Hiya!

Margie | she/her | AIO

[boneofrath54]

When everything except his love for you is a lie:

[odyssey-owl]

[odyssey-owl]

Everyone in this crummy little town hates me.

I put on a face

I wave goodbye

I get on the bus

and in the window my mind paints faces

of all the good people who didn’t forgive.

In the window

in the passing trees and river

I paint them with the blurring colors.

The blueberry bushes with summer-green leaves

seem to me overalls and a button-up shirt.

Glasses, a wooden porch, the door cracked open,

an old man’s voice through clenched teeth

and a grudge held closer than a cup of hot coffee.

I look down.

The stark white-black-white of the pavement streaks

bring to mind an offer of forgiveness – a conditional offer –

a business offer dressed up in a black vest and a white shirt –

the guy never lightens up, says he’ll never be more than my acquaintance.

And he tries not to call me names

but he looks at me with suspicious eyes

like he knows I’m a thief.

I’m a thief,

but I remember the girl

who fills up my heart

like a page in the journalist’s notebook

with notes in the margins and upside-down.

And when I told her I was sorry she cried

and the ink stained all over.

She was scared, but so much braver than me –

she offered her forgiveness like a smile –

she waved goodbye and watched me leave.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[odyssey-owl]

thinking of how richard and butch really are so similar. antiheros who manipulated friends into getting what they wanted, used to be on blackgaard's side, spied for a while but then ended up getting hurt because of it... richard would be a good mentor to butch i think

[odyssey-owl]

forgiveness takes time.

[odyssey-owl]

u know what we gettin there

[odyssey-owl]

she's on a date with mitch but i'll get back to u when i can draw him

[odyssey-owl]

richard and monica's dynamic....hmmmm...

[asterdeer]

chris: and now, [x character]'s adventure in odyssey!

any given character's adventure: low- to medium-stakes moral dilemma, interpersonal conflict that resolves peacefully, frequently a source of comedy, ends with a benign bible verse

chris: and now, richard maxwell's adventure in odyssey!

richard's adventure: a humiliation circuit of the entire town where no fewer than three separate characters insult him to his face and he agrees with them before he leaves and stays gone for four years

[asterdeer]

can't imagine being jason whittaker hearing about lucy's kidnapping and subsequent rescue by some random you don't know and when you ask about him connie just says "he used to be on the bad side but then he had a change of heart." thanks that clarifies NOTHING.

[odyssey-owl]

Also while I'm falling down the rabbit hole of casting AIO characters as people from Disney animated movies

Doesn't he look almost exactly like Arthur Dent?

(Plus the fact that he works as a spokesman for a famous technology corporation without knowing it was evil with plans to mind control people)

[odyssey-owl]

she kinda gives monica stone too

[odyssey-owl]

i will never get over them modeling richard after nathan. never.

[browneyedbrunettebaby]

wait. obsessed with this image

[odyssey-owl]

been thinking about the "arem was supposed to be richard" arc so much recently bc it really would've hit so hard. like, connie kept saying throughout the early novacom era "wow I sure hope mitch isn't manipulating me and only using me to get information" as if she didn't see the EXACT SAME THING happen between lucy and richard.

[odyssey-owl]

AU where Connie accepted the job at Blackgaard's Castle

[odyssey-owl]

In my Mitch era