hey what’s up, you guys ever think about the specific, carefully crafted lives Lucretia built for Barry and Davenport for after she ripped everyone’s minds apart?
Like, she brought Merle to the beach, right? To the sun and sand and jewel-bright oceans that he loved so much. To other dwarves, so he wouldn’t feel so alone, so he’d have a chance to have a family like the one she’d taken from him.
She set Taako on the road to Sizzle It Up, to give him a vehicle for his creativity and his brilliance, surround him with adoring fans to help fill the void that Lup and the rest of them left behind. Tried so hard to give him what she thought he wanted.
Magnus she set up in Raven’s Roost. A quiet, woods-y town where he could shine, good, hard-working people he could protect, a craft he could take pride in. A family to take him in, an older mentor and a pretty girl who had so much life in her it shone out like sunshine.
But she didn’t know what would happen to Davenport. She couldn’t have predicted Barry’s wild, genius escape.
So is there a university somewhere that was expecting a Professor Bluejeans? An office, filled with books and crystal paperweights and maps of mountain ranges halfway across the planet? A little apartment with a small balcony, french doors leading into a brightly lit kitchen?
Was the military waiting for the ace pilot they’d heard so much about (though if pressed, they wouldn’t be able to remember exactly how they’d gotten word about him)? A team of young, fresh-faced trainees eager to learn from him, a replacement for what she’d destroyed. The singular rush of flight in his hands again.
(Lup is another matter, I think. Lup was gone, Lup was lost, Lup was the only one of them beyond her reach. But…but I think Lucretia would’ve had a back-up plan, just in case. Would’ve put her with Barry at that same university, would’ve left her and Taako their far speech stones and a carefully-edited photo album, would’ve kept them as beloved siblings. I think Lucretia was ready up until the very last minute for Lup to return)
midnight thought: it’s not not canon that Stanford Pines and the crew of the Starblaster met at some point.
please picture Ford and Lucretia absolutely geeking out over calligraphy techniques and Ford trying to get her to teach him to write with both hands at once while everyone else is like ‘somehow I thought an interplanar outlaw would be…more of a badass’
They assume he’s a local when they rescue him. Why wouldn’t they? It isn’t like they’ve met anyone else who can travel between Planar Systems the way they do. And it turns out, once Barry and Davenport calm him down enough to understand the stream of technobabble he starts spouting as soon as he sees the Starblaster, they still haven’t. He doesn’t quite manage to explain how it is he travels, but the Bond Engine is unfamiliar and fascinating to him. You can tell, because he says, “That’s fascinating!!” after every other sentence.
He grins like a lighthouse beacon when he sees Lucretia’s journals. She teaches him how to properly write with a quill once she sees he has no idea how to hold a penknife, and he gives her his invisible ink recipe.
Lup and Taako weren’t with the away team when they picked him up, so they pull the prank they do with most newcomers, where they pretend there’s only one of them and see how long it takes him to catch on. He’s surprisingly oblivious, but eventually he runs into the kitchen while they’re cooking and is so shocked he drops the book he was holding.
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