Hey, so, I just finished my fourth rewatch of Riptide, and I have done some math while doing so, and I wanna share it.
Did you know that throughout this entire campaign Chip has received 132 lightning damage in total?
Well that itself might feel like a lot, until you hear abt Jay Ferin, who received a total of 199 lightning damage, a whooping 67 more damage than Chibo.
Now.
Gillion Tidestrider. The reason I decided to count this shit in the first place. I needed to know. And I did indeed find out.
That Gillion Tidestrider, from start to finish, from episode 1 to 115, has suffered 382 lightning damage. A full 183 more damage than Jay and fucking 250 more than Chip. He is a literal lightning rod in a fish disguise, and here is your proof.
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cursed Gillion moment
Charlie has said this so much throughout the campaign that I decided to take matters into my own hands
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gillion tidestrider, who are you, really?
the bg on its own under the cut bc i feel i have good ideas but am bad at executing them
(also if you really really like it you can buy a print here)
its meant to be the Tree and the albatross and also the undersea (if you look really close you can see some fish)
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Sometimes I think about Chip and Jay meeting Gillion for the first time. How was it for them exactly?
Gillion, lying on his back on the surface of the water, staring at the sun. Lost, in the middle of an ocean in a place he doesn't know. He should be afraid, but he just feels empty. The bright light is blinding him but he does not care to see. The events of the past few days play endlessly in his mind. His breaking point, his frenzy, the trial, the verdict. The sinking feeling that he's lost every single small bit of what was him and what was his, what he was desperately clinging to. So he doesn't need to see, and there is nothing inside his eyes, cause there is nothing left of Gill.
Did Chip, I wonder see those empty eyes? Did he notice the pain they hold? Before they were masked by excited greeting and a bright smile of a Triton he's grown to know and love, before they shifted into focus, did he look at them and saw his own eyes staring back at him? Did he see the same emptiness he felt when the water swallowed everything he had known and washed him ashore with no direction, the same eyes that reflected the fire of a burning warehouse as he left his life behind once more? Did Jay see it too? Did she see the same loss and grief she expreienced, staring at her sister's grave? Did she understand the same feeling of being isolated, of not feeling like yourself, like you don't belong amongst those who are supposed to be your own?
Is this why they took his hand that day? Was it simple pity or a connection weaved through compassion and a desire to share suffering with another? To help each other feel whole again?
The empty gazes looked at the lost Triton, and his empty eyes stared back. And then, they were together. And with love, care and understanding they share, they see a little clearer now.
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Hi no wait im sorry can we,, can we back up a minute here. Like i get it chip died, real prophecy, star-crossed survivors wedding i got it
but are we really just going to brush over the implication that gillion is literally the son of a god. not figuratively, not chosen, not adoptive-wise-
LITERALLY the son of a god
gillion might not even be a fucking triton he literally might be a very very young leviathan
"a sea-gods last egg, the chosen is born" HELLO??
PLUS THE FACT THAT STAR SAID HE RADIATES DIVINE ENERGY listen listen listen that could just be paladin chosen one stuff but WHAT IF SHE IS SENSING THE FACT THAT HE'S LITERALLY A GOD
HE IS LITERALLY A GOD AND HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW IT
and ALSO, heres the part where i read wayy too far into things that are probably irrelevant but IN THE ANIMATIC!!
gillions fins and hair mirror the leviathans' fins and whiskers, his arm fins mimic the shape of their lower fins and spines, and the little curl of his mouth mimics the leviathans' muzzle shape
ALSO!! IN THE FIRST IMAGE OF THE LEVIATHAN THERE IS A VERY VERY VERY TINY HUMANOID FIGURE SWIMMING NEAR ITS FACE- in my personal opinion that could be falyn because she is a shark tamer and I think if she met a leviathan with KIND EYES she would absolutely swim up to greet it
ANYWAY thank you for listening to my absolutely fucking insane ramblings about gillion tidestrider cant wait to see what fucking happens
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