Aw, anon, I’m really glad that could reassure you. (I also have a suspicion what show you’re talking about and I’m hoping to catch up with it soon.)
I love it when characters show their caring and compassionate sides, even when it’s in unusual ways.
I often find that fictional characters are often more compassionate than a lot of real people– even the characters who are considered ‘bad guys’ or just bad people in fiction.
Honestly, anon, this is really common, and not surprising, especially with the way the raimi films reduce and change Mary Jane’s characterization. No offense to the writers, and no offense to the actress but that’s basically not the MJ I know from the comics, or from any of the cartoons.
You probably don’t know this, but in the comics, the original backstory of the relationship is that Aunt May is trying to set Peter up on a blind date with her best friend’s niece.
Peter assumes that aunt May’s best friend’s niece is not going to be someone he wants to date (assumes she will be prudish, boring, etc, basically worries aunt May is setting him up with a dud.)
He spends LITERAL YEARS of the comic avoiding meeting Mary Jane. Literally avoiding it. Dodging the issue, and never seeing her.
And then when he finally meets her?
She’s a vivacious, feminist (in the 70s) knockout, who’s directly coded as a sexual swinger and just all around gorgeous person.
She’s wonderful. She’s amazing.
She and Peter have the most vibrant, ridiculous relationship imaginable.
Mary Jane ABSOLUTELY wears the pants in the relationship. Its’ practically canon that 70s Peter is getting pegged on the regular.
I will be pulling up some panels of wonderful, amazing Mary Jane.
@flirtingxwithxphantoms ‘gifted me a gush pass’, so why not.
Or as I sometimes call her, Muko 💕
Muko is a partner system f/o (meaning she exists as a member in our partner system) so she has some kintypes. Some of muko’s kintypes are: Minato from persona 3, Shamir from fire emblem, Callisto from marvel, Quiet from MGS and Gina from Great Ace Attorney.
Muko is very consistent across all her shifts, and usually doesn’t get far from her core personality that I know her as, as Mukuro, but even when she does, I love her in every shift she has 💖💕🥰
You are so right, anon, and these are lovely! 💕
I can feel it in the rotten air tonight
In the tips of my fingers, in the skin on my face
In the weak last gasp of the evening’s dying light
In the way those eyes I’ve always loved illuminate this place
Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell
Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell
I will walk down to the end with you
If you will come all the way down with me
Ya know, you’re right, but sometimes I get embarrassed easily, especially talking about myself. ^^;; So thanks for asking.
Back in the early 2000s I used to self ship with one of the most niche characters of all time, and a villain to boot. One of the agents from the Matrix (1999).
Specifically this one.
Technically, this is Agent Brown, but because wikis weren’t what they are now 20 years ago, I thought he was Agent Jones. So he’s Agent Jones.
My friend who shipped herself with Agent Smith and I got together and wrote this whole long AU/canon-continuation of the Matrix that depicted the Agents as the good guys protecting humanity, and our characters were human deputies who worked with them because of their special qualities.
My S/I was a guy named Vincent Greer who was 19 and worked at Blockbuster when he was recruited into the Agency after his powers manifested because he witnessed a fight between an agent and a rebel.
He was an extremely edgy super cool 90s/2000s guy who used a katana along with a gun, and road a motorcycle. He had a faulty connection to the matrix which was slowly driving him insane and giving him berserker rages.
He and his lover Agent Jones weren’t supposed to be in a relationship due to agency regulations so it was all a big secret that they had to hide, and Jones was terribly afraid of losing Vincent to his defect. He was trying to find any way to save him from finally flying off the handle for the last time.
Vincent also had a recurring enemy called Grimoires who was a rogue program from a decaying backup of the matrix. He was a sinister, controlling mafia type with ‘survival of the fittest’ thing (very Wesker adjacent in hindsight). He was always telling Vincent that they were more alike than he wanted to admit, and trying to get him to join him.
Here’s some old art of Vincent.
Gloves of a cold, calculating schemer. They impart an air of icy professionalism.
Been watching Dead By Daylight, and the way they describe Wesker’s gloves got me breathing heavy.