I Dont Think Im Ever Going To Stop Thinking About Early Days With Providence

i dont think im ever going to stop thinking about early days with providence

Me: I'm fine

Also me: Six getting his memory erased in "Six Minus Six" and Rex trying to make him remember is meant to parallel just how terrifying it must've been for Six and Holiday when Rex would sometime lose his memories before canon started. We know from what Tuck told Rex that he had lost his memories so many times, he would keep a notebook on him to make sure he would remember. How many times had this happen, for it to be a habit. How many memories did Rex lose when he was in Providence. How much of his own life does Rex actually remember during those years. Did Rex and Six bonded and got close before Rex inevitably blacks out and forgets everything again. How absolutely horrifying is it for Rex, a child in everything but title, to wake up with no idea who he is at a goddamn government facility and treated nothing more than a weapon. How heartbreaking had it been for Holiday, a mother figure who treats Rex like a child- how he should be treated- to see him not recall anything about her. How absolutely soul-crushing had it be for Six, who had taught this kid to survive and how to stay strong, to see that same kid act in fear. Did Providence did something similar to what Rex did, keeping a log of everything about him so he could know right away. How awful is that. How absolutely batshit, fucking insanely immoral it is that a child have to go through. To lose memories and be conditioned about waking up a military base. But in the eyes of Providence, he isn't a child. He's a weapon, an asset at best, and a monster at worst.

im still thinkin about renegades for ok forreal like…how is it that snake eyes is so emotional? he makes no sound or facial expression and yet he is such a deeply emotional guy and its so visually telling and its fantastic and we really got robbed by not getting to see snakescar get together in the next season and im still mad

I think part of what makes Rex so fun to me as a character is the contrast of who he is vs what he should be. Bc everything in his life should lead up to him being this badass supersoldier but he's just a little guy.

And I don't mean he's not competent - god, he's competent. That's part of how he manages to gain so much trust, he sticks to his word and he helps as much as he can, even if it's going to cause him unnecessary pain.

But he's an amnesiac with superpowers raised in a military organization, trained by the sixth most dangerous man in the world, constantly being watched so he doesn't turn into a rampaging robot and kill everyone, constantly having to deal with world ending threat after world ending threat, amd yet...he's just a kid.

He sneaks out to get food. He hangs out with Noah and fails at basketball. He can't shut the fuck up even when everything seems hopeless. Time and time again, he shows empathy to other people, even those trying to hurt him. He'll crack jokes to hide his fear but at the end of the day, he'll initiate being open and talking about his feelings. He will throw himself into danger not just to protect strangers, but to protect human EVOs who he knows aren't to blame for their actions. And absolutely a big part of that is probably being an EVO himself, but another big part is just being raised right by Six and Holiday. Being shown so much love and kindness, and giving it back to the world. They can't give him a normal life, and they can't give him the freedom he wants (they all do still work for Providence, after all), but they can give him what they have, even while they're dealing with their own shit.

And I think that's so important to why he's who he is. He's a good kid in a shitty situation, but he never loses his heart. Even when he thought he lost everything in Endgame - his family potentially all dead, his own brother seemingly okay with just giving the Consortium all they wanted, without his powers even, he still fought. He never gives up - he didn't give up on Weaver until he had to be pulled away, despite how upset he got he cared still deeply about Circe and kept giving her chance after chance at the end of the day, begging her not to work for Van Kliess. The second he saw that Breach was suffering, he gave her empathy and tried to get her out of that situation. Hell, even when he was losing it with Hunter Cain's guys fucking hitting him with a bus entirely out of bigotry, after lying about him for so long and turning so many people against him, he took his anger out on the bus, not on people. He still tried to make amends, still was dedicated to helping them see that he was a hero.

Every time the world shows cruelty, he responds with kindness. Rex can't let himself give up on people, because he was raised by people who would never give up on him.

In the end, Genrex (and by extension, Rex himself) is about love. It's always been about love and empathy and kindness even in the face of pain and suffering. But, the nost important part is it's about family. Not just in who you choose to be family - the who doesn't matter, not in the end - but what family means. How family teaches you love.

It's fun being a Soundwave fan sometimes. You get stuff like that one scene in Earthspark where Optimus talks down @ him and saying 'Megatron is a better protector of our kind than you will ever be' and IMMEDIATELY remember in not just one but TWO continuities how we lost our favorite boombox who cannot seem to help himself in giving up his actual life so others can prosper, for both autobots and decepticons alike in both continuities and humanity in one.

Having so much fun at these universal constants and definitely not foreshadowing itbetternotbeforeshadowing—

gi joe renegades is funny but after youve seen it so many times its so fucking hilarious everything they do is so funny and im dying!!!! do yall remember this scene where jinx is like “ive seen how he treats you…how he cares” and scarlett just

HOW HE WHAT