witchunters:

littlehollyleaf:

witchunters:

#…I’m just now realizing how monotonous Ed’s life probably was pre-Season 2 #he went to work and he tried to get people to notice him and mostly they didn’t and he went home #his apartment is packed to the brim with weird stuff #ironically it feels like a bird lining its nest #he spends a LOT of time in there #totally alone #he tries to bring Kristen in and that goes horrifically wrong #he tries to bring Oswald in and that goes really well… but then Oswald leaves #and after getting used to going to work and being on the phone with Penguin all day and hiding his secrets from his colleagues #and coming home to somebody messing around on his piano and complaining he bought the wrong kind of peanut butter…#it had to be tough to go back to the daily grind #no wonder he fixated really hard on his ‘epic battle’ against Jim #no wonder he’s so unabashedly THRILLED here when Oswald comes BACK #it’s a happy surprise – he’s not used to those #he seeks people out but they don’t come to HIM #(….if you love something let it go right??) #(also the fact that Oswald comes to Ed with advice instead of for help hurts me) #(Ed brought him here in the first place as a favor – he’s trying to repay it) #(trying to be a good friend) (via @sure-as-eggs)

#this scene had that supposedly *humorous* tone cause of the contrast between them at the moment #but this was truly so gd heartbreaking in so many ways and the angst just kept flooding after that #Ed already being right in the middle of a paranoid crisis therefore thinking Oswald would instantly give him to the police #if he was sharing his plans regarding Jim with him #Ed looking confused and so uncomfortable when he realizes that Oswald isn’t there anymore even if he’s standing in flesh before him #realizing that the mind of the only other human being he was able to share with and could trust is gone cause of what Arkham has done to him #Ed fearing for himself if Oswald was gonna report him fearing he could end up being brainwashed and what he considers to be a vegetable #losing his intelligence aka the thing he treasures the most in his personality but also losing the new identity he’s starting to build #even thinking until the very end of the thing while he was getting caught and that it was over for him that Oswald did give him to Jim #that it was the only logical explanation on how Jim would have succeeded into beating him #now let’s talk about Oswald who got kicked out Ed’s appartment the only person left he thought he has a connection with and could turn to #maybe even giving him a home once again like Ed had done earlier when he was badly injured #leaving after having been not so politely dismissed and rejected but still broadly smiling at Ed until he shut the door to his face #probably reflecting onto that once he was all alone trying to figure out what he’s done wrong while his mind can’t even go there anymore #except via his guilt #probably thinking he’s just a burden to people who’s embarrassing them more than anything else but that he deserves it in every single way #Oswald walking in the cold and the rain of Gotham reflecting on Gertrud’s grave on how alone he is and how his mother is dead because of him #lbr here I have too many feelings and not enough tags for this (@witchunters)

I was PHYSICAL HURT by this scene and the fact the two of them never met up again for the rest of the season, instead continuing to harbour god knows how many misconceptions about each other and each other’s opinions of them as laid out so BEAUTIFULLY IN THESE TAGS UGH!

Their scene in Arkham next season was a BALM TO MY SOUL like, I can’t even TELL YOU

#the ANGST oh the ANGST #tragedy is my biggest kink #…but these two have a tendency to play it just slightly OFF and it’s INFURIATING! #I do ADORE Ed’s little desperate ‘Penguin won’t tell – he’s my friend’ in the mirror later though #which connects directly to all of this #his joy at finally HAVING A REAL FRIEND#only to lose him to Arkham brainwashing #but then also the guilt that maybe it was HIM that drove Ozzie away when he kicked him out #so really it’s all his fault he doesn’t have a friend in Peguin anymore – just like it’s ALWAYS his fault#because he fails at making and keeping friends #only this one hurts THE MOST because for a few glorious weeks Oswald was A REAL FRIEND#but he fucked it up #like he did with Kristen #so no – of course Penguin ISN’T his friend CAN’T be his friend don’t be stupid! #aaah so delicious (via @littlehollyleaf​)

Yes, the Riddler manifesting himself here (=Ed bringing himself down) to tell Ed that he’s naive to trust Oswald, that he can’t have any sort of emotional bond with anyone, and only have him(self) to count on as to preserve himself is just the continuity of Ed’s paranoia crisis in this moment. The Riddler knew he needed Oswald at the time so Ed could “progress*, but he wasn’t obviously very thrilled by Ed’s emotional attachment to Oswald.

We can also assume that once Oswald got Ed out of Arkham, the Riddler didn’t manifest cause he simply didn’t need to, Ed didn’t need him anymore (or the other way around, depending on how you/the writers think D.I.D works, ugh..). That part of Ed was at peace and was finally trusting Owald and accepted the fact that he was gonna be part of Ed’s life for good and he was okay with that. Which is why where the Riddler was being possessive with Ed before naturally transferred/turned into Ed acting that way with Oswald, and why the things Ed did to protect Oswald and keep him all to himself were extreme when he has wanted to prove that he and only himself could be a valuable asset for Oswald’s well-being, and that only the two of them could share this special and unique connection (no homo though).

After all the shit storm we all know about, the miscommunication and misunderstandings between those continues to this day. Ed would rather die than admitting to Oswald that he had missed him, drugged himself, fantasized about him, and went nuts and out of control without him (the only one knowing about this so far is Lucius when he was forced to play the role of Ed’s shrink when Ed had confessed and admitted that to himself when he was high). And Oswald has his own pokerface as a protection for himself so he wouldn’t let Ed know he still loves him even after Ed shot him, and to prove he’s not a slave of his emotions like he accused him to be.