#when you break

[divomria]

Quick drawing of Heimdall from the fanfic I'm writing (the way I imagine him after taking a bath 🛁)

[haunted-obsidian-of-asgard]

Almost finished with next bonus chapter of When You Break. Hoping to have it posted tomorrow 🤞

[khruschevshoe]

Jim Jimenez and Lucius Spriggs

It's the fear, and not the ghost

That leaves me haunted, haunted

See what a life you lead:

You're an anchor for all the heaviest

Regrets inside of you

Escape; we collect mistakes

I will carry them home

-The Crane Wives, Not the Ghost

Lucius carries his own wreckage around from Blackbeard’s time as god, but it’s a different sort of shipwreck, a different sort of chain. There is a grief, but not a guilt. At least, not anymore. While he was trapped, he felt guilty for surviving when he wasn’t sure if Pete was still alive, but once Blackbeard was gone, he didn't have to carry a giant length of crimes around his neck because Blackbeard had told him that either he committed these atrocities, or he'd die, and he had to get back to Olu and protect everyone else at all costs.

Jim isn’t going to downplay the way that that trunk haunts Lucius. Its ghost still physically haunts him, in the form of his dizzy spells, but he doesn’t have wanted posters. He doesn’t have crimes. He doesn’t have the shame of murder and the blood of others clinging to his hands. He doesn’t have to look over his shoulder in case someone is hunting him-

Or, rather, scratch that last one. Because Lucius doesn’t have to look over his shoulders due to people hunting him for a bounty, but someone did murder him in cold blood. Jim had to live with threats for months, up until the moment Blackbeard actually shot Izzy; Lucius had to live with first-hand knowledge of hands that were willing to shove him overboard.

Jim doesn’t know what ghosts Lucius clings to. They only know what ghosts cling to them, what ghosts dig their claws in and refuse to let go, no matter how many times Jim tries to bury them for good.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, you will never slip away (you’ll find me waiting here for you)

Founding members of the "Fuck Blackbeard" club (and "Fuck the People Who Raised Me" club as well). Two of my three favorite characters in the series. They are there for each other at the critical moments and understand each other so well (and have a great dynamic when Mel is added in Season 3). Also, the fact that their friendship begins with Lucius stealing a dagger for Jim AFTER Jim literally nearly kills Lucius gets me every time.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Special thanks to @possumsmushroom, who I was talking to about Lucius & Jim and who is an amazing artist!

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[natashaaromanova]

“you’re a good man.”

“not really, no. but you’re the only one who understands that.”

[breakawayworld]

But you've been crying out for forever

But forever's come and gone

You keep begging for forgiveness

But you don't think you've done wrong

You've been crying out for forever

Forever's come and gone

My bleeding hands, your shaking head

So tell me another beautiful lie

Tell me everything that I want to hear

Oh won't you lay here by my side

I want to fuck away all my fear

[thesevenwondersofawitch]

"You keep begging for forgiveness, but you don't think you've done wrong. You've been crying out for forever, forever's come and gone.

My bleeding hands, your shaking head."

[cupidcore]