Am I going crazy or does invulnerability need to be added to Black Noir's powers on his wiki page? I'm not talking about durability or being unbreakable in general, I mean this man simply doesn't feel pain.

When Soldier Boy first fucked up his face, he didn't appear to be in pain. It could've been because the initial shock was too overwhelming, but that seemed to be all there was. Either the burns somehow altered or numbed the rest of his nerve endings, or it's gotta be some unspoken power. Right?

When he was blasted by Naqib, who we know can blow up entire buildings, while standing right in front of him... I mean, come on. It visibly bloodied a large section of his upper body but it's no biggie, apparently. The traps in Judy's house scratched up his suit but didn't affect him otherwise. You're supposed to assume he was never even knocked down. Every hit he took from Butcher after this also did nothing. He even seemed to have a minimal reaction to his own death. I can't even imagine how fucking torturous that would feel, but his physical pain response was either weirdly subtle or non-existent entirely.

The only thing I can think of to rival this theory is the Almond Joy incident, but as implied with Kimiko, invulnerable supes can still be suffocated. So... ??

Drew the squimble peebly. I was having a day ok.

Ok so I lumped this on the discord earlier but there was barely any grammar and most of it was just repetitive rambling. I decided to rewrite it for myself but also because I didn't wanna let that paragraph of autismsplaining go unheard. So yeah. Enjoy.

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In the comics it's Homelander that rapes Starlight, not The Deep. (It was also A-Train and Black Noir, but for the sake of this post we'll forget that.)

As we all know, The Deep alone assaulted Starlight in the show, and there are a few reasons I'm guessing they changed it. The main one is that if it were Homelander, it'd reveal that he's a bad guy too early on. In the first episode he's made out to be this perfect hero, maybe even the "one good supe", and then he lasers the Mayor of Baltimore's plane in half at the end and it all goes downhill from there. Although it would make Starlight's side of the story worse/more interesting with her inability to speak out and the realization of how far Vought is willing to go to keep profits, I can understand why this just wouldn't work.

So they changed it to The Deep. I could be reading too far into this, but I'm guessing it was him specifically because in the comics he seems (or seemed, since I'm still just past Herogasm) to not really have a storyline or even personality of his own. I can only remember him even talking once or twice. Other than Black Noir until that god awful plot twist, I'm pretty sure he's the only member of The Seven who you never get to learn anything about. They could've turned him into the real "one good supe" bar Starlight. They could've given him the Jack from Jupiter treatment and replace him with an original character. I guess they didn't wanna do the latter twice, which is fair. So to make him both a more significant character and more believable villain, this is what we were given.

Yet even with Homelander and The Deep's switched dynamics (probably not the right word), they still wanted to include the whole Ryan plot. For this reason, and I'm guessing this reason only, Homelander too was written as a rapist.

What I always found strange about this is that Homelander showed no signs of that sort of behaviour before or since Becca. I know they kind of needed him to be "that guy" so they could include Ryan in a comic-accurate way. Like, what's more realistic, Homelander settling down with a nice happy family or him gaining the female validation he craves by force? But still, that part of him is always jarring to remember.

I feel like this could've been done a lot more effectively if they delved deeper into his relationship with Stillwell. The reason people so often forget that she groomed him - or don't realise it at all - is because it's just never discussed. It's implied, mentioned in passing out of the show's context, but never actually spoken about. So often I see their relationship reduced to "haha mommy kink breast milk needy good boy." And to be fair, that's basically how it's portrayed in the show. I just wish that it wasn't. Anyway, I'll probably do a whole post about that in the future. I'm getting off topic.

What I'm actually trying to say here is that they probably almost gave The Deep a child instead. It would've made sense, including that aspect of the comics but changing things up again like usual, giving the child to "the" rapist character instead of creating a second one just for the sake of it. Again, I understand why they didn't go with this.

I mean, he wasn't a main antagonist in season one. And not once has he been considered a supervillain. It's more obvious as the show progresses that he's basically just comic relief (another thing I'm a little pissed about but I digress). And since his powers make him more of a glorified human than an actual supe, it would be harder to make his offspring a significant plot device. Ryan is a threat. A ticking time bomb. I'm very excited to see what they do with him in season four. But Kevin Junior? I mean, what would there even be to worry about besides toxic masculinity and an inherited case of body dysmorphia? The only thing this hypothetical kid would be good for is a redemption arc, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the show either doesn't want that for The Deep, or is saving it for the milisecond before his gruesome death.

If this was the original idea, I understand why it was kicked. If it wasn't, it's still kind of a missed opportunity. I really think it was an unusual choice to have Homelander rape Becca. Then again, there's the whole controversy over whether he actually did, but I'm not gonna get involved.

The Boys AU where everything is the same but Madelyn Stillwell is a man like in the comics because America's greatest hero's secret gay relationship would've been the best B plot to ever B plot

If anyone's wondering how I feel about the tweet

"Barbie Homelander has a great day every day. Ken The Deep only has a great day if Barbie Homelander looks at him."

Obscure Season 4 Predictions:

• The Deep fucks a jellyfish

• Homelander says another slur

• the new Black Noir can't stfu when he's alone but has to be mute in public

• Cassandra is pregnant

• The Deep dances

• a supe not previously seen in normal clothes wears normal clothes

• Frenchie has a wild, noteworthy acid trip

• Ryan practises his X-ray vision specifically to spy on his dad

• ASAB (all supes are bad)

• transgender octopus

• Homelander sings

Ryan Butcher could make The Lego Movie but Lord & Miller could not burn Stormfront to a crisp

So I'm meeting Antony, Chace and Jessie at comic con in a couple of months but the thing is I cry, shake and sometimes vomit/feel sick for days on end when I'm too stressed out.

It's the kind of thing I'll be able to control in the moment (except the shaking, I'll barely be able to stand)... but I can guarantee I'll cry my eyes out then throw up in the car on the way home.

Very mixed feelings about July but overall losing a little bit of sleep every night because of how excited and in disbelief I am.

Yeah maybe it was inevitable that the first person I ever draw topless would be him.

Part 2

Ryan being canonically autistic would genuinely make a great storyline. Like Homelander would be flabbergasted, and he'd almost find it embarrassing. He'd blame it on Becca for sheltering Ryan, or on himself for not being there to raise him. But he'd try and make himself understand anyway, because even though it's kinda humiliating that his own son has some kind of a "defect", he still loves him and wants the best for him. He'd need constant reassurance from Ryan that things aren't too loud or the lights aren't too bright or there aren't too many people around. Vought would want to make him some public symbol of disability (think a lot of very questionable "autism is my superpower" kinda shit i.e. becoming the Brave Maeve for neurodivergent people). They'd make him go to charity events for disabled kids or visit special ed schools, and they kinda think they're helping him but really they're just setting him up for a meltdown/burnout which, especially for a supe, is gonna be dangerous as fuck. And like the show's dealt with misogyny, racism & homophobia, but not a lot for ableism. There'd be people who think he doesn't deserve to have superpowers, or deserve to be Homelander's son at all. He'd be bullied on the internet and called slurs in public. Or he'd be overly babied and patronized and he can't do any interviews or whatever without being asked about his autism because that's the only thing people both know and want to know about him. He wouldn't be Homelander's son, he'd be Homelander's autistic son. He wouldn't be a supe, he'd be an autistic supe. He would not have autism, the autism would have him. The autism would have this kid's life in a fucking chokehold and even Homelander would be like damn we shouldn't have told anyone.

How to defeat Homelander: step 1: time travel back to summer 1980 and instead of letting Soldier Boy beat his meat into a cup let him do it into y- *gunshot*

Obsessed with the way Deep got the acronym exactly right but added some random letters in between (in alphabetical order, at that) like he fucked it up on purpose to throw Hayley off the scent