#tsv 44

[siltslut]

the symbolism of faulkner breaking his staff when he hits his peak of going off the rails. he cares so little about his role now!! he has no way out of it!! he was given far too much power!! he despises everyone who looks up to him!! he’s killing the embodiment of everyone who had faith in him!!

[wordto-thewise]

Category five Carpenter moment

[catwyk]

im literally so normal about this scene

[mostly-void-partially-song]

i want to put Faulkner under a microscope. i want to see a write up on his psychological profile. i want to open him up and see whats going on in there.

he's been affected by the trawler man since at least the water-butt at whatever teen age he was. drowned his brother. left home and found the Parish without getting Got by the authorities somehow. finished growing up in Catholic River God Seminary. offered to kill Carpenter for the Trawler man for not being faithful enough. killed a motel guy bc he romanticized religious murders and had no concept of the consequences (due to being radicalized by the Parish?). thought that the crab monster angel wouldn't hurt him due to his ✨ faith ✨ and then damn near died bc the big ass crab didn't care. decided the only way to fix the situation (being chased by cops) was to wipe some town off the fucking map, but isn't actually as evil as he wishes he were and so he wimped out. helped Carpenter push-pull-taunt their god into wiping that same town off the map saving the day. thinks Carpenter died and so returned to the Parish knowing that Katabasian Mason wanted him dead. gets sent on a suicide mission with like 8 teens by Mason, survives AGAIN (the teens don't), links up with Carpenter, and comes back to murder Mason. consequences, once again, were not thought of so he pins the murder in Carpenter and takes over the river cult Parish. killed Roemont by stopping the man's assassination attempt and, hid crab-nip on him, and let the man drive straight into river of crab angels to be torn apart. declared himself high prophet like any good cult leader. immediately started to hate it and lose his faith (lol). loyal Sibling Rane hid him at his childhood home following the assassination. it took all of maybe 2-3 days for his neglectful dad with dementia to give in to a death god ("all gods are gods of death, Richard") IN FRONT OF HIM. Faulkner tried to drown himself in the same water-butt he had killed his brother in but was pulled out by Rane. he's convinced to give out the crab nuke codes only to immediately find out it will kill Carpenter who he had sibling bonded with (prior to putting out a hit on her). he drowned Rane for them forcing the crab nuke issue but was also (not literally) trying to drown Charlie/The High Prophet Faulkner.

[tsvwords]

That’s it, Charlie, that’s right, just don’t let up now, not when you’re so close, don’t surface, we’re so close, you and I, we’re almost there, we can almost hear the music, and once we hear the music, we’ll understand what it was all about, we’ll finally understand, and all the pain will be worth it, everything will be worth it.

And we’ll be reunited in a better place, Charlie, all of us down there together, Dad and Eddie, you and me, and Carpenter. You can meet her, she’s our sister, you’ll like her, she’s got a sharp tongue in her head, and we’ll all laugh together, and we’ll all be happy.

And we’ll plant a beautiful garden together, a garden below like you never saw before, and better things will grow there, better things will grow...and we’ll laugh, we’ll find a way to laugh about all of this.

— Chapter 44: Of Prophets' Dark Deceptions.

[pensivespacepirate]

The Silt Verses is a Comedy

[themostdearofspaghettis]

Carson is so evil!!!! But written so well!! And for that I have to love him! Because how was the public supposed to trust someone like Shrue when Carson is right there the far more reasonable and outwardly sympathetic person! Which we all know! Is what it’s supposed to be! That’s how it is! He plays the game so well! But I just have to really appreciate how evil he is and therefore also how realistic he is— because he really is realistic.

The miracle wouldn’t have gotten him anyway. The good part about crabs is the meat inside- and that man is hollow.

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Its so nice hearing Dick Faulkner getting to do some Trans Wrongs. As A Treat.

[bobbycrabman]

I just can't get past how good Carson is at his job, now that is someone doing a job they are MEANT FOR

[pinkelotjeart]

Brother Dick ‘fratricide enthusiast’ Faulkner is at it again

[mintytea-exe]

The thing with Faulkner that makes him so interesting to me is that he is physically incapable of not destroying everything he ever has.

He is so power hungry, and so desperately in need of being in control all of the time, that his first thought is to ruin his interpersonal relationships rather than accept help or assistance in order to redeem himself. He deeply believes (in the moment) that he can help himself, save himself, better without the assistance of those around him.

Faulkner has a choice, after Chapter 38 and his discussion with his father. The choice is: continue as he has been or act on his regrets and change his behaviour. At first he seems to genuinely want to change, he is so deeply regretful over his actions towards Carpenter and so relieved every time he hears that she is alive.

His final breaking point is that he believes Carpenter, his sister, the one person he respected, trusted and admired, is dead. And as a result, he not only recreates his first mistake (killing Charlie) but also the mistake he regrets most (blaming Carpenter for Mason's death) in killing Rane. He is utterly unable to control his emotions, or accept fault.

He destroys his relationships with Carpenter and Rane due to his own ego. His hubris is his hamartia. He is about as tragic a character as it gets. All that he suffers in the Parish is self inflicted. Yet, I can't help but feel sorry for him.

[siltslut]

you’d put your dick in her too. who said that

[wordto-thewise]

[catwyk]

a second drowning victim has hit the faulkner

[mostly-void-partially-song]

"I never thought they would drown ME" sobs Sibling Rane, who shadow ran the Drowning People Cult

[tsvwords]

If the half-glimpsed things watching from the darkness do have a greater plan for us - Trawler-man, Cairn Maiden - then why isn’t it a better plan?

If this is what they wanted, Glottage drowned and destroyed, then why did they make me dream in wonder of that moment for so long, and then let me change?

Past all wonder...into fear?

— Chapter 44: Of Prophets' Dark Deceptions.