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quaranmine · 1 year

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Literally only comfort for me in the lonesome dreams universe is that Watcher!Grian eventually finds out that Jimmy is a listener without Jimmy telling him (recongnizing the wings somehow, Feeling this Weird energy coming from him, Jimmy letting him see some of the destruction powers, noticing the obscuring of things if he ever got pushed to try and See things, idk lol) and through this loophole of Grian finding out but not having had Jimmy tell him Jimmy can finally have some solidarity lol. Also brainrot about whether or not Grian is trying to get them out of the games, and whether the players remember the games, and like how Grian would handle everything and therefore how he’d treat Jimmy, and like them working together to try and escape. And if Grian noticed, who’s to say the Watchers haven’t? Sorry idk if you have any plans and this is super unsolicited but like AJHDKAHDJAHF the brainrot bro I have not stopped thinking about lonesome dreams since I read it yesterday 😭 Like AGHH the way he’s so lonely and his name is Solidarity like,,,,, Ik there’s another fic of yours where it’s canon and I look forward to reading it :)

OMG HELLO ANON!!!!!! no this isnt unsolicited at all, i am literally THRILLED when people talk to me about listener!jimmy, especially lonesome dreams-verse jimmy because it's still one of my fave fics i have done.

i tend to use "lonesome dreams-verse" when talking about fics that take place under these headcanons but honestly, i pretty much base my entire interpretation of jimmy off of this, so it's almost more useful to note when i am not using it lol. so yeah--jimmy in htbahb is the same one from lonesome dreams too! they're not in the same series because one deals far more with the life series than the other, but it's the same deal. if jimmy ever appears in IBW, it will be the same.

this series of fic suffers from.....many ideas and not enough writing LOL. Lonesome Dreams was initially conceptualized as a backstory oneshot to go with a larger multichapter fanfic center on Jimmy. It was set in Last Life (hey, 3 of the southlanders were former evolutionists!) and focused on him using some of his Listener powers to break them out of the games. it was really funny though because i came up with it in the middle of last life before martyn canonized anything watcher related and i accidentally predicted half of it. But I never really was able to get it into an actual fic, lol, so i just wrote Lonesome Dreams instead. I'm still interested in doing a fanfic where Jimmy helps them all break out of the death games, though.

i like your idea of Grian noticing that Jimmy has some weirdness around him and saving Jimmy the trouble of having to tell someone. my general idea is that grian remembers the loops in full because he is a watcher, but everybody else has sort of hazey memories of things. They might rememeber enough to reference things in past seasons, but it isn't enough to realize what's going on. Jimmy, however, also remembers everything because being a Listener makes him more immune to this memory magic or whatever. So that's one opportunity for grian to notice some things--jimmy knows about things he maybe isn't supposed to. imagine that from grian's perspective though lol hes angsting in being the only one to remember xyz and then jimmy pops up knowing something he shouldnt and grian is like TIMMY? TIMMY OF ALL PEOPLE KNOWS THIS?

there was also planned flower husbands Moment in the last life fic where jimmy was sad because scott only sort of-kind of remembered 3rd life, and not any of its intensity or emotion, whereas jimmy remembered all of it and still loved him. oops, i planned to break all your hearts with that one.

i often headcanon that grian doesn't have his full powers in the games, since the watchers are suppressing it. they're not really good at fully preventing grian from doing anything, but they can prevent him from doing a lot of stuff. it's like one versus however many of them there are, right? i'd say at least two watchers in charge of the life series just like evo, but we don't know that. so grian is sort of outnumbered. that's why jimmy could help ;) so grian is wanting to get them out of the games, he just doesn't have the power on his own to successfully do it

as for the watchers knowing about jimmy--i go back and forth on this. i basically think that as long as he didn't use any of his visual powers or his wings and only Listened then they might not know. like, they can Watch you destroy something but you can't see if someone is listening or not. eventually they would find out, though, because he would have to show his hand at some point to get anything real done. martyn says in his lore that the watchers do not like the former evolutionists who are associated with the listeners, since the listeners helped the evolutionists escape (which is why jimmy was helping them in lonesome dreams.) so they Definitely know jimmy is associated, just like martyn and pearl and bigb are, but i havent decided if they know he's a full listener or not.

one of my other lonesome dreams-verse headcanons, that i actually have a half-written oneshot for, is how jimmy's destructive powers go against him. he has some chronic pain issues from this, because it's self-destructive too. it reminded me of my own autoimmune disease--basically my own body attacking itself? kind of happens to jimmy too. but this is because the Listeners are generally not visible to humans. or corporeal. they're very wispy, the sound of the wind in the trees around you, etc and so Jimmy pretty much kept his human body, with just the addition of wings. Meanwhile, as in my fic htbahb, grian looks WAY more like a watcher and is just projecting a more human image of himself all the time. all of that was basically to say that jimmy doesn't look very conspicious to the watchcers in the first place, since he still has a human body. he also got forgotten/ignored by them in evo so....it IS possible they don't know the full extent of his connections with listeners, i think

ultimately, though, i have several formulated ideas of people finding out Jimmy is a Listener, and it mostly comes from him telling them. He's not supposed to tell, of course. But I like putting characters in difficult positions, and I think that with the life series especially, that Jimmy is like. The risks outweigh anything else. He has to tell people, because getting everybody out of the games is a lot more important than potentially upsetting the Listeners. I like putting characters in situations where revealing their secrets is the only way to move forward--this is what happened to Grian in htbahb too, when he has to use his powers to save people (because he ofc cares more about his friend's lives than his own secrets).

Jimmy has a bit of an uneasy alliance with the Listeners in general, because he is on their side and owes them a lot but would probably ultimately rather be free and on his own. they're nice to him, but also a little coercive. I feel like after a couple loops of the game he would probably feel sort of abandoned that they havent helped him yet (whether or not they were trying to doesnt matter, just that jimmy feels like they havent helped.) so he might not feel so bad about telling people xD except that it invites a lot of vulnerability and awkardness to suddenly come forward now, so it would still be very tough.

jimmy and grian are not brothers in lonesome dreams , but i DID have an one-off idea for a oneshot where jimmy admitted he was a Listener to Grian in a scenario where they are siblings. I may write it because it has been plaguing me for like two months now. it would probably get uploaded in the series with lonesome dreams, but might not be The Official Reveal Scene if i want to write something different later, you know? but the way i built this out in my head was SO GOOD lol

it's also worth noting two general dynamics with grian and jimmy. firstly, All the former evolutionists know that he is a watcher. they know that because the watchers told them so when he was taken. now the hermits on the other hand, they do not all know, because they met grian afterward and that's his business that he doesn't always share. but the evolutionists all know and they just like....dont always know if they should talk about it or not. But nobody knows Jimmy is a Listener because he never told anymore. Another interesting thing is that Grian hates the Listeners--he was taught to hate them, by the Watchers! But even after breaking off from the Watchers, it hasn't quite occurred to him that they might have lied to him about the Listeners being bad. Like he was taught a bit of propaganda because of course he was, they were the enemies of the Watchers, but he doesn't really realize they were lying a little? For all grian is concerned, they're just two sets of god-like entities with too much power that he hates. So that's um...a little fun for finding out about Jimmy....

this is. so much information LOL. i have thought about it greatly.

but yeah, jimmy needs a little support :( i think the listeners would be unhappy if he told people, but i think they would get over it eventually. BOTH jimmy and grian probably need to know there is someone else out there who has had some similar experiences. they're two lonely little birds :((((((

#quara asks #LD jimmy #<- maybe should start a tag but i dont wanna co-opt the lord huron tags. theyre my besties #long post #listener jimmy #save

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daincrediblegg · 2 years

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So glad there's somebody else I can share my Bruno brainrot with, I wasn't expecting to have so many emotions about this man 😭 He's been shunned and thought of as some sort of curse for so long, and even through it all, he still cared about his family. Him feeling like an outcast and like he doesn't belong, standing out in a family full of magical people simply because he doesn't have the ""right"" magic, it hits so close to home 😭😭 I know he wouldn't think it, but Bruno deserves so much.

YEAH BRO FUCKING FOR REAL!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Honestly I didn't really 100% expect it either. This beautiful rat man came in like a fucking sleeper agent for me. Like I literally saw this movie on January 3rd. Top of the year (I still have the ticket stub)- and yet it's only this week that I'm kinda having my "oh" moment about it all. Like maybe I'm feeling that emotional vulnerability to begin with but my god... I've been (and still am in a LOT of ways) been in his position in relation to his family. Like this man knew his family so well that it made it hard for him to know what to do about it and kinda couldn't do anything about it and knew no other solution other than to disappear and lay low. But he loves them so much that even though he knew he had to leave he couldn't LEAVE them. Even though there's so much damage between them for varying reasons- he still loves them so much and absolutely didn't want to leave completely or for good. And he did it all for the sake of his neice??? HIS NEICE???? AN INNOCENT KID WHO GOT A BAD HAND IN THE FAMILY GIFT LOTTERY????? Like yeah. Ok guy. That shit is layered like a fucking onion you've met all my standards lets get married and make a proper dad outta you and give you the life you've deserved this whole time 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺(and not at the discount of the rest of the family either like my god I would LOVE to marry into that family. Mirabel -and the rest of the grandkids- ship her Tio with NOTHING but good things from here on out and you can't change my mind).

And like??? there's stuff like that to glean about the WHOLE movie. With ALL the characters. And that shit gets me jazzed af- it really did take a few more re-watches for that to hit and sink in but I've been close to tears watching it every single fucking time since then. Like I don't think I've been this into a disney film's deeper narrative work since fucking Tangled- and this one may very well edge it out of top slot now honestly because of it (especially since this is the best working 'no true villain' narrative that Disney or Pixar have ever concocted- and it works fucking beautifully better than any of those kinds of narratives they've attempted before). Not to mention the art??? Like finally. Some character design that truly slaps and leans just a little more into good and reasonable stylization and doesn't all just look like twiggy-ass fucking cats all around. Fucking bless. This is a disney movie I would not be mad about winning best animation at the oscars at all it fucking earned it.

#lmao feel free to come here any time for some ramblings I got plenty to spare as you can see #I mean I've been emotionally vulnerable for the last couple of weeks to begin with bc of everything's that been going on with my mom #and then not having my laptop on top of that which is kindof a big part of helping me do what I love doing??? yeah. no bueno #but wow... did encanto get me fucking good #like I missed the whole silco arcane train I thought this one would pass me by but NOPE. OF COURSE IT COULDN'T THEY GAVE ME THE MOST #BEAUTIFUL RAT MAN AND I AIN'T LETTING HIM GO NOW #speaking of- VERY funny that HIS song fucking bumped that overplayed shit out at last like good for u bruno bb #wild af too like who would ever expect a 'villain' ensemble song to be top dog? nobody but here we are and it's fucking legit and I love it #anyway #bruno madrigal #encanto #rat boy make egg brain go brrrrrrrrr

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