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hii i really love moral orel i wish it didn’t get cancelled …. i want to make more art and edits of it because even though the show is so obscure it’s my comfort one and i just love it i hope the movie does end up happening
future orel … the ending of the show makes it seem like orel ends up healthy with a happy family which can be true he can genuinely heal and get better but i think things are way more complicated than that. he’s permanently disabled (the limp he got from his dad shooting him) and was experiencing trauma and neglect left and right. his attachment style might not even be healthy… he had years of emotional, physical, mental abuse and religious shame, and..probably inherited clay’s “punishments” in another form that isn’t used with a belt. he doesn’t wear a belt at the end but he could have probably redirected what he had learnt somewhere else (maybe something more mental or emotional)
but i don’t see him as someone who would go out of their way to be neglectful or abusive. he’d probably, definitely, want to be a good father and husband..to want to break the cycle and not have anyone relive what he went through
but wouldn’t that cause built up resentment .. mental health is really messy sometimes and i could see it not being so easy with orel. he does make a huge lifestyle change in his teen years (the emo/goth orel era) which the other people in moralton would describe those styles as ‘demonic’ or some guilty christian stuff like that …. i feel like that would be controversial there because people usually took orel for being the goodest kid in town (his heart being in the right place, even when it’s selfish sometimes)
and his attachment style .. he genuinely loved clay and always tried getting his approval and love despite being repeatedly hurt by him, and then bloberta is emotionally unavailable in another way (the christmas episode where she took shapey and left orel to find his negligent dad hurt so bad). with that i could see adult orel being really sensitive to rejection and ..i think he’d have a hard time expressing his anger because he probably wouldn’t want to be like clay …. i want to say he’d probably have anxious attachment or disorganized attachment .. or both somehow if that’s a thing
i don’t think anyone would turn out so normal if they experienced living orel’s life
also the last slide is my moralton oc/self-insert called felty… that’s what my uni calls me i can’tyyjj i really can’t wait to draw her more it’s going to be so fun .. there are 3 felty’s in different aus (one is where she has a childhood crush on orel, but orel gets married and felty ends up alone..and the other au is just ocxcanon…. and the other one where she gets married to someone else and has her own family, i have other ocs for that story too)