raised by wolves: a tv trope picspam

Jun 11, 2010 22:29

Made for picspammy.




Raised By Wolves is a TV trope that describes characters who are in someway incapable of making normal social contact, but it doesn't necessarily make them stupid. They just aren't good at communicating with other humans, which makes their interactions pretty straightforward and blunt. This is usually caused by their isolated past.

In other words, these are kind of my favorite kind of characters.



"They have no purpose that unites them, so they just drift around, blundering through life until they die. Which they-they know is coming, yet every single one of them is surprised when it happens to them. They're incapable of thinking about what they want beyond the moment. They kill each other, which is clearly insane, and yet, here's the thing. When it's something that really matters, they fight. I mean, they're lame morons for fighting. But they do. They never... They never quit. And so I guess I will keep fighting, too."

WHO: Anya Jenkins
SHOW: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
WHY: Starting out as a human, being a demon for 1000 years, and then ending up as a mortal human again. Now she suddenly has to try and fit in in the human world, although she hates it. She constantly makes remarks on it and has no idea how to communicate with everyone (with her sometimes inappropriate remarks and lack of tact), which makes it hard for the team to accept her in the beginning, but they eventually all do. She still finds it hard to fit in, though, and doesn't see how being a human could be good, but she does eventually find peace with it.



"Don't make no sense. Wh-Why the hell'd that mudder have to go an do that for, Mal? Jumpin' in front a' that shotgun blast. Hell, there weren't a one of 'em understood what happened out there. They're probably stickin' that statue right back up. I don't know why that eats at me so. Don't make no sense."

WHO: Jayne Cobb
SHOW: Firefly
WHY: Jayne's a Mercenary. He doesn't care who he works for, as long as it pays good, and for now that's Mal. He can be a jerk or say rude things to people, but there's more to him than meets the eye. As the series progresses, you can really see he cares about the team and he cares about what they think of him. He just has a lot of trouble saying that to them. The most important example is though, the hat he receives from his mother, with a letter that might indicate his greediness for money is for a better reason than just for himself.



"We're all mutants. What's more remarkable is how many of us appear to be normal."

WHO: Walter Bishop
SHOW: Fringe
WHY: Walter was basically an evil scientist before he was deemed mentally unstable and admitted to St. Claire's, until his now fully grown son came to visit him and got him out. Walter had been there for seventeen years, and a lot had happened in that time. It's also now the first time he got to talk to his son in such a long time, but he doesn't really know how to properly speak to him or show him that he loves him, so he does it his own way. Because of having been in St. Claire's for so long, he also has trouble taking care of himself, which is why Astrid and Peter try to take care of him instead, but he often wishes they didn't have to. He also has a habit of keeping huge secrets from those he cares about, just because he doesn't really know how to bring them up and tell them.



"No. You put these kids in the system and odds are... they're gonna... they're gonna end up like me."

WHO: Parker (The Thief)
SHOW: Leverage
WHY: She's crazy, and everyone knows it. She herself does too. The only thing she's really insecure about is the ability to pass off as a normal person. She blames it on her past, being raised by several foster parents. Apart from that we don't know much else from her childhood, just that she turned out this way because of it. The team tries to help her with her social skills though, and there's progress.



"Happy thoughts about Richard are not going to protect you."
"They already have."

WHO: Cara Mason
SHOW: Legend of the Seeker
WHY: Taken as a little girl, she was basically raised by the Mord'Sith and taught that emotions are a weakness and pain is a strength. Then this guy comes along who accepts her for who she is and welcomes her into his group, and that's when a whole new world opens for her. She starts to truly love and appreciate friendship and family, which is something she hadn't felt for a long, long time.



"I just know there's something dark in me and I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got. Nothing else could love me, not even... especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else... someone. It's like the mask is slipping and things... people... who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me."

WHO: Dexter Morgan
SHOW: Dexter
WHY: Dexter lives in his own little world and keeps up a pretense for the outside world, including his girlfriend and his sister. When his mother is killed right in front of him when he was little, and afterwards taken in by cop Harry Morgan, he finds out he isn't normal. He feels the need to kill. Harry teaches him how to use that for good and tells him only to kill bad people. It's only much later that Dexter realizes the real consequences of that. He also constantly tells himself that he does not know what it is to feel emotions or care, but that he doesn't need them. He only realizes he actually does later when it's already too late.

tv:leverage, tv:firefly, tv:buffy the vampire slayer, tv:fringe, other:picspam, tv:legend of the seeker, tv:dexter

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