Davy Prentiss Jr - Tumblr Posts
hi again all 3 chaos walking fans i give you my highly inaccurate and very generous davy interpretation, there’s no way he’s really this cool in the book but im BIASED OKAY!!
(YES they’re genderfluid i have queer projections onto almost every chara in the book and how enby genders intertwine with the noise and the underlying themes BUT ILL MAKE ANOTHER POST FOR THAT HEHEE)(diversity win, this misogynist teenager goes by she he and they!)
this is for book 1 and the beginning of book 2 and .. book… 3… hahah..UM.
the whole time reading i thought he was kind of like todds freaky edgy older brother so i kind of went with making him as ‘alternative’ you can get when you’re on a new planet. he’s probably using charcoal to smudge onto his eyes , and the mayor probably *hates* that shit 😭🙂↔️
he also has heterochromia (which will be super important when i post my mayor design later (I’ll probably do an in depth post about my design choices for mayor and Davy in a whole separate post atp ;-; ) so he covers it with his greasy farmboy hair. probably to avoid ridicule and stuff. he’s the sheriff after all 😔
he’s still absolutely greasy and stinky and dirty though, love them!
mayor will be coming soon(i hope)
BYE FOR NOW
All 3 of you🙂↕️
Gotta love those characters that you hated from the beginning but turn out to be one of your favorites bc of how complex and simply human they are and everything is all grey instead of black and white and they are just a product of their upbringing and that doesn’t excuse their actions but you understand them and they understand their own mistakes and regret them enough to spend their dying moments unburdening themselves with the truth and begging for forgiveness and it’s sad because you don’t know if they will ever really be at peace after being betrayed by the only two people they cared about and all they ever wanted was to be good enough and to be loved and to be respected and it cost them their life
Imagine you're a 15 year old boy. You probably never knew kindness in your life because your mom died when you were little and your dad is too obsessed with war and murder and world domination to care about you. You live to please him. You'd do anything to make him proud. You *have* done awful, awful things to appease him. Things that keep you up at night. You're mean and a bully and act like you're the boss of everyone because you hurt inside and because you're trying to play the part of the man, the big authoritative man your father can't help but be proud of. There's this one kid who your father is obsessed with for some reason. He makes you work with him. You don't get why this guy is so special but whatever. You fight with him everyday but you still work side by side. You two commit more awful things to appease your father. Your father is kinda ... happy? No one can read him anyway. You spend months and months with the other kid. You two grow kinda close. Maybe he's not that bad after all. You both get a promotion. Your father is so proud of you two, his sons. You're so happy you can't even think straight. Maybe you can all be a family now, yes , you your new brother and your dad. Your father trusts you to lead his army to war and you will, you'll prove yourself to him and he'll love you. You come back from what ended up being a diversion, not the actual war, and your new family is fighting. Your dad tells you to shoot your brother. You would never. Your brother threatens to shoot you. What? Your father shoots you. Why? to "remove you from the equation". You die and in your last seconds you ask to be forgiven. You regret it all so much. You finally see through your father's constant manipulation but it's too late. You die. Your brother goes to war with the rifle your dad had given you , the rifle you were to protect yourself with in battle. You're dead and you don't know that the rifle was unloaded. You're dead and everyone you've ever loved betrayed you. You're Davy fucking Prentiss Jr and you haunt my existence