🎶 On the ninth day of Christmas, the Quarry gave to me…
🎶Nine Jacobs dancing,
[feat. Nick]
🎶Eight Hags a-haunting,
🎶Seven ‘bears’ a-swarming,
🎶Six Abi sketches,
🎶Five silver shells,
🎶 Four calling nerds,
🎶Three blood-drenched men,
🎶 Two boys in love,
🎶 And Max Brinly on top of a tree.🎶
🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄🐻🎄
[It's actually the 10th day today lol, working on number 10 but here are the two I missed in a row! I have outsmarted Tumblr by using a real live computer to post. The nine Jacobs made me laugh so hard, I love him!]
Travis just keeping back and staying quiet like the obedient dog
Very true. Because...
They trained him well…
Which is why it's so much more impressive that he does not shoot Laura when they tell him to do so:
And it hurts him to do that:
Well trained indeed... and still he does not shoot her. (It also suggests that he has silver bullets in his pistol?)
We all know why most fanfictions with Travis as an important part are tagged with "former child abuse".
Anyway here is the reaction of Travis if you shoot Constance:
One thing I constantly think about is the fact that Travis has to know that Laura is infected because the last time he saw her she was missing an eye...
And they meet again and Laura has two:
I would have loved to see any real reaction about that from Travis but I guess that is just another thing the developers didn't get around to add.
Because the inner monologue had to be something like "Why the fuck is Laura here? Oh shit, she is bitten and she is in our house and she is the one who killed Kaylee and mom knows but they don't know she has been bitten and when will she change? What the fuck am I going to do? Oh shit..."
That would explain why Travis did not react any more than he did when Laura gets shot, because he knows she might get up again?
Going once again back to the Hackett family tree we have the earliest individual on the tree, the original Jedediah who was born around the same time as Mary Milton, this has stuck out to me for a good while and now that I'm doing the work of integrating parts of the quarry into my broader understanding of the supermassiverse I'll explain just a little about how I contextualize this
Now after looking into it I've learned that the Hacketts didn't obtain their land until the 1800s which gives over a century to work with them being somewhere else and due to the time frame, the relative geographical closeness, the fact that this Jedediah also married a woman with a virtue name, I have decided that the Hackett family originates from the puritan settlement of little hope
I look forward to sharing more of this specific crossover au when it's a little more fleshed out but for now here's little Jed(maybe a little older than I would have liked in terms of being depicted at Mary's age but I like it)
nobody asked, but…it’s been a while since I done one of these:
• probably has never been given an affectionate nickname in his life. He’s only ever been called T by Chris and a select few.
• Have a theory he was not a planned child. Likely why Jed and Connie got married actually.
•Probably a kid who was sickly a lot. Constance often being left alone to care for him and growing to resent him as a result. Because Jed would be a very hands off father I imagine.
•speaking of Jed; Travis’s lack of emotional intelligence is probably because of him. Jed would have taught him that being a man means being a rock. The old fashion standard of not showing emotional cracks during the hard times; ‘because others will look to you to be strong for them, boy.’
^Imagine being told this at like 10, after losing a family pet or something. I think that’s the kind of thing that would have happened
•sometimes the only acceptable display of emotion to Jed was rage . Rage can be manly and can channel productivity to him when used carefully. Oh but of course Travis would still be reprimanded if he went too far with how he expressed rage. So Travis resorts to suppressing most feelings behind stoicism.
It's kinda sad that even though he's got that big smile on his face, his life still wasn't that great. Before the curse, before he was Sheriff, before the cover-ups and fractured integrity, he was still the victim of domestic abuse, still the protector, still stuck in that small circle of family in the woods. This fucked up family was cursed long before the werewolves.
These are the screenshots when Laura kills Jedediah
Some expressions brightened up... we can see quite the difference to his reaction when his mother dies, which is more shocked... but with his father, Travis is devastated
It hurts him, a lot.
It looks like he is questioning everything
But he tries to switch back into his professional persona because there is still shit to do
And still he can't shoot Laura lets her go... and he does not look like he understands why.
Anyway, here is the link to a small analysis about Travis and his parents.