Deviation Actions
You see, for more than a year I write stories for Chappie. A movie that stole my heart and soul and refuses to give them back. Stories takes place from slice of life style, action, suspense, even some drama. The focus however stays on characters and their inner struggles. Some time ago, I also decided to finally let my inner shipper invade the story and show that Deon may have feelings for Vincent. And like this, I entered the territory I never did before. For the most of the time, love is in media presented as something that develops very fast and glue two characters together, even if it takes just few days. It is not very often when you see characters that loved each other for years, but didn’t get together.
At this point, I started to think about this subject. I positioned Deon into very unwanted situation. Imagine you fall in love with someone, but you know you can never be together. One thing is that Deon thinks that Vincent would never want him; he had a wife after all. And second, the worst fact is that Deon is trapped in the body of robot. I know it’s hard to imagine such situation, but try it. You would know that you have to be alone, you know you can’t reach to other person you want. Also, imagine you see that person everyday and spend much time together.
This is the kind of situation that we don’t see very often in stories. And I realized I am even worse person, when it was made clear in the story that Deon wants Vincent to find someone else. A woman, to be exact. And why would he want such thing, when he wants Vincent for himself? Simple.
He wants Vincent to be happy. In this story, Vincent had a wife and children, but he is not with them anymore, because he got divorced. Long story. You can never forget such thing and healing takes a lot of time, but he knows being alone is destroying him inside. We all want someone who will love us, who we can return to. On the other hand, if something like this happen, people get very careful and don’t want to start new relationships.
This is where I realized that Deon may do one of the most selfless acts in history of my weird writing career. He wants Vincent to be happy, even if it means resisting his own needs and feelings, he wants his friend to find someone with who he can find happiness again. He would give up on his own love and rather watch from distance, knowing at least the one who he likes lives a better life.
I don’t know about you, but I think this is one of the biggest proofs of love that you can have in this world. Giving up your own happiness, to help the one you love. This is rather dark theme and I think that’s why it’s not used very often in media. After all we want to see the characters getting together and have that happy ending. And even if such thing appears, the characters get together in the end. I still think most of those stories are rushed. They get together in matter of days.
Imagine you would be in the same situation. Imagine loving someone for years, but knowing you can’t be together and you just try to burry the feeling in your own heart.
What do you think of this subject? What would you do? I just know I am a horrible person for writing such thing… Yeah.
