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literallyjusttoa · 1 year ago
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Very interested in the story of concussion Apollo's dad gave him
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-@ukelele-boy
Yes yessss let me explain! I think I’ve covered this incident before but I’ve changed it a lil bit so here we go!
Apollo had spent years being his father’s “golden child”. He had  perfect grades, joined every honor’s society, was top of all them sports teams, all that jazz. Any failure, or even just Apollo expressing that he was tired and burnt out, led to passive aggressive (or just straight up aggressive) attacks from his father. Apollo had to be perfect, and he had to be happy about it too. All of this was extremely damaging to Apollo’s psyche, but he pushed through his rapidly worsening mental state and any injuries his father gave him, bc he reasoned that he was just putting on a happy face to help keep the family together, or keep his father calm so that he didn’t lash out at any of the other siblings. 
Everything kept building up until Apollo graduates high school. Apollo really, really, didn’t want to go to law school, which his father was pushing onto him. Instead, he applied to a nearby med school, hoping that the prestige of such a job would pacify Zeus. Instead, Zeus became enraged that Apollo went behind his back about this, and the two of them got into an incredibly violent row. For the first time, the rest of the family got a view of how Zeus treated Apollo behind closed doors, and the fighting escalated until Zeus ended up pushing the stairs of their home, giving him a severe concussion alongside several other more minor injuries (two fractures, and a lot of bruises) Honestly, if Apollo was in peak condition he might not have gotten so hurt, but the stress of this entire situation had made him skip meals and lose sleep, so he wasn’t able to catch himself in any way. The whole thing got Apollo hospitalized. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for Apollo, and when he woke up in the hospital, he told the nurses he didn’t want any visitors, and began the difficult process of cutting off the rest of his family.
As I said in the last post about this, Apollo now suffers from fits of insomnia and narcolepsy, migraines, and vertigo, but he also suffers from a lot of short term memory loss, which is really kicking his ass when it comes to med school. ALSO, like I said before, Apollo doesn’t actually want to go to med school. He just feels like 1) he’s already started, so he has to see it through, and 2) he’s still a bit caught up in the ideal of perfection that’s been pushed on him his whole life. It’s only through seeing his own past reflected in Jason, and fearing that he’ll get hurt in the same way, that Apollo is truly able to self-reflect and see how much he’s still living in a very self-destructive way. 
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wormspoodle · 16 days ago
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compiled some things
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 7 months ago
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Knowledge Revenge.
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unsung-idiot · 2 months ago
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don't show him modern technology; it won't end well
bonus under the cut:
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itsscaredycat · 2 months ago
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the triangle obtains a mortal human body! and depth perception!
edit: AU created by @/waty_mot and @/LosanPostle on twitter!
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starridge · 3 months ago
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puppet hour was brutal
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eggsistential-breakdown · 3 months ago
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Okay, but hear me out -- what if his parents weren't usually red and blue?
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kavaleyre · 7 months ago
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• The Hanged Man •
“Compared to what Falin went through? This is nothing.”
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Doodles for an AU I’ve been simmering in my mind where Bill ends up stuck possessing Ford in the 80s, and he and Stan begrudgingly agree to help each other try get Ford back and free Bill.
And when I say simmering I mean brainrot. I have brainrot. Someone help me.
Stan and Bill are such a fascinating dynamic to explore, especially in a situation like this.
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paintedcrows · 1 month ago
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Nooo little Stanley watch out! Your striped shirt, bandage, and sad backstory are too Fallen Human Coded!! The Undertale narrative is going to get you!!!
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doctorsiren · 2 months ago
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Gravity Falls AU where everything is exactly the same except Bill’s parents are alive and well, and they’re just so proud of their chaotic dream demon son
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punkitt-is-here · 2 months ago
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dipper is a weirdly special kind of character to me because I was that type of kid, the one who wanted to grow up too fast and got irritated at their sibling not taking things too seriously and never wanting to seem childlike. i connected heavily with him, and honestly the entire arc of Gravity Falls being in part about him learning to just be a kid really helped me in the long run. it was a great wake up call seeing a character so similar to me at that age learn to finally stop trying to be an adult before i was ready.
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candyh0rns · 2 months ago
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Yo why is he lookin at me like that
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Ya got a starting problem pal?
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GET OU- 🗣️🔥
I shoot him with my George pig plushie hope he'll leave me alone for now.
Feel sick today and this guy isn't making it any better 😔
Ps. Inspired by @squidflavoredsoup :³
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scurvyboy · 1 month ago
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au where fiddleford decided to start forgiving and stop forgetting way earlier in his life and is just a cool guy that is bad at hiding the fact that he knows things
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noodles-and-tea · 2 months ago
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Continuation of this
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angstflavoured · 3 months ago
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i dont think bill would be used to someone actually liking him.... especially as much as ford did like it was embarrassing
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