#riptide rambles

[gillionmeowstrider]

riptide triton hc: whale fall festivals

Charlie and Grizzly have spoken a bit about how the Undersea gods aren’t like, typical celestial godly figures but moreso just really big and really ancient creatures. We can also assume that they can in theory die.

Charlie mentioned in the Jonah Scott Rolled (#68 ~16 minutes in) that the Trench is loosely based off of a whale fall, so if an Undersea god was to die, would the population hold a celebration? This is getting really into headcanon territory, but I like to think that if an ancient god were to die, the power they accumulated goes back to the sea. The population may hold a celebration of life kind of festival, and maybe Gillion would’ve been expected to hold some kind of ceremony. Full circle moment.

[everwizard]

Too lazy to find the original but I'm thinking about them

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH MY DAYS i cant believe i never posted this one here (originally posted to twitter, JAN20 2023) (hes stabbing his little bathtub bed. is that obvious? i hope its obvious) OLD ART at this point but i still like the way i did expression and movement. also WEEE THE NIGHTMARE ARC WAS SO FUNNNN WASNT IT FUNNN?? WEEEE!!

[honkceasar]

I think every Charlie Slimecicle ttrpg combat turn goes like this:

With my action I pull out The InstaKiller3000, which everyone forgot I had and collectively agrees I should not have ever under any circumstances. With my bonus action I am going to use the most vaguely worded spell in existence and argue semantics with the dm for at least 10 minutes until I somehow bs my way into making a shitty spell turn The InstaKiller3000 into The InstaKiller10000. I’m now going to describe the most epic fucking visual any human being could come up with for when I use The Instakiller10000. Time to roll for damage!!! It’s a 1, and with my equally horribly rolled stats that makes it a -3. I hit myself in the face with The InstaKiller10000 and die instantly

[dizzybizz]

"this is regrettably the best kiss of your life, you understand?"

[red-might-be-dead]

chip is on the naughty list for being a silly little scallywag whereas gillion is on it for being a terrorist with multiple extreme offences and several ties to underground organisations

[unkandily]

Sometimes I think about the fact that we are witnessing the worst ending for the riptide pirates.

Not in the sense of they can never have their happy ending, but in the sense that it's never easy. In our universe, Jay loses her sister and Gillion loses some part of his, too. They all trade their souls away until one of them doesn't even have a soul.

I think in another universe they meet without grief. I think in another universe Chip and Jay meet as siblings-in-law and bicker at their sisters' wedding. I think in another universe Gillion grows up with his grandfather and when the ship crashes him and Chip have each other. I think in another universe Jay stands up to her father without fear, because she has someone behind her.

I think we are being forced to witness the bad ending.

[periperson]

Do you guys ever live in fear because Charlie said that, after the PD hiatus where Apotheosis took over, he read William Wisp fanfics to get back into the mindset of the character, and with Riptide and Prime Defenders returning at some indeterminate point in time he may do that again? o(—(

[monstrousparalysis]

Hey y'all! Since it's Love Loses Wednesday for all who celebrate and I have plenty of thoughts about it, here's some of those thoughts I've had for my fellow enjoyers of Chip Bastard from the insanely powerful podcast Just Roll With It!

So.

Chip being so focused on family and friends, on finding Arlin and keeping his co-captains and crew safe, while the most he ever shows interest in romance is in brief, jokey flirting that's quickly brushed aside.

Chip buying a love potion, only for it to sit unused in his inventory for literal months until it unceremoniously drops into the mouth of the Electrodon.

Chip being unnerved or even downright scared when somebody shows a sign of being attracted to him (Amanda with the marriage, Jazz and his flirting, the frantic denial to Ollie that Gillion kissing him meant anything (which was then followed by barely any change in their relationship. A typically romantic act, done as an act of love between friends, and yet those friends never did start a romance. Curious))

Speaking of Amanda and the marriage: Chip waking up one day and suddenly being expected, even morally obligated, to be in a romantic relationship with somebody he doesn't even know, for reasons he doesn't even know. And even when he clarifies that he doesn't want this, that he won't give up being a pirate with his friends for it, he still can't leave behind the expectation fully, because Amanda, and thus this expectation, is literally chasing him. Sometimes it even comes from his own friends, because no matter how much he would prefer to just Not Be Married, there's no way for him to get out of it, especially not ones Gillion would likely accept, and therefore the expectation that eventually, he'll be in a romance, is inescapable.

And even more interesting, he's not opposed to the idea of getting married in general. He wasn't wholly against the notion of marrying Igneous just for the AC boost it would give them. Clearly, the problem he had wasn't with the marriage itself, but with the fact that he was expected to form a romantic partnership.

And lastly: Chip having his literal heart ripped out of him, and staying nearly the same. Making jokes about how his heart was stolen in a way that was literal instead of romantic. Writing to his wife that if death do them part, then now it has (and doesn't it even say something that the only way for him to escape the marriage, the expectations, was to die?)

He cares for his friends just the same. He cares for his crew just the same. He wants to find Arlin just as much as ever. And his avoidance of his wife, of the expectation that he perform romance, stays the same. But even if he's the exact same, he has an excuse for this now. Because clearly, somebody with no heart couldn't feel romance, and who cares that he didn't really seem to before he lost his heart either?

Chip being aromantic, on a textual, metaphorical, and thematic level.

[elliotthinkssometimes]

I am so upset about chip jrwi

[bizlybebo]

does this make sense

(ib: @/clavidy)

[gillionmeowstrider]

i wanna just say, Chip’s character is even more tragic on the rewatch because now you know (partially) what led up to this. you know how he bartered violence for love after he lost everything. you know how deeply he loves the people around him, and just how scared he is not only of losing them but of letting them see who he is. they make it very clear from the beginning that Chip’s background is the haunted one. he clings to his past like it’ll save him, but the tighter he holds on the more lost he becomes. we don’t even know what happened to him in the hole in the sea, and he doesn’t either. idk man it’s just really sad.

[tigeristired]

"if i can make myself thinner or fatter i can give myself birthing hips to woo this creature" what in the actual fuck is happening in this dnd campaign anymore man

[wasyago]

we're at it again🕺

[crowmaturgy]

listening to the fnc compilation and got to the feywild arc again… gawd chip and jay missing gill… ow

[dogwithpants]

Riptide as textposts i had saved on my phone!!

(Also have some Suckening textposts here, and prime defenders textposts here!)