I’m not good at being active here. It feels like this account, and even the site itself, is a strange time capsule of my life during a specific 5 years that I feel so separated from now. So many of the accounts I follow are inactive. People I used to speak to every day are now lost to me. My ex still follows me, though I think that’s due to him ALSO being inactive for years now. Maybe I’ll block him. Or maybe I’ll delete this account altogether. I’m not sure I’ll even get back on after this. I’m not sure who I’m even talking to anymore and if any of the other people that follow me are still active. I don’t know. Maybe I just wanted to give a proper goodbye since I haven’t gotten to do that much in my life.
Short answer: Yes. Long Answer: Oh, here we go again.
So, Terra is my favorite character of all time. I want her to live, recover from her trauma, and then become some anti-villain mercenary that just shows up to annoy the titans.
However, I will forever defend the decision to kill Terra at the end of Judas Contract. Her complexity as a bad victim and the tragedy that Terra was just too complicated a victim for anyone in her life to notice or save is what makes her character good. The whole point of the story is Terra should have been saved, but she wasnāt. That gives the story itās punch. Terra is a teenage girl who joined the Teen Titans, put on a costume, and died. Her creators sort of half-realized this and half didnāt when they made the decision to kill Terra.
āHers was the power over the earth itself. She could have brought life to deserts, heat to the frozen tundra, food to starving millions, she could have damned raging rivers and funneled water to lands parched dry, and dead. Her powers were limited only by the mind that controlled them. A mind which sought not hope, not love, not life, but death.ā
Even the panels that narrate her death that call her a psychopath and victim blame her, also speculate on how much potential good for the world is lost by snuffing out life as young as Terraās. Hers is the story of a young girl who by the narrative is doomed to die hence why there is nothing, no hope, no love, no life just death in her mind.
Thatās what makes the question of āCould Batman have empathized with herā so compelling, because it makes you think and realize there was a chance for Terra, miss āDead at the beginning of the storyā to be saved. So, why wasnāt she? Why couldnāt anyone involved in her situation empathize with this troubled teenage girl?
Out of context of her creators intending her to be an irredeemable monster, donāt these lines, the last one especially sound horribly tragic?
āA mind which sought not hopeā¦ not loveā¦ not lifeā¦ but death.ā
Shitty Tara Markov aesthetic: āoh i support womenās wrongsā āwhy canāt we let women be meanā āmore terrible female charactersā some of you bitches couldnāt even handle terra. sit downbefore she rightfully goes full cain on your ass
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