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Yeeeeeees~! Our most intense and emotional story ever! So many highs and lows and just many touches of tropes! Beautiful art as always!
@fandomsareyay, here's the pictures from our wonderous zombie apocalypse AU! Our most thrilling story yet!!
Yaaaaaay~! Wonderful wonderful! I thank you dearly, Jessofthenorthstar!
@fandomsareyay, here's to more of our stories!
About Jim Boy and Flaco, firefighters who find a baby Javier and catch feelings along the way.
Our own season of RPDR, Jack working the Geddes farm for the summer, and Sean falling for an Amazoness with a secret by the name of Lourdes~.
That time the nerds and jocks were working together on a college production, and Jack finding out her was a werewolf and not knowing how to tell his bestie Duncan.
Charles and Arthur's little tots, Nate Davison finding the best pro cuddler in Isaac, young Susan being stalked by vampire Belle, and John meeting the ghost of a friend from centuries ago in his haunted home.
Rapunzel Charles and Arthur the thief, superhero father-son duo Flaco and Javier along with villain Jim and tattoo artist (wannabe hero) John, Sean's little crushes~, our Shape of Water universe with silent Dutch and curious creature Hosea, Circus contortionist Abby and Sadie as her biggest fan, and that time Javier was strapped for cash and became a Sugar Baby only to find out his Papa Flaco was doing the same!
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So, here's to our next round of zany, wonderful stories, friend!! I hope all the pictures come out clearly!
As per usual, you are the sweetest person alive!!!! Aaaah~!!! This is amazing! All of them are perfect~! Thank you so much!!
@fandomsareyay, this is for us!! And our super fun stories about…
The Misadventures of the Van Der Linde Pirates
Arthurella and the glass slipper
Papa Arthur totally falling for his son’s Pre K Teacher
Lead singer of a 50′s rock group meets his biggest fan at the record store
Detective Matthews going undercover as “Bessie” to catch Dutch
Death meeting his match with the curiously ignorant but charming frat boy
When the stork delivered a chubby cherub named Arthur to Hosea and Dutch
When the star-crossed young folks were from rival houses
When Arthur fell down a rabbit hole and gained a tiny husband
And most recently, how a wealthy man paid good money for good company
Well, here’s to even more, yeah? ^^
they plague my mind like the infectious disease they are, they deserve nothing but a happy ending
The use of both Hosea and Dutch call Arthur their "boy" or "son" is something I've been thinking about a lot recently...
Hosea uses it as a reminder. Arthur is his boy through and through, and there never needs to be any questioning on that fact.
Dutch also uses it as a reminder, but for a different reason. He wants Arthur to remember that *he* was the one who plucked him off the streets and gave him a full belly and a place to call home. It's a reminder to Arthur of where his loyalties should lie.
Not saying that Dutch is entirely evil; in the earlier chapters I can see it being meaningful. But towards the end its clear, Arthur isn't his boy anymore. He is a tool that's starting to rust.
most underrated hosea quote is “i enjoy picking on children” in reference to arthur because that’s his kiddo!!! that’s his child!!! no matter how big and old and scary looking arthur gets he’ll always be hosea’s kid!!!
hear that? thats the sound of my heart breaking into a million pieces
Young Arthur going through a phase where he wants to dress fancy like Dutch.
Hosea takes him into town and Arthur comes back with new clothes and a fresh haircut, looking like a little Dutch.
Dutch has a dumb grin on his face just looking at the boy.
John says he looks stupid and Arthur’s face turns red, wanting to punch the little runt, but he’s trying to be more Dutch-like, so he just scolds his little brother.
This phase lasts for a while and after it’s passed, Arthur catches John trying on his ‘Dutch clothes’ and teases him for days. John doesn’t want to admit he was actually hoping to look more like Hosea.
Meanwhile, Tilly finds a nice dress so she can dress up like Grimshaw. The older woman doesn’t notice this because she’s so busy, but once Hosea points it out to her she does up Tilly’s hair like her own.
Somewhere in those crates there’s a picture of the Old Guard. Dutch and young man Arthur dressed just like him, Hosea and teenaged John sheepishly wearing a nice vest, and Susan with little Tilly in near matching dresses.
Did you know that Arthur morgan was once a kid? Cause it eats me up everyday!
Rip vandermatthews you would have loved 1996’s movie, “The Birdcage.”
(from the top) Kid!Arthur, Charles, Javier, John, Karen, Bill and Hosea
I've been thinking about rdr2 atla au and just mkay hear me out:
RDR2 AS THE PLOT OF ATLA (+ A ROUGH PLOT)
John: The fucking Avatar, left the temple when he realised, walked the land, when he realised war was about to start he wanted to fly back to the air temple, the storm caught him on his way. Very mad that he is the avatar but also really wants to kick firelords ass, just doesn't know if he is capable enough.
Arthur: The adoptive son of the southern water tribe chief, a firebender but keeps it a secret bcs FUCK FIRE NATION. Knows the ways of the water tribe and is pretty mad the chief left him and Charles here. At the beginning of the series he only knows basic firebending- his technique is very much akin to waterbending (WHICH ALSO MEANS eventually mf will have no problem with lightning bending wink wink) Finds John with Charles while fishing.
Charles: Biological son of the southern water tribe chief and will soon be the new one, with Arthur they are true brothers ALSO he knows Arthur is a firebender. Takes him out to fish regularly to calm both their minds, is also frustrated their father didn't take them with but also understands someone has to protect their tribe. Waterbender, knows basic healing. (The idea is that their father had Charles quite young therefore while he is old, that man is STRONG AF like yes grey hair but also just an incredible water bender, he took in Arthur as a young child/toddler).
Dutch: Zuko and Azula in one. A firebender and a firenation ex-general, kicked out because he spoke out of line. His punishment is looking for the avatar because the firelord knows it's a goose chase. At this point he wants to find an avatar AND overthrow the firelord. (Don't worry Hosea I have a plan).
Hosea: You know he is the uncle Iroh, firebender ofc. Dutchs bestfriend, goes to look for avatar with him, because of that he is no longer a general. Did attack Ba Sing Se, failed and his wife died during. Conflicted on the war, connected with spirit world, taught Dutch his techniques, protective over his and Dutchs soldiers.
Mary Linton: Princess of the northern water tribe, TURNS INTO THE MOON, poor Arthur.
Sadie Adler: Firenation killed her husband, earthbender and is the one to teach John earthbending.
Javier Esquella and Bill Williamson: Send after avatar by firelord, their tactic is to befriend John, end up being conflicted if they want to turn him in or let him kill the firelord
Micah: the firelord- no, I'm kidding, but the guy that got appointed into Dutchs place. When the word spreads that avatar is back and the firelord realises Javier and Bill aren't as efficient as he thought, he hires Micah to find and catch the avatar. At some point teams up with Dutch.
THE ROUGH STORY (i choose to age down the rdr2 characters and subsequently age up their character forms in atla)
Young John is raised at the temple by the air nomads. He is pretty fiesty and overall not a great student, but the monks know he is the avatar. When John finds out, he is very conflicted and unsure of himself. He gets intense airbending training, but because he is not a very well mannered student, they decide to send him away to continue his training (they know war is in the air). John, overwhelmed, runs away and walks the land for few years, somehow managing to never be found. As a young adult, he realises how bad everything is and goes back. He finds his sky bison still waiting, surviving in a cave. Guilt sets in and he flies off, but gets caught in a storm AND FROZEN.
100 years later, Arthur and Charles are the only two men who didn't go with the others to war. They go out fishing and because Arthur is frustrated (they didn't get a message from their father for a long time), Charles suggest him trying some firebending to "blow out steam". It gets out of hand and their ship burns, melting some of the ice. And so they see John and get him and his bison out of the ice. The explosion alerts nearby Dutch and Hosea. But worry not, John kicks their asses.
John, Charles and Arthur start their way to the northern water tribe. Arthur tags along because he thinks that when John finds a firebending master, he could finally learn something new. In the north, Arthur has a romance with Mary, but who turns into the moon while saving the moon spirit. Dutch and Hosea do catch John for a while, but he gets saved by the others. In the end, he and Charles learn new waterbending from the waterbending master.
In a village near Omashu they find Sadie, a strong earthbender and a widow whose husband was killed by the firenation. She agrees to teach John earthbending. They also find the kyoshi island, where Susan, Karen, Tilly and Mary-Beth promise to help if the avatar ever needs it.
During their time they have Dutch and Hosea on their tails but also Javier and Bill. Their tactic on befriending them ends up causing Javier (because he is a way stronger firebender than Bill) to teach John firebending. But the learning is not finished when a huge fight happens between them all AND Micah, who starts it. Javier and Bill show their true colours, so it's Dutch, Micah, Bill and Javier againts Arthur, Charles, John and Sadie. Hosea (at that point againts firelord), gets killed by John when he is in the avatr state. It ends with John being hurt while in avatar state.
Now on the run, John, Charles, Arthur and Sadie end up on a small island in the sea around the north. There he gets healed by a waterbender aka Abigail.
Sozins commet is close and so the final fight comes. John againts the firelord, Arthur and Charles againts Dutch (agni kai, Arthur is able to send back Dutchs lightning), Sadie and Charles againts Micah (they find out Javier and Bill never came back to the firenation, instead they deserted).
In the end John comes back to the island and finds out Abigail is pregnant (cough cough they had a one night stand) and so he spends most of his time there. ALSO PLOT TWIST WHY WAS ARTHUR SUCH A POWERFUL FIREBENDER WELL HE IS RELATED TO THE ROYAL FAMILY and so by some paperwork lies he becomes the new king (during their travels they find more firebenders who helo him with ruling + his father helps). Sadie stays with Arthur mainly just to look for excuses to kill- I mean be mean to ex-firenation soldiers. Charles is now the chief of the southern water tribe and when he and John have time, they look for any airbenders that could leave the temples and survive in hiding.
Something I think about a lot is how Dutch managed to turn Arthur into this perfect and dependable killer/enforcer.. Like, I know Dutch basically saved him and therefore could use Arthur's gratefulness as a manipulative tool, but still - how did he manage to shape a teenage Arthur so precisely into what he needed him to be? (I never really questioned this before, but I've been working with/teaching teenagers lately and it's so fucking hard to get them to do basically ANYTHING??)
(part 2) I guess what I’m trying to get at is: Teenagers are so different from children, and I think teaching/influencing them is a LOT harder? (let alone shaping them into violent right-hand thugs, looking at you Dutch) Or maybe teenage Arthur was already like that so Dutch just had to use that rather than change or manipulate him? I just find it so hard to believe this whole thing worked out as well as it did…(I meant to ask for your thoughts on this but instead I just rambled, I’m so sorry)~~~~~~~~~~No need to apologize, Nonny. <3 If I remember the phrase right, Arthur is described in his official bio at the point Dutch and Hosea took him in as “the life of a criminal is all he’s ever known”, “living on the streets ever since losing his parents at an early age”, and “particularly angry and damaged”/”seemingly a lost cause who responded well to some structure and mentoring”.We also know he barely remembers his mother, he watched his father die, his dad was a criminal, and he remembers his father with absolutely no fondness. We see he’s overly anxious to please Dutch, to the point all Dutch has to do is issue a casual challenge implying Arthur’s doubting him or not measuring up, and Arthur scrambles frantically to fix that. So what I’m thinking we have here is a kid who grew up suffering both psychological and physical abuse from his father, who was probably forced into learning criminal talents early (pickpocketing, in my headcanon). He learned very young that he had no worth as a person, and the only value he had was to produce results. He seems to have loathed his father so I doubt he worried about winning Lyle’s love, but he recognized that succeeding meant approval, at least insofar as probably being abused less.His father dies. Arthur’s left living on the streets for several years, probably in a big city that he could so utterly disappear. The message that he has no worth is further reinforced. He’s alone, scared, fighting to survive, and there’s no Sister Calderon or anyone else to save him or tell him he’s worth saving. Given the need to fight for food, sleeping space, safety, etc. against other street kids, he certainly lived in an environment of heightened aggression and anger and violence here. He’s living the life of Dutch’s social Darwinism: the (violently) strong survive, the weak perish.So you’ve got a kid with shitty self-image, a history of abuse, and a lot of capacity for anger and violence. Then Dutch and Hosea take him in at fourteen and things change. He’s given a place to belong. Clothes that fit and aren’t ragged. A safe place to sleep. Enough food to eat. He learns to read and write.And Dutch isn’t hitting him, so Arthur assumes this new father figure is how it’s supposed to be. But he’s missing the other facet: the psychological abuse. The same produce results or you’re worthless to me mentality he likely got from his father, but Dutch is far cleverer than Lyle Morgan in it. He gaslights. He manipulates. He alternately flatters and praises, and then insults and questions, so that Arthur’s left always hungry for earning that love and approval again.You’ve got a pissed off teenager, and given Arthur’s got plenty of sarcasm I imagine he was, as I have Hosea put it fondly, “a smart mouthed little shit”. But he’s also a scared boy who’s been repeatedly taught he’s dispensable trash. He’s started to like this life he has and its comforts and security compared to the bleak hell he had before, started to become comfortable in it. He’s terrified that if he screws up, if he gives Dutch reason to not value him anymore, he’ll be thrown away again. So yeah, he’s going to jump through every hoop Dutch presents him eagerly, and even be trying to anticipate the man’s needs and wants if possible. Because in his mind his place in this family, his continued survival, absolutely depends on this man still finding value in him. The question of having worth as an intrinsic right as a human being doesn’t even register with him. All he can see is constantly proving his having external value. So he doesn’t have the luxury of typical teenage defiance and sometimes telling his self-proclaimed dad to go get fucked as part of the pursuit of discovering and asserting his own identity. Because honestly, Arthur doesn’t have much in the way of his own identity.Given the emotional damage he’d already suffered, and the fact he’s being further abused and taken advantage of, that’s the status quo for the next 22 years. Arthur doesn’t ever really get the chance to grow beyond that blind loyalty and eagerness to please and be regarded as valuable, and really form his own identity and principles, until the 1899 crisis forces him to do so.So if Dutch wants to teach Arthur to shoot, wants him to learn to rob a stagecoach, wants him to go teach someone a “lesson” with his fists? It’s absolutely “Yes, Dad, I’ve got this.” Anything at all to make Dutch happy and make himself more valuable to the man. He’ll work until he drops to become the best man for the job, the one Dutch absolutely can’t do without. If he protests at all, it’s a token grumble, but he’ll give in readily and go do it, because he prides himself on being able to get the job done. Dutch clearly only values his brutal and violent skills–it’s Hosea who encourages other things in Arthur.I also think this is part of why Dutch openly favored and identified more with John as his clear “golden boy” while relegating Arthur to being the gang workhorse. Arthur’s snarky defiance largely died down and transformed into awkward gratitude and absolute loyalty when he realized he could stay. John stayed something of a cocky brat. Arthur is far more versatile and useful, but Dutch enjoys John’s “unbroken spirit”–so long as he doesn’t question too much.
when you pissed off the good daddy...