Most Normal FNAF Fan

anon who seems to be under the impression that you have had extensive PR training because you have a post with more than 10k notes would like to ask you a bad faith question about the current state of the world

Like liberals wouldn't enjoy the hell out of that

It’s funny when writers try so hard to make Bruce and Dick’s relationship Obviously Familial and Normal so that no one could think these manly superheroes are gay and then you end up a concerning father-son dynamic that raises a lot of red flags. You can’t have Dick Grayson be gay but you can have him be an emotional incest victim.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson have been obsessed with each other since the 40s. They’re the dynamic duo. So when you try to translate their relationship into a strict parent-child dynamic, the Implications occur.

DC is so intent on Batman not being seen as gay that they’d rather have him be perceived as an abusive parent. At least they’ve protected the nuclear family (oversimplified Bruce and Dick’s complicated relationship into father and son).

It’s funny when writers try so hard to make Bruce and Dick’s relationship Obviously Familial and Normal so that no one could think these manly superheroes are gay and then you end up a concerning father-son dynamic that raises a lot of red flags. You can’t have Dick Grayson be gay but you can have him be an emotional incest victim.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson have been obsessed with each other since the 40s. They’re the dynamic duo. So when you try to translate their relationship into a strict parent-child dynamic, the Implications occur.

Starting from the Golden Age, if you needed a drag persona and style for any particular reason Bruce would already have it. In the Silver Age he was so good at drag that he'd have to be reminded to break character once he was no longer in front of an audience. In the Modern Age his parents worried that he was "too sensitive", that there was something wrong with him, and he was sent to a strict boys boarding school for reasons he didn't understand where he was violently bullied and harrassed for being "quiet and not very athletic", and he had an encyclopedic knowledge of women's fashion before he even studied to be a detective. Like do you see.

A scene I don’t hear people talk about enough in Obsession is the very end of the phone call with the customer service rep when he is connected to Nikki on the line. Mostly the focus is on how during the conversation Bear specifically requests to alter the wish, not cancel it, and how it shows that he only cares about the impacts of the wish to the extent that it effects him negatively. Not the general immorality of forcing Nikki to love him. But I think the most blatant symbolism for this is him quite literally ignoring her screaming in pure agony, terror, whatever it is. It makes his actions later that much more disgusting imo. This woman that he supposedly loves, and therefore should care about the wellbeing of, is horrifically screaming while trapped in her own body because of his doing, and he simply doesn’t give a shit. It doesn’t affect his actions moving forward in the slightest. He’s just gotten true confirmation that she is actively suffering, and that he has done something truly awful, and he still chooses not to do anything about it. This is maybe the most direct evidence of exactly what she is going through that he is faced with, and it does not change anything. The scene where she begs him to kill her a little while after is made even more disgusting because of this. If you were trying to give Bear the benefit of the doubt, on the surface level you could maybe understand why he does not want to kill Nikki. He claims he cares about her. Maybe he still wants to find a solution where nobody has to die. Then he has the audacity to say “what’s so bad about loving me?” And any empathy for him is gone. He’s heard with his own ears the consequences of his actions, knows that she’s probably still screaming like that somewhere deep within herself, knows that he has been essentially raping her and using her for (weeks? Months?) and is so selfish that he cannot find it in himself to even attempt to undo it. He knows she’s screaming and he ignores it. He ignores every cry for help. He is fully aware of what he is doing, how it is affecting her, how he has ruined her life and scarred her beyond belief, and just does not care. I never want to hear someone call him anything except the villain that he is.

oh and another thing that devastates me about Obsession is how much nikki is judged and blamed by those around her. sarah and ian repeatedly telling bear that he shouldn’t have to deal with her, that she’s not his responsibility, that they’re worried she’s taking advantage of him. as if they aren’t also her friends, as if they shouldn’t know her well enough to notice something is off. there’s no concern for why nikki is behaving the way she is, there’s just distain towards it. she starts acting out of character and so it must all be intentional. but bear doesn’t get questioned. bear isn’t gossiped about. nikki loses all her agency and autonomy, and all she gets for it is judgment