#jrwi riptide 103

[asexualgilliontidestrider]

i want you all to know i was screaming through every second of this episode

[pirate-captain-froggy]

jay ferin my beloved jay ferin <333

[thatseadog]

the moment Gill uses divine sense and discovers evil is brewing from within him I'm beating up the moon and coming for the sun next

[unanimoustwins]

so im realizing why charlie doesnt lock in during every combat cause oh my fuckin god 144 damage in one round

[kyoodledoodle]

went to listen to an episode of Riptide, and was whiplashed by Jort Storm

[unethical-gender]

Never ever gonna recover from the parallel of Chip pulling Gillion onto the boat in the very start of their adventure and Gillion pulling Chip onto the boat in EP 103. Never gonna get over how Gillion told Chip that this wasn't going to be the end of their adventure as he pulled him out of the black sea.

[lillianforest22]

Kay talking about eps 103 so like spoiler for like the entire show probably I never know how to say what I’m saying

Gillion is gonna be messed up. They all are. Listening to 103 I felt like I aged. The Black Sea is going to brake them. If they get out.

But I’m even more worried for gillion. He’s going into emotional week. If he had lost Jay he would have been broken and blamed himself hard.

He’s putting on a mask for his ship mates but he should have waited before heading to the Black Sea.

Gillion almost died and probably felt himself dying. And now he is surrounded by the knowledge that the air itself is evil. The water that was his safety is now ready to kill him.

He is going to keep that mask of smileys and the lighthearted gillion but it is wearing on him and he is going to brake sooner or later

[hollowaluminumvessel]

actually crying why did they think it was a good idea to put "Welcome to the Black Sea." RIGHT AFTER a FREAKING KAZOO SOLO

[itsjustjelly]

Towards the end of 103, Queen was asking Chip for another hug, and it was like, real obvious that Chip was uncomfortable with the idea of the physical affection and tried to brush it off.

But then when he realized it was making Queen sad he gave them a quick little hug anyway and I just.

You can't say he's a dick. Like he so obviously cares about these people and his crew and he has so much love and its just. ITS THE LITTLE THINGS MAN, HE'S KILLING ME

[gilliontidestriderchampionoftheu]

i think when chip fell into the black sea as a kid, he was corrupted slightly, which is why he's never been able to stop obsessing over the black rose pirates and finding arlin.

[froglegsblogs]

Spoilers for Riptide 103-114!

Some small probably obvious things you can do with the Riptide pirates designs the longer they’re in the black sea, due to the weird sunlight situation.

This is of course realistically stuff that would happen over a long period of time, but who’s to say the black sea wouldn’t speed this up via the corruption. (some of the corruptions affects do seem to be similar.)

1. Darken hair especially on Gill and Jay

2. If you draw Jay with freckles those will gradually fade.

3. Skin will generally lighten and get greyer undertones.

5. A lack of vitamin D can cause exhaustion so i doubt they’re standing alert or even kinda straight.

Overall Chips not the only one looking like a zombie lol they all have the sickly victorian swag

[asexualgilliontidestrider]

[chipjrwibignaturals]

I will say— i haven’t gotten to it yet, because im bad at this, but— i want to state my surface level thoughts when it comes to chip Dying

bc like to me chip has always been a cockroach. no matter what he goes through, it won’t kill him. in some ways as a cruel cosmic joke, a cyclic tragedy, he’s destined to forever exist. he’s been given an impossible task, to find arlin, and he’s not allowed to stop. he’ll just keep going and wallowing in it aimlessly forever, he’s not allowed even the decency of death. in the same way he breaths air, chip jrwi keeps on living — it’s just what he does, how he is.

and it felt extra validated with when he considered quitting while Gill was gone. he felt like his own presence was bringing down the people around him, that it was his fault gillion was gone— so he was going to leave to save them from himself and just… sail. he knows leaving means giving up his only real tangible lead to find arlin, what he wants, but he also can’t risk them so he’ll just take a boat and… wander listlessly. Hope for maybe something good to stumble upon. god has cursed him and his work is never finished, etc etc.

so when i first heard abt Chip’s situation i was admittedly… not super into it? definitely contributed to why i got so far behind tbh, i wasn’t looking forward to it. it crashed hard against my perception of chip’s character & his narrative. hes destined to be a tragedy and that tragedy is because he’s alive

and I’ll be the first to say depending on handling i still may dislike the choice BUT I’ve made my own way around to enjoying the choice (even if it wouldn’t be my first choice)

first off, in some ways i feel like chip was also of the belief that he would just… keep living. no matter what happened to him. he’d “have a plan” and find some way to slip out, then restart and try again. he knows the universe seems to love to watch him suffer, so he just…. doesnt really think he can die. at least not like that.

it’s the very violation of the expectations I established, experienced in and out of character. it feels abrupt, wrong. that’s not what was set up for him! …until you realize that he changed first.

since the black rose, chip was seated with the fate of forever searching and trying to capture a past he can’t have. but it’s only through his experiences with jay and gillion and his OWN crew that he… grows past that. he makes peace with what he’s lost, or at least starts to, and allows for new growth in that spot. he’s regained a family to rely on, he’s growing comfortable and moving on. he’s losing the tragedy-angle of his own life— so he dies. his fate is absolute and it is black, it is a tragedy no matter what. this is the narrative retaliating against him for trying for better than he was allotted.

it’s worse too because he’s so close to finding arlin, to being able to finally put all this behind him and get closure. it’s all salt in the wound. leading him on, letting him regain his hope, giving him peace… only to snatch it all away. what a cruel, cruel joke.

[toffeebrews]

Warning! Descriptions of decomposition!

I can't stop thinking, about chip jrwi being literally undead. this will be the last post about it today I swear.

Now that chip is undead. Does he like... rot? Are bugs just gonna start following him? Like what level of decomposition are we talking about. Are his insides just gonna become like goop? Is he gonna start losing (or having different pigmentation in his) hair or nails? Are his eyes gonna get that clouded dead look? Would he end up like the hollowed we saw in ep 103-105 ish? I don't think the arachnid pirates were described as "rotted." But would it be different for a human? Obviously he's not just gonna fall to pieces (hopefully) but I wonder what will change in his appearance over time. I have so many questions and I curious to see what the answers are...

[unanimoustwins]

grizz has been kinda insane this episode with keeping the atmosphere and tone of the black sea. the monster design and voice effects, the fact that theyre finding out about this ocean from the things that were once people that theyre slaying. these mfers are about to be so fucking harrowed im excited

[lepidopterologism]

but don’t forget the times like 103 which is

the entirety of Jort Storm

the kazoo solo fades out

(small 2 second pause where the screen goes black)

Welcome to the Black Sea.

the intro of jrwi is just like:

last time we faced betrayal, we almost died, i’m incredibly scared and traumatized, i watched the light leave a persons eyes and now need to rectify that with my moral compass and try to justify my actions against my own incompetence and moral failures as my very concept of humanity is challenged….

but i guess we’ll just have to ROLL WITH IT!!

*intro music plays*