#wildecat

the worst thing about writing a fic and having a character so inherently tied to that fic is that, no matter how many head canons I make, nothing is set in stone until I get it on the page. so all these speculations about who Timber will fall in love with or how her future will turn out after the events of MW! - it’s all just speculation until I write the damn thing out.

with that said....I used to ship Timber x Katnappe low-key in the past because I thought it was a cute ship. But even though I don’t really see as much romantic potential in them anymore, I do like to think of what dynamic they would have, and I imagine it to be both very challenging and very positive, in a weird way? Like, Timber is someone who is defined by her devotion, specifically by. her devotion to other people. Ashley is, for better or for worse, a person with no loyalties to any outside influences whatsoever. She does what she wants, when she wants, with who she wants. While Timber aligns herself alongside the people she deeply cares about, everything in Ashley’s life is always on her own terms. on top of that, Ashley is the type of person who rob an art museum blind. Timber, for all her rough spots and flaws, still has that optimism and love for the arts that would cause her to be horrified at such a thing.  take that, and compare it to their respective cat/wolf motifs, Ashley’s fixation on luxury vs Timber’s fixation on basic necessities (especially food), Ashley’s materialism vs Timber’s love for nature, and you’ve got two people with wildly different personalities and values. you’d expect for them to hate each other. and for the most part, I feel like they give each other a hard time on sight, right? but like, I also see Ashley being kind of a positive influence on Timber? Timber’s whole arc stems from a lot fo complicated interrelating factors, but one of the issues she has is putting all her faith and loyalty into someone who does not have her best interests in mind. Ashley could see someone like that coming from a mile away - it’s why she wasn’t naive enough to fall for Wuya’s offer to rule the world alongside her. As flawed as she is, Ashley knew better than to go gallivanting off with a Heylin witch and stayed in her lane, hitting up stores to rob and screwing around at amusement parts. Because that’s what made HER happy. 

HER happiness took priority, no one else’s.

Timber...accommodates herself for other people. Well, actually, just one person in particular. But it’s quite the intense relationship and it’s an endless uphill battle of take and give, with Timber giving up a little bit more of herself each and every day. Ashley’s not the charitable type - and all in all, is VERY self serving - but I think even SHE wouldn’t stand by and say nothing while seeing such a toxic relationship unfold, especially if it involved another girl close to her own age. Who knows if she’d actually intervene or put a stop to it? But, like, standing by and going along with it? That doesn’t fit her personality. At least, not tome.

Timber: ....

Timber: ........

Timber: You really think I’m hot? 😉