“Because you’re mine. You were my umbrella boy, remember? You rubbed my feet when they were tired. And now look at you, the terror of Gotham. Everything I’ve done in my life, possibly the best thing was turning Oswald Cobblepot into the Penguin. I couldn’t destroy that.” – Fish Mooney, 3×02
“When I met you you were a nervous, jittery loser. You were nothing. I created Edward Nygma. And I am the only one in the world who truly sees you as you are. Who you can still become. You can’t do this.” – Oswald Cobblepot, 3×14
Oswald is merciful, Edward isn’t.
It’s such a rare trait even for a man like him; but when he shows mercy, i feel very astonished!
When it comes to people he cares about who cross him, he goes into a fit of hurt and rage, in need to kill them; but when the moment is there, his mind instantly changes, and lets them go; be it Fish Mooney, Edward Nygma, Jim Gordon even.
I have to wonder how much self-loathing came crashing down on Ed, once Oswald confessed to killing Isabella, and realizing he’d given the same excuses to Kristen when he confessed to killing Dougherty.
Maybe that’s why, when he grabbed Oswald’s face, he seemed to go from angry to hurt. Maybe he saw himself, pathetically begging for understanding, in Oswald’s eyes and couldn’t stand how similar they really were. Quite possibly the catalyst for his obsession with destroying Oswald.
“If he goes away, that part of me goes away too, and nothing will ever hurt me again.”
Oh, umm, I actually don’t think he felt any self-loathing over that. In fact, I think Ed would be furious if anyone tried to compare the two situations. He would use the defense that Dougherty was abusive while Isabella was innocent. And while I don’t disagree with that, I think he’d be missing the point that killing someone’s gf/bf without their knowledge because you thought it was in their best interest, is just wrong. Also the “I killed him because he was hurting you” excuse doesn’t work for why he killed Kristen. Just going to draw attention to the last gif for a second:
There’s a reason I decided to include the footage of him strangling her instead of just cutting off after his words. It’s to show the irony in telling a woman that you were just trying to protect her from abuse, while strangling her with one hand and covering her mouth with the other. Also, he kills her right after she says that she’ll turn him in and he’ll be sent to Arkham. It definitely wasn’t an accident but I think Ed has probably convinced himself that it was. So, I really don’t think he would make the connection between the two situation, despite the similarities.Â
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 