Owlslover - Gray

A Treasure Plant AU Ive been working on!

In this AU, Varian finds his mother’s map after their home is ransacked. Eugene and Lance take on the role of Dr Doppler and accompany Varian to protect him. They board Captain Rapunzel’s ship and meet her Navigation Officer Nuru. Here Donella is the ship’s Surgeon and Hugo the recently promoted Cook.

Now Varian is taking his place as cabin boy, Hugo is annoyed and frustrated as he is left out of Donella’s Plans to show Varian the ropes and keep him from learning any of their secrets.

Shes such a freak

light "if someone tries to read my diary i will set my drawer on fire" yagami

green yuri and varigo mentioned!! everybody cheer

since varigo's new pair name is new memories, may i present petition to call:

Nuru & Yong's dynamic as popstar—because fireworks pop in the sky and they look like bursting stars

Yong & Hugo's dynamic as pipe bomb—pipe because it's a common tool in mechanical engineering structures and bomb cuz pyrotechnic explosives

Hugo & Nuru's dynamic as team diva—because they both are let's be real, need i say more?

Nuru & Varian's dynamic as crescent star—because we can all agree that Varian very much screams moon-coded given what we know surrounding his character in the show and Nuru as very much star-coded cuz she's iconic, a dreamer, an astronomer and all yes?

Varian & Yong's dynamic as team dynamite—because in order to create one, it includes a mixture of certain chemicals and powder

So, I just rewatched the pilot for The Gaslight District and a thought occurred to me. During Ken's confrontation with Temperance, the audience is specifically led to believe that the secret the Virtue is keeping for Ken directly relates to Mel and her being the prophesied human, but I don't think it actually is. Like, obviously there is some connection there, but there are signs throughout the episode of Ken's ongoing animosity to the Virtues that feels to me like it's more than just him being protective of Mel. Obviously, that could be chalked up to his (possible) torture at their hands in the Inferno, but then why would they intentionally make the scene so weighty and mysterious. Mel's secret is known to the audience basically right off the bat, so there's clearly more to what's going on and I think I might have figured out what. I think...and stick with me here...Ken IS a Virtue. Sort of. There're those weird flashes of color whenever he gets uncontrollably angry, where half of his brain is highlighted. That's got to be more than just an aesthetic choice, right? Why the mystery of it all if it's not important. So, my theory is, that the version of Ken the Butcher we see in the Inferno, is not fully him. Not yet at least. I think that a Virtue replace half of the Butcher's brain with its own. It makes a certain amount of sense; the Virtues are basically just brains after all. Now, why would a Virtue do this, why would one of the seeming leaders of Paradise Lost physically bond themselves to the body of a rotling, which they all seemingly have nothing but disdain for? I think it has something to do with the rotling's immortality. The Virtues don't appear to be immortal in the same way, not based on what we've seen so far at least. I also think the reason might have something to do with which Virtue Ken might have gotten his half-brain from. I think it was Kindness. Not only is it the one that fits most closely with the name Ken, but I think it really fits with his personality too. You can tell how much he cares about people; not just Mel, but everyone. Everyone except the Virtues that is. It also sort of works narratively. All of the other heavenly virtues could easily be corrupted into concepts related to purity, duty or other sort of authoritarian ideals, but you can't really do that with true kindness. It seems pretty obvious to me that whatever the relationship between the Virtues and the rotlings is, it is clearly the Virtues who hold most of the power. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be responsible for the apocalypse of the distant past (there is some obvious biblical symbolism there with the flood and the whale), or even the Black Hand and the rotling's horrific immortality. I imagine the supposed embodiment of kindness itself would have a hard time going along with things at that point, especially if the Virtues were then planning on wiping all of the rotlings out. It might even drive them to take drastic action. I think there's something poetic about the idea that Kindness is engaging in such cruelty as we see Ken perpetrate in the show in order to prevent something even worse from happening. I also definitely think that Temperance was the one who performed the surgery, hence why they knew the truth of everything. The butcher's knife, possibly the entire butcher persona, is there to explain away the headwound that would never really heal on a rotling body. Speaking of bodies, I think that what's left of the original Kindness, the other half of their brain and what not, is what is inside the pseudo-egg thing inside of the laboratory that Temperance is seemingly keeping alive for some reason. Thoughts?

*Small edit because I was wrong about the knife being there in the flashback scene

Tried to draw Donella in my style cuz my mommy issues told me to do so

Just thinking about Varian inheriting his evil laugh and psychotic expressions from his mother and giving both Quirin and Donnie some fucked up flashbacks about Ulla