#and his friendship with charlie

[purplewilmon]

Charlie Spring and Tao Xu | Heartstopper S2.05

[hazbingirliexoxo]

Alastor: Do you ever wonder how many houses you’ve passed in your lifetime that have people locked in the basement?😃

Reader: ….

Angel: Like in a kinky BDSM kinda way or…?

Reader: What the actual fuck is wrong with you two?

[expectopatronum18]

Lyk i love seeing them on screen but if i'm being real i'd find them annoying if i was in school with them coz they'd be tht one friend group who r only just obsessed with their significant others and who hv nothing much going on outside tht, and i'd personally think they need to get a freaking life already lol

Although elle is an exception to this so i love her so much, I d actually love to watch some sort of spinoff series about her life and experiences in Lambert over this series

ok i'm literally gonna get cancelled for this....but i'm getting a tad bit annoyed and exasperated with the new heartstopper season (i've only watched 1.5 episodes n this is already the case lol) coz it's soo....sappy. Which is not to say i'm not giggling and squealing at it but idk, it just feels wayyy too much. I love tht the characters r able to openly share how they feel abt each other, i really do, and yes its really cute and all, and idk wht i was expecting from a romantic teen drama named 'heartstopper', but i do wish they'd put more of an effort into exploring these characters outside their relationships and not just issues in the relationship or how they deal with personal stuff with their bf/gf....lyk i feel lyk we barely know anything abt these characters apart from having a vague idea of their aesthetic and a couple other things. Especially coz i am the same age as the cast, so i personally want to see them exploring themselves as individuals a little more instead of it almost always involving their relationships. Tho ofc this isn't limited to this series, ig thts just my issue with most of the romance genre in general

[doorknobinmyayuss]

Angel: Hey Al. I’ve always wondered… do you have one of them hit lists? like a top ten of people you wanna kill?

Alastor: Why of course! Any man with half a brain knows it’s imperative to always stay organised.

Angel: Ooh who’s number one?? Please say Valentino.

Husk: It’s obviously Vox…

Niffty: Is it the rat-king that lives in the pipes under angels bathtub????

Angel: wHaT?

Charlie: I’m not sure we should be discussing murder lists… why not friendship lists! We can list the people we want to be closer to!!! Ooh let’s all make friendship lists that sounds so fun!!!

Vaggie: babe… love the idea… but I really doubt Alastor would make a friendship list… is it Carmilla?

Lucifer: Is it me? If it’s me should I be insulted? Or is that a compliment?

Alastor: HAHA! As hilarious as all of your answers are you are all terribly off the mark, It’s God. *casually inspecting his nails*

*The entire room falls silent*

Niffty: *nodding like she completely understands* This is why you’re the ultimate bad boy…

Lucifer: THE FUCK YOU MEAN ITS GOD!?!?

[stopper-my-heart]

Nothing like Heartstopper S2E8 removing some of Taylor Swift's "seven" lyrics just so that the singing can specifically come back in at "Or hide in the closet" while Isaac is processing difficult emotions related to the book he's reading (i.e., Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen).

Did I mention "Or hide in the closet" hits just as the camera focus finishes shifting away from Isaac?

This is fine

[sunsetsandsunshine]

Actually don’t fucking talk to me... @ziipzeepzop-eez

[sunscall]

just imagined mac reading the self help book, giggling to himself about his little joke to make charlie spell his name as "cat", only to see charlie write "cat <3 mac 4evr". how he probably went silent then, maybe cried a little too, because it was the first time he was ever told by someone he loved that he was loved back.

[all-too-unwell-13]

something about tara telling nick that he needs to take care of himself too is so special to me

[cellgatinbo]

"'i think the French dude is gonna die first ngl' he has a name! he has a name, and it's etoiles ✨"

[compacflt]

this is a bit of an ask inspired by another ask (and also ridiculously silly) but what’s the boys’ relationship with penny like in the future?? i loved the little snippet of her at bradley’s wedding and ice trying to figure out if she’s a threat or not (and then maverick coming back from dancing and saying he couldn’t stop gushing over ice….ugh!!!) but do they become good solid friends? I like the idea of them expanding their circle now that they can trust more people…even if one of those people are one of maverick’s exes

additionally: do her and ice ever talk about their shared experiences (not sex, ice would probably keel over and die, but just…having a relationship with mav)? the thought of penny cornering him is ridiculously funny to me. or maybe they never reach that point of comfort 🤷‍♀️ i just need to know if she ever takes them both sailing and ice gets a chance to laugh at mav on a boat

[also, in all sincerity, I have an unhealthy amount of things to say about this series and I’m a bit sad it’s over, but I love everything you’ve done <3 I could compliment it for days on end and probably never run out of things to say]

ice to Penny at mav’s birthday party sometime over the last five years: Hey! Good to see you again :) thanks for coming …

Penny, apropos of nothing: so.,. weve never talked one-on-one… but. You and i have both been inside Pete Mitchell at some point ?

ice:

[aspiringnexu]

Okay, so, Alastor theory. As far as I know nobody's discussed why Alastor ever made such an apparently disadvantageous deal.

I mean, his power is apparently leashed. He cannot access his true strength. He essentially handicapped himself in Hell. Alastor detests not being in control, he craves power because it nets him control and therefore nets him safety and security, a very rare commodity for a demon. Even an Overlord.

So why the hell would Alastor make such a shitty deal? He's a dealmaker, he knows how this works, it can't just be the result of tricky wording, there must have been something else at play.

Additionally, I'm in the camp that its Eve that has something to do with it. Lilith makes sense of a sort but why would she leash Alastor and then have him help Charlie with a project that would piss off Heaven? She's Lilith, she knows that trying to bypass the initial judgement and redeeming yourself would upset the bigwigs in Heaven. She knows they don't like having their rules bent and twisted. She gains nothing from pissing off the Heavenly Host by indirectly helping her daughter. She made a mysterious deal with Adam to get into Heaven, why would she knowingly jeopardise that?

But why would Eve care? Simple. She feels like Lucifer and Lilith betrayed her by gifting her the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. They betrayed her and she was forced into a life of pain and suffering with a husband who she realised didn't truly love her and children who started to turn on each other the moment they could. And then that same husband (or ex-husband by that point) turns around millennia later and gets Lilith into Heaven.

What the fuck?

So Eve decides that the best way to sort this out is to do what Lilith supposedly did. Betrayal disguised as assistance. Charlie is a well-known bleeding heart by now, all Eve need do is find a way to stoke that altruism until it becomes a Problem that Heaven needs to solve. Poke the altruistic bear enough and that Problem will blossom into a Shitstorm that'll drag Lilith off of her cosy perch in Heaven to sort out her wayward daughter and try to avoid Heaven deciding to exterminate every demon in Hell. Plus it'll give Adam a headache which is only a plus in Eve's eyes. And what better way to help the Princess than gift-wrapping Hell's most powerful Overlord and depositing him on her doorstep?

Her ultimate goal might be provoking an all-out war or simply petty-revenge that'll eventually get out of hand but I digress.

How does she persuade Alastor to accept such a shitty, hampering, restricting joke of a deal?

Again, simple. She's in Heaven and as such has access to angelic steel and a plethora of souls. Including Alastor's mother. The only person he ever truly loved in his life.

I'm willing to bet Alastor would do anything to safeguard his mother. Even selling his own soul.

Of course there's still the seven-year gap to tackle but who says Alastor didn't spend those seven years in Heaven? Maybe Eve managed to smuggle him up there and disguise him, let him enjoy seven years of bliss by his mother's side before blindsiding him with her ultimatum. Makes the clipped wings comment more literal.

Just my thoughts, of course, but I really can't see why else Alastor would sign his own soul away if not to protect the one person he lets himself love. He hardly made the deal for power if the deal restricted his powers and he was certainly in no danger from the other Overlords. So he made the deal, he saved his mother, but that doesn't mean he's not gonna try to find a way out of it.

[thattheater-kid]

Random Innerworld Conversations

*while in church*

Charlie: Why are we here? Neither of us are Catholic. I don’t even believe in God.

Georgie: Ain’t you the Devil’s daughter?

Charlie: Yeah, so what?

Georgie: How’re you gonna say God ain’t real when He’s your grandad?

Charlie: Spite.

Georgie: You know what? Fair enough.

[thornescratch]

Swan song.

[nyxofdemons]

i think my official take on charlie and alastor's dynamic is that i don't particularly care for it as a ship (LOVE some of the art though), BUT i do think their relationship is going to be one of the most interesting things about the show, and definitely MY favorite part. something about the sunshine princess who's actually SUPREMELY terrifyingly powerful and the equally upbeat and ever-delighted yet equally terrifyingly powerful demon who is at the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of the morality spectrum is one that is sooooooo good. i need them to be best friends SO BADLY

[saltwatersweets]

how i feel after getting emotionally attached to charlie and alastor’s friendship (he has a 99% chance of betraying her in a future season and becoming an antagonist)

[mostofthingsmostofthetime]

Nick would LOVE The Princess Bride (though the characters would boo during the part where Wesley threatens to hit Buttercup, which, like vaild).