#Rover Larrikin

[neitherthehoneynorthebee]

Finally!!!!!!!!

Chapter 20 of Time Out Of Mind (a Skulduggery Pleasant time travel story about grief and fixing your mistakes) is out as of two. seconds. ago. View here: Time Out Of Mind - Chapter 20 - Alexander_Writes - Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy [Archive of Our Own]. This is where it's all been heading.

[girls4etho]

rover larrikin could play wwx. i can see it

hang on i have a really bad post to make

[nevermindigotthis]

When Baron Vengeous returns and uses Vile‘s armour, Skulduggery‘s secret must be revealed in the truly heartbreaking chapter 18 in book 2 of Dead Men Walking (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). There‘s much more to the scene but drawing everything would take forever. And fyi Saracen and Erskine are also there, they just didn’t say anything so I didn‘t draw them.

[wrens-wramblings]

The worst thing about reading prequel / AU fic is when you get attached to a character who's dead or not around in the canon timeline and there's no other fic that characterises them the same way so you just have a void of content for them.

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I have a question. About Larrikin’s full taken name. Is it Larrikin Fetter or Rover Larrikin?????

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@dasy8316

The secret to sex is to say "tally ho" beforehand

[lassieposting]

What do you think the Dead Men / other skulduggery pleasant characters pet names would be for their SO?

OKAY SO

here's the rundown

DEAD MEN

ghasdug: they don't really use pet names. ghastly sometimes calls skug skul, which skug hates, but he gets away with it by dint of having done it since they were teens. they get together at 16 and for most of their relationship skug doesn't use affectionate nicknames or pet names for anyone. He does sometimes fondly call ghastly bespoke, though.

sexter: dexter is just dex, mostly - not just with saracen, but with all his lovers. saracen is like 5'9 to dexter's 6ft, so dexter fondly refers to him as big guy.

shudderkin: shudder isn't a pet name person, but he is pretty much the only person who regularly calls larrikin by his first name, rover. on the flipside, larrikin will answer to pretty much anything, and shudder promptly gets nicknamed altar boy, in honour of all that religious guilt he carries around.

other: ghastly was a sergeant major during the war. everyone who doesn't outrank him still occasionally whines "but sarge," if he's telling them off for something.

BAD BOY BRIGADE

violent: their relationship is a closely guarded secret for a long time, so in public they're professional: vile calls mevolent your grace, and mevolent calls vile general. in private, over the years, mevolent will sometimes fondly refer to vile as rouquin ("little redhead" or "little ginger" in Middle French). vile doesn't use pet names at all, but he does call mev mevolent, rather than an honorific title, which isn't something many people get to do

nefmev: they don't do pet names, especially not from nef. he's pretty smitten with mevolent, but mev sees him as a convenient casual hookup whenever he wants one, so he won't get away with over-familiarity in the same way vile could if he was the pet name type. he's one of mevolent's closest advisors, and in the war room, to a certain degree he gets to talk to mev like an equal and argue with him, but that doesn't really carry over to the bedroom. nef is used to messed up power dynamics, so this never really strikes him as odd.

sorrowscorn: they're both rather fond of darling

baronscorn: they have their own little awkward thing where she calls him husband and he calls her wife. the rest of the court are not entirely sure whether these are affectionate pet names or whether they are just strange ultra-repressed oddballs who think that's how normal people speak. vile and mevolent have a running bet.

GOOD GUYS (MISC)

cassdug: she's not flowery at all about her pet names - he's usually either love or lovey, depending on her mood. he doesn't really go in for them with her, but he does call her cassie in private, which is. very unusual for him, seeing as he pretty much never shortens names.

skulpine: skug calls nef nefarian. this is significant to nef because he isn't on first-name terms with leibniz!skug, and he gets visibly annoyed when og!skug keeps calling him nefarian in lsodm/tdotl. as his obsession shifts from skug-as-enemy to skug-as-ally, he starts to like the informality, because it makes him feel like skug likes him, and at a certain point he starts reciprocating by going from "the skeleton" or "detective pleasant" to skulduggery. these aren't actually pet names for skug though - he and og!serpine are on first name terms the whole way through book one, so this is normal to him.

valdug: pet names are pretty rare from him, and non-existent from her, but he does call her dear every now and then. neither of them are really the type that show affection like this.

skugwife: easily the most petnamey couple here - he's my darling and she's dearest. when they're courting and writing to each other, him at the front and her back in dublin, his letters begin with "dearest clary" and hers always end with "be safe, my darling". they keep this sappy shit up until she's killed, and even after - he vaguely remembers hallucinating her comforting him and telling him to come with me, my darling when he was being slowly tortured to death in serpine's dungeon, and that's the incident her ghost tells him about in tdotl - "we watched you suffer, we tried to get you to come with us".

vilekyrie: not so much a pet name, but i've always had a headcanon that when vile has nonverbal periods, he communicates with little shadow emojis like the sandman in rise of the guardians. he has one for her, like (🙎🏻), and mostly uses it to show he's worried about her if she's upset (🙎🏻❓) or that he's happy to see her/wants to show her something (🙎🏻❗) or say "I love you" (🙎🏻❤). sometimes his shadows will make the little signs in his sleep, and she can tell he's talking to her in his dreams. she sees it as almost a pet name. when he's talking though, they don't really have any.

(@bubblemoon66 do they have pet names in the spy!au? now im curious)

soldug: they mostly call each other by their surnames (pleasant/wreath) or by titles (detective/cleric), so their version of pet names is just...informality. if they use skulduggery or solomon, it's usually affectionate or concerned.

skug's siblings: after skug's mother is killed, he gets custody of the five youngest siblings. respair, the youngest, is only like four, and still has a little-kid lisp, and can't actually say 'skulduggery'. So skug gets to spend several unfortunate years as...well...skug thkug. respair grows out of it - eventually. raising kids is a thankless, embarrassing job.

BAD GUYS (MISC)

vilequesse: she frequently refers to him as my little toy or my pet. he doesn't really have one for her (but vilekyrie!au vile does have a sign for darquesse, and it's different to his one for val, which is. a relief for her tbh because for a while she's not actually sure whether he knows there's a difference)

tanguine: brs is a good ol' southern boy, so he has a whole bunch of names for tanith. honey bun, sweetheart, sugar, dumplin', all the typical schmoopy food ones. if she asks him something, he'll often answer her with either "yes ma'am" or "no ma'am". tanith, being all remnanty, isn't overly given to genuine displays of affection, but in a world where he survives tdotl and they figure it out, she mostly opts for babe

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To my brother's revolutionary covenant I’m runnin’ with the Dead Men and I am lovin’ it! See, that’s what happens when you up against the ruffians We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it! Rover Larrikin, I need no introduction When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!

[footyplusau]

Vale John K Watts: the best ever… but could he play football?

As one of the great Perth radio presenters of all time, JK Watts often sang and carried on about how, as a footballer, he was “the best ever”.  

It is a funny thing to say about yourself, especially in Australia.

Watts’ irreverent humour was a staple on many sports program in the early 80s. Photo: Jon Watts

But could he really play? Was he any good?

Yep, he could, and yes he was.

Watts, who passed away on Saturday after a long battle with cancer, was a premiership player with East Perth in 1956, 1958 and 1959, and coached by the legendary Jack Sheedy, playing alongside Polly Farmer, Ted Kilmurray and others with names like Webster, Earnshaw and Kevin McGill.

A talented defender and ruck rover in a tough era, John K Watts also won premierships in the VFL (with Geelong in 1963) and Tasmanian football league (with Hobart in 1966 as captain coach), becoming the only Australian Rules footballer to win three premierships with three different teams in three different states.

As an 18-year-old in 1956, Laurie Kennedy was the Royals team youngster and remembers JK the footballer as a flamboyant but “good player”.

“He was a bit of a fancy pants,” Kennedy told 6PR Afternoons.

“Wattsy would have the socks but outside of the socks he would have the white bandages on so everyone knew Wattsy was there.

“He wouldn’t just take a mark… he would put it behind his head and flick the ball backwards and forwards … ‘did you see that one! How good was that?’, so Wattsy was a showman all the time.”

Kennedy, himself a triple premiership player in the same teams as Watts, compared him to intercept specialist defender Jeremy McGovern in the current Eagles team.

“Wattsy was that sort and he was fairly mobile. Quite regularly, he would take off from the backline and head off and do the bouncing and try to attack as best he could,” Kennedy recalled.

JK Watts was the only footballer to win three premierships with three different teams in three different states.

“(But) Wattsy was a very good mark.  There’s times you would be standing there in the back pocket and next thing over the top there’d be this big bloody knee in your back and there’s Wattsy taking a ‘speccy’ over you.”

Any chat about John Watts the footballer soon turns to the related topic of JK the larrikin. 

There was that time when East Perth were building a new grandstand and veteran club administrator Hec Strempel couldn’t understand how the builder was short so many bricks.

Kennedy reckons the mystery was solved when the team went out to a function on Peninsula Road in Maylands.

“Sure enough, there’s all these bricks, there’s a retaining wall, there’s a BBQ. Wattsy had knocked them off,” Kennedy said.

John Watts played 166 games for East Perth and 52 for Geelong between 1954 and 1965, winning four flags.

He could talk, he could sing, but he could really play football.

Simon Beaumont presents the Afternoons show on Radio 6PR

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[neitherthehoneynorthebee]

Larrikin for the character bingo :)

Hiya spooklia, I hope you're doing well :)

I'm prefacing the ramble with the fact that I am not sober, and there may be more spelling errors and just general incoherency - we'll see!

So the thing about Larrikin is we know so little about him which means that a) we can project whatever we like on him and b) most of my emotional attachment is basically to my OC. That said:

We KNOW he had a sense of humour and was close to Anton, we also know that he cared enough to make him smile in a very tense environment (in a reckless way - which implies with absolute certainty that he was safe with Anton, or a disregard for his own safety which is also interesting).

We KNOW he died before the war, saving Dexter's life. There's ... a lot to extrapolate from that.

And that's all I remember from canon.

But even just that - imagine fighting centuries in a war only to die relatively just before it ends. Imagine loving the people around you the way he did (because both of these details are manifestations of love, are they not?) and not getting to see peacetime with them. It's angsty enough as it is, and my headcanons make it even angstier. Fuck I love writing Larrikin.

[nevermindigotthis]

Seven sleeping Dead Men and one Dead Man who is taking a picture because he finds them adorable 🥰 (Descry Hopeless and Rover Larrikin are from my favorite SP fic https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976 by purplejabberwock on AO3)

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Anton Shudder and Rover Larrikin. This is part of my crusade to make every SP fan on Tumblr read Dead Men Walking by purplejabberwock on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). Please read this, I need people to draw fan art with me. Also it‘s the ultimate Erskine redemption and perfect Larrikin and Hopeless. God Hopeless, I love him so much…

[nevermindigotthis]

Rover Larrikin from purplejabberwock‘s Dead Men Walking (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). Rover is an Elemental with a tragic backstory, but he‘s also a people person who keeps the team together. He is the one who brought everyone back together after the war, he and Dex also got married once because they needed an excuse to throw a party. There are frequent discussions about who is the husband and who is the wife 😄

[nevermindigotthis]

Explanation: This is again from purplejabberwock‘s Dead Men Walking AU, this time from the work https://archiveofourown.org/works/913237/chapters/1770154 which has origin stories for the Dead Men. This is Rover Larrikin, an elemental with a past so tragic he often turns himself to stone to escape. I re-read Larrikin‘s story again yesterday and I have so many feelings that I needed to draw something.

[nevermindigotthis]

Solomon Wreath in Vile‘s armor. Context is this amazing alternate Skulduggery Pleasant book series: https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976 where everything is the same but also very very different because the Dead Men are all still alive and a team (yup, even Hopeless and Larrikin. They‘re great.) One of the things that is different is that at one point Vile‘s armor kidnaps Solomon and uses him as a magical host. Solomon does not have a great time.