#frenchie answers

[1morefrenchfry]

✋️🙂hallo! Question when do you headcanon gray realizing/ accepting that he is actually is capable of seeing carmen romantically all on his own / of his own free will? If this makes sense ? Like the crush is all his //- grahamcarmen

Hii :D thx for the ask! Sorry i took a minute dumb shit keeps happening to me🥸 anyway, Warning: long ass reply

So personally i dont think they really liked each other in the academy years (despite me wtiting fic where they sorta did whoops🤪), although the the foundation was there and they maybe might not have fully realized the depth of how much they cared. It truly was platonic, because they didnt bother to imagine it as much else.

When does Gray’s cognition of his own feelings start? I think when he meets her on the train to Paris. He is confronted with this grown up, beautiful woman that he cant reconcile with the girl he used to know. He’s attracted, but hes held back because of the way he used to view her. And he doesnt get enough time to work through any of this, obviously, due to the arrest & memory wipe debacle🫣

We can point to the opera ep as the first sign of overt interest. Gray has no memory of their baggage/friendship to have any reservations about pursuing Carmen. The only knowledge he has at his disposal is the fact that here’s this pretty lady in front of him, and that he can do something about it or not. Its not messy. Not from his POV at least. (But carmen’s!! Oof!!)

Where it gets complicated for Gray is obviously when he gets his memories *back.* Its obviously a high-stakes moment when he does because he goes from ACME custody to being back in VILE’s grip. A lot is happening, leaving not much time to contend with his feelings.

But now its confusing, because he *knows* he was attracted to Carmen in Sydney. He was pretty obvious about it, too. She hadnt seemed uninterested. But she also left him in the dark about quite obviously a lot.

But now Gray also remembers their old relationship and what Carm used to mean to him, back when she was blacksheep. Aka a little sister figure. Heres where it gets weird for him. Now, Gray’s a side character, so we dont get to see his internal struggle with how to view her like we do from Carmen. But i absolutely believe he went theough the same thing. Its messy AF here because Gray’s working out not only the dichotomy of his feelings towards carmen and balcksheep, but hes also fitting that in with his own choice to stay with VILE and the knowledge that she purposefully let him live a lie for more than a year.

By the time the Himalayas roll around, i think its clear hes set aside any ill feelings towards her. Contrary to (popular?) opinion, I dont think hes fully accepted that he loves her (romantically) yet. but Gray IS clear on the fact that she means the world to him, and that he doesnt wanna put her in harms way ever again. That confrontation ends the way it does, aka…explosively 😗 (dont block me pls).

Gray is left thinking that theyll be on the outs now forever.

Only for VILE to yank Carmen back into the fold. Suddenly, Gray is presented with everything hes ever wanted: the two of them not at odds but side by side. From the start, he feels odd about it, having gone through mindwiping himself, but he doesnt tell her the truth for the same reason Carmen didnt tell him: He truly believes this is the safest option for her, being under VILE’s wing instead of galivanting around as public enemy number 1.

During Evil!Carm’s 6 months back with VILE, he and Evil!Carm are BFFs and partners in crime again. She has no memories of him except from the island, so she doesnt remember him ever showing romantic intetest in her. Gray forces himself to be happy about having Carmen back and tamps down any new, alien feelings.

Due to 6 months transpiring off screen i think im allowed to interpret what happened there as i like 🙂‍↔️ so i think Evil!Carmen flirts with him at times. Tbf, She flirts with everyone, its one of the “carmen” tendencies that the mindwiping didnt bother circumventing. But its different when its with him, because of what they already obviously mean to one another. Its not harmless. Evil Carmen is devoid of empathy for much, but she still has a soft spot with Gray.

When she shows any romantic inclination, Gray is reminded of his own repressed feelings for her. I’d like to think that he flirts back (its his personality) but he shuts it down from ever escalating further out of his own version of the “sHeS lIkE a SiStEr To mE” crash out, because hes confused not only about THIS but also if carmens really fully there to begin with. It feels wrong, initiating things with someone who isnt fully themself.

I think when hes confronted with his internal want to reciprocate whatever Carmens trying to do is when hes forced to realize: Hes loves her, and not in a friend way. So to answer your question, i think he mostly realizes sometime during the 6 months evil period. Closer towards the end i would say.

All the while, his discomfort with allowing her to remain mindwiped builds and builds upon itself. When Gray catches Carmen crossing lines she swore to never cross, lines that she literally upended his and her own lives for, thats when he finally makes up his mind to save her.

Gray, when hes fully himself, is not someone who does the right thing. None of VILE are. For whatever reason, life shaped him into a person who discards morals when they get in the way of his personal advancement. But the one wild card in the face of his standard motivations is the lady in red. The one thing that confuses him more than anything else is what he feels for Carmen.

For so much of the show, Gray and Carmen are at odds, even if he doesnt even know it, split apart by their different outlooks on life. But in the end, Gray chooses her over himself.

When he helps bring her memories, he doesnt mind dying (by her hand or VILE’s should he fail), getting arrested, being kicked out of the only thing close to a family hes got, as long as it means he can bring her back. And he isnt doing it so that he can have a relationship with her guilt-free. Even when things work out, even when the opportunity for reconciliation is offered, Gray makes the active choice to walk away. He believes that whatever they have, no matter how much it means to him, is too broken to fix. (Biased but, BS i say!)

Although Gray may have realized his feelings for Carmen earlier, i think this is the point where he fully *accepts* them. At the very, very end, where the possibility of meeting her again is banished.

[feralfrenchcoat]

FERALFRENCHCOAT WHO IS THE MOTHWOMAN TELL TELL TELL

Ohohoho elle est Astrid Ztar ⭐ Elle est moi favoirite musician oui oui ☺️🚬

[800db-cloud]

PLEASE POST THE ONE MILLION DOODLES YOU ARE SHY TO POST /pos 🙏

sure thang o7 here are some i made that i think are good enough to post. can you tell who my favorite merc to draw is

re: the last comic: i have way too many spy hcs. Way Too Many. anyway here’s (BLU) spy accidentally traumadumping on his teammates. is he Alright.

[whats-mine-is-hers]

Hiya there! Do you...are we... going to be blessed with the other versions of Izzy pestering more people? Thank you!!

Oh, most definitely. Here's a quick one w/ Frenchie for a start. (Ty for asking!! ^^)

[phoenixtakaramono]

(Illustration drawn in 2022)

The Boys S4 Sneak Peek (2024)

*surprised Pikachu face*

[zepskies]

have you seen uh. the boys season 4 finale😭😭😭🙏🙏like did u watch it till the very end🙏

Hahaa indeed, I just finished it. And I can honestly say I was pleasantly surprised by the finale episode...

(Spoilers under the cut):

Kripke dick-teased us earlier in the season, but we ACTUALLY got Frenchie/Kimiko for real and my heart almost exploded with happiness. 🥰 Along with Kimiko literally finding her voice for him -- was both heartbreaking and wonderful in that "angst that hurts so good" kind of way.

Ryan predictably sunk deeper into his villain arc, as did Butcher, of course, coming out like Doc Ock meets Alien lmfao. (Was NOT expecting Grace to die though, or Victoria for that matter. Both were epic and had me like 😨)

But of everything I couldn't predict, I did have a feeling that we were going to get that Soldier Boy cameo at the very last second. 😏💚

(I think season 5 is already shaping up to be better than S4. 😉)

[the-bensolos]

Kimiko was like I'm in love with you but it's not going to happen like what? lmao Kripke please do this one thing right they're perfect for each other you can't tell me they aren't romantic soulmates

I really really hate to be that person but it’s like destiel in a different font. It’s infuriating and again you can do like an asexual storyline for Kimiko if a physical relationship was off the table for her but then this season they had to go and get weird. Like yes romantic soulmates twin flames whatever you want to call it they are the others half and nothing and no one should come above that for them. That literally the story that had been built… idk kripke is a loser sometimes.

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE A DEPRESSED ELF? we just started a new campaign and i am currently playing Lieutenant Nordylva Rook, standard-bearer of the Knights of Ozem and proud child of Lastwall (Lastwall was completely obliterated by a lich three years ago) (nori is coping). she's old as balls, she's tired, she's missing an arm and all of her fucks, and she's still remembering how to socialize outside of a formal military hierarchy—not helped by the fact that she's been living as a hermit since Lastwall fell and all of her friends died. (she's coping.)

also don't ask her what she's been doing as a hermit in the woods because she's terrified to tell anyone the answer (it's wrestling with her own bestial urges after being mauled and turned into a werewolf) (She's Coping)

(From my match their freak ask game)

I ALWAYS LIKE A DEPRESSED ELF!!!

You know who would also probably like a crotchety old soldier type? My sailor-gone-fighter-gone-paladin, Val! She doesn't get put off by gruffness — might even find it comfortable, after the years she spent with various mentors who never smiled and who called her exclusively by her last name — and aside from all of the wandering do-gooding, she's a bit of a hermit herself! She spent her early years living out of a travel wagon with her perpetually nomadic family, so she takes an immediate, unshakable kinship with anyone who has spent some time on the road. She is maybe a bit more easy going than someone like Nori might appreciate, and tends to regard authority as more of a suggestion when there isn’t any immediate danger around, but I feel like they could do the whole 'comfortable, soldierly grousing' thing about their various hardships together.

Like, for example, running away to the wilderness to cope after a disaster killed all of your friends.

See, prior to The Campaign, Val was serving on what was technically a merchant vessel, but whose captain was particularly fond of monster hunting. His proclivities and the skill of his crew were well known, so they were often hired on as security for other ships traveling between continents. On the last such occasion, they were attacked by an aboleth. (This, Val found out later. She has little memory of the actual attack except for fire and blood and pulling bodies out of the water.) They lost the ship and a sizable portion of the crew, and Val — the only tiefling aboard, who believes strongly in her negative effect on the luck of people around her — took it rather badly. The minute she was healed up, she vanished up the trade road from the coast and took to wandering aimlessly from city to city in a fugue of grief and survivor’s guilt. And it was in that state that she came upon a rather backwater city whose prejudices got under her skin enough that she ended up killing a man in a fit of rage after he tried to throw hands with her. SO WHEN I SAY THAT SHE WOULD SYMPATHIZE WITH NORI’S SITUATION. I FEEL LIKE SHE WOULD REALLY SYMPATHIZE. 

Thus, follow-up questions: what does the esteemed Nordylva Rook do to wile away the hours in her solitude? Is there anyone in particular that she regularly interacted with in order to get supplies while away from civilization? And is she the star of any ghost stories from nearby settlements that keep people out of her swamp woods?

[pippin-fool-of-a-took]

MARRY ME.

What’s in it for me?

[javier-pena]

Hi Astrid, and congrats, 10k wow!!! 🤗

Your fic celebration is a great idea, here is mine if you're ok with it:

Javi P x fem reader, nsfw. I am not into pregnancy fics 🙏

Prompts: "My tongue still remembers the way you taste." "I cannot change my feelings for you, believe me, I fucking tried." "Don't make me jealous."

Have a great day 🙏

so i’m pretty sure you don’t remember sending this in but it’s finally here!!!!!!!

[1morefrenchfry]

Blacksheep would often call gray 'white boy'

The gays would join in

Real. Go white boy go as they say

[lolita-ily]

J'adore râler en français hehe. FRÈRE LES HOMMES DE MON ÉCOLE SONT TOUS DES IDIOTS JE NE PEUX PAS-Euh. Les femmes/fluides de genre sont mieux. Je déteste étudier sm-

ON EST D’ACCORD!!

Les hommes ne sont pas très intelligent dans mon ecole non plus, figure-toi! Ils sont inutiles et idiots, mais malgré tout il y en a un que j’aime ⭐️

<3

[frenchiehands]

hi hi hi sorry i’m back WHAT are your thoughts on frenchie resting his head on izzy’s thigh when they were in the cell and also frenchie constantly hovering over izzy when he was talking to stede on the ship and and and and and

PLS IM SO NORMAL IM SO NORMAL IM SO N NORM!!!! I’m so delusional that ouizzy is endgame 💀! I also just finished drawing some new ouizzy art based off Frenchie resting his head on Izzy and I’m so normal I’m so nor

[frenchiefitzhere]

oh my GLOBNAR FRENCHIEEEE

(this is Roki fromcthe depths of redacted)

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE..I DUNNO, RISEN???

You right now —> 💪✨✨✨

I dunno what prompted this very nice message but

hi 🌻

[pedgito]

Hi!

@aurorawritestoescape and I would love to write a fic together for your spring fever challenge.

Can we do backwoods horror #2 (gas station) please? We have some kinks in mind 😁🙏

Oh, yes of course!!

Backwoods Horror #2 is GAS STATION.

[h-a-unted]

Frenchie ( @gingerspiice ) hands Reacher a brand new tooth brush. "desole for stealing yours. i needed it for uh-- - well. a project. i will make it up to you, ouais?"

Reacher took a quick glance at the brand new toothbrush – way better than the one they lent him at the motel after the man stole it, from the looks of it – and then back at the other. He might not really show it, but he is quite happy to be seeing him at this very moment. He'll definitely question him about his little project later. "Take me to eat and we'll call it even. I'm starving."