#iwatchedyoufall

(for those wondering, we’re talking about this post)

OH MAN how exciting would that be.

i really do like the idea that the Fakes have somehow influenced society especially in the fashion sense. they’re celebrities of their own kind, and as much as they are dangerous, they do try to be good people, which is why people adopt their mannerisms. 

so when Jeremy has to put together a project based on this prompt of gender expressions, he knows eXACTLY what he’s going to do. his prof loves the proposal and tells him to go for it, so Jeremy gets his friends around to help him out, and they’re totally excited about it, and Jeremy gets his drafts going, and keeps it a total secret from the crew because it’s a surprise, so they never touch his room because he’s totally in the zone and they’re excited to see the end project.

so obvs on gallery night, the Fakes arrive and are BLOWN away at what they see. each of the “Fakes” have their place where they stand and they have a script that they run through for the audience as they approached. Tess is Michael. Rob is Gavin (he had way too much fun with this role lbr). Paula is the elusive Vagabond. Then there’s Jo from Art and Digital Humanities dressed as Jack and Yousef from Religion and Art as the Rimmy Tim. And the crowning achievement of Jeremy dressed as Geoff himself.

and Geoff is having a ball of a time because while Jeremy is impeccably dressed, he’s so verbose and over the top masquerading as the Kingpin of Los Santos and Geoff is losing his shit because this is hilarious, jeremy, you beautiful bastard.

OHHHH. This is LOVELY. My only nitpicky detail not based really on Roman history because Legionaries would occasionally fight as Gladiators, is that I would love for the Monster and Mogar to be criminals, foreigners from other lands brought to Rome. Wouldn’t it be even more lovely if they didn’t spill their blood for the shining Emperor, Gavin of the Free Men, their dominorum? (their master). But instead were sharp teeth and vicious expressions and animals based on pure fury?

And then they win their way out of the pits and they meet the Vagabond, the one who was also a criminal who made it out and in their eyes, sucked on the teat of the one who betrayed them? But Ryan shows how much more glory it is to fight for Rome, how much fun they could have under Gavin, and they eventually become his fighting dogs, his most vigilant defenders, his most decorated Legionaries?

Men who had come from all over the world, had fought and survived the gladiatorial pits, who weren’t fighters for money but rather for freedom and honor and they make it out and they fight and climb their way up to become glorified soldiers who don’t fight out on the battlefield but instead are the respected bodyguards of their most powerful leader?

And Gavin Free, the Emperor who has foreigners from the lands he had conquered as his personal guard, who holds their leashes tight around their necks and commands their every fucking move and yet who allows his boys to fight and slaughter and kill for him whenever he needs to. The emperor could never be defeated because he has three lavish fighters, stained with the scars of their victories, sitting like pets around his throne.

My Tumblr Crushes:

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omggg yesss yes yes

i love this. Gavin was always taking photos back in the good ol days. he would proudly flaunt the Fakes’s pre heist, heist, and post heist activities on any social media site he could get his hands on, just to piss off the big wigs in the FIB building. but since then he’s obviously changed his tone.

he’s a lot quieter on social media. publicly that is. privately, he still chats with his crew, a few other extended members of the Fakes, and yes. cats. OF COURSE he would send photos of cats to Geoff, giving him little clues about where he ended up and what adventures he was having.

Thanks love - it was a crappy morning but I’m feeling better with some food and tea and medicine in me. <3 and omfggg this headcanon though, i fucking love it.

But could you even imagine though? I’m just writing down things as I think of them now but maybe I’ll write this up later because I automatically started picturing the FAHC taking videos of their heists. At first they only filmed the ones in masks but later on when most of their faces became known it was just a constant stream of information from body cams and glasses cams and just --

It’s hell. The videos are chaotic and messy but they joke and laugh and it started out to first be for themselves, to remember and to giggle, but then Gavin prompted the idea of a secure Youtube account to post them -- his proxy servers loop anyone trying to trace the file through ten different countries and end up in Sweden. But the videos get like .... a lot of views??? and suddenly the FAHC are weirdly youtube famous? they’re talked about on the news as internet sensations as well as as criminals and suddenly their heists are on world television and they’re famous - even more famous than they already are

and not enough of the heists gets caught on camera (or edited out) to allow for anyone to know their actual plans, only codenames are ever used, and its all strategic to not put anyone in danger but it’s fucking fun for all of them

and Geoff suddenly makes a twitter account and it gets connected and you can fucking follow a diabolical criminal organization on twitter and the police start tracking it but again its looped through proxy servers up the wazoo and geoff is careful never to post anything that can get them caught so it ends up just being late night drunken rants about the “state of the city” and about his fucking crew members but it gets millions of followers 

as well as the heists the youtube channel gets populated with videos of Mogar, the Golden Boy, and Rimmy Tim blowing shit up and raging through town with sleek cars and sometimes the Vagabond even makes a goddamn appearance, always in that mask but always and forever psychotic in his short appearances on camera

Jack is tasteful and rarely shows up but when she does good lord and when she starts posting on instagram and it somehow gets found she gets tons of followers as well because everything she wears or shows off is stolen or hugely expensive and she’s fucking famous

every post is carefully done, Gavin teaches each one of them the way to make it untraceable and all of it is on burner phones and they each have like four different computers

but its fun and crazy and it keeps the Lads busy, which keeps the Gents from having to police them all the goddamn time and it raises their name and notarity which is never a bad thing really. 

WAIT I didn’t see this omfg I’m sorry I didn’t realize you replied.

Their footage of the heists is fucking ridiculous and varies widely by whomever you actually watch (which is why they tend to edit it together before posting it). It’s like the AH crew when they stream now (meaning the real live AH folk) and watching every cam you get an entirely different experience of the action.

Gavin’s is pristine and crystal clear and he tries to keep it entirely in focus. It’s also a glasses cam on his actual glasses, so it’s basically at eye level, which makes it easier to understand what’s going on. But the thing with Gavin is any time he has to turn into murderer instead of Golden Boy, to heist instead of grift, he absolutely freaks out and turns spastic. The gun comes out and his footage goes to shit, just a blur of frantic motion and audio blown out by screams that sound like squawks.

Michael and Jeremy have pretty similar footage - crazed gunshots, screams of laughter and banter, ridiculous fights that seem far more insane than they have to be. Michael’s audio is almost always blown out - he wants it to be the best, he really does, and he tries really hard, but in the end it always ends up with him singing.

Jack and Geoff’s footage is pretty plain - it has all the gunshots and chaos of the Lads but less of the screaming and flailing. It’s a lot more precise, a lot more calculated and honestly the Lads bless that they have them just because it’s objectively the best footage and can be used for most of the video.