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        𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍. 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄.

#CREELSCLOCKS, a CANON-DIVERGENT HENRY CREEL, freed by KILLJOY.

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Exploring themes like anti-heroes, overcoming trauma, changing the course of one's own future, breaking the cycle of abuse, learning to be human, found family, being the chosen one, demi-godhood and cultivating one's own happiness.

Heavily affiliated with: @wheelxr, @scarednotscary , @zoomingupthathill, @kegk1ng, @cripplemagics, @woesdayy

@hawkinswitch confessed: "Bad guys don't do this. They don't do the things you've done. So, stop thinking you're like them."

⸸ ⸻ 𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐇𝐈𝐌. In truth, she's right; bad guys would let their resentment for their own circumstances dictate the fate of everybody else. They'd let their own selfish grief damn the rest of their quiet little town.

                   They certainly wouldn't stand up and fight like he's decided to.

                   ❛ ... I just can't stop thinking— if I hadn't left him there, in that place, all alone... this wouldn't be happening. None of this would be happening. ❜

                   Two— he refuses to call him 'Vecna', he's his brother, stop treating him like a damn comic book nemesis— could have had a life had Henry not been ruled by his own selfish desire to break free. If he'd have turned around when making his escape, if he'd have considered just how much his siblings deserved to be free too, things wouldn't have turned out this way.

                   And yet he can't see the flaws in his own thinking— can't see the fact that he'd been an abused, defenceless boy with a suicide attempt under his belt when he was just eleven years old. Can't see that he'd been a child too, because it had never mattered to the people around him. He never should have had to account for the safety of his siblings; should never have had to burden the terrible guilt that came with their suffering. This was never his problem to fix.

@wheelxr confessed: 🎵 + ‘1 - 25′ for a starter inspired by one of my most recent 25 played songs. What You Need — Bring Me the Horizon.

                  ❛ To be honest— ❜

                  It's punctuated by him arranging his guitar on his lap, a look of intense focus on his face as he surveys the papers scattered around him.

                  ❛ He's a fool through-and-through, but he's handed me a golden opportunity. ❜ He's of course talking about Mr. Dawson. While he openly shows distaste for some of the selected works in the class, Henry wouldn't say that he's purposefully disruptive. In fact, he keeps to himself, talking to no one and keeping his head down; the problem stems from the fact that he's not in tears over Shakespeare's stupid sonnets. He's never seen a snob take someone else's disinterest in their chosen field so personally before. ❛ I mean, daring me to write a song to see how it compares to his precious classics? He's pretty much just handed me an A+. ❜

                  Henry's cool disposition had lent itself well to his professor's attempt to embarrass him during their previous lecture. Though he won't pretend he didn't feel slightly hot under the collar when hundreds of eyes had swivelled to look at him, his calm demeanour had contrasted the unfair outrage of his teacher in only the most satisfying of ways. While he was red-faced and antagonistic, Henry was collected and ever so slightly confused.

                  This amount of ire over his taste in poetry... the man clearly has other things going on in his life.

[ TXT: POOK. ] Pfft! You clock on fast, dear. 😗

[ TXT: POOK. ] What, does my antichrist cross inspire unholy urges in you? What are you confessing to right now, exactly?

        @striestld confessed: ❛ you’re interesting and different and i like that. ❜

⸸ ⸻ 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐖𝐇𝐎 displays desirable traits, but Issac does such a good job of nursing his self esteem that it's a little harder for him to refute his compliments nowadays.

                  He can't really help it— the way his shoulders rise, cheeks gaining a hint of colour. Embarrassed, yet he's touched too.

                  ❛ You mean it? ❜ Henry asks. When he'd brought up the possibility of going to study horology and opening his own store in the future, he hadn't expected Issac to be so on board. It just isn't what most parents seem to want their children to say; not even Papa had been content with him being anything other than a soldier. ❛ So, it's not a terrible idea...? ❜

                  It's second nature to doubt himself, but this goes beyond that. Like people who wish to pursue art as a career, the future for a dream like that is particularly nebulous and hard to gauge. He might be putting himself in financial duress simply by entertaining the idea of following this particular passion. He's read up on business studies to prepare for such an exploit, but knowledge won't make people respect art more. That's something he has no control over.