Is it from the WIP I'm really trying to focus on? No. But 1) I'm low-key sick, 2) y'all have been helping me pick out the fic house, and 3) I've been having some awesome and inspiring convos with @certifiedbird, so here's a little extra snippet from the universe the house belongs to:
“Look at me, Mutt.” Marion shifted on the bed and guided her son’s chin up so she could see his face. “Your father does not hate you. In fact, he loves you very much.”
“We talkin’ about the same guy?”
She held back a sigh of exasperation. “Yes. I know he…reacted strongly…tonight. But that’s because he’s worried about you.”
“Yeah? What’s he so worried about?”
Marion took a deep breath. “He’s worried because the world is a scary and dangerous place, especially for people who are…different.”
“Alright, so he’s worried about me,” said Mutt. “But Dad was just mean to Thomas. Now Thomas probably hates me. Is that his plan? Just scare away the” —his voice cracked slightly— “boys forever?”
“He won’t. I won’t let him,” Marion promised. “And as for Thomas…if he truly loves you, your dad didn’t scare him off for good. And if not, well, he’ll just be one small part of the story that makes you the man you are.”
“You don’t know that,” Mutt protested.
“Oh, but I do. I’ve lived it. It wasn’t always easy, but eventually it got me you and your sister, and I wouldn’t change a thing as long as it means I get to be your mom.”
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was anyone else shocked when they dropped the bombshell of mutt being dead from the vietnam war? it was kind of just dropped out there and then never discussed again and that really does puzzle me. he was in (what is usually regarded as) the worst indiana jones film and then just died
Spoilers for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
I'm not kidding there are spoilers
You've been warned
I think that it was such an interesting decision to make Mutt die in Vietnam because it says so much about the characters.
So, at first it seems weird that Mutt would volunteer to go to Vietnam to annoy Indy considering the end of crystal skull. In CS, Mutt loses his father-figure Ox but gains his biological father Indy. You'd think since they got along so well that they would have an okay relationship, and volunteering to GO TO WAR to annoy your father is an unheard of level of "I hate you."
I think that they had this happen for 2 major reasons.
It would show just how bad Indy is both at relationships and at dealing with grief. How horrible of a father figure must he have been to chase Mutt so far away? Then, after Mutt dies, Indy and Marion divorce instead of being there for each other. Indy literally couldn't keep a family if he tried, he rivals Marvin from Falsettos for worst family man.
I think that having his son die is really what motivated Indy to help Helana out. He has already lost a child and now here is the child of someone he knew who is in grave danger. How is he not going to do everything in his power to help her?
Overall, I think that this was a clever way to not have Mutt in the movie, whatever their reasons
I don't know if this is basic or has been said before, I just had thoughts and wanted to draw attention to this writing decision.
If I have any facts wrong (I have not had a chance to rewatch recently) please correct me and I will fix
If I had a nickel for every time a movie series killed off an important character just so no one would have to deal with Shia LaBeouf anymore, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's all I can think about when I watch any of the Transformers or Indiana Jones movies these days.
Might-as-well Monday:
I came, I saw, I made it gay
Alright, so maybe you have to wade through The Straights a bit to get to it, but it has to take our everyman character by surprise...
Despite knowing how alluring young scholars could be, Indy hadn’t worried when he agreed to house a Ph.D. student for the summer. He couldn’t force the poor man to whittle away his dismal stipend on room and board when they had a perfectly habitable attic and a spare bed going unused.
Oxley may have raised his eyebrows, but Indy knew [NAME] was a good lad, and Nora’s affections were firmly held by Jimmy Crosby, her steady of eight months and a fixture in every conversation he’d had with his daughter in the last year. Jimmy was a mousy boy from her class with four sisters and a dream of teaching secondary school mathematics. He held conversations well when he picked Nora up for dates, gave Marion a poinsettia at Christmastime, and always brought Nora home on time with nary a wrinkle in her dress. In short, he was every man’s dream for his daughter’s beau.Â
They were nauseatingly devoted to one another. She’d burst into tears when Indy said he’d picked up a mathematics textbook from the college bookstore for the boy’s birthday.
“He’s so terribly clever, of course he’d rather have a book than a stupid sweater,” she’d wept into his chest as Indy assured her Jimmy would be delighted with the sweater she’d knitted and wondered where his knobby-kneed little treasure hunter had gone.
(Jimmy sweltered through all of April in that sweater, grinning the whole time, and it developed a permanent light spot on the shoulder where Nora liked to rest her powder-covered cheek.)
No, Indy hadn’t worried at all about Nora, and his dear pupil was the picture of a gentleman. He regarded Nora and her (many, often loud and squeaky) friends and even the female students at the college with polite detachment. When he wasn’t working with Indy or in the lab or helping with the dinner dishes, he spent his time in the attic studying.
He got on well with Mutt, too, and even seemed to convince the younger boy to do a bit more studying. Mutt was attending one of the local colleges – not Marshall; he hadn’t the grades or the desire for it, a point of brief contention in the house – and Indy was pleased to see his “C’s get degrees” philosophy fade away. Meanwhile, Mutt was showing him the spots for young people in town and teaching him to ride a motorcycle.
They were a good influence on each other.
Or so Indy thought until one day he went to fetch something from the garage where Mutt was working on his bike and found his son with his star pupil draped shirtless across his lap.
And out of all the languages he spoke, he found only nine very familiar, fatherly words:
“Henry Walton Jones, what the hell are you doing!”
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Side note: PLEASE help me name this guy. The plot is there, but I've still got the poor sod as "[NAME]" in my drafts. And speaking of names, can anyone guess what Nora is a nickname for? ;)
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Mutt could've been a girl? Imo that would've been more interesting and more of a juxtaposition than actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf. I believe in Indiana Jones being a girl dad (no offense to Short Round)
