Archetypes
Apr. 7th, 2016 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
korafoxWhen I was younger and just really starting to find the stories that meant something to me, I imprinted hard on Dark Angel and Gundam Wing. There were other things, too, but those were the shows whose threads I picked up and wove into my own narrative--Nanashi owes so much to them both.
I can see the common piece between them now, and it's something reflected in many of the other characters I've fallen for the hardest over the years. In both shows, you have these people who have been shaped and crafted into an ultraproficient tool--a supersoldier--and they are desperately trying to claim some scraps of identity/humanity for themselves. There's something incredibly compelling about that tension between power and vulnerability. Not to mention the struggle to belong to oneself rather than another.
So, yes. This was a formative thing for me. And that's also the major reason why Bucky just tears at my heartstrings.
I can see the common piece between them now, and it's something reflected in many of the other characters I've fallen for the hardest over the years. In both shows, you have these people who have been shaped and crafted into an ultraproficient tool--a supersoldier--and they are desperately trying to claim some scraps of identity/humanity for themselves. There's something incredibly compelling about that tension between power and vulnerability. Not to mention the struggle to belong to oneself rather than another.
So, yes. This was a formative thing for me. And that's also the major reason why Bucky just tears at my heartstrings.
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Date: 2016-04-17 12:17 am (UTC)(If so, do you happen to have the manga? I have 5 volumes, which have two "the ends" and I can't figure out if it's over and if it is, it's not a great ending.)
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Date: 2016-04-17 06:29 am (UTC)