#ferlly

Silly Billy

Some thoughts about if I made Vessels AU Ferlly fucked up forever

Thoughts to explain the pictures:

So, I thought about it, and came up with something for him. He is afraid of the ocean, and drowning, so of course the ocean and swimming are featured heavily. Like in Caz and Roper's trials. It starts in a locker room, because he also hates and is mildly afraid of those due to childhood experiences. There are the usual People (fake and Wrong in some way) there and they're all ridiculing him. To escape them, he runs, and gets trapped into having to complete laps in a public pool to escape them. The pool gets deeper, and darker. He feels things brush his legs. Everything chasing him is relentless, he gets glimpses of representations of people he cares about-- his father, Abraham, his husband, etc. etc. Every time he surfaces on the other side of the pool the People have changed to someone new, and they all basically force him to swim back to the other side through some means.

And then, at some point, he resurfaces to find himself in the middle of the ocean. He's been abandoned. He still needs to get to the other side, because you want to be useful, right, Billy? You want to do what they told you, right? You want to please them?

And anyway, he drowns. He always drowns. He doesn't even know how to swim in real life, and the ocean is too big, too dark, too strong, and the "exit" is just too far away.

All of the vessels' trials would've been a loop of some sort had Billy not been there to intervene, and this one is the same. Billy always drowns, then gets dragged back out of the public pool and is very rudely awoken by representations of his bullies again to go for round two. or three. or twenty.

Here's some doodles of this concept.