#tj stampler

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Ep. 13.01 Terry jr. and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dad

[yeahprobablyamimic]

no cause do you guys realize how fucking broken Walter would be if he saw how everything turned out? if he saw how much Lark hated himself? the change from hyper little kid to self loathing soldier obsessed with redeeming himself from a mistake he made as a child?? if he saw how much Grant STILL hadn’t changed?? still relied on pain as a way to ground himself?? years later still ignoring his emotions in favor of the path of least resistance? if he saw how broken Nick was?? how he’s still divided between homes, with little to no support from either side, even though he has 3x the amount of parents he technically started with?? God don’t even get me started on TJ. fuck if Walter could just sit that boy down and tell him to stop trying so hard to be a step-dad and does he remember nothing about how Ron finally won him over and just to be there for Scary even if he’s not good at it?? And Sparrow. Fuck. Seeing Sparrow still so afraid of his own anger and still trying to be the mediator and still trying to pretend things are okay even when they’re so blatantly not?? and last but not fucking least. You cannot tell me that if Walter knew that the boys didn’t speak to each other. and had raised their kids not to know each other, separate from a support system they had to know they would eventually need he would be fucking livid. this coming from someone who’s wife and son left him because he was cursed. this coming from someone who found a family in an adopted homunculus and five young boys who just needed a bit of guidance and someone to believe in them. knowing these five boys who gave Walter a family when he had been alone for so long had abandoned each other would fucking destroy him and you know it. 

[mj-thrush-gxn]

HAPPY DNDADS WEEK!!!!!

DAY 1- Vampire!!

I miss tj😍

[son-of-the-businessman]

Oh no.

He's here.

[macksartblock]

sketches of the s1 kiddads bc i miss them

doomed children of all time

[risetherivermoon]

idk how we got here from that but im sure glad we did

[zoynkzz]

An older Vampire!Terry Jr. for a dear friend of mine :]

[foragergnome]

if grant and terry jr Got married...

[manitapaleta]

“You see something change in his eyes—

You see realization dawn on him—

You see him figure something out.”

Clean headshot (heh) version

[yuviur]

Post-Odyssey Ron and Terry Jr <3 Gotta love this emotionally available dad/son duo!

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Ep.33.01- Anchor Management

[yeahprobablyamimic]

no cause have we like. laughed at the absurdity of it all yet?? The Stamplers must be fucking cursed at this point holy shit. All Ron ever wanted to do was to have a family and he didn’t know how to fucking do that but then he met people who helped him figure it out and then right away it was ripped away from him by something eldritch his dad had helped create. Ron was fucked over constantly by Willy and the wake of everything he said and did both to Ron and to the people he cared about and no matter what he fucking did he couldn’t stop it

now we flash forward a bit. they’re back and he’s in love with his wife and Terry Jr and him are friends and he calls Ron dad and Ron has finally found people who will love him no matter what and there’s maybe two days of that before Henry gets stabbed and the doodler gets released and YEAH SURE it was running through the Oaks veins but now literally surrounding him at all times is another reminder of his dads manipulation of Willys influence of Willys control of Willy in general so he starts DADDIES. and tries to get rid of it

and then he fails

and then TJ and Grant and Lark and Sparrow and Nick take over and they turn on each other and then TJ has his own family and he wants them to love him so bad the same way Ron wanted him to love him so bad but he can’t fucking do anything but try but trying isn’t working he can’t love someone who doesn’t want to be loved but Ron is dead. Or missing. Or whatever he’s not there. Terry Jr is fatherless again and all the while he’s a bad father and all he wants to do is hug Ron and apologize again and again and again but he cant

and then Scary gets involved. and terry hates himself for it. the same was Ron hated himself when Terry got involved but he’s stuck he fucked up he can’t do anything about it this is his fault for having a family his fault for marrying Veronica his fault for caring Ron loved Samantha despite what Willy put him through Terry loved Veronica despite the fact that he was fighting an eldritch war they were not the same and then TJ meets Terry. Meets the kid that existed before his own and shes open and loving and careful and optimistic and it kills him. it kills him because he doesn’t love her any less she’s still his daughter but Terry isn’t herself anymore and fuck fuck she’s about to watch him die he’s about to traumatize her again he’s about to leave her fatherless again he tries to think of what Ron would say he tries to think of what his mom would say and he almost smiles at the absurdity of it as “whos your daddy now?” comes to mind but then he’s hugging her and apologizing and he remembers who Willy Stampler has with him.  Terry Jr is going to die and its his best friends finger on the trigger and its his Grandfather saying ready aim fire 

and it hits him that he never left that fucking tower. he never escaped that fucking castle. terry jr dies having never made any goddamn impact in the world. i mean of course, any good impact in the world. 

[emdashingly]

grant took this photo, of course — it's probably still in his wallet, bent at the corners

original bg (not canon-accurate, oops) under the cut

[son-of-the-businessman]

That's weird. My phone hasn't worked in years.