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"What a glorious creature must he have been in the day of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin."
been cooking a phantom blood adjacent, very much Frankenstein inspired, au where Pucci and Giorno attempt to resurrect Dio using Jonathan’s body 14 years after their untimely deaths🩸🩸 veeeery self indulgent bc researching Victorian era menswear is such a treat for me and I am always a sucker for any au where Pucci and Giorno meet and get a little insane with it. join me.
alt. Pucci w glasses and closeups
Gheheheheheheeheh :3
When I’m actually enjoying the art process and the 6 hours this took doesn’t feel like 6 hours
Would anyone like me to post the time lapse for this?
What if the gang were paranormal investigators? Seriously like. Imagine they go into a giant, old, haunted building and Dutch is like "Alright, gang, lets split up and look for clues"
The pairings and what they'd do:
Dutch and Hosea - they don't believe in the ghosts at all, but play up the scares and "ghostly activity" in order to scam people into believing that they really are some sort of psychic ghost hunters.
Javier and John - they both wholeheartedly believe and get too scared and run away. John has cried on multiple occasions. Javier makes sure to carry holy water and a cross with him to each place they go to. One time, John got scared and screamed and his screaming scared Javier so Javier splashed the holy water on him and began beating him with the cross while screaming prayers.
Sean and Lenny - they both think it's bullshit. Lenny looks for scientific facts and explainations whereas Sean just fucks around the whole time. Sometimes he goes to find John and Javier to scare them.
Arthur and Charles - they're both skeptical but are open to the idea of ghosts. They've seen some things that they just have no other explainaton for. All in all, they're pretty chill. If they do find evidence, they don't exactly get afraid of it. They're like "wow that's cool".
Bill and Karen - (these two seem like they'd be great friends in a modern setting ngl. They give Brittany broski and Trixie mattel. Two sassy wine aunts) they also believe it's all bullshit and spend the night getting drunk, talking, sleeping, and playing pranks on the others.
Sadie - on her own because she didn't want to pair up with Micah. Sometimes she tags along with Arthur and Charles. Similar to Arthur and Charles, she's skeptical but open-minded. She keeps a gun on her in case she runs into any dangerous squatters. "Misfired" one time at Micah, but didn't get in trouble for it.
Micah - he's on his own. No one wanted to pair up with him. He tries to act tough and like he doesn't believe in ghosts, but the moment he hears a sound, he starts blasting. Due to this trigger happiness and nearly shooting other gang members on multiple occasions, on top of the fact that you can't even shoot ghosts, Dutch took Micah's guns and replaced them with water guns full of holy water.
Trelawny - he shows up every now and then. Usually tags along with Arthur and Charles. Tries to explain everything away with fact and reasoning, but the moment he hears a noise, he jumps into either Arthur or Charles's arms. (That's why he goes with them. Because they're the strongest).
Strauss is too old. His heart wouldn't be able to take it. So he doesn't go to the locations, he just finds the jobs for the rest of the gang.
Susan, Abigail, Tilly, Mary Beth, Molly, and Kieran refuse to go to any haunted locations. Kieran insists he's staying back to "protect the women", not because he's scared.
Uncle has lumbago which prohibits him from going.
Reverend Swanson would either be high or drunk and would freak out, like Javier x100, so he's not allowed to go.
Pearson doesn't bother going because he's "seen it all already" in the Navy.
Van Der Linde ladies
do y’all think abigail was scared to tell john she was pregnant for the second time incase he ran away again
hanging out with my grandson
NOW WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THIS
Did Charles commit suicide?
What if he didn’t go north... What if he left for good? (A soul-crushing headcanon about Charles Smith)
What if Charles took his own life? Yes, yes, just like that — what if he left, not north, but FOR GOOD. I keep thinking about this more and more. Because so much about him screams — “I can’t do this anymore.”
Everyone says: he went to Canada. Oh sure, sure. But maybe it’s time to stop repeating that comforting bedtime story. Canada was mentioned once, barely, like a breath. But in another dialogue — he says he wants to go to INDOCHINA. Can you imagine? Indochina! Where is that, and where’s Canada, and where is he? He’s lost. He’s torn. He doesn’t know where to go. Because he feels at home NOWHERE. And all of this — it’s not a plan. It’s emptiness. It’s pain wrapped in scraps of fantasy.
And when he tells John: “What does your family need an old gunslinger for?” — that’s NOT A JOKE. That’s a scream. A plea. A wound masked as a smile. Because he’s the outsider among friends. He’s the extra. He’s just... there. But he’s not part of it. And he knows that. Feels it in his bones. In his heart.
He doesn’t even sleep in the house. Doesn’t sleep on the property. Wanders into the woods. Into the dark. Into solitude. Some would say — it’s just habit, right? He’s used to the wild. Used to isolation. Bullshit. It’s not habit. It’s escape. Because being close — hurts. Watching Abigail, watching John, watching their child — it’s like a blade across the soul. Their dream came true. And him? Who is he? He’s — no one. Once, he was an outcast among outcasts. Now he’s just... the only one left. Alone among the joyful.
And the doubts he voices to John — “Will this life be enough for you?” — that’s not about John. That’s about himself. He’s asking himself. He doesn’t believe happiness is possible for him. That he deserves it. That he’s even capable of feeling something other than this tight, choking loneliness.
And that talk about going north, starting a family, finding a woman... I DON’T BELIEVE IT. NOT A SINGLE WORD. It sounds like a script. A rehearsed line. A mask. A way to say something so they’ll stop asking. He has no plan. No place. No direction. He says it himself. “I don’t know where.”
Not Canada. Not Wapiti. He could’ve gone back there a hundred times. In eight years. But he didn’t. Because he never saw it as home. It was something lost, something nostalgic — not a place he was needed.
And just finding a woman? Really? This is Charles. A man who lets NO ONE in. He’s built like a fortress. In his mind. In his soul. In his silence. And if he lets someone in — it’s forever. And if he doesn’t — no one gets close. This isn’t about “settling down.” This is about finding a soul that moves him. And those are rare. Maybe one. Maybe none.
He says: “These last eight years, I’ve come to accept the things I can’t change.” Is that supposed to be hope? It’s not acceptance. It’s surrender. That’s not light at the end of the tunnel — it’s the tunnel closing in. It’s numbness. It’s emptiness.
And John, dear John… tells him: “You’re the strongest man I know.” I HATE THAT PHRASE. I HATE WHEN PEOPLE SAY IT ABOUT HIM. I HATE WHEN PEOPLE SAY IT ABOUT ME. It’s NOT strength. It’s survival. It’s when life beats you so hard, all you learn is not to fall. It’s not a choice. It’s endurance. He’s not strong. He’s exhausted. He’s shattered. He’s lonely, he’s silent, and he’s so, so tired.
Even if he met “the one” — would she love him? The real him? The broken one? The quiet one? The distant one? Or would she fall for the mask — for the “I’ve made peace with the past” lie? And if she never sees the real Charles — how could he ever be happy with her? He doesn’t do halfway. Not him.
Abigail and John are different. She knew his pain. All of it. His monsters. His sorrow. She accepted it. Who would accept Charles? Who even knows who he became?
And in that last ride... he says: “I’m heading north.” Turns down Sadie’s offer to work together. Says it’s time to move on. But what if he wasn’t moving forward. What if he was moving toward the end.
(Another powerful and unwavering argument for me: we all remember how Charles and John ride out to save Uncle in the epilogue — and how Charles, with a chilling steadiness, says that if the uncle’s wounds are too severe, the only mercy left would be to help him cross over. He speaks of killing — not driven by hatred, not poisoned by cruelty — but as a final act of love, a broken, desperate kindness to release a soul from agony. And I ask: was it only uncle’s suffering Charles wished to end? Or was he, too, reaching for a way to quiet his own howling grief? I believe he was. I believe he desperately was.)
What if that was his way of saying goodbye. Softly. Quietly. Not “farewell.” Just — gone. So they could keep living, believing he’s somewhere out there. Alive. Just... far. But in truth — he had already made peace. He had written his ending.
Not to the north. Not to Wapiti. Not to a woman. But to the place where nothing hurts anymore.
And if that’s what happened... if he really left...
...maybe, finally, he found peace.
Games I think the gang members would play:
Arthur: not much into gaming, I can see him play Zelda Breath of the wild and Tears of kingdom. Probably plays some other Nintendo games like Mario kart with the youngest.
John: I can either see him play comp fps (valorant, CS:Go, overwatch) / battle royal Or he's a speedrunner mostly on platforms game (Celeste, any old Mario)
Abigail: train on the games Jack wants to play so she can impress him when he asks for help, outside of that she plays Animal crossing with Mary-Beth and Kieran. When Jack isn't here she Loooves horror games. She finished all the resident evil.
Jack: pokepark, anything that looked cute and chill. Then teen year hit and he tried games with Knights. Loves watching Tilly play, tried to sneak on Abi to see horror games.
Hosea: those points and click games where you gotta solves things. Or maybe games like starcraft, so RTS. He also love Crusader King.
Lenny: anything that challenges his brain, Started with Prof Layton, continued with disco elysium, blue prince, chants of Sennaar. Hosea got him to play ace attorney too.
Sean: played GTA 5, went online tried rp loved it so now he spends most of his time trying to be the biggest gangster of Los Santos on some server. Also looooves mmorpg like he was a club penguin kid and then moved to Wow and ff14
Uncle: crazy candy crush kinda old man. Like John once saw he was top 3 world or something.
Dutch: forces everyone to bond on among us, Dale & Dawson or any imposter kind of game. Also like retro games and Sim city.
Bill: war games (Cod or world of tank) sport games. Actually anything so he can relax/ get rid of any tension he had during the day.
Javier: he tried guitar hero and HATED IT. He's actually more of a story game kinda guy, especially indie games. So he'd totally be into expedition 33, baldur's Gate 3, life is strange. Don't ask him about life is strange it's still a difficult topic (he totally cried)
Kieran: horse games. Like bro is a long time Star stable Online player, he played all the horse games you can think of. Animal crossing to hang out with the girl and have all the horses villagers.
Molly: Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. And also otome games, like my candy love and it kinda fucked up her expectations for love and relationship.
Tilly: play duo with John on fps game, or any final fantasy and fire emblem.
Micah: League of legends. You know why. Also play chess online only to brag about his elo. Had like 10 different acc cuz he keeps getting reported (rightfully)
Karen: just dance, she absolutely LOOOOVE those games. And rythme game, she's insanely good at osu.
Mary-Beth: Sims 4, like she has tons of mods and do some evil shit on that to pass the time. Play animal crossing too. Loves visual novels of any type.
Susan: I can't imagine her playing EXCEPT for one thing. She's at the head of one of the biggest Wow guild and she has been playing since the game came out. It's like the only thing I'll accept about her.
Sadie: not much of a player she sometimes joins Tilly and John but mostly spend time on Stardew valley. Depending on the day her activities in the game change lol
Charles: he goes through any indie games with a distinctive art style, anything that catches his eyes or has an interesting story he'll try it.
1...Listen to me, brother...3...I did all of this for you...5
the Weather Report vs Pucci scene makes me so insane :)
“Can I turn myself in?”
I view vergil and rabbit as two closed off people willing to tear each other apart until they physically cannot anymore, and then that's when you get to the real vulnerability under all the hatred and projection. sublime toxic mutual destruction. like crack cocaine to me. need them to eat each other
I view vergil and rabbit as two closed off people willing to tear each other apart until they physically cannot anymore, and then that's when you get to the real vulnerability under all the hatred and projection. sublime toxic mutual destruction. like crack cocaine to me. need them to eat each other
