the two different people switching the recommended order of the hearts to say "light teal: you confuse me BUT dark teal: I would like to get to know you better" for Walter are sending me. my boy is mysterious

oh my god this is so funny. Malcolm, you're unconsciously an "it seems like Arthur was the exact same before, during, and after his demotion" truther

Bless the Yelena reply...

I'M [CLAP] WORKING [CLAP] ON [CLAP] HEART MEME [CLAP]

Abel just frowning at Walter. He would love if everyone just forgot about that thanks.

Abel's speech about how it would be nice if everyone could forget about VIP Cain now that Inmate Cain is here. yeah. yeah honestly also applies to all the embarrassing stuff that has happened to Abel

WAIT I JUST SAW HOW ABEL WENT UP TO JOHN SILVER LIKE LET'S FUCKIN GO

xD

Malcolm is an Arthur truther yet Walter still doesn’t respect him. He just says stuff, Walter. You know. Like you could never.

Also i wanna get back to the hearts meme today

it would be very silly for me to say this in any forceful way considering I've taken... practically the entire fuckin week off... but! I have been fondly waiting for my boy's warden on heart meme!

so just so you know. I will be full of beams of energy and love

well I finished page 1. maybe I will skip replies to my own comment (top of page 2) and reply to Malcolm (very close to top of page 2) then go to bed

"an Arthur truther" as if Arthur in any way hides his opinions

Specifically like Arthur seems to believe that graduating was a meaningful therapeutic experience for him and Walter is like "... But he seems the same"

(combined with the generally suspicious circumstances of having to go home and come back Damaged like why would that be needed if the barge and the powers of the wardens on it is so great)

because of Secret Reasons (because Arthur’s public facade was not and has never been the actual problem, and he didn't remember the Barge when he got horribly retraumatised by canon)

Also Malcolm would be the first to die laughing at someone suggesting the Wardens have "power" OR "powers" much less that they're in any way "great".

AND YES I want to continue heart memeing today i am close to the bottom of pg 1

My brother in Christ you're literally a werewolf

but that doesn't convey any sort of wardenly authority.

John Doe is supposed to literally be some kind of god???

Like... Yes. Wardens literally have abilities and authority. Not all of them have abilities and their authority is far from limitless but they do

Now that isn't the same thing as "all wardens have access to a big red SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS FOREVER button both on the barge and at home"

But it is enough that several specific scenarios are very suspicious to Walter. Like Taylor arriving as a normal inmate, graduating, going home to get Trauma, and graduating again. That definitely looks a lot more to Walter like "admiral is toying with his pawns" than a fluke within a reasonably noble system

if Wardens had authority , Walter not talking to Malcolm wouldn't even work!

That's not a lack of authority that's very much Malcolm's choice. like he has Walter's file (which is permanent, not just "whee we set it on fire and it's gone") and although the admiral did in fact veto

Jacob being forced to be verbally forthcoming about his feelings under some circumstances, he has approved other requests that had very similar results

Name three.

Abel like Yeah, the moment I got assigned to Fitz, the illusion of authority or attempting to flex any of that to further progress was not an option. Have fun trying to tell him that he has any control over Fitz in a way that wouldn't ruin everything forever.

I would say turning Sebastian into a human with a similar emotional range, turning Peter into a monstrous form that corresponds to his actions, and third one, hmmmm, this is tough, JD putting Collins under house arrest wasn't really in request form

I mean it depends on your point of view. In normie world it's pretty much impossible to force someone to talk to you in a meaningful and forthcoming way (since even torture would not get a response that is genuine)

there;s also "truth" floods semi-regularly

also daniel getting marks on him (or maybe it was Envy that got this curse) every time he told a lie, back in the day

"wouldn't ruin everything" is VERY DIFFERENT from "could not physically and logistically happen"

THANK YOU FOR THE EXAMPLE LMAO I was pretty sure that something that results in immediate consequences for lying was something semi common but I don't think it's occurred during Walter's six months

"results in immediate consequences" is the workaround that's common in the context of admiral requests. That's how it was with Jacob (billboard that broadcasts his feelings rather than he's actually in a truth serum forthcoming state)

And again we know that a warden can physically escort someone into zero, even a warden, and there will be absolutely no consequences (again, authority is different from "people will be mad"). Admiral actually enabled such approaches with the helpful handcart

In terms of Walter's knowledge and concerns specifically, between Malcolm taking a warden to zero, JD placing Collins under house arrest, and being allowed to go out and be unsupervised during port being very much a privilege not a right

Also it being impossible to lock Malcolm out of his room

Yeah he's 99% sure that the admiral would approve something like you're going to spend 30 minutes in this room per day and Malcolm is going to come visit you and attempt to have a meaningful conversation, you can't just leave

good thing he wouldn't... hmm

also turning Seb into a human was Seb's idea. he asked for that and when he wanted to be turned back it was done right away for him

so I would put that on the level of asking your Warden to make your room bigger.

or turn it into your grandmother's house.

take that one out and replace it with Envy being made human very much against his will back in the day

he hated it so much, lol

making Peter's appearance reflect his true nature, on the other hand, was genius and what people get for hurting Will and maybe they should remember that

"he wouldn't" is very different from not having the authority to do so and he also specified literally no limits to wish consequences, just "they're supposed to be helpful"

Sebastian did cooperate with the request but it was not the original form of the request he and Hakkai workshopped together, that was for him to feel emotions like Hakkai

And it was in the context of a nervous breakdown at being stuck that caused him to continue to overwork himself while stuck as a human

Walter really hopes that guy is okay. Sigh

I have so much fuckin laundry to put away today

But yeah all of this is less something that Walter has an imminent fear of happening to him, or even for that matter the restrictions on others being unjustified, and more like being alarmed that Malcolm genuinely downplays the authority existing

Basically today I made myself do some bills, then the plan is laundry, then lunch, then heart meme, then... Maybe real tags...?

There's legitimately a saturation of important people to Walter on page 1 (or top of page 2. MALCOLM!!!) so the remaining two pages will likely be quicker

Still realistically I'll take some kind of break before real tags probably...

I just got home from a day at the nature park and i think my husband wants to watch a movie but i’m coming for the end of page 1 and page 2 after that!!

Clap!!

My hearts and my reply to the hearts... I am holding them

Abel and Malcolm... Help

imagine, tho

Abel has. multiple times. probably at times he shouldn't be, but the mind does wander.