#but edyn <3

[gillionmeowstrider]

i miss my wife, tails.

[wasyago]

me when i work as a humble bartender and not a double agent against multiple governments

[razberrypuck]

one universal trait the tidestriders share is that they are fucking HORRIFYING when angry and/or incredibly passionate about something. this is only explicitly canon to finn and gillion but I know in my heart edyn and her parents are the same (heavy emphasis on edyn.) they're all also autistic but that's besides the point

[ghostiezone]

chip is literally never beating the allegations

[bu-blegh-ost]

Gillion and Edyn devastate me because they both love each other so much and desire the same thing, but they both at the same time serve as narrative detriments to one another. This is a tragic story of two siblings aiming to achieve the same goal of reuniting but they end up drifting apart from each other instead.

Edyn thinks she knows Gillion. She is the one to experience first hand the damage done to him, and for the longest time she was the only one Gillion was truly able to connect with. But the truth is Edyn doesn't know her brother anymore. Edyn never got to be a sister. She never got to experience being annoyed with her little brother's antics, she never learned Gill's habits, his routines, what he likes and what he hates. All she got to see was the Child broken by the Cage he resides in. A broken child that needs to be comforted, a child she loves but doesn't understand. And even with all this she knew him best of all. They shared sorrow and suffering for years and the Bond formed from mutual anguish and pain was enough to form a connection and care. All Edyn knew for so long was that she loves her little brother and that she wants to be his sister. A real one, not just the reward, a relief from pain that he Has to earn.

And Gillion thinks he knows Edyn. To him Edyn was the connection to the world itself. To Gillion Edyn is wise, unwavwring and most importantly, always right. She knows what she's doing and of course she does. She Has seen things he Has never seen before and he trusts her unconditianally. He believes she would never ever lie to him, she is the one thing that keeps him grounded in this world, a reminder of why he needs to keep going. But just like Edyn, Gillion doesn't truly know his sister. He doesn't know her aspirations, her hopes, dreams and desires, he knows nothing about her life up to this point and what she's been doing, and it's not for the lack of trying either.

Both Gill and Edyn used to hide a lot from the other to protect their sibling. Just as Gillion would be vague about things he was going through during training, trying to make is seem like he is in much less pain than he truly is to spare Edyn from things she can't prevent, Edyn was hiding the truth about a lot of things from Gillion, including the truth about the lies he Heard from the Elders in fear of Gillion breaking under the weight of his trauma after realizing that all Has been for nothing.

This behavior continued throughout their entire relationship. A pair of people who love and cherish each other more than anything, yet the world keeps creating barriers between them, until there is just so much left unfelt and unspoken they feel the need to create more barriers themselves.

When Gillion finds out just how much Edyn was not telling him, how deep her involvement with the Navy, the Elders, the war, everything is, he is left worried, hopless, hurt and betrayed. But the most prominent feeling of all is guilt. Cause Gillion trusts Edyn with his entire heart, and yet she doesn't trust him back. She thinks he can't handle it, she thinks he can't know things and it's better to hide it from him just like she Has always been doing. She thinks it is better for him, but what she is really doing is making Gillion feel worthless. To Gill, Edyn is always right so she must have a reason. To Gillion Edyn is always right, so if she thinks of him as someone who can't be trusted with a secret, who will end up ruining things for her and getting in the way, then that must be what it is. And he wants to find her, to help her so badly but Edyn accidentally created this paralysing fear inside him that if he does, he is going to be exactly what Edyn thinks of him. And he so desperately doesn't want to be that, doesn't want to be a burden on her life anymore, more than he already is since whatever she is doing she is doing it for him. The least he can do is not get in her way.

And Edyn? She goes off on her own, trying to get Gillion home, but what she doesn't realize is that Gillion doesn't need a home anymore. Gillion found his home here with Jay and Chip. But that is not the home Edyn is fighting for. She fights for Gillion to be able to go back home to the Undersea, but even if she succeeds, this will never be a home to Gillion. Not anymore. There is too much distance, too much damage to repair 17 years of abscence, 17 years without him. There are no parents anymore for Gill, only familiar strangers, and coming back there and realizing just how little there is left for him there and how much he lost will only cause him more pain. But Edyn doesn't realize it. She doesn't know what Gillion wants because she stopped asking long time ago, assumimg it for him instead, believeing he is not capable of making decisions for himself. And maybe that was true before. But it isn't now. Edyn was so caught up in her own idea of Gillion and what he is that she completely missed her little brother growing up and changing. Getting wiser and more capable, drifting away from this portrait of a helpless child she Has gotten used to many years ago. And by neglecting to notice him and see him and hear him out, Edyn didn't realise that by leaving she have deprived him of the only thing Gillion truly wanted- his loving sister. Cause that is all Gillion truly needs. His rock to keep him steady, the only one who understood him, who was there on his worst days when the only thing he could do was break down in her arms. Back when she was the only thing worth lasting another day for. And now that he thought he got her back, that she is safe and sound, she Has ripped herself away from his life once more. This time willingly, and it hurts even more.

Neither of the siblings ever wanted to hurt the other, and yet they hurt each other anyway. Because there were people who made them believe they have to hide to keep the other Safe. And it is so sick and twisted that the two of them trying to keep the other sibling away from more hurt, is the very thing that keeps exposing them both to more danger, heartbreak and pain.

[lavender-rroses]

hey guys. i haven’t drawn anything substantial for weeks so. doodles be upon ye

edited to add the colored ver :-)

[somedudenamedruiz]

More school doodles!

✨️ Jrwi edition ✨️

[bizlybebo]

yeah chip was onto something 100%

[moominpopzz]

So I realized I’ve never actually posted any Riptide art I’ve done so… here’s the most recent Gil [even this one’s from last year.. that’s why I havnt posted any]

[keysinthecouch]

Recently me and maroon , the person who runs the Lizzie blog, had a terrible idea in which Lizzie gets in contact with Edyn. Edyn tells Lizzie of what’s going on, that she’s in the navy and that she’s going to be there for a while. Lizzie is angry, upset, just overall sad.

Lizzie knows what the navy does to a person. She saw what it did to Ava, She saw how Ava’s death affected Jay. Lizzie knows all to well what could happen.

Edyn knows the Navy is bad, but she’s doing this for her family. Or, atleast , what’s left of it. She’s fighting for Gillion to come home.

But does he even want to? Is it worth fighting for? All she’s doing is throwing herself to the wolves. That’s how Lizzie sees it.

Lizzie begs Edyn to let her and the Grandberry pirates save her, to help her. Edyn says no. Lizzie makes Edyn promise she’ll be okay. Edyn can’t promise anything. Lizzie tells Edyn that if something were to happen, she would tell them. Edyn says fine.

Edyn is up for execution on the charge of Treason.

She hasn’t told anyone directly.

[looking-to-rattle-the-stars]

silly little thought for the night is when edyn would visit gillion she’d put little braids in his hair like the ones where you have 2 braids that tie together in the back like a less intense crown braid or whatever and then gillion would put edyns hair into a messy 3 strand braid because he’s doing his best and they would get little bits of seaweed to braid and put on pretzels head so she could be included 😌 n they both got big happy smiles on n share little giggles because yeah ough the tidestrider siblings my beloveds

[wasyago]

little guppies <3

[hubblespacemission]

Our Little Shark

no frame under the cut :3

Falyn Zomezath loses a shark in someone's garden. Reed Tidestrider, a simple kelp florist, falls in love with the shark tamer. Together, years later, they fight for their son.

i am officially the first person to use the “Falyn Zomezath” and “Reed Tidestrider” tags!! (<< very proud of themself)

[grayedwords]

astarion is FULL himbo in some of those pictures you posted

no fr he is. i love my slutty lil man. cannot wait for edyn to make him cry in the best way ever.

[boygirlctommy]

trying to write a riptide thing and im struggling bcsu i keep making them talk like ctommy and cranboo ToT

[enby-ralsei]

if gillion sees edyns in public, he would tear up immediately, but force himself to stay where he is. he can't bother her, she is safe, but he might make her unsafe. so he is controlling himself to not run over to her and hug her as tight as an octopus.

and edyns starts walking over, concern apparent in her demeanor, and gillion just stares at her, almost crying. unmoving. she thinks he hates her. he doesn't. so so far from it.

when she get close enough that gillion realises that she must be walking to him, he bolts over to her. he wraps her as close as possible, crying into her shoulder, not saying anything.z

and she says "I'm sorry".

and gillion starts sobbing. and in between his cries, you can her him say,

"no matter the season, edyn."

the other half.