thinking about how doomed chip and arlins reunion is. like. even not including all of the corruption and stuff implied to be happening with the hole in the sea. chip was around 9. a 9 year old who thought the world of arlin, and how can you live up to the expectations of a child who thinks the world of you, one who has had a decade to build you up in their mind.
and on the other side. arlin remembering a small boy who was a bit mischievous at worst, now stood in front of him ten years older, with countless scars, not even breathing. completely unrecognisable.
all im saying is that no party involved is ready for what might happen and thats scary as hell
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Thinking about Ollie’s voice breaking on “I just wanted to know the way home” after he grows big from the compass and god they should’ve brought him home sooner but none of them wanted that, Ollie didn’t even want that, but getting back to Zero and seeing how happy everyone was to see him alive and his mother literally worried sick by his disappearance must’ve been such a punch to the gut
Thinking about “I want to go home, but this is my home too”
Thinking about Chip making Ollie’s room in the keep to look like the lower deck of the albatross so Ollie can always remember his time being a pirate
Thinking about how Chip gave Ollie Arlin’s coin because as much as Arlin is his family, Ollie is too
Thinking about how Ollie grew to see Chip as his older brother and didn’t want to leave him and the rest of the crew, but knew he had to since they were heading to the Black Sea soon and he needed to be there for his mom
Just god, thinking about Chip and Ollie and how they both carved out homes on the sea and found a new family within the same crew and found each other as brothers
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how i think different riptide characters would ask for help
chip
girl help
jay
girl help
gillion
girl you must help
gryffon
girl *growls* help *growls*
queen
la la girl help la
ollie
girl help :33
drey
hello vixen soap lesbianchipbastard
arlin
girl help
finn
girl help
pretzel
blblb :333 plb :33 llbpbl :3333 :33
goobleck
girl help
old man earl
fuck you girl i can help myself *gets stabbed real bad* aghhaauuughh girlll….. girl helppp….. aauuuuaaughhhooohhh
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Just roll with it riptide theory time, spoilers for episode 115, episode 70, and the black rose pirates oneshot
So. This is a very weird one and probably incorrect because i got like 5 hours of sleep last night BUT. It has also been in my mind for like months at this point and I’ve finally figured out some way for it to make sense so here we go!
I believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that Chip is from the hole in the sea. Like literally born from it. His lack of any biological family or even a name until he met Arlin, and captain Rose knowing that Chip would 1. Survive whatever he believed would kill them all and 2. Knowing that Chip would come back to the black sea, as well as the most obvious “Welcome Home” in his head when they went in the hole? Yeah. He is from there.
However, even more in specifically, i dont believe that hes just from the hole, i believe he is part of it. He is connected to it. And ive thought this to some extent since the “fighting chip’s inner demons very literally” scene in episode 70, and more importantly; Arlin in the scene.
Because he does not act like how you would expect a nightmarish version of your father inside your own subconscious to act. He acts scared. He acts surprised that Chip is there. The evil versions of Jay, Ollie, and Gillion are aggressive, instantly striking out against him, but Arlin? He’s scared of Chip. And scared of hurting Chip. He acts almost the same as Chip himself does, trying to reassure himself that this isn’t real, that this is just a nightmare.
And I think that’s because in some fucked up way it really is him.
That that’s not Chip’s subconscious creating a nightmare version of Arlin for him to fight, instead it’s really just him. Arlin, after being in the hole in the sea for over a decade, succumbing to the corruption.
He looks like someone suffering from the black sea’s corruption might look. Black tendrils coming out of where his arm used to be, black liquid dripping out of his eyes… Chip shouldnt be able to make that up in his mind. He hadn’t seen the corruption yet.
And Arlin is terrified. Of Chip. Confused, like he’s the one seeing things, because he thinks that he is. “Is that really you”, “You can hear me”, “You’re here to kill me again”. Those are the words of someone who’s been stuck seeing visions of his son killing him over and over again for a decade, just like he did in the black rose pirates oneshot. That’s not said like a nightmare trying to harm him. They’re said like a man who’s desperately trying to snap himself out of what he believes to be a nightmare.
“I don’t want to hurt you” isn’t said by a nightmare that is trying to trick a person. It’s said by a man who even for a second wants to believe that his son is really there, speaking to him, and in danger of being hurt by corruption that he can’t control.
And like… I’ve thought this for months. But until episode 115 my theory was that Arlin was somehow stuck inside Chip’s mind, living that nightmare of Chip killing him over and over again, but now? I believe that Arlin is absolutely still inside the hole in the sea. It’s just that Chip’s subconscious is connected to it as well.
And how fucked up would that be? That they finally get into the hole in the sea, they finally find Arlin, and instead of him being happy to see Chip, or even him being just straight up dead, he’s instead convinced that Chip is there to kill him. To harm him. That this is just another nightmare. Another vision sent to hurt him.
Like I said i got 5 hours of sleep last night this might not be anything and someone else could probably put this in words that make way more sense but who cares! I am going insane!
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Thinking about Chip being asked what his last name is after an introduction and him pausing for a moment, not because he doesn’t have one, but because he can’t decide if he should say James, Rose, Lafayette, Ferin, or Tidestrider. And in that moment he knows he’s loved and has a family and belongs somewhere, not by any arbitrary means, but because he’s wanted and loved and cared for
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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.
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You know Convincing Arlin that Chip isn’t an evil hallucination will probably be a lot harder now that hes undead as hell and has no skin :/
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