#about lionel

[fromgallowsandgraves]

Lionel loves his children and clearly cares about other kids too, but he's canonically not great with them and I find that hilarious.

[shadowsarise]

Lionel Verney has an incredibly strong grasp on sanity. In his main timeline, at least, this is not a benefit.

[shadowsarise]

Before Lionel's almost unheard of recovery from the plague, his family spent several hours believing he was dead. If he was still breathing during that time, they certainly couldn't tell.

[fromgallowsandgraves]

Both Idris and Adrian have significantly better instincts than Lionel does for when one of the children is actually in danger. All three of his sons either die or start showing symptoms of a fatal illness while he's away, and he still claims he didn't immediately realize anything was wrong when it's the third time and the two surviving children don't meet Lionel and Adrian at the door.

And just in general: as much as Lionel does love his children and is trying his best, both Idris and Adrian seem to be far better with kids than he is.

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

Fandom: Criminal Minds + FC: Oliver Stark!!

Lionel Walsh

Hand on the bible and gun to his head, Lionel Walsh had no idea what he might have done to become targeted by a spree killer. He was a decent guy, he liked to think: he tipped well, held the door, and seemed to make friends wherever he went. But in his last year of university, Agent Gideon shows up in his dorm talking about injustice collectors, proxy killings around campus, and a girl he was no longer even dating. And a classmate who blamed Lionel for his then-girlfriend rejecting him, and had been building up to Lionel's death by killing other students who reminded him of Lionel.

Almost two years later, the BAU is back on his doorstep. This time with no Agent Gideon and no killer, but with a job offer. An opportunity to use his psychology degree and ongoing criminal psychology masters to help people the same way the BAU once helped him.

Of course, he says yes.

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"I would have given worlds to have embraced him; I dared not—Half in exhaustion, half voluntarily, I threw myself at my length on the ground— dare I disclose the truth to the gentle offspring of solitude? I did so, that I might kiss the dear and sacred earth he trod." -- from Mary Shelley's The Last Man

[According to the text, a crowd is already staring at this point. Lionel Verney, you are not subtle.]

[shadowsarise]

Once he becomes an adult, Lionel Verney is never really able to cry without shame, even when mourning the deaths of his children.

That is, until the skies themselves seem to weep after the loss of Clara and Adrian. Then, and only then, does he decide there's no true shame in tears.

[shadowsarise]

I felt, while I disdained, the choaking tears—I rushed into the depths of the forest. O death and change, rulers of our life, where are ye, that I may grapple with you!

Lionel Verney stop running off into the nature more or less trying to fight gods challenge