#tidalwave is canon to ME

[justquotewithit]

#wavelength: after all, he's just a clone

#vyncent: wait what

#william: ?!?- hang on

[princesscatherinearts]

Ok but what if Tidalwave carrying Starscream around in her jaws like a bag of potatoes!

Bad and naughty seekers get put into timeout‼️‼️‼️

[bizlybebo]

that being said i think canon tidalwave would be great because it would literally be bizly talking to himself. me narrating to my friends the way my guys do a little kiss

[anachronistic-falsehood]

YOU GOT IT BOSS. 🫡🫡🫡 IN YOUR INBOX ABOUT YOUR AUS. villain au...... you know I gotta ask about clarence. was he a hero or a villain...... if u domt have clarence figured out then. tell.me about mark <3 my wife. still not over the fact that he's a hero in this i have a lot of feelings about it.

i think clarence was a hero. bro was out here doing GOOD and HELPING PEOPLE!!! and mal. well tbh im not even sure wtf he was doing. i still have 2 figure out clarence and mal (if u have any ideas abt them LET ME KNOW PLS I THINK I NEED HELP FLESHING THEM OUT MORE) but mark. oughhhgh mark wimters. that man. i think the winters’ backstory stays mostly the same here. trickster kills mrs winters etc etc u know how it be. and mark. well he is clearly not doin super hot after that!!! idk how long in canon he was involved w overlord and villain stuff in general but i think it would be a few years at least. so i think before he got Too into villain stuff tide approached him and etc etc he joined watch. u know. he does not Want 2 be a big hero tho. he works with tide a lot but very clearly tries not to be seen too much. he and tide work as a Team. tide is the face of their duo and mark works behind the scenes. if they have a stealth mission and need a distraction tide is always the one outright attacking henchmen and being a nuisance and mark is sneaking in undetected. tide is fighting villains in the middle of the street and mark is in a back alley readying a beam of energy to knock out the villain from afar while they’re focused on tide. he doesn’t want to be well known!!! bro is Paranoid as fuck!! wants to keep ashe safe!!! tide gets that and they work as a team so fucking well they GET each other ok i love u tidalwave

also i have decided. mark is the one training the prime defenders. purely bc i think it would b fucking funny. his main focus is ashe and trying 2 keep him safe and everything he doesn’t care about the prime defenders!!! NO he is not going to get attached to these stupid fucking ex-vigilante kids who are only being heroes so they can stay out of supermax. no he doesn’t care that they’re basically in the same situation as him where they’re just doing hero work to stay out of prison. no him decking out cantrip in kevlar so she doesn’t die doesn’t matter he’s just trying to make sure his wards (that he totally doesn’t care about) stay alive so he doesn’t get in trouble with watch. he’s making extra macaroni for alan because the kid is big and needs more food it’s just logical to make extra for him so he can actually do well in missions don’t worry about it. he’s getting xavier a switch because the old wii console they had before is broken and x keeps complaining NO he’s doesn’t care don’t ask how much it cost the complaining is annoying just go play mariokart ok this is nothing. he’s such a fucking Dad he would quietly get a little attached after spending so much time with them. yeah he would give them up for ashe in a heartbeat if it came down to it, but after spending months training them and making them overcooked pasta and hearing cantrip yell at the boys for stealing her knives and watching alan run across the base with x on his back and putting blankets over them when they fall asleep on the couch…….. i think he would hesitate for a second at least

[gaphic]

In that post you made about the Homestuck story and its end you said that you believed the ending was the right one. Is that including the epilogues? Because I hadn't thought of the ending of the series that way before, but I would say I agree with you, even if the whole ending ending is a blur in my head. But I don't know what to think about the epilogues.

yaaaay i get to use my favorite screenshot: hussie agreeing with me.jpg!

so titled because this is borderline VERBATIM what i've always said about the epilogues, and then someone showed me this interview and i nearly exploded

no, when i say 'i liked how homestuck ended' i'm not including the epilogues. not because i have any beef with them, but because they are not the end of homestuck! act 7 is.

i love the epilogues deeply, not for their contents (ooooh not for their contents) but because they are the keys to the kingdom. they are a passing of the torch. the author committed suicide and left his entire estate to us. a spiritual public domain in place of a legal one

when i first read candy, before i went online and saw the ensuing shitstorm, i briefly experienced the peaceful contentment of the buddha himself. i was imagining a revitalized tidalwave of fanworks, that the people unsatisfied with act 7 would seize upon this and declare their own canon, and i was energized to do the same, in an absolute lather to write and share my version of post-canon.

remember how calliope is the personification of fandom? and calliope made it possible for the characters to escape the narrative? and calliope is the goddess of art and creation? and post-canon is formatted as fanfiction?

so, thematically speaking, the fandom ushered the characters out of homestuck and into fanfiction. into the fandom's care. 'fandom,' a word which, as we have established, here means 'the deity of art.'

[noctivagant-corvid]

2024 FICS IN REVIEW!!

gorefics have (GORE) written next to their titles.

JRWI

the court sanctioned universe (a modern, powerless au where i gave 3/4 of pd chronic illnesses. you're welcome.)

love me, normally!! - william gets bridal carried by vyncent, gets nervous, confesses, and almost passes out several times. featuring a single line of tidalwave, a heaping helping of awkward gay fluff, and ashe calling will a monsterfucker (1/1)

hey, lover! - a sequel to love me, normally!! where they kiss. that's it. that's the fic. featuring vyncent's tail having a mind of it's own, the phrase oh how the turns have tabled, homophobic dakota, and one demonkicks line (1/1)

lotta true crime! - a chatfic that takes place both before and after love me, normally!! and gives cs!will's backstory. featuring my upp ocs, my chemical romance references, deadwood slang, and breaking into a dunkin donuts (7/?)

canon compliant fics (stuff that could have happened, but we didn't see. mainly gore)

(GORE) the monster tutorial - william wisp plays operation in a gas station bathroom after his stitches come loose. featuring danganronpa blood, pity versus fear, using your home ec class, and a bearing of teeth. (1/1)

false sense of security - cantrip wasn't in the spirit world. maybe she's exactly where they left her. featuring missing teeth, the taste of blood in your mouth, david bell being the worst motherfucker on the planet, and memory loss. (1/1)

(GORE) WAKE UP, PUPPET BOY! - the trickster eats a guy. ashe wakes up afterwards. featuring eyes where they shouldn't be, a bonedeep sort of tired, skin confetti, and longing. (1/1)

loose fics

i think you're worth hanging onto - technically a sequel to WAKE UP, but they can be read seperately. winters family comfort nexus. featuring autistic mark winters, a healthy smattering of tidalwave, cutting your own hair in the bathroom, and much needed hugs. (1/1)

saying something stupid like- a five plus one for tidalwave. five times they pointedly ignore it, one time they don't. featuring the inherent attractiveness of being covered in blood, dog metaphors, the princess bride, and homoerotic fighting. (1/1)

and if dreams can come true (what does that say about nightmares) - the greater rockfall polycule (aka grp) chatfic. co written by me, vic viceroy phoebastria-albatrus, and randy a-cat-in-toffee. sheer crackfic. featuring bloody yuri, everyone being tired of ghostknife's shit, unhinged summer, and forcefem mushrooms. (5/?)

RADIO SILENCE - MY BABY..... completely voice acted podfic that also has a written version!! post-apocalyptic pd in a radio station. featuring stereotypical bisexuality, dead rats as a love language, fruity pebbles, and loserboy william wisp. (4/28)

TMA

The Usher Foundation Archives- the place where i publish statements i write!! speaking of said statements... if you send an ask with info on your tma oc, i'll write a statement abt them!! please make the ask as detailed as possible!! featuring emo teenagers, covid-19, medical malpractice, and the inherent horror of apple stores. (2/?)

[phaideimos]

tidalwave canon in my heart . just trust me on this

[marcomardon]

Mick Rory?

micky mick. also lots of anger. also not enough love. or respect from his team.

My NOTP for them prob mick/caitlin, there’s something there that just feels…. odd. slightly more odd than mick/cisco but that one’s there too. friends sure, if cait or cisco can manage that much forgiveness (they can) but romantic seems like a stretch to me 

My BROTP for themcanarywave season 1 because back then sara was written as fun and not messily inconsistent

My OTP for them coldwavvveeeeee (duh). okay but like, since i have mick as aro-bi and leonard as panro-ace, they have this mis matched unique relationship that hinges on commitment and not the typical relationship escalator.

My second choice pairing for them mick/ray would have been there but they’re just… not interacting as much anymore so i gotta say my newest crackship tidalwave with mark is currently beating them, if only because of recency. mickster is up there too i absolutely adore how mick named the rat axel 

My fluffy pairing for themmick/kara would definitely be a fluffy ship. so much food. 

My angsty pairing for them we don’t need these. we have enough in canon. 

My favorite poly ship for them rogue canary always. always always. or the entire waverider, but that’s always a polyship. 

My weirdest pairing for themi mean if tidalwave isn’t weird enough then mickington. and if you asked me a year ago that mick/felicity, mick/washington, and mick/kara would ever be things i’d consider then…. i’d probably believe it tbh i multiship as hell. 

send me a character!

[princesscatherinearts]

Hey oomf! Idk if someone has asked this before but Was it Tidalwave who first fell in love with starscream? Or was it the other way around?

Oh, Starscream was definitely the one who fell who fell first LMFAO

He tried so hard to not fall for this gentle giant of dinobot, he tried to convince himself that his crush on her was nothing, his emotions screamed at him that it was not worth the trouble of getting close to someone only to lose them during combat.

But alas, he failed miserably

Poor, poor, pathetic bird man

Rip his fragile ego

[princesscatherinearts]

Hoi Cait!! How would Tidalwave fight along side Starscream? Like would she try to protect Starscream or try to show off to her?

Hi! Sorry for the late response!

TidalWave uses her brains over brawn when it comes to combat, it's part of what Starscream likes about her.

With Starscream's arial combat expertise, brilliantly coordinated attack strategies, and cunning ground fighting style, alongside TidalWave's sharp and smart attack patterns thanks to years of experience in the pits of Kaon, they make a deadly unmatched duo that no Autobot dares to face alone.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HI. GOOD EVENIBG. WE SHOULD TALK ABT TIDALWAVE!!!! we should talk about tidalwave. im thinking about them so hard & also pingponging btwn nebulous Them Thoughts & nhw virion (trying so hard 2 work on this damn fic!!!)...... we r in the centrifuge together. idk what it is abt sunday nights what do they put in them. anyway. holds microphone up. tidalwave..............

👉 go here. go in the centrifuge.

GOD. man. I'm like. i don't even know what to SAY about them. I'm just Thinking About Them u know?!?!?!?! like. they're in my mind. whats betta than this. guys bein dudes.

idfk I guess I will talk about nhw bc that's the context I've been thinking abt them the most in lately. god. not 2 talk abt my own fic forever and ever but smth that I'm rlly proud of/rlly hits me is like... the Moment where mark realizes the extent of what happened to him? like. he looks down at his hand and realizes he basically just stabbed himself with claws he didn't realize he had and his hand is too big and is scales and the reason he hasn't been able to stand is because he has like 10 lbs of extra tail weight and I think that all hits him like a truck and just. takes the fight out of him for a second . and that's the ONLY reason he lets tide sit him back down and bandage his hand. he doesn't Really need that, the cuts are shallow and by the time he sits down they've stopped bleeding anyway but he still sits through it bc it gives them both something solid and physical to focus on that isn't the billion other terrible things going on. I never think of tidalwave as being soft that feels too out of character for either of them but like. this is the closest they get to that. to me. Just like a second of quiet where . they're not talking about things they should be talking about but there's some sort of physicality nonetheless.... man.

also bc i love 2 talk about the unethical human experimentation. I love love love love giving tide the entire range of reactions to overlords shit. he gets to see Marie who seems to have basically lost all of her humanity and behaves more like an animal. to Marlon who is unresponsive and shut off and needs to be in basically a glorified fish bowl to function. to Ollie who is completely there mentally and very willing to cooperate and seems to be dealing with everything okay... but he can't communicate because of freak bug mouth. and i think he absorbs all of this information and internalizes it and when he looks at mark he can't help but wonder where he falls on that range . Mark doesn't seem like he's lashing out like a scared animal backed into a corner (at least. no more than usual) but the physical changes are There and Obvious and sometimes when he gets worked up his voice sounds like an alligator hissing (these videos are extremely good btw) so it's like.... what else changed. tide doesn't even KNOW about his vision yet. (<< authors note here like. I do think marks mannerisms will be different. not in huge ways. but the sensitivity to cold affects him wayyy more than he lets on. makes it harder to do things. which is not great for a guy who needs to be doing things constantly or else he'll explode! which makes him irritated by things more easily. I feel like he will have more of a tendency to snap at things whereas before he'd be content to just fume about them in silence. like when u see a snake call coiled up with its head back and u know it could either strike really fast or it's just trying to threaten you. or how like alligators seem like they should be really slow but then they can death roll and lunge and snap their heads around really fast. sorry i need 2 make that man animalistic or ill die)

canon tidalwave i need 2 know desperately how they got tides powers back. i know the most likely thing is that like. the depowering was just a mental block tide had to get over . but in my heart they went on a roadtrip. bizly please. i know you said tidalwave would never get married but that's okay they dont have to. they're already divorced. give me the road trip.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

MACKEREL. b4 i go 2 bed and forget. ik u might have talked abt it? but i would love ur thoughts on mark & tide power shit.... insanely scary 2 me that they can team up now. idea of them fighting at All is insanely scary? can they like Mass Electrocute People now? hello electrical safety!! i think downed power line in a flash flood really does convey what i think of them. but u also r the resident tidalwave guy. so. eyes emoji!!! ok goodnight <33

oh my god..... im the resident tidalwave guy...... that's so much power and I will NOT use it responsibly <3

powerline in a flash flood is EXACTLY how I picture their powers interacting btw. god.. it's so scary on BOTH sides because like. can you imagine the fucking collateral damage when they fight EACH OTHER?????? that's a "holy shit clear the city block or else" kind of power interaction I think. I think Tide instead of making big waves would probably try to condense his power into smaller like... bubbles? projectiles? separate objects so there isn't like. widespread electric charge throuhj all of his water. u know what's also cool. I still haven't made my post abt this because it's literally just me waxing poetic about wetsuits of all things BUT. I think tides costume is built like a Wetsuit But More which means the majority of the outside layer is probably neoprene which is resistant to electric currents. so like. it works out so perfect. he's not immune to being zapped obv bbut I think he can tank one or two direct hits before it becomes a problem . I think there was a really embarrassing fight really early on in their rivalry where mark realized a lot of his gadgets were Not Waterproof so he had to get out of there so fast before Tide short circuited all his gear. lmao skill issue.

TEAM UP FIGHTING THOUGH. OOOOOH BUDDY. THE TEAM ATTACKS PROBABLY GO FUCKING CRAZY. i know it wasn't described tjis way in canon but could you IMAGINE if the way they busted through the barrier in ep 38 was by like... tide making a big water fist and punching the barrier and just as it made contact mark electrified it so it shattered on impact....... man....... no but seriously I bet they're so fucking dangerous together. tide can flood a city block. tide can make individual projectiles out of water. imagine you're gonna get hit with pokemon move bubble beam and then it gets turned into fuckign. thunderbolt halfway through.

i imagine they don't necessarily *need* to be in close range, Mark can probably make one of his little disc things that emits an electric charge that he can throw into the water. but because I'm still on my tidalwave shit. picturing them standing like... back to back surrounded by whatever and tide shields them with this big dome of water and mark puts his hands (big gauntlets) on it to electrify it..... do u see the vision here. ifk man it's like 3am im just making shit up. I think. the first time they kiss tide get static shocked so bad.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

absolutely unrelated to the dreadful little polycule BUT. hey mark was there at deadwood right. like in canon. what do u think post-muse ashe and mark even Look like. i feel like. there's no way they could be normal after that. not that they can in canon but even Less after what ashe knows mark's seen him do. also GOD how does. tidalwave mark coming over to deadwood mark dragging tide with him happen..... one second im still thinking about the dreadful little polycule u know ill always talk ur ear off Abt them!!!

this ask has been cooking in my inbox for WEEKS because thinking about post-muse mark and ashe makes me so fucking sick dude. god. okay. fucking huge ramble about them under the cut

not going to answer the tidalwave thing yet because we NEED 2 discuss what happens to tide instead of depowering him bc that would fucking kill him and we CANNOT kill our dad. i know we mentioned him taking an armsmaster style retirement/thinly veiled house arrest but. thats a conversation for later hehe

ANYWAY. FUCK . POST-MUSE ASHE MY POOR LITTLE BOY. god. this is all going to be hypotheticals and questions honestly. but like. god. thinking abt the scene like. IMMEDIATELY after the trickster lets him go. the trickster lets go of him and ashe just fucking slumps to the ground like a (pun very much intended) puppet with his strings cut. hes not unconscious, hes awake, but the last time he was free and aware he had to watch himself rip william in half! lol! i think that all hits him at once and he just like. falls to his fucking knees!!! and like. mark pov. thats his son his son is free hes had to watch all of this in shock and horror but now ashe is free after so fucking long and all he wants to do is rush forward and hug him (pick him up, bundle him in his arms like he did when ashe first triggered, carry him in the car as they speed out of the quarantine zone hoping nobody is following them-) and i think he gets as far as. falling to his knees next to ashe, but as soon as his hand makes contact i think ashe flinches so hard its almost like the touch hurt him. hes just. staring at his dad with these huge eyes and shallow breaths and hes shaking and crying and its a fucking MESS and mark doesnt know what to DO and the wards are standing in a loose semicircle behind him and ashe does NOT like all of these eyes on him. he knows these are people who love him but he doesnt know ... what the fuck theyre going to think of him. after. all of that.

i think it would be fun (/evil) if for..... a little while after he's free ashe is just CONSTANTLY waiting for the other shoe to drop. he knows trickster has mal now, he believes that was real, and mal can make illusions. so . whats to say this isnt just all. fake. one of these days hes going to wake up covered in blood and gore and new piercings stinging and aching and . ashe winters will just be the empty aftermath of muse again. i cannot IMAGINE a world in which mark would let him out of his sight again... maybe not in the same completely suffocating way he did when ashe was a kid but like. he definitely insists on ashe living with him again. just. theres a sort of nervous hesitance that wasnt there before. mark is so much more Present now that he doesnt have to work for overlord anymore. he's at home. he makes breakfast and dinner and his footsteps are still loud and heavy but theyre cautious and the way he knocks on ashes door is a lot more gentle than it used to be . i just think theyre both like... scared of each other. ashe scared to relax because he thinks that everything could be fake and he doesnt know what anyone really thinks of him anymore (he is so full of shame and guilt over what he did as muse- i dont think anyone would directly Tell Him but i think . he would probably look up the news, just to *know*). and mark is scared because he doesnt know what to do. he doesnt want to make anything worse. he lets the wards and tide visit whenever they want (because he trusts them) because familiar faces and voices might help ashe feel normal again, but hes still. just. so full of paranoia that something else could go wrong.. and all he wants to do is just. put ashe in a vault or something that could keep him safe from anything that could ever hurt him again. but also he knows thats exactly what the trickster was doing to him (and what mark did to him his entire childhood) so he doesnt.

this is . entirely self indulgent and maybe ooc a little bit but i really really REALLY want the first step of them like... healing. is for mark to be doing something maybe in the kitchen or the living room and ashe slowly trudges into the room feet dragging, hair tangled and hanging in his face OBVIOUSLY not touched at all, nervous energy twitchy at everything like he has been for weeks, but instead of sitting himself in the corner or with his back against a wall he just... comes up next to mark and bumps his forehead into his back/arm/whatever. and he doesnt say anything and mark freezes up bc he doesnt want to make any sudden moves and scare him but then after like. a couple long seconds of stillness and silence ashe hugs him. mark asks (voice really quiet) if hes okay, and ashes shakes his head (which is more just like. sideways rocking his forehead without breaking contact) and mark asks if he can hug him back (nod this time) and they just kind of. sink to the floor and theyre crying and hugging and they dont talk about it later but i think thats when it clicks in ashes brain like. huh okay maybe this is real.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

NEW HAVEN WARDS THOUGHTS. ok i have. many. primarily though i would love to hear what fucking. tide's pov of insane tidalwave situation is. or just like. nhw tide thoughts in general!!!! him!! he!!! ok ok gotta go put goats 2 bed brb

AHAAAA HAHA I LOVE YOUUUUUU TIDE LAMBERT. i love you tide lambert. i also am extremely delighted by the fact that you and whiskey both sent me asks at the same time indepenently asking me about tide and mark. awesome little bowl of seeds for me in my inbox. under the cut with you

i haaaaave so many emotions about nhw tide the more i think about him.

i am still so MASSIVELY undecided on the whole clone thing but i do feel so strongly about the endbringer thing i brought up one time. i dont remember the way they are in canon but i have a lot of thoughts about tide and his siblings and their "ages" (magma is the oldest, tide is VERY close second (theyre not twins, but theyre probably only a year or less apart so they are The Oldest as a unit to the others. magma still plays the "im older than you" card to tide though). whirlwind and seismic ARE twins and they have such middle child energy. shockwave is the youngest until elle and has a complex about not being the youngest anymore. elle is the beloved baby girl. trust me i have experience in this this is basically the way my dads side of the family is) . anyway im getting distracted. anyway. tide and magma being the oldest and also being given powers specifically to counter leviathan and behemoth. i have emotions about this !!!! (i actually still dont really know whether behemoth is specifically fire coded but he does sleep in volcanoes so let me dream until worm proves me wrong). so like. even if theyre not clones they still get the whole "i was created for a purpose and i feel like i have the weight of the world on my shoulders because of it and its my only purpose and without it im lost and i dont know what to do with myself"

anyway. thinking about. tidalwave first meeting or like. early stages of meeting or whatever. tide is fucking INTIMIDATING. hes REALLY powerful, and also including that thing i put in my one liveblog the other day about Sere- if tide Wasnt A Hero it could be a goddamn disaster because his powers have the potential to be so fucking scary and bad and dangerous. luckily he is also the worlds biggest softie. tide is marginally less emotionally repressed than mark is, so he's more willing to initiate things.

i constantly think about tide in the context of that one post thats like "i hate when people say it costs nothing to be kind. it costs so much. i mean i'll pay it but damn" (im so mad i cant find that rn but. nhw tide thesis statement) hes not naive!!!!!!!! he knows how awful and shitty the world and the whole cape system is. but hes trying so so so hard to do the right thing and help people. that fucking gets on marks nerves so bad. tide is Too Nice and he hates it. "why cant you be more of an asshole so its easier for me to hate you" etc etc etc.

ANYWAY. early tidalwave. tide looks at wavelength and immediately sees a difference between him and some of the other villains hes fought. theres this almost feral desperation to him. outwardly hes cold and calculating and brutal but like. just a little bit beneath the surface he is. like a cornered animal. he doesnt Want to be doing this, but he Has To. and tide can. really sympathize with that and understand that i think. Mark Also Hates This, He Does Not Like To Be Perceived. i imagine theres a lot of back and forth like "i understand" "how could you possibly understand"

they become sort of like unofficial rivals- tide knows how the hero system works and how fucking nasty things could end up for mark if he fights someone who doesnt care about what happens to a villain, so its always tide seeking him out (fight to maim, not kill. sorry that sentence lives in my mind forever now). tide maybe lets him slip away and escape way easier than he should. because he Gets It. he genuinely does want to help mark, not in an "i can fix him" way, but in more of an "i can see youre in a horrible situation and i dont want to kill you just because of that, so im helping in the small way i can without making things worse for you" way. mark knows hes doing this. they never talk about it. they talk more than people who are supposed to be intent on killing each other should talk. neither of them will ever say it out loud but. the human connection outside of their respective Situations is kind of nice. regardless of how fucked up the whole thing is. ill-advised hookups, unmasking, etc etc all of that. but They Dont Talk About It Ever. next day theyre back to trying to kill each other like nothing happened. tide maybe privately mourns this, but still never says anything about it. tide visits mark in the hospital because no one else will. tide tells mark about ashe because no one else will, even if he knows that will basically shatter everything between them (its not tides fault, why would it be, but mark is a very "shoot the messenger, ask questions later" kind of guy)

anyway. i think about them a lot

[anachronistic-falsehood]

hi whsikey you reblogged that art post from me and talked about how u know those guys now and cant wait to see their canon dynamic so im putting tidalwave in your inbox because im thikinging about them in the back of my mind constantly forever. dont worry im going to say this in the simplest non spoiler terms possible. worlds most divorced single fathers. hero/villain rival dynamic where they both hate each others guts for what the other stands for but also in an emergency they will reluctantly call each other for help because they know nobody else would udnerstand. hey remember that time william was going to interrogate wavelength in the holding cell by using a ghost-shaped image of tide but he saw through it IMMEDIATELY because "i've fought tide dozens of times and hes never spoken to me like that" yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. unwell over them constantly like 24/7. head in hands muffled crying. in one of the rolleds at the very end of pd season 2 bizly explicitly turns to the camera and says "tidalwave will never get married so stop asking me about it" but thats okay they shouldnt be married ever actually. and never have been. they are however extremely divorced.

HONESTLY. the moment wavelength said “tide wouldn’t speak to me like that” i was like “oh these two have a HISTORY.” like i knew there was gonna be some kinda enemies/rivals relationship there. old man yaoi. divorced dads. i fuckin knew it. mac i’m so excited to see them interact for real i want to see the divorced dads dynamic in action more than anything <3