#spytown renaissance

[honeydewmelan]

its a sad song....

its a sad song

its a tragedy.

spytown au by @dxppercxdxver persephone!curt design by @szollibisz inspired by this post by @smytherines

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[smytherines]

Fuck it, here's an Owen Carvour dissertation

We don't have canon ages for Curt & Owen, but personally I headcanon Owen as being born in 1928, making him 29 when the banana incident happens. This leads to a lot of thoughts that are fascinating to me, because growing up in London during WWII could inform so much of his character.

Personally, I believe DMA's accent is much closer to Owen's natural accent. I think the Owen Carvour accent is something he puts on to make himself sound neutrally British while working abroad, because he grew up working class. RP is how most people (at least in the US) assume British people speak. This also works with the Texan agent mega headcanon, like they both have to put on an act to be spies, just like they have to put on an act with their relationship.

And class is really really important to how you conceptualize this character, because your experience of the war could be radically different depending on how much money you had. Food rationing began in 1940, which in this case would make Owen 12. Rationing isn't fully lifted until 1954.

At Elizabeth II's wedding in 1947, the palace made a big deal about how she was saving ration coupons for the material for her wedding- a full two years after WWII ended.

Here's WWII London:

This is the city Owen would've grown up in. This is a war zone. A city where food is tightly rationed, where sirens were constantly going off and you had to draw down the blackout curtains and go sleep in the tube station with bombs dropping constantly overhead:

If Owen were upper middle class, he might have had a shelter at home, some people did. But I imagine him sleeping in dark, cramped, noisy stations. And he learns to keep his cool. He starts to enjoy the danger because he has to to survive it.

Maybe he has lost loved ones to the bombings. Maybe one morning he comes home from the tube station and half of his house is in rubble on the ground. Maybe he's used to hand me down clothes and simple homemade toys and not having enough to eat. He's used to having nothing, having nobody. That's a headcanon a lot of folks have, and I think it makes a lot of sense for his character.

Even if Owen were one of the kids evacuated to the countryside, maybe that happens when he's 15 or so, it wasn't a Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe situation. For a lot of those kids they were leaving their parents behind in a war zone, sleeping in barns or basements, and most importantly working almost non-stop on British farms because all the regular farmhands were fighting.

I think, if this happened, Owen would be itching to go off and fight in the war. My personal headcanon is that he's an intelligent guy, and he figures out how to forge some basic paperwork to claim he is older than he actually is, so he can go fight in WWII.

But by some fluke he couldn't account for, he gets discovered. And because of his skill and his ability to keep his cool under interrogation, he gets recruited to MI6. A lot of MI6 operatives are upper class men, recruited young from the top schools. He mimicks them.

I think many years later, when he and Curt are escaping a Russian weapons facility, Owen loves Curt and trusts in his capabilities (maybe a bit too much- especially when he's been drinking), but he also feels frustrated that Curt is impulsive and cocky and thinks he is untouchable.

Because Curt didn't grow up the way Owen did. He didn't grow up waiting for the bottom to fall out over and over again. He's certainly got his own shit from adolescence, but he doesn't have that survival impulse hardwired into him the way Owen does. So Owen is careful and cautious for the both of them, trying to keep them both safe and alive.

I think about Owen being trapped in the rubble a lot. He would almost certainly be critically injured. Maybe he has PTSD from the WWII bombings, and he's just trapped in an exploded building, trapped with his own memories of childhood until he's almost feral from it.

This also, btw, is why the AU of Owen as Eurydice from Hadestown is so so poignant to me. Someone who grew up cold and hungry and turned their collar to the world, and then suddenly they fall in love and everything is sunlight all around them. All I've Ever Known is such an important owen!Eurydice song to me

I could keep going from here, but I'll stop for now. This isn't as neat and concise as I wanted to present these thoughts, but I can't stop thinking them

#spies are forever #tin can bros #agent curt mega #owen carvour #curtwen #spytown #spytown renaissance #saf headcanon #saf #SAFtistic

[smytherines]

Specific Spytown stuff like 10 people will understand

I'm not an art person, but I do have that weird AuDHD presentation where I can picture things damn near perfectly in my mind, so if I had art skills these are the images I see (I don't know if I can properly explain them but I'm trying art friends)

owen!Eurydice crouched in smoke and rubble and flames, one tear rolling down his cheek, as owen!Hades stands above him menacingly, tilting his chin up like he's offering salvation, but with a look of almost disgust in his eyes that he was ever so powerless and vulnerable

Then

curt!Orpheus crouched down but looking impossibly hopeful, with curt!Persephone tilting his chin up. curt!Persephone has a single tear rolling down his cheek, like he remembers what it was to be so young and so in love, before he trapped himself in an endless cycle with Hades

I dunno hopefully that makes sense

#spytown #spytown renaissance #god help me i cant stop #guess who is currently watching a slime tutorial

[smytherines]

Watching the staircase scene with When the Chips are Down stuck in my head was a soul-destroying experience

#spytown #spytown renaissance #spies are forever #agent curt mega #owen carvour

[honeydewmelan]

okay so yes the hades!owen and orpheus!curt dynamic is mm so full of the angst but im also obsessed with the persephone!curt and eurydice!owen dynamic.

like the tragedy of seeing the former version of the man who is controlling you and is so cruel and the hope that maybe itll turn out different for them. maybe itll be better for this version of yourself. to remember what it was like to be young and in love.

#spytown renaissance #spytown #spies are forever #agent curt mega #curtwen #owen carvour #tcb spies are forever #agent owen carvour #saf fanart #wip

[honeydewmelan]

i might have something cooking.....

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[honeydewmelan]

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[honeydewmelan]

I have a Cold and I am Miserable but once I get home (errands >:() I am going to do so much thinking about spytown

#spytown renaissance #it took me an embarrassing amount of time to spell renaissance #I actually do feel like garbage tho hyperfixation save me please