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silverloreley · 2 years ago

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Death (or lack thereof) on the Isle of the Lost

The Descendants wave is still on for me and I have to take this thing out of my mind so I can (hopefully) go back to do irl things I actually have to do.

So, the Isle of the Lost. We (the fandom) already talked about many things, but there is one that always makes me ponder, aka the supposed mortality rate.

A lot of fanwriters/headcanoners and so forth insert the death of parents for many Isle kids, but how is it possible, I wonder, that Villains were brought back to life, only to die again? Then why bringing them back to begin with? Let them stay dead!

Unless there was a reason for it. Unless the Villains had already escaped death in the first place (like they did in the webseries Villain’s Lair) OR there was a concrete chance someone on their side could bring them back (and here I call back to Nasira, she’s been the culprit in my top tier headcanon until some time ago).

I already mentioned the Auradon Handbook hints that the Villains briefly ruled the world and there was a Heroes’ revolt to defeat them again, so it’s likely the Beast was elected King in one of the most ancient ways, aka for prowess on the battlefield.

And, if the Heroes had already killed their Villains in the past, and had to fight them again, then it’s likely there was a lot of fear going around it could happen again. Another war, more fights in the lands, more chances of the Villains taking control.

The Isle was made for this, to keep everyone in with no way out, not even death. Because death, for some Villains, is reversible. Because them being alive in seclusion was safer than having them dead.

What does it have to do with the Isle’s mortality rate, you ask? Everything. It means the Barrier very likely doesn’t allow Villains to die, hence no mortality rate in there, not for them.

Now, that would poise a problem, aka the Villains believing themselves invincible. “How to force them to keep each other in check?” someone must have been thinking during the planning.

Through the single thing more dangerous than despair: hope.

Follow me: some of the princesses (and perhaps a certain Fairy) likely thought that if Villains had their own kids to care for, their flesh and blood to protect and nurture, they’d learn love and the value of life and compassion (”even Villains love their kids” echoes very strong here, no?). Very nice, I guess, although a tad too idealistic. Someone with a bit more, uh, common sense may think that as a harsher punishment, not as a chance for redemption. Someone a bit less kind may say: you made us suffer, now watch as the one you may love suffers too, with the little inkling of hope they one day could break you out just to escape the misery. Learn compassion through pain.

Therefore the possibility geriatric characters had children. And one may argue men’s fertility has phases during their lives and older men can still procreate, but women? Once menopause hits, it’s done, no more babies. And yet! Yzma, arguably the oldest of the oldest female villains - biologically - has not one but two children. TWO! I always found it so very weird and the only explanation is that the Barrier’s system is even more cruel than it seemed at first sight, that it kept the Villains in good enough health to allow this for a precise aim.

Because adults can’t die, children can. Children did. All the deaths on the Isle are in the second generation.

Let that sink in. It’s impossible that children are equally immune to death because, otherwise Mal would have known she couldn’t drown when she and Uma were little, or the kids would be a lot more reckless than they are, therefore children can face death, that’s a fact. Perhaps the Barrier keeps them in better health than the living conditions would realistically allow, but death is still a real possibilty for Isle kids.

At the same time, adults can’t die, we said, but how to make sure they won’t ignore the need to protect their perspective progeny (especially before it existed) and go on bloody sprees against each other?

And here comes my idea. Adults can’t die on the Isle, but they can feel the wounds, suffer from the illnesses, feel the pain just as strongly and, in case of lethal situations, since they can’t die, they suffer a thing a few princesses did: a sleeping spell, or rather, a coma-like living death, with some perception of the outside, but no real consciousness nor ability to act. Fear of that would be enough to restrain even the most calloused Villains, especially the ones who are obsessed with control because what can be worse than not having control on their own selves for them?

There’s one more thing I headcanon the Barrier does, and it’s that it mellows the Villains’ minds. I already talked a bit about in the post mentioned above, so I won’t delve into this again, the point is that the weakening of the Villains from a mental point of view can be the Barrier’s doing. Why? It’s possibly the only measure put forth to prevent a too high body count for the kids, other than prevention in the remote possibility they might get out. Because, if the Villains are scatterbrained and uncaring and less evil overall, the kids have better chances of survival, and if they are less cunning they are easier to defeat (evidence of this? I’ll give you one that speaks for itself: Maleficent mistaking the fridge for a safe and being unable to open it).

OR it ould be that every time they should have had a death, they wake up from their coma a little less than they were. A little less smart, a little less quick, a little less elegant, less fearsome, less anything. The more time they “die“ the more is taken from them. As an unpredicted aftereffect of cheating death.

And, ooops, this is a lot darker than I anticipated when I eleborated the idea in my head.

#disney descendants #descendants #mostly headcanons #or meta #whatever #this has the potential to turn into horror but please don't do this to me #I can't stand horror my heart is too weak #the last idea is from that movie the OG!Loki fandom references when we speak about how he was watered down more with every apparition in mcu #I prefer the barrier theory though #I mean how many times Maleficent must have died to turn like that?

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milestonekestrel · 2 months ago

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Billy Chamberlain and Isolation

Yes. Billy Chamberlain character analysis (about 90% of which I made up), because his cringefail looks and swagless personality have captivated me.

Billy Chamberlain is a very, very minor character in Still Wakes the Deep. He doesn´t even appear physically, only mentioned in dialogue. All we know about him is that he and Caz we´re in a public house named "The Duke" on August 27th, 1975. Where he "slagged off" Suze, and was subsequently beaten up by Caz and hospitalized. This put Caz under investigation for an assult charge, which prompted him to leave to work on the Beira D. It is implied Billy, Suze, Caz, a friend of Billy´s, Keiran, and Roy all knew eachother, or are connected in some way. Through school or mutual friends.

Now, there is little known about Billy Chamberlain, as you can see. But, as you may know, he is my favorite little goober, so I´ve created some stuff to fill in the blanks on him!

So then, lets begin :3

Billy Chamberlain was born to a wealthy family. He basically had everything set up for him as soon as he came into the world. He would never struggle with money, the silver spoon baby that he is. What he would struggle with, however, is isolation.

You see, his parents were wealthy people. He had a good home and he was never in a bad spot. Nowhere but emotionally. Because his parents had a bad habit of holding him at an arm´s length. They treated him less like a human and more like a decoration. Less like their child and more like something that looked nice in the house. Their demeanor towards him never changed, no matter what he did. It was always small smiles and indifference.

and the fucking indifference.

Billy grew up basically alone. And he wasn´t ever physically alone, not by any means. His parents took care of him, his mother didn´t work, but she didn´t really mother him either. Not beyond what was necessary. Suffice to say, this did not set him up well for life.

It gave him a sense of isolation, being treated like this. Made it harder for him to process and manage his emotions, because he had no one to teach him. It also made it harder for him to form social connections and interact with people, or even feel like a damn human himself. Even as a kid, he always felt alone in crowded rooms. He never felt like he was the same as everyone else. Always fundamentally different. There was always a degree of dehumanization that he felt, that he couldn´t manage or process or even express properly as a child. The best way he could think of was to throw fits. Volatile fits. it never worked on his parents, they were still indifferent, and for some reason he never felt the spark when he came home from school.

But at school, when he was very young, he was a troubled kid and a problem student. He didn´t make many friends.

As he grows up, getting older and maturing, it only gets worse. He grows out of his fits, but now there´s no way for him to even attempt to release the building anger and turmoil he feels. So he just gathers it. Lets it build up. The isolation gets more intense, it starts to feel like there´s some sort of blockage between him and the rest of the world. Like he is forever on the outside, looking through a window.

He struggles with his grades for a bit, he´s a smart kid, but everything´s getting in the way. Every day he comes home to indifference, and he despises it. It´s interfering with school. So, he struggles with his grades. And his parents don´t care. They remain indifferent. and god, he wants them to care so badly. he wanted them to get upset with him. Like the other kids´ parents-- he would always hear classmates complaining about getting grounded and getting in trouble, and god how he wished his parents would do that. And he could never express it, because the few times he tried he got laughed at. Because it was so backwards, right? But god, he wanted it so bad. To come home to a scowl, just one day, or some disappointment at least. Anything but the indifference.. anything but the goddamn indifference.

He heard about this so much, parents getting upset with kids for bad grades, he recognized it as normal.

And his parents remained indifferent. And he felt fundamentally inhuman for this.

And all the turmoil just keeps building up, until he gets so sick of being alone in the world that he decides to take a knife and carve a small space out. For himself. To force his way into the world. To break through that fucking glass.

And it is around this time that he meets Suze and Keiran, two kids who he becomes friends with. At first, maybe Suze took pity on him. Either way, they ended up friends, and good ones, at that. Billy leaned hard into his relationships with them, even if it was weird and stilted, he still threw himself into it, because it was a way through the glass. He still struggled to connect, but he tried, he really did. He also grew to know Caz through their mutual friend of Suze, but neither really got close. Mostly, they just knew of each other.

Billy works hard in school. Originally, he wants to be an Engineer. He´s damn good, too, but he gives up on that path eventually, and instead finds a different career. After school, Billy and Suze remained friends, and he kept in touch with Keiran. Billy was well-liked by Suze´s parents. He was nice enough, and wealthy. And Billy had always had a bit of a crush on Suze. But then, a couple years later, Caz and Suze reconnect, and Billy gets properly acquainted with him. It is then that the very best and very worst thing happens in his life. He becomes friends with Caz.

The three of them grow pretty close, and all is well and good for a while. But Billy starts to lose his footing on the path he´s on. Caz and Suze have a special sort of bond, and he can´t help but feel excluded. Not to mention he´s still dealing with his parents, and every time he brings it up, Suze and Caz kind of invalidate his feelings. They never mean too, they´re not cruel people, but they´re dealing with their own shit too. And to them, Billy has it pretty fucking easy. Parents who house and support him financially. So that any time he brings them up, it just turns into a Trauma Contest, and he is always the loser. and he starts to resent it, a little bit.

Maybe they were right, maybe his parents could´ve been worse. But they could´ve been better too.

He starts to feel isolated again, and he leans very far into Caz and Suze´s relationship with him, as it is his only way through the glass. And it´s probably very unhealthy, too.

And then, and then... he falls in love with Caz. And it shakes him, a little bit. Not because he´s homophobic or anything (he doesn't even know the term gay is lets be real), but because this is a new, particularly strong emotion that he doesn't know how to process. And being unable to control and manage his emotions makes them particularly volatile. He has not been taught how to deal with love, let alone love for the same sex. It´s not something he´s been seen or shown or taught about, and its shaking up everything he´s built up inside. and he doesn´t know if what he´s feeling is good or bad. He´s never seen this before, but he hasn´t seen much at all, so is it okay? Or is this just another way he´s.. wrong?

And it just dredges everything up. And this is where it all starts to fall apart. Because Caz and Suze get together, and suddenly it feels like he is being locked out of the world again. That they´re their own thing, and he´s just alone again.

And that´s when the buildup all comes out, like bile. It´s everything, it´s not even all about them. Its anger and discontent from his childhood, insecurity in himself and the suffocating isolation, and the struggle with feelings he can´t name and has no frame of reference for dealing with. Caz and Suze are the only bridge he has, the only bridge to the world and to connection. And he desires it so much, that bridge, but in the end, its him who torches it.

He´s just so fucking angry. He´s drunk and he´s not thinking straight and he says awful things. And maybe he deserves it, what Caz does to him. But in the moment all he can be is angry. And when he wakes up in the hospital, he looks at the smoldering bridge, and decides to finish the job. And he fucking regrets it. In the end, he really fucking regrets it.

because now there´s consequences, and now the only people he´s loved both hate him.

and in the Caz survives au, this isn´t even the end.

There´s the whole business after Caz is fished out of the sea and brought back, where Billy gets the police to back off and comforts Suze, who seems to have forgotten, very briefly, how much she hated him. And he has a place in their lives again, a small place, an unwelcome place, but a place nontheless. They don´t like him, but Suze turns to him when everything about the lights in the ocean comes up.

Because she doesn´t have anyone else, either.

And maybe everything briefly disappears, for a moment, when the three of them are being hunted by Addair in abandoned facility. Maybe everything briefly goes away when Billy decides to throw himself in front of Addair to protect Caz. Maybe everything blurs out when it´s just the three of them trying desperately not to die in here, and to keep Addair from mutating one or all of them, or anyone else.

But it all comes back, at the end. When Billyis delusional from pain and internal bleeding, and he thinks he is going to die. Because, in the brain fog, Billy confesses to Caz.

Just one sentence, ¨I love you,¨ and everything is fucked forever.

Billy makes it out alive, in the end, but he loses his arm. Not completely, it´s still there, after all. But he can´t move it. It just hangs there, limp. and Billy has dug a trench for himself by now, alienating people and burning almost every bridge he´s ever crossed. Keiran, his parents, and Caz and Suze. Because whatever could have been salvaged of their relationship, whatever was left of thos bridges, Billy destroyed completely. But telling Caz he loved him. and he has no one to help him, at least for a while. no one to help him adjust. and Billy once managed to carve something out for himself. something. and now he was losing it. he could barely take care of himself, do his job, just do fucking anything now. he couldn't even comb his hair or put on a shirt. because of his stupid fucking arm. and he did this to himself, didn´t he? driving people away? he did it all to himself. he ruined all the relationships he had, for better or worse. and now he´s alone.

and the feelings of uselessness are a huge struggle for him. the isolation and the sinking feelings that drown everything else out. all he ever wants to do is lay down because hes so useless… he cant do anything, so why should he try anymore? Suze and Caz take pity on him, but he fucked it up. he fucked it all up so bad, and now he´s just burdening them. they´re good people, they really are. they want to help him, even if everything is so complicated now, because they´re better people than him.

All in all, Billy Chamberlain is a troubled man. His parents never treated him like a human, they didn´t even treat him like a pet, either. So he never felt human. And he never learned how to be a human either. All the things he´s done, he´s done to himself, and it´s dumped him at the end of the road. Alone.

But maybe he´ll get some sense knocked into him while he´s recovering, eh?

#still wakes the deep #caz survives au #swtd #billy chamberlain swtd #billy chamberlain #billy swtd #character anaylsis #mostly headcanons #<333 #caz swtd #suze swtd #i love this guy you dont even know im so mentally ill about him.#first and last quotes come from my fanfics: ¨A Moment¨ and ¨I Might´ve Fucked it Up Worse¨

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artkaninchenbau · 6 months ago

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People keep on asking for more Baby Robin and Papadile so here is more Baby Robin and Papadile. Now never ask anything from me ever again

#My art #One Piece #Long post #Sir Crocodile #Nico Robin #Alternatively panel 5 would've been a close up of Crocodile's face from Robin's POV where he looks like he's giving her a death glare #Not intentionally he's just a big scary bastard with a Resting Murder Face and Robin is a small traumatized child #But I wanted to focus on the silliness of the moment so you get the goofy version instead #IDK man there's just something very funny to me about the idea of Robin just randomly info-dumping about a subject she's read about #And Crocodile being like ''?????????????????????? The fuck you talking about??''#Robin leaves the ship's kitchen and Crocodile just stares at the tomato like ''...It's a fruit? Forreal?''#(Meanwhile Robin is sweating bullets like ''I called his favorite vegetable a FRUIT right in his FACE he's going to KILL ME'')#Robin grew extra feet from the bottom of her feet to reach the counter and that actually isn't me trying to explain bad art away #In the original Papadile comic there was a panel of Robin doing the dishes with extra feet to reach the sink but I cut it out #(It was a stress relief comic I did not feel like drawing a complicated background in detail) (BUT YES I THOUGHT OF IT)#Nico Robin Age 11 is *more* than capable of cooking Crocodile just does not trust her with his food. At least not yet #She did start doing the dishes unprompted and continues to do so (mostly out of fear). Croc told her she didn't have to but allows it #IDK a lot of people seem to headcanon Crocodile as incapable of cooking and like. Surely Mr ''I don't trust people'' knows how to cook #Like he doesn't have to be a master chef or anything but and maybe he enjoys not HAVING to cook (pain in the ass with one hand + knife/hook #But surely he can cook decent enough. SURELY #Botanists don't @ me I know the ''tomato is a fruit'' thing isn't fully accurate this is just a silly little haha comic

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iiping · 8 months ago

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what happens in the ruins stays in the ruins 🙈

#headcanon: something unspeakable happened during their joint research fieldwork and they (mostly kaveh) had to pretend to have fallen out #be it was too embarrassing lololol #myart #genshin impact #kaveh #alhaitham #haikaveh #this is actually my cover for the thai haikaveh i wrote!#it was such a fun project to do 😭

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cthulhum · 8 months ago

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does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

#supernatural #dean winchester #spn #destiel #castiel #deancas #misha collins #im 20 i have been Experiencing supernatural and johnlock since i was 12 and merthur since wayy before that i have fought Wars #this is crazy #i love u hannibal i love u 911 (if u make eddie gay)#for the love of god by 'mostly headcanoned' i dont mean that it was never intentional #i am aware that they put the subtext in on purpose #they knew what they were doing #but my focus here is on the actor actually saying it because like #if its not mostly headcanoned then y was the entire cast denying it for years AND YEARS #like do yall not remember what jared and jenesn used to say #there have been many many many instances where the cast has made us feel crazy/stupid for saying anything abt destiel #im just saying TO ME its crazy that actors and creators talk so openly about these things now !!! again i was raised on merlin and sherlock #ok also im confused on the queerbaiting part #everyones saying its queer coding and not queer baiting but cant they be true at the same time ?#im not being dumb on purpose i swear im just confused #like yes dean is very much bi coded and their relationship is queer coded but if the creators deny everything #and we only get a last minute confession after 11 years #that doesnt count as queer baiting ?#someone smart explain this to me 🙏

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salsakiyoomi · 4 months ago

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i ii

sukuna fucked up.

he knew it well, so damn well that he did.

it's been a few weeks since your declaration that you won't be with him anymore until he gets his shit figured out — he hated being away from you, but dammit he knew he was an asshole.

he was an idiot to think you'd be under his influence forever.

sukuna's leg bounces as he sits on his bed, contemplating what to do now —it's been four weeks exactly since you had last spoken to him, and he had seen you around campus, laughing and talking with your friends normally without a care in the world, it made him wonder if he had ever had an effect on you the same way you do on him.

you told him that he was the guy for you all because he hadn't dropped you yet — he thought that was stupid, pathetic even, why would you ever think that?

the more he thought about it the more he realized how wrong he actually was.

he realized it in the way his days seemed lonelier without you, and how his heart always thumped extra loud with the thought of you, and the way you felt so good in bed — fuck, this is getting out of hand.

screw it all, he thinks, getting out of bed and stomping his way over to your dorm, hoping he'd find you there and awake.

it was a half hour past midnight when rapid knocks came at your door — you were on the couch doing some work on your laptop when you jumped from your skin at how loud it got.

you got up, a frown on your face as you make your way to the door wondering who the hell is knocking so damn loud so late into the night.

you open the door and you're immediately shoved inside — you let out a scream before you realize it's sukuna holding your face in both of his hands.

“i can't do it anymore.” he says, his eyebrows furrowed and you stare up at him, confused.

“w-what?” you stutter, your face is still in his hands and you're cheeks are squished together and with that dumbfounded expression on your face sukuna thinks you look too cute for your own good.

“i can't do it, i can't stay away from you,” he says, and he sounds a bit out of breath and that's when you realize that his hair is dripping wet — had he come through the rain just to tell you this?”

“ryomen, what's —” you're cut off with his lips are against yours, he tastes of berries and cigars but god you melt under his touch.

he pulls away after a moment, he's forehead against yours as he stares into your eyes, taking deep breaths.

“i was a stupid asshole,” he says, “i am the guy for you.” he declares and once more you're dumbfounded.

is this his way of confessing to you?

you blink, once, twice, then you let out a laugh.

“you're so silly.” you say, and he frowns, “does that make us official then?” you ask, a smile on your face.

“if you want,” he grumbles.

you grab his face, pulling him in for a quick kiss, “of course i do.” you say and his heart beats a little faster.

man, he was head over heels in love with you.

taglist : @samaraxmorgan

#ok i promise things will be uphill from here #mostly anyway #drummer! sukuna college au #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk headcanons #jjk drabbles #jjk fluff #jjk x reader #ryomen sukuna #sukuna headcanons #sukuna drabble #sukuna fluff #sukuna x reader

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