#devin levin

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idc if the timeline doesn't add up there are scenarios in my head !!!!!!!!!!

at best, devin DID exist, and kevin wanted to memorialize his dad, one of the only loving father figures he had (besides kwarrel, obviously), so he named his son after his dad.

at worst, devin was just a rooters conspiracy, and kevin still named his son after him. he still loved that false memory, still loved that fake imprint, because it gave him hope (or why else would he be so unwilling to let the plumbers take back the badge in the boot camp episode, huh?), because it made him feel loved and cared for (something which we know for a fact we never got from harvey), maybe even because it reminded him of the type of father he wanted to be to his own son.

and, the implications during OS future are also important to note. its just rly interesting thinking abt his motives at that point - like, was it the first name he came up with off the top of his head? did he secretly want to name his child that for years? did he completely forget that was his dads name since it had been so long that it was just circumstantial, likely a memory he didnt even realize he remembered? did he have devlin BEFORE he went off the deep end, when he was still sane and still had enough wherewithal to want to memorialize and immortalize one of the only people in his life that had seemingly actually cared for him and his wellbeing?

I know it's more likely due to UAF using similar facial models for the characters like Ben, Gwen and Natalie, but Paradox does look a lot like Devin, Kevin, Devlin and Aggregor. Strangely enough, Phil also looked like Kevin and Devin in his youth. I have seen the theory that Phil was Kevin's real father.

Paradox being related to Kevin may explain some things. It may explain why the celestialsapians forbid him from coming near them. Aggregor nearly absorbed one of their babies and Kevin considered doing it as well. If Paradox is an Osmosian too (if you prefer them being aliens) it would explain why they don't like him. He also acts a bit like a father to Kevin, fixing his car in his debut episode and warning him about mutating again. He seems too old to be Kevin's father but he could be his great grandfather.

1: Kevin has had at least three mentioned plumber badges, Magister Labrid’s that was later confiscated, the one he received on duty from Magister Prior Gilhil and the one that originally belonged to his father. Due to all the switching around of badges, it’s a little confusing to figure which one he uses. I like to think he uses his father’s, which I believe his mother would have kept, and requested it be repurposed as his.

2: The crew has stated not all alternate versions of Gwens are anodites, so I believe the “spark” Verdona talked so much about was unlocked by Gwen’s practice of magic that she started when she was 10.

3: Kevin, due to having a job and his own apartment, is most likely emancipated. His mother probably agreed because she’s just grateful to have her son back and nothing else.

(Warning sad and dark headcanon ahead!!)

4: Kevin’s hatred for his stepfather always seemed somewhat… unjustified to me. I had the idea that maybe Harvey, well…abused him, whether physically or emotionally, and that his mother never knew (sorry). This could further explain why he ran away and was under the belief he was kicked out and unwanted. 

5: In the future Kevin and Gwen are married and Devlin is there, but, for some reason (probably complicated life stuff) Gwen is Devlin’s stepmom instead of his bio one. But he still calls her “mom” and he’s still her son. (Also Gwen and Kevin probably didn’t have any kids together out of fear of what would happen if an anodite were to try to carry an osmosian)

6: another future one: Ben’s love life is canonically a train wreck. So I picture he’s had two divorces, one with Julie and one with Kai. Kenny came from the second marriage.

7: Future Ben has a Dad Bod no I don’t take criticism.

8: Gwen started liking Kevin (even though when they first met again as teenagers he was literally running guns) because the stress and pressure of being Little Miss Perfect got to her and this was her way of breaking away from that. Call it an extreme teenage rebellion that resulted in a wholesome relationship.

[ID: A drawing of an alien drawn facing the viewer holding a small black blob-like creature with yellow eyes set on a background made of multiple green and blue rectangles and a green oval under its feet to simulate the ground. The rest of the page is grey.

The alien is shaped vaguely like a shrimp centaur. It is brown with yellow stripes on its joints and orange fringes on its four pairs of antennas. It has fourteen limbs. two arms with three webbed and clawed fingers. Another set of arms behind that that face backwards to rub its dark brown rough textured back. It has six legs that end in webbed three clawed feet, two of the legs are partially raised and one appears to be resting on one of the blue rectangles in the background. The last for limbs are set at the end of the body and look like the curled tail of a shrimp. It has paint pink scars scattered all over its body. it has a round eyeless head with two long antennae coming from the four head and nose area with two large tympanum where eyes would be on a human. There are tympanum set between the joints of where its legs connect to its body. /End ID]

A commission for @kariachi​

Of their BABO project Osmosian design for Devin Levin

Also a doodle of the anatomy: