#jawbone o'shaughnessey

[spiderziege]

Mordred Manor! (with close-ups under the cut)

edit: i just put up some new drawings on my ko-fi, so if you wanna print this out as a poster or something, you can find it there at full resolution in the 'Misc Art' folder! :) (personal use only!)

[emergencykitkat]

small moments (in no set order) that hit my heart on my fantasy high season 1 rewatch

gorgug crying after coming out of rage and apologizing for getting mad

riz being the one to tell jawbone about the counselor opening at school

kristen/adaine bonding over having terrible parents

fig cuddling with kristen on the couch on kristen’s first night staying with her at strong tower

all the bad kids (especially fabian) not letting gorgug call himself stupid

fig crying when she saw sandra lynn was alive during “Family in Flames”

[chungledown-bimothy]

pspspsps d20 artists. fig faeth in an "i <3 my slut dad" shirt. dads plural, even, perhaps.

[transformersweatpants]

^ The rage of a 17 yr old who knows he will end up having to drive the house that is a boat through the sky to the gym

[hermit-dragon]

sometimes a family can just be you, your dad (demon), your dad (sad elf), his gorgeous wife and pirate stepson, your mom and her werewolf partner, their adopted children (a saint and an oracle), your emotional support detective, your drummer, your phoenix girlfriend, and the principal of your school

[wolfziedraws]

Riz breaking the 4th wall is the funniest thing in the world to me

[purrassicjet]

Thinking about the Bad Parents this episode because like, imagine your child, who's constantly burdened with the fate of the world, comes to you after school and says it's not enough. That they have to take the Last Stand exam and it's tomorrow. You have no time to take time off work to be with them, to be able to wait for them when they get home.

And then the next day you say goodbye in the morning, you kiss them on the head and tell them you love them. But you know that the next time you see them they will have died. You know that all the day you're at work, your child is fighting for their life in a drastic last stand. How do you focus with that knowledge? How do you move on, wondering if your child is already dead? That while your working or doing chores, your child could be lying on a sandy flood, dead, while all their friends fight for their lives?

How do you move past it? How do you live out that day?

[nosnexus]

Beautiful. Majestic. BAM!

[maybebi47]

thinking about how only 2 years ago adaine couldn't speak at the dinner table or express an opinion or oppose her parents in anyway, how she was hated and ignored and her parents were unapproachable, and how now she can just come home and take a cup of tea right out of her dads hands and sip it without asking and he just chuckles at how adorable she is, i love you jawbone<3

[nocturnal-artist]

I saw this post and wanted to draw it out

The relationships between all the bad kids and their parents mean so much to me

[kittyoverlord]

Gorgug finally getting comfortable with his rage and using it when the situation demands, our little orc is all grown up.

[ewwww-what]

You are not a coward. You have a goddamn medical condition, alright?

[greenreticule]

I can't stop thinking about how Riz stole from Jawbone.

This is the third iteration of Jawbone trying to connect with Riz emotionally, check in on the little guy, only for Riz to fully dodge the prying.

On the first day of school, Jawbone was pretty direct in trying to get Riz to open up. Needling him about Kipperlily, asking what is up with Riz, saying he's gonna "get" Riz eventually. Riz deflects by saying that he's an open book, and then refocuses on helping Kristen to get out from Jawbone's scrutiny.

Then in "Baron's Game," we get a manifestation of Jawbone in the twisted manor, telling a hidden Riz, "I just want to talk." It's not Jawbone himself, of course, but I take it both as a reflection of Riz's fear of opening up and as Brennan keeping the theme present in the story. Riz uses Misty Step to get away from the encounter.

And most recently, it's Brennan who introduces Jawbone into Riz's downtime. Murph doesn't go looking for him, so it adds to this sence of Jawbone being deliberate about connecting with Riz. And Riz once again not only dodges Jawbone's attempt to check in on him emotionally, but this time he uses Jawbone's care to get Kipperlily's file.

And I can't stop thinking about this last instance, because I feel like this is actually a significant betrayal for Jawbone.

Riz dodging his attempts at connection, brushing off his inquiries? Sure, that's all fine. And I feel like swiping literally anything else from Jawbone would be taken in-stride as "a rogue thing." They're at Aguefort, after all.

But Jawbone takes his job as student counselor very seriously. Part of that is protecting the students that come to him for help. And protecting those students means protecting their confidentiality. And it's in the middle of Jawbone trying to help Riz, and in the middle of Jawbone speaking some manner of defense towards Kipperlily ("she's not a bad kid")... THAT'S when Riz steals the file.

Riz uses the cover of Jawbone trying to help him in order to undermine Jawbone's protection of another student.

I want Jawbone to be angry about that. I think Jawbone deserves to be angry about that.

To be clear, I love this character beat for Riz. It fits him so well. And I don't think he personally saw it as a betrayal. This was him just getting the clues! That's what he does! My little task-oriented guy!!

I am hoping for there to be some fallout from this that forces Riz to finally open up. (And maybe that leads to learning about aromanticism/asexuality from Jawbone??? That may be a leap, but let a guy dream.)

[jester-step]

“yay the bad kids can spend all their downtime doing mystery and relaxation rolls now that academics are out of the way!!” all i’m hearing is that murph has the opportunity to make riz’s arc this season even more heartbreaking as he continues to pour all his energy into mystery and helping his friends bc he simply cannot let himself relax or he’ll Die

also i have a feeling that murph is saving that rage token for a juicy plot/character moment and part of me hopes the npc he’ll mess up his relationship with is jawbone :) can you imagine jawbone finding out riz stole klck’s file from his office and, not realising that riz is this 👌 close to snapping, (rightfully) gets a little mad at him and riz bites back WAY too hard? and jawbone has to deal with the fact that, even though he had a right to be angry, he’s screwed up his chances of helping the one kid he’s been having so much trouble reaching?

the only thing worse than this to me would be riz snapping at his mom (unthinkable) or one of the bad kids (life ruining)

[respectissexy]

Normal fans are living vicariously through the Bad Kids while I, a school social worker, am living vicariously through Jawbone (nobody questions him talking about his polyamory and past drug use with students, and if a kid's parents suck too bad he gets to just take them home.)

[purrassicjet]

Kristen meeting up with her parents in Krom's Diner is funny to me because it conjures the image of Sandra Lynn, Jawbone, and Lydia watching through a Mordred window with binoculars making sure that nothing bad happens