#lila burrows end

[rebe-draws]

"Brighter than the sun, swifter than the wind" I am *loving* Burrow’s End, I had to do fanart! The whole crew is killin it!

[queen-gaymer]

If anything happens to Jaysohn or Lila then Brennan is gonna act his ass off portraying a grieving mother

[raindropsonwhiskers]

EVERYTHING IS FINE AND EVERYONE IS HAPPY

[my-clerical-gnomance]

thinking about lila blaming her dad for making tula's life bad now that we know that ava called geoffrey a fool for going alone

thinking about how kids learn more from how people act than what they say

[ostrichchariot]

Stuff has been really exciting recently. Jaysohn's really been enjoying it.

There's kind of really a lot of stuff happening right now.

Uncle Thorn's talking to the humans with Auntie Viola and Grandma, and Jaysohn's not tired, he's not, mum! But she told him they should go back and get some rest anyway now that things have calmed down a bit, and she said maybe they might see Sybil on the way. So maybe going back to the room for a bit wouldn't be so bad. And anyway, Lila's probably tired.

They don't see actually Sybil on the way, which is disappointing.

Lila settles down really fast like she always does, and then just lies there staring off into the distance thinking and not even running around while she does it or anything, like she always does. She just stays there listening, because she's really really clever, and that does mean she is also just a tiny bit boring sometimes.

Mum is sitting by the door, staring out into the warren.

"Mum?" says Jaysohn. "Are you going to die?"

Her head whips round in an instant, and she stares at him for a moment before she responds. "Am I- what do you mean, sweetie?"

"Well, you know, since you died but you came back, does that mean you'll never die?" asks Jaysohn.

She looks at him. She opens her mouth, then closes it again. She reaches out a paw, and places it, with excruciating gentleness, on Jaysohn's shoulder.

This is the flesh she tore into with raw power and savagery. This is the muscle she stitched back together with sheer force of will.

Under the fur, there is a scar, now.

Jaysohn thinks it probably looks really cool, and isn't sure why mum looks sort of heartbroken when he leans into her touch a little.

"I'm so sorry," she says. "I'm so, so sorry, Jaysohn."

Her eyes glisten with tears, and that's sad, but it's ok. Jaysohn doesn't mind, as long as she doesn't look like she did in that moment where she stopped being all weird and attacking him, and then stared at him like she wanted to be gone. Like she was gone, just not on the outside.

"Come on, mum," says Jaysohn. "I'm fine. I'm really strong, you know! Anyway, Auntie Viola exploded those humans, and you healed me, so it doesn't even matter!"

"It does matter." says mum, voice unusually forceful. "I hurt you, and that was wrong. That was unforgivable."

"Well you didn't do it on purpose, did you?" says Jaysohn. "Obviously. I could tell. Plus I know you would never do that unless someone else was doing it. Otherwise it wouldn't make any sense."

Mum's eyes soften, and she nuzzles him gently, pressing her nose into his shoulder fur. "No. No, I suppose it wouldn't," she says. "I love you, Jaysohn. I'm so glad you're alright. I'm so proud of you, you did so well out there."

"I caught the cloudless thunder," says Jaysohn.

She pulls back and stares at him, as though she hadn't quite realized what that meant until this moment. "...You did," says says. "You did. It can't hurt you. Can it?" She blinks a couple of times, looking almost overwhelmed. "You- you're very strong, Jaysohn."

"I know right?" says Jaysohn.

She looks at him, eyes soft. "You should get some rest, now. It's been a long day."

Jaysohn- well. He almost protests. He really does.

But it has been a long day.

And- there's something that's different, now, in mum's eyes. He doesn't know quite what it is. He just knows that it's not the same as it was yesterday.

"Only if you do too," he says.

"Oh," says mum.

She closes her eyes for a few seconds. It's quiet. Oddly calm, given everything that's just happened.

"I suppose it's safe now," she says. "Isn't it?"

"Yeah," says Jaysohn. "You know nothing's gonna mess with us. Auntie Viola exploded those humans."

"Yes," says mum, gently amused, "I think you mentioned that, sweetie."

"Well if Auntie Viola and Grandma are out there, no one'll ever get in at all unless they let them in on purpose."

"Your Uncle Thorn is doing a very important job out there too, speaking to the humans," says mum, for no reason Jaysohn can see.

"Yeah, he's there too I guess?" he says, a little confused.

"Alright," says mum, stifling a laugh, "let's sleep now." She curls up beside Lila, leaving a space open on the other side for Jaysohn.

Jaysohn wriggles in next to her.

She is warm. He can hear her heartbeat.

"You're warm," he says.

"I am," she says. "It's nice."

He moves just a bit closer to her.

"We can rest now," says Tula. "And in the morning, we can decide what we want to do next."

[scutchythedm]

Lila is literally SO well done oml

Literally the feeling that you know something bad is going on but don't have the vocabulary or understanding of the world to explain it and no one is taking the time to explain things to you because you're "too young to understand" just UGHHDHGHFHDHF

this one hit home

[unlikablefemaleprotagonist]

one has a doctorate in nuclear physics from oxford. the other is a gold medalist in the olympics. i'm not crying, you're crying

[veddabredda]

The preview image for the next episode has me in a chokehold and I went into a fugue state and drew this.

Watcha looking at, Iz?

[may12324]

💙Dimension 20: Burrow's End 💙

It was such a joy to be able to work on this show, I'm so excited for everyone to be able to watch it for the first time! It's such a sweet and heartfelt story, but also jam packed with action and amazingly detailed minis 👀

[5ftboy]

"Can I cast Divine Sense on my kids?" "Jaysohn constitutes as a fiend."

[acourtoffeyandfables]

PEAK MOM ENERGY

[queen-gaymer]

My theory for Burrow’s End is that it takes place by Chernobyl and the dust is nuclear fallout. I’m only basing this off of the body horror content warning 🙃

[conschintz]

burrow's end pcs + text posts

[sketchfeathers]

“ken was relying on me, too. and i failed him. i failed him. i … it could have been me. it should have been me there.”

“you didn’t.”

“i just had to … well, i …”

“no, you didn’t. you didn’t fail them.”

(honestly phenomenally underrated moment here from izzy and erika that i wanted to ~commemorate bc god it was so sweet and emotional ;;;)

[emthepotatocat]

Brennan Lee Mulligan not wanting his children to be drafted into the military industrial complex while still being completely in character is such a Brennan Lee Mulligan™ thing to do.

And, to be completely candid: vibe, mood, and maybe even, same. o7

[chungledown-bimothy]

"You're very bright and you're getting older, and that means that I can rely on you more"

Hey parentified eldest daughters (whether or not we're still daughters), on a scale of Erika to Izzy to Aabria, how we feeling about that interaction?

Personally I'm 100% in the smiling through the pain camp.