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movesthestars) wrote2019-06-14 04:45 pm
movesthestars) wrote2019-06-14 04:45 pm
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i move the stars for no one
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Jareth is almost the biggest sore loser in the universe. He does not take well to having his plans crushed by little girls who can't make up their minds. However, in the end, he allows Sarah to return home with her brother and when he sees her happy and celebrating with her friends, he leaves her in peace and flies off towards the moon.
In other words, despite appearing to be a completely self-absorbed d-bag with pretty hair and spandex, it seems love won in the end, even influencing the Goblin King ... though I doubt it changed his ways much.
He is very conceited, really only seeing things from his own point of view, and wow, is his point of view skewed. Jareth has a manipulative case of the Nice Guy™ syndrome, with a dash of gas-lighting and a sprinkle of heavy narcissism.
While it was true that Sarah was a selfish little girl, shirking her babysitting responsibilities and playing the victim, once Jareth traps her in his Labyrinth, putting her and her friends at risk, he becomes a villain and a sadist.
He doesn't see things that way, of course. In his mind, he's the handsome prince, trying to give the princess whatever her heart desires. He takes every opportunity to remind Sarah of all the things he does for her.
To be somewhat fair, Sarah did literally ask him to take her brother away. Still, once she changes her mind, a truly Nice Guy™ would have given her what she wanted.
Instead, the more she defies him, the more he speeds time and the more challenges he sends her way. When she overcomes everything, including his goblin army, and faces him in his castle, he gets very melodramatic about how ungrateful and cruel she is.
Yeah, he's a dick. But he's also a dick who can make all your fantasies come true. So, there's that.
"Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that child be taken, I took him. You cowered before me and I was frightening. I have reordered time, I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?"
Jareth is almost the biggest sore loser in the universe. He does not take well to having his plans crushed by little girls who can't make up their minds. However, in the end, he allows Sarah to return home with her brother and when he sees her happy and celebrating with her friends, he leaves her in peace and flies off towards the moon.
In other words, despite appearing to be a completely self-absorbed d-bag with pretty hair and spandex, it seems love won in the end, even influencing the Goblin King ... though I doubt it changed his ways much.
He is very conceited, really only seeing things from his own point of view, and wow, is his point of view skewed. Jareth has a manipulative case of the Nice Guy™ syndrome, with a dash of gas-lighting and a sprinkle of heavy narcissism.
While it was true that Sarah was a selfish little girl, shirking her babysitting responsibilities and playing the victim, once Jareth traps her in his Labyrinth, putting her and her friends at risk, he becomes a villain and a sadist.
He doesn't see things that way, of course. In his mind, he's the handsome prince, trying to give the princess whatever her heart desires. He takes every opportunity to remind Sarah of all the things he does for her.
To be somewhat fair, Sarah did literally ask him to take her brother away. Still, once she changes her mind, a truly Nice Guy™ would have given her what she wanted.
Instead, the more she defies him, the more he speeds time and the more challenges he sends her way. When she overcomes everything, including his goblin army, and faces him in his castle, he gets very melodramatic about how ungrateful and cruel she is.
Yeah, he's a dick. But he's also a dick who can make all your fantasies come true. So, there's that.