FablexDreams

Lover of all things video games, cats, and Taylor Swift.

[naeviaas]

I love the atmosphere of rdr1 like the emptiness of the desert, where everyone and everything is askew, combined with a soundtrack that makes it feel like there's something simmering under the surface which can erupt into violence at any time. Which speaks to the dying wild west but also to john as a character. And the fact it always seems to be night time.

[fablexdreams]

I know there's so much we don't know about Reaver, and there's probably far more important and bigger things that should be made priority, should we ever learn more about our boy, but I've always wondered...which side of his family carried the heroic blood? His mother? His father? Both?

Did they even know? Was it dormant in them? When did Reaver know? What age? How did he find out? How scared was he, and his family, when they realized exactly why he is the way he is?

If he had siblings, like I headcanon he did, did they have any hero abilities? Or were they like Rose and Logan?

I personally always just figured that he deduced it on his own from his constantly growing abilities, and maybe everyone just turned a blind eye out of respect and maybe even love, but like...I'm sure there was a lot of fear involved, especially with Albion being...the way Albion was about Heros around the time Reaver was growing up. I'm sure accelerated healing and God-like eyesight and aim aren't very easy things to hide in such a small village like Oakvale.

Much to think about.

[tommy-288]

Otp brainrot

[thisisntreaver]

I know a lot of people like the idea of Rose going down the adventurer path if she had lived, but I fully believe a living Rose would be a writer.

One of the only outlets in her life when she dies is writing. She doesn't let anything stop her, she searches for good coals, she'll wait until Sparrow is sleeping or occupied to write, she writes over her own drawings, she keeps her journal beside her bed, she makes up stories to keep her sibling entertained, Rose is a writer.

While the rest of her life she is fighting and clawing for survival, working to keep not only herself but Sparrow alive, her needs and wants are second to theirs. The only real thing she keeps, the only thing she has that isn't violently ripped from her.

I can see an adult Rose, occasionally maybe, leaving to adventure, maybe to learn new things for her stories, but with how dangerous Albion is, and how much shes gone through as a child, her being able to put all her energy into the one thing that has always been freeing for her? It would be the ultimate freedom. Less worries, easier access to materials, no more writing in the dark, or over things she already made.

Between the two of them, I think Sparrow is the adventurer in any timeline, and Rose the the creative that needed room to grow.

And instead, she snipped.

[tommy-288]

Idk if yall will fuck with these but ima post them anyway

[thisisntreaver]

Do you ever think of little Rose, not able to grief the loss of her parents because someone had to take care of Sparrow? Her parents are gone, and if you believe the perfect world to have an inkling a truth they were murdered violenly, and she has no other adults or support system in her life. All she has is what her parents taught her and a freshly traumatized little sibling who can't speak for themselves. Sparrow quickly learns to view Rose as a parent, as their only "adult" and the people of Old Town leave her to her own devices in making her shelter and providing for her sibling as if she is on. She is so busy, so needed by Sparrow for whom she likely does a lot of communicating, who she is being forced by circumstances to raise, in what world could she have time to mourn?

Time to be a child who misses her mothers singing as she brushes her hair, or who thinks of her father laughing and playing with her and her sibling chasing them through the fields when they're meant to work. She can't spend her nights weeping that theres no one to hold her, and no dinner waiting when she's hungry.

Shes not got the time for her feelings to get in the way of her taking care of Sparrow. She'll have to wait to mourn until Sparrow is more grown, or someone pities them and takes them in.

She doesn't live to get the chance.

[terrymelody]

I understand Reaver cuz I’m missing Sparrow like a mf right now

[heartofsparrow]

more fable characters + textposts, my liege

[heartofsparrow]

a Big Batch of Fable Characters + Textposts

[tommy-288]

[terrymelody]

Hey ho! Another Spreaver headcanon. The First words Sparrow said to Reaver was after he’d been downed by one of Lucien’s men in the rear passage. And it was ‘thought you said you never missed’ in response to his ‘and incidentally, I never miss’ earlier

[tommy-288]

More memes for like… seven people

[terrymelody]

Headcanon I’ve had so long I genuinely forgot it wasn’t canon. Reaver always has a spot reserved in the crucible considering he’s the pirate king, and he was actually there the year Sparrow competed.

[emmcarstairs]

Cooper was always going to betray her if it meant him finding his family after spending 200 years searching for them. But the guilt he felt while doing it, the insistence on her understanding why, the unsaid plea for forgiveness, the drinking, that wasn’t part of his plan.

[thisisntreaver]

Really fuckrd up rn about how fable 3 is the only on of the main three games where the player character has no goal of reuniting with their sibling in some way.

The hero of oakvale has no idea that Theresa's alive but also no idea if shes dead, unlike with Brom he doesn't see her body, it lets him live with the hope that she's still out there, and she is, and while their reunion is short, Theresa being drawn to do other things, our hero had the comfort that she is alive, able to sufficiently take care of herseld, and she has an idea of how to find him.

Sparrow wants to avenge Rose, to take Luciens life in a way that is more intentional than his taking of their sisters was. They think getting revenge will sooth the ache in them, to bring them closer to who they used to be before they lost the only person they had that cared. And then, at the end, they are given a moment, a single moment of hope that they're going to get their sister back, just to have it snatched away as quickly as it's given. Sparrow never reunites with their sister, they never really thought they could, but they had hoped, and are left with the hollowness that comes with it that hope being cut from them.

But the Hero of Brightwall? They give up on Logan, and are never really shown to want him back. They consider their relationship with him ever fractured after what happens with Elliot/Elise, and everyone else tells them he is a lost cause, and they don't refute it. They show no desire to bring their brother back to who he used to be, perhaps they don't even remember that version anymore, they spare his life, but spend no time with him, they don't forgive him, they don't resist when he says he's going to leave Albion. They know now that Logan was put in an impossible postion, but that part of them, the part that's still angry with him, the part that heard all throughout their journey how Logan is an insult to their parents memory, a blemish on their lineage, entirely unforgivable, wins out above any part or them that still loves their big brother and wishes to keep him close.

Fable 3 is the final fracturing of a family that for generations has been fighting to stay together, even through death, and we never get to see them come back together.

[heartofsparrow]

more fable characters + textposts. Apologies

[youcantdateosmosisjones]

reaver is the "go your own way" to sparrow's "silver spring"