#Pinocchio (neverafter)

[fischyplier]

Watching Neverafter right now and saw something familiar!

[charlilil]

A quick thing cause I finally watched last weeks episode

[loosebaron]

Well fuck

[image id: brennan lee mulligan on the dimension 20 set saying (in captions): “You shouldn’t have to be perfect for people to say you’re a real boy.” /end id]

(Image ID by @thepringlesofblood)

[submissive-dumbass]

We stan

[scalpho]

lou wilson characters who forgive their terrible parental figures because they believe that someone being cruel to them is an ultimately beneficial thing hits me right where it hurts. pinocchio saying "sometimes you need a bad stepmom to let you know what's right". gunnie hugging norman and saying "you made me the man i am, by being mean to me and then being really, really, really nice". fabian's endless defense of his parents. as the stepmother says to pinocchio: "nobody needs a bad stepmom". none of you need bad parents. cruelty isn't good for you pleaaaase

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from man to man. you need to chill

[foxesdontscareme]

they're best friends your honor

[raspberrywiskey]

i love this cat. He is evil and sucks

[cntbtchthevapegod]

[inkedcryptid]

Lou "I will never play a warlock my soul is mine" Wilson giving us a warlock who's his own patron is so poetic I can't get over it

[the-swift-tricker]

pinocchio's and pib's epilogues

[lizormianillustration]

what would you give for a chance to write this story a different way?

[charlilil]

This is all Lou screaming so be warned

[pippinscribs]

Neverafter truly has delivered on the small emotionally tormented characters promise

[radiocrypt-id]

Elody is tragic, I think, in a way that feels very close to home?

She's a woman that met someone interesting and strange and became friends with him, happy to have a friend around, since her parents are too sick to be in her life all the time. She was a little girl forced to grow up so fast, to take every type of class and feel the weight of her station on her shoulders every day, growing closer to the time she has to step up and take over, desperate to be deserving of the title. Desperate to do her parents proud.

And she's got this friend now, this sweet, gross little frog that talks and says he's a prince. His story is a strange and sad one, one she maybe can't fully understand but offers what support and sympathy she can. If she even believes him, I'm not sure she really does. And he's funny. He makes her laugh, reminds her of the fun of the world, encourages her to take care of herself and enjoy things as often as possible, reminds her to be young and happy and live freely. And she needs that. She needs someone to look her in the eyes and tell her it's okay to be a kid. It's okay to play with her ball in the woods and it's okay to sing and dance and get dressed up and do the fun parts of being a princess. He brings her joy that she hasn't had in a long time. She loves that about him, how fun and silly and clumsy he is, it's charming. She falls in love with that silly frog.

But then Snowhold comes. They have no allies, their armies are failing, their people are dying and she's up all night going over maps and strategy at a table of advisors and generals and is so stressed and trying so hard. But her silly frog is still a silly frog. He thinks about balls and good food and safe castle walls. He tells her to relax, enjoy a meal, gossip about the nobles, have fun. He hasn't changed. But she's being forced to change. Now that silly levity isn't charming and fun, it's frustrating. She doesn't have time for games and can't see how hard he's trying to make her smile. She needs a Prince, a man to stand beside her at the war table and talk tactics and look for ways to save their home and people. She needs a fighter, a hero. But Gerrard has never been a hero, he's a frog. Elody was the hero. She saved him. And she's so exhausted by being the hero. She's always taking care of someone else. She just wants to be taken care of. She just wants help. It's hard to love someone the same way in times of trouble. It's hard to find the space in all the stress and work to love Gerrard the way she did when they met.

Elody does still love him though. She does. It's a painful sort of love, in believing that he's never going to change and be what she needs him to be, in that she's always going to be the hero for him. But she loves him. She carries a shield with a lillypad on it, she wields a mace with the golden ball as part of it, she's actively carrying him with her. She's thinking of her silly little frog and hoping he's safe, where ever he's gone to hide and when it's all over, when she's saved everyone and made everything better, she'll go find him again. And then she can take him to a ball, like he wanted. She wishes he was different, but doesn't think he'll change.

Imagine what she'll find, when they meet again? Her silly little frog is still silly and clumsy and thinking about her constantly, but he's a hero now. He fought and died with his friends. He's twice upon a time. He's been Outside, in The Lines Between. He's a fighter now, he's brave, he's friends with death itself. He's a commander, great at group tactics, vital to their group. And he's got a couple kids around him, that he's exhausted by but loves in some way. He scolds them and encourages them and he's kind of a dad? And he's been looking for her, not hiding. He's been trying to find her since he left, regretting leaving her behind but really not sure how he would have helped. And he loves her, god he loves her. Even as he turns into a frog from her falling out of love with him, Gerrard loves Elody. He loves her enough to be brave, to learn the things he never got a chance to learn before, to take care of others.

Elody is so loved, and she has no idea. She loves him enough to take care of everything by herself, holding onto what parts of him she has space for during this horrible time. But Gerrard loves her enough to die trying to find her.

She has to be his hero, she never had a choice in that, but unlike most cases in life, he's trying to be her hero too, and she has no idea.

[critdeeznuts]

thinking again about how lou pitched both rapunzel AND little miss muffet for neverafter. we need a season with him playing a female pc NOW.