#ward earp

[authenticsleeping]

I sincerely, well and truly, hope ward earp is rotting in hell for all he did to his daughters

[chicleeblair]

sidebar: one thing, though, in the Halloween episode do they say Waverly wanted to be a scarecrow in second grade? 

Because, uh, Ward was dead at that point. 

And for them to mean Wynonna was in second grade, Waverly would’ve been two.

The girls are six years apart.The mirror thing/Jolene happened when Waves was five and Mama burned the barn right after. She was five when Mama left. Both girls have a birthday within days of the massacre. That they were 12/6 close to 13th/7th birthdays is like the one math near-constant on this show. But either they were nearly two full years older at the attack, or Waverley skipped two grades, AFTER Mama Earp left? 

I could MAYBE buy it if it started Gus coming around, and Waves trusting her more, pre-invasion? But we’re really given the sense that between Mama leaving and the Seven invading, the girls are on their own, and wynonna is spread too thin trying be everything to both sisters, which is how Waverley ends up vulnerable to Bobo.

Waverly could have started school, with a September birthday, and, being Waverly—and actually, I headcanon that Wynonna DID and is young for her grade— but that still requires a skip. (Possible timelines under the cut, I thought waaaay too much about this, because I’m working on a fic that focuses on this period.)

Actual Timeline (probably):

Sept 1 (Waves, 5) kindergarten

Mirror thing/Mom burns the barn

Sept 9 Waverly’s forgotten 6th b-day

Sept 12 Wynonna turns 12

a year-ish w/o Mama

Sept 1 (6) Waverly starts first grade

sept 7 massacre (they are six and twelve)

sept 9 Waverly’s 7th bday

Sept 12 Wynonna is 13

Otherwise, you have to presume the time between Mama leaving and Ward’s death is way longer, and the girls’ canon ages go poof:

kindergarten (waves is five)

Mama locked up.

Sep.1 first grade

sept 9 wavs turns 6

sept 12 Wynonna is 12

sept 1 second grade

sept 9 Waverly turns 7

sept 12 wynonna is 13

Scarecrow halloween

another ward year

Sept 1 third grade

sept 7th invasion (7. 13)

sep 9 Waves is 8

sep 12 Wy is 14

finally, with super-smarty angel possibilities:

Sept 1 kindergarten at four

Mama is locked up

skips first grade, either by being placed up during kindergarten, or all together, while traumatized

Sept 1 starts second grade at FIVE

sept 9 turns six

Sept 12 Wy turns 12

Oct 31st Scarecrow Halloween 

Sept 1 starts third grade

sept 7 invasion  (waves is 6 in THIRD GRADE, wynonna is 12 as said in canon.)

[vanilladippeddonutsss]

[wayhaughtficrec]

I don't remember the name of the fic, or who the writer is, but the basic plot goes something like this- Revenants exist and Ward promised one of them Waverly's hand in marriage. So, Wynonna and the gang find a loophole in the form of Nicole, who is an absolute stranger to Waverly, and have her get hitched with the brunette. Waverly is still dating Champ and is pretty miffed with the following developments. That's about all I can remember right now... Also, thank you for all that you do!!!

Anyone know what this fic is? I do know that it isn’t There’s Always a Loophole by cflynnrun as the anon that submitted this ask confirms that it was not this one. 

[wayhaught-haughtdamn]

Ward Earp was probably the sheriff during the Ghost River Massacre, so he was most likely one of the responding officers. He might’ve been there when Nedley found Nicole, and he probably helped with the forest fire cover. 

[sheriff-haught-sauce]

Wynonna, age 10: Whenever I catch a jar full of bugs, I like to poke holes in the lid.

Ward: Smart, so that they can breathe.

Wynonna: No, so they can crawl out when I put them in Willa’s closet.

[life-love-geekculture]

So, I’m starting to think Wynnona becoming the Heir is what ultimately saved the Earp family from Bulshar’s curse. And not just because she’s the hero of the show. I mean, from day one, she legitimately stops the curse in its tracks. Because, when you get down to it, to the heirs themselves, each generation becomes more cruel and outright bloodthirsty than the last. Check it:

First, you have Wyatt (and yes I know the gif is from Tombstone, it’s a good movie) who started the whole shebang. Not perfect, but in all of Doc & Bobo’s accounting a decent man who tried to do good. Then Josiah, his son, was referred to as noble by the Jack of Knives. So still carrying his father’s torch.

It’s when we get to Edwin that things get interesting. He’s famed as being the “One Year Wonder”. Which means he was not only good at tracking but also killing Revenants. Arguably a good trait to have in this family. However, once again looking to Jack, he’s referenced as simply ambitious. These aren’t exactly what one might call....complimentary qualities. In fact it’s left rather ambiguous what kind of man he was because he died too soon. So soon he left a two year old Ward (who became Heir in 1993, making 1966 his year of birth) to learn how to deal with the curse himself.

Ward, of course, was the worst until Willa decided opening the Ghost River Triangle was a good idea. We’re given a fairly clear image he was a drunk, abusive asshole who made deals with the very demons he was supposed to fight. A trait referred to by our dear friend Jack as “wit”. And by raising Willa to think of herself as the chosen one who needed to kill or be killed he primed her eventual turn to psychopathy.

And let’s talk Willa, because the apple does not fall far from the tree. Not to say she didn’t suffer or wasn’t further scarred by over a decade’s capture by bad guys, but she was psycho from the beginning. I mean, look how she treated Waverly. It was clear from her journal entry she picked up on Wave’s “otherness” even if she wasn’t familiar with the specifics. Unlike Wynonna, however, she used it as a basis for her treatment of her little sister. Willa clearly had no problem exerting power over those weaker than herself, and the fact Ward wouldn’t have raised a hand to help his youngest was something used to her advantage (see: the support beam episode). Waverly, who has jumped in front of monsters, revenants, and even Doc on a bad day, was scared of her. Waverly, who even revenants make an effort to protect. Even before she was the Heir, Willa was putting her us-or-them philosophy into practice. Age just made it easier for her to manipulate people.

So where does Wynnona come in?

Well, simply put, the genius of Clootie’s curse (which his wife apparently never got because she was the short-sighted one) is that it destroys the Earp family by rotting it from the inside. The snake literally laying the foundation of corruption. Each generation becomes more desperate to end or at least survive the curse and more willing to do the worst things imaginable to do it. By design, the push and pull of Revenants hiding, dying, and resurrecting was enough to slowly drive the Heirs crazy while still maintaining hell’s forces topside.

Wynnona, however, grew up with knowledge of the curse but not the weight of it. So, when it fell to her...which, in and of itself is kind of weird since Willa was still alive and curses aren’t supposed to be bound by paperwork but whatever....she, like Wyatt, was not perfect but still a person who wanted to do good. There by halting the corruption of the Earp family line and setting it back to where it started.

[wlwworks]

At Shorty's saloon, Wynonna falls prey to Doc's mysterious charm. But the Doc, ever full of surprises, rejects Wynonna's advances: burned and toasted. Meanwhile in the other side of town, the Deputy Mayor and his staff are holding an unveiling of the time capsule buried by famous poetess Shirley Dixon. A triad of Revenants are also in attendance, as one of them must retrieve Dixon's diary he left in that lockbox many moons ago. So when the Mayor hauls out the box from the ground, the Revenant rushes to grab it. And as if violating historical city property wasn't bad enough, the Revenants go about gutting the Deputy Mayor like a fish for blood sport.