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episode 97 got me by the throat, chip is my favorite wet cat i found in a dumpster
"It's a lot. This house is stable, strong and can withstand weather but does not rock with it. Like a ship.." he trailed obviously missing the ocean.
"It doesn't move against the tide, I,, I can't smell the salt water and there's so many noises but none of them which I'm used to- and they're quiter. Not crashing waves and the sound of sea creatures of the deep they're soft but so loud?"
He looked up at her now trying to voice his own overwhelmed confusion. The bags under his eyes looked so exaggerated in this light.
Jay put her hand on his shoulder and listened to what he had to say humming to show she kept up with him.
do you guys know that one section of Army Dreamers by Kate Bush, that is kinda going around a certain side of tiktok
If you dont, these are the lyrics:
"(What could he do? Should have been a rock star) But he didn't have the money for a guitar (What could he do? Should have been a politician) But he never had a proper education (What could he do? Should have been a father) But he never even made it to his twenties What a waste, army dreamers Oh, what a waste of army dreamers"
here's also a link to that little snippet on tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRT95qDb/
Now I want you to look me in the eyes, and tell me this isnt Chip JRWI.
Besides the word army, its literally him.
Really bad analysis below the cut
"(What could he do? Should have been a rock star) But he didn't have the money for a guitar"
Chip plays bass, he had to learn that somewhere. But considering he grew up on the streets I doubt he could actually afford one. Even when albatrio was playing on desire island, they were only made out of ice
"What could he do? Should have been a politician) But he never had a proper education"
once again, bro grew up on a pirate ship and on the streets. He was most definitely did not go to school or get any sort of education
"(What could he do? Should have been a father) But he never even made it to his twenties"
we've seen chip act somewhat parental towards ollie and stuff like that, but most importantly, he was only 19 when he died. He never made it to 20.
This has been turning in my head since I first heard the audio snippet and I hope you guys can see the vision here
me every time I have a flashback to the time I got my assistant principal into jrwi
Jay, smirking: Hey Chiiip! I think gillion just figured out how to use a gun!
jrwi doodles that accidentally make it look like chip is shooting his shot
Reminds me of the time I wanted to write either a song or a few paragraphs on the albtrio from a fearful outside perspective, just how absolutely terrifying they'd appear in that sense. Jay alone I could imagine all the murmurs among navy men on how the daughter of the vice admiral walks in her uncle's steps only to forge her own path as a ruthless and unyielding pirate. Jay has often been the one to lead the final blow with a defiant shot, either an arrow or bullet. Her eyes glow with the embers of aster and her gaze sees all. I imagine her perception to almost feel exactly like captain widows perception to outside viewers. Also she can fucking fly tho originally wingless. Jay is a (co)captain of her ship, and she leads some terrifying motherfuckers.
For gillion, well gillion has always been terrifying. From his occasional bloodlust to his menacing grin to the fact he is very much trained to be strategic and smart combat wise. He literally weilds lightning and has proved resilience against it on multiple occasions. He does not give much a shit for his odds and will keep fighting till his last breath and after. He is a constant thorn in the side of his enemies and by a thorn I do mean a sword imbued with lightning stabbed into the side of who dares stand in his way. Gillion is a champion and he proves it. He is a constant force that never seems to stop no matter what. He is made to win. Sometimes it feels like he matches his crew in strength alone.
And chip, I like to think they don't know nearly enough about him. Always hidden, always quiet. Calculating but impulsive. And whenever he's finally revealed, suddenly combat becomes his ground of play. He dances out the way of every blade and hit directed at him. He laughs and jokes as fire blooms from his blades and he slashes. Smoke ebbs from his lungs and out of his mouth as he perches and weaves and never stops. But what's makes him frightening is that seems all of that demeanor can just drop. Somthing dark looms behind his eyes as suddenly it feels like he could stare down death and not flinch. Like can look at the greatest force of mana and beyond and never once think to abandon his crew. He stands by them in brought daylight, his tounge as sharp as his mind. This is a man who fears non but failure, and failure means loss. And it's on his dead body that he'd ever lose another
as per the people’s choice (scary ass albatrio pov outsider)
the albatross used to admittedly be the butt of the joke within pirate and navy circles alike. three nobodies only one with boring experience, the likely privileged daughter of the ferin family and a supposedly disowned triton. these jokes however became the quiet mutterings in bars or on boats, they now feared if they mentioned the name the trio would appear.
whilst some believe they were just rumours others had seen otherwise.
walking into battle they would be seen bickering and joking, making the switch all the more terrifying.
the ferin girl whose eyes turned hard and darkened, a pistol at her hip that seemed to be connected to her. they saw the way she would slash her way through men double her size, her orange hair slowly stained with blood. the laughter on her face melted away, suddenly cold and unbreaking, this was no girl this was a woman who had seen too much and whose life has been shattered too many times.
the triton, some expected his training but none expected his rage. his entire body thrumming with some power that any species knew to be scared of. the sword in his hand seemed just a another part of his body, a living thing that always struck true. gore collected on his coral but he never seemed to notice. they knew of his unwavering morals but watching him slice open another mans stomach made then question otherwise
finally the boy, he had claimed to be once part of the black rose crew and they had all laughed. but this, this was arlin through and through, the deft way he out stepped a sword or goaded on his enemy. they saw the way he carelessly wiped the blood soaking his hands on some rag before disappearing almost in front of their eyes, laughing as they stood confused. he smiled his way through carnage, blasting a magic no one even knew existed into any unfortunate soul. he gained no joy from the hurt he inflicted but the relief at seeing that final body drop was almost worse.
sorry for long post but yeah those fuckers scary
you know, i thought this was going to be about the riptide crew seeing feral gillion, but this is so much better and something i haven't considered
because jay and chip have seen gillion when he zeroes in on an attack. chip still shivers when he recalls the ice arena
but they've gotten to know gillion. they've gotten to know the soft soul beneath the initial hard exterior of the chosen one. that's their friend. that's their brother
so while everyone sees gillion throwing himself into battle as a terrifying image of a warrior, jay and chip have to watch their sefless friend put himself in danger to save everyone else
so i’m a lil goob for feral gillion/pov outsider on him
the crew of the albatross know the “real” gillion, the kind hearted, desperately hopeful triton
those on the outside less so
what they see is the ex champion of the undersea, disowned hero of the deep. the trained weapon, the carefully sharpened sword of the elders.
when their enemies make eye contact with the triton across the room, they see a man with lightning crackling through his veins, hair standing on its ends and emits absolute power.
they see the bloodlust in his eyes as he unsheathes a sword that seems to speak to him, armour who seems to hold enemies blood despite all the water he holds.
they see carefully concealed rage, a leviathan trapped in his chest begging to be released, begging to strike down those in front of it as it was trained to do.
they see how inhuman this being can be.
they see after their own have been struck down, once the blood shed is finished the sword be sheathed again, his now free hands gently tending to his wounded friends and wonder
do they too see the caged leviathan
(sorry for this lol)
What the Albatrio values is shown through what they do for the other.
First, there's Gillion. Champion of the undersea, hero of the deep. He's always followed a path, a straight line for him to walk. He knows exactly what he has to do, even if he's not sure how to do it. The thing is, to follow his destiny, he needs to stay alive. Simply his own life has always meant so much to him. But for Chip, for Jay, he's risked his life a thousand times over. Because he would rather risk destiny than his friends.
Chip, (before the noctus arc) couldn't bring himself to kill. He had done it once, and he could never, ever possibly dream of doing it again. Despite being a bastard and an ass, he could never kill a man. But for Gillion or Jay? I believe he would do it in a heartbeat. One of his biggest morals torn away the second his friends are a little too close to death.
And Jay, the one thing she couldn't do? Keep her sister safe. The person she cared about most, ripped away from her. She can't keep people safe, protect them. She was once part of the navy, and they fail at that miserably. But she's the one who wins every battle, who keeps a cool head while the other two are fucking around. She's the one who makes sure all three of them come out the other side alright.
One who cannot die, one who cannot kill, and one who cannot protect. And yet they do it for their co-captains.
The albatrio have talked about how they met a few times before. How they're all so glad they found each other, whether it was fate or not. But when you think about it, so many different things in their universe would have to change for them to not have met. Chip and Jay could've met through Drey, and even if they didn't, there's always Lizzie, who Jay would've met because of Ava, be that hunting her down in believing her responsible for the murder, or if Ava survived and had her family meet her girlfriend. Obviously Chip knows Lizzie, so the two could have been siblings in law. Gillion had Finn, obviously, but if the meeting in the undersea went right, he would eventually meet navy soldiers, aka Jay or a friend of Jay's. What I'm saying is they met in possibly the most coincidental way possible.
The universe did everything it could to make them meet, but they did it themselves, without the universe. It was fate, but perhaps not the one intended.
as per the people’s choice (scary ass albatrio pov outsider)
the albatross used to admittedly be the butt of the joke within pirate and navy circles alike. three nobodies only one with boring experience, the likely privileged daughter of the ferin family and a supposedly disowned triton. these jokes however became the quiet mutterings in bars or on boats, they now feared if they mentioned the name the trio would appear.
whilst some believe they were just rumours others had seen otherwise.
walking into battle they would be seen bickering and joking, making the switch all the more terrifying.
the ferin girl whose eyes turned hard and darkened, a pistol at her hip that seemed to be connected to her. they saw the way she would slash her way through men double her size, her orange hair slowly stained with blood. the laughter on her face melted away, suddenly cold and unbreaking, this was no girl this was a woman who had seen too much and whose life has been shattered too many times.
the triton, some expected his training but none expected his rage. his entire body thrumming with some power that any species knew to be scared of. the sword in his hand seemed just a another part of his body, a living thing that always struck true. gore collected on his coral but he never seemed to notice. they knew of his unwavering morals but watching him slice open another mans stomach made then question otherwise
finally the boy, he had claimed to be once part of the black rose crew and they had all laughed. but this, this was arlin through and through, the deft way he out stepped a sword or goaded on his enemy. they saw the way he carelessly wiped the blood soaking his hands on some rag before disappearing almost in front of their eyes, laughing as they stood confused. he smiled his way through carnage, blasting a magic no one even knew existed into any unfortunate soul. he gained no joy from the hurt he inflicted but the relief at seeing that final body drop was almost worse.
sorry for long post but yeah those fuckers scary
CHIP CAN BE SCARY PLUS ANGST BECAUSE I CAN
chip never had a name for himself, he accepted the title bastard because hey it made sense. he’s always just been “the bastard”, the people around him continually called him that so it must be true
what many people seem to miss is that you do not survive on the seas or on the streets by simply being the “bastard”.
no he survived because he learnt early that violence might be the only language everyone spoke, when sarcasm and snark couldn’t protect him anymore. he kept a knife under his pillow the moment he learnt this, it was like a broad sword in his too small hands.
the black rose pirates gave him family but they also showed him the true darkness the world had to offer and taught him to survive it with fast feet and rapid slashes
now, he might be a captain of a pirate gang but deep down he will always be chip the bastard. enemies learn to not underestimate the quips or the swagger after the first body drops.
unlike his co captains he has no qualms coating his hands with those who wronged him or those he loves. when he enters combat he teleports back to all the times he was scared, cornered by those who hurt him in the past. he talks fast but moves faster, feet silent against the floor, enemies not knowing where the man is until they see their compatriots fall, puppets cut from their strings.
they watch him shift and morph as he wishes, changing faces with ease. the only way they can recognise him is that shit eating smile that rarely leaves his face, even as unholy power escapes his body and watches his enemies eyes burn and melt without hesitation.
he lost one family. he refuses to lose another. he protects them the one way he knows.
chip goes to gay highschool….
Chip!
While Im making GIFs have a Chiibo! I couldnt decide what stage of his design to do so I did all of it up to this point, I am really proud of this one so enjoy!
Technically spoilers so beware if you are early in the series
Mini Riptide Pirates!
Slightly less and less mini but yknow Im just having fun playing around with characters and more fanon designs (see: gillion with tail)
Then we cry. And sob. And make fanart and fics where it didn't come down to that. We mourn. And maybe yell at Grizzly for a little bit. Or a long bit.
what if chip finds arlin in the hole in the sea. but ends up having to let him go anyways/loses him again because of external danger etc.
what if drey ferin sacrifices himself so arlin can escape.
what if chip has to choose between gillion’s life and arlin’s life. what if gillion begs him to choose arlin.
If
If anybody wants to do a chip jrwi animation for this..? (I'm gonna try but I actually suck at drawing positions lol)
!! MAJOR JRWI EPISODE 114 SPOILERS AHEAD !!
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I just had a sick and twisted fucking thought about episode 114 and I need to share it to the world.
Okay, so Chip realises his mistake- trusting Gillion's clone and failing to see the red flags because, well it's Gill (I could go on a rant about this too)- Gillion's clone has pushed him to the ground and is towering over him. If Chip could bleed, his nose would probably be bloody.
And at this exact moment, where Chip can't use his magic to defend himself and his best-friend is threatening to kill him- we cut back to the real Gillion, who is running up these flights of stairs away from a monster that could literally breathe on him and end his life, he's on 1HP.
AND HERE'S THE THING. HERE'S WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT.
Destiny's Blade glows in Gillion's hands and whispers that, 'Chip is about to die.'
Gillion- with zero hesitation- goes running to find him and save his life.
THIS SCENE HAS SO MANY LAYERS TO IT- YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW, MAN- ISTG.
So, for starters, Chip is undead- he physically cannot die, or at least not very easily; I'm guessing that it would take an incredibly powerful, god like entity/bad guy to actually end his undead life now. And yet, Destiny's Blade says that he's about to die.
The blade itself was designed for slaying the undead and the evil entities Gillion himself was designed to fight against- but when it comes to Chip, there's nothing Gillion wouldn't do to protect him with this sword. And that reflects on Destiny's Blade, I would imagine- the blade supports Gillion's destiny, his fight for good.
And to add to this, I don't know if Chip actually could've been killed by clone Gillion- but the idea that he came close and that the sword instinctually reached out to save his life is just- WRAH.
It also highlights just how scared Chip was, because he couldn't fight the clone even if he wanted to, not only because of the magic barrier- but because it's Gill, his co-captain, his best-friend, his paladin (a pirate and his paladin I'm sorry- I love them sm lmao).
And yes, Gillion is known for taking ridiculous risks to keep his friends safe, willing to take every blow and keep fighting like it doesn't hurt because he's a knight, he was trained for this, this is what he's good at- but he runs to find Chip, ON 1HP. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH- THIS MAN WAS IN PIECES, HIS SKIN HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM HIM, AND IF NOT FOR THE DEATH WARD HE PROBABLY WOULD'VE DIED. But he runs off to find him anyway, no hesitation, no thought of his own well-being, only that Chip is in serious danger and he needs to save him. He won't let him die twice.
PRAYING THAT SOMEONE READS THROUGH THIS TANGENT TBH BECAUSE I'M GOING INSANE RIGHT NOW- I'M SORRY THIS IS SO LONG LMAO 😭🙏
GUYS
GUYS I'M BOOKBINDING FANFICTION WHAT SHOULD I TITLE IT???
IT'S FISH AND CHIPS ONESHOTS AND ALSO SOME LIKE QUEEN AND GRYFFON AND ALSO MAYBE LIKE SOME OTHER STUFF
MOSTLY RIPTIDE THO