#candle cove lillian

[boneheadedblu]

Here’s a little Lillian doodle!!

[snowy-bowtied-panda]

lillian as a spider

[emerson-grimes-apologist]

Some messy Tarantula Crew headcanons/thoughts I posted on Discord but will also post here:

THADE --doesn't have a natural sense of what colors go well together and which ones clash, and also just really loves all colors, so he used to dress really gaudily, until people bullied him about it. now he just wears black and white. --always looks 2 minutes away from dying. this is just how he looks normally.

LILLIAN --i don't really have anything interesting to say about her lmao. like i love her, i love feral women, i like to draw her and put her in situations, but i don't really have any headcanons off the top of my head RED MARY --the crew calls her red --smokes and has a gravelly smoker's voice (which was also probably caused by the smoke of all the fires she sets) --her personality is a pain to develop, let me tell you. i keep feeling like she's too similar to my version of skin-taker (not being outright hateful and just killing bc she enjoys it and doesn't see it as wrong) BOAR --this was inspired by how the wiki used to say that the hogs crew's captain (who is possibly supposed to be the same guy as boar) was twice as tall as the other puppets. i headcanon him to be between 6'10" and 7' tall. maybe taller... --a very wholesome guy. but don't mistake his kindness for weakness, and don't mistake his optimism for stupidity --was a proper sailor before joining the crew. possibly a merchant sailor or a whaler. he's the most knowledgeable about nautical stuff. SCHOT --he got caught by the navy at some point in his past. the scars on his face are from the earl of wax's clawed torture glove. (my interp of him has 5 scars across the whole width of his face and not just his eyes) --he was a high-ranking member of the red-handed jacks (green gregory's crew, and also the most feared pirate crew of the time), which is why earl came after him so hard. earl was also the one to target and kill his wife. --he's blind in one eye (from earl torturing him), so when he shoots, he doesn't have to close one eye, so it seems as though he's just staring into the soul of whoever he's shooting DR. MORT --he doesn't have eyelids so he just constantly stares at people. --he's immune to sleep deprivation because he used to have a very demanding career as both a head surgeon at candle cove's hospital and a main contributor in cc's medical academia. like he can sleep for 3 hours and feel well-rested. --unsophisticated frenchman representation. he owns like 3 outfits total, smells musty 24/7, and is banned from the kitchen because one time he thought lemons and oranges were interchangeable in recipes CONEA --i have nothing really interesting to say about him tbh. i wish i was less bored by him, but he's just kinda... there. --he has long luxurious hair and it makes him look like a male model. TALAPIO --i mentioned this before, but i hc her to have been just a normal (but weirdly big) spider before she got light magic. her previous owner was a light magician who gave her their powers on their deathbed. --she's another one of those characters who i definitely think has potential but i'm weirdly not that invested in. i should think about her more. it's pretty interesting, to think what it would have been like to go from having a bug's intelligence to being smarter than any human... BONUS! THE UNNAMED COOK --her name is gwen and she's a no-bullshit old welsh lady --that's it. i only think about her like, once a year.

[milqueskin]

"Some" Tarantula Crew Headcanons

GENERAL

ROOM-SHARING SETUP

Lillian, Mary, Talapio, and later Auburn

Boar, Dr. Mort (although he spends most nights working in his office), and later Thade

Schot and Percy

Conea sleeps in the water

HEIGHTS

BOAR IS HUGE. The wiki says that if he was a puppet in the show, he would have been almost as tall as Janice, which would make him, like, twice as tall as the other puppet characters?? So I headcanon him to be like, over 7 feet tall. A literal giant. Why not?

Everyone else on the crew is also fairly tall. Thade is quite tall (but by a normal amount, not tall like Boar), and Lillian and Schot are a few inches shorter than him.

Red Mary isn't short by typical standards (she's like... 5'4" I guess?) but seems short compared to the rest of the crew.

Dr. Mort is SMALL. He's shorter than Mary and just barely taller than Percy (but he's catching up to him!)

Percy is at a normal 12-year-old boy height. Auburn is a little shorter.

Conea is also probably 7 feet tall, but that's average for a merman.

Disclaimer: I'm bad at visualizing height, so if this is confusing... that's why

LILLIAN

Strong sense of justice and what's right.

Has a code about paying back debts. Like, the only reason she let Mary join the crew was because she (supposedly) saved them once. This is also why she lets Dr. Mort stay even though people have tried to get him fired (he's saved their lives multiple times and she thinks it would be wrong).

Her reason for becoming a pirate was pretty silly and not thought through (teenage/young adult rebellion), but it worked out for her.

I imagine her to be very tan and have lots of freckles.

Feral.

Follows her gut rather than common sense sometimes.

THADE

Talks a lot. Constantly asks questions. Annoys people.

He’s normally quiet and shy but talkative towards people he knows well.

Manic pixie dream boy! He and Lillian are manic pixie dream people to each other.

Is Percy’s cool older brother/cool young uncle figure

He's the scout of the crew.

(There are other parallels between him and Percy as well)

Was a tailor (or tanner? I'm not sure) before he joined the crew.

RED MARY

She's the first mate.

She hides the full extent of her powers from the crew.

Her normal-power-level magic causes her to generate fire in the air (like that Dragon Ball fireball thing), but her super powerful magic actually causes fire to come out of her skin.

(CW for really severe burns) Her hands and arms are badly burned because of it, and she's missing fingernails and some parts of her fingers.

And in the future (like when the show of Candle Cove takes place), her hands and forearms (plus some other parts of her body) are just bones. Like she burned all her flesh off. (CW over)

Either she is able to ignore pain, or she got Mort to do brain surgery on her so she no longer felt pain.

She’s both smart and calculating but also prone to following her impulses.

She doesn't have any complicated motivation for being evil, I don't think. She just likes to burn and kill and destroy for fun. Like a child burning ants with a magnifying glass.

My voice headcanon for her is Amanda Palmer.

PERCY

Lillian assigned him the duty of teaching Thade about how Candle Cove works (because everyone else are adults and have things to get done) and they’re close because of it.

Reckless. Needs to be supervised. Causes Schot so much anxiety.

Stands up for himself. Would get into arguments with grown adults.

Kind of a little shit, honestly–

Loves and relies on the crew more than he’d like to admit.

BOAR

Sometimes frightens people due to his absurd height but is very soft and kind.

His relationship to Lillian is that they were friends (like found-family siblings, basically), and he took care of her after her parents disowned her.

If you meet him, he's your friend. You don't have a choice.

There's a running gag of him acting more fatherly towards Percy than Schot. Like, Schot would swear, and Boar would gasp and cover Percy's ears. Things like that.

The story of how he got his nickname is embarrassing and he gets flustered if people bring it up.

Used to be a whaler before he became a pirate.

SCHOT

Everyone else is sort of suspicious of Red Mary, but Schot is the only one who seriously distrusts her. He's spoken to Lillian about it, but she thinks that it's just his hypervigilance/past trauma causing him to see proof that isn't there.

He was imprisoned by the NPHC once but (barely) escaped. The scars over his eyes are from the Earl of Wax and his Freddy Krueger torture glove.

He's blind in one eye (caused by Earl torturing him).

Doesn't really enjoy being a pirate. He's sick of all the violence and danger and just wants to settle down and live safely with Percy.

The only reason he's with the crew is because the navy is after him and he knows he can't live anywhere in Candle Cove without them eventually finding him again.

His dolphin necklace used to belong to his wife.

CONEA

I feel bad for him because he stays in the water and can't come on deck and interact with the crew.

He probably doesn't mind though. He seems like a loner/introvert.

Used to be part of the Amantis military and developed explosives for war. He regrets this.

Was outcast from Amantis for rebelling against the government and whatever wars they were fighting.

Secretive about his past

I am compelled by the idea of him having, like, mechanical legs? And being able to walk around the ship and interact with people, but I don't know. I think him staying in the water the whole time could be compelling too if it's done well.

DR. MORT

Acts aloof, like he's just an employee of the crew and not actually part of the crew/"family".

Very… lowkey. People barely notice when he is or isn't around. Hides out in his office all the time unless there's a crew meeting or something.

Once the crew visited Banana Land to get fruits, and then they left, and then like 3 hours later, they realized Mort was gone and that they had left him there--

Soft voice. Pleasant smile. Actually has a sort of comforting presence if he's not operating on you.

He weighs about… 10 pounds? (he is just a large ragdoll) and has been blown/thrown off the deck of the ship more than once.

Do you know how stuffed animals that have been around for generations get skrunkly and pilly and sort of gross? That's kind of how he looks. (Look up "Too Much Love photo series" for examples of what I mean.)

Everyone there sort of dislikes (or is scared of) him, but he isn't bothered by it.

TALAPIO

She didn't have human-level intelligence until she got light magic. She was just a normal (but large) spider.

She was previously kept as a pet by a powerful light magician who gifted her their powers on their deathbed.

Her powers: being supernaturally smart, mind-reading, predicting the future, knowing things that are otherwise impossible to know, glowing.

Her role in the crew is a seer. Like, she finds hidden treasure and stuff like that.

The crew calls her Tilly for short.

She CAN communicate with people somehow even though she can’t talk. She writes or uses Morse code or something.

She either "left" when Mary joined the crew, like the wiki says (Mary knew that Talapio knew her true intentions and killed her before she could tell anyone), or Mary just threatened to kill her if she told anyone in order to keep her quiet.

AUBURN

Oh, you thought PERCY was a little shit?!!

I like the idea in the fandom of her being adopted. Like, Lillian just found her someplace. (I don't think Lillian would have a whole baby in such a dangerous environment.)

What if... she was a runaway?

Around 10 years old.

Lillian, Thade, Boar, and Schot are all her parents.

Took on personality traits from all the crew members.

She and Percy disliked each other at first but eventually became close siblings.

There are parallels between her and Janice. Like, with her being separated by her family and then being raised by a pirate crew. Janice reminds Percy of her in ways.

Has a strong sense of justice that Lillian taught her.

I'm on the fence if I want her to be the same character as Flaming Dragon from the Hogs Crew. Like, I think it would be compelling if she learns she has fire magic after having been traumatized by fire before. But I also like Flaming Dragon and want her to be her own character with no backstory I have to take into consideration.

[harlowes-home]

Hihi! Ya got any unfinished / scrapped cc art you haven't shared?

OH. SO MANY. SO MANY ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. Let me see if I can find any

REALLY Old auburn concept

Old banana king concept I never finished. I've never liked the idea of him being a ghost cuz it felt like seeing and talking with ghosts felt like a skill unique to skin-taker so it felt like a plot hole.

funny lillian and red mary sketch based on a writing by @stalwolf

FELLAS

Old janice concepts from last year. She and my style have changed a lot.

Here's a link to my candle cove art archive if you wanna see more!

[sadpuppetsworld]

i would like to read some of ur headcanons pleaseeee🥺🥺🥺

First of all: Sorryyy its so latee :(

Second: Yay first ask!

Skin-Taker: He is a big colector. Since in Abysal Kingdom there is no much to see I feel like he would find anything facinating in this world (A trait left from Thade) I also think he has he has his little collection of crystals

Percy: My mans is traumatized. He obviously has very big, very bad anxyety (We are same fr). Because of that I think it takes forever for others to convince him to go anywhere that isn't Laughingstock

Janice: She is just a sweetheart. I feel like she does a little gestures to others all the time like painting their nails or braiding their hair or making little bracelets as her showing gratitude

Milo: I feel like after he became loyal to Skin Taker and killed off his crew and Sariah he instantly regreted it but he didn't let it show.

Also can we talk about how in "Death of Milo" he litteraly died because he hurt Skin Takers ego? I saw someone on here talked about it unfortenetly I forgot the user. But basicly Skin Taker was offended that Milo didn't want to help him anymore and he decided to kill him just cause? (I don't know if I should cry or luagh at that)

Skin Taker: Back to Skin Taker I feel like he remember his past as Thade but just doesn't want to talk about it cause its obviously really painful for him. (I highly recomend to go to Candle Cove wiki and go to novels if you didn't alredy cause it really goes into his past). I also feel like he would go to "The Charred City Ruins and Graveyard" to mourn Lillian sometimes.

Poppy: Poppy is dad of the group. I just feel he would be very protective of everyone.

I also feel like he's beef with Skin Taker is so onesided cause I can promise you Skin Taker does not care. He didn't mention it once while Poppy seems to bring it up everytime he hears Skin Takers name.

When we are around that argument I feel like Skin Taker is more thankfull to Poppy than anything. Skin Taker let Thade die when Poppy skinned him, he tehnicly turned him into what he is and he seems to enjoy his life as Skin Taker wayyyyy more than as Thade.

Milo: Milo again. I feel like Sariah was the only person he ever truly cared about and let in.

Also I always felt like "Crybaby" album by Melanie Martinez gives me that werid eerie Candle cove vibe. Like I could give main characters their songs from that album if you want me to right now. Same with "Portals". Also Jazmin Beans old astetic also gives me that same vibe.

I think i'm gonna end it there for now I know its a bit all over the place next time it'll be better I promise. If you want more feel free to ask for mpre or ask anything else related to Candle Cove if you want to I'll gladly answer anything!

[boodraws]

Ayo how would you guys feel if I made a candle cove comic??? 👀👀👀

I really want to make it based off Thade and Lillians story

[mewpirate]

OKAYYY SO PART THREE OF THE OBSCURE CANDLE COVE WIKI LORE AND BOYYY THERES SO MUCH i had to look through each and every history log to find these but tbh it's worth it

Janice:

Starting off with Janice! I couldn't find any more information of her sadly but I did find ONE thing about her previous actor Louis Cuttingham that will be in another post

I have no idea why she has a pet dragon but tbh its a vibe

Skin-taker:

Interesting.

Horace:

This does sorta explain why he can hear the piano despite not having ears?

Poppy:

I cannot imagine poppy without a beard but if I do it's gonna be so cursed (it just reminds me of the bald Zeus hercules meme???) (⁠☉⁠｡⁠☉⁠)⁠!

Earl of wax:

This man is so ????

He's not even made out of wax 😭 he reminds me of the unknown from that willy wonka glasglow video

Heartfelt: WE COULD'VE ALSO HAD A GENDER NEUTRAL HEARTFELT?? they were originally named the nurse and it's sorta a good design to remame them to Heartfelt tbh it just feels that way

HE HAS A WIFE???

Hoody hans:

The Cryptid man is back at it again

Lillian:

She could have been related to boar?? The family suffering through angst rn

Uh yeah due to the photo limit i can only send 10 photos 😭

[peri-bug]

Candle Cove art pieces I have drawn (my AU♡)

Character designs so far (Percy, Laz[OC], Skin-Taker, Burton[OC], Lillian, and Thade)

Thade / Skin-Taker drawings

Drawing of Schot, Percy, and Burton[OC] (Burton is Percy's twin in my au ♡)

That's all my friends 🤗🤗

[drheartfeltlover]

Lillian for the bingo please

Y'all better give me my Lillian content. Fanfiction, fanart, anything. (No pressure, I'm just using it to say there's not enough of it)

[boneheadedblu]

I’m not finishing this 💀

[candlecovewiki]

kind of a milf, reblog

[emerson-grimes-apologist]

Do you have any unfinished / unseen concept art?

I sure do!

I'm in the process of figuring out Banana King. He's fun to draw. (I gave him spots like a banana 🤭). I keep forgetting/deliberately not including his beard because it looks kind of goofy tbh, but he is supposed to be goofy, so idk. Also an attempt at designing my version of the Banana People.

Susan's also fun to draw.

Thade <3

I wanted to develop the PANI islanders a bit because the wiki did them dirty and I think they have unused potential. I was going to give them all wicker basket-esque masks, but I thought it would be more interesting if they each came up with different ways to cover their faces.

Starson! Figuring out a way someone could feasibly shape their hair into a star and have it look like a (somewhat) normal hairstyle was a long but rewarding experience. I have no idea why he wants to look like this.

It's Caroline Barker! I was really proud of myself for being able to capture a likeness (before giving up on the hair), but this is pretty old and I think I could do better now.

Aaaand some silly doodles I just haven't gotten around to posting yet :o) (the last one is a reference to this video)

[milqueskin]

Dr. Mort my beloved

CW: medical stuff, dismemberment (of dolls), blood

Full name: Mortimer Doulaire (Doulaire sounds like “douleur,” which means “pain” in French)

From a race of doll-people. I’ll make a separate post about them later, but basically, they’re made of stuffing and cloth. They don’t feel pain and are relatively hard to kill, compared to humans.

Weighs like 20 pounds since he is just a human-sized doll (easy to fling around).

Old. He was like 100 when he died (doll-people can't die from old age). He was able to study and practice medicine for a really long time, making him more skilled than any human doctor could be.

French accent (but I don't know if the T in his name is silent or not).

Chose to study human medicine because he’s fascinated by human biology. But in a weird way. He wanted a job that allowed him to dissect people for fun without it being illegal.

He mentored Dr. Heartfelt, and he helped shape his beliefs by being the kind of doctor Heartfelt absolutely DID NOT want to become.

Well-known for his terrible bedside manner. He’s unsympathetic, un-reassuring, non-communicative, and borderline dehumanizing.

People (sort of) tolerate him despite this because he’s a doll-person and he doesn’t fully understand things like pain or what it’s like to be sick. (There’s some truth in this, but he’s smart enough to know better.)

Also because they sometimes don’t have a choice. There’s a shortage of doctors in Candle Cove.

Doesn't care about medical ethics. As long as something sounds exciting and relatively safe, he'll do it. Experimentation is the foundation of science!

He’s known for this. If people want strange and illegal procedures done and are accepting of the risks, they see him.

Seems careless and risky, but he does take the safety of his patients seriously. If a patient dies, that means he’s failed, and he’s too prideful for that.

After he finished medical school, he moved to Candle Cove and opened a clinic.

Because of his extensive experience, he was regarded as the best doctor in the region. Sometimes the other doctors had to refer their patients to him, and they hated it (i.e. needing to condemn their patients to him and his inhumane treatment whenever they had problems too complex for them to fix themselves).

Inevitably got into legal trouble for malpractice. He joined the Tarantula Crew to evade law enforcement.

The rest of the crew didn't know this. I mean, they suspected it, but never asked about it.

Red Mary killed him first, dismembered him, and used his remains (stuffing) as kindling when she burned down the ship.

He’s affable and even kind outside his work. He asks people to call him by his first name. People who’ve never had to see him think he’s a good man.

He’s also fairly polite to his patients, but in a superficial way. Like, he says please and thank you, but it’s like, “PLEASE don’t scream so loudly while I saw off your leg without anesthesia.”

Somewhat prideful. He works for the satisfaction of it and thinks he can do anything (but is he wrong?).

Fears death. He was groveling and everything during the attack (to Mary’s amusement).

His hands and forearms are stained with blood (this is subtle enough to look like it’s just his natural skin color).

Uses his left shoulder as a pincushion for sewing needles. (Dr. Heartfelt does this, too.) (I headcanon him to be a doll-person as well, btw)

Skin-Taker has his button eyes sewn onto his cape somewhere.

Or, alternatively, Red Mary made earrings out of them.

[vinehasnohopeleft]

More candle cove au!

Featuring Lillian and Tom

Lillian as Janice and Tom as Horace horrible.

[sadpuppetsworld]

Any Skintaker/ Thade hcs? I'm rotating him in my head like a rotisserie chicken

I was waiting for this question... My favourite character yay!🩶

-Skin-Taker is a collectors. Everything he fids facinating or pretty he takes it (crystals, shells, broken glass)

-I think that he finds skins with tattoos or beauty marks or scars basicly anything thats "unusual" compared to normal plain skin way more valuable

-Both him as Skin-Taker and Thade give me Lana Del Rey energy (Born to die/Ultarviolence)

- Every time I see that clip on YouTube from Chanel Zero Candle Cove where Skin-Taker chases Percy I just imagine Tag you're it by Melanie Martinez in the backround

- Skin-Taker is not found for the living exept animals. His favourite are cats. As Thade he loved butterflyes

- Thade loved music spesificly guitar played music tho he found any kind of instrument facinating

- Also when he found out about every colour he learned them and knew every colour and shade by heart (Probably still does)

- Skin-Taker when he is not skinning or killing loves to hang out on the beatches just walking around or just staring in the diatance

- He brakes forth walls all the time. Honestly I think he enjoy interacting with audience way more than any character in Candle Cove

- As Thade he loved drawing and it was always as clourful as posible

- His bones are probably on some places stained with old blood and he can't get rid of it cause he can't swim to get it of and I don't find him to like getting showers or stuff like that so

- This is again on of thing that I do but every time I go to the mall or out in general and I see something skeleton like i'm always like "Skin-Taker reference!!!" (I'm werid)

- Obviously he loves blood and is very sadistic but I think we all knew that

- I think Thade usualy would wnat to hald someones hand or arm or any small phisycal contact when he was scared.

- For example when it was his first time seeing night sky and he was tarefied so he called Lillian I imagen him pulling her out to show it to her while holding her arm like a life line

- I was about to say what I think what Age would be Thats and then later Skin-Taker but I remeberd he was imortal. Mans could be 1000 years old for all we know

- I think 2020 - 2025 would send Skin-Taker in coma

- Thade was wery foud of children while Skin-Taker (moast of the time) can't stand them. But I guess it depends of what kind of child we are talking about

- Thade loves night sky. He loves stars and often counts them and even tho everyone say "You know you can't cout them all right?" he does not care

- If you ask him about relationships (Romanticly) Thade would get really flustered and imedietly think of Lillian (I ship the so hard), while if you ask Skin-Taker it would be very very very very very hard to catch his attention. But if you do he could protect you at all cost

- He kills, skins and tortues just cause he finds it entretaining. He could be like "Well damn I'm bored today...... Lets find another victim-" and the precides to do what I liste above

- I don't know why but I think taht Thade as his wepon had a dager/knife that had magic to kill Earl of Wax and other shadow people (Yes I think he is litteraly shadow ant here is more of his kind. If you want Earl of Wax headcanons I would love to do it) and he still has it as Skin-Taker but he keeps it away

- As much as he loves skinning people and all that he also as we all know loves to sew up skins to his cape and hat. But he also loves to sew other thing from skin like blankets or pillows and other stuff

- Yes I think in episode "Mrs. Skin-Taker" she represented Lillian and no one can change my mind

I'm gonna stop there for now. Have an amazing day!