Chapters: 1/5Fandom: Saltburn (2023)Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Saltburn (2023) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Felix Catton/Oliver Quick Characters: Felix Catton, Oliver Quick, Farleigh Start, Venetia Catton, Elspeth Catton, James Catton, Duncan (Saltburn) Additional Tags: Groundhog Day, Felix and Oliver being forced into character growth, through forced proximity, and a lack of long-term consequences, that somehow still translate into more consequences than Felix has ever had to face before, short-term major character death, due to Groundhog Day shenanigans, also likely some graphic violence, that has no long-term effects again due to Groundhog Day shenanigans, Oliver gets to do a lot of murder, as a treat, before he eventually learns to chill, and be grateful that the murder sprees reset each day, with no long-term permanent murder occurring Summary:

A Saltburn Groundhog Day AU, in which Felix and Oliver are forced to relive Oliver's birthday over and over until they can figure out how to get it right...

  ...together.

Turtle Ducks ^^ Took my time to create a more detailed piece in the last couple of days! I recently rewatched Avatar and really enjoyed all the scenes where Zuko and Iroh were featured! It made me so nostalgic, so I decided to paint this as an homage to these awesome characters! Hope you like it :)

I do believe Felix was 100% willfully oblivious about many things he simply did not want to acknowledge, and I do enjoy the idea that his commitment to willful obliviousness of uncomfortable things made him as delusional as Oliver, in his own way.

I also think one of the key foundations for a lot of Felix's behavior was a rock-solid, bone-deep belief in the idea that his privilege made him untouchable in any meaningful, permanent way by anyone who might want to hurt him.

And then I like to imagine the most hilarious progression of this belief:

Felix in the maze, actively dying from the drugged champagne Oliver gave him; laying on the ground, throwing up, heart clearly in the midst of giving up the ghost; and still thinking with complete delusional sincerity, "I can't believe Oliver tried to kill me! When I wake up tomorrow, I'm gonna kick him out of my home so hard."

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It occurs to me that, while Oliver's final "Big Evil Villain" monologue is just him lying to himself to pretend that he won and he's happy, even though in reality he's a lonely, unhappy recluse with a coke addiction to fill his days, he's not the only one who lies to himself this way in the movie.

Both of Farleigh and Venetia's final monologues at Oliver are their own versions of, "I'm a winner, you're a loser, and I'm totally happy about this and for sure not desperately unhappy inside at all."

Even Oliver's final monologue is something he learns from others during the film, only to turn around and do his version, as usual, to The Most extreme.