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Yknow at the end of the day, the riptide pirates are just three people who never lived up to the expectations of others, or were told that they’d never amount to anything. And sometimes i just think about that. 3 lost souls who ended up finding home because there werent any expectations anymore
Slightly rephrased over from discord but GOD I cannot stop thinking about small chip somebody fucking sedate me.
Like. imagine being a kid living on the street. And you're in pain all the time and it's cold and you're hungry. Being small helps you climb up windows and sneak into attics and basments to get away from the rain, even if you get cut on a piece of rusted metal and have a fever for a week, And taverns are your favorite, because you get to hear stories and see new people and maybe even eat something warm and people almost look at you like you're worth something.
And imagine you meet this group of pirates that let you talk to them and tell the most intresting tales you ever heard and when you ask to come with them, They let you.
imagine you finally get a name, and a family, you get to go on adventures, but more than that you have food, and you have shelter, and people around you listen to you talk and ruffle your hair and give you hugs and tell you you're doing a good job.
Then imagine the worst night of your life happens, and you lose everything.
Suddenly, you are back on the street scavenging for leftovers, suddenly you have nowhere to go hide from the rain.
suddenly the shopkeepers yell at you when you try to sneak into the building for the night, and when you're shaking with a fever, curled up in an allyway there is no one to hug you, to ruffle your hair, no one there to pick you up and tell you they love you. No one on the street cares what your name is.
catch me thinking about how likely none of the riptide captains thought they were gonna live past childhood
thinking abt how if gillion messed up once he thinks he never deserves that thing again. breaking his conch shell with edyn leading him to thinking he shouldn't own another. telling jay to hold the briefcase that gillion always used to carry as soon as it had gold and he felt he couldn't be trusted. i dont know how to articulate it but it rlly gives away how gil was treated while being raised. how if he messed up he deserves to be hurt shown best in filippe situation
My characterization of Skullslice-era-Chip and Reuben come down to legit like. one thing.
Reuben needs to be wanted and Chip needs to be loved.
THEY FUCKING FEED INTO EACHOTHER SO BAD. Reuben gives Chip the love he craves if he sticks around no matter what and doesnt abandon him, and Chip refuses to leave Reuben because he's afraid of what happens when he's unloved and alone. Doesn't matter if Reuben gets worse, violent, aggressive, paranoid, afraid, power-hungry; different than the boy he used to be, changed by all his faults. Nothing matters because they both get what they want at Chip's expense, so they stay together.
thinking about how much it must have hurt chip to see how much Lizzie had changed and how much it must’ve hurt her to see that he barely changed at all
do you ever stop and think about how Rex and Ahsoka stopped to bury every one of their brothers INDIVIDUALLY. right after most of them painted their helmets to look exactly the same. how they had a stake and a helmet for each of them. how even if the clones never had their individuality generally recognized in life they made sure they would have it in death