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Gargoyles Funko pop art. This is the result of finding season 1 of the show at the library, renting and binge-watching it again.
(Hi, mun speaking here! I wanted to reinterpret this scene as if it were Liberty in Brooklyn’s place, how she would react in this scenario, so please bear with me ^_^u
I feel that, just like Brooklyn, Liberty would be conflicted. Demona has not shown herself to be entirely trustworthy, but she DID save her life from humans (I imagine in Liberty’s case, it would be a book club who happened to be meeting outside… and carry firearms 😅)
And the way Demona talks, it makes sense, plus her former standing in the clan lends her some authority over the younger gargoyle, who already looked up to her, at least once, as a mother figure.
And in here lies Liberty’s biggest flaw:
She’s a people pleaser.
She has a trend of going along with whoever’s in charge (Goliath, Hudson, even Elisa to an extent) and this trait has been part of her since their original time period, meaning she would innately defer to Demona, out of habit.
Demona knows this, counts on it even, and uses it to her advantage, presenting herself as remorseful, as looking out for the clan’s best interests, and offers Liberty something she craves: knowledge.
Knowledge that could protect their clan, after all, that’s what GOLIATH would want, right?
Brooklyn looks so defeated during all of this. A lot is going on for him I think. He's still feeling really awful about his experience. He also wants to believe in Demona and that she could truly be looking out for gargoyles, but he KNOWS he shouldn't. He doesn't want to believe Demona's claims about humankind, but he's afraid from what he's experienced that she may be right. He doesn't think he should give Demona a chance, and yet he wants to believe that they could be clan again together so badly that, against his own best instincts, he takes her hand.
(Mun speaking again! More thoughts on Liberty’s interactions with the clan, particularly Demona before she revealed her true colors)
Ohhhhh this hurts 😅
The sheer ELATION Liberty felt seeing her again, believing her to have been shattered all those centuries ago. The feeling of joy at reunion was mutual, and to add onto that, Liberty would have wanted to share all she’d learned so far about the city, the new people, the new structures, her new name…
Sadly circumstances prevented such things, and I would like to believe Demona would have at least heard her out. Would she have agreed with any of it? Probably not, but at least she’d get a little peek into the enrichment her young companion was experiencing.
I do think she genuinely means it. She may suspect that she might never convert Goliath to her way of thinking, but she's been so long without gargoyles, and though she may care more for her vengeance than for her people, that came to be because she believed in the cause of helping her people at one point. It's the purpose she tells herself she's working toward. And she is so lonely. I do believe she truly hopes that she will have some of them by her side by the end of this all. There is still love and warmth in her heart, they just are nothing compared to the centuries of anger and fury and hurt and her need to burn the world down. In this moment though, she gets to play at a version of herself she, at least at one point, wishes she could recapture. These moments with her and Bronx almost makes me sad that she doesn't at least get to keep him at her side or something else that wouldn't necessarily know better.