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Zeroes to heroes and beyond AU

Eldritchstrings AU

#GO VOTE FOR ZEROES TO HEROES RAHHHHHHH 💥💥💥💥

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Battle Jacket

a very small chip and price fic for the Zeroes to Heroes and Beyond AU (WHICH YOU SHOULD GO VOTE FOR IN THE @battle-of-the-jrwi-aus!!!!!!)

Chip fumbles around with the needle in his hand, trying to place it where the string will easily loop around the feather he’s holding tight against the collar of his new jacket.

Lizzie told him it would be a good idea to have a jacket now that he was out on the sea with the Grandberry Pirates. To keep him warm or something.

He knows it’s total bullshit. Caspian doesn’t even wear a jacket, and she’s just trying to pawn him off on something to do.

Well, the joke is on her because he’s going to make the best damn jacket on this side of Mana.

Between the bright red fabric that mimics Lizzie’s and the black accents of his own choice, it’s probably the nicest thing he’s ever owned, though that isn’t saying much.

He couldn’t really tell you why he picked out black feathers for the collar.

The feathers aren’t the same purple he recognizes. They aren’t the rich and royal color that decorated the coat that Reuben had yet to wear when they were kids—a promise of a future to come. 

Reuben would sneak it out of the leader’s room sometimes, as a joke between him and Chip. He’d stand and give a drawn out speech of how they would rule Skullslice together as a team: Reuben at the helm and Chip as his right hand man.

It was a promise of a good future. Of confidence in themselves and each other. Something that ate itself away as reality came to pass. The leader died and responsibility came to destroy anything that held them together. 

It was going to be them, together, against the world.

Until it wasn’t. 

The needle sticks on a thread, only the tip poking through the collar of the jacket. Chip picks at the needle from the tip, pushing as hard as he can from the other side, but the needle won’t budge.

It’s not like it even matters. So what if the confidence comes from the memory of someone he hates. It doesn’t have to be about some stupid coat that his best friend wore while joking around on the rooftops. It doesn’t have to be about the comfort he got from feathers being wrapped around his shoulders, when for the second time in his life, somebody cared enough to notice he was cold and give him a place to stay. 

Now, it’ll be a reminder that he got rid of Reuben. He’s strong enough and powerful enough and it’s not like the guilt of it gnaws at him every day. 

How pathetic is it to feel guilt for hurting a guy who made him hurt others?

With a shove, the needle comes through, right into Chip’s finger.

“Shit,” he hisses, sticking his finger in his mouth, already tasting coppery blood trickling onto his tongue.

It’s not like he has anyone else to comfort him.

From behind him, a tired voice rasps, “Feathers on the ocean is a choice.”

Chip groans as he looks up to see Lizzie standing, arms crossed as she leans against the doorframe to the cabin. Her gaze lazily trails over the black and red jacket in his hand, seemingly picking apart each design choice he’s made along the way.

“It’s not like you’re going to do anything about it,” Chip fires back. His chest is still tight in defense. Defense over feathers and defense against himself for why he chose them.

Lizzie pauses, staring at Chip for an amount of time that leaves Chip feeling as if there’s an itch under his collar, her picking him apart as easily as she had with the jacket.

Finally, she mutters, “Your decisions are your own,” as she walks past him.

Chip rolls his eyes, turning back to the task at hand, the one in his hands, and sews another feather on.

#zeros to heroes and beyond #words by me #chip jrwi #reuben price #yayyyy propagandaaaaa

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laios was born to be the referee in air bud who makes the call that a dog can play basketball

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red dragon

wallpaper sizes / prints

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braid train!!

#jrwi riptide #art by me #chip jrwi #jay ferin #gillion tidestrider #oliver teach #i wanted to try something different with coloring today!! #still trying to figure out how i want my art to look lmaoo

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loading screen…

#jrwi prime defenders #art by me #william wisp #dakota cole #ashe winters #vyncent sol #note to self for next time: add more rust to the winnebago

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happy lesbian visibility week btw

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I love you Edyn Tidestrider. Come home PLEASEE

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i came here to save someone

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I had a vision...

Don't ask...

Just let me draw my fav characters from my fav campaigns...

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how to grow the fuck up

#save

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PD DOODLES

#jrwi prime defenders #ashe winters #dakota cole #vyncent sol #william wisp #art by me

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ITS @jrwi-art-exchange TIME BABEYYYYY

POST CANON PD SILLIES FOR @theblacktiecacti !!!!

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ITS @jrwi-art-exchange TIME BABEYYYYY

POST CANON PD SILLIES FOR @theblacktiecacti !!!!

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ITS @jrwi-art-exchange TIME BABEYYYYY

POST CANON PD SILLIES FOR @theblacktiecacti !!!!

#YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEE #OH MY GOSHHHHHH I LOVE THEM SMMMMM #oh the squish of the motion of the car #the smiles on their faces #william sticking his tongue out while concentrating #ouGHhhhhhh #wonderful wonderful wonderful #TYSMMMMM!!!!!! #<333333

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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

#save