#mitchell turner

[evenstarfalls]

Hey so I revived your boyfriend wrong and now he's. Um. He's dying every few months. I mean he's coming back every time!! But it really doesnt seem very healthy. Yeah, the period between deaths is getting shorter every time. I don't know how to fix him. Sorry.

[w1ckedgal]

Sometimes a family is a men out for revenge against his ex-best friend who put him in prison for 10 years, his prison cell mate who is tall as a wall but also an extremely competent hacker, a 12 yo who can resurrect the dead and that's also running from her sister who's trying to kill her, and their resurrected dog.

[fakeoutbf]

over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person...

– Vicious by V.E. Schwab

[clockworkbee]

Something I absolutely love in V. E. Schwab’s books is how she writes the scenes where characters part ways and then the way she writes their reunion.

[mrsrhettbutler]

“Sydney Clarke,” he snapped. “What the hell are you doing here?”

— Mitchell going full angry dad on Sydney

[beebrainedstudios]

Cute Vicious Headcanons:

Because sometimes I just want my faves to be happy for once. Spoiler warning for both Vicious and Vengeful, and a warning for a brief mention of panic attacks and religious trauma!

- While Victor, Sydney, Mitch, and Dol never returned to Merit until the events of Vengeful, Dominic would often come stay with them for long periods of time before he got his job at EON. These were usually comparable to vacations where they would hang out and Victor would adjust his grip on Dom’s nerves, but one time it was specifically to help him make headway on his alcoholism; between Mitch clearing their safehouse of alcohol, Sydney distracting him when cravings came, and Victor dampening triggering sensations and watching diligently to make sure he couldn’t slip away to a bar, he was eventually able to make progress on his addiction. Afterwards, the group was careful to alert Victor ahead of time before Dominic would visit so he could hide his stash or arrange to drink it elsewhere.

- Victor loves music and will unashamedly dance around if a song he likes is playing over the radio; if someone's watching he’ll be a little more reserved unless theatrics is the point (If it’s a villain song or he’s in the mood he’ll usually perform to it, as he likes the attention and it makes him feel like he’s in a movie), but if he’s alone he goes all out. Think Dr. Robonik’s dance in the Sonic movie- he’ll shimmy and sing all throughout the room/house if given the chance. Sometimes the others will join in for a proper performance; it’s a great way to get Victor to thaw out a bit because it reminds him of many hours in his youth spent happily dancing and singing around the empty Vale estate. 

- For one of Victor’s birthdays, Mitch helped Sydney make a large framed print of a page of one of Victor’s favorite anatomy tomes that they had carefully blacked out into a somewhat sappy poem about family. Sydney also took a book chapter about lightning and made a surprisingly ornate blackout poem out of it that was supposed to about Victor. To this day, Victor treasures both gifts and considers them the best things he’s ever gotten.

- Victor, Sydney, Mitch, and (when he’s there) Dominic take turns picking what to do for Halloween. Typically Sydney convinces everyone to go somewhere in costume if they don’t outright trick-or-treat, but the group’s theme is left up to whoever’s in charge of the festivities. Victor usually finds some way to be the villain and will do everything in his power to keep up his all-black color scheme; his favorite costume was when he went out dressed as the reboot version of Cruella (it was a Disney Villains theme- Sydney was Hades, Mitch was Shere Khan, and Dominic was Diaval from the Maleficent movies). Sydney also once designed original supervillain/superhero costumes for them; to Victor’s chagrin, Mitch helped her make them and he was forced to participate in going to a Halloween festival dressed like comic book character. While he complained about it at the time, he secretly appreciated the gesture and thought it was cool, though he’d rather die than admit it.

- Mitch calls Dol his “wingman” because he has been hit on multiple times by other dog owners at the park while walking him. While he always turns them down, he finds the attention flattering, especially since he’s so used to people judging him for his appearance.

- Dominic is the resident “sidekick” of the group, as he’s always down for mischief, no matter whose instigating it. He’s a bit of a “follower” personality, which makes him everyone’s first choice when they need backup for something. He’s helped Victor sneak out multiple times, participated on all three sides of a Victor-Mitch-Sydney prank war, often helps Sydney with some of Mitch’s homemade homework even when he’s technically not supposed to, and once helped Mitch slip cough medicine in Victor’s water when he came down with a cold and refused to do anything about it. He’s also loyal to each cause and won’t rat out whoever he’s helping for any reason- even Victor’s threats aren’t enough to break his nerve.

- If they get in a serious argument, Mitch will absolutely pull the “breadwinner” card on Victor to keep him from doing something stupid.

- Alternatively, Sydney will absolutely pull the “I revived you from the dead” card to keep Victor from doing something stupid.

- Victor likes to call himself a “necromancee” and affectionately calls Sydney his necromancer. He thinks it’s funny and once introduced them like that to a curious barista. 

- Victor originally did not get along with most of his teachers in college, as they all in some way reminded him of his parents and he just generally resented their authority. Once he arrived, Eli did a lot of networking in college for Victor and was able to improve his standing with several professors by either joining Victor whenever he had to interact with them and smoothing out any animosity or by talking with to them and spinning his rude behavior as simply Victor being shy, blunt, or introverted. Victor never outright thanked him for the help, but he did make more of an effort to play nice with the instructors after that.

- Sydney likes to draw new tattoos on Mitch with Sharpies whenever she can nab one from Victor’s stash. Victor once offered to do the same to Mitch before they went out on a supply run; Mitch was pleased until they arrived at the store and he realized that Victor had just used him to write a shopping list.

- A year or two after Eli’s arrest, Victor asks Mitch to help him find a tattoo place so he can get something in remembrance of their previous confrontation- and secretly because he sometimes misses Eli and wants to have something physical to act as a reminder. Mitch is thrilled and helps him find the perfect location, design, and parlor. He also stays with him for the whole thing, since Victor ends up mildly nervous while letting the artist touch him as they apply it. It all culminates in a small tattoo that reads “Always and forEver,” with the marked out lines crossed out like a blackout poem and just a little bit of those letters visible so the words underneath are still understandable. He gets it put over his back scar where the final bullet went through. Post-Vengeful, when Victor is away from the group, he gets three more; a flying, cawing raven behind his ear for Mitch, a trail of footprints running up his spine that fade into nothing for Dominic, and a tiny sparrow clutching a thread and anatomically accurate heart over his actual heart for Sydney.

- Dave (the guy Victor killed in Vicious) and Stell were very close buddies, with Dave looking up to Stell as a mentor figure and Stell finding him somewhere between a best friend and the son he never had. This is more of a semi-AU than a headcanon, but a concept to consider: Sydney snuck back to revive him again during Victor’s time being dead (she was careful not to let Dave see her, and he was frankly too spooked to notice; it was ruled a very miraculous recovery), and while he immediately quit the police force after that he and Stell kept in touch.

- During Eli’s time at EON, Stell would sometimes help Eli out of panic attacks that were triggered by various religious “slip-ups,” such as forgetting verses or not stopping to pray at certain times (I imagine Eli has some scrupulosity-adjacent tendencies). Because Eli’s body maintained constant homeostasis, he didn’t have things like hunger, exhaustion, or even fainting to help shake him out of it, so he would sometimes spend days kneeling in his cell, refusing to stop praying over and over for forgiveness until he felt he’d been made clean again- which never came on its own. Stell, who while not religious grew up going to church and having a religious sister, eventually began to come down to Eli’s cell to try and talk him through his attacks, which would usually work once he was able to break Eli out of the loop so he could convince himself of his covenant again and get back to work. He also did enough digging into Eli’s background to recognize some heavy religious trauma, so he eventually dragged up enough sympathy to get him a Bible in the hopes that it would give Eli the tools to pull himself out of these attacks. It surprisingly worked, though Stell still found himself occasionally having to reassure him when Eli got particularly antsy.

- Victor has broken his “all-black-clothes” rule once, when he went with Mitch and Sydney to a very popular movie that the pair had been dying to see on opening night, despite it coming out during a time when they were under a lot of pressure to fit in. While they were perfectly content to disguise themselves, they weren’t expecting Victor to and were prepared to have to leave the theater in a hurry, only to find Victor waiting by the door in a long grey cardigan, a cream-brown sweater, and fancy wire-frame glasses so he wouldn’t stand out so much in the crowd. According to Sydney, he looked like “a cottagecore college student one decade after his graduation,” while Mitch only called it “cute;” he got his foot stomped on and most of his popcorn stolen for his commentary.

- Dominic is really creative with waking Victor up from nightmares and can usually do so without getting his pain dialed up; he’s figured out that Victor’s power needs direct line-of-sight to work, so he’s taken to either poking Victor with a broom from around the corner or tossing a backpack or book over the edge of the couch/bed/chair he’s sleeping on before ducking behind it. Victor always complains about his methods, but Dominic is just glad he can escape with little more than his hair standing on end.

- Victor likes to have self-care days with Sydney; he’s always been fond of pampering himself and will even dabble in a bit of makeup from time to time. Sydney enjoys it too, as the pair will usually take over the tv while they try out new eyeshadow, do each other’s nails, etc. Victor also likes using an occasional bath bomb, as he’ll take one of his novels in the bath to work on it for a bit while he either stews in the calm or in thoughts of revenge- whatever he’s feeling up to that day.

- Mitch and Victor once arrived back to their hotel to find both Dominic and Sydney a) dressed in all black and wearing two of Victor’s coats, b) wearing a frankly ridiculous amount of black eyeshadow under their eyes, and c) with red marker smeared on their faces like blood. Turns out they were having a contest to see who could do the best Victor impression. Mitch voted for Dominic and Victor- who was too tired to protest at this point- voted for Sydney, so the deciding challenge was to see who could rant about how much they hated Eli. Sydney won and was able to keep the rant going for several minutes, with Mitch eventually having to stop her once she just started cursing him out.

[littlelightninggirlofchb]

If Vicious was turned into a shitty Hollywood action movie this mf would play Mitch

[exsistentialwhining]

Eli: you gotta stop with this murdering

Víctor: ayo miss me with that gay shit-

Eli: what gay shit the LAW?

[foodforworm]

I tend to keep very detailed journals of quotes/lines/paragraphs from books (and all media, really) that I really enjoy, but I don't always have them physically on me when I want to look things up, so I've decided I'm also going to start keeping a detailed digital journal here! This likely just means if I finish a book and really enjoyed it it'll foster the need for me to create a long post of every quote or part that was notable to me and that I knew I'd want to be able to access easily if necessary. (you would not believe how often I deem it necessary to look up the precise phrasing and wording of quotes such as this).

it'll be under the tag #infinity journal because that is the name of one of my other personal online databases of things such as this. That being said:

I just finished Vicious and I'm going to pull out some of the quotes I really liked and put them here so that they are easily accessible to me and perhaps that will make me feel a modicum less insane.

This feels obvious but Spoilers for Vicious by V. E. Schwab under the cut!

"By the time the first bell rang, signaling the end of Victor's art elective, he'd turned his parents' lectures on how to start the day into: 'Be lost. Give up. give In. In the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.' / He'd had to strike through entire paragraphs to make the sentence perfect after he accidentally marked out ever and had to go on until he found another instance of the word. But it was worth it. The pages of black that stretched between if you are and ever and found gave the words just the right sense of abandonment."

"But what fascinated Victor most was the fact that something about Eli was decidedly wrong."

"Did you know," said Victor, skimming a book from the prison library on anatomy (he thought it particularly foolish to endow inmates with a detailed sense of the positions of vital organs, but there you go), "that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You make them, in their own eyes, immortal. Which of course they're not, but what's the saying? We are all immortal until proven otherwise?"

"He was wearing the same kind of smile that made Victor nervous. Eli had as many different smiles as ice cream shops had flavors, and this one said he had a secret."

"The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words. / 'I'll go first.'"

"Victor knew he was praying. It perplexed him, how someone about to play God could pray to Him, but it clearly didn't bother his friend."

"The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because it posed a question. If Eli was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? / He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.

"Not God. This isn't divinity, Eli. It's science and chance." / "Maybe to a point, but when I climbed into that water, I put myself in His hands—" / "No," snapped Victor. "You put yourself in mine."

"a note for your thesis," he said as his friend lay there, gasping. "You thought our powers were somehow a reflection of our nature. God playing with mirrors, but you're wrong. It's not about God. It's about us. The way we think. The thought that's strong enough to keep us alive. To bring us back. You want to know how I know?" / He turned his attention to the table, looking for something new and sharp. "Because all I could think about when I was dying was the pain." He cranked the dial up in his mind, and let the room fill with Eli's scream. "And how badly I wanted to make it stop."

"It had started raining the day she'd been shot, and hadn't stopped since."

"She kept sinking, and kept reaching, and all she could think as she sank farther and farther away from her sister was come back come back come back. And then the world began to freeze around her, and there was so much cold, and that began to vanish, too, leaving only darkness. / Sydney later learned that Serena had come back, and that she pulled her up through the freezing water and onto the freezing lake before collapsing beside her."

'"Then tell them to let me go, too." / Serena stood beside the hospital bed, and ran her hand over Sydney's hair. "You need to stay a little longer." / The fight bled out of Sydney, and she found herself nodding, even as tears slid down her cheeks. Serena brushed them away with her thumb, and said, "I'm not gone." It reminded Sydney if sinking beneath the surface, of wanting her sister so badly to come back.'

"She felt like Alice in Wonderland. Like the soda must have had a little drink me tag and now the room was shrinking, or she was growing, or either way there wasn't enough space. Enough air."

"Back out front, Victor considered the storefront window, but he feared the Sharpies weren't big enough and besides, he didn't intend to get picked up for vandalism or all things, so he was forced to leave the window untouched. It was a shame, he thought, as they walked on. There had been an excerpt, blown up large and pasted on the window, and in a passage studded with overwrought gems—his favorite being 'out of the ruins of our self-made jails...'—he had seen the perfect opportunity to spell out a simple but effective 'we...ruin..all... we touch."

"No, Sydney," he said. "I need you to stay here." / "Why?" She asked. / "Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong."

"Mitchell Turner was cursed. / Always had been. / Trouble followed him like a shadow, clinging to him no matter how much good light he tried to stand in. In his hands, good things broke and bad things grew."

"Mitch's curse, his maldición, as a Spanish foster mother had called it, was that bad things had a way of happening around him."

"Look, Sydney, there's something you need to understand about Victor—" / "He's not a bad man," she said. / "There are no good men in this game," said Mitch. / But Sydney didn't care about good. She wasn't sure she believed in it. "I'm not afraid of Victor." / "I know." He sounded sad when he said it.

"But these words people threw around—humans, monsters, heroes, villains—to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. The difference between Victor and Eli, he suspected, wasn't their opinion on EOs. It was their reaction to them. Eli seemed intent to slaughter them, but Victor didn't see why a useful skill should be destroyed, just because of its origin."

"And what happens when we're dead?" / "We won't die, then." / "You make cheating death sound so simple." / "We do seem awfully good at it," said Victor cheerfully. He lifted his glass. "To never dying." / "To being remembered." / Their glasses clinked as Eli added, "Forever."

"For and Ever. / The words were several pages apart, separated and surrounded by a sea of black. Not only that, but the word ever had been altered, part of a larger word, the for- preceding it blotted carefully out, which meant Victor was not trying to piece together the word forever from the text. / He clearly wanted it to be two separate words. Distinct. / For. / Ever."

"And Ulysses stopped up his ears against the siren's song," recited Victor, pulling the plugs from his own ears as Serena collapsed to the dirt lot, "for it was death."

"I watch you, and it's like watching two people." ... "It's why I let you stay," said Victor. "Why I liked you. All that charm outside, all that evil inside. There was a monster under there, long before you died."

"Enough," said Victor. Behind his eyes, the dial turned up. Eli screamed. "You aren't some avenging angel, Eli," he said. "You're not blessed, or divine, or burdened. You're a science experiment."

"You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands." / "When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong."

"Some hero," he heard Victor whisper with his two last, labored breaths.

[fizzyskata]

Vicious by V. E. Schwab

[youlooklikeabeeandilikebees]

series 1 of being human out of context

[evenstarfalls]

happy there are no good men in this game thursday

[kwistowee]

vampiric ray of sunshine BEING HUMAN 1.01

[wolfshapedbullet]

Aidan Turner as John Mitchell BEING HUMAN (2008-2013) 1.01 Pilot

[clockworkbee]

a decade in and out of prison had taught him this: There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then there were people you wanted to stick with, the ones with silver tongues and golden touches. And then, there were people you stood beside, because it meant you weren’t in their way.

—Mitchell Turner, from Vicious by V. E. Schwab

[mrsrhettbutler]

Vicious Accessories 4

Who is most likely to wear cowboy boots?