"Wait so- You and your partner were also separated for lifetimes assuming one of you was dead and the other refused to move on no matter what- and when you and your partner were finally reunited against all odds you had to adopt a weird fragile fleshy human doctor because your partner decided to be inseparable soulmates with the guy? AND your traumatized partner is smol loud and sassy but has a big heart that you can't help but love, along with isolation trauma which makes them super cuddly? And you're never actually met on screen in your media but the fandom adores you thanks to seeing how much your partner loves you?And you're the biggest and most beautiful of your weirdass little polycule, which you would absolutely do anything for- including be there for them as they recover from their devastating traumas?
No way, me too!!!!!"
Adrian: ^^^
*****
Rocky, rolling around his ball and taunting him: "Mean mean mean mean- GRACE new shipmate Owen is hostile-"
Owen, screeching as he tries to tear open the xenonite: "I WILL NOT TOLERATE A FUCKING ROCK INSULTING ME-"
*****
Simon, freshly post blood ocean: ....
Legs, stage 3: .....
[Them simultaneously]
Simon: "Oh don't worry, the bloods not mine."
Legs: "Oh don't worry, the bloods only mine."
****
Grace, standing firmly between Owen and Rocky: "One more time, please?"
Owen, grumbling: "I will respect the rock's right to all 5 of it's stupid limbs.."
Rocky, fuming: "Eliminate everyone on Mary if Owen eat Grace."
Grace: "No Rock, the other thing."
Rocky: ".... Respect Owen orbit space."
Grace: *raises an eyebrow*
Owen: "Ugh, fine." [First bumps Rocky against the xenonite.]
Grace: "Alright! Good bonding, team!"
Legs, in the corner: "... How the fuck did he do that."
Something that I'd forgotten and rediscovered on re-watching Owen's episode 1: he doesn't actually know how long he was buried. He finds out when Sausage says the last massacre was 200 years prior, and from that he assumes he's been stewing in that hole for 200 years.
But...you know how sometimes when you're struggling to sleep, you'll end up sleeping for a while and then wake up and the only reason you know time's passed is because it was 12:30 and now it's 1:30?
And you know how Oakhurst apparently has a lot of buried vampires that Cleo and Pearl work on recovering and/or staking, post-canon? Who are definitely not conscious, even if vampires can't sleep?
What I'm saying is: there's an outside chance Owen was buried for way longer than 200 years and was just properly unconscious through the re-building and destruction of Oakhurst, and doesn't know. He was responsible for the massacre 400 (or more deeply into crack territory, 800 or 1000) years ago.
Does this work with any of Louis' clothes still being intact? Not really. But honestly clothes being preserved for 200 years without regular care in a controlled environment is odd in the first place. We can handwave it as magic.
This post was partially inspired by an article on one of George Washington's outfits that I read during the lead-up to July 4.
It was widely assumed to have been gold, for obvious reasons:
But! The article was about the discovery that it wasn't when Washington was wearing it.
They did some molecular analysis on fibers that shed off the thing, and as it turns out it was dyed with several natural dyes:
shellac (crimson to deep purple)
madder (red)
brazil wood (red or purple)
walnut (browns/tans)
logwood (rich purple)
They think it started out looking like this:
So please imagine with me: Owen digs up Louis' collection of beautifully and tastefully red-dyed clothing, and discovers all of it is now a brownish gold. He can't bring the image of Louis back to life. The centuries have stolen that from him.
(Art by @mixigrave on tumblr <33 go give them some love)
☆ ͡ ݂🧪 . 𝙻𝚎𝚐𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚜 . ៸ ៸ ˚
~ He enjoys writing, usually he never quite manages to finish the stories he starts. But the act of coming up with characters and a plot, keeps his brain active and distracted
~ He grew up in a Christian community, and used to identify as Christian himself. When he became a surgeon, he changed his beliefs.
~ He has PTSD, often he suffers from night terrors.
~ He’s tall and bumps his head on doorframes (canon trust I don’t make the rules)
~ He has intense internalized homophobia. He always tries to be open and accepting of others. (like for example his patients or friends) But by accident, he ends up barely acknowledging that part of them exists. He feels bringing up the subject of LGBTQIA+ is too relatable, and he’s fears he’ll expose himself.
~ He is aware that he is gay, but is deeply closeted. He attempts to pretend that it doesn’t exist.
~ He wishes to learn how to play piano. No one has been able to teach him yet though (and also has had no time to learn)
~ He is warm to the touch
~ He enjoys the country side, and much prefers it over the hustle and bustle of bigger cities. Which is why he tries to stay more at smaller towns/villages, that in general has less access to medical care.
(And also of course because he wants to help said villages/towns)
~ His favorite flowers are nightshades
~ He loves dogs, and Louis (Trustbites au because I’m a weak man) really wants to get him a service dog
character credits: vampires smp (they have the entire vsmp cast as cats on one character profile) by Amawrenth on artfight!
these are more specifically their Louis, Owen (stage 3), and Legundo designs!! Cause I wanted to draw trustbites!!! In a kind of sandwich!!! As kitties!!! Awwww!!
I see your socially awkward Louis and I raise you fiercely protective to the point of being a Problem Louis.
Louis that blacklists a merchant for giving Oakhurst the leftovers because they "aren't worth it". He also tells every ally of Oakhurst to do the same.
Louis that doesn't hesitate to call someone out in the middle of the town square if he hears them saying something mean about another, even if it's just petty childhood squabbles.
Louis that almost certainly decked somebody at some point for implying that someone he cared about was a loser.
Louis that only accepts the best from his citizens because he truly believes they have the potential for greatness and he'll be damned if he lets anyone have any ammunition on them to say they aren't enough.
this song but it’s v!owen and v!louis OR v!owen and v!legs cuz it most definitely works for both ships and uhh TRIGGER WARNING
“Love hang herself
With the bedsheets in her cell
Threw myself on fires for you
Ten good reasons to stay alive
Ten good reasons that I can’t find”
Both Louis and Legs doom themselves, to some extent, in their own deaths. Louis stays in a town as discontent and suspicion grows. He LITERALLY threw himself on fire for Owen. But in the end, his love for Owen wasn’t enough to break his own morals to fight back. Legs, on the other hand, quite literally killed himself with a third party. The third line instead refers for the humans in town, who he died for.
“Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body so sick in his soul
Oh, give me one reason to be beautiful
Oh and everything I am”
The first line of the chorus is about Louis. The sick and lowly lumberjack finds somebody, somebody, and it’s beautiful and a reason to move forward. The second is about his vampirism, and his personhood. He’s ill as a human, and then he’s turned and (especially in his case) has to deal with this curse. But more than that, his grief makes him a twisted person. He’s cruel and mean and sick in the soul. The third line is that continued search for Louis, post massacre, where he can truly find no reason to move on. In his horrible, beautiful suffering.
“Love hates you
I lived my life in ruins for you
And for all your secrets kept
I squashed the blossom and the blossoms dead”
After his crash out, Owen vows to become Louis’ teeth and claws. Even though he knew that Louis was nonviolent, he still carries out violence in his name. In Legundo’s case, it describes the episode 6 divorce. Owen continuously makes decisions that harm the humans, despite caring about at least one of them. But Legs, who was supposed to be trusted about Louis, squished their blossoming relationship by utilizing his name. So the attachments gone, and Owen makes sure it’s dead.
“Miles and miles of perfect skin
I swear, I said, I fit right in
I fit right in your perfect skin
I cannot breathe”
Owen fails to become the person he dreamed about being with Louis after his death, and Louis’ legacy suffocates him. These lyrics also work for The Constant Bloodletting Struggle (TM) of trying to get the other to flip sides. You could fit in, you could be perfect. And your path is your undoing.
“Oh and everything I am will be bought and sold
Oh and everything I am will turn hard and cold.”
The first line is about the promise for a better life. Both Louis and Legs promise Owen the idea of happiness, through either vampirism or trying to be a better person. And that idea is planted in Owen’s head, it’s believed. But Louis dies, and so does that happy life. And Legs breaks his trust, so why bother with redemption?
“And they say in the end
You’ll get bitter just like them
And they steal your heart away
When the fire goes out you better learn to fake
It’s better to rise the fade away”
OKOK STAY WITH ME this verse is about how Owen’s behavior evolved and grows cruel to be no better than the townsfolk that killed Louis. They hurt him and he sours, he grows violent. And then he proceeds to lie to himself about this fact until he dies. Also works beautifully with bloodletting. Legs gets turned and gets so close to becoming the man he once was, but chooses to give up instead. Lose the leg, yadayadayada.
“Hey, you were right
Named a star for your eyes
Did you freeze did you weep
Turn to gold baby, sleep
Hey, honey mine
I was there all the time”
With all the ways Owen puts Louis/Legs on a pedestal, he never really tried to follow their preachings (albeit, Louis never spoke once, but we can assume he valued kindness, open mindedness, and nonviolence). So when they see each other in the afterlife, heaven or hell, he freezes, cries maybe. But Louis never left. Legs didn’t give up on him until the bitter end.
“And I weep at your feet
And it rains and rains”
Apologizing to Louis does nothing. He’s dragged to hell anyways. (Same w Legs. He can apologies all he wants in hell, but it won’t bring Louis back :) )
Uhhhh hope you’ve enjoyed the rant @venusplantt lmk what you think, I’d love to see your thoughts if you’re willing to share them :3
seen a couple of posts about v!louis being Very Awkward and fully agree
owen: *internal monologue while cuddling louis* he's beautiful, perfect, so kind, an angel, too good for this world, i'm honoured to have even a scrap of his affection, i love him so much
louis: how do i tell him that my leg fell asleep 20 minutes ago and i need to stand up to walk around because the pins and needles are starting to hurt. i can't tell him that i dont want to make him sad *doesn't say anything for another three hours*
that is an awkward man who is VERY unused to affection okay. he can play the good social game but when genuine emotions come into play he is a MESS
Fake vampire Legs fic but instead of getting mad about someone else turning him, Owen realizes quickly that Doc's still human. After checking that Doc doesn't want that state of affairs to change (very well. You'll come around eventually) he offers to help sell Doc's whole vampire shtick.
How?
By bringing Doc along on his usual dramatics, of course! It's to be a whole evening of rooftop perching, and stalking, and ominous entrances and dark speeches! Who wouldn't want that? Who wouldn't have fun with that?
It truly is more like Doc is 'helping' Owen haul him up a tree. And he's doing a bad job of it. At least Owen's not trying to push him up anymore (Doc stepped on his face by accident. Owen only cheered up forty five minutes later, when they scared the everloving shit out of someone)
Would he see her as a poor, traumatized girl? All too similar to little ones he watched grow up in Oakhurst. Would he want to take her under his wing as he did Owen? Ensure that she had someone to trust and come to when the world got too tough.
Or would he see her as a danger? Someone who could turn into a replica of her master, vampires of old he has had too many encounters with for his liking. A vampire that killed humans, not oversee them. Would he think she's a threat to Owen?
Doc using a cane because his knees are completely worn out from collapsing onto them too many times to begin CPR on a fallen soldier or because he was injured in battle.
Doc with severe hand tremors which makes him have to work extra carefully sewing up wounds.
Doc with hearing loss.
Doc with PTSD nightmares.
Doc with fragments of shrapnel still lodged in his body, a constant reminder of who he was and why he's a doctor now when he moves the wrong way during surgery.
Disabled Doc.
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