discoursekind:

stormsbourne:

I’ve almost made like 6 different posts about this going in depth about how Brain Ghost Dirk quoting this line is proof of how powerful and badass Jake sees Dirk as, more than anything to do with thinking of Dirk as toxic or controlling, but mostly it’s just come to my awareness of how many people don’t fucking know “My name is [x], you [verb]ed my [person], prepare to die” is a reference (some because they are young and some because well it’s a damn 80s fantasy film) and basically educateyourself.gif

This quote being the one BGD fires off is also deep proof of just how much of him comes from Jake’s psyche, not Dirk himself. Like. You wanna look at this and tell me Dirk wouldn’t be rolling his eyes the entire time. Meanwhile Jake watches this with the biggest stars in his eyes and gasps when Inigo gets back up 

blah blah also the six-fingered man is to inigo’s father as aranea is to jake: both are being used and exploited by the more powerful individuals specifically for the sake of weapons, but that’s a deeper reading than andrew hussie likely intended with his witty quote dispensing at the ideal time

and, in summary,

I think that the line playing into movies is very important for the scene and that this is crucial to how Jake views thing, but I think what makes BGDirk so powerful here is that it represents Jake truly understanding Dirk and who he is.  I would say this line is particularly representative of Dirk and how Dirk tries to express sincere emotions.

Consider Umberto Eco’s description of saying “I love you” in a postmodern world:

“The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her ‘I love you madly’, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say ‘As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly’. At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly that it is no longer possible to speak innocently, he will nevertheless have said what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence. If the woman goes along with this, she will have received a declaration of love all the same. Neither of the two speakers will feel innocent, both will have accepted the challenge of the past, of the already said, which cannot be eliminated; both will consciously and with pleasure play the game of irony… But both will have succeeded, once again, in speaking of love.”

You can see a clear parallel with Dirk’s description of irony to Jane: 

TT: The upper echelons of irony should always include measures of sincerity. And if the satirical practice is executed faithfully it will achieve something bona fide in its own right regardless.
TT: Through an intense commitment bordering on religious devotion to the absolutely inane, absurd, or plain fucking stupid, a very different kind of sincerity begins to materialize. One of reverence to the ridiculous. You begin to “mean it,” but what exactly it is you mean is never quite what appears on the surface, and is utterly inaccessible to obtuse and literal minds. That you “mean it” then becomes inseparable from the joke, and additional rich strata of humor may be stripped aggressively from this irreconcilable truth.

Dirk is extremely pop culture savvy and likes to quote things (he does it left and right, from SBAHJ references to stupid memes), and this is one more quotation that fits into it. BGDirk, as a splinter of Dirk based on Jake’s understanding, becomes fully actualized here. Rather than reflecting Jake’s self-hatred as he does in the jail cell scenes, BGDirk in this scene is fully realized through Jake’s awakened hope powers and is able to become ACTUALLY like Dirk.  And he represents that through a quotation: a quotation of a silly movie, but also a very sincere one, a quotation that allows him to be ironic while also expressing his extreme love and devotion for Jake.

In my opinion, that’s what makes this such an incredibly powerful moment for their relationship. In this moment, Jake fully understands Dirk, and so he fully understands how Dirk loves him, sincerely loves him, even through his ironies and references. That understanding of his love is what allows BGDirk to be completely real for as long as Jake has faith in him.