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nobody: me, looking at a gifset on my dash: Henry & Hetty would crush people at chicken

#this is one of those pool games which probably has like a million names right? but it's the one where like #people pair up and one person sits on the others shoulders and they try to knock other pairs over #and the logic here is henry is very strudy and hetty is deceptively competitive #also oooooo the time got away from me i so need to go to bed

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"I thought you were dead" "Common misunderstanding" possibly also. but less so.

"I'm surprised to see you on your feet so soon" "I get that a lot" henrycore

#hello #proverbially laying on the floor vaguely near you

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"I'm surprised to see you on your feet so soon" "I get that a lot" henrycore

#hannah collects quotes from unrelated shows/movies.txt #(lo.st in spa;ce)

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Send one for Henry to tell your muse...

Ω a myth; retelling of the gods or elevated mortals the world over

❧ a folk tale; featuring magic, enchantments, or fanciful beings

🕯 a scary story; containing a ghost or monster of some sort

🗨 a legend; recounting something that's said to have really happened

☠ a pirate yarn; might be more of a myth, or more of a legend, could even have ghosts or magic or curses or honestly just a few lies, but either way it'll contain at least one pirate (but likely a whole crew of them)

♫ a shanty or ballad; in a drabble that will probably be more action & setting than actual re-telling because reading words to a shanty just isn't very interesting but!! he will!!! sing for them!!!!!!! (and dance with them!!!!!!)

♆ one of his own stories; he'll tell it as though he lived it, but you'll have to decide for yourself if he's being honest or not..

#me: literally trying to empty the inbox stuff i have #also me: .... but the henry specific retellings meme tho #(one of the waiting prompts is literally from the last time i rb'd this. months ago. wheeze)

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inadvertently thinking about that piece of art i didn't finish now b/c it's saved as (..ig titled?) "water babies" and im just. thinkin about how comfortable he is in the water. i don't know if this is going anywhere interesting im just thinking about it, is all

#i dunno if he could swim as a literal toddler or anything but definitely he learned young #and i think he's probably also a decent diver. good long breath hold #modern verse might even be scuba certified? #rolls this thought along. anyway i'm in drafts focusing old inbox stuff but i dunno if anything gets posted tonight

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ADA MASALI   |   1.13 ﹣ rüya gibi

#dyn — ( henry & allie. ) #tactical reblog

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“They’ll sweetly drown you if you get too close.”

Peter Pan (2003) dir. P.J. Hogan

#we're off the edge of the map! here there be monsters ( world building. )

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HC question: what does Henry think of his name? His first one and last one. Does he think it suits him, or is it something he gradually grew into?

hmmmmmmmmmm neat question I haven't ever approached it from like, his ic opinion on it before I don't think?

I'm not sure... I don't really think he'd have a suits/doesn't suit opinion about being 'Henry' because it's like. One of those things he just is? One of my sources: just trust me headcanons about him is that he's not very prone at all to like... that thing people are capable of where they think of themselves and their body and their minds and their souls all as like, separate things? And that extends to like. Everything about him is him, and he's neither critical nor vain about himself, he just is. If that makes sense? To be like.... "I hate my hair" or even "I love myself" it too... self-removed? Whereas his approach to self is like. He is. And he trusts that he is. (Which isn't to say he's completely devoid of personal preference, obviously he has his shiny bits and his good luck totems and his tattoos and he prefers comfortable dress over fashionable dress but still has... it's definitely a personal style, anyway. Which prioritizes function but isn't exclusively function based. (Let's be honest there's nothing practical about the necklace. Noisy! Heavy! Capable of being grabbed in a fight or snagged in other situations!!)) I'm digressing but the point I'm trying to work on is: his name is just this sort of irrevocable part of his person, to him, and he no more likes or dislikes it than he likes or dislikes that he is a person. Which is to say, he has no opinion on being a person, he simply is one. If it had felt wrong, and he'd chosen some sort of moniker or ended up with some manner of nickname, I think it would still remain part of him. In a different way, but. I think this is just... some of the way he is. He has been given things, names and tools and treasures, that are simply just part of him. And it doesn't occur to him to really pick them apart into which he likes and dislikes, usually. He's not just called Henry, he is Henry.

.. I've thought it was because "Henry" as a name doesn't nickname easily (and like, with the established nicknames.... he's not a 'Harry' for Obvious reasons and he's definitely not a Hank holy shit scoob) but maybe that's why he doesn't lend to them so easily, actually? He picks up some endearments -and some insults- but nothing that's... especially derivative or unique, like something someone would call only him. And maybe that's why? Maybe we all agree, He's Henry. At least whenever he's not The (Turner) Boy.

[Which as a completely unrelated aside might also be. Part of my "if you're going to ignore dmtnt canon then just don't call the w!llabeth kid Henry then" pet-peeve when it comes to fanfic as well ;sdkfjg;ldkfgj like that is! a whole different child, then!! get 'em a new name with this new identity because that's for sure not Henry you have said so yourself. grrr snarl bark.]

Now depending on where you think the name came from I do also think it's really interesting that. He's potentially named something that -to Elizabeth- is a pirate name. I don't know if this is a me-thing or a fandom-thing (it's. almost definitely not a the-writers thing because he was Henry before he was even Turner so that means they didn't pick it based in these thoughts at all) but I maintain he's named after Henry Morgan, and some of that has to do with Elizabeth's childhood infatuation with pirate stories, and some of it has to do with her adult appreciation of the Code and captaining. And because she was not going to doom her child to whatever blatant curse my live on the name ".William Tu.rner" that consigns a man to be cursed and killed and claimed by the sea (though some things are at least somewhat inevitable, apparently). And so while Henry might not... well no he probably knows and has thoughts about that but like. While Henry wouldn't necessarily find a reason to like or dislike his name there, it is interesting to have his name tied to intentionally and specifically to piracy and infamy and the code itself.

And he's got a dead man's name for his middle name, Henry James. Which is pure and solidly headcanon (and let me tell you how often I run into 'Henry William' and 'Henry Jack' and, once, 'Henry Weatherby' which is very sweet but also immensely silly, as a name, and only slightly less unfortunate than 'William Weatherby') and I don't think he exactly likes or dislike that either but I do think it's. maybe a little heavy, sometimes. Maybe even a little uncomfortable? To be not just his family legacy but a legacy of shattered possibility. Not in a way that makes him resentful but that definitely makes him conscious of names and lines and loss.

And then like. Can a last name ..not suit you? It has very little to do with you, most of the time, if you think about it. And also everything to do with you, though. Nothing to be mad at or anything there for him, anyway. But I guess maybe it's also heavy in its own way but I don't know that that's purely because of the name he's really just sort of. going to pick that up even if he had always been called Swann. Which, I do think he is, also. And I think he gives it that way sometimes, when it bears being said out loud because someone did something stupid like forgot about it, or acted like it was irrelevant and not literally his largest influence and honest to god a big explanation about the way that he is. 'Look like your father' this and 'turner boy' that, why is everyone stupid he'll chain you to a sinking ship and let you get eaten by a literal sea monster for his loved ones. (Well. no probably not, he'd find a secret third way, this is his narrative function -to break the narrative rule, to flip a double bird at your catch 22 while he has his cake and eats it too- but if he wasn't an inherent system breaker he would. I stand by that.)

I think this is getting worse the longer I go on let me,,, try to bring it back.

I think his name, which if you ask me is H.enry James Swann-Turne,r with the occasional turn at donning Sparrow wings every now and then, is very. a lot. It's a lot. It carries legends and deaths and love and curses and wind and wildness. And sometimes I think it's a heavy thing to be carrying around, and now and then maybe even a frustrating thing. But I don't think... whether it suits him ever crosses his mind. Because I don't think... I don't think whether or not he "lives up to it" crosses his mind either? Which would maybe ultimately be the question here? Because you know for all the things he sits in the cross section of and all the cycles broken for him and by him, and all the history in all those names you could call him by, and all the sort of... thoughts that might invoke and places that leads him and doors it opens (and doors it closes) the thing about Henry is. He's going to do whatever it is he's going to do. What he decides to do.

And I know I've gone on some extended rant about this before so there is a post about it somewhere but I think part of the reason he's so able to be that way and have the confidence he has is directly because of the way he was raised, and the effort his parents went through not to slough all of their traumas and fears onto him, not to set some impossible standard for him to strive for or iron role for him to fit inside. There's this throughline in the franchise about freedom and love and freedom being love, and from that I think giving him freedom to just be whoever he was going to be is exactly the demonstrative love his parents would commit to. The fact that it leads him to grow into the kind of person who then dedicates himself directly to the madness of his family is just... who he is. Not who he felt he had to be —at least not in the way of Living Up To A Name. The conversation of ''only I will'' is a different one. It's an intense name, in some ways. And I think he's aware of the weight it contains, if only because of the way other people have reacted to it. But I don't think he feels... beholden to it? In the way of... something he can fail at being. It's not a thing to grow into it's him. Always has been.

#hmmm i went ''fuck my anxiety i will ANSWER'' but did not consider my relative level of coherency did i #sd;lkjfg;ldkjfg sorry i hope this at all offered insight #there's a light that never goes out ( hc. ) #u know sometimes i think ''is it that i have a lot of headcanons or is it because i have an unparalleled ability to murder a word count'' #also i got scared of appearing in searches sorry for the weird censoring ;sdlkfjg;dlkjfg

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watch this. this is literally what love is.

#uhhhh #this is what they did to make will immediately endearing to the audience. also this is henry 2 me specifically. just in general. #no he's not usually clumsy but he IS a moonstruck puppy-love shaped idiot who would 100% sit in a chair wrong and lean too far back--- #i would rather break the world than lose you ( character study. ) #it's going in the tag bite me

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From the Wikipedia page on loons

Now with free ready-to-print .png and .tif file

#this is. a loon and not a swan but. elizabeth 2 me #animal death tw

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here is a thought the thought is. henry is not keen on substances in general ((except drinking because he's one of those people that considers drinking separate from drugs even though. it really isn't you know.)) but i do think,,,,, there is some situation in which. maybe. possibly. there are milder things he would try out of the sheer curiosity, the curiosity could potentially get him one (1) time and then never again.

#but in general the idea of .... and this is wild because he's not a guarded person #but the idea of like. a Thing that fucks around with your decision making and intentionality #very not for him.

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to balance the extremely odd energy i just put out here though i really do think. and i maybe think about this a lot but- i really do think. the movie is wrong because carina definitely kissed him first. send post.

#so much of this absolutely has to be. because of the way i filled out the empty parts of his writing i don't know if this would be true of #canon henry but i really do think. when speaking of hannah!henry and rora!carina she absolutely kissed him first ok ty #and not like. i don't say that because i think it's some kind of empowerment statement i just think that like #if there is one (1) place in the whole thing where he is clearly not really sure. what's going on exactly #it's between him and her. and he sets up a lot of the banter moment and definitely makes eyes and has little private moments where #he's just. he's so endeared and a little bit thrown #and he! sets things up. but she's the one that hits it home that commits so it's like #this dialogue where he is. not really asking exactly but creating places where she can go. Yeah Me Too. (?) if that #if that makes sense?? we're. we're wading into unfinished-rewrite territory here but this is actually;;; #my footing here comes from the movie (and the little bit more of it we get in the novelization!) where henry will sort of... #mostly he's just Like This i think but he shares and he offers and *yes* he's bold in that regard #and in the doing-what-he-thinks-he-must regard right but also when it comes to like.... dynamics? #or at least theirs specifically #he will. say something and then look. say something and then wait. set up and let her open up in response or not. #and she usually does! (which. smth smth she's used to no one asking. aaahhhhhh) #but all of that is just. u see how this leads me? to. i think she kissed him first #and i don't think he set it up in the same way as that .. at least half intentional ''i'll go first'' way but just in a #he would have found some way to make it known he likes her and i just think #when the first kiss happens it's because he did something really stupidly endearing and she couldn't bear it and i think #she kissed him first is all #woooo hannah's on her ship bullshit let's goooooo #oh i forgot about the very-run-through-the-airport thought until just now but i'm back on that technically aren't i #i said it there too. #anyway carina! kissed! him! first!! #(he did -however- kiss her back like three times in the next couple seconds)

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on the one hand it's probably some incredible form of cringe but on the other I just think. bitmojis are really funny and if I was going to have a mun fc,,,,

#genuinely about to haul off & start biting ( ooc. ) #wild for this to be the first post ive made here in like three days but w/e #tbd.

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#yeah

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YOU ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN YOUR FATHER'S SON.

#fascinated by watching people react to this out of context lyric i love when parts of things take on meanings different to the whole #(i see a lot of ''not your (bad) dad'' but it's really more like. ... #imo obviously but the song is more like. your legacy is not All you are.) #((anyway this song is in one of my henry playlists it makes me want to bite things))

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takes you gently by the shoulders. that one florence+the machine lyric is a bad Elizabeth lyric because she is Mother and Bride and King. that is,, the point.

#she's not just king but all three! more than what was estimated of her! which includes some of the traditional roles #but expands beyond them! and gives her the freedom to Make These Choices For Herself #it's not that those things are evil it's that being trapped into them out of propriety and not choice is limiting #and love is freedom is what a ship Really Is #pirate king elizabeth is also bride to the captain of the flying dutchman and a loving mother she contains multitudes this is. the point!! #she is not Just king!!!!!! #(gentle rattling) she is more! she is everything!! the gender fuckery title is cool but there's more that just that going on there!!!!!!!! #listen i just think sometimes the fandom is a little out of touch with what elizabeth Actually represents and not what they want her to rep #but u know. opinions opinions

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She Creature Starters || @wildhecrt ( Elizabeth )

“I hope I didn't scare you.”

  Henry's little setup in the kitchen betrayed his restlessness. Beyond the fact that it had all been assembled in the dead hours of night, the low table where he'd arranged his candle and materials was pulled askew, and the window yawned wide, clear to the hills and the ocean and sky beyond. All of it beckoning. Yet another version of the trident myth rested before him, pulled from a book he'd stumbled into on their last stop. He was roughly a third of the way into translating it, comparing it across to the version he'd first encountered (which was still, happily, housed in a book rather than torn free) and a few notes from other variations.

  The swing of the door caught him well off guard, lifting his attention sharply, but it was in truth an overriding sense of guilt that put his heartbeat in his throat and made him close his book over the translated scribbles before he pulled it all into his lap. Held close, and defended. Did that count as a scare? Or something else? Henry wasn't certain. He shrugged and cleared his throat.

  “I expected you were sleeping,” was the only half-whispered explanation -assurance?- he could think to supply. “..I didn't wake you..?”

#wildhecrt #i want to leave no one behind — to keep & be kept ( ic. ) #arc ii — never give in never give it up ( teen. ) #smol boy...babie.