#sir gabriel

[mjrtaurus]

Sitting here when it just dawned on me that at least three of the Seraphim were used to quell rebellion from World Government nations, presumably violently. Including sweet boy Gabe! 😭😭😭

Aside from feeling awful about it for obvious reasons, the boys think it's proof that they're bad people in Santa's eyes. He sees everything! Since none of them are allowed to stray too far from their respective guardians, they give Dragon a series of apology drawings they all made to give to the Revolutionary Army's new protectorates.

Which are basically like if a child tried to draw a postcard with "Sorry I stole your shadows/sliced your buildings up with strings/drowned you in clay" scribbled onto it.

Gabe rubbed them in some turkey dinner that Mihawk prepared a few days previously because if they couldn't have Papa's cooking, then they could at least smell it and that was just as good, right?

Dragon breaks out the forgery skills, his best holiday themed stationary, and every ounce of whimsy he has, and writes them all a letter.

“It’s come to my attention from a certain Mr. Monkey D that you and your siblings have been convinced you’re all on the naughty list. I’m writing you to clear the air and tell you all that I have checked my list, and I’ve checked it twice, and not a one of you is naughty!

That mean old fellow Sakazuki who made you do all those nasty things, however… why, I’d give him coal, but he’d burn it right up with that temper of his! Ho ho ho!

Much love and a very Merry Christmas- Santa Claus”

Dragon gets a call from Crocodile, who is passing on the gratitude of several families, including their own.

[pointycorgiears]

Sometimes I think Buggy is beside himself with worry about ensuring his sons don't grow up resentful of each other like what happened with him and Shanks. It was something he was concerned with back when it was just Gabe and Gryphon since they're the same age yet so different in personality. But then Nemo came along and he knows how easy it is for kids to be jealous of the new baby. Hell, he and Shanks felt that way for a time when Momo and Hiyori were brought aboard the Oro Jackson.

It's funny how out of the three dads, Buggy appears to be the most exoerience with children. That worry was something he brought up to Mihawk and Crocodile right away once the Gabriel and Gryphon arrived. It was something the other two didn't even think about, but they eventually came up with a game plan for it and things were going smoothly.

Then, Nemo comes along, and their meticulous plan gets shaken up. Now there is a wildcard. Buggy goes into an internal panic again, but at least he has personal experience with this kind of situation too. He lets the boys help with the baby, but he's adamant that it is not their job and they should help only because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. He makes time to spend time playing with them, and just them, during his very busy schedule during the day. When one kid is occupied with something else, he finds the other and scoops them up and hugs them, and just sits with them for awhile on their own. Everyone gets special attention. He is making sure of it.

It's something Buggy kind of works through in his own way during all the craziness of adopting a baby into the family, so he hasn't sat down to explain it to Mihawk and Crocodile yet. But, they do start to notice the things he's doing and so they begin copying him. Very quickly, they have a nice rhythm going again that benefits all three children.

[cryingpariah]

After nearly an hour of the boys singing "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas", Dragon gently breaks it to them that no. No they do not.

Because hippos can open their mouths 150 degrees to chomp crocodiles in half with a bite force of 2,000 pounds per square inch, capsize small boats to maul anyone who falls in the water or straight up swallow them whole, sweat a combination of hipposudoric acid and norhipposurdic acid known as blood sweat, and kill about an average of 3 people every two days.

Gryphon just blinks and thanks Tayta for giving them even more reasons to ask for a hippopotamus.

Frankly Crocodile's fine with it. He and hippos are generally chill.

(Btw, did you know baby hippos can and do chew on the tails of crocodiles without the croc doing anything, probably because they know Mama Hippo will put them in the ground if they try. Supposedly, baby hippos like the salty taste of croc tail)

Yknow, I was aware that hippos were one of those deceptively cute animals that are actually super dangerous (like dolphins) but holy shmoly I did not know the extent!

After begging, pleading, holding all the radio Den Den Mushi's hostage to play the song on loop and no less than 3 different slideshow presentations, Buggy and Mihawk remained…unconvinced on the actual need to add a hippo to their animal roster. (Crocodile's real happy to be able to play cool parent on this issue.) Buggy is just straight up terrified after over hearing all of Dragon's fun facts about the creatures and Mihawk states that they don’t need a giant, extremely powerful, crocodile-eating beast in their home (that’s what Dragon's for.)

They eventually come together with a compromise: they commission Mr 3 and Miss Goldenweek to make a lifelike wax hippo for the boys to enjoy instead! It goes over smoothly enough and the heads of the Cross Guild have once again avoided giving into the demands of their very adorable cybernetic children…for now anyway.

[saturnstrays]

Its in the name luv 💗

[diioonysus]

objects in art: swords/daggers

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

You flew the mother plane directly into the world serve center.

Hit the cuntagon!

Audio source

[q-lyme]

Love like yours will surely come my way

[immediatebreakfast]

I really, really need to count how many times any kind of alcoholic beverage appears in a scene, and how factors around it affect the scene itself within the story. Of course the very blantant message of wanting to have a good stage in society plus enjoying the benefits of it while gratifying your own selfish desires without caring how you affect others is very studied, yet I wonder how the theme of addiction plus social class was seen back then.

Knowing that Hyde is described as this "state" of unrestrained freedom that Jekyll has access to in very specific moments where he longs for a out sight view from victorian society. Along with Hyde being this "mysterious" entity which Utterson desperately wants to understand for the sake of his old friend while Jekyll shamefully hides it, and claims that he can "stop it" in a matter of a single spoken promise:

“Utterson, I swear to God,” cried the doctor, “I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end.”

I do wonder, would the word addiction be used to describe Jekyll? Considering how socially and economically segregated everything was, what would be the cultural language used in late victorian england to describe addiction? It is now known that mentally ill people who were also poor always got the medical diagnosis of "pauper lunatic" no matter what kind of problems they had, yet would a rich person receive the same name?

“I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am quite done with him. I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed.”

What was the line in which something was classified as that? A poor person with an addiction to drugs or alcohol would have been called a lunatic along with some classist and ableist comments of such person being "more prone" to do so... However, if a rich person "got caught" with the same state such as the upstanding member of the community and condecorated doctor Henry Jekyll... Would It be instant social downfall, or would it be carefully twisted into having "too much indulgence".

[braisedhoney]

WRITHE IN YOUR AGONY, JUBILANT

[mjrtaurus]

About half a year after Dragon got himself back on his feet from the boys moving out, he's at the store as usual when he sees a little plush crocodile marching along top of one of the floor displays, very clearly being moved by a child on the other side. At first he doesn't think much of it besides a fond smirk at the memories it brings of his boys doing similar antics when they were younger.

Except when this boy walks out from around the corner, his breath hitches. He looks practically identical to....

No, it can't be. His eyes are playing tricks on him. When the boy catches sight of him with violet eyes he beams and comes running up to him with that clumsy little toddler shuffle to say he likes Dragon's earrings.

And that's when he hears a voice he thought would be nothing but a memory.

"Gabriel! Hayati, you can't just wander off like that! You're going to get lo-"

Dragon knows it's cheesy as all hell, but Crocodile has hardly changed at all. Okay, maybe they do have a little bit of a matching salt and pepper thing going on and he definitely has a few new rings (gods, are any of them engagement rings? please please don't let there be an engagement ring). But other than that... it's like stepping back in time.

The little boy, Gabriel, is the son of Crocodile's half-sister. They were never close, in fact Crocodile only had the vaguest memories of her to begin with. But after her death, Crocodile was contacted as her only living relative. Gabriel's father wasn't in the picture and the boy is so young that he's naturally assumed Crocodile is his baba. Doesn't seem like he can be convinced otherwise either. Must be the family stubbornness.

Crocodile couldn't begin to say why he took Gabe in. What qualifications, and more importantly what right did he possibly have to care for a child when he couldn't even raise his own son? Maybe it was because he couldn't that fate had given him this second chance? And it turns out he's not completely terrible at it.

Buggy was the reason they were out here. He needed Crocodile's help with some circus business and Croc didn't have time to get a babysitter for Gabe, so family road trip. He was so preoccupied with juggling everything that he hadn't even considered the possibility that he might run into Dragon.

But he has.

He's... he's still so handsome. If he hates Crocodile's guts (of course he does, he would have to be utterly bereft of brain cells not to), his eyes aren't showing it.

“Baba… do you know this guy?” Little violet eyes, the picture perfect copy of his half-uncle’s look Dragon up and down with curiosity. Suspicion, too.

“Y-… yeah. Yeah, I know him.” Why was Dragon still looking at him like that? Why was he not giving him shit for bailing out on him and the baby? Why was he smiling in that stupidly handsome way of his where it made sun-worn skin crease and dimple?

“It’s good to see you again, Coração.” And oh, if that little pet-name didn’t have Crocodile just as flustered as when he first heard it… There was going to be a lot of catching up to do, now that Dragon had locked him in place with that one.

And no, as it turned out, none of those rings were engagement rings. Somebody by the name of one Donquixote Doflamingo tried, but Crocodile wasn’t about to get himself trapped in that pink spider’s web.

[pointycorgiears]

I keep thinking about Gryphon perfecting his war paint makeup and meanwhile you have Gabe who has one of those dinosaur mask paints kids can get at those face painting booths at county fairs.

Then there's Nemo who's scribbled all over his face with lipstick and eyeshadow sticks. 😭😭😭

Gryphon is concentrating hard with a mirror, carefully applying dark lines radiating from his eyes, while Gabriel and Nemo are entertaining themselves nearby. The two are giggling and making dinosaur noises. Gryphon's eye twitches and he finally snaps at them, "You guys this is serious! I have to do this carefully if I want to look terrifying! Stop playing around, you're distracting me."

Then Gabe is just like, "I thought you wanted to look cool?"

"I do! Like, 60 percent cool and 40 percent scary. That's the magic ratio, according to Daddy."

"RRAAWWRRR!" Nemo agrees.

[cryingpariah]

The Seraphim making Snow Angels except they don't have to do anything but fall backwards into the snow. 🤣

Nemo doesn't quite understand what's going on so he's just wiggling around on the ground like a worm on a string until he looks like a powdered jelly donut.

Buggy comes out to check on them (and also tell them that there’s hot coco waiting and ready!) just to be grabbed on by a little living ball of snow with big old eyes. He screamed a little until he felt the familiar cold sensation of a honking nose being pressed against his leg.

“Wha- Nemo?! What are you doing out here in the cold?” He scooped up the little clown while his older sons came barreling towards him.

“Daddy! Daddy! Come look at what we did!”

“It’s easily the coolest AND flashiest snow angel!”

“Coolest and flashiest huh? Well now I’ve gotta see it! You’ve been following Daddy's snow rules I hope?”

They both nod. “Don’t throw snowballs with ice, stone or sticks in them, don’t jump on any frozen lakes or rivers, don’t eat any yellow snow!”

“Well done! Now where is this..snow…angel?!”

It laid there undisturbed and perfect, the scene made extra cute with Gryphon and Gabe's smiles and jazz hands of introduction. There in the snow lay what the star clown could only describe as a biblically accurate snow angel. Arms at the hips, torso and head. Legs impossibly and inhumanly long. Three sets of wings stretched out for maximum horror factor. It’s not to say he didn’t like what he saw per se, it’s just that he’s sure he’d continue to see king after today.

“ What do you think? Papa said it was a haunting experience unlike anything he’s ever seen! We're gonna take a picture to show Baba later too!”

“It’s…an undeniably flashy collaborative piece! I’m so (terrified) proud of you boys!”

The boys cheer in triumph and immediately begin flying around their Magnum Opus to best capture its brilliance to film.

[diioonysus]

reading + art

[21stcenturyroyals]

INCORRECT ROYAL QUOTES | 21ST CENTURY ROYALS (2000-2099) | 12x24: “royals 2024 wrapped”

[justpassingbyoursht]

Yknow when I first saw Chronos i couldn't quite take him seriously bc he's... he's a twink. who gave him that tiny tiny waist and those birthgiving hips? why is he built like that? i expected a giant or something, i mean the big 3 brothers are built ykno their father should be big muscly guy too right?? and then i realized he's got an hourglass shape and. 😶

my bad supergiant u are right. titan of time. hourglass. titan of time? hourglass. checks out ✓ he is hourglass shaped. an hourglass. ⌛that. that is him. titan of time alright. hourglass

but still that tiny waist

[hrspcter]