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Well, well, well, hello again people of Hobbydrama! Before going right into it, i wanted to thank you all for the overwhelming support on my first post. Really, I didn’t expected that it would blow up this much, so thank you for all the comments and inputs yall gave me! I truly appreciate it! If someone doesn’t know what i’m talking about or is curious to read it, feel free to gave it a shot here

That being said, i’m back earlier than i tought with another drama, this time not related to music, but concerning a Cartoon Network series that i really love. Again, i wanted to talk about it because it seems like the entire Internet forgot about this situation. But not me. I never forget some good old lesbian quarrel (even if it’s fictional). That being said, let’s jump right in!

Introduction: what the hell is Adventure Time?

At this point I don’t think anyone seriously doesn’t know what it is, but for the few who live under a rock or for the older ones: Adventure Time is an American cartoon created by Pendleton Ward in 2010 for Cartoon Network. The series is based on the 2007 short film of the same name produced by Nicktoons and Frederator Studios for Random! Cartoons. Following the viral success of the pilot, (who was rejected by Nickelodeon, btw), Cartoon Network commissioned a full series, which officially aired on April 5, 2010. Adventure Time draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and several video games such as The Legend of Zelda franchise. The series quickly gained a cult following in the years, becoming one of the most recognizable Cartoon Network’s flagship properties of the 2010s. Critically was a success, winning numerous animation awards and having guests such as the one and only James Baxter. It is held in high regards in the world of animation due to the incredibly mature tone it gradually developed over the course of its run, for its scenes bordering on the disturbing, its mature storylines, its frankly depressing character arcs and, in general, it’s emotionally raw tone. For this same reason the adaptation of the series in other countries outside of America has often been severly censored, especially here in Italy, where entire episodes have been removed and dialouges changed drastically, censoring swears, sexual references, exessive violence and even some mentions (already vague in the original version) of an alleged past lesbian relationship between two female characters, wich are both quite important for the plot. This is also the main reason why later Adventure Time projects switched under HBO and basically flew the fuck out of Cartoon Network. Keep this in mind because it will be important later. To give you all further context on this mature and emotional tone, an entire episode is dedicated to the storyline of one character forced to deal with what is basically a metaphor of the Alzheimer’s Disease at the expense of his adopting vampire daughter, who he doesn’t even remember who she was. Just so you know what are we are dealing with.

But what is the plot? Well, to put it EXTREMELY simple, the series is about a young boy named Finn and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers capable of changing shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with Princess Bubblegum, Ice King, Marceline, BMO and others, trying to protect the inhabitants from enemies from various dimensions. Anyway, the series was so iconic that after its ending in 2018 it spawned both a sequel composed by four episodes and a spin-off, which is currently been renewed for a second season. Now that you have all this context, we can go on.

Our protagonists: a sentient fascist piece of gum and a vampire-half demon goth girl

Ok so. Now i need to go on another tangent to explain some things to make everyone understand, so bear with me. One of our main protagonist in this story is Princess Bubblegum, also called Bonnibelle Bubblegum, PB or Bonnie. Just like her name suggest, she is the princess of the Candy Kingdom. Initially she was presented like the classic stereotype of the “damisel in distress” and her main role was to be kidnapped by Ice King and saved by Finn and Jake. However, as the series went on it was expanded upon the fact that Bubblegum’s leadership was basically autocratic due to her subjects being extremely naive and childlike and without a guiding hand she tought they will quickly destroy themselves. Bubblegum is highly protective of the Candy People and cares deeply for their safety, but is secretly strained by the pressures of ruling and expresses a desire for freedom. Following a near-death experience at the end of the second season (that possession video i linked earlier), she starts to isolate herself and becomes overprotective of the Candy People, even exhibiting authoritarian tendencies temporarily in the fifth season such as installing multiple cameras in the kingdom and implanting tracking chips in every citizen. Ah yes, she also did what was basically the fantasy equivalent of a mass genocide.. They also elaborate upon her passion for science, showing that she basically has a…very worring lack of ethic. Long story short, she was presented as morally gray character that would do anything to keep her kingdom safe regardless of moral implications. Like that one time she literally sabotaged the heat source of an entire kingdom making all the people there almost die, only because she tought they were a danger for her. But the at the end of the sixth season, she is deposed as ruler following an election, where she realizes she has made the Candy People too unintelligent, and basically realized that she is kinda a shitty person and a control maniac. Following the miniseries “Stakes”, Bubblegum is reinstated as ruler and becomes less overprotective and more of a nice person overall.

The other protagonist is Marceline The Vampire Queen. Just like Bubblegum, she was initially presented as the sterotype of the “mean goth girl” who bullied the protagonists (which was very popular in early 2000-2010s cartoons) and her role was basically being insufferable, do illegal stuffs and be hot. But then the series started to expand on her lore and oh my god. It was A LOT. And it was sad as shit. To put it simply, it was discovered that Marceline was born to an human mother named Elise (voiced by Rebecca Sugar, the former creator of Steven Universe) and the demon king Hunson Abadeer. Furthermore, when she was a child, the cataclysmic Mushroom War occurred, and her mom was heavily implied to be killed by nuclear radiations. Her demon father then left her completely alone in this post apocaliptic wasteland and soon after, she developed a father-daughter-like bond with Simon Petrikov, who would one day turn into the Ice King, forgetting everything about her. Then, during the mini series “Stakes” it was discovered that she wasn’t actually born a vampire (originally she was a human-half demon hybrid) and that she was a vampire hunter for a while, until one day she was bitten by the Vampire King. Wich in on itself was an explicit metaphor for sexual assault So yeah, pretty sad and dark stuffs over here. Adventure Time wasn’t shying away from dark topics at all. As you can probably guess, Marceline was expanded upon a lot and quickly became a fan favourite: in her first role, she funcitioned as a sort of antagonist of the story, forcing Finn and Jake from their home. However, she eventually becomes their close friend once Finn recognizes that she’s not really evil and that she just wants to have fun in extreme ways. Under this “bad girl” image, she is actually a very fragile and insecure person. She suffers a lot emotionally and she has very bad abandonment issues (for obvious reasons) and daddy issues (for even more obvious reasons). This fear of being forgotten and left behind by people she loves will be very important so keep this also in mind…

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