#Villains Duology

[astcae]

eli ever headcanons

never actually read the bible. he knows some fragments from his father, some stories from his mother, but he has never actually read it. he tried to, multiple times, thinking it might teach him more about god, but a feeling of incomprehensible unease filled him whenever he tried.

has trouble falling asleep, and when he doses it's usually in few very specific positions. it's stems from his childhood, when his back would hurt far too much to fall asleep in any other ones. eli is a very still sleeper thanks to it, too.

very touch starved, but also gets really uncomfortable if someone who he doesn't know well or trust touches him.

self-harmed as a teenager for a short period of time, but stopped when he read an article about it, and realised that self-harm was viewed as something "abnormal" by society.

stained glass makes him feel uneasy. he thinks it's beautiful, he always thought that, but the beauty of it doesn't get rid of the painful memories associated with it.

when he stops being hyperaware of his reactions and is comfortable with his true self around someone, he starts flinching at random sounds or sudden motions.

wears his mothers old cross necklace. he doesn't remember how he got it - she never took it off after all - but a vague memory of a stiff, cold neck and his fingers clumsily undoing a golden chain underwater keeps eli from wondering.

a "relaxing bath" became an oxymoron to him after he became an EO. following his death, he only takes showers and scorchingly hot ones at that.

[dcvina-claires]

yeah your ship may have kissed but did they try to kill each other?

[mossillustra]

Vicious, by V. E. Schwab. Chapter 1.

my new brainrot project is that im illustrating each chapter of vicious🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

[itsnotmika]

artist: @taratjah

[d34drapunzel]

people: oh you annotate books? there must be so much thoughtful reflections written in your books

half of my annotations be like:

[chaoticmiserablelover]

The fact that Victor Vale agreed to kill himself without hesitation so he might get superpowers tells you everything you need to know about the state of higher education.

[ineffablelvrs]

villains duology is crazy bc one scene its victor killing some guy and maybe dying for a few minutes and the next scene is him coming to his hotel room of the week where his adoptive daughter who can raise the dead, a dog who was raised from the dead a bunch of times and a random hacker guy are like it's a normal tuesday night bc it genuinely is for him

[vciousevrvale]

that one scene in vengeful where eli and victor are fighting against marcella and the narration goes “to think that, in a way, the two of them were working together again. like old times—or like they could have been, perhaps. it was almost poetic” lives in my head rent free.

[1fishindices]

Eli: yeah so my father abused me as a child but it all turned out fine

Also Eli: *proceed to kill himself in freezing water*

[clouds-soup]

Some of my annotations from my recent Villians Duology reread ft me looking too far into things and projecting my Catholic upbringing onto Eli

[discountsoysauce]

Eli would listen to Take Me To Church by Hozier and fully think it was a religious song. Victor has to break the news to him and then he deletes it from all his playlists

[astcae]

big thank you to all of the 10 people active in the vicious by ve schwab fandom. you're keeping me sane.

[artsychanel]

consumed by evervale brainrot again....

[mossillustra]

Vicious by V. E. Schwab, Chapter 2

this is actually moving forward omgg

[fuckvictorvale]

Happy “he doesn't know how patient you are. doesn't know you like I do.” “no. no one ever has” Sunday

[d34drapunzel]

To all characters that live in my head rent free.

Start paying the fucking rent.