I know that the artist is a piece of shit but thoughts on "Runs In The Family" for...hm I'm leaning more towards slasher jules, its not perfect one to one but it made me think about him
i'm assuming we're talking about the amanda palmer song (not the hooisers song tho i enjoy that too) and while she is an absolute menace, that song and 'my alcoholic friends' are two guilty pleasures of mine
100% its got his vibe!!! ploppin it on the playlist
You haven't talked about slasher jules on your blog yet change that this is a threat!!! Tell the world about his habits, his motivations, how he justifies taking lives to himself
aight lets do this shit!!!!
Jules Valentin AKA "The Hiker Hunter"
The first time Jules killed someone, it was an accident, really. He'd just broken up with Kelly Mitchell- it was high school and Jules had just figured out something about himself- he was definitely not straight. He wasn't going to lead her on, that was just not the kind of person he was, so he took her out to get some coffee and was straight up with her. She was upset, understandably, but she seemed pretty understanding about his whole self discovery.
At least that was what he thought- then her brothers showed up at the old covered bridge. It was one of Jules' favorite places to paint. They jumped him, spitting at him for breaking their sister's heart. The passive part of Jules that just brushed shitty people off suddenly wasn't there anymore. Maybe it was the slurs being thrown his way, maybe it was the way his head hit the asphalt when they shoved him, but he was suddenly filled with rage.
To this day, Jules doesn't remember what happened. He totally blacked out mentally, only coming to with the intense smell of copper and the soft gurgles coming from beneath his boot.
There was something utterly beautiful about those broken bodies on the side of the road. No one would ever find them here, this road had long been abandoned by anyone other than Jules. As he watched their blood pool into the grass beneath, he suddenly found himself touching the quickly cooling liquid, dragging his fingertips across his watercolor paper. It was gorgeous.
Jules kills for his art, simply put. He also kills for other reasons beyond his own knowledge, but he only really cares about getting materials from his own art. He has learned to make his own paints, blending bonemeal, blood, even using dehydrated organs from time to time to create pigments for his works. It just so happens that the people he kills usually piss him off.
He's an incredibly docile man until something irks him- injustices like the one he faced in high school, or just all around bigotry bullshit. He takes out the trash and makes gorgeous art out of them- one man's trash is another man's treasure, right?
He justifies his acts easily- usually he people he kills are shitty anyway, who would miss them? In his eyes, they're nothing but a blemish on the planet and are better off fertilizing the earth. At least then they'd have a purpose.
Jules, just like in his regular setting, likes to paint ugly and abandoned buildings, so he's constantly traveling. Because of this, he's got a few different nicknames depending on the area. "The hiker hunter" because of his tendency to kill campers in the woods, "The trespass spree killer" because it's theorized that he views people as trespassing on his space, and so on.
He leaves his victims mutilated since he harvests them for supplies, so a few reports propose the theory that he's a cannibal. He's gotten fairly cocky now, leaving little finger paintings behind with his corpses. Of course he wears gloves so there's no way they'll get prints off of them but... He just thinks it's fun.
Here's a playlist I started to put together for him.
What would it be like dating slasher Jules *glam but in a trenchcoat and sunglasses*
slasher jules is different from regular jules in that he's a little more... smart? i guess? he's also not as constantly happy go lucky, he's angrier. hes more toned down and serious. but here u go (warning for a lil bit o gore)
you run into each other deep in the woods, on the edge of a softly babbling river. he stops and stares at you for a long moment as you try to piece together what the hell is happening. he's wearing his mask and his hands are covered with what looks like blood, he's crouching before a canvas, working on a piece of artwork, of the river it seems.
you compliment his art which leads him to slowly open up to you. sometimes he comes back to this area just to wait on you to arrive
every once in a while turns into a daily occurrence. he likes talking to you, he feels less angry with you there. all of the rage against this fucked up world fades into nothingness.
you feel oddly safe with him. sure you're pretty sure that was blood the first time you met, but it could've just been paints. you never asked him about it.
one evening you are heading into the woods to meet with him and you hear a sound, an awful, gut wrenching cracking sound, like the breaking of bones through flesh. initially you woried he was in trouble, but as you hurry to your special spot, you see jules standing over what clearly was once a man, now unrecognizable. his face was completely caved in and viscera splattered everywhere. jules was panting, shoulders and chest heaving violently as he just stared at the mess he'd made
he wasn't usually territorial, but this fucker came to your spot and was fucking around. that shit was unacceptable.
then he heard you take a step, straightening up rapidly and looking at you. blood and bits of tissue clung to his face from the violence, he dropped the bat he'd been holding
"well uh. shit. weren't supposed to see that."
needless to say if you accepted jules after that (which obvi this ask implies you do), he'd be fiercely protective of you. he has nothing to his name, not as far as people he cares about. his emotions are a lot more detached so he doesn't really... socialize a lot. he loses himself in his art.
but he likes just being near you, even if you aren't talking.
sometimes it seems like he's deep in thought when he suddenly goes to hold you, but you can't be sure.
you definitely have to make sure to get him to eat- sometimes he gets so into what he's doing that he'll forget to eat or drink water. honestly he's probably like a loyal puppy at that point. he would absolutely maul anyone that messed with you and then proceed to snuggle you
