Cecil Stedman - Blog Posts

here's a quick compilation of that damn old man i've drawn over the last few months.

no i'm not sharing the full comics because im shy lol

okay so i'm obsessed .

So i finished Invincible...

I'd let him have my child😔they paint clouds on the ceiling 🥺🥺🥺

HAHAHAH!! OH MY GOD CECIL YOU'RE SO FUNNY *laughs harder than anyone else*

God he's so based

ok, so someone probably pointed this out already but maybe not

*invincible season 3 spoilers ig*

idk, maybe it's too obvious but

i wanted to point out these parallel scenes

in season 1 it looked like cecil is being hard on new guardians, but after season 3 (and in general, from how he acts) it's very clear that it stems from him being hard on himself. he deeply cares about people's lives and often blames himself for any lost ones. he's obviously a very pragmatic person, but i think it comes from the time he spent working in the GDA and him observing the reality of the job, being "the guy that saves the world".

still, i believe he's atfected by every live lost, there's just no time and space for any mourning and in general focusing on the individuals. so he tries to at least minimaze the amount of damage caused.

it is also directly stated in the show that he doesn't like how he has to act, but he knows it's the most "logical" given the circumstances.

the decision he's making in the scene above is also parallel to him later deciding to implant the earpiece in mark's head - not ethical, but necessary in his opinion.

and i agree - mark has all the right to be mad at cecil for this in season 3, maybe he could be more understanding, maybe not, don't wanna get into that rn - but i can't help to understand cecil's perspective - he was training mark himself, he knows how he's power has increased and the damage he poses to the world.

still, i believe he cares about mark and debbie.

and since i'm already making a post about cecil - yeah, the decision to keep conquest alive behind mark's back was stupid, but he doesn't know nolan's alive to tell them about viltrum etc, so i also get the decision in a way.

that's the post, i don't wanna make it an essay and defend cecil too much

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD HAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

give me this senior citizen right now

Ugh. Like. Can you fuck me already

Guys I’m scared to post this to instagram 😭

I couldn’t decide which one I like more so have both 🙏

DUDE I WANT HIM SO BAD I WANNA BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA HIM.

Mark Grayson the way I need him too

I audibly laughed bc why do I find him sexy

hear me out

I'm deep in the shit cause he's like. I mean. Damn. Whattttt

Fellas i have to come clean about this, the only reason I watched invincible was because of Cecil

I don't even like men but like-

Invincible Ups the Ante

*Spoiler free thoughts on Invincible S3 premiere*

2/7/25

Invincible has always thrived on emotional conflict and subverting expectations, but the season three premiere ups the ante as Mark faces off against his greatest villain yet - Cecil Stedman. I did not expect to finish the second episode of the season with my heart in my throat and being sick to my stomach. The first two episodes of the season pay off a lot of emotional stakes that were set up in season two, and seeing Mark at odds with Cecil might be my favorite conflict of the entire series, not counting season one’s end fight. 

After killing Angstrom Levy, Mark enters season three with a desperate need to maintain responsibility and a higher standard for himself. He’s chronically training so he can be better, so what happened to Levy doesn’t happen again. Cecil is determined to save the world, but he isn’t determined to save himself. While Mark is desperate to preserve his morals, Cecil is more concerned about the end goal of safety, safety for humanity and for the world. However, he fails to recognize that if his efforts do pay off, the world may be safe, but it might not be worth living in. Cecil makes some decisions at the end of episode two that he may learn to regret as the season progresses. Cecil knows that he’s trying to save the world, but he no longer recognizes why he’s trying to save it.

Mark has a barrage of problems, and none of them have an easy answer. What is he going to do when the Viltrimites come back? How will he operate now that there’s bad blood between him and Cecil? Should he feel guilty about killing the man who tried to kill his family? Can evil individuals be reformed? These questions of morality tend to be the center conflict of the show, while the heart will always be the family aspect. Mark has his brother and mom to look after, and the Guardians might be the most nuclear family on telivision. 

We should be very excited to see where this season takes us.

Rick Stepp (irresponsibleink@gmail.com)

His hand was getting cold

(Original under cut)

at this point I’m convinced that Cecil just wants trouble for the earth

Major spoilers for the season finale

Reviving conquest— I know that Cecil wants to know more about the viltrum empire and such but I know for a fact that this is the stupidest thing I’ve seen Cecil do

Sure he’s got hundreds of bombs attached to an underground bunker with conquest in it but are forgetting that the strongest weapon they had didn’t even put a scratch on Omniman

Sure they’ve had time to prepare for the rest of the empire but What the Fuck is a few bombs going to do to one of the strongest viltrumites in universe

Thinking about how despite being a robot, Donald has shown to appeal more to his humanity and compassion. Becoming empathetic at a time when someone like Rick needed someone to understand what he was going through — that he wasn’t alone. Attempting to bring ease and comfort to others like Mark and Debbie when Nolan was bedridden. Aware of his own emotions and loyal to a fault. That despite how hard the job is and realizing the truth about himself, he remains strong and connected to others (hell I headcanon that he keeps contact with Rick and William after what happened).

Thinking how in contrast, despite being human, Cecil tries to make himself the robot. With the job he has, saving the world, he had long since let go of the concept of a moral compass and being “the good guy” in order to ensure the job gets done. He commits to actions that are both morally dubious and unethical — manipulating and controlling others and cutting himself off from personal connections just so it wouldn’t weigh him down. It’s as if he tries to metaphorically program himself to having the mindset of a machine — just so the guilt of all his actions wouldn’t crush him down.

A lot of about these two, both together as a dynamic and individually, makes me wonder about how they have an impact on each other, and the way they mirror such different ways of showing humanity. To express it versus suppress/repress in a sense.

Whenever I hear this quote from the I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream game with AM’s hate monologue:

“Because of all this wonderful, beautiful miraculous world, I alone have no body, no senses, no feelings...I was machine. And you…were flesh.”

I think about Cecil and Donald.

And yet ironically enough, Cecil is the machine. Donald is the flesh.

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His shitty attitude and grabbable waist have bewitched me

When thinking of naughty fic, I think of these men.

I drew some vent art for Invincible after spoiling myself with the comics, GORE warning, I'm not a very good artist but there IS blood. I also referenced a base I found on Pinterest, it didn't have a water mark on it, so I don't know who drew it.

Yes, Cecil is my fav character and he dies TwT. This is a OC, a demon. Yes, I ship them. Fight me.