#tdm zu

[loverblaze]

the vidachubs + zu phone call in through the dark was actually so funny like vida telling zu "that's my girl" and chubs telling vida to tell zu to do her homework your honor i love them

[dija-112]

Zu would’ve loved watching wicked right now

(Or maybe not because it reminds her too much of Gabe)

[in-an-hour-sunflower3285]

Liam: Ruby and I are having a baby.

Zu: That's gre-

Liam, slamming adoption papers on the table: It's you, sign here

[apherod]

TDM Band Camp Headcanon

*note: some of the ideas came from a post or a story I read somewhere, but I can’t remember where. Also, as this is wind band, there’s no string instruments, and no electric instruments. 

First of all, who plays what:

-Ruby: french horn, because it was arguably the most difficult and low-key the most important instrument in the ensemble

-Liam: percussion, for the himbo that he is (no shades here, I’m a percussionist myself), and specializes in playing snare drum, though can play everything in the department

-Chubs: oboe, demanding technical-wise, and a superior instrument in many ways

-Vida: trumpet. I think this one is very self-explanatory.

-Jude: alto saxophone. He wanted to play baritone sax but it was way too big for him that he could barely stand

-Zu: flute. Sweet, light on the feet as her.

-Nico: bassoon, and is constantly tired of everyone’s bullshit. He also does arrangements of popular musics or film musics upon requests (usually from Jude), but firmly rejected when someone requested Gangnam style.

-Roman: trombone, also for the himbo that he is

-Priyanka and Lana: clarinets

-Cate is their camp manager. She plays too but wouldn’t tell them what instrument it was.

-What would Cole play, you asked? Trumpet, of course.

-He’d be the legendary camp alumnus from a few years ago who’s gone on to have a career as a trumpet player, and came back to coach them (more to annoy the hell out of his little brother though)

-They’d have campfire nights where they play songs that they all know. Final Countdown was one of the songs that everyone knew. John Williams was also on the menu when requested. Ruby nails the french horn solo in Jurassic Park. Liam can basically turns everything into a drum set.

-Cole and Vida would drive to the other side of the mountain at dawn, and blast the camp with their solos of famous fanfares from across the valley to wake everyone up at 6. Everyone says they hate it, but secretly enjoys it because they were that good.

-They took Roman with them that one time, and he played Imperial March, which led to multiple kids waking up covered in cold sweat. Cate banned them from doing so since.

-Ruby, Cole, Vida, Roman, and Zack (who plays Tuba) formed a brass quintet, which Liam was absolutely salty about. They do enlist him when they need a drummer, though.

I’ll add more when I thought of them

[livkurly]

The Black Betty Gang

In my opinion. Credit to Picrew.

Ruby Daly

Liam Stewart

Charles “Chubs” Meriwether

Suzume “Zu” Kimura

[a-chaotic-ananas]

GOD I LOVE COLE STEWART SO FUCKING MUCH.

he is such a selfless kid who just wants everyone to be safe no matter what and he thinks he has to take care of everyone and he never ever makes a decision that would benefit only him and it doesn't matter to him if everyone hates him, as long as they're safe, that's all that matters, that's all he ever wanted and he's so damn lonely but won't confide in anyone because that would put them in danger and ruby is his only friend because they're the same in that way and she also understands his demons better than anyone and he loves his fierce little gem so much, he loves her for taking care of his baby brother and making him happy and for believing in him and accepting him as one of them because despite everything he's still so young and he has to hide himself all the time and always be on the lookout and he can't trust anyone and he would do literally anything and everything to protect the people he loves and just ugh

people give him so much shit for the shower scene but the thing is that was the only time he was actually 'hitting' on ruby and that's only because he didn't really know her yet, because that's the only thing that's worked so far, either scaring or charming people. after that, when they became friends, he was the biggest rubiam shipper ever and he was such a goofball (the goodbye scene? oh god i just realized that was the goodbye scene what have i done when ruby kisses liam's cheek and he holds out his own? come on. come. on. a-fuckin-dorable) and when he did jokingly hit on her it was kinda to piss liam off but in that older-brotherly way that is normal, just kinda making fun of his baby brother in front of her and i can't phrase this in a way that sounds how i want it to but y'all know exactly what i mean.

and he takes care of everyone around him, always putting himself last. he wants to be close to people but he's so damn terrified of endangering them, he is afraid of himself (how broken he is when he loses control and hurts ruby? my heart literally broke. someone help my sweet boy). he just wants liam to be tucked away somewhere safe, not because he thinks liam can't take care of himself, but because he has already lost claire and can't lose another younger sibling he was supposed to protect, he can't let liam pit himself in danget if there is a way for cole to do it himself which is such and older sibling thing to do.

he deserved so much better. he deserved to be part of the thurmond hit. he deserved to see the world liberated, to see he wasn't a monster and people loved him no matter what.

but if he absolutely had to go, had to die, it should have been a different way. he should have gone out blazing. he deserved to fight until the end and die a hero. his loss was kinda overriden by the thurmond hit and liberation of the camps and we didn't get to mourn him. they didn't get to mourn him.

and the way the scene was written, the stewart is dead thing, was so terrible. because that way they (we) didn't see it was cole, we saw it was not-liam. cole didn't die, not-liam did. because let's face it, liam was much more of a main character so his death would have been way more impactful and changed the story more, but cole didn't deserve his death to be a relief, because it wasn't his brother. i know it wasn't meant that way and i know it was for suspense, but if cole had died in any other situaton, ruby would shatter. he was her good friend and she relied on him so much in so many ways. but that scene was overwhelmed with figuring out where liam was (which is obvs understandable but still) and his death was swept under the rug a little bit. and there isn't even one scene after the liberation where liam and ruby talk about him, how he deserved to be there to see what his work had achieved, because he did. he deserved it.

COLE STEWART DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER AND I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS.

[darlinmonster]

[missed-you-something-fierce]

A reminder that we need a Never Fade movie, BECAUSE WE NEED TO SEE COLE STEWART. How am I going to live my life knowing I will never see my beautiful boy