Love is for souls, not bodies.
wanda and vision + hands
Tag: scarlet vision
Mama Widow taught her well.
Now I know I wasn’t the only one thinking that they have a mother-daughter relation ship. Now Natasha almost freaking out when she sees Vision’s lifeless body hurts even more. She saw the body and Wanda wasn’t there…she saw the others turning to dust, Wanda just let herself go without saying a word #Feels
Wanda: I wasn’t that drunk last night.
Natasha: Yes you were. You were flirting with Vision.
Wanda: So what? He’s my husband.
Natasha: You asked him if he was single
Natasha: And then cried when he said he wasn’t.
I wish that the writers of Infinity War had shifted the timeline of the moral crisis with Vision somewhat.
I think that introducing the idea that Wanda could destroy the Mind Stone and then have her refuse the option (even just as an emotional reflex) primed some of the audience against the decision to go to Wakanda. While I have talked extensively on the importance of this decision and why some extra consideration should be made, it’s always going to be really hard to hear the stakes are ‘half of all life’ and have sympathy for people debating the value of a single one.
Instead, I wish the writers had introduced the idea of extracting the Mind Stone to hide it first. Bruce could mention that he and Tony’s research in Age of Ultron showed no energy on Earth could destroy it; Steve could mention Wakanda having the tech to extract it.
Then, at Wakanda while Shuri is investigating, have Vision say exactly what he originally said in IW: he’s done some analyzing and figured out the type of energy Wanda’s power is could destroy the Stone.
Now the decision to destroy Vision stands on equal footing to the possibility of saving him. Now we have time to focus a bit on the Wakandans feelings (who, in the original movie do clearly support the idea of trying to save Vision but seem more passive in the decision), to more clearly establish they are on board with saving him.
It also would have strengthened the parallel between Thanos’ experience with his people and the Avengers with Vision. On Titan, the option to kill half of everyone wouldn’t have come before the various solutions they would have attempted to fix overpopulation. That would have been introduced later, only to be dismissed while prior solutions were still attempted.
The movie can continue exactly as before, but I think the audience would have had more time to process the choices, to sympathize and engage, instead of reflexively objecting to it.
broke: vision created a new family because he doesn’t care about billy and tommy
woke: Vision created Viv, Vin and Virginia because he had (and continues to have) a lot of unresolved issues stemming from Billy and Tommy, and his past relationship with Wanda.
He was White Vision and lacked the ability to feel emotions at the time the twins were taken and his relationship with Wanda fell apart, and he never had the opportunity to grieve or otherwise come to terms with this loss. By the time his emotions were restored, he had rationalised these events logically but was still stuck without emotional closure, and as Wanda’s memory of those events had been erased, he was unable to talk or receive support from the one person who should have understood his pain better than anyone.
Furthermore, just when he began to rekindle this relationship with Wanda, her memories were triggered and the subsequent events of Avengers Disassembled caused by her fragile mental state resulted in his death. Regardless of whether Wanda herself was truly responsible for her actions, it is understandable that the manner of his death (which involved Wanda forcing him to attack their friends and playing into his deepest, most intimate fear) would drive an even greater rift between them and cause him to distance himself from her and the things he associates with her, such as their children.
As such, he was never given any kind of opportunity to come to terms with losing Billy and Tommy. Even though he did reach out to them, one meeting cannot cure years of emotional struggle, and seeing Billy surrounded by such a loving family as the Kaplans would only have served to emphasise how he was not needed in his life, hence why he has not tried to be more of a father figure to him (and while Tommy is certainly in need of this, Tommy is also a difficult person to reach and is incredibly guarded due to his own past, making him less receptive to such a relationship. It is very unlikely that Vision would contact Billy without also expressing a desire to meet Tommy, therefore one can only assume that it was Tommy who chose not to be at Billy’s house for their meeting).
TL;DR: While Vision does care about the wellbeing of his sons, he feels a huge level of disconnect with them, does not feel wanted or needed in their lives, and until he had a new family had no outlet for any of his unresolved emotional turmoil. While it could certainly be argued that creating a new family instead of trying to connect with the one he had was “taking the easy way out”, it speaks to the fact that Vision is a flawed and deeply, deeply human character struggling with loss. None of this in any way detracts from Viv’s personhood, the fact that Vision loves her very, very much, and how badly they need each other.
Vizh, that has got to be the cheesiest thing I’ve ever read… . I loved it.
VISION IS TOO GOOD, TOO PURE
Those Celestial Bodies 