the thing i love about t’challa wasn’t just that he took killmonger to see the sunset, it was that he was in tears as he listened to killmonger’s story – that he was arguing that killmonger wouldn’t exist if t’chaka had simply shown compassion, that he understood the black panthers of the past had maybe been wrong. you can feel his empathy for people, and why it makes him the black panther whose story is being told; the most special thing about him isn’t his powers, or his suit, because there were black panthers generations before him. his fighting skill isn’t revolutionary – he gets beaten. the thing that made him special was that he has a big heart. t’challa is a good person. genuinely, a great one.
honestly if there’s anything that reminds me of erskine’s “not a perfect soldier but a good man” line it’s t’challa he’s not a perfect king or fighter or soldier but he is a good man and that is what matters in the end
So while researching about the disorder, I started seeing quite a few correlations between A Certain Fave™ of mine and the symptoms that were shown on some of the websites I visited. For Example:
Coffee/ caffeine works to actually help calm down and regulate the mood, helping focus and productivity
Two settings- hyperfixation or complete lack of focus. A person with ADHD can completely lose themselves to a task they are engaged in/ worried about, forgetting to eat, sleep or generally perform basic human functions until it is completed. And then, on the other end of the spectrum- they will also find it difficult to focus AT ALL on things they are not interested in, choosing instead to zone out and lose concentration very easily.
Constant fidgeting, with anything and everything.
Conversations moving faster than anyone else can keep up with, hopping from point A to Z in the space of 0.3 seconds
Forgetfulness and general memory imbalances. Either perfect or not there at all.
Reckless behaviour and lack of sense of danger.
Can also manifest itself in forms of anxiety
Difficulty with socialising- often talking very loudly and jumping in or interrupting because they lack impulse control
And listen. Listen, okay- we know canononically that these are all Very Much Tony Stark Things; hyperfocusing on some tasks and then completely losing interest in others, reckless and impulsive behaviours and using coffee as a tool to focus or help productivity are just some of the FEW common examples. So, y’know, I’m headcanoning this.
The lesson to be learned from Thor Ragnarok and Black Panther: spend more time on sibling relationships and less time on grimdark or bullshit romance plots. It works out much better.
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