If og lloyd returns to his body after suho crosses the reincarnation gate what do you think will the frontera family and javier feel? Would they be glad for og lloyd's return? Particularly julian and javier?
so uhm. tumblr ate a similar ask i received before this one. like. the same premise so. i'm gonna assume it was by the same person. hopefully. sorry. anyway.
this is an evil scenario. i kinda dig it.
if lloyd crossed the gate and og lloyd returned to his body at that moment,,, there would be many, many conflicting emotions.
i'm gonna take the premise of the other ask and say the og lloyd that returns is the one from right before he got kicked out of his body. this is an og lloyd that didn't see lloyd save the estate countless times, didn't see the effect he had on everyone around him, that never had any reason to regret everything he'd done.
for arcos and marbella i think it would be an extremely bittersweet situation. they would be overjoyed about having their son again, they were absolutely devastated when they realized they'd lost him so i have no doubt they would be so, so happy if he came back. but at the same,,, it would be dampened by their grief over losing lloyd. they came to love him just as much as they loved their biological children, so they would mourn him just as much as they mourned og lloyd. and they would have to be very careful about how they express that grief lest og lloyd take offense to it and believe they'd rather have lloyd with them than him.
plus. well. og lloyd is,,, an asshole. and would presumably resume his terrible habits and attitude immediately, which would be jarring for everyone, but especially for arcos and marbella who deeply love their son and whose grief over suddenly losing him would probably made them romanticize his memory a little bit. it's a natural thing to do, everyone is a saint once they're dead, and while i don't think they completely forgot how terrible og lloyd was, it's a different thing to remember it while you're grieving and missing them than to see it in person again.
i think they would try their best to repair their relationship with him, grateful for the second chance they got with him, but i don't think they would get very far. the problem never was that they didn't care for og lloyd or didn't make an effort with him, it was that og lloyd wasn't interested in reciprocating those efforts. and it's really hard to make a relationship work when only one party is invested on it.
as for julian,,, it's hard to say because we never get to see how he feels about lloyd replacing his brother in the first place, which i think it's a shame cause he's one of the people who by all means has the most extreme response to lloyd in the entire novel. i think his perspective would've been really interesting to have but alas.
but,,, i don't think he would be happy at all. not even a little bit. maybe a part of him would be relieved his brother isn't dead, but that would be it. assuming this is in line with canon where julian has no idea his brother had been replaced, he'd first have to grapple with the fact that the person he came to love and admire was someone completely different than the one he thought.
that the brother that physically and verbally harassed him his entire life never changed. that the person he forgave and made peace with is not the one that hurt him in the first place. that the one that should've apologized and made amends with him is still the same and has no interest in changing.
that would alone would fuck anyone up, but then he has to also grieve the brother he'd come to love and really admire while having to watch the brother who he hated with a passion walk around like nothing happened.
julian hated og lloyd. he had an extreme hatred for him. and he was completely in his right to do it. so add to it the mess of betrayed feelings he would have plus the grief for lloyd plus a healthy dose of resentment and misattirbutted blame towards og lloyd for being alive when lloyd isn't anymore and,,, yeah. i don't think julian would have any positive feelings in this situation.
i think he would stay just long enough in the estate to be with his parents while the worst of the grief passed and then leave, with no plans of coming back unless his parents needed him to.
also i like to think that at one point julian snapped at og lloyd for one reason or another and when og lloyd went to hit him like usual not only did julian not flinch like he used but also sheherazade went absolutely ballistic on his ass. straight up trying to cut off his arm for it. javier was quick to stop her but like. it was a close thing even considering he's a grandmaster at that point.
after that og lloyd just avoids julian like the plague which suits all of them just fine. sheherazade especially. scary wife privilege <3
as for javier. god javier.
if arcos and marbella were happy about og lloyd coming back and julian was upset about it, javier would fall somewhere in the middle and also create a metric of his own.
just,, imagine the devastation he felt when lloyd crossed the gate on his own, his despair at not being able to protect the person he swore he would die for, then the bright spot of hope and relief when he sees him open his eyes and wake up, thinking that maybe, just maybe, fate was kind to them this time, maybe they get to have this one miracle, maybe they both get to life and be together like they wanted to... only for the slow and terrible realization that this isn't the lloyd he was hoping for. it's not his lloyd.
i think for one brief moment of grief induced insanity javier would genuinely consider throwing og lloyd into the reincarnation gate and see if that would bring back his lloyd. he doesn't of course, he immediately shakes himself out of it, but... the thought would've definitely crossed his mind.
because the thing is, while i've talked before about how javier wasn't glad about og lloyd being replaced and genuinely felt guilty for not being able to help him and for choosing lloyd over him, that's not,,, really because of og lloyd himself. like. it sounds harsh but javier kind of really hated the guy's guts. he cared for him as a member of the frontera family and would've genuinely tried to protect him had there been any need, but it would've been strictly professional and out of duty and loyalty towards arcos, not to og lloyd. which i don't really blame him for tbh! you reap what you sow and og lloyd earned himself nothing but javier's disdain with his actions and words.
but the point is! javier's interest in og lloyd is directly related to him putting his loyalty to arcos above all things. in the hell railroad arc that's his main reason to feel so conflicted about who to choose.
but at this point in the novel javier's loyalties have shifted. he's still extremely loyal to arcos, he still loves the frontera family, he still would protect them with all his being but... now his heart's loyalty belongs to lloyd.
I want to protect him. Lloyd is my true master in my heart.
and i think that, for one split second at least, the part of javier who would do anything for the people he cares about and is loyal to, would genuinely contemplate throwing og lloyd back into the reincarnation gate if there was even the slightest chance it would bring his lloyd back.
but he would quickly snap out of it. he is still very loyal to arcos and marbella, and this is their son, he's still a part of the frontera family and javier cannot, will not, risk his life on the small possibility it will save someone else. not even lloyd.
he would even feel guilty for having considered it in the first place, for letting himself be swept by his emotions, for being so selfish as to think about trading the frontera's son for the chance to get lloyd back. for knowing that even though he didn't do it, a small, grieving and half mad part of him still thinks it would be worth it.
i also think he would have a very hard time being around og lloyd but even a worse one trying to stay away from him. being in the same room as him would be bitter, disappointing and painful, but not being there would be maddening, every instinct telling him to go back, to see if he's alright, to be at the side of the person he'd spent the last few years protecting with everything he had. the one he'd been planning on staying with the rest of his life.
i think it was hard for him to come to love someone wearing the face of a person he hated. but it would be excruciating to see someone he hates wear the face of the person he came to love.
all in all. not a good time for anyone! which i think fucks i love this scenario it really woke up the brain worms <3
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NeverAfter Ep 20 As Brian David Gilbert Gifs (FINALE SPOILERS!!!!)
i'm not ready for the series to be over Mr. Mulligan. God i cant believe how far i fell into this series so fast. I missed out on the previous D20 adventures because I just got hook only last November or Dec. I truly love every one of the PCs and many of these NPCs and i am terrified for their fates.
Should note physically I am unwell i somehow pinched a nerve so I am in great pain but trying to manage so apologies if I am late to posting this or miss something.
In any case without further ado enjoy my dramatic liveblog and as always:
Gerard getting Scheherazade up with a good berry:
Timothy starting concentration and hearing the arthurs in the ink and repelling their intent to turn them into paper:
TIMOTHY USING CUTTING WORDS TO HELP BABA YAGA KEEP CINDERELLA RESTRAINED:
Ylfa risking jumping up onto Baba Yaga, making it, and TAKING SHEHERZADE'S BOOK BACK, AND THROWS IT BACK TO SHEHERAZADE:
Rosamund summoning a bird to be PIBs mount:
Rosamund criting on the blue fairy and going into a new special form:
Pinocchio using strands of fate to give all the bookholders total cover:
THE INK BECOMING MASTER HAND FROM SUPER SMASH BROS:
PIB using the bird to send a firework at the fairies and pib attacking the green fairy:
brennan losing his godamn mind with that move by Zac:
Tom Thumb giving Mira a goodberry:
Pinocchio managing to convince the fairy with the turquoise hair to join destiny's children and then fucking diving into the ocean of pages:
GERARD BLEPPING OUT HIS TONGUE TO PUT THE FAIRY GODMOTHER IN ROSAMUND'S BOOK CONTINUING HIS REVENGE TOUR + the evil fairy i guess:
THE STEPMOTHER COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR AND BEING A PAPER MONSTROSITY:
BEAKY GOING DOWN ON A NAT 1 CON SAVE AND RIPPING THE HAND A NEW ONE:
Lou and Emily desperately trying to convince the orange top hat fairy and having to cobble together the stupidest pc creep to get her to leave the fight and she moonwalks straight into the sea of pages AND NOW YLFA HAS AN ORANGE HAT:
ROSAMUND CRITTING ON THE STEPMOTHER AND HAVING HER BURN A LEGENDARY RESISTANCE TO NOT IMMEDIATELY DIE:
THE STEPMOTHER BANISHING THE BABA YAGA:
PINOCCHIO GIVING THE STEPMOTHER MEGA DISAVANTAGE AFTER CALLING HER NAME "MINERVA":
ZAC CALLING HIS CRIT AGAINST THE HAND AND INSTA KILLING IT AS IT ROLLS A 7, FAILLING TO SAVE:
GERARD AND MIRA DYING and so many of the characters going down:
GERARD AND MIRA DYING and so many of the characters going down:
ZAC ROLLING AN 18 TO ALLOW THE SPELL TO TAKE EFFECT:
PIB STEALING BACK THE THINGS THE BABA YAGA TOOK:
EVERYONE'S FINAL MOMENTS OF THE LINES BETWEEN MAKING ME BAWL WITH THE BITTERSWEET SACRIFICES (ESPECIALLY GERELODY):
Everyone getting to write their stories down in the village of happily and find their own peace in their stories:
Brennan lee Mulligan as he sends us off to the next D20 campaign as the journeys of our cast continues:
SEE YOU IN THE STARS LOVELY NEVERAFTER FANS. AND LIVE HAPPILY YOURSELVES.
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