#epithet erased Martin

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Christmas List Erased Day 23: Ghost of Blyndeff Future

Finally got to add the extra doodle this one was missing for the whole joke! Martin shows Ramsey an open grave waiting for him! Not for any specific reason, Martin just thought it was cool.

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I forgot to post this here

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general pride icons for the best epithet erased character, a.k.a: martin blyndeff!

effects: pastel, shadow

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what is Fred’s relationship with his sister? what is she like? (i’m talking about this oc)

i also have ocs related to car crash, so it’s interesting seeing others who also do.

Beheehs!

Heehehe

Lore time!!

*ahems*

Her name is Bael.

Fred sorta has a rocky relationship with her to start with.

His parents adopted her when he was around 7.

She was around 4 at the time.

(3 years apart)

Around this point of time, he was quite a troublemaker, with his own parents being in the criminal business.

Plus, she has a epithet, which to him, is quite already controversial within his mind, hence he avoids her. (Her epithet is Realm.

He already knew that the sweet jazz city county had two choices in the past before his parents adopted her,

to give bael to his family(which they already did but yet haven’t done in the past.)

Or

Give Bael to Percy. (Which in hindsight, wouldn’t change Bael’s personality and bael would still be a complete asshole to Fred, either choice)

To describe him and Bael they’re the sky and the Sea. (the sky can be unpredictable but the unpredictability can be predicted. The sea is unpredictable therefore cannot be predicated)

To describe their parents, they are the sun and the moon.

Often she will go to lorelai for Roleplaying sessions, which slightly angers Fred, that’s the sister of his colleague (Aka molly) and is the person that is at fault for Giovanni’s disappearance along with Molly’s (from his Viewpoint.)

She is a captain of a banzai blaster gang within the banzai blasters group, which further complicates his relationship.

She acts like lorelai and martin, times by 100, around her family members, but acts like Giovanni around her friends which further more complicates their relationship.

Fred’s nickname for Beal is Belle or Weatherboy.

Beal’s nickname for Fred is. Car Bitch

In a nutshell.

Beal’s a bitch to Fred.

They’re like Molly and lorelai but more unstable and are ready to explode in their parents’ face as their parents slowly regret their life decisions.

[thatfreak03]

I know I compare media I like to songs too much already but...

(Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes)

The song Things We Lost In The Fire by Bastille fits the Blyndeff family a little too well.

[mylifeisadeceit]

Who's gonna win?

Guy who would sell kids for an apple coupon or somehow worse dad than the other guy?

[vulturevanity]

A Father's Purpose

Someone asks Martin if he actually cares about his daughters. He laughs at the joke he thinks they made.

Alternative version and thoughts under the Read More (please read the content warnings in the tags before clicking through!)

Epithet: ☆Dumb☆

Martin Blyndeff is a carefree man.

Despite his uncomplicated character, I have plenty of thoughts on Worst Dad and his impact on his daughters -- particularly Lorelai, but she isn't the focus on this piece and I'll talk about her another day.

I think what gets me about Martin and Molly is how efficient he is at shutting her down. Whether or not he's aware of what he's doing (it doesn't matter), it's really telling how smoothly he's able to do it. In the Museum Arc, he unloads another night shift onto her, rapid-fires excuses for why she has to take the night shift, takes credit for the school worksheet which she filled out, then changes subjects so she'll drop it. And he does it often enough that Lorelai has caught on to it, to the point that the first thing she does in the book is use his name to shut Molly down too. No matter what, if it's up to Martin, then Molly will have to shut up and deal.

I wonder how much of this DARVO-adjacent behaviour is a result of losing Calliope, if at all. I mean, I really, REALLY can't see how someone like Calliope would've fallen for Martin as he is today; we know he's always been the personification of the word "carefree" and Callie was an anxious workaholic mess, but honestly the Martin we see would probably just constantly stress her out even more (which he did sometimes). He was already rather senseless back then, but I can't help but think having Calliope to take on every burden for him for over 15 years and then losing her so suddenly must have exarcebated the learned helplessness. And since Molly was the one who took over, he just went "well I guess it's her job now", dusted off and went right back to his little world of toys and blissful obliviousness.

And speaking of Molly. She was suffering so much in that house, and yes, there have been plenty of walls of text about the verbal and emotional abuse she suffered from Lorelai, but I feel like we don't talk enough about Martin's complete dismissal of her feelings, thoughts and protests, and how deeply that affected her. He was the one who taught her no one would listen to her. He was he reference point Lorelai used to take advantage of her. He parentified Molly and made her bear the brunt of their financial troubles. And he did it all with a genuine smile across his face.

Martin Blyndeff sucks and I think we should talk about him more.

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"The Website Said it Was in Stock!"

New Epithet Erased short. Artwork by LuveyGold Original audio by Scott Seiss

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I hope to see you there!

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Christmas List Erased Day 24: The ghost of Christmas past, Family

I know these last two we're doing are MEGA late but Christmas really took it out of us. This was SUPPOSED to be on schedule to make everyone sad on the 24th right before Christmas but family obligations and tiredness absolutely destroyed us so we went for quality over quantity with this one. 23/25 is still a good ratio. We have one more picture for Christmas list erased prolly posting later today and mayhaps a doodle page and something else.

As always, thank y'all for all the support this blog has gotten, is been so epic making all of this art and seeing people enjoying it so much! The 25th is the one I've been the most excited for so please guess the characters and theme!

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[krisandthebluesurgeons]

This took me a week!!! Pretty proud of the result

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i love mouthwashing !!!

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“Hot Take” on Prison of Plastic

(!! Spoilers !!)

This isn’t actually a hot take, more so something I don’t think many people have noticed — but I understand if people don’t really understand/agree with what I’m saying at first.

There are many issues in Lorelai and Molly’s relationship that makes them unable to find common ground. One of them is Lori’s cruel demeanor, but not in the way most of the community thinks.

A character detail that I think changed from the webseries is Molly’s pushover mindset. She seems to accept her family’s neglect because she is too afraid to fight back at all (key word: “at all”). But after Giovanni’s influence, she makes multiple attempts to get her family to help, Lorelai specifically.

(I believe the reason why nobody tries to ‘fix’ Martin is because everyone knows he’s a lost cause — and Molly seeking support from Lori is her subconsciously thinking the opposite; there’s still hope for her sister. That also applies to her outburst in chapter 7, it was her last shot at trying to alter Lori or else she’d view her the same way she sees Martin; beyond help)

But of course, Molly’s anxiety didn’t cure overnight. She’s stepping in the right direction, but still can’t find the courage to act stern, which is pretty much what Lorelai needs (it isn’t as simple as it sounds, but we do know that Martin’s lack of care and Molly’s lack of emotional power only fuels her).

As a result of not wanting to comply, Lorelai acts very spiteful to put up a wall that most people can’t break down. This wall seems to derive from many things; grief, fear, immaturity, isolation, Martin’s neglect, and likely more. In other words, there isn’t a concrete reason as to why she chooses this persona. However, what’s even more interesting is how Molly reacts to it throughout the book.

Molly doesn’t take Lorelai’s words personally. Her breakdown/monologue in chapter 7 didn’t start because Lori was being too mean, it was because Molly realized she truly couldn’t get through to her. Lori’s wall doesn’t hurt Molly, it’s just very hard to enter the other side. As long as her sister keeps it up, Molly can’t do much.

Unless she stops looking for secret entries and takes a wrecking ball to knock it down.

But she can’t guarantee Lorelai won’t get hurt if so.

(I needed to get this off my chest idk why)

Last thing! I know Molly got really sad in the beginning of the book when Lorelai said Martin didn’t like her, but I can’t help but view that as a rare occurrence when Lori crosses a line. She was very rude to her sis throughout the rest of the book but Molly was clearly not upset over what Lorelai was saying, rather how she wasn’t willing to stop.