#devon severance

[n0atmilk]

[ettle]

Imagine you're Devon. You're a new mother, your husband is a self absorbed writer whose entire friend group are artsy self-proclaimed intellectuals trying to seem smart to each other, your brother is a nonfunctional alcoholic, and your sister in law burned to death in her own car two years ago. The one woman you trusted turned out to be a stalker leading a double life. You made a friend, but she acts like she doesn't know you. You're running around managing all of this and your brother tells you his wife's death didn't affect you and that it wouldn't affect him if your husband died. Speaking of the husband, he's just sold out his embarrassing but seemingly well meaning beliefs for money, abandoning the one principle you thought he had. It wasn't like this before Gemma died, right? Right?

But then you see the light at the end of the tunnel. Gemma might be alive! Maybe all this can be... Okay. Maybe everything can be okay. Your brother is opening up to you again.

And then one day he collapses, and you realize he hasn't opened up to you at all. He closed you off in all the ways that matter, and trusted a total stranger to tamper with his brain.

You are alone. You have nobody to turn to.

Except a number on your phone with a false name.

[radioactive-yuri]

i might be forced to write a whole fic about it but devon scout, the woman that you are. can you imagine the situation she's in. above all else, she wants to protect her brother. she always has. from the world, and from himself. but now, she's presented with the fact that her brother is two people, and those two people's wants are at complete odds. the way she looks at mark s, talks to mark s, it's clear that she sees him as a version of her brother. not as a new person entirely, but also not as just a part of him. maybe she even sees him as a younger version of outie mark, a sort of clumsy, awkward, scared version of him, probably the way mark was as a teenager. and maybe, just like back then, devon wants to be his protector. the world is scary and confusing, people are mean and menacing, her baby brother needs her help. so, of course she helps. without question. without hesitation.

and now, she has to convince that innocent, sweet boy to willingly walk to his own death just to help her actual brother. all of this is so complicated, so confusing, she doesn't even understand the logistics of it, but she tries to compromise. maybe the two versions of her brother can work together. maybe they can even become one. but no, it's not that simple, of course it's not. and they take their turns looking at her with those same exact doe eyes, in different shades: the pleading, hopeful, desperate, scared eyes of mark s, and the tearful, exhausted, worn out eyes of mark scout.

her brother is two people, and one of them has to take over the other. maybe she's glad that in the end, the decision wasn't hers.

[fenedh1s-lasa]

doodled my favorite severance ladies <3

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

desperately want to know what devon and harmony did downstairs in the birthing cabin while outie mark and innie mark were talking to each other. was it awkward silence? awkward conversation? what did they talk about? did the topic of lactation fraud come up?

[chartreusechinchillas]

rewatching severance and that part in s1e1 when mark tells devon he won’t stay at her place because her house “smells like pregnancy” hits SO DIFFERENT AFTER S2E7 😭 like literally shut up jumping out my window

[gideonthe9]

just found out that devon's actress is married to a woman, life is insanely good rn

[ajaystillblue]

Did my little web weaving too hard and this happened :’| I love the Scout siblings so much ok