just two characters who wiggled their fingers before their death that they knew was coming
i love them in their hats <3
Happy trans visibility day!!!
[Mabels outfit inspired by my trans Dipper oneshot!]
it’s so much worse. the way ellie tells joel to get up and he tries. the way abby seeps the pointed end of the club into his neck. the way the wlf members don’t even bother knocking ellie out because she is already so emotionally paralyzed by grief she can’t even so much as stand.
but more than anything else it’s crawling to him. all she can muster is crawling with nothing but her arms and cuddling into joel with her whole person. her face buried into the man’s which will forever be the last memory of him. it’s like watching a child seeking the safety of a parent who can’t protect them anymore. this isn’t just the death of a protector. it’s the death of home. joel, to ellie, is safety. safety that she spent the last five years resenting until it was too late. he’s been the one constant in a shattered world. so when he’s dying — or dead — she reverts, not in age but in emotional rawness. she becomes a daughter clinging to a father figure who can’t shield her anymore. and it’s not just fear. it’s complete unmooring. there’s no one left to hold the world up for her. it’s the kind of need that children have when everything feels too big, too loud, too dangerous. she needs to be held. but there’s no one to hold her, so she becomes the one doing the holding, even if he can’t respond. and he’ll never respond.
in one of ellie’s most harrowing moments in life joel was there to cling on to her. in yet another, she clings to him. but he’ll never cling back again.
Don't mind me, I just thought about Ford coming back from 30 years of non-stop survival mode, fresh out of a life-or-death situation with Bill and fuming with rage seeing his brother again... and yet not being able to hide his fondness as he learns he has a grandniece and a grandnephew, looking at them with the softest eyes this broken man could muster
Bonus: Ford looking at Mabel and Dipper individually
Phil asking "are we the yaoi" like his whole career wasn't built on being the yaoi 🙄