JumpingPige0ns

I’m jumping pige0n’s, I Post theories and fanart on my blog

I ship Howdy x Barnaby and Frank x Eddie, so expect some of that here. I love hearing people’s opinions so if what I say raises questions, just ask and I’ll try to answer.

I try to keep this place for everyone and I am not comfortable with inappropriate asks at all.‼️

ART REQUESTS

I am taking requests when the request is green I am willing to take most if not all request and questions with free time to spare, if it is orange I will still take requests but I can’t guarantee I’ll get to it, when it is red I am only taking questions and no longer taking art requests

Note: I am allowed to not do an ask/art request I don’t want to do

‼️NO NSFW‼️

I sometimes take art requests and when I am I’d like to keep this appropriate so that everyone can enjoy it.

I’m a little lazy so here’s a copy and paste from my artfight:

Olive as a character comes off as rather dull and blunt and isn’t a character… at all. Olive works as a backstage worker mostly subdued to howdy shop for minor repairs and shipments. He’s even got a whole signed document emphasizing that he is not allowed, under any circumstances, to ever show himself in any episodes.

Despite this Howdy, as a more talkative and open guy, pushes for him to reach the spotlight and probes into his life to see if he can entertain this new “Hard to please” consumer. Taking and enacting some of Oliver’s opinions into his own shop for better or worse. Hijinks ensue and Olive begins to develop feelings for Howdy, with howdy seemingly feeling the same…

Fun Facts:

Howdy temporarily added a mango section to his shop after discovering Olives love for them (whether this had romantic or money intention we’ll never know)

Olive lives right next to howdy (apartment style) due to budget cuts.

Olive smells rather floral and prioritizes his smell and hygiene.

Oliver is actually part rat but doesn’t talk much about it since it isn’t apparent.

Howdy deeply admires how Freeform Olive’s hair is and will ask to brush it here and there

There are 4 possible endings: (as info on the motives of the Marlo company and WH lore, as of typing this, is limited)

1. Marlo discovers the relationship and in a desperate attempt to save what’s left of their (mostly Howdy’s) career Olive leaves in the dead of night leaving nothing but a note on where he’ll be and how he’ll still write but cannot ever return

2. Marlo discovers the relationship and “removes” Olive from the program informing Howdy of the changes via a notice letter. All of olives stuff is gone and Howdy has no way to reach him, if he’s even reachable in the first place.

3. (Whatever canonically happens in welcome home happens and I try to fit him somewhere in there 🤷‍♀️)

Other ver:

I wouldn’t say it’s the most concrete headcanon but I’ve seen a conversation floating around on the true wealth of the pillar family due to the jewelry of Hiya and Aunt toodaloo, and though it has a place to be true that they are of high status, I’d argue it’s only a really well put front to make it seem like their family is more wealthy and put together than they actually are.

Considering welcome home takes place in the 70’s, if howdy’s at the very least 25yrs of age, he would’ve been alive during the 50’s through 60’s where family image was heavily pushed and enforced by society. I do acknowledge that howdy being 25 still makes him very young for a conversion camp (being that at 8 years old it’d be the year 1957) but in the end it could also highlight just how important image may be to the pillar family, that they were willing to fix whatever they saw wrong with him “early” before it got too “unreversable”

Maybe it’s stereotypical but including the fact they are also butterflies seems like they’d care even more about image and prospect as they are seen as a “pretty” bug, whether or not that’s actually true.

Plus I feel like it could also add a more complex and strange dynamic between Howdy and his brother where his brothers is more obvious in his queerness yet experiences no consequences in the matter. (I may be wrong and something does happen behind closed doors)

Which leads to the idea that the family either:

1. Chooses to ignore it, of which Howdy is frustrated with as he was raised/taught that this matter was something to be “dealt” with.

Or a more frustrating (but less canon) number 2…

2. His family embraces it. They learn from media and from the growing times that maybe you can’t get rid of such queer attributes in a person. Which could lead to howdy being ultimately jealous towards his brother as he himself received no sympathy or kindness from his family when he showed any sense of queerness, further bottling himself up in these conservative values (and locking that closet shut)

There are many minor reasons that play a part with this theory like maybe him being older and possibly seen as more mature then his brother ergo he would “know better” but ultimately this is what I came up with. As of working on this post there has been people speculating something from the older bug audios but I’m not quite sure if those are canon anymore to be viable evidence.