#todd and viola

[bookwyrm03]

Todd: So that’s my plan.

Viola: Are you alright with constructive criticism? I don’t want to sound mean.

Todd: No, go ahead, I want to hear it.

Viola: It fucking sucks.

Todd: That’s not constructive criticism.

[oh-dont-decieve-me]

Blog revived???!?!?

THIS ISNT REAL

[eerna]

sketches from this recent CW reread! the fact that it's been 4 years since I first went on a marathon for this series is bonkers to me

[nora-durst]

Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness ○◦∘ The Knife of Never Letting Go (Book One)

But a knife ain’t just a thing, is it? It’s a choice, it’s something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

[lorethebookworm]

Imagine you're a 15 year old boy. You probably never knew kindness in your life because your mom died when you were little and your dad is too obsessed with war and murder and world domination to care about you. You live to please him. You'd do anything to make him proud. You *have* done awful, awful things to appease him. Things that keep you up at night. You're mean and a bully and act like you're the boss of everyone because you hurt inside and because you're trying to play the part of the man, the big authoritative man your father can't help but be proud of. There's this one kid who your father is obsessed with for some reason. He makes you work with him. You don't get why this guy is so special but whatever. You fight with him everyday but you still work side by side. You two commit more awful things to appease your father. Your father is kinda ... happy? No one can read him anyway. You spend months and months with the other kid. You two grow kinda close. Maybe he's not that bad after all. You both get a promotion. Your father is so proud of you two, his sons. You're so happy you can't even think straight. Maybe you can all be a family now, yes , you your new brother and your dad. Your father trusts you to lead his army to war and you will, you'll prove yourself to him and he'll love you. You come back from what ended up being a diversion, not the actual war, and your new family is fighting. Your dad tells you to shoot your brother. You would never. Your brother threatens to shoot you. What? Your father shoots you. Why? to "remove you from the equation". You die and in your last seconds you ask to be forgiven. You regret it all so much. You finally see through your father's constant manipulation but it's too late. You die. Your brother goes to war with the rifle your dad had given you , the rifle you were to protect yourself with in battle. You're dead and you don't know that the rifle was unloaded. You're dead and everyone you've ever loved betrayed you. You're Davy fucking Prentiss Jr and you haunt my existence

[thesweetnessofspring]

Yes, Todd! He'd grown up with his only exposure to women and girls through disgusting men's Noise, then only seen other settlements deal with the Noise by dividing men and women and forcing control of one over the other. But right here, he gets it. He didn't save Viola from Aaron because he owns her or to get her to owe him something. She's her own person and she's someone he's going to save. They're both true.

[spimmed]

⚠️WARNING!! DRAWN GORE!!⚠️

aaron ; the knife of never letting go .. plus other chaos walking doodles

[if u know what happens to aaron in the book u understand ^^”]

aaron oh aaron.. i adore him… hate his guts but adore him. he’s so fucking weird. love his character. i wasnt sure how to go about drawing his appearance but i like how it turned out.

and yes! Hello guys! As promised, i said i’d make more chaos walking content.. here we are! Better late than never.

I have a few doodles to throw in as i have no other home for these and i feel weird posting unfinished artwork on its own so excuse my rambling about these random things 😔🙏

first, wip drawing of all 3 babies getting SHOT🔥💯 strange how it happened to all of them .

But i was way too lazy to finish the rest and todds arms look like lego arms 💀. But u get the vision i hope

Next are these random plans for an animatic ive had in mind for LITERALLY a year now but am just too lazy to carry out. Two concepts in and im done Bye!

I do not like how i drew mayor prentiss here he looks too young! Well i think i need to redesign my design for him regardless. But its messy anyway so i dont mind much. Todd looks PEEVED😒

I dont believe I’ve posted this one anywhere? Its pretty old but worth throwing in

Ermm this next thing is probably cringe / too self indulgent but its tumblr who gives a fuck

I made an oc..😔 reg oliver (stole a name todd listed at the beginning of tkonlg i think im clever for it) and made him into a goofy character, never drew any more than these bc his design didnt look how i wanted thoufh its still a silly concept i think. Chaos walking is such a random thing to have ocs for i feel lmao

Ok i *THINK* thats every scrap i have to feed to you guys. I hope anyone who sees this enjoys even with my ramblings and unfinished work ILY GUYS!

Stupid davy and todd tbh creature

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

New Chaos Walking book. oh 12 year old me me all your dreams just came true.

[puppiiiowo]

Hello Chaos Walkign fans. I have a lot of grub to deliber

[friendlessghoul]

Playing cards 🃏

[absolutelynotbestie]

Day 1 of my favourite quotes from my favourite books:

“The blood from his mouth is getting on the little brown hairs he calls a moustache and everyone else calls nothing.”

~ The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness ~

[haphazardss]

i hate chaos walking!!!

(help im taking over the chaos walking tag 😭😭😭 i live here now)

[letterboxd-loggd]

Far from Heaven (2002) Todd Haynes

February 11th 2025

[eerna]

I'm actually so insane over your chaos walking art oh my GOD!!! THANK YOU for the Fandom food I'm thriving right now omg. I'm so so curious what your mayor prentiss and mistress coyle designs would look like ,,,, AND DAVY,,,,, (begging on my knees)

HIIIII I'm so glad!! These books make my creative cogs spin so fast!!! I have some old fanart from 4 years ago for all three of them floating around this blog, but this time when I was rereading I imagined them completely differently so I actually gotta get to drawing those... Stay tuned!

[nora-durst]

Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness ◦○∘ Monsters of Men (Book Three)

I'll kill you! You hear me? I'll kill you! I should finally hope so, Todd. You've waited long enough.

[lorethebookworm]

One of the many things that make me insane about the chaos walking books are the parallels between the characters. I could talk about them for DAYS. Viola and Mistress Coyle. Todd and Mayor Prentiss. Mayor Prentiss and Mistress Coyle. Davy and Todd. The return and Todd. Ben and Mayor Prentiss. The Sky and the Return. The Sky and the Return and the Mayor and Todd and so on and so forth until you combust.

Some of these specifically keep me up at night. The Sky telling the Return "you have no father, I have no son , we should totally be a found family" and the mayor constantly telling Todd that he's proud of him , that they are connected, forcing this bond between them , forcing him into the role of his son while the Sky asks, the mayor creating this test where to become part of the men of Pressintown you have to kill someone while the Sky's test is not to kill, to be able to show mercy, let go of anger to join the Land. Either way both Todd and The Return find themselves unable to kill, they are both angry and broken and Todd does hate Aaron and seek vengence just like The Return hates Todd but in the end they can't kill. but then there's Todd killing a spackle with a knife and The Return unable to stab Ben but he kinda kills Todd with a rifle while Todd purposefully doesn't shoot any spackle with his rifle during the first fight of the war And and and both the mayor and the sky die but while the Sky's memory is treasured and the Return is proud to follow in his footsteps Todd will never become like the Mayor ( who is only remembered as a horror story I hope )

There's so many characters mirroring each other it's insaneeee like mistress coyle and the mayor who both believe they are so high and mighty and so different but when it comes down to it they are both deranged fucking people obsessed with control. They go about it in different ways , one a murderer and the other a terrorist, they make sides and they fight and he poisons people and she's a healer but when it comes down to it she almost blows viola up with a bomb while the mayor saves Todd's life countless times. They are so obsessed with power and control that when they see it getting permanently out of their reach they kill themselves. She , "the martyr", "the voice of the people", goes out with a bomb while him "the president of the world", "the general", tries to leave behind countless deaths in a war he designed to have no winners. THEY ARE FUCKING INSANE YOUR HONOR "(if she wins) you'd be swapping one tyrant for another" YEAH WE NOTICED and and and do you see how they're unstoppable forces ?? The only reason they are defeated is because they defeat themselves!! No one else in the whole new world could have stopped them otherwise!!! AND did you guys notice how they were such better people in the past?? Mistress Coyle helping the protagonists of The wide open sea and Todd's mom describing the Mayor as a good man at the beginning of her journal??? But then power got to them , the need for control made them such horrible people

hello??*reaches through the screen to shake you* CAN YOU HEAR ME ?? Am I onto nothing???