#riptide rambles

i wanna just say, Chip’s character is even more tragic on the rewatch because now you know (partially) what led up to this. you know how he bartered violence for love after he lost everything. you know how deeply he loves the people around him, and just how scared he is not only of losing them but of letting them see who he is. they make it very clear from the beginning that Chip’s background is the haunted one. he clings to his past like it’ll save him, but the tighter he holds on the more lost he becomes. we don’t even know what happened to him in the hole in the sea, and he doesn’t either. idk man it’s just really sad.

does anyone else think about when chip asked niklaus what he desired most and niklaus said freedom. because i think about it. a lot.

i need grizzly and charlie to drop the triton lore immediately. i don’t care about their fuckass hiatus i need to know what holidays they celebrate, what their worship is like, how they prepare their meals, I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING

someone needs to old yeller me out back because i need to stop thinking about gillion worshipping lunadeyis and apparently always feeling a connection to her despite the undersea primarily worshiping the leviathans and not lunadeyis. like even her clerics/priests acknowledge him as her chosen one. he calls himself a moony. that's his mom. he never saw the surface before besides the simulations. did he ever look to the sky while he was training and see the moon? did he look to the moon and feel some sort of comfort, even if it wasn't real?

gillion the kind of mf to give chip a “my deepest shrimpathies” card after he got his heart swallowed or whatever happened with that