#lucy buddy

[cowboyslikedean]

eddie making buck chris’ legal guardian if he dies is still so funny to me years later because like. bro if this was for normal reasons you would have picked someone with less than a 70% chance of being taken the fuck out right there with you

[cloudmancy]

burn the incense of our innocence and in a sense we thrive

[the-littlest-laney]

cleric class

[talentforlying]

[ inspection ] sender holds receiver's face while inspecting an injury they got - Lucy (who would be very unhappy to see him hurt)

[ inspection ] sender holds receiver's face while inspecting an injury they got

he'd been making every effort not to wake the kid up, since getting back from the nasty business he'd been handling with swamp thing. ( a handful of corporations playing gangster with literal ghouls for goons, so they could dump crude in the bayou with no complaints. bleedin' parasites. ) took his shoes off before coming inside, walked heel-to-toe in sock feet up the slippery sodding steps, clipped his hip on a box of spell journals instead of turning the lights on — any and all measures to keep his sticky, aching face out of the high beams of lucy's curious, too-wide eyes until constantine has a chance to sort it all out and make it look less . . . two hours long.

kids shouldn't have to see the things that greed and power make men do to each other. plain and simple.

falling asleep the second his arse hits the couch is not part of the plan, so of course it fucking happens. and of course he wakes up to frantic hands patting away at his head and shoulders and face — ow, ow, ow, OW — and huge red-and-blue eyes too close and mighty fucking upset, and the bloody ground starting to rumble like a ten on the richter. shit shit shit shit shit.

he blinks the swim of interrupted sleep out of his eyes enough to focus and raise his hands, wiggling his fingers in plain sight to prove everything's still in working order, if properly dinged. ' whoa, ey, s'alright! ey! i'm up, i'm up! ' it's only once the room has stopped rocking so badly that he realizes the stinging points of pressure on his cheeks are from where lucy's still holding onto his face, still looking him over: his cut-up, still-sticky face, because he hadn't had the presence of mind to wipe anything up, yet, and is now getting blood all over a six year old. jesus christ, constantine.

' awh, kid, that's minging. ' he's careful about how he pulls lucy's hands away, turning little palms out to swipe the faint smears of red away with his thumb. his split lip cracks open again when he musters up a tired smile, but he pretends it hasn't; the last thing the world needs right now is a six year old antichrist on a tear because some ancient alcoholic got popped a few times too noticeably.

' 'ere, listen — don't go touchin' bloody things unless you know good n'well where it's come from, yeah? d'you know the kinds'o nastiness that can get inna someone's blood? y'don't want to, trust me. ' he doesn't know if the demon blood could do anything; get the head spiders chatting, maybe. better safe than sorry. and just a good general life lesson, besides. ' s'nothin' to go makin' faces about, just a lot'o mess, right now. i'll clean it right up an' you'll see, a'right? '

@normaltothemax / NON-VERBAL ANGST PROMPTS

[rabdoidal]

i keep having this dream where your blood is turning my hands into river stones, and i keep waking up to pale white sunlight

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[unlikablefemaleprotagonist]

realizing now that the ratgrinders probably DIDN'T kill lucy frostblade at all. likely, they were all killed by the same entity (jace or some other proxy of the rage goddess) at the same time and lucy was just the only one with the integrity to stay dead, instead of becoming a puppet. that's why ruben was so sad when he said she "stuck to her guns." because he wishes he had been able to be that brave instead of living with a constant anger inside him that overshadows every other part of his life! their grief is, on some level, probably genuine

but now they've passed the moral event horizon and killed buddy almost as a sort of "initiation" ritual. a messed-up version of hazing. "you can't be one of us until you die and come back wrong too"

[ratgrinders]

Ok here's an updated timeline of the Rat Grinders based on the new info we got this episode:

Freshman Year

On the first day of classes Kipperlily and the others meet and form their adventuring party. Kipperlily comes up with the name the High Five Heroes.

Kipperlily excels academically, but the High Five Heroes only go on easier adventures, presumably to ensure they will succeed rather than fail at something challenging.

Ruben is primarily an acoustic/soft rock musician.

Kipperlily begins to have childish rage and resentment towards Riz and the other Bad Kids, which start out petty but gradually grow in intensity over the next couple years.

Sophomore Year

An increase in hostility, one of the first meetings Kipperlily has this year is being jealous that Riz's dad was killed by Kalvaxus, that if a person has suffered immense magical hardship it is an unfair advantage in adventuring.

Kipperlily tries to find evidence of conspiracy with her parents and is enraged that they are boring.

A week after spring break the High Five Heroes go on their first quest to the mountains of chaos, chaperoned by Jace Stardiamond.

After this, the High Five Heroes seem to undergo a shift where their rage is amplified. Kipperlily's counselor files become much more venomous towards the Bad Kids, Ruben shifts to emo music, etc.

At some point after this Ivy and Oisin propose changing the name to the Rat Grinders. Kipperlily opposes this and Lucy is on her side, but Ruben votes against her because it makes her upset and Mary Ann also votes against her but doesn't explain her reasoning.

A piece of paperwork is submitted for Lucy to change her god, but another piece of paperwork is filed afterwards rescinding that application, presumably by Lucy herself changing her mind.

Towards the end of the year, after grades are finalized but before classes are over thus avoiding the pass/fail penalty, Lucy dies in the far haven woods near Aguefort. Presumably, she could have been resurrected in service of this unnamed rage god, but chose not to. She "stuck to her guns".

Kipperlily's rage towards the Bad Kids has transitioned from childish to venomous, she "hates them".

Junior Year

At some point between the end of Sophomore year and the beginning of Junior year, the Rat Grinders specifically request Buddy Dawn join their party as a cleric.

At 8:01 am, the first day of classes, Kipperlily goes to Ashgrove to dig up the rogue teacher's grave, thus forcing her to reveal herself and granting Kipperlily a pass for all her rogue classes for the year. Presumably she was aware of the rogue teacher's grave beforehand (information only available in Arthur Aguefort's office) but waited until the start of Junior year so she could pass all her classes for the year.

Kipperlily announces her bid to run for student council president, with a platform based on equity, equanimity, and fairness.

Kipperlily asks Jawbone about the creation of Yes! and the events of prompocalypse

Her counselor notes become extremely enraged, with her straight up wanting to kill Kristin and being angry that she can't get to her thanks to Fig's protection.

Oisin, Ivy, and Buddy are seen at Fabian's house party during the first week of classes. Kipperlily is not seen but is possibly there invisible. The Bad Kids are asked to do drugs but decline. That same night, mephits steal part of a cloud rider engine kept in Seacaster Manor.

At the school assembly the following day Principal Grix reveals he was notified of students doing drugs off campus, meaning its possible the Rat Grinders tipped him off in an attempt to get the Bad Kids in trouble.

Ruben performs presumably some kind of ritual at the Frosty Fair Folk festival, with the other Rat Grinders conspicuously absent. Simultaneously, Yolanda Badgood falls dead in the same place where Lucy Frostblade died, after Yolanda had been made aware of Lucy's change in god and was investigating it. Yolanda also refuses to be resurrected in service of the rage god.

The Rat Grinders are seen at the assembly addressing Yolanda's death and how all clerics would be moved to pass/fail. Most look bored, Mary Ann isn't paying attention, and Buddy is unconcerned.

Kipperlily and Oisin get caught trying to sabotage the Bad Kids' Last Stand exam, and Kipperlily kills Buddy. Ten minutes after the Bad Kids plane shift away, Buddy is revived by an unknown figure and he pledges his allegiance to the rage god.

Now the Rat Grinders are scheduled for another trip to the Mountains of Chaos and are on complete lockdown, hiding all of them from Adaine's divination magic.

[honeybard]

Clerics of Spyre ✨️❄️☀️🌙

[sapphicmuppet]

”average adventuring party kills two clerics a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. Average adventuring party kills 0 clerics per year. Spiders Ratgrinders, who hangout in the far haven woods & kills a whopping two clerics a year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[pyroangelo]

SHOUT OUT TO THE CLERICS WHO’VE DIED

WHO’S GONNA HEAL YOU FUCKERS WHEN THE CLERICS ARE DEAD?

[melonsharks]

this is gonna let us finally keep up with the bad kids!

[cowboyslikedean]

the idea that abc may have just accidentally spoiled the 911 season arc by putting ryan in what is a clearly all-queer-characters-of-911 line-up of actors for a celebrity family feud episode is so fucking funny that i want it to be true so badly it hurts

[swordsandstitches]

The wolves are killing members of their own pack

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Pretends To Act Shocked

[starstruckodysseys]

“average school has three clerics die a year” actually just statistical error. spiders aguefort, where clerics keep fucking dying, is an outlier adn should not be counted

[hipsterfrankcastle]

logging onto tumblr dot com to see what the freaks have to say about the ghoul in fallout