Actually, I'm Dead: 600 likes milestone · 4:30am Sep 12th, 2017
Oh boy, this is a long overdue. We reached the milestone a week ago, but between university and working to get over Monster's delay got all of my time. However, I did work on a little "thank you" for you, our faithful readers, and it's in the form of a bonus scene. It was written as soon as I could, and it's pretty much a remake of another famous scene. It should be placed between Dead and Monster, but whether it's canon or not, I'll leave it to you:
It’s a dark and stormy night. Trixie is in a forest under the storm, running. She’s already panting and sweating, and only stops to look around her and see where to continue. Fear is clear in Trixie’s eyes.
“Trixie!” Someone calls for her. She turns around and sees the silhouette of Twilight, slowly trotting towards Trixie, with a source of light behind her. Trixie cowers at the sight and runs away once more, towards the shadows.
She doesn’t stop anymore to check where she’s going. The forest twists around her, with the trees forming impossible shapes that belong to the realm of nightmares. But she doesn’t notice them. all she cares about is running away from the light. Because of that, Trixie is surprised when she’s standing on a bridge, over an abyss even darker than the forest she’s been running in.
“Stay back!” Trixie shouts at the silhouette of Twilight, still calmly approaching. She tries to take a step back, but the bridge’s wood breaks under her hoof, trapping her.
“Trixie, please.” Twilight steps closer, where Trixie can see her face for the first time. “Let me help you,” she pleads, offering her hoof.
“You?!” Trixie looks up, still trapped in the breaking bridge. “You saw it all the first time and didn’t do anything then.” As she speaks, Trixie’s eyes turn red and her body becomes darker. “You promised to help me.” Trixie holds her head low between her hooves, which turn into claws. “But you didn’t!” She raises her head. “Now look at me!” Trixie, turned into a monster, shouts at Twilight.
“I tried, Trixie,” Twilight pleads again. But before anyone else can say anything, thee bridge finally collapses, letting Trixie fall into the abyss. “Trixie!” Twilight can’t o anything but look at Trixie fall.
“Why couldn’t you save me?!” Trixie’s words fade as she blends in the infinite darkness of the abyss. Twilight steps over the edge of the cliff, but there’s nothing to look at. The light behind her moves and something lands at her side.
“Why couldn't you save her, Twilight?” Princess Celestia looked down at Twilight.
Stay classy, the next chapter of I, Monster is coming.
So is this supposed to be a nightmare that Twilight had? Or is it for Trixie?
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https://m.Twilight's. This is a reprise of Batman's nightmare after Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face in the 90's Animated Series.
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And if you look at the 45 second mark, you will see the most emotion Batman has ever had on his face at one time. This is OG animated series, right?
A lot of your scenes pay homage to really great scenes from comics and television/movies.
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The most unnerving thing of that shot is the big eyes. After an entire series of seeing just two slits in the middle of black for Batman's eyes, we see him wide open. Vulnerability shown for the first time. This show was pure, unadulterated genius. It had to be. This show is the reason Schumacher's B&R couldn't completely destroy Batman (not for the lack of trying, mind you).
and yeah, I enjoy making homages to things I love. However, this shot was a carbon copy, and that's not an homage. However, I really like the imagery (drinking heavily from the German Expressionism, with the distorted city and high color contrast), and the situation does make a parallel between Bruce and Twilight's psyche.
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And don't forget that one of the episodes of the series won an Emmy; Heart of Ice, responsible for touching so many hearts, and getting the series so much fame. Ooh, if there are aspects of Death and Darkness, is there an aspect of Cold/Frost? Since Death, Darkness, and Cold are often depicted in a group. How many 90's(this was a 90's show, right?) animated shows can claim to have won an EMMY?!
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Heart of Ice has to be one of my favorites episodes. It basically turned Mister Freeze, a gimmicky Silver Age villain obsessed with diamonds into a goddamn post-modern Shakespearean tragedy. I think my favorite lines from that episode is when Batman questions his willingness to kill.
"Think of it, Batman. To never again walk on a summer's day, with a hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that."
And then in the end, when Victor is defeated and in Arkham, lamenting he couldn't avenge Nora:
"I failed you. I wish there were another way for me to say it. I cannot. I can only beg your forgiveness, and pray you hear me somehow, someplace. Someplace where a warm hand waits for mine."
Damn, that episode is amazing.
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Death, darkness, cold, silence. None of them really exists. They all are how we name the absence of life, light, heat, sound. But they aren't there. They are what isn't there. Yet, we give substance to the void, filling it with meaning so our fear to the unknown will be placated. But no matter what we do to assure ourselves, nothingness can fill us with fear like no real thing could.
Why is that?