#jrwi episode 115

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

Okay I have had this theory for months but I never actually laid it out before now. However it's well past time I actually do that considering episode 115 all but confirmed its truth (theres still wiggle room for me to be wrong, but honestly not much)

THE FERIN FAMILY ARE AASIMAR, AND HERES WHY:

The thing that originally made me go Hey Wait A Damn Minute was the visions of the original prophecy and its history that gillion got from that tree: "Another flash, and you see these red-haired olympian looking humans and elves and all kinds of different races that are flying with their own wings". And I heard that and thought about how much that sounds like aasimar, and then the weird dreams jay had and then captain widow insisting she has powerful blood and then star saying she sensed divinity on jay and then the whole ferin family's affinity for fire magic and everything just clicked into place.

Then in episode 114 we got the recording of Faye Ferin saying "hail the solar mother" and i was like no fucking way- BUT i set it aside because it felt like I could be reaching with that evidence. It could just be a religious phrasing, not necessarily something literal.

Then episode 115 happened and I got confirmation of my theory.

Grizzly doesn’t outright say "yes the ferin are aasimars”, but he gives us all the last few pieces of the puzzle.

Here's a link to the episode that should start where the confirmation is - the two tablets: https://youtu.be/M9ig9XCUrvU?si=oYdisYFxTqx6ogbb&t=868

Transcript of the tablets: Tablet One: Shards of the divine, these words are for you and you alone. We are descendants of the sun. Thus, we are the light - the beacon that will eradicate the dark. We are the flame to which all will yield. We are the shining justice that will always prevail. Our steps illuminate the way forward and our hands spark the tales of history. Tablet Two: Shards of the divine, these words are for you and you alone. Know your kin, recognized by the manes of flickering flame, wings that rival dragons, the golden suns in our eyes. Unity is the key to prosperity. Our elders will raise generations that burn with vigorous radiance.

NOW ON TO MY EXPLANATION!!

The thing that confirmed it outright for me is literally the line "We are descendants of the sun", because there are no ifs ands or buts about it - aasimar are descended from celestials. The aasimar entry for Monsters of the Multiverse states "Whether descended from a celestial being or infused with heavenly power, aasimar are mortals who carry a spark of the Upper Planes within their souls." the tablet Jay stole from her grandmother is written in celestial, and says they are descended from the sun(aster), ergo, descended from a celestial.

Next up is the whole "Thus we are the light - the beacon that will eradicate the dark. We are the flame to which all will yield. We are the shining justice that will always prevail." bit. The entry for Protector Aasimar (the subrace i believe Jay fits best) in Volos Guide to Monsters reads "Protector aasimar are charged by the powers of good to guard the weak, to strike at evil wherever it arises, and to stand vigilant against the darkness."

Then there's "Our steps illuminate the way forward and our hands spark the tales of history." Which then in the MotM entry it says "aasimar are mortals who carry a spark of the Upper Planes within their souls. They can fan that spark to bring light, ease wounds, and unleash the fury of the heavens."

THEN THERES THE REAL FUCKING GIVEAWAY!!! THIS LINE: "Know your kin, recognized by the manes of flickering flame, wings that rival dragons, the golden suns in our eyes."

MotM says "They resemble their parents, but … often have features that hint at their celestial heritage." and VGtM says "They are a people of otherworldly visages, with luminous features that reveal their celestial heritage."

OF THE CELESTIAL FEATURES OPTIONS OFFERED BY MOTM, ENTRY 2 IS "METALLIC, LUMINOUS, OR DARK EYES" AND ENTRY 3 IS "STARKLY COLORED HAIR". THE FERINS ARE WELL KNOWN FOR HAVING BOTH.

The tablets are, of course, not my only evidence.

the ferins arent born with The Ferin Eye as revealed by Jay having to earn hers and Drey talking about when he got his. "now icarus," i hear you say "wouldnt that mean they dont actually fit the celestial features requirement?" and to that i answer "NO! IT IN FACT FITS IT BETTER!"

In discussing aasimar celestial features, MotM says "These [features] often begin subtle and become more obvious when the aasimar gains the ability to reveal their full celestial nature." Jay didn’t have the Ferin eye until she earned it and its subsequent abilities. And we all remember how she earned it, right?

A weird ass fucking dream.

Now let’s look at that. According to VGtM “An aasimar, except for one who has turned to evil, has a link to an angelic being. That being … provides guidance to the aasimar, though this connection functions only in dreams. As such, the guidance is not a direct command or a simple spoken word. Instead, the aasimar receives visions, prophecies, and feelings.”

In Jay's first sun dream (Juice Roll With It // Episode #88), Grizzly describes the sun and says "You feel like its presence is trying to reach you. And as you notice, you feel almost like you want it to.”

And then the core of the dream itself:

Grizzly: “Do you think Jay can withstand this impossible heat of the sun as you get just barely one step closer?” Condi: “I’m gonna say no… but she would try anyways, if that is, like, what the feeling is kinda giving her, you know?” Grizzly: “This powerful presence, as hot as it is - you can’t help but think of your sister. You can’t help but think of your friends. But then, you think of your mother, and then you think of your father, and then you think of your grandmother” (makes condi roll con save with disadvantage, condi got an 11) “with an 11, you take that step forward, but this overwhelming pressure, anxiousness, fear, handcuffs your spirit, closes your mind, and you just feel the heat of the sun overcome you. And you are jolted awake back in the reality. … but you know that in this dream you lost. You lost to the heat.”

Then the second dream (Happy Wife Happy Life // Episode 102), where the sun is hotter and larger than before and excruciatingly painful:

Grizzly: “You just can’t help but stare at it with both eyes wide open. And behind you you feel another heat.” (Condi asks if Jay can see this heat or if Jay is too focused on the sun) “You know that this heat signifies that backing away and falling is not an option this time. But as you look at the sun, you once again think about your family: your mother, who said she was sick; your father, who called you naive; your grandmother, who threatens the safety of your friends. You think of your friends. So I ask again, this time: do you think Jay can withstand that heat? That pressure and that fire?” Condi: “I think as Jay is staring up at this sort of immense fireball that represents… obviously her pressure, and she feels that heat at her back… I don’t think she would look at the heat as, like, something preventing her from stepping back and falling anymore. But in this metaphorical sense - since a lot of this is a metaphor - she’d probably look at it as what she basically can’t turn her back on, what she can’t leave behind. Basically like her new hope. You know, what she wants to protect. So she’s in between this and this giant fireball. Um. And I think with that in mind she would take a step forward and, um. While maybe not fully confident in herself, she would jump into the fireball with all her might, doing her best. ... I think she can handle it. She thinks she can handle it.” Grizzly: “Fair enough. That’s all I asked. You jump in- go ahead and roll a con save with advantage.” (Condi got a 19) “You leap with almost like a raging fire of conviction even if you doubt yourself, jay. And the sun almost seems to open up to welcome you in. And at first, the searing pain of the fireball’s heat feels like it’s melting your skin. You scream until it feels like it’s melting away that doubt. And then, all of the pain subsides. There’s a calming sense that kind of overtakes, jay, in your subconscious. And it’s all white at this point - your whole vision.”

So the sun reached out to jay through a dream, as aasimar’s celestial links tend to do, and gave her a test of strength that she had to figure out for herself (“as such, the guidance is not a direct command or simple spoken word. Instead, the aasimar receives visions, prophecies, and feelings.” - VGtM). She only passed it by remembering she had people she needed to protect (“Protector aasimar are charged by the powers of good to guard the weak, to strike at evil wherever it arises, and to stand vigilant against the darkness.” - VGtM). And when she passed this test given to her in a dream: “speaking of your vision, you begin to feel a warmth behind one of your eyelids. And the next day comes as you’re the first to wake at the very crack of dawn. The sun rises, and you rise with it. And you blink a few times - you feel something different. … This time, you look into a mirror and, just like your dad, just like Drey, you see this bright orange glowing eye on one of the sides. And you feel whatever that was: you passed it.”

This, therefore, perfectly fits Jay into the aasimar’s celestial features description that “these [features] often begin subtle and become more obvious when the aasimar gains the ability to reveal their full celestial nature.” Jay had to prove herself to the goddess to earn another celestial trait.

And once more, “Icarus!” I hear you cry. “You keep saying Jay fits the Protector Aasimar subrace, but don’t Protector Aasimar have incorporeal wings that come from their celestial heritage? Jay’s wings are from a tattoo! That doesn’t work!” To which I say, “Are you sure?”

The Protector Aasimar’s subrace ability is called Radiant Soul and allows the aasimar to “unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing your eyes to glimmer and two luminous, incorporeal wings to sprout from your back.”

Jay’s wings come from enchanted tattoos with which she can cast Fly. These were a deliberate choice Jay made and are not celestial in origin. However, in the first sun dream, when Jay reaches out for the sun Grizzly says “You begin to feel the tattoo on your upper back sting.” When condi asks to clarify if it’s the Niklaus tattoo, Grizzly only says “Just the upper back.”

This, of course, leads me to believe that those dreams will or already have affected her wings in some way - perhaps leaving space for her to unlock more of her celestial heritage and power as she earns it. It’s something we’ll just have to watch and see for.

Either way the Ferins are aasimar, Jay's gonna be the first one in generations to earn their true celestial power from Aster, and i will Die On This Hill

#dragons hoard #another theory post except this time its Color Coded oooohhh shinyyyy #theres a much more niche narrative theory I could go into based on this too #but thats more speculation than direct theory so itll get its own post eventually #jrwi riptide #jrwi #just roll with it #jrwiblr #just roll with it riptide #jrwi jay #jrwi jay ferin #jay ferin #jrwi theory #aasimar ferins theory #jrwi 115 #jrwi episode 115 #jrwi ep 115 #jrwi spoilers

[helpimtrappedinthetextbox]

Clap

Well boys, time for a new Theory after episode 115 dropped

This one is gonna focus on Chip and a bit of the original version of the Prophecy

Warning of spoilers and unhinged thought process, read at your own risk

For this post imma be focusing on a line from the Prophecy. Which would be:

"The seal remains locked by a Key of Divinity"

So I ask you:

How does Chip know Celestial?

Why was he Welcomed Home in that place?

What is the secret of himself that not even he knows?

He is the key. It's why in the one shot, Chip being grabbed was specifically mentioned. Why Niklaus felt the need to make a deal with Chip that would land him directly in the Hole in the Sea.

Now, fair warning, I do believe that Niklous would be fully aware of such a moment and set the board for this eventually. The why is the only thing I am uncertain about, I have my thoughts but that's a theory for another time.

He was Welcomed Home because that was where he would always end up, it was the place he would always find his way to. You could even say, it was the place he was Destined to be.

Now, here is where it all gets a bit more nuanced...

I believe there to always have been someone who was a Key of Divinity. When the last dies, a new one is born. (Basically an Avatar situation)

However the reason it is only just now happening is because it's only now that the stars have aligned to allow whatever has been locked away to be unleashed.

The key has always been born on a different plane, whatever was locked away was not strong enough in it's prison to reach out for the key, and it hadn't been arms reach.

Until Chip.

Chip has been the first to meet all the qualifications. And Niklous nudged Captain Rose to head that way for their last Journey, for Chip to get grabbed. However there was unexpected interruptions, in the form of Arlin, Drey, and Finn.

So Niklous would have to rearrange the board to get Chip once again where he needed to be.

And now he is.

And it may be too late.

#jrwi #just roll with it #gillion tidestrider #jrwi chip #jrwi gillion #jrwi riptide #just roll wit it riptide #chip james #chip bastard #chip lastname #just roll with it spoilers #jrwi spoilers #jrwi episode 115 #jrwi episode 115 spoilers #drey ferin #jrwi arlin #arlin james #finn tidestrider #jrwi finn #There is so much i think about #and this feels like it makes too much sense that its unsettling #lemme know if yall want the Niklous Hendrix theories #niklaus hendrix #jrwi niklaus

[artandbrimstone]

JRWI 115 SPOILERS ‼️‼️

welcome home.

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#i had to lie on the floor for 20 minutes after finishing this episode #what am i meant to do now #trick question im watching prime defenders as i type this to cope #art #my art #jrwi riptide #jrwi #artists on tumblr #chip just roll with it #just roll with it #just roll with it riptide #jrwi spoilers #jrwi show #jrwi fanart #chip jrwi #jrwi podcast #riptide fanart #jrwi riptide fanart #riptide spoilers #jrwi riptide spoilers #jrwi 115

[atlasofchaos]

welcome home.

#so 115 sure was an EPISODE HUH #jrwi spoilers #jrwi 115 #chip jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi fanart

[bu-blegh-ost]

Okay, but like. The spy. The mole. For me immediately only one person comes to mind. Here is the way I think.

It is absolutely not Marshall John. He was clearly not in the spy division granted he had a crew and literally lazed around in Cannella long enough to abuse authority there. And after that there is absolutely NO WAY Navy's plan was to fucking execute him in the BLOCK and have Riptide Pirates go for him, on a downright suicidal mission so he joins ANOTHER crew. They could not predict nor plan for this. John is absolutely clean in my book.

Caspian. Ooof, it would be so tragic, cause he's always been there for Lizzie. They knew each other for YEARS, literal years, they were raised together. And that's exactly why he's not the mole. After leaving his tribe, which we know must be true since he mentioned his sister leaving to the capital and I'm pretty sure she is one of the Elders now, he went above water and spent most of his late childhood/teenage years with Lizzie on the Shadowbeard's ship. In no point in time were they split, and so Caspian would have absolutely no way to be trained as an undercover solider. Caspian is not a mole.

But who then, you may wonder? These are the main two closest to Lizzie, right? We don't know anyone else, right? Wrong. There is a new addition to her crew, quite recent actually and it's no one other than Rudith. The fucking healer from Joaldo island, one who had connections with Grandberry Pirates, letting them hang out under his fucking pharmacy. Rudith from Joaldo island which weirdly got attacked the same time a large amount of pirates were gathered there for a tournament. Rudith, who kept saying that life at sea is not really a life for him, and yet when they dropped the fucking sick at Edison Kingdom he surprisingly CHOSE to stay with Lizzie instead and had an absolute honour to listen to them all talking abt thier goddamn plans when they were in a tavern in Allport.

Quiet little, forgettable Rudith. A healer of the crew who just happened to be here. One that interacted with Riptide Pirates so little they don't even remeber he was there.

A perfect fucking mole.

#jrwi riptide #just roll with it #jrwi #jrwi spoilers #ep 115 spoilers #theory #also it is 4 am #i just finished the episode and my brain cannot process emotional devastation of the events that transpired #so i use theories as a coping mechanism #and also to find the right person i should direct the anger towards cause this fucking mole singlehandedly just ruined everyone's life #rudi if it's you i'm gonna kill you

[zeb-z]

I need this hiatus over stat I’m having Caspian withdrawals

#spoilers in the tags btw #where is my boy. is he safe. is he alright #closing my eyes and pretending episode 115 doesn’t exist. Black Sea? traitors? what are you talking about #gil and cas just left to do drunk magic in an alleyway #anyways caspian if you’re free this weekend #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi fanart #jrwi caspian #jrwi show #my art

[wrinklemcdinkle]

yall Im having some certain thoughts about episode 115 we gotta have a discussion

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

OK so were all pretty split on who the mole is on lizzie’s ship between caspian and marshall john- (rudith is a possibility but he hasnt really been mentioned much and i feel like if he was the mole grizzly would probably include him more) so lets go over them both separately

Lets establish the info: Jay stole info from the stronghold that said “there is a mole on Lizzie’s ship”, we don’t know the mole’s nickname, and even still grizz said its coded so well its impossible to tell who it is. It can’t be Lizzie as its described as being on HER ship, and her entire character would not support being a navy mole, she literally hates the navy.

CASPIAN: He’s Lizzie’s first mate, iirc they were on another crew together before their current crew. We know he’s from an outskirt settlement in the undersea, and that he has a sister (who may be an elder, grizzly described one of the elder’s looking very similar to caspian). Overall we don’t know too much about him, which makes him that more suspicious. Bizly immediately thought Caspian is the spy once that was brought up, and Caspian is just so close to Lizzie he surely has heard every detail about this plan attacking the solstice stronghold.

MARSHALL JOHN: He’s just as likely I think to be a mole. We know he was formerly in the navy, as we saw him in the first episode, but when he supposedly becomes a pirate and meets with the riptide pirates. He talks about how he wants to join Lizzie’s crew specifically, after he turns down chip’s offer to join their crew. But he was captured after the paramount tournament, before he really could become part of their crew. He was frozen inside the Block, so the navy surely wasn’t happy with him, not exactly how you’d really think they’d treat a mole. BUT then again we know they’re undercover and hidden so well that who exactly in the navy would know he’s a spy? Jayson Ferin was in that raid, so wouldnt a vice admiral know who their own spies are and not doom them to the block?

Also an honorable mention, that Edyn could be the mole. But I don’t think she’s a part of their crew, but we did see her talking to a member of the navy, and she surely has motivations for working with them, against the undersea or specifically the elders for her brother. Apart from her mention in the feywild and her answering gillion’s call in episode 86(?), we haven’t seen her since the riptide pirates left allport like episode 62/63- over 50 episodes ago.

Either way, it will be absolutely devastating once they’re revealed. How will Jay tell her crew who the spy was? What if shes captured too but maybe someone like Queen made it back and told the crew in the Black sea. Imagine they’re freaking out, Jay and the rest missing, and tells them who the spy was and how the rest of the crew is captured and probably gonna be executed or smth. Dude.

What if none of them make it back? What if Jay is the only one that makes it back?

#jrwi riptide #jrwi #jrwi show #just roll with it #jrwi spoilers #jrwi episode 115 spoilers #jrwi riptide pirates #jrwi captain lizzie #jrwi midnight rose #jrwi caspian #jrwi marshall john #YALL IM FREAKIN OUT #THIS IS HORRIBLE #HOW MUST WE STEW ON THIS FOR MONTHS #IMPOSSIBLE #DEVESTATING #my brain is incomprehensible

[has-chip-beaten-the-allegaytions]

12/24/23! latest riptide episode: 115

nope! but Christmas is just a day away! can you believe it guys? Christmas in a day ^_^ i am so excited about this information

#jrwi #chip jrwi #allegaytion posting #his ass has no chance of beating them for 6 months who am i kidding #my favorite christmas present is jrwi riptide episode 115. i am now going to go rewatch jrwi riptide episode 115 and explode about it

[okcoolthanks]

This episode is a fucking train wreck

Sorry for the quality spotify won’t let me screen shot so I took a picture of my computer

#episode 115 huh #he keeps fucking with the camera #he put it in front of his face and said ‘pirate’ #jrwi riptide #Jay leaves for HALF A FUCKING HOUR #THEYRE ON A FUCKING ISLAND #CALLED THE CUMAGOON #THIS PODCAST IS BULLSHIT AND I LOVE IT

[gilliontidestriderfan]

this is an insane fucking start to an episode what the hell

#episode 115 i think #jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi riptide #just roll with it riptide #jrwilb

[jrwi-fic-recs]

And with all your grief in my arms (I am losing you to the sea)

by Solkatter

Underneath an endless canopy of shimmering stars, with each step accompanied by the grinding of black sand beneath their feet, the echoes of forgotten lives converge and intertwine, unveiling secrets left untold.

Word Count: 8,440

Status: Not Complete (1/2)

Submitted by @soupiguess

Please always remember to read the tags!

#riptide #spoilers from episode 115 #derealization #cw: gore #fnc #gillion x chip #angst #hurt/comfort #canon divergence #graphic depictions of violence #gillion tidestrider #chip jrwi #jrwi #jrwi fanfiction

[zroqravity]

Grizzly has posted an apology and announcement. Here are the transcripts transcribed by @/Ceaser_Magz on twitter

Tldr and more info under cut

Tldr; He is apologizing for his behavior regarding POC representation and promises to try his best going forward, he is also announcing that Riptide will go on a hiatus after episode 115, both for his mental health and fleshing out the story, the hiatus may be quite long, he is hoping for less than 6 months, they do not know what they will do in the meantime, though they do have ideas.

This was posted as a 2 part voice recording on his Twitter titled " A message for the JRWI community about some of your frustrations. Please listen to both parts, as the second part is about the status of riptide.

I have gotten permission from Magz to post her transcripts here, shoutout to her for doing this and letting me repost them

#jrwi riptide #jrwi show #jrwi #just roll with it riptide #just roll with it #jrwiblr #grizzlyplays #jrwishow

[insomniacirl]

JRWI Riptide episode 115 spoilers !!

I have so many thoughts about this episode dear lord.

HOLY FUCK THE FIRST HOUR OF THIS EPISODE WAS INSANE??? LIKE, INSANE INSANE. ISTG MAN- I COULD NOT. I CANNOT.

Jay being the 'child of the sun' WAS SO FUCKING REAL MAN.

Finding out about Lizzie was actually heart-stopping

CHIP WITH THE "We can't leave her-" VOICE BREAKING, ON THE VERGE OF TEARS- STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE- GOING BACK TO SAVE HIS SISTER OR CONTINUE FORWARDS FOR HIS FATHER BECAUSE HE CAN NEVER COME BACK??? OH MY DAYS MAN.

Chip leaving the room and Gillion following out after him- the conversation that follows- Jay and the rest of the crew being left in this horrible silence after they leave- I can't.

Gillion with the, "Chip, it's not your fault." (Dead. Dead on the ground. No survivors.)

Chip's 'how did you know I was gonna go off alone?' and Gillion's 'I know you.' (Violent sobbing)

GILLION AND JAY DISCUSSING WAR TACTICS- SOBBING. OH MY LOVES- I SWEAR TO THE LORD ABOVE. I WOULD DIE FOR THEM NO WORD OF A LIE.

Gillion telling Chip to let him and Jay handle it, telling him to try and get some rest; Jay and Gillion talking about how to split their crew, Gillion explaining that he was trained for this. As a soldier. Knowing that this is the worst situation they could've been put in- because he's been the one to put people in the same one before. Jay admitting (as much as she hates to) that she knows. She already knows as much. Because she too was trained for the same exact situation. She doesn't want to admit to herself that she knows what's coming- she knows the odds aren't in their favour- she knows that she might not be able to save them- but she has to try. She just wishes she didn't understand what's going to happen.

LITERALLY MY FAVOURITE LINE FROM LIKE- THE ENTIRE EPISODE- GILLION AND JAY. AFTER DISCUSSING WAR TACTICS. AFTER COMPROMISING ON JAY'S LEAVING- TO SAVE CHIP'S SISTER- TO SAVE THEIR FRIENDS. GILLION. GILLION TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF A DISTRACTION METHOD. SOMETHING SO STUPIDLY BIG THAT THE NAVY HAVE TO COME AND DEAL WITH IT. GILLION. AND JAY. AND THE PARTING OF WAYS.

"Go set some fires, demigod."

GILLION TIDESTRIDER. CHARLIE SLIMECICLE. THE MAN THAT YOU ARE. THE CHARACTER THAT YOU ARE.

JAY FERIN. CONDI CONDIFICTION. HELLO? HELLO??? FUCKING CHILD OF THE SUN. HOLY SHIT THAT GOES SO HARD. HER EYE GLOWING AS SHE READS WHAT NO ONE ELSE CAN? GOING ON ALONE WITHOUT HER TWO BEST-FRIENDS TO FIGHT AGAINST HER BLOOD FAMILY. AGAINST THE ARMY SHE GREW UP FIGHTING TO LEAD.

I merely cannot.

Chip and Jay's tearful goodbyes- the most sibling coded to ever sibling ever.

"I love you Jay."

"I love you Chip."

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- CAN YOU HEAR ME RETCHING? CAN YOU HEAR ME PEELING THE SKIN OFF OF MY BONES? I'M LIKE GILLION TIDESTRIDER EPISODE 114 HAHAHAHAHAH. HELP ME. PLEASE. THEY MAKE ME INSANE. THEY MAKE ME ILL.

AND THEN CHIP HITTING US WITH WHAT IS PROBABLY MY SECOND FAVOURITE LINE OF THE EPISODE. CHIP AND JAY FERIN. THEIR PARTING OF WAYS.

"Better get moving, Sureshot."

WRAHHHHHHHHHH- CHIP.

I could go on about them forever. We don't talk about like- anything that happens after Jay leaves- we do not mention... the book.

BUT THEN.

Gillion casting deathward on Chip (an undead man who can technically never die again). I'm insane???

The two of them almost instantly dying without Jay LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Gillion arm wrestling a literal titan sized- giant of an enemy.

Chip. That's it. Just Chip 😭

Gillion almost 360 spin-kicking the guy's head off and Grizzly being like, 'He's not a bad guy btw' AND CHARLIE SPITTAKING I WAS PISSING MYSELF THAT WAS SO GODDAMN FUNNY.

THE HOLE IN THE SEA? THEM ENTERING THE WHIRLPOOL? CHIP AND GILLION WAKING UP TOGETHER AND FINDING GRIFFIN? THE DARK WATER CEILING? THE BLACK SAND GILLION AND JAY SAW?

I'M INSANE PT1029381929138102948831201291209???

#JRWI #JRWI Riptide #The Riptide Pirates #JRWI Gillion #JRWI Jay #JRWI Chip #Chip Bastard #Jay Ferin #Gillion Tidestrider #The hole in the sea #Albatrio #Fnc #JRWI Fnc #Captain Lizzie #Ava Ferin #Lizzie Lafayette #Ohhhhhh #They make me so ill #/pos #I love them sm #Oh also merry Christmas eve guys #LMAOOOOOOO

[tttrashmouth]

jrwi riptide, episode 115 mood board

#spoilers in tags #so many feelings #first i love yous (i think) #me screaming rn #everything #crew split #AAAAAHHHH #hope the boys have a good hiatus though/srs #omg theo listens to a podcast :000 #jrwi #jrwi riptide #just roll with it #just roll with it riptide #jrwi spoilers #jrwi riptide spoilers

[artistnamedlg]

Jrwi Riptide episode 115

Dopple Gil, my favorite character. He’s so enthusiastic and full of life guys.

#art #illustration #small artist #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital aritst #digital drawing #jrwi jay #jrwi art #jrwi gillion #jrwi chip #jrwi riptide #jrwi fanart #animatic #animation

[zeb-z]

jrwi riptide 115

So the elephant in the room. Grandberry traitor. It’s Caspian or John right? Those are the two we know, the two we are attached to, it’s not just gonna be random new recruit #7 out of the unnamed folks they’ve picked up. It’s not that one healer from Joaldo who joined them that I can’t remember his name right now.

John has made it clear since he revolted from the Navy that he’s kept up with the Grandberry pirates, that all he wants is to join them. That could be a flag. The fact that he was part of his own “special unit” or something along those lines before going outlaw. There’s the journal of his they found back at Zero that they never truly read through and tossed after reading the first poem, which might have had definite answers. And this is small, but he was really protective over keeping the pin from Jayson Ferin.

But the block throws a wrench in it, because why would they throw him in their highest security prison and let him freeze? Unless somehow John was sure without a shadow of a doubt they would have come back for him, and they weighed the risk and reward. The Ferin family drama could have thrown a wrench in their plans enough to have thrown away any plans on easier escape. It’s plausible, but it just is too much of a discrepancy. And John wears his heart on his sleeve, since episode zero he has, it’s hard to think of him as the traitor.

Then there’s Caspian, who has been with Lizzie since almost the beginning, from Shadowbeard’s crew. It’s where they met, and they both survived and escaped Shatter Skull massacre together. But that means he was there for the fall of Shadowbeard, and Ava Ferin’s death. And while it’s pretty much said by Lizzie she thinks it’s Ava who betrayed her, with everything else said, and with what Jay remembers and loves of her sister, it just doesn’t quite track. There was an ulterior motive to kill Ava in the same fight, ordered by someone higher up, playing into the propaganda and fear mongering against pirates and pro Raft agenda. And he knows Edyn Tidestrider, he was the one to reunite her and Gillion. He has her number. And she is gills deep in double-triple agent Raft bullshit.

But could he have been such a double agent all this time, since Shatter Skull? After all his blood sweat and tears, all the weight he’s lifted for Lizzie? All the Edyn stuff could easily be a coincidence, considering their Undersea connection. And he’s not quite heart on his sleeve honest as John has been, but he’s chill like that, he’s kindhearted and patient. And after everything, and I mean everything, he’s done - for Gillion especially - giving him his sword, reuniting him with his sister, daily phone calls, teaching him spells and moves, being the first friend especially from the undersea and reconnecting him with their culture - it’s so hard to think of him as the traitor.

There’s proof enough for both of them. But everything considered, with how undercover and long term the black book missions are, how even Jay had been a spy at one point - Caspian makes the most sense, doesn’t he.

#if it really is him I’m opening a real life hole in the real life sea and diving in headfirst #I’m just so miserable dude #caspian my favorite my light of my life this whole time I’ve been like man I miss caspian calls I miss caspian time #and John :( he’s just so good. too good. it really could be him to and that sucks so bad #but I’d rather him than caspian jfjskfkskfk after everything. like #he’s always over the top and cheery and hunting for the grandberry pirates. but caspian evidence is damning to me #anyways. I don’t know what to do now #caspian could be a traitor drey is fucking missing why are my faves always doomed by the narrative #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi 115 #jrwi riptide 115 #jrwi spoilers #riptide spoilers #jrwi caspian #marshal john #z speaks