Real Winners Quit

She/They/It, fandom blog, call me jay, trans rights are human rights. Multi fandom (jrwi, d20, trafficblr crimsonblr etc)

[jaywalkinggg]

Obligatory blog directory post

#Jay Cheeps: rambling, unorganised thoughts

#Jay Observes: analysis, theories, writing/thoughts I put effort into

#Jay Caws: shitposts

Currently posting: vampires smp (primarily v!shubble), jrwi (upp my beloveds)

[jazforthesoul]

aurora primrose haters dont let the door hit u on the way out!! sorry if u think she was "lazily written into the story" i think the real issue you have is that you dont like change

[jaywalkinggg]

Ok quickly throwing my hat into the chip vs jay ‘champion of death conflict’ arc predictions ring

First off, going off public episode knowledge (up to 128) we know a lot of jay’s ongoing character arc has been about her own sense of morals and justice, -what she is and isn’t willing to tolerate from the people she loves- which has at this point lead to her pretty much disowning herself and giving up the Ferin name (which is actively fucking up her sense of self, with how much she still loves her family and her sense of family pride)

We Also know that she has very much clocked on to Chip’s lying about the names Calypso gave him, and he knows she knows (they both know that Jay is very observant, she’s also probably figured out at least a few of her direct family members are on the list, but this isn’t about that).

Meanwhile a part of Chip’s arc has been about learning not to lie to his friends, which he has gotten a lot better at. He also has a history of keeping secrets when he feels like mentioning them wouldn’t help a situation only to bring it up later (which he has done many times in the undersea arc)

Anyway case in point I don’t think Chip is actually planning to keep the secret about the names for that long, and I think Jay knows that, which (among many other reasons, given the… whole situation right now) is the reason she hasn’t cornered him somewhere and strong armed him into talking about it, which she absolutely would if she thought she needed to. (Plus he wouldn’t just go for killing her family without telling her)

Short conclusion: while a conflict between them on a moral standpoint absolutely will be a thing, i don’t think it’ll be a big team splitting break up level problem

Long conclusion? Hoo boy

(Ep 129 spoilers below)

So at the end of ep 129 Chibo kills Odelath, (rest in piss old man) and cries about it because he doesn’t actually like killing people, despite his champion of death title

Jay has a little moment after, looking at Chip, wondering if this the first of many, if this is his first step on a road she can’t pull him back from. Which fucking sucks for her, given her lifetime of watching the people she loves being sucked into the navy, either never coming back or never coming back the same.

Anyway my Real hypothesis of this post is that most of the ‘jay, chip, and conflicting morals’ arc isn’t going to be about a fight between them at all (although it Will Happen, in some way or another) but instead it’ll be about jay’s fight with her morals, her family, and how much of herself she’s willing to betray to stay with the people she loves.

All this to say, Jay arc soon, another jolo ep included (where she faces both herself And whatever’s going on with the Ferin bloodline powers)

*I am dragged into the asylum for delusions*

[jaywalkinggg]

(Plot non relevant spoilers to ep 127 of riptide below)

In universe fnc rpf (real pirate fiction) cannonized… one step closer to my riptide pirate polycule ship war agenda

[artboyboogie]

hug yer captain

[jaywalkinggg]

I find it interesting how little we know about Lunadeyis and Aster, like, all we know of them is from the perspective of their worshippers and even then all the information is very vague. Like in a world where these gods are pretty much known to exist it’s strange how little they seem to interact with Mana at all. Like we know they give powers to certain people (the ferins, Gillion), and that their respective churches seem pretty sure of certain things about them (they created the world, lunadeyis split the over and undersea etc) but we have no actual sources for that information.

Faye seems to think that the scary sun dreams aren’t just trials but attempts at communication from Aster, and while I think that she may be right about that (although we don’t know if that’s just an assumption on her part or if there’s actually any proof of that) that begs the question Why the FUCK does she need to resort to ominous dreams that might kill you instead of, idk, direct communication through any means an all powerful goddess should be capable of.

And the leviathans seem to function as ‘lesser gods’ (although they seem to just be unfathomably powerful/beings that have reached a godlike state instead of being immortal all powerful beings like Lunadeyis and Aster seem to be) who communicate Lunadeyis’s will (although I may be wrong in this interpretation the lore is just so vague). Even then there’s the same problem, why does she need to interact with the undersea through a pantheon of semi-gods when she could just interact with them herself. And then we have Gillion mentioning he’s never actually communicated with her in any way, even though he draws his power as the chosen one from her and the leviathans, and we know he has some sort of magical connection to her.

Anyway I have a few theories as to why the Goddesses seem incapable of directly interacting with Mana (they are eldritch horrors who can’t directly communicate in ways mortals can understand, they don’t really gaf, they are dead gods with only vestiges of their power remaining, they’ve been gone for aeons rain world style etc) but there’s no evidence for any theories WHICH IS ITSELF SUSPICIOUS.

I just want to know why the gods of this world, who should be so important with how they’re involved with almost every aspect of the story, seem entirely absent. Grizzlyplays drop your god lore right now I’m warning yuo

[waffleswithslime]

my favorite activity on jrwi release days is refreshing the tag and watching everyone lose their minds because the new episode is late

[jaywalkinggg]

(Riptide 125 spoilers)

Welcome to the chosen one club Chip! I know you said no but unfortunately it is not a choice, even when they say it is 🖤

[jaywalkinggg]

(Riptide 124 spoilers)

Wow I can’t believe Gill got his limb cut off before Jay

[jaywalkinggg]

The thing about William Wisp is that not only is he deeply weird in all social situations, he is also Unsettling and Strange

any upp or pd character: yknow will may be kind of a weird guy but he’s a really good friend, we’ve been through a lot together and his presence really comforts me :)

william wisp, standing behind them emanating an ominous and dark aura: 👁️👁️

[jaywalkinggg]

Shout out to Jrwi for giving us the funniest way to reveal one of your main characters has brain damage

[jaywalkinggg]

(Riptide 123 vague spoilers below)

I’m going to preface this by saying I like elder Celeste as a character a lot, I find her really interesting and I hope we see more of her after the end of the undersea arc. That being said

Stop excusing her abuse of Gillion

(And yes I’m calling it abuse, both physical and emotional, because it’s explicitly clear that she was involved very heavily in his training, and also we saw her verbally berate him in odelath’s memories do not deny this in the comments)

No, she does not ‘view him like a son’, No, there is no ‘tough love’ in her treatment of him. She was abusive towards him, that’s very clear from what we know about her and saw in odelath’s memory of her training Gillion. And while I do think this was out of genuine desire to do the best she could to train him to protect the undersea, thinking you’re in the right doesn’t mean you actually are.

I think a lot of her behaviour stems from the core problems we see a lot in the undersea government (and thus the undersea in general), over-reliance on tradition, refusal to recognise wrongdoings or allow change, seclusion from the oversea, and also lack of child labor laws what the fuck is that about?

Anyway, I do think Celeste is really cool, I just wish we could admit that without trying to downplay the shit she very much Did.

[reunmint]

jay ferin moment… painting practice

[wings-of-flying]

while i'm sharing screenshots, have my collection of faces charlie pulled during the finn tidestrider scenes in 120

he was fighting for his life

[jaywalkinggg]

Albatrio knight4knight4knight qpr btw

[jaywalkinggg]

Albatrio are so openly insane/intense about each other that a large amount of people they know/who know of them assume they are in a relationship (they aren’t), including several members of their own crew.

This is not helped by the fact that they openly sleep in the same bed.

[wings-of-flying]

we've got the full sky now btw. jay's the sun, gill's the moon, aurora's the stars, and chip's the abyss between them all