right now in politics, ethics, like everything (specifically the jubilee videos where people do not give any substantial reasoning) 😭

everyone is using violence as that’s what we were all biologically drived to do but for some reason Arthur is the only one using rationality BUT STILL BE HATED!!!

going back to code geass this is what happens to Zero, everyone wants to use violence and just kill kill kill but he makes planned attacks and sacrifices himself so that the symbol is more clear: Peace NOT Violence.

This is what joker always wanted he was always made fun of and laughed at and all he ever wanted was love and not hate. Everyone misinterpreted him OF COURSE HE WANTED LOVE he literally fell in love with an inmate.