#aj don't look

[devourcr]

↪ HEADCANONS

tw for slavery, abuse, csa. → these headcanons will include mentions & discussion of marius, so if that's upsetting for you you, this really isn't something you have to read.

NOTE: i shouldn't have to put a disclaimer here, but nothing i'm about to say excuses, apologizes, etc, for any character's actions. i'm putting it on my blog so that no one assumes anything about my portrayal.

first thing to note, a lot of my headcanons surrounding armand and his backstory have a lot to do with how i feel about ar's views on age, history, and consent.

the mistaken idea that people were older in history than they are now. this isn't going to be an analysis of ar's views or anything like that, but they do have a lot to do with how i interpret the text.

iMAGINE A HEADCANON POST WITH SO MANY FUCKING DISCLAIMERS —

my armand does not begin a romantic/sexual relationship with marius until he's an adult. is there still a power dynamic between them? absolutely. is it still wrong to groom someone to become a vampire and to eventually have a sexual relationship with your pupil? YES. absolutely 100% yes.

following the trauma at the brothel, armand spends a long time in recovery, there's no sexual relationships with anyone for years. i maintain a lot of tva, particularly regarding armand's relationships with his brothers, riccardo, and with bianca. and he puts marius on a pedestal that is easily taken advantage of.

i don't know how the show will portray things. i will say that i feel like there's a point to armand jumping from 15 to 20 in his storytelling. so, for my portrayal ( both show and amc verses ), armand begins any sexual relationships then and only then.

when it comes to the painters and the donations, also beginning at 20.

i do not want to dive into why i think this happened or how i think it did on my dash or, honestly, much in general. bc it's a triggering topic to me, it's triggering to others, and i don't think it's necessary for me to talk to in depth about it.

armand's feelings towards his maker are complex. they are conflicting. life in venice was one of the happiest times of his life, but it also included some of the worst.

[pluresque]

i'm not really here tonight but just to say, because i am writing two of marius's survivors and both of them have kind of fucked up mentalities about him at various given moments (in slightly different ways), i'm obviously not condoning any of his actions towards any of the people he targets lmao. i think he's an interesting antagonist to a lot of the characters in the series (despite him being kind of ... treated within the narrative a lot more generously than imo he deserves) for his own self-delusion and contradiction within his beliefs and actions that lets him let himself off the hook for the harm he does, or the fact that he targets people at their most vulnerable so they won't leave him. just because pandora and riccardo at varying times care about him or see him in a somewhat / comparatively positive light doesn't mean that i think he's, like, a good guy lmfao. i just want to put that out there because i know he's a controversial figure in the tvc fandom. personally hating him is not enough i need a flamethrower, but i know that's not always the case for pandora or riccardo at various points in their lives. just wanted to put that out there!!! and also if you ever want me to tag things specifically for him please do let me know! i absolutely do not want to trigger anyone with threads where he gets mentioned or discussed!

[lieutenant-spock]

i made the mistake of trusting you once.

Her words stirred something within him and he put his hands behind his back. "I do not understand." It was ... confusing; he knew who she was and that Chris trusted her implicitly.

Captain Pike was like a father to him and having someone his adopted father confided in saying those words? It hurt his feelings. "I must admit, I do not know what I did to cause such a reaction."

[aprilblossomgirl]

But they look uncomfortable and make me super sweaty. If Mr. Yoryak wants to change his look to impress Ms. Taemrak, he'll have to endure.

Wandee Goodday (2024) Episode Five | Dir. Golf Tanwarin Sukkhapisit

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

A.J. Cook as Jennifer “JJ” Jareau in Criminal Minds | 09×04: To Bear Witness

[thebluelittlewitch2-thesequel]

Puberty hit her like a cannonball

[your-local-granny]

i know there's many interpretations of klapollo and they're all valid or whatever all are welcome to dine at the lords table ect ect but to ME. it is integral that:

a) apollo doesn't give a single shit that klavier is famous and

b) that apollo isn't insecure abt his looks

because if you don't have that then it's just a 1directioner insert fic which. I can accept but it's hard for me to return to those grade school recess conversations in full sincerity. and if you DO have those things then klapollo is the greatest modern successor to roger and jessica rabbit

[wildflowercryptid]

i've been wanting to redesign the old mlp gijinkas i had as a teenager for forever so i did some sketches of our beloved earth pony besties!

[h3adph0nez]

Never realized how big Tom's wedding ring was on AJ till I zoomed in

No wonder why AJ's so scared to drop it everytime Tom hands it to him

[chimeaxolotl]

this show isn't even out yet and i am OBSESSED with this horse

shes so sparkly omg??? this design is so pretty??? i am literally drawing fanart rn

[winryrockbellwannabe]

yall, pretend my bow is red, would this work as a kiki closet cosplay??

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

favourite twdg villain?

I'm a fond enjoyer of the St. John's as villains. I don't know if they're my favorite just because they're only in one episode, but I love the concept of this family almost immediately jumping into cannibalism toward the start of the outbreak, dealing in human flesh to bandits, and casually feeding this group their friend's legs.

Like... what the hell was this family like before the outbreak that all three of them were like, "Hey now listen... nothing should go to waste, the dead are eating people so why shouldn't we? We gotta survive and in our defense, we only target those who were gonna die anyway... like y'all."

Dude, Mark was shot in this shoulder with an arrow. He wasn't going to die from that injury. It's so fucked that these seemingly friendly people took the group into their home and then fed them Mark's legs.

If we take the idea that everyone is infected and have the capacity within themselves to become walkers, to become monsters, then the St. John's were infected long before the outbreak, y'know? Not literally, but something was wrong with them and the outbreak just further spread that infection and changed them.

But again, are they my favorite? I dunno if I can say that since I have a lot more appreciation for Lily now. Yeah, some of her writing gets a little wonky in ep3 of TFS when she goes on her monologues and shit, but y'know what? I'm into it.

You have to remember who we're talking about and the fact that she's the antagonist; Lily isn't some anti-hero in TFS who secretly has a heart of gold that's brought to light because she reunited with Clementine... she's a fucked up woman who did fucked up things in the name of survival. She's full of rot now. She sees kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers to protect her home as a means to an end, but she doesn't actually give a shit about the people she's taking. They aren't people to her, they're as the episode title suggests, toys in her game. The only one she sees as a person is Clementine, and while that makes her hesitate at first, she sees Clementine's a prize to bring back.

She remembers what happened in S1; her father had a heart attack and as she tried to save him, Kenny smashed his face in with a saltlick and then expected Lily to just stand up and help him get back to his family because "he did what he had to, he made the hard choice." Yes, Larry was a piece of shit. No one liked him, and you can even question Lily on him and she'll tell you that he has a lot of pain. Yes, it makes him an asshole, but he's still her dad and he's all she has. I mean... the simplification is daddy issues, but in all seriousness, I don't doubt for a second that many of Lily's issues stem from Larry being a shitty father to her.

Then everyone thought she was losing it when she insisted there was a traitor in the group, which she was right about, but she was unstable. She was unwell, but how do you help someone like that when you don't have training to go about it? Then Lily ends up killing either Carley or Doug and the group turns on her, and either she's left behind or she steals the van and runs away.

Then we don't know what the hell happened to her until we see her again in TFS, but like... a lone woman with decay festering inside of her joining the delta? Exposing her to their methods? I mean, what else did she have to lose? She had nothing, she lost everything, and she has a lot of issues. Survival is easy when you're numb, when you don't care about the individual; they're all just cogs churning to make the system run, and if a piece doesn't cooperate, you get rid of it and find a new one.

Plus I think there's something to say about Lily not wanting to be perceived as weak again. That whole display she put on in the cells? Telling the story of what happened to Minerva and Sophie? I get the criticism that it feels like Lily did a 180 between episodes but like... yeah dude, because it's a performance. It's not just her and Clementine anymore. It's a display of power and authority. She's playing the part and thriving in it as she ensures everyone else is terrified of her.

But then when Clementine and AJ get the upper hand? Again, she's not afraid to play up the pleading to earn enough sympathy to spare her- hell, just to let their guard down enough to strike and get the upper hand again. I mean, she's got nothing else to lose, right? If she doesn't go for it, she'll be killed and sure, you can kill her anyway but at least she tried.

Honestly, I look at Lily in TFS and still see that scared little girl playing the tough bitch, just like Carley said in S1. It's just now escalated from "tough bitch" to a downright vile person. She's so... lost? I suppose? Lost within herself and the monstrous means she's taken to survive.

I get the criticisms of how she was used in TFS, but for me, it's like when people complain about Minerva not getting the redemption arc she supposedly should've gotten, y'know? There's no saving her. Lily was never on our side, and there was no getting her on our side. She wasn't ever going to redeem herself. Even if you spare her and she drifts away on her raft, can someone like her actually find redemption? Or will she just find another group that'll feed into her rot?

Truly, I say let her be horrid. Let her be the piece of shit villain with a few fleeting moments of humanity. Let her drown in the blood she's spilled.

[r2y9s]

[Raffles]

i'm the only one who cares about this roaring 20s au but it's fine

[boyswhowawa]

Paranormal AU!! Saint sketches

mans just lounging

him but sketched by spearmaster

(Spearmaster really likes sketching the others, Saint a common sight in their sketchbook due to Saint always being home)

[alienthebee]

phantom mp i made on aj a few days ago :3

[transpanda-1]

🍦Controversial opinion but, like with many AA games after the initial trilogy, Apollo Justice would've been better if its quirky girl side character was the main character instead. Apollo has almost nothing to do with the plot of AJ, while Trucy is the adoptive daughter of the disgraced lawyer she herself partially contributed to getting disbarred. She even contrasts better with Klavier who she knows explicitly wanted him disbarred, not to mention them both being mostly entertainers who happen to be lawyers as well. It'd also be easier to show how Trucy's outgoing personality is more a mask if we had access to her inner thoughts.

Make Apollo Trucy's weird girl assistant and we're golden okay