for the 2k milestone celebration, could you make a dark cs aesthetic? but not with them as dark ones, just with them as people who have done dark things and live with the consequences- together. I'm thinking mostly darker colors, focused on mood through body language and perhaps quotes? I don't know if this makes sense to you, but the aural component I'm hearing as part of the aesthetic is just radio static. (on anon but sending on behalf of luscipher- my cs sideblog- in case you had questions!)
@luscipher
Forgive me if I go on a bit of a rant here. I don’t wanna sound too apologetic or like I’m beating myself up just to get validation, but I honestly don’t know what happened there lol
Basically this is one of my favorite Captain Swan concepts EVER, so when you sent this I was so pumped and couldn’t wait to make it, because lbr, I am a sucker for dark cs.
Then I started collecting pictures and I didn’t even know where to start.
So I started thinking about season 2B (mainly how I despise it because of the lack of Captain Swan and heavy presence of The Bagel interferring with Emma’s life), and I just found myself wondering: what if that arc went in a whole 'nother direction?
Like... what if Hook had succeeded in killing Rumplestiltskin? And most of all, what if it was Emma, instead of Snow, who blew the candle to kill Cora?
Long story short, I turned your aesthetic into a canon divergent AU: Killian has finally skinned his crocodile, and Emma, in attempt to fulfil her duty as the town’s Savior, has done something she’d never thought she would be capable of - killing another human being. We’ve seen Snow cope with murdering Cora, but what would have Emma done had she been in her place?
I don’t know if it sounds OOC, but I thought about her not being able to be around her parents or Henry after what she’d done, a murderer among heroes. And in my imagination, she turned to the other person in town who would’ve understood her. (And ofc stuff would happen because I’m very fond of cs + sexual tension)
tl;dr this is probably nothing like you would’ve imagined it to be, and all this rambling is to a) try at least to explain where I was going with that edit and b) tell you that if you thought of something different, I’m always here for more dark cs. This was good practice, tbh - even though I’m still unsure about the result - but if you feel like getting another, hit me up because I’ll do it!
