#timmy trout

[hippydippydruid]

Imagine being a child, and your whole family dies, and it’s just you and your dad. And he starts locking himself in his office, claiming he has work to do, so you sit and you wait and you grieve. And then one day your mother is there like nothing ever happened, making breakfast and cleaning the house and homeschooling you just like she used to. And your dad is acting like this is completely normal. And this works for a while, but then this twisted version of your mom stops just cooking breakfast and cleaning the house and begins trying to have hobbies. And suddenly your mother is gone again and there is a new mom in the kitchen the next morning. And you realize that you will never get the closure of fully losing your mother, but you will also never get the satisfaction of having her back. And soon your mother, who used to adore you, is pampering these two new children that behave so well and aren’t sad and angry like the poor little .5. And you watch as every new version of your dead mother begins to view you with more and more disdain as you look into the lifeless eyes of a woman who used to sing you songs before bed every night, and you know there is no one who will ever believe you. Imagine being Timmy Trout.

[maddogdrawing]

hiiii back on my trudy trout grind 💪💪💪 (trying not to think about other things) sooo spoilers for ep 12 but here's a little comic to the song never love an anchor by the crane wives.

and also a video version with sound

[mj-thrush-gxn]

there’s a reason why timmy is a .5

[marsskaterboii]

What do you mean Trudy made it out? What do you mean she raced cars and had a will-they-won't-they-again lover? What do you mean she managed to leave her son behind despite loving him more than anything? What do you mean Tucker used that love to lure her, to drug her, to trap her, to KILL her???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE MADE IT OUT?

(On a different note, no wonder the robot Trudys have this dislike for Timmy. It wasnt his fault, but he was the bait.)

[babacontainsmultitudes]

If I had a nickel for every time Beth played a "replacement" parent tasked with proving themself to a child who wanted absolutely nothing to do with them and was still mourning the loss of the parent they once knew, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but god does it hurt every time.

[soup-child]

I pictured trudys kids as like grade school aged so let me tell you it was jarring this to realize Timmy was not 6 years old

[my-fishstickers]

Fish in a bowl.

Reference under the cut! (From the s3 ep 11 official art)

[nat-without-a-g]

What’s your theory for why Trudy seems to resents Timmy? I’ve got a few:

Tina and Tuck look like their father while Timmy takes after his mother and either Tucker made a stink about that or she has some self-loathing that’s carried over to her son.

Because they’re trying to hard to emulate the American suburban dream, they only wanted two children (a boy and a girl) and Timmy threw that count off. Either he’s a twin with one of the other kids or was born after Tuck and before Tina or he was a “surprise”— either way he throws off the count.

SOME people think they’re soooo special because they know how to read

[lo-jo-s-blog]

The fact that Tucker Trout (🐟) programs his robot slave wife to have an instinctual hatred of her son to a point where abuse like washing out his mouth with soap is not only expected by him but also doesn’t affect him anymore, and a figure resembling his mother showing him any actual affection is the only thing that upsets him, is actually insane.

[smxllalien]

DNDADS S3 E11 SPOILERS

it’s so funny realising that, while Trudy is having that conversation with Timmy outside, she’s still got the gun on her back. Imagine being yelled at by a twelve year old with a fucking rifle in your hands

also yes, that scene Did make me tear up at work and i had to go take a breather, what of it?

(y’all should check out “the i love you song” from 25th annual putnam county spelling bee, Very similar vibes)

[radio-show]

Actually I'm not done. Back on my nonsense. Timmy Trout is on the brain. Imagine you are Timothy Trout. You lose your mom. You lose your siblings. Everyone is a robot. None of these women is your mom. One of them knows this. She comes back just to see you. She's shaped like your mom, but she isn't. She's just like the others. She's not your mom, she knows she's not the original, but she loves you so much. She wants you to be her son so badly. She loves you and your siblings so much that she came back even when it would probably be a danger to her and her friends. She loves you. She loves you. She loves you.

[hippydippydruid]

Actually I’m not ok with the fact that Timmy has seen his mother be replaced over and over again, and Everytime he saw the disdain she had for him grow because she kept becoming more like the ideal while he became less and less perfect because he’s human. And for the longest time he’s been the only person behaving like a human in his family because everyone else he loved has been replaced.

[i-3at-s0ap]

The Trouts!

Don't look too closely at Trudy lmao IDK what happened when I was drawing her 💀

[rebelfire]

Noticing a lot of posts about Timmy Trout and how it appears he and his dad are the only fully human members of their family. Trudy was real once, then replaced, but we don't know about his siblings. But what makes this truly tragic for me is that they're homeschooled.

For a moment forget that that's often done with good intentions and think about the actual effect on kids. We saw with Link how two living parents could cause a lot of problems because they made him scared to socialize, limited his knowledge because they were his only teachers, and kept him confined to the house (vacations were in the backyard). He rightfully described it as prison because he had to go on a hunger strike just to be allowed to go to regular school!

Now with Timmy, he got cigarettes but those are easy to get in their town apparently. (Fucking Kelsey Grammer is the Johnny Appleseed of nicotine, lol!) His books may be from his dad, or maybe the library. Without much more information it's possible that with the exception of a couple of very minor outlets his only relationships are with robots! Robots who replaced his mom and possibly his siblings. Robots who despise him but are shown to be easily disposable. Unless this kid develops some healthy relationships with women he'll probably also assume women are entirely disposable, as demonstrated by his dad.

[risetherivermoon]

personally, i think Timmy knows thats not his Mom

anyways, i gave him a dog becuz i thought it would look cool- idk i mostly did this for shading experiments, wanted to go for a new vibe..might write and draw an angsty trout family comic...who knows

[babacontainsmultitudes]

I know it's only been one episode so who knows what's to come for these characters and what we'll learn about them, but I can't help but think of Timmy as serving as a reflection of Trudy's own childhood, in a sense. Trudy having once been a child full of her own aspirations and passions, which very evidently were shut down in favor of her subordination and compliance. "Nobody cares about Timmy" and I doubt anyone ever bothered to care about Trudy outside of her potential as a mother and a housewife.

Of course there's an important difference between Trudy and Timmy; where his interests may be neglected in the context of his home, by virtue of having been born a boy, Timmy will ultimately be free to pursue what he pleases throughout the course of his life. Do you think Trudy feels some level of resentment towards her son who is so deeply invested in his novels when she herself was barred from the right to learn to read? [<- a matter which @nat-without-a-g brought up in this stellar little post] Do you think she feels ashamed that she wouldn't be able to engage fully with her child's interests even if she wanted to?

Also, not related to Timmy but... Mm, something something, Trudy not being allowed to freely pursue her own interests (Tucker choosing them for her, even), something something Kelsey being keen on trying and experiencing everything before allowing herself to write about it in her encyclopedia (not to mention of course Kelsey writing a book and being a teacher vs. Trudy being illiterate and uneducated), love the important contrast there. Idk, I suppose it's thinking about Trudy hour! I just want her to get the chance to live her best life and read with her son.