the fact that even when ray and chatty technically aren’t dating, the people around them still see how well they match each other’s energy and think they’re a couple
chatty trusting max enough to tell him about his past, willingly say his government name out loud to him, and hint about the fact he hides his real voice? their friendship makes me so 🥺
sooty, ember, mumbles and twinkles’ reactions to the fake proposal
sooty clocked that he was trolling so fast, mumbles and twinkles were shocked he was actually about to do it, and ember’s disappointment when it turned out to be fake 😭
seeing chatty’s mask, his identity, thrown on the floor of the funhouse when he knows clowns could see him just shows how lost he is. his sense of self is crumbling. cups’ love for him helped him love himself. in his eyes, if he isn’t the person she loves anymore, then who is he?
ember’s POV of the clowns eavesdropping on chatty getting his nose fixed 💀 the muffled arguing about vinny’s ID + the drilling noises whilst chatty’s screaming
tessa’s POV at the icu
watching her son’s heart break right in front of her, seeing the shreds of control that she worked hard with him to build over the years slipping away, watching as he stands alone and listens to ray laugh at the notion of ever loving him :(
it’s so wild to watch how they went from beefing on twatter, to openly loving and defending each other on twatter. ray mocking the clowns taking their masks off, to chatty willingly removing his and giving it to her. bon bon being the only clown ray liked, to him being the enemy
chatty: “it’s okay cups, it’s gonna be okay. if they send you up there, you’re not going by yourself. i’m going with you. even if kit has to die.”
kit: “i beg your pardon?”
chatty: “i’m sorry kit, somebody has to.”
ray: “rest in peace, kit :( i’m so sorry, kit. :((”
tessa, seeing chatty’s twatter post: “oh… that’s not where the ‘H’ goes but that’s okay”
chatty: “i tried!”
tessa: “you DID and i’m proud”
chatty: “my brain’s a christmas tree :D”
“oh, i like the way he cries. maybe you should do a little dance for me. i can shoot at your feet and make you do a little dance!”
giggles’ clown outfit looks so cute but she’s so unhinged lmaoo
sooty, tessa, twinkles, and kitty telling chatty about moments where cups resurfaced to reassure him that she’ll find her way back to him <3
they all care about him so much and don’t want him to lose hope
“you look like pigeon going to a ball”
the mixed opinions on chatty unmasked have been hilarious, so here’s my short compilation of clowns + friends reacting to chatty’s new look
ray getting overwhelmed by the pressure to regain her memories & running away, driving aimlessly out of los santos. she doesn’t know how she ends up there, but she pulls up to a dilapidated old farmhouse, and when curiosity gets the best of her she finds the front door unlocked +
chatty calling ray his fiancée for the first time and it’s whilst he’s standing next to her in a straitjacket trying to get her a psychiatric appointment 😭
jagger: “serious relationship rp isn’t my thing”
also jagger: delivers an emotional performance as chatterbox that shows the character letting himself love again after loss, accepting himself, healing, and letting go of the one he loves so she can heal too
“twinkles thought he heard you call him chatty but he probably just misheard” i love how careful twinkles is being around ray, he doesn’t want to freak her out or make it too much too soon so he’s being so cautious and gentle with her :(
mickey negotiating for ray to take part in her first clown risk and starting a chain reaction of her becoming friends with the clowns + mickey also negotiating for ray to see a therapist and rp the cups/ray internal conflict. blau sure knows how to cook some good rp opportunities
in chatterbox’s last moment of consciousness, he laid on the cold concrete, blood pooling around him and limbs growing heavy from a gunshot wound his father-in-law inflicted, helplessly watching as his mum is kidnapped and his fiancée walks away like he’s nothing but a stranger
oh my god my heart is completely shattering for chatterbox right now. everyone in los santos has always treated him like a crazy clown and nothing more, and now the one person who saw him as more than that and loved him for it is treating him like just a crazy clown too
ray saying “five of us” instead of four when she was stranded on the island
ray saying “WE are confused” when she’s supposed to be only talking about herself
rae saying that ray and cups are separated right now
jagger referring to the 17 theory as ‘the lore’ in his discord message to rae, i love that they’re both leaning into it and using it to plot and create even more milestones + pivotal moments in chattercups’ relationship
chatty: “alright, hit me with it! wait, not literally, because i know you’ll actually just–”
ray: “i wouldn’t hit you.”
also ray, 5 seconds later: elbows him in the face 💀
i know it was the alcohol, but i like the idea that chatty’s phone interrupting them is a trigger for cups
if ray doesn’t come back and we have to watch chatty’s denial, the slow reluctant realisation that she isn’t returning, his sanity slipping at the pain of losing her, the anger and hurt as he replaces his mask and vows to never take it off for anyone again? what :( then :((
and when chatty runs out of options and reluctantly asks bobby for help in the hopes that ray seeing bonbon might trigger something, and that being the start of a redemption arc for bonbon? what then
me: ray’s left los santos so i’ll have less POVs to catch up on and more time to touch grass and be productive
my brain: ok but consider this……. we rewatch the entire chattercups relationship arc….. from the beginning?
me:
my brain:
me:
me: fine
i adore chatty’s ability to “yes, and” every insane plan that cups has without them ever discussing it in advance. she requests him as her lawyer without telling him, and he gets a no context call asking him if he’s a legal aid & doesn’t even question it before he’s like “sure!”
it makes me so 🥺 that all of the clowns and ray’s friends recognise cups’ mannerisms and report back to chatty whenever they appear in ray because they all desperately want him to keep hope that she’ll return to him
those texts to chatty are such a sign of how far their relationship has come. ray clearly communicating her thoughts and feelings? recognising that the situation was bigger than just an attack on her boyfriend? apologising for holding him back?? they care so much for eachother
when ray and cups make peace with eachother and she regains all of her memories, chatterbox finally gets to give her the ring back. she pulls out a box with a ring for him too, and says “i don’t even remember buying it – i think she did. she must’ve fallen in love with you, too.”
rae reacting to chatterbox pretending to perma after the mount chiliad revenge plot + her reaction to chatterbox actually almost perma’ing after vinny shot him
ray saying no to chatty’s proposal & asking why it was so soon & chatty says “everyone kept saying i’m supposed to, i didn’t want to disappoint you” and ray gently says “chatty we don’t have to prove anything to anyone. we’ve got all the time in the world, i’m not going anywhere”
the way she said “first time, huh?” and immediately became more cheerful the second the game started, the 3 time clown risk champion hiccups jumped out right there
rae said "ooc i know there's a proposal so i'm trying to think of ways to mess with it" and then ray woke up and immediately did just that within 5 seconds without even realising lmao she works fast
on his birthday, chatty finds a postcard and a box on the doorstep of the paleto house. at first he thinks the photo on the postcard is just a scenic mountain range, but then he sees her. she’s sitting, face turned towards the view, his clown mask resting gently in her palms +
this felt like foreshadowing of the potential future for chatty if cups never comes back. there’s an inherent rage that simmers under chatterbox’s skin, and cups was one of few people who could quiet that rage and keep him at a baseline. without her, his anger is all he has left.
no but twinkles was genuinely kind of scary from chatty’s POV lmaoo
this man beat him unconscious, threw him in the ocean, then went straight back to acting like nothing happened 😭
after chatty’s fake ‘proposal’ to ray i love the idea of them constantly trying to trick the other into thinking they’re about to propose but instead asking something completely different, until one day one of them actually DOES propose
it’s actually insane how well rae’s plans worked out by telling twinkles and ratchet about the proposal 💀 she chose them for their potential to stir and they took it and RAN. all of the clowns constantly deliver top tier rp and it’s so impressive
Watching old vods and watched nakkidas vod of when chatty told Tessa about killing giggles again and I cry.
Can we talk about how freakin amazing jaggerbox is at rp cuz wtf he made tear up first time I saw this vod thanks to
@gIossydaegu
who found it 🙌
the rest of the clowns having to sleep in basement bunk beds while chattercups get a lavish master bedroom is sending me, they really are king and queen
only kitty can make a conversation go from a concerned “how are you holding up?” to “oh my god are you thinking about her naked right now?” within 0.5 seconds flat 😭
chatty: “mr ratchet said something to me that i think makes sense…”
kitty: “oh god what did he say?”
reasonable response to ratchet saying literally anything tbh 😭
i’m rewatching an old vod where chatty and mumbles are peeping on kirk, and mumbles mentions that he peeped on chatty in prison a while ago but chatty wasn’t wearing his mask so he didn’t take any photos. it was a passing comment but a nice moment of mutual respect between them
it’ll forever be funny to me watching ray say something wild about chatty and then just leave everyone around her floundering whilst she carries on like she didn’t say anything
all the panic over mr k or chatterbox potentially giving ray an ultimatum between cg and the clowns, we never considered the biggest plot twist of all – ray mond giving herself an ultimatum between cg and the clowns
kirk: “it kinda bothers me cause’ of that ugly mas– 😠 oh😮🎸🎶 ooh😌👂🎶🎼”
chatty: “what i got, kirk? what do i got?”
kirk: “you got a guitar”
chatty: “yeah 😎”
lmao i can imagine one of the clowns trying to embarrass chatty in front of ray by asking him when he’s finally going to propose, but chatty’s just like “go yuck yourself we’ve been married for 3 months already” and there’s immediate CHAOS over the fact none of them were invited