wow anon you have such great taste in music i wonder who wrote this!! and what a perfect way to tell the world that i finally made a strawpage!
paragrudges.straw.page ! talk to me :)
ok sorry i'm still mad abt this and i have things to say.
harley's story is a classic tragic tale of a woman in science being abused by the system and then by her partner and eventually getting the courage and strength to get herself out. +
to me she represents the everywoman. any of us can get in a bad situation (and i mean this goes for all genders too) and lose ourselves to abuse and manipulation. any of us can make one small mistake and have that thing turn our entire lives upside down. +
any of us can fall victim to becoming who we thought we would never be, the worst version of ourselves. BUT. all of us have the strength to get ourselves out of it. all of us have the strength to turn things back around. and THAT is what harley represents.+
her wielding this ungodly, cosmic power is not at all who she is at her core.
and sure, you Could make the argument that this is still a metaphor for the everywoman: turning her life around and being given this massive responsibility that she doesn't want and doesn't know+
how to handle, making part of her wish she could go back to who she was in her darker days.
but let's be so fr!!!! dc is not thinking that deep into it! dc is just trying so desperately to squeeze her in with the trinity despite how antithetical that is to her character.
the IMPLICATIONS of this page just hit me. baby steph probably thought for a long time that batman was evil for doing this to her father. but as she got older and arthur became more unbearable she must've IDOLIZED him.