#jayson ferin

[skywerse]

nothing as undoing as a daughter

[babieshowclown]

jayson ferin my lab rat

[xinnic]

Old post I dug out of my drafts from when I was watching episode 100 of Riptide (Hot Dads In Your Area) and the thing I am struck most by with Jayson disowning Jay is that he doesn't even do it over her being a pirate. He does it when she stands up to him.

Like. He just doesn't listen to her. He constantly denies her both the autonomy of her own choices (being a pirate) and also the acknowledgment of her having autonomy at all. She didn't choose to become a pirate, her friends corrupted her. She's not doing this out of some deeply held belief (in freedom, in doing good and the inability of the Navy to be a vessel for that, a love of adventure), she can't have her her own reasons for making this choice. He doesn't try to understand, not just in the way that he can't support her choices, but in that he doesn't even attempt to conceive of her having actual reasons at all. He doesn't care why she's doing this, only that it isn't what he thinks she's meant to be doing.

He says 'we were family', but its only after Jay affirms this, not by rejecting him but by reminding him of his own words to her in the B.L.O.C.K that he says he means it. "Now that I have seen how much you've changed, I mean it."

How much she's changed isn't being a pirate, it's that she stood up against him instead of immediately crumbling in the face of his anger and displeasure.

She's not an adult. She's not an independent person who can make her own choices. She's his daughter, that is the only role available to her, she will act in a specific way and do what he thinks she should do and she is unable to exist outside of that and to do otherwise is disobedient.

Jay has always been scared of her father. The primary emotion associated with her relationship with him is fear. He is her father, she is her daughter, she is afraid of him. When she stops being afraid of him, she stops being his daughter. And I think that's really tragic for both of them.

Jay's grandmother is apparently terrifying. She's Jayson's commanding officer, not to be disobeyed. What does that say about Jayson and how he thinks about family?

[beckyblah]

All I’ve got in me today is a messy comic lol!

Anyway, I think Jayson definitely pitted Ava and Jay against each other as kids, and I definitely think Jay is weak little runt of the family. She doesn’t do well in hand to hand and Ava excels at it. It’s why she picks up archery later and works with her mom at the beginning of the series.

(Btw I am only on episode 87 rn! Please no spoilers!)

[nootdraws]

A New Me

Jay Ferin makes me feel deeply complex shrimp emotions that I cannot articulate, so I decided to chuck one of my poems at her and see what came out of it.

Poem info and general yap below the cut.

Not sure what the venn diagram of 'people who saw my Rosamund Du Prix comic' and 'people who are currently seeing this comic' looks like, but if you exist in that presumably minuscule overlap, then this is in fact another part of the poem that I used in that comic! (If you haven't seen it, here's a link in case you wanna see that.)

I spent like a month or maybe more on this comic in total. I just got really stumped on how I wanted to represent different aspects of Jay's life, and between creative block and moving (woo!), I just really struggled with this one. I think I'm happy overall with this comic though, and I am very pleased to share it with you all :-).

[teehee-vibes]

Hits the Ferins with my Flashback Cannon

[impathearted]

i'm intending to do the entire major arcana but we will see how that plays out

for now i have sketches i did after work that im too excited about and am posting before i fully even commit to this idea

[saltedcaramelchaos]

(Riptide 114 spoilers)

theory: so how many times do we think jay's dad has been to the chair that makes you a better soldier

like he might be Actually That Evil, but now we have a way that could be false?

what we know about him is that he's slowly become more focused on his job than his family. and the chair specifically makes you a more obedient soldier. hmmm.

(Also I am going INSANE over what this will do to gillion but that's not relevant lol)

Idk just a thought <3

[bizlybebo]

jayson ferin 🤝 mark winters

being accepting of their trans daughters' identities but vehemently disapproving of the rest of their life choices

[losingallchill]

cries so fuckign loudly ,,,,

[artandbrimstone]

tag

you're

it

blame @drorey for this one

[stormsandskies]

i was just relistening to the Feywild arc again and oh boy i think i may have found some connections with episode 114.

right so in gills section of episode 79 when he enters the meeting room and does his sniff thing for evil and good he notices that one of the figures does not smell completely evil, in fact, it is only one part of him that smells like that. He also notices many others who are the same and some who are fully evil-smelling

pulling directly from the episode grizzly says "That same figure on the other side of the room that you attacked..." who we find out later to be Jayson Ferin "... a bubbling of evil within but it's not fiendish, it's not undead, it seems to be mixed with what is also a good energy as well. It's almost as if they've been fused together... you get this noxious odor but it's only like one part of this person."

this is especially concerning when we pair it with what we learned in the navy base. between the weird memory machine and the message left by faye ferin stating that her son is "stable" it makes me wonder if maybe the experimentation has been going on for a lot longer than we know and for more people than we think. especially because shortly after we hear about that small bit of evil in jayson we also hear about it in many others around the room.

now obviously some of these people could just be a little evil by nature but the discovery of triton skin on the ground before gillon is taken puts doubts about that in my mind.

anyways all this is to say i think maybe jayson is not full himself anymore and has lost a very integral piece to himself and is now just following orders, and i think maybe some of the members of the council in the undersea may also be under that effect, or are full clones so that the navy can spy on them.

this would fit with the undersea being in favor of lunadeyis and faye being in favor of aster, and we can assume that faye is very very high up in the navy.

i am worried.

[skywerse]

AVA FERIN MIGHT STILL BE ALIVE

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS IN GENERAL

HEAR ME OUT, READ BELOW THE CUT AND TELL ME IF IT'S SOMETHING OR IF I'M SIMPLY LOOSING MY SHIT OVER NOTHING... BECAUSE IT MAKES SENSE TO ME—

Fey Ferin wants R.A.F.T to seize control over the world, and there's nothing that can stand in her way, not even her own family.

There might have been a time when Jayson Ferin was a good man. Based on what May says about him and glimpses we get from Jay's early memories (I recall one with the pin), it appears he once was. Perhaps Jayson desired change for the navy too, but that would be such a pain for Fey to deal with. So, she seems to have brainwashed him for months, possibly years by now (ep 79, Gilly detects corruption in him mixed with good energy), molding him into the perfect soldier who doesn't question orders and neglects his family for the sake of helping his mother to carry out this great fucking world domination plan.

Fey likely harbors resentment towards Drey for not being obedient like his brother, opting for a pirate's life over being loyal to his family and their ideals. Yet, Fey can't bring herself to kill him, so she puts him in a top security prison to let him rot instead.

Ava was the ideal soldier—strong, brave, and revered by all. However, for Fey, Ava's kindness, compassion, and desire for change is simply another pain to deal with. But of course, she would not kill her own family. And she couldn't let her just vanish either.

Perhaps Fey suspected that Ava had a soft spot for pirates, given her upbringing in Eagle's Den and being raised by such a softhearted daughter-in-law. But perhaps, on one occasion, someone witnessed Ava together with a pirate, and somehow that information reached Fey. And after learning that her granddaughter, her esteemed captain, had feelings for a pirate from the crew of the last remaining pirate lord she aimed to get rid of, Fey simply couldn't let this opportunity slip by.

Maybe Ava cooperated willingly, fought like hell, or simply was faced with a deal she couldn't refuse. R.A.F.T. wouldn't just eliminate their top captain, such a vital asset for the upcoming war. Instead, they created a doppelgänger, and chucked the real Ava into some top-notch secret confinement. Letting the dopple to become their pawn. A perfect martyred hero to be killed by those bad bad pirates. A perfect excuse to wage a war over.

But the doppelgängers aren't perfect. So when Lizzie tells Ava about a pirate who is like a father to her, Ava doesn't remember. And when Lizzie begs her not to fight, Ava doesn't listen because she doesn't remember the numerous times they sneaked out together to simply talk like normal people do. And when there's an order to shoot, Ava doesn't move away, as she remembers she was only created to destroy and to be destroyed.

Would Jayson know? Probably not. His hatered toward the pirates responsible for his daughter's death would likely fuel his brainwashed self even more. Very convenient for the long run.

Fey might permit her youngest granddaughter to infiltrate the pirates, banking on her own hatered over her sister's death to maybe one day make her an even better soldier than Ava ever was.

But maybe Fey was wrong.

And she knows it when she receives news of her son's escape from prison, and when her other son suddenly takes leave, or perhaps when a navy base on the Black Sea is breached.

So, when her promising soldier begins to rebel, it might be time to reveal the secret that she's been keping. Maybe it will help her granddaughter decide which side to choose in the end.

me rn:

But idk, that's just my speculation. If it turns out to be a load of bullshit you can point and laugh, but at this point it makes so much sense in that smooth brain of mine as I'm writing this at 7am after getting no sleep whatsoever.

ALSO, just something fun to think over:

In the rolled for 114, Grizz mentioned that the doppel/brainwashing machine had buttons with dates on them. And if pressed, it would display the people who had previously used it. I can't help but wonder if my theory about Ava is true if she might have showed up there. Or maybe it could have shown Jayson getting his fucking brain blasted. BUT WELP, someone rolled like shit (pointsatgillionpointsatgillion) and we'll never know now—

[thepiratefish]

Do we ever think about how Faye ferin was probably the one who ordered Dreys arms to be paralyzed and how Jayson was the one to do it.

I was just thinking about how Jayson probably had to be there for an hour, maybe more, crushing his little brothers arms as he screamed in pain, begging him to stop knowing that Jayson would never listen. He was raised to be the perfect soldier, wasn't he? or did Jayson probably look down and finally see the terrified look on Dreys face as he curled into himself, screaming. Do you think whenever Drey saw Jayson even as a pirate, he looked at him like his brother? Even if he was a 'traitor' to the family he still looked at Jayson with that same expression he had all those years ago but now it's finally gone and what's replaced is the overwhelming face of fear staring back at him.

Did Jayson feel pity? Regret? Or did he feel pain nothingness. Do you think Jayson found a secluded area and screamed at the top of his lungs as the realization of what he's done over took him.

[yum3mite]

"its funny that jay's dad is named "jay" "son" despite him being jay's father instead of her son... in riptide episode 116 it'll be revealed that jayson ferin is actually jay's son trust"

-@juice-ity 2025

[teehee-vibes]

More Captain Drey, my shining star

Part one here!