#corvid-zone

[morhido]

>goes to a blog because they make cool sfth stuff

>they also like/reblog stuff from Every Fandom I’m in

>What.

[clancy-and-doohickey]

Congrats on the nuclear family, guys <3

JD: ...what the fuck.

KC: Why the fuck am I the mom?!

JD: Why is the fish woke?

KC: ...would you prefer if she wasn't?

[lliwless]

Ok, listen, I’ve been following your Rolandmonty stuff (and your AUs but that’s not important rn) for a while now, and I was listening to this song called The Devils Backbone and I was like ohhh. Roland bargaining with his god for Monty’s soul through their relationship. Do You See The Vision.

Like, the song starts with establishing the monstrousness/ ungodliness of Monty, I imagine this is sort of the “going to the bathroom and asking god if we can be friends” scene (and yes the song mentions love which it definitely isn’t that early but shhhh it can be a flashback or smth)

It then establishes that Monty is in a tough situation and really had no control over his actions, and again reiterates “don’t take that sinner from me”

Now, by the end of the song it’s a couple of years later and Roland is full-on Bargaining with this deity he’s sort of realised isn’t all that good. He’s saying he can take the punishment for Monty (and yk he would do that shit instead of leaving his cult)

The ending (don’t care if he’s guilty; don’t care if he’s not; he’s good and he’s bad and he’s all that I’ve got) is Roland realising what Monty’s done/gone through is a big gray moral area which his religion’s black-and-white view doesn’t cover, and saying that he wants Monty anyways/ doesn’t think he’s really 100% bad.

If this didn’t make sense it’s cuz your brainworms have infected me and I see them everywhere I go now

oh my fucking god

you make sense i see the vision i can see it so so so clearly and i am Also in fact losing my fucking mind. you get it YOU GET IT YOU UNDERSTAND

genuinely losing my fucking mind over this AHHHHH i can so easily imagine an animatic to this its so perfectly them. maybe i need to start a montyroland playlist because holy shit. that bridge gives me genuine fucking chills it's SO GOOD. the way the last bit is so quiet almost like its under his breath?? terrified to actually say this to his lord, but it's finally something he's voicing out loud after so long of working monty's deal out??? FUCK. you understand and i owe u my life

[morhido]

Character bingo. Clancy and/or Doohickey (someone had to ask)?

listen. listen i am more upset than anyone about the absolute chokehold these two have on me. i fucking hate it here /delighted

this might very genuinely be the most insane i've ever been about a ship lmao in no small part bc they're a ship i've actually written a fic for in the form of spiderjimmy. and they're such a stupid ship i adore them all the more for it. their dynamic is so strong and fits so neatly into what's probably less than a minute of actual onstage time (silly x serious + talks x listens + enemies/rivals to lovers + red and blue + opposite colour palettes (clancy with the blue shirt and red trousers, doohickey with the red shirt and blue trousers)). i also do in fact want to bite them.

[lliwless]

Oh No. Oh Fuck.

I’m never going to stop thinking about Salt and Hound. This is It for me. It’s Over.

They’re so character!!!! Ahghhhhh!!!

Please give us more lore when you feel like it, I’m gonna be insane about them forever <3

EFDSKJGDSGFNDKJGD THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU i am so glad i can inflict them upon Others as well

more lore. i love encouragement. i love enablement. more rambling under the cut (u have made my absolute day thank you thank you thank you)

OK SO hound is living his best life while salt is going thru The Horrors. as far as hound knows, salt may as well be dead; they disappeared in the middle of the night, no note, no anything, and because salt's a very emotionally volatile person who has threatened doing drastic things before, hound has immediately assumed the worst. it's VERY easy to jump to worst-case scenario and blame yourself for everything when you've been made to feel responsible for being, and maintaining, goodness and purity and all that bs in the world

a lot of hound's story "takes place" (ie. i collaborated with others during this and this is the 'era' of him we spoke the most about) at this in-between stage where he doesn't know what happened to salt, and he jsut has to keep living with that uncertainty. u know that grief you feel for lost friendships/relationships/etc where you couldn't get closure, and can't get any closure now, and ur caught between blaming urself for everything vs. forgiving urself and moving on to the next part of ur life? this is hugely hound (nodding emoji).

he even starts a dog rescue shelter in this time, bc in this universe, dogs and animals and non-intelligent life are discriminated against through literal demonisation, being seen as hellspawns and the like. hound finds comfort in comparing himself to them; they're living beings, just like him, and yet they're demonised...why? questioning that and choosing to show compassion to these "unholy" creatures is a huge grounding factor for his internal complex over good vs. evil. They're Literally Just Dogs. and he loves dogs :3 ("hound" is a nickname! same as salt. i literally just dont have other good names for them lol) if they're evil, maybe he doesn't want to punish things for being evil - including himself. maybe being good isn't all it's cracked up to be in the first place. maybe he's just as evil as them, for existing the way he does, and maybe that's ok. idk it's a lot of "inherent sin" and guilt i was trying 2 unpack here lol

salt isn't dead though. salt's been training with his fellow cult members to prepare for doomsday or whatever the fuck that cult was doing i don't remember lol. she's been doing so well that the elders send her alongside the missionaries to her old city, as a guard, to help protect them and ensure nothing goes wrong :)

then she bumps in to hound in the streets. hound doesn't recognise her, scarred and unkempt and devoid of all the life that made her Her, especially with the large cloak hiding her features. salt recognises hound, though, and salt sees how hound isn't suffering, like they are; that he's not only fine, but happy, and living life as if none of it ever mattered. she starts watching him from then on, staying in the shadows, neglecting the mission she was assigned to, and her rage grows stronger as she realises not only has hound also deviated from the path they were both set up for, but is genuinely successful and happy in accepting *less than perfection*

and the grief of what's happened to her overcomes her, alongside the betrayal that their shared suffering of needing to be perfect holy warriors all of the time seemingly meant Nothing to hound in the end. that they can just accept their status disgraced like that, and still be loved and supported by people who don't care. it sickens her anddddd she ends up defecting from the cult and tries to get back at her situationship ex by summoning monsters from beyond

like i kid but also i'm not kidding. collaborative storytelling is great, someone had like some space monstrosity demon character who ended up getting summoned, controlled and gaslit by salt into doing his bidding. JUST so he could get back at hound. he's insane and i love him <3333

something something big confrontation happens, the end of the world almost happens but doesnt bc salt didnt actually want to end the world, they just wanted to one-up hound and see him suffer as much as they have. they start taunting him in front of his broken home and almost-dead friends, trying to cut into old wounds they knew would have made him cry at the academy, and instead of rising to the bait hound jabs him in the fuckin face lmao

the collaborative storytelling bit died off around here but i had vague ideas about this being about redemption and healing: originally salt was supposed to die off after hound graduated from the academy, but i really wanted to write some sort of closure hound would find eventually, even if just for myself. bc of this redemption and slow progressive healing is a huge part of their story. i like to think salt runs off and tries to die on his own somewhere in the woods but hound finds them and, after everything, refuses to let them give up. he was given a second chance by people who proved he could be loved: he wants to find that for salt, too

it's a fun back-and-forth between them from thereon where hound is just so happy to have his best friend back and is looking @ everything with rose-tinted glasses of "look, i healed, u can heal too, and everything will be ok again". meanwhile salt sees the vitriol other people look at her with and is so insanely traumatised from her parents, the academy, the cult, the shit they did to themselves... she insists on living in whatever abandoned building she found to die in, away from society. it's so hard to believe she can be saved, let alone if she's /worthy/ of it

hound looks at him with such hope and admiration though. even after everything he's done. and when it's just him and hound and the trees around them, and hound insists no one's watching them, and they haven't been found by the other cult members, or hound's friends that salt hurt, or anyone else he's hurt over the years... sometimes salt thinks maybe he's okay

AND THEN THEYRE BACK TO BEING CODEPENDENT BUT IN FUN NEW WAYS HELL YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

its actually a lot sweeter than i make it out to be. there's just only so much i can put into a tumblr post when this story has been brewing across multiple discord servers, dms, sketchbooks and abandoned clip studio canvasses over the past year or so LOL. theres so many little details about them and fluff and angst and gdfskjlhgasddf

im so sad i don't have any good ideas on how to fully divorce them from the cookie run universe without just changing the names of things. their story of dismantling their perfectionism, dehumanisation from an early age with expectations that are beyond them, hurting each other because they don't know how else to function, finding ways to redeem themselves on their own terms rather than basing their morals on what they've been told, and offering grace and compassion to forgive the other... accepting theyre not actually perfect but are both deeply deeply flawed, and maybe only the other person can understand and accept this, and maybe that's ok because they can learn to love themselves through each other. and by extension they can be confident to reenter society, as a team. theyre so. theyre sooooo. they mean genuinely the absolute world to me and i CAN'T DO THEM JUSTICE!!!! they just live in my head until i explode

theyre more concepts atp than anything. theyre characters with an established fucked dynamic and themes that drive their story, and instead of taking these things and writing an actual story with them i just chuck them into AUs as inserts and see what happens :PP i've done it with the plagueround they make me sick there too i love them

idk if any of this post was coherent. i got carried away with how much i love them. i have a habit of seeing an empty text box and rambling until i burn out. i feel like i need to collapse and explode i just love my ocs so so much

thank u again for asking abt them and thank u if u read this far<33333 the world needs more ocs

[clancy-and-doohickey]

You guys hated liked my last shitty meme about your life, so have another one!

JD: I really hope this ain't an admission of you attending Ciciccio's funeral. That'd make things real messy.

KC: Eugh, turn off the work brain already.

JD: Never. Look, either way, I think I'm just glad people are happy for us. So, thanks.

KC: I guess? I dunno, when you grow up with five people who always had somethin' to say about every decision you ever made, it can be... kinda weird, havin' your life reacted to like this.

JD: ...(quietly) y'know, we can always stop if you─

KC: No! No, that's─that ain't the issue. Uh. Pfft. Whatever, just─thanks for bein' happy for us, seriously. It's nice. Just might take a bit to get used to, heh. (Looks to Doohickey) Hey, s'going a lot better than my coming out, at least.

JD: (Pats his hand) Not a super high bar there, but I'm glad.