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Something I haven’t seen anyone really talk about is how Theo fully flinched away when Gabe was shot. A year ago(?) he dug his claws inside of his pack as painfully as he could and felt them dying. He can’t even look at that kid getting gunned down now; he physically recoils, squeezing his eyes shut and turning his head away from it. Countless things he’s witnessed and experienced, and this is what he can’t watch. An angry, misguided teenager getting betrayed, blindsided, and killed.

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When all you want is to take a quick nap and maybe write another chapter of your fic but The Horrors keep Happening

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you’re not “behind” on your story. you’re building something. and sometimes building requires standing in the ruins for a bit.

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nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer

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thank you Canada 🇨🇦

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Person A: "This is the worst day of my life."

Person B: "You've. Died before."

Person A: "My statement stands."

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Last Line Challenge

Because it looks fun and I need to be bullied into finishing this chapter.

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He finds coffee in the first cupboard he tries, thank fuck, and then the rest of the supplies required to make basic toast in the pantry, and this, at least, is one of the normal things he does know how to do, something so simple and basic and just a human function learned in a mostly forgotten childhood that not even his fucked up life could take away from him. He's leaning on the counter, fiddling with a butter knife and waiting for the toaster, when his phone chimes merrily from his pocket, almost startles him, and his gaze turns automatically to the door Liam disappeared through, wonders quietly if it's the beta asking him to leave now that Mason's aired whatever concerns Theo sparked by showing his face here.

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Pulled from Chapter 6 of Locked Inside My Head (Say You Won’t Let Me Drown)

Tagging anyone who reads this :3 go work on that WIP my dudes

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the fact that theo parked right in the middle of the tracks kills me every time. what do you mean he was just waiting.

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Being a writer is really just one continuous process of watching an update schedule fall to pieces. The day of the week you decided was going to be Update Day rolls past and you’ve got a half finished chapter refusing to cooperate. Disappointed there’s no update today? Yeah. Me too.

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wait until he discovers how to use uber

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I really do love how TW is just one of those shows that shrugged and handwaved its way through so much of its own lore that it’s basically a right of passage for anyone who posts semi-consistently about it now ten years later to have a list of their personal headcanons/interpretations somewhere on their blog

That being said, should I make a list of Theo headcanons because I have a lot going on in my brain about this fucked up little freak and am also procrastinating writing the next chapter of LIMH lmao

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is anyone up for some platonic intimacy that is lowkey erotic

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Wait. Wait a dang minute. I have a theory.

So I know one of the discussions I’ve seen floating around is ‘why Theo’. What made the DDs specifically go after this one 9 year old boy, what made him special. And here’s my little take on it.

What made Theo special? Nothing. We know the DDs target kids in bad situations - see; Tracey, Josh, Corey, etc - kids who can disappear for days at a time without anyone raising any red flags, and from that we can assume Theo and Tara’s parents were maybe not great too. We also know they’ve been playing at making chimeras/trying to make The Beast for quite a number of years.

So who’s to say Theo wasn’t just one of another batch like the S5 chimeras? Ten years earlier, starting with younger kids, maybe, and that being The First Chimera is being the first chimera that survived. Why? That’s the fun part. There’s any number of explanations; because he was stubborn, because he’s a survivor, because there was something slightly different in his genetic makeup that unlocked the next puzzle piece in the DD’s jigsaw Frankenstein, because he refuses to die and it adds just another layer to the nuance of parallels between him and Scott. Normal nothing loser kid becomes Something Else and the support system they have in the aftermath structures their entire life.

And the best part is Theo probably doesn’t even remember, just knows that once he was a Success, the First, but that wasn’t quite enough and the Doctors moved on and he’s spent the rest of his life chasing the feeling of being important in the worst way possible.

Something about the idea of Season 2/3 Scott looking at his baby pack at the time with that sweet summer child vibe they had before The Horrors started Happening and going ‘I don’t know what I’d do without you guys’ and then the scene cutting to a sixteen year old Theo murdering some guy because he’s spent seven years being moulded into a weapon to be aimed and fired because he might not have been good enough for The Beast but he was still an excellent tool for furthering the cause.

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I will forever be a Theo Raeken defender because if someone told me at 9 years old that if I killed my older sister I could have cool super powers I too would have drowned that bitch in seconds. Stiles and Scott and Liam all ‘you killed your sister!’ Bitch be quiet you never had siblings you don’t get it

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Liam: Why did you kill him?! We don’t kill people!

Theo: Given the circumstances I think I should be given a free pass

Liam: What were the circumstances?

Theo: He was fucking annoying :)

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am i a shitty person if I say that I wish Theo to maintain some type of evilness/killing after S6? not forever but a little bit more.

don't get me wrong, I LOOOOOOOVE AND ADORE redeemed theo. that's my baby. that's my son. my child. i will protect him with my life and i will defend him until my last breath BUT gotta admit, i wish theo would kill more bad guys with cold blood in post-canon fics (oh god i am such a bad persoooon)

MY MAN LOOKS GOOD WITH SOME BLOOD ON HIM, OKAY? judge me, i don't care (i actually do)

and i wish for more people to not forget how he knows how to lie and manipulate and strategise -- let my son interrogate some bad guy and get every info or by acting or by scaring the shit out of that hunter.

I want theo with blood on his hands because that's what he was taught to do and takes a little more than a week to get it unlearn. and make theo say some fucked up shit for everyone except for him bc that was his normality... thank you.