Charles & alt music & Edwin

[fairandfatalasfair]

Having thoughts about Charles and music and anger and autonomy (heavily inspired by @chaoticbooklesbian's tags from this post)

Charles at sixteen, having had his whole life defined by the brutal helplessness of his father's abuse and his mother's silence, latching onto this subculture that promises rebellion and independence and freedom, not because he has those things but because he yearns for them and they feel so out of reach.

Charles who is angry and grew up in fear of an angry man, who doesn't know how to reconcile the rage that burns inside him with his desire to be a good man, finding refuge in music that says anger can be good for something. Anger can be power, can be freedom, can be a cry for justice instead of a threat

Charles who rebelled in a desperate bid for control over his own life meeting this prissy Edwardian schoolboy who broke out of Hell and is on the lam from Death, who will verbally tear a strip off anyone who tries to play authority with him but fights like hell for justice for those who have been wronged, and seeing in him everything that drew him to music in the first place.

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tags for reference: #charles is punk in a desperate attempt at personal agency#edwin is a relentlessly proper nerd in order to find the exact pedantry that will allow him to call an authority figure a bitch#(maybe not in those exact words but like. you get me)#like yes they both adopted their individual aesthetics/archetypes for what they are on the surface#BUT ALSO they adopted those archetypes for the layered characteristics they could use them as gateways for#the archetypes aren't the endpoint but the entryway#you feel me? (via chaoticbooklesbian)