Is there a cat in cannon who got a good death who you think didn't deserve it? Especially if they committed crimes?
Tom the Wifebeater and his redemption death. No question. It's not even close.
Not only do I reject to the "redemption death" on the grounds of it being Tom the Wifebeater who is bullying others until his dying breath, even taunting Thunder about Turtle Tail is dead and the kits must be very torn up about it, but I reject "redemption through death" entirely. I don't like it in stories. It's a theme I deeply object to.
And again it's fucking wild that every time a character is a father, even if they are a wifebeater or a child abuser, the writers think that it bestows a glimmer of goodness into them which every abused child is forced to appreciate and cry about. Breezepelt, Thunder, Tallstar, Tom's children, all of them forced to reconcile and admit how much they wuv their papa.
Abusive dads in WC regularly get redemption deaths, too. Clear Sky dies saving his grandchild, Sandgorse died saving a rando in a tunnel, Tom the Wifebeater saving his daughter.
But Tom the Wifebeater is the worst example of it. Hands down.
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Jason never got to be 16. makes me sad.
Not to deny that Jason not being able to make it to 16 in his first life is sad, but I mean he did technically end up making it, and he made it to 17 and 18 and 21 and so on and so forth, it just happened "in round two" so to speak.
What I think is sadder though, is that depending on whether he was 15 or 14 years old when this happened:
There are one of two ways he would've spent his sixteenth year.
Option 1 (if he was 15 at the time of his ressurection):
(This is 1 year post initial hospitalization)
Or Option 2 (if he was 14 at the time of his ressurection):
(And this is 2 years post initial hospitalization, 1 year post escape from that facility)
Happy sweet 16th, Jason John Doe #265 :)
Batman Annual (1961-) #25
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time after time: the boatem corpse problom fic i can never remeber the name of despite it being my faviorte work of yours.
what happend when the corpses were eventualy found?
so the thing is: it's not particularly polite, digging around in someone else's base. the feud between boatem and the big-eyes boys, however, isn't particularly polite itself. tango doesn't feel particularly guilty about digging out the ground a bit to put his ravager trap in boatem.
right up until he digs up impulse.
tango screams. he can't help it. he knows his friend is right up above him, probably sleeping like an idiot in that factory project that was too big to finish, but it's not like - his lips are purple and his skin is greying, where it can still even be called skin and isn't just decayed bits peeling off the bone, who knows how long it's been buried here, and tango can't get caught, right, he's supposed to be here in the dead of night to drop ravagers on boatem but he - maybe he -
it's the middle of the night and frankly, loud noises are the norm in boatem. he's also six feet underground. (hah.) no one hears him.
he turns around, shaking.
"what the fuck," he says quietly. (no one can hear him. he can curse all he likes.)
he - is who's upstairs, sleeping in the factory, even impulse? should he - tango doesn't touch his admin console that often, but he pulls the screen up almost immediately. he ignores the massive number of entities in boatem, the lag issues, anything else that they'd normally pull up admin for. he pulls impulse's location.
the factory, it tells him, but also somewhere well below y-level zero, and it doesn't say anything about the - the corpse -
he turns back to the dead body. he supposes the eyes do decay first. he - he doesn't know what to do with this. this had been buried. who knew about this? this - the world didn't just generate this here, it had been buried, he - impulse is buried here. impulse is fine in his factory. impulse is below the world.
this is over tango's head.
he is six feet underground trying to plan a prank and suddenly, irrationally terrified he's six feet underground for something else, too.
shaking, tango starts calling impulse on the phone, and does not stop until impulse wakes up. as impulse, exhausted, asks why tango is calling him at 2 am, tango, hands shaking, can't even explain it. he doesn't want to be the one to say something if impulse doesn't know. he doesn't. he just - he just needs to know his friend is alive.
if that's his friend.
tango goes home and does not sleep.
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