So I’m not sure how much of the original person remains into a Grimwalker, if just appearances or something more, but judging by the fact that all Golden Guards apparently turned their back to Belos and I want to believe Wittebro is a good dude, I like to think at least something stays. Maybe little bits of something
With that being said… what if Hunter had dreams about Wittebro’s past but always thought were dreams of himself since there was always someone looking like him although as an older version?
Maybe being in a world of magic and feeling fascinated by it? Almost like seeing it for the very first time?
Maybe exploring and taking everything in like he never did before?
Maybe living, laughing, wanting a future?
Maybe… maybe dark figure facing him, so very angry and hateful. Maybe someone painfully familiar killing him, making him wake up in a cold sweat? Again and again?
This is not really my typical post. So the thing about me is I’m actually secretly a huge nerd who does poetry, but I never feel confident enough to actually share any of it, let alone the ones I write based on fictional characters.
But, being as it’s late at night and therefore all my impulse control is gone, I guess I’m posting this poem I did based on the Wittebros backstory and what we learned about it in Hollow Mind, specifically written from Philip’s POV! Anxiety’ll probably get the better of me in the morning and I’ll delete this in the morning but who knows.
Anyway, here’s my messy little thing I guess?
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We were boys - young boys - when the forest first sung
By our cabin, by the trees, by the flowers
And the leaves, and it was in that forest
We first played our games
With masks of wood and the sticks that were our pyres
Where witches burned
Feet dangling over and
There was rope around their necks,
We hung them up high: fuel for the fire.
And glowing with deceit that fire was, on the palms of their hands,
And so tempted you were by the sparks of desire that you left me
Poor me
To follow, so dire
In my attempt to stop you,
Save you from liars,
But in the end it was me - I was the liar
Because as you smiled
And held the hanged ones hand,
I hid behind me a dagger, sharp and light
And we were men - grown men - when the forest was on fire
As the blaze rose high and your voice even higher as the
Fire, oh the fire
You shall burn on that pyre
Where I’ll stand over,
My mission: complete
while the hanged one she weeps and curses my name.
You’ll pay.
You’ll suffer.
You’ll wither.
You hear!
You’ll regret the day you added,
My dear husband to your pyre.
AMAZING!
This verse especially: “and we were men - grown men - when the forest was on fire” really stuck with me!
Listen, I just wanted to try drawing Wittebro. I don’t know how this would work — maybe this is an AU where Phillip hasn’t yet re-enacted Cain And Abel with his brother when “Aunt Dirtrude” and “Luzura” (and Hunter for some reason) found the time pool to the past. (Feat. heavy implications that Wittebro married a Clawthorne)
Plus I can’t imagine he’d be too impressed by his brother’s “parenting”
Okay, but like… I haven’t seen anyone else talk about it, but I NEED to talk about this, so excuse my ranting!
Hunter and Philip’s reunion was horrible and terrifying and I hated it, but also LOVED it. For one thing, wefinallygot a Wittebro name reveal and confirmation that Flapjack was his palisman!!
But the thing I really want to talk about right now is Hunter.
As Philip makes one last ditch attempt to gain control over Hunter again, the poor kid is terrified.
Then, after the Collector Splats™ Philip, he is completely mortifiedover what he just saw. Because while it is true that Philip has done nothing but abuse and manipulate Hunter all his life, he was still the one that raised him. He was still the one that Hunter loved, praised, and believed in for all those years. He was still family, in some sick, twisted way.
And then, when all the kids are running toward the Portal, Hunter is the only one to hesitate. Because making it to the Portal means stepping over what (he believes to be) Philip’s deceased remains. After everything that Philip has done to him, the other Golden Guards, and even his own brother–the one Hunter was made after– he can’t bring himself to disrespect Philip’s remains in such a way.
It’s only after Gus and Willow stop and urge him on does he begin to move again.
And even still, he has his eyes tightly shut, as if refusing to look down.
I don’t really have the words to describe how this all makes me feel, but damn… It just really speaks volumes about how much of a better person Hunter–and by extension Caleb– is than Philip. How much kinder, considerate, and caring they both are. It honestly breaks my heart.
Hunter hasn’t told the others that he’s a grimwalker
King saw a small mountain’s worth of discarded Golden Guard masks, and the Collector — who is very aware of what grimwalkers are and that Hunter is one — has latched onto King as a new companion
Gus saw Belos’s worst memory — Belos killing somebody who is clearly a Hunter lookalike
Hunter’s secret might get out sooner than he’s ready to talk about it
i think it is extremely telling that Caleb (we assume) is in the front and foremost in these depictions. Philip is seen kind of hanging back. This might indicate that Caleb was the main force between the two brothers. Just something of note.
Okay, uhhh… I’m going to try this out. It’s pretty bare bones here right now. I don’t really know what I’m doing.
I don’t really expect this to take off, but we’ll see where this goes. This discord may be deleted if I can’t keep up or if there isn’t enough interest.
Right now, you can chat or post fan art and fan fics.
I’ve just noticed something. The picture in the center. Grimwalker’s drowning. A man is standing in the corner, it’s clearly Philip, his earliest outfit
This bitch is RIGHT NEXT TO HIM, my boy’s dying in a swamp? and Philip ABSOLUTELY can save him but this fucker just stands still and doesn’t even BOTHER TO BEND OVER OR SOMETHING I —
