#hayward the silt verses

[mintytea-exe]

the silt verses is truly the horror podcast of all time. two trans main characters, an aroace main character, Hayward

[mossgoblins]

You gotta find pleasure in the little things if you’re gonna get through the day.

[unbloodiedmartyr]

Wouldnt it just be truly fucking awful if it was only people out here, and nothing else?

anyways this is like my favourite carpenter monologue of all time it destroys me. so yk i had to draw it. ALSO you can BET i used @catwyk 's incredible parish designs and @valtsv 's leech halo for faulkner. because i gotta steal their smartypants ideas

[catwyk]

sopping wet scared out his mind prey animal swag through the roof. james hayward the man that you are

speedpaint below!!

hehe he looks kinda like david tennant briefly :] im on my trust the process pills

[rottingraisins]

[theswisscheeserag]

Hayward is kinda married to Paige in the way nuns are married to Jesus

[glockmonkey]

hayward, in the tractor: i feel like ive been pretending for my whole life i dont know what to do with myself

paige:

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

WHY DID HE SAY THIS. WHAT POSSESSED HIM.

[melandrops]

From Carpenter's beginning, a jaded heretic with a kill count that she doesn't allow to keep her awake at night, a past and a present drowned in blood - to her ending, laying her brother to rest despite the tears of rage in her eyes.

From Faulkner's beginning, a boy trying to find his place in the parish that calls himself their family and desperately hoping to be something more - to his ending, wading into the water he can't swim in for the sake of walking at his sister's side.

From Hayward's beginning, a perpetrator of the system, up to his neck in violence and all too eager to believe that he is right- to his ending, telling Paige to go on without him with no hesitation to lay down his life for her safety.

From Paige's beginning, a suit who sits at the board room and wonders aloud how to make their bloodshed sanitized - to her ending, allowing her godchild to fester in her body so she may watch her people walk onward to better lands.

From Shrue's beginning, a politician who cares only for being reelected, who wavers at the very idea of radicalism - to their ending, dying for the most radical of causes, screaming a cry for change with their last breaths.

From VAL's beginning, a weapon of war, razing lands under her feet and nothing more than her anger - to her ending, using the last dregs of her strength to give people their greatest desires.

At the end of the day, they all chose kindness. They chose to love, despite the cruelty of their world and the horrors they saw.

They were human, even at the mercy of their gods.

[lunacias]

these are the silt verses, and I name our disciples thus

[echimyidae]

who up silting they verses‼️ decided to draw them all🦀🦀🦀

[mintytea-exe]

there's something about Hayward dying as he watches Paige continue on and leave him behind, and Carpenter watching Faulkner's body as the White Gull carries it down river. there's something about watching the people we love become lost and forever out of our reach. it just sticks with me. the misery of both those who move on and those who are left behind. the beauty in the amount of love that it takes for the person staying back

[phantomrose96]

The start of TSV season 3 brings a lot of scary character developments. Carpenter a hunted fugitive at the end of her rope. Faulkner drunk on ambition and power. Paige drunk on... well, alcohol, under the unbearable and crushing weight of having a whole religion hinge on her. Val being... that.

But by FAR the scariest character development is Hayward. I can think of no clearer indication the world has turned on its head than the fact that Hayward has become competent, reasonable, and (god) capable of multiple successes? Unthinkable. Unfathomable. Guy Who's Got It Most Figured Out in season 3 and the fact that it's Hayward is chilling. Who did this.

[pinkelotjeart]

Posts from the peninsula.

[catwyk]

hayward animation i've been working on as part of a larger project :]]!!!!! because of camera movement, the whole thing doesn't appear in the project at once, so i wanted to post it in full :p

[mongeese]

If The Silt Verses wiki is to be believed, Hayward was in the police force for 13 years before season 1. Carpenter Glass was also part of the parish for 13 years before her pilgrimage with Faulkner. They make me crazy insane they're the SAME they've lived the SAME LIFE two kids with no options and nowhere to go turning to whatever opportunity was available to them, nevermind the violence and the discomfort. Able to convince themselves, after a while, they truly believed in it, because they needed to believe in SOMETHING. Forced to break away and it nearly killing them. Rising from the grave better. Just trying to be useful, to be good. They r so special to me