#Villulah AU

[dragonheart2497]

Villulah (Villain Tallulah) AU

Where Wilbur left the island for his tour, promising Tallulah that he would send letters, memorabilia, photos. And at the start, it works! Philza cares for Tallulah, reading Wilbur's weekly letters to her and showing her the gifts Wilbur sent along with them.

Until, the letters stop coming. Philza beats around the bush when she asks when the next letter would arrive. Making excuses, "maybe he's busy" "maybe where he is right now is remote" "maybe he's super far right now, so it's taking extra long"

But she catches him arguing with a guard of the Federation, his fury that they are holding the letters back. Tallulah gets Phil to admit that he thinks the Federation is unhappy with Wilbur's absence, and punishing him (and them) by withholding his messages.

She has never held resentment against Wilbur for being gone, or Phil for struggling to protect her. Or even other QSMP adults, for even endangering her.

But this? For the first time, it makes Tallulah angry.

To distract her from her emotions, Phil lets Tallulah go through Wilbur's extra stuff he brought and left at the island. There's a sealed trunk that says Do Not Open. But she's not in the mood to follow rules, is she?

Inside, she finds poems. Wilbur's raw, honest writings about this dark time in his life, that Tallulah had never once heard a peep about. It's a brand new insight on her father, an entire story about him that... well, she understood why he wouldn't have told her yet.

But it felt... affirming. That Wilbur had felt a similar anger against authorities, a spirit to rebel. And it sparks something within her too, that maybe she could stand up against this.

There's red, round sunglasses. A bit cracked, on the left side, but they work. Despite her emotion, they make her giggle a bit, seeing everything in a red hue and thinking of her father wearing them completely unironically.

At the bottom of the box, there's a jacket. A roughened up, stained trench coat. It's huge on her, and heavy, but... it smells like him. Maybe with a taint of sulfur and ash, but nonetheless the scent that she missed so desperately.

She goes to Phil for help pinning up the very long sleeves. He seems... extremely offput, but reluctantly agrees once he sees how happy the coat makes her.

She doesn't see him staring in horror at the ragged hole in the back.

Still, time passes and no word reaches her from Wilbur. Her frustration grows again, and Phil can only anxiously watch as she starts to boil over. As she starts to mirror her father...

The final straw is when the code monster attacks her. Phil tries to defend her, but accidentally stabs her. Kills her.

When Phil reunites with her, he's half hysterical. He's freaking out over having hurt Tallulah, scared to death for Wilbur, and most of all enraged that the Island does *nothing* about the code monsters. Almost as though the code monsters were *punishing* them directly.

Tallulah's no longer having any of this.

In her anger and grief over missing her father, she dons the trench coat again, and wears the glasses, no longer able to view her reality in anything but a furious red tint. She snaps.