Legally legally Nico should have mobile aides he has chronic pain and fatigue, and using powers exhausts him more what I’m saying is he should have a skeletal ‘chair and post hoo he def should have a sick cane or crutches for the daily he like got mauled guys
Everyone rb this and calling it a hc..like in text he’s chronically fatigued and has chronic pain + he literally got mauled like this isn’t me reaching this is me saying Ric is skeevy with disabled people it does not make sense that he doesn’t have one like as someone who uses mobile aides ...you use them if walking is hard..he has trouble walking...like
He also realistically should have a service dog tbqh also if we’re talking ableism in pjo/hoo which is prominent literally all the good characters have like small scars on the body or Jason’s small face one (like the only good! 😒 Facial scar) whilst Luke was stated to be visibly scarred and was literally the facial differences means evil trope. Nico is good. Nico got mauled where’s his realistic heavily scarred face/body..oh yeah it’s not there because he’s good -_-
And!! If everyone has ADHD where are Autistic characters there’s such a big overlap realistically speaking half the cast should be on the spectrum. Nico was very obviously coded as Autistic tho the coding wasn’t always good it’s there. But there are little to no canon Autistic characters or disabled characters outside of learning disabilities. So yeah it’s a “hc” but it’s really more of a critique guys
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I’m doing edits for aapi month and I was wondering if Dick or Roma characters would be ok or not? I know Roma people are south Asian but also self identify primarily as Romani as their race so I’m just confused & I don’t want to get anyone’s identity wrong
Asked my Roma moots here’s their responses (cropped for privacy)
Getting death threats/called slurs because I made one post making fun of a character who was in all of 4? 5? Episodes 😭 like Diversity win! You’re attacking a Disabled indigenous nb lesbian for *checks notes* a white gay man. Amazing.
"no preconceived notions" proceeds to copy paste ignorant shit from brainrotted buddie shippers okay boo boo sure whatever you say. go back to crappy teen dramas i guess
???? I’m sorry but being able to recognize how Tommy was a blatant parallel to Abby isn’t ship lenses it’s basic media literacy 😭 I don’t care about Buddie my fav love interest is Taylor like. I’m pro Ana. This is not mlm shipping lenses this is that guy was in 4 episodes and one was dedicated to paralleling him to Bucks toxic ex gf 😭 and as for his character his main things so far has been Snark, military background, and projection like 😭 I think mayhaps you should self reflect over why you’re so protective of some white guy who again was in like 4 episodes 😭 like. Everything is gonna be ok
Off topic but I got bullied into watching 911 and my friend kept on building up Buck and Tommy and they were so upset when they broke up ect ect so I was expecting like a real ship with meat on its bones and he’s such a nothing burger character I’m crying
Like genuinely watching it without any preconceived notions it was p obvious they weren’t endgame but I’m obsessed with how much the fandom latched onto him when he’s literally just some guy with recycled character traits from the other members of the 118 😭 (Chim’s snark, Eddies background, ect) +?? Almost a direct parallel/copy of Abby except the fandom loves him/hates her?? (I also do not like Abby I just think this is funny and noticeable).
Also I was expecting Ana to be worse given how hated she is apparently but genuinely she did nothing wrong 😭 misogyny strikes again. So far my fav love interest was Taylor she was by far the most fully realized character out of the rotating love interests
This is an old article but actually very interesting and does sum up my issues w modern DickBabs especially in light of DickBea/DickKory/and DickShawn being thrown away for it
Ok so I’m on mobile so I don’t have like panels ect. But in summary (also this is not against the characters ect) : you cannot remove Babs being a white woman and Dick being a moc especially when their characterization was adapted and changed for the ship.
.(mostly modern) Babs was infantized and often removed of any wrongdoing her and her character can do-this is a bad thing. She’s not an innocent naive white woman constantly wronged by Dick (this is important to her being compared to Kory). She’s not always in the right. She used to be quite mean and cold and that’s ok!! Sometimes women aren’t saints. But recently her character is falling more and more into the girl next door archetype. The writing almost entirely takes away any accountability from Babs. It’s important to stress that in the instances Dick wronged her were ooc and done hand in hand with him being written as a moc-him “cheating”/being a player was not his characterization until that happened-his race cannot be removed from the relationship. Many of his faults are directly ties to the writers bigotry. Todays Babs (who all will argue is ooc and weak compared to bop Babs and I’m not denying that but she is part of the issue of the ship-she exists because of it) is perfect and her perfection hinges on Kory and Dicks failures (both of which have racial undertones). She’s competent when Dicks incompetent (which aside from being like. Objectively bad writing he has a decade of hero work on her-undeniably has misogynistic and ableist tones as well). She’s virtuous where Dick and Korys not, she’s waiting and pining whilst Dick is portrayed as “dabbling” with an “exotic” purely sexual fling but will ultimately return to her (which is bad for multiple reasons). Modern Babs in the ship dynamic hinges on being a white woman in a love triangle with two poc-there is no fault in her in the relationship or character and any and all flaws are because of Dick or Kory-who either wronged her or failed her time and time again. Now there’s no denying how misogyny plays into this, or ableism (but it must be stressed that Dick is a Disabled man as well so her being a disabled woman does not remove any accountability here). At the end of the day she’s a white woman propped up against characters of color (in multiple dynamics from Dick and Kory, to Cass as bg, ect). Now I will say that DC seems to be considering making her Black as she’s being played by a Black woman in the dccu and has been voiced by one for years-her being a woc would remove a lot of the harmful dynamics at play.
Dick in his time being retconned as a moc (which coincides with the ship ect) cannot be removed from its current writing : once he was competent and “virtuous” (very much in love with one and only one person at a time. Not “slutty” *yes I know slutty isn’t a bad thing) now he is quite frankly portrayed as a dumbass incapable of thinking forward five minutes, incapable of settling on one woman, and constantly wronging Babs/being undeserving of her-it needs to be stressed here that his status as a survivor and how dc treated his s/a cannot be divorced from the ship either. Dick does not need a baby sitter. Babs competence and “goodness” should not come at the expense of retconned flaws. Dick is not w/o fault in their relationship and I would never say that-there have been many moments of minor to major ableist “microaggressions” in their dating during bop/now however given the way Babs treats Dick (a brown, lower class, Disabled man as well) I would say they’re about even in terms of biased writing. Dicks competence and character being frankly insulted for white characters is not new-while the case is strongest in Taylor’s current run in regards to Babs and Tim, it pops up often with Bruce and Jason (who yes is atm a canonically white man). His sexualization and the retroactive hypersexualization of his relationship with Kory vs the retroactive well. Canon of his relationship with Babs well. You quite obviously cannot remove race there. (This is not a commentary on the writing of Kory/their relationship which is obv a whole other essay that frankly I’m not the best person for). Where their relationship is “clean and wholesome” Dick and Korys isn’t when quite frankly if I were to compare their iconic runs (bop vs ntt) frankly Dick and Kory come out on top in terms of frankly. Everything. Modern DickBabs represents a lot of regression for the characters from their competence, to their age (Babs used to be much older), to their morals, but what it does the most is portray what is fundamentally a able bodied white woman who is magically better and more virtuous, and most often victimized by her less competent, less moral, harmful, peers that textually are stated to not deserve her. There’s kinda an awkward racial undertone to the whole ship and their writing rn like. You kinda can’t remove it the writing wouldn’t be the same if Dick was white or Babs was a woc-and again that’s barely touching it in the context of how it’s used and portrayed to (wrongly) insult and demean Kory and their relationship (and quite frankly Dicks relationships with multiple other woc like Shawn, Helena, or Beatrice)
This is just like off the top of my head and not written perfectly if anyone has anything to add or clarify ect feel free to in the comments or on the post idc. This is ok to reblog as long as you are normal about it (hate Taylor and that run) and understand I literally love all the characters involved
In summary of the summary
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To add some more evidence on Ursie’s point. Here’s an interview of Devin Grayson from 2015 in the Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder: Scholars and Creators on 75 years of Robin, Nightwing, and Batman.
[Image description: A paragraph in a book saying, “So how does it inform his character? Well, it presents a narrative for his family’s history that makes sense in light of their occupation. It reinforces his “otherness” where Bruce is concerned in what I think is a useful, interesting way (economically, for instance), and in my mind it enhances his early childhood adventures. If his family was initially connected to a kumpania, it means that Dick didn’t necessarily spend the circus off-seasons in Gibtown—he could have been traveling the world, which seems likely given the poise and self-possession he showed as an eight-year-old. It also presents the opportunity for there to be a slight chip on his shoulder, which maybe speaks to his scrappiness. It also maybe gives him a slightly deeper way to relate to someone like Helena —someone who is white but other—and gives the people who love (or lust after) him a potential cultural excuse for feeling as they sometimes do. I also love the idea of Bruce occasionally calling him “hot blooded,” just to mess with him, because Dick would of course deny being so in an extremely hot-blooded manner.”]
I am only going to focus on the sentence “ gives the people who love (or lust after) him a potential cultural excuse for feeling as they sometimes do” because it showcases how Devin and in extension the writers who came after her see Dick and his relationships. He is a man of color, specifically Romani which historically is extremely sexualized. He was made to be the flightly, irresponsible under her pen which related back to the way she looks at Romani people. So much of the dickbabs relationship is told in racist ways.
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matt specifying that orym went down after healing dorian bc he was too slow in raising his shield implying that orym was so focused on healing and protecting dorian that he forgot to protect himself until the last minute makes me soo insane like as much as it sucked seeing orym go down (albeit temporarily), the implication that that happened bc orym was so frantic and scared of losing dorian that his self preservation went out the window bc all that mattered was protecting his partner/lover who was close to death is so good and juicy
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