I Dont Fear The Devil, Hannah. I Fear The Neighbor Who Would Accuse Me. I Fear The Mother That Would

i don’t fear the devil, hannah. i fear the neighbor who would accuse me. i fear the mother that would let her daughter hang. i fear union. they lead us like lambs to the slaughter and expect us to just follow. well, they will see… i am no lamb.

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🪐 — @hargrovetm​​  sent   a hc meme :                          HC  +  gio !

    ●  giovanni’s maternal grandparents were anti-fascists who participated in direct coordinated actions against benito mussolini in the early 1940s, involving sabotaging supply lines  &  helping to print  &  distribute anti-fascist press. when he was a child, it was his grandfather who introduced gio to radical politics,  &  imbued him with his strong values of justice, equality,  &  freedom.  other than his guitar, the stack of old pamphlets  &  resistance fliers that his grandfather gave him are gio’s most treasured possessions.   ●  in large part because of his strong values, gio hates bullies.  at 6′5, gio is almost always the tallest person in the room,  &  while he doesn’t like to fight,  he is not above using his size to frighten bullies into leaving more vulnerable people alone.  his close friendship with brian walker is a classic example of this.    ●  gio’s family couldn’t afford to travel back  &  forth between italy  &  the united states very often, but they did save up enough to take one trip to visit his familial home when he was thirteen years old  &  his younger brother, damiano, was seven. they got to meet the extended di carlo family,  &  this trip is one of the best memories of gio’s life.    ●  gio is an incredibly hard worker  &  surprisingly good at saving up money for things he really wants.  he worked three jobs at a time when he was fifteen years old  &  trying to save up for a guitar. his first guitar was a secondhand lime green kramer focus. his second guitar was a white fender super strat. his dream guitar is a cherry red les paul.   ●  gio’s Type is goths. the more goth the better.  &  this isn’t to say that he’s not capable of finding people of other styles attractive, because he definitely is,  &  he can also sometimes be surprised at who he’s attracted to. but as a rule, he tends to gravitate toward goths. he thinks the fact that they’re different  &  a little freaky is just the hottest thing.

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🪐 — @hargrovetm​​​  sent   a hc meme :                          HC  +  brian !

  ●  brian walker does not remember his mother at all.  he was seized from her by cps  &  put into foster care when he was only one year old,  &  as such, he has literally no memories of her.  he also knows nothing about her, with no one around him while he was growing up who knew her personally that he could ask.  although there are a lot of hard things in his life, the hardest part for brian will always be the not knowing how to find her, or what her situation was, or even the barest details of why she could not raise him herself.     ●  brian is... gross.  &  i don’t mean this in a hygiene way, i mean it in a “dirtbag boy” kind of way.  as a foster kid who was shuffled around several homes in his youth, brian learned early on that saying the most shocking possible thing will lend him attention.  &  even negative attention is preferable to none.  so as he grows, the habit sticks,  &  brian develops the tendency to loudly interject vulgar or crude comments into casual conversations where they do not belong.  it’s not that he has poor social skills  —  he knows it makes people angry  &  uncomfortable.  that’s the point of it.  he really just wants to cause a reaction.    ●  brian gets four tattoos by the time he’s 18.  he has a barbed wire around his right bicep (terribly cliche), a red herring fish on left pectoral, a headless skeleton holding a beer bottle on the back of his right shoulder,  &  a cluster of stars on his right hipbone.  they don’t mean anything  —  though it could be argued that the red herring over his heart is subconsciously symbolic of the fact that for brian, if he appears to show real genuine vulnerability, you should be very concerned that it’s a distraction from the truth, because brian doesn’t show his real feelings to anyone.    ●  brian has an addictive personality  &  a genetic predisposition toward substance abuse.  he has his first drink at age 13 : a pint of vodka which he stole from an older kid’s backpack at the foster home he was in at the time.  in his teenage years he mostly drinks, with only occasional experimentation with drugs.  but as he gets older  —  &  in especially verses where the band he plays in actually becomes successful  —  brian experiments with uppers, &  opiates.  he doesn’t like weed; it’s not strong enough for him.    ●  the only person in the world who can tell brian what to do  &  he will listen to them is his best  &  only real friend, giovanni di carlo.  &  the only reason gio gets away with it is because gio was the only one who was there for him when brian ran away from his foster home  &  was living on the streets. for this reason, when gio is around, brian is much more tolerable because he knows gio prefers to be respectful,  &  gio’s opinion is one of the only ones that actually matters to him.

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