Drew my own version of how I think TWAU S2 Ep 1 would look like! I felt the word "Muzzled" was really fitting for Bigby considering that he's being restricted from being sheriff.
I found out there’s like 30 minutes of cut content where Faith and Bigby are acting like a couple. I had to act immediately. I will never be the same. Storyboard wip
adore your twau stuff. one question, do you dislike snow and bigby, romantically? could you explore into it? just curious is all.
Thank you! And this is a question I imagine a lot of people have about me lol so I’ll delve into it a little
To put it flatly, unfortunately I would say that I dislike Snow x Bigby. It just wasn’t really my cup of tea during my first playthrough to begin with, and the more I got into TWAU/the more I learned about the characters the more I found myself disliking the idea of them getting together
To start off I have always just been a little repulsed when a choice based game forces me to take a romantic route with one character, so constantly being nudged to pine after Snow no matter how dismissive I chose to make Bigby put me off esp since on my first playthrough I was SO convinced I was gonna get to romance Nerissa/Faith, so perhaps accidentally Snowby made a poor first impression on me LOL…
On a narrative level Snow White blatantly is just not ready to be in a relationship because of what she went through in the game imo. She needs time to heal from that and even then I can’t imagine the incident with Crane makes her feel very good about ANOTHER one of her coworkers pining after her so it just makes the whole situation feel a bit icky
And on top of that I cannot STAND the way she treats Bigby. She sees him as human when it suits her and when she sees the way he lives (in poverty) she chooses to turn a blind eye. She flip flops all the time whether she’s upset or happy with bigby for doing his job. She calls him a monster for defending himself after being shot like 1 million times, and she threatens to send his best and probably only close friend to the farm in the same scene. She talks about the poor Fables like livestock (“there’s only a few left to round up”) not realising Bigby IS one of the poor fables. That entire conversation made my skin crawl with the way she talked about doing things “the right way”. She has several levels of power over Bigby (financial class + position as his boss) that would make their relationship feel SUPER unbalanced. She is a fantastic female character (the TWAU version is anyway) and she certainly has her positives but her dynamic with bigby never reads as something suitably romantic to me.
Now on the hand of Bigby, I also hate the way HE treats Snow. He is suffocatingly protective over somebody who DOES NOT WANT OR NEED IT. Snows right! She is not “his” to lose, and she never was, because at this point in the timeline, theyve never had anything romantic like that for him to have the privilege to say or even think that about her and it’s REALLY uncomfortable for her. Bigby wants to be a protector, and Snow White (rightfully) does not want to be protected. It’s why I saw so much more chemistry with Faith, because she was actively seeking Bigby’s help/protection.
Now mind you I think all of this is intentionally written into TWAU. The writers want you to see the cracks in their dynamic because I imagine they want to expand on it and have them develop as characters to then proceed with a relationship. So while I don’t like Snowby, I understand why it appeals to people! But it’s really just not the endgame ship for me unfortunately. I could talk about why I like faithby but I fear this post is getting too long lol. Sorry if this as all poorly worded I’m not the best at organising my thoughts
So what do you think of some of the rumors on TWAU season 2? 2027 will defiantly give them more time to make it perfect but what are your thoughts on the original being remastered to reintroduced for a new audience and fans? Really hope Bigby's traumas get addressed by that new character since Snow clearly has no idea how much trauma seeing her head on the woodland apartment or PTSD nightmare of Bloody Mary gave him not to mention all the traumas he got in life, would be great for Fray (that's who she is in the season 2?) to point out to Snow calling out her on not caring about his mental health saying she and everyone just use him as a tool.
Oh this is a good question. Well first win the remake I think it is a good idea since the original game is like 13 years old I think it will bring it a new set of fans which would be great for sales that will definitely make telltale a lot of money. As for the original S2 script I am worried that everything they had shown will be scrapped. I hope that they don't cut out the detective storyline like they did for S1 but ima be honest I really don't see what any of Adhoc wrote being in the finale outcome sadly. Like it hurts thinking about it because they already had a great storyline set up and now we don't know if any of that will make it. I also hope that Bigby is the main focus of S2. He has a lot of issues that need addressing. He's definitely gonna have to be vulnerable not just with his boss but with the AM group since he will have to talk about what he went through in order to move on from it. I definitely see Faye and Bigby having heart to heart moments since she is a cop she understands that this job ain't easy it take a lot out of you. It takes family and friends away from you either by a crazy person you arrested once coming for revenge or by you not being able to spend time with them because of work. That's why a lot of detectives keep their life on the down low you never know who is watching. I think Snow will be pushing Bigby away because he brings in problems and it won't help when Faye enters the picture she'll bring in all the NYPD problems with her. Not just because she's a cop but also a mundy and you already know Fabletown isn't going to want her there. Like at all I see Snow wanting to do an memory wipe spell but Bigby won't allow her to do it. Overall I hope we get a good story with Bigby and Faye I think Bigby needs to be around another person who gets it. Gets all the crap a cop has to deal with and not lose their mind or themselves in the process.
There's actually something I noticed that none of the fables bothered to see Bigby's actual problem and issues aren't anger or rage problems at all, it's his mental health that's the problem.
His actions aren't connected to his rage or even anger it's all trauma based responses cause from what the wolf among us wiki and game reveals some of his traumas but I think the biggest root issue is that he has childhood trauma: he watched as his mother slowly die from a broken heart because of his father the north wind who abandoned her and his brothers abandoned him too the poor pup tried to protect her body from scavengers but he was the tiny fragile runt so he couldn't which made him vow to kill and eat something bigger as each day passed wanting to avenge his mother but after failing 7 times he vowed to be the most fierce beast of all becoming the Big Bad Wolf though I believe he was still trying to avoid being that tiny weak pup.
The other trauma link is his past as the Big Bad Wolf how he regrets it but the main enables doubting his ability to change for the better is the consent reminder of it by the other fables since they still see him as a monster even more when he has no choice but to use his wolf side out of survival trauma response the wolf only comes out during high stress events it's his body and minds self defense. not only that he fought in both world wars so added trauma and PTSD from that coupled with being forced to choice between his wolf side and human side instead of finding harmony and balance between them. and must I remind you of the many new traumas from the Crooked Man case: seeing faith's head on the woodlands then thinking snow met the same fate, feeling like a failure for not stopping those deaths, trauma he got because of Bloody Mary along with PTSD nightmares like was seen in episode 4 and clearly with snow becoming cold to him in season 2 will mostly make him feel more isolated and her asking him to be the monster again it affects him mentally too which the confusing back and forth on him repressing his wolf half one moment then needing to use it the next.
Snow and fable town is so focused on wanting just the human half that they don't even both to help his wolf half a manger thing he needs is a pack and feel he belongs, that it's safe to let those walls down, it's ok to be weak because asking for help and comfort isn't a weakness....to let his inner child that small fragile pup it's safe to come out of that dark cold forest he may not say it but inside he hates being alone and isolated he needs to know that the past can stay in the past, that he can be a protected not seen as a predator ........which is why I believe that snow suspending him and forcing him into anger management is just going to hurt him even more not help him, he needs a therapist to treat the trauma and feel safe enough to let himself to be soft not be punished for scars he never asked for.
Haven't been posting unfortunately been doing my own thing but I ain't leaving this account love drawing. Anyways been working on a small animatic about Faye like what if she had Schizophrenia and that causes her to be more confused on what is real and what's in her head because I'd I think I was losing it seeing a big ahh wolf in front of me. HERE'S A LITTLE TEASER VERY SMALL AGAIN BEEN DOING MY OWN THING. (please don't take it the wrong way this is no way implying anything negative to people who do have Schizophrenia)
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