sapphywatchesyousleep:Favourite Character: Ragdoll II / Peter...

sapphywatchesyousleep:

Favourite Character: Ragdoll II / Peter Merkel Jr and John Constantine

I couldn’t choose. I love them both so much.

I don’t know what it says about me, except nothing good, but I’ve never identified with a character as quickly or completely as I do with Ragdoll. A lot of that is that he’s the first non-binary character I’ve found in a comic, and that I read him as being ace. It also helps that he’s one the very very few genuinely happy anti-heroes. So often moral greyness goes with epic heartbreak, but while Doll has had far more than his fair share of truely terrible life experiences, he’s somehow come out of the other side capable of real happiness, and it makes him completely lovable.

A lot of people were angry about a lot of the representation of John in New 52, but anyone who’s following Constantine: the Hellblazer can tell you that those people are out of date. It took DC a while to figure out what to do with magic’s quintesential anti-hero, but the inclusion of his relationship with Nick Necro and Zatanna, all of Injustice year three and the joyful nonsense that is Constine: the Hellblazer have given us a John who is younger, happier and a damn site more fun that the one from Hellblazer. This John isn’t better, but he also isn’t worse, and I love him just as much.

Honourable mentions: Harley Quinn, Tim Drake, Mouse, the Creeper, Klarion

This is very nice to read about our little bendy person!