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Everyone shut the fuck up or I’m gonna put Lt. Thomas Cardingham on ArtFight

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Let’s run it again

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Bruh moment. Anyways watch as I grow and evolve at rates previously thought impossible.

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detective au... :)

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You know what. Fuck it. Classic horror AU Edward Little. Everyone sit down. Today you learn.

The scaffolding of Werewolf Edward Little:

Remember that dog that bit his hand as a boy? Not a dog. That was a whole ass werewolf mauling. He was lucky to have survived, and his father made a point of instilling the idea that he had to make something worthwhile out of his now cursed life, because who else gets a second chance like that.

(I bet the reason why he ALLEGEDLY threw hands and was involved in a court martial during his time on the HMS Dublin was because someone called him the Beast of Gévaudan or something on top of being called blackguard.)

Crozier, regardless of whether or not Ned is the only supernatural entity on the expedition (which he more than likely is not), would know Little is a lycanthrope. You can’t sneak that past Captain Francis Rawdon Moira “it’s not paranoia if I’m right” Crozier. The notion that the crew takes silverware aboard the expedition is also more notable— it’s insurance in the event of a werewolf attack.

Several scenes Edward can be interpreted as showing restraint or bottling up anger. Werewolves don’t only transform under the full moon in many modern iterations— they can transform under extreme stress, anger, fear, or even misery and sadness. He’s not just bottling up anger, he’s preventing himself from becoming a damn horse-sized wolf-monster on a ship barely big enough for most of the men to stand upright in its largest rooms.

(He’s not a violent dog, he doesn’t know why he bites.)

Fanbase characterizes Ned as a guardian dog a lot. It’s a really fun subversion of expectations for Edward’s “lunacy” as a wolf just being an overactive, twisted, violent, haunting need to protect, instead of a merciless bloodlust. He’s a resource guarder. It just so happens the resource is men aboard the expedition. It actually makes him quite a good Lieutenant when not in a massive tragedy, since he takes into consideration the importance of group survival, coordination, and safety.

The months where the moon is just spinning overhead in the Arctic are the worst of it. His skin itches from the inside out and he wants to peel himself to shreds to shed everything he recognizes as human about himself just for sake of his comfort. He can’t go outside. He can’t see the full moonlight.

Scientifically, it probably burns a TON of calories to transform from human to massive wolf thing. He’s spontaneously creating and reallocating muscle and bone. Realistically, he would need a lot of those lead-lined tins of meat to survive and not start looking to. Other meat sources. To stay alive. Which is why he’s so devastated and horrified to find out how all of the tins were poisoned. He needs to keep poisoning himself to keep everyone else safe.

The ending desperation and starvation hurts more if you consider the fact that most of the crew probably expect him of all people to snap and eat a sailor. But if we just change those watch chains from gold to silver… then he’s fighting to the end to remain human, remain calm, and not let the horror and hunger overtake him. And he succeeds in the end, actually.

I bet Le Vesconte told him frank that if the resource shortage continues, they won’t be able to trust Ned not to go feral. Ned takes initiative to PROVE the men can trust him and pierces his face with silver to poison himself and stay human.

Cainids can synthesize their own vitamin C. Scurvy was never going to be an issue for him (part of what made him good on the sea)— it was always going to be caloric deficit, starvation, thirst, and exhaustion. When Crozier finds him, Crozier can tell Ned is too weak to go feral with hunger if Ned transforms. Crozier can take the silver chains off Ned’s face. Ned can stop tearing at his skin and just be the monster everyone thinks he is, and he lies there, wolf head in his captain’s lap, whining with every weak exhale until he stops breathing.

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Jesus Christ. I need to fuck that knight. NOW.

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Accidentally followed the acting career of Liam Garrigan so hard I blitzed through half of OUAT and came out the other side with an OC about it

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Ministry of Time art? In MY gallery?? Yeah. Idc if yall don’t like him I think he just needs to go to an aquarium in sensory friendly clothing and he will be cured.

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Deeply fucking stupid minimal context warmup sketches to boot (feat. Irving going to the only shrink in the Marriott to try and hash out repressed gay thoughts but he doesn’t know the only shrink in the Marriott is the queerest person he’s met so far, and, Armitage streaming on twitch)

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You guys need to understand. Crozier is a wolfwalker, Little is a werewolf, Goodsir is one or the other but he doesn’t know yet (or maybe even a secret third kind of wolfman adjacent thing— all he knows is that he’s not human anymore). Jopson’s a vampire, but a strictly ethical one (animals only), and he made it abundantly clear what he is to everyone else so he’s not keeping secrets from the people he’s meant to trust for the next 2+ years. Hickey is a different kind of vampire and keeps it actively hidden until he starts recruiting people to his mutiny (which he will turn into vampires as they join up). Gibson is a ghoul, VTM style, but only after he and Hickey start hooking up. Do you see my vision. Please say yes.

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We are so back. Have a vaguely werewolf AU coded sketch-ish Lieutenant Edward Little

Bonus version without the chains under the cut

(the chains are tarnished silver, not gold, bc he’s using them to stay human, lalalaa who said that)

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GO TO BED JUDAS, I SAW THAT LIKE. IT’S 3:22.

Guys I’m gonna make the most evil crossover ever. And nobody can stop me and it’s ALL MY FAULT

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Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was born to be 5’5 and forced to be over 6ft. Thats why he’s Like That.

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Why did I expect anything other than 1AM devastation finishing this book.

They should let me bridge Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. I promise I can be trusted with the psycho baroque artist. I prommy. I swear.

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NON SEXUALLY. I NEED TO CLARIFY THAT NOW. I WOULD JUST WANT TO SHOW HIM HOW TO GET INTO AN ARGUMENT ON TWITTER. Jesus.

They should let me bridge Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. I promise I can be trusted with the psycho baroque artist. I prommy. I swear.

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RIP Harry Goodsir, you would have loved:

- The fish tunnel in the aquarium

- The Barbie Movie

- ABBA

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They should let me bridge Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. I promise I can be trusted with the psycho baroque artist. I prommy. I swear.