the-snowflake-owl asked:
Why do you like Simon Petrikov?
This is a fabulous question that will involve a lot of Personal Stuff.
I mentioned about a week ago that I always really like characters who end up losing their agency in some way – be it due to their own weaknesses or outside forces – and having to fight to get it back. (See also! Harry Osborn, Grantaire, Boromir, Amy Pond to some extent, SO MANY) And there’s definitely a reason for that. I have a variety of…
…really demoralising mental illnesses, most of which appear specifically designed to twist my thoughts in not fun ways. OCD is a doozy: you end up going over your day listing all interactions, hoping you didn’t say or do anything horrible but you can’t be sure and some thoughts get so persistent (because you’re going over them all the time) that you end up absolutely certain that some bizarre, insane alter-ego got hold of you at some point and wrecked a ton of very anti-you havoc.
Well, you can probably see where that’s going!
So, watching Adventure Time, my boyfriend told me there was more to the Ice King than was let on in the first couple of series, but I didn’t know what until the bit with the tapes in Holly Jolly Secrets. There was a lot I could relate to in Simon’s words as he loses his mind – which is probably very sad, but there you go. Seeing glimpses of Simon in Ice King in I Remember You (I was told that episode would blow my mind, it did) and seeing him as a fully realised person (and a loving father and massive dork, two other character archetypes I adore) in Simon and Marcy and Betty only increased my love of him. I’m really glad he’s got such a large fandom and I REALLY HOPE he’s in more episodes soon.