obviously there’s the fact that artemis is apollo’s twin sister which made her a good fit for leia, but also there’s the fact that they are both rebellious princess leaders so yeah
apollo is literally the god of light. it doesn’t get much more on the nose than that.
han was literally the easiest one to work out. thieves, travelers and tricksters are his people. there’s also the nice parallel of hermes and apollo being good friends which was nice
Rewatching Agent Carter, I got the thought about how Howard uses the term ‘friend’. I feel like he views everyone as his friend. Wait! Hear me out on this!
So, basing myself slightly off of this post and what’s said in the series, it’s clear that Howard did not have a happy, carefree childhood. He likely grew up Jewish, he clearly states that there’s a ceiling for people like him, and he’s had to learn to lie to advance.
But let’s back up.
Howard Stark is clearly a genius. He’s not exactly street-smart, and he has this enhanced IQ that wasn’t well-suited for the area. So what friends did he have growing up?
Well, none and several. He probably had no friends in his neighborhood. Here was this boy, arguably smarter than everyone around him, who wanted out and was willing to do whatever it took to get there. And how better to get out than to make friends with the right people. I mean, everybody wants something and Howard was smart enough to make sure that he was the one who got it for them, even if he had to steal (or get someone else to steal it for him – sound familiar?). He became everyone’s new best friend.
Now don’t get me wrong. He knew they weren’t really his friends. He’s not stupid. But friendship, to Howard, became this thing. Anyone was a ‘friend’ because everyone had something they wanted. And they were often willing to pay for that.
So he used this idea he had crafted of friendship to climb his way out of his old life. He probably told himself that he was going to help people when he got out. But living a lie, stealing to get a better position… it weighed on Howard until the idea of ‘helping people’ once he was where he wanted to be became just another lie, one that he told himself.
So what happened later? Well, he met Edwin Jarvis. Like so many others, there was something that Jarvis wanted. But see, what Jarvis wanted wasn’t something petty and material. What Jarvis wanted was to save the woman he loved from ending up another casualty of war. Jarvis did something that made Howard turn his head. He risked his own life to save that of another.
Why this made Howard stop, I can only guess. But something clearly changed in Howard after that. Suddenly it wasn’t only about the money. He remembered that it was about saving people. Helping them. Oh sure, he was terrible at it a lot. He has no idea how to connect with real people.
He knows, of course, that everyone is a potential ‘friend’, but there are only a handful of people who go beyond his idea of friendship. In fact, he can count them on one hand. Edwin Jarvis. Peggy Carter. Steve Rogers. These are the three people who showed him that humans aren’t only petty creatures out for themselves and he really has no idea how to handle that.
So when he calls Peggy and Jarvis his favorites, I don’t think that’s just a sentiment. When he says to Peggy there’s no one else he can trust with the mission of clearing his name, there’s no doubt in my mind that he believes that. Because to him, there’s nobody else he trusts.
you wanna know what fucks me up? Mycroft saying he’s been there for Sherlock before, he’ll be there again, he’ll always be there for him.
and Sherlock doesn’t look away.
He doesn’t break eye contact until Mycroft does. He doesn’t roll his eyes or shake his head, he doesn’t get dismissive or exasperated, until Mycroft is finished making his promise.
– Deadpool is insecure
– Deadpool has chronic pain
– Deadpool is submissive in bed – Deadpool is pansexual – Deadpool lifts up his mask so Hawkeye can read his lips
– Deadpool is a blonde
– Deadpool’s initials are WWW
– Deadpool had an abusive father
– Deadpool’s mother died from cancer
– Deadpool fell in love with a teenager
– Deadpool left her because he didn’t want to hurt her
– Deadpool had a daughter
– Deadpool didn’t believe she was his because she was too beautiful
– Deadpool had to be dragged away from his daughter’s dead body by Cap and Wolverine
– Deadpool carries Hello Kitty band aids
– Deadpool is good with kids
– Deadpool can’t be killed by Ghost Rider because he doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong
– Deadpool hates himself
– Deadpool used to curl up in a ball and mumble about his skin hurting
– Deadpool is married to the queen of the undead
– Deadpool reads his own comics
Conclusion:
Wade Winston Wilson is a beautiful man who must be protected.
Let’s not forget:
– Deadpool knows sign language – Deadpool took a bullet for Hawkeye because Clint can’t regenerate but he can – Deadpool has tried to kill himself numerous times before – Deadpool turned his back on DEATH ITSELF to help his fellow inmates escape The Farm – Deadpool spent months trying to save Cable – Deadpool was in turn saved by Cable numerous times – Seriously, freaking Jesus-messiah-complex Cable saw something in Deadpool worth saving – Deadpool is a beautiful, wonderfully complex character that I will fight to protect
– Deadpool and Cable refer to the end of their friendship as “our divorce” – Deadpool bought diapers for Hope – Deadpool has a dog
– Deadpool didn’t become like his dad
– Deadpool is a good person
– Deadpool spends all his money on ammo and pain meds
– Deadpool is broke 75% of the time
– Deadpool tells kids that he’s Spider-Man
– Deadpool refused to look at Spider-Man’s face when he swapped costumes with him because “bros don’t out bros” – Deadpool did work in the Spider-Man suit, but REFUSED TO KILL while wearing the Spider-Man suit because Peter wouldn’t have killed and he didn’t want Peter’s rep to be linked to murder.
