Capitan Curly - Blog Posts

Sooo..... I'll start art class next week and my iPad is broken.... Anyways

I'm really into #mouthwashing right now

good ending

another mini-art with Curly 😋💞

Tgc: WEIRDO_LAND

Pride flags

Piece of cake - part 1

So... I might be doing a Mouthwashing fan comic...? Gonna keep this thing sketchy and loose. Enjoy! TW: blood, flesh, vomiting, hallucinations, J*mmy eventually (not in this part yet)

Who might that be...?

Have a little silly Tulpar crew for the New Year✨

I need em to be happy ok??

There may be more >:3c

Ugh, who invited him into the family

I had to get this stupidity out of my head before going to bed otherwise I would have spent the whole shift at work tomorrow thinking about it xDD

I need some Tulpar crew's sillyness and insulting jambalaya, as a treat~

Mouthwashing, but the worst tragedy that has happened is the shaving of Daisuke's hair.

Just a silly idea hehehehe

Bonus under the cut:

Anya took this photo <3

How about a headcanon that all the censorship names used by fans on Jimmy was used by Curly to annoy him? ✨

Big old shoutout for @crowemoji for making this huge list! It was very inspiring and helpful!

Curly did it so often that eventually he started doing it unintentionally lol

Jimmy insisted that Curly not call him names on the ship, but well, it might have slipped out a few times. And a few times someone else might have heard it and join the fun hehehehe

I need Jimmy to be bullied a little bit ok

pinching cheeks>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

If the game doesn't give me a deep insight into the relationship of these two then I'll make one myself 🔥🔥🔥🔥 They are silly friends, it's all about deep insight into their relationship xDDDD Let them be happy and stupid orz

Also, am I the only one who thinks Daisuke's cheeks in game are very… pinchable??

Revenge:

Aftermath, no regret:

Pspsps Polish Mouthwashers, polish version and context for you is here ;D

Hello Mouthwashing Fandom, How about a crossover episode of Mouthwashing x Świat Według Kiepskich?

Context under the cut, because a bit of text:

This is so stupid xDDD The context is that I used to watch Świat Według KIepskich (an iconic polish sitcom, The Lousy World in english, it's a bit uncanny for me that it has an English name and even a Wikipedia page xD) from time to time when I was a kid and this particular dialogue made me laugh incredibly and laughs basically constantly whenever it randomly replays in my brain. And since Mouthwashing also currently swirling in my brain, this crossover was inevitable. It had to go out into the world, so now I'm going to make it everyone's problem c:

And the scene is from the 230th episode <3

I am not asking for forgiveness or understanding. All I ask is that you don't drink the mouthwash o7

Pspsps English Mouthwashers, english version and context for you is here ;D

Cześć, Mycie Mordy Fandom, co powiecie na crossoverowy odcinek Mouthwashing x Świat Według Kiepskich?

Kontekst pod cięciem, bo trochę tekstu:

To jest takie głupie xDDDD A powstało, bo Konstytucja nie zabrania (jeszcze) (będę powodem wprowadzenia nowych praw w Konstytucji).

Kontekst taki, że za dzieciaka oglądałam Kiepskich od czasu do czasu i ten konkretny dialog mnie niesamowicie rozśmieszył i śmieszy w zasadzie ciągle, ilekroć randomowo odtwarza się w moim mózgu. A że w moim mózgu obecnie wije się też mycie mordy to crossover był nieunikniony. Musiało ujrzeć światło dzienne, więc teraz zrobię z tego problem wszystkich c:

A scena pochodzi z 230. odcinka <3

Nie proszę o wybaczenie ani zrozumienie. Proszę o nie picie płynu do płukania ust o7

You really woke up one day and decided to create a drawing that fucking smite me in the heart ;-;

This is so wonderful and deeply moving, how could you

Fun(?)fact: Kudryavka means “curly” in Russian. I have no idea if the creators did this on purpose or if it is a total coincidence, but I like to think that actually his name is a small reference to Laika ;-;

The Patron Saint of One Way Journeys.

Don't get me wrong, shipping Jimmy and Curly is a no-no for me, so maybe I shouldn't comment on it, but the fact that shippers didn't call them or tag them as “cummy” disappoints me quite a bit.

(I don't want any proship/antiship wars under this post, be chill folks, I don't want to wake up in the morning with 99+ messages on tumblr dot com LMAO)

OP, I LOVE YOU

Mouthwashers, read this immediately

You took my thoughts out of my brain, I wanted to write something similar, but I'm afraid my English is not good enough hahaha

About Curly (Mouthwashing)

This could be controversial, but I want a more nuanced conversation about Curly. I’ve seen what people have to say on TikTok and it makes me froth at the mouth. It’s either “He’s just a baby,” or “He’s a monster who never cared about his crew,” OR, which actually aggravates me the most, “He’s morally gray,” with NO further elaboration.

So here: A deepdive into Curly’s character, intentions, and actions.

Before I begin, I want to talk about what I see as a misconception in the Mouthwashing community.

This game is masterful at subtlety. There’s a lot of specifics that we as the audience don’t know. What infuriates me is that we pretend we do.

Something I hear often is, “Curly didn’t do anything when Anya told him she was assaulted.” There’s merit to this claim, but the situation is more intricate than that and it’s contingent on one very important factor: We don’t know what Anya told Curly. All we know is that she told him something, and it had to be something that would implicitly imply Jimmy as the father, but would still shock Curly at the idea of Anya being pregnant. While this could be interpreted as Anya outright having told Curly, I don’t buy that. He’s weirdly confused and flustered, he even questions “Who-?” in a way where it seems that he initially believes Anya had a fling with a crewmate rather than that she was assaulted. There’s a palpable ignorance in his response that implies to me that Curly finds out with us that Anya has been assaulted.

All this implies to me that Anya said something mildly vague, but still extremely concerning. Something like:

“I’m scared of Jimmy.”

We know she didn’t want him in the medbay, we know she didn’t want him around her. We know Curly knew this. Curly knew she was afraid of him.

He ignored it.

He ignored the signs of something more sinister in favor of feeding his idea of Jimmy just being a gloomy, down on his luck guy- more than anything, his friend. He should have listened to Anya when she said she didn’t want him in the medbay, when she said she didn’t want him near her. But he’s “known him for a long time.” He wanted to believe his instincts about Jimmy over Anya’s.

To Curly, the signs could have meant a lot of things. Anya simply being afraid of Jimmy could have meant that she just felt off about him; She just didn’t like him. A mere character clash. Of course, it was more than that. But Curly’s blindness was a mixture of ignorance and faith. He didn’t believe Jimmy was a bad person, he didn’t think he was scary. He trusted him.

In regard to the events of the game, a lot of people place a good chunk of the blame on Curly, which I do think is somewhat deserved. But I think it’s better to recognize his responsibility and how he failed.

The claims and reprimands of what Curly should or should not have done can only come from the omniscient presence we as the audience have. There’s inconsistencies in modern moral standards. The verdict of how good a person you are in a situation in where you must choose to trust or distrust a good friend is dependent on whether or not that friend is actually a good person or not. The idea that Curly knew Jimmy was dangerous is entirely baseless. Curly put all his cards on Jimmy, dismissing Anya’s discomfort as being a mere clash of character to his detriment. There were signs of his degeneracy, but Curly above anything wanted to believe in Jimmy with the standards of being “a good friend.”

Again, these assumptions are contingent purely on my theory of what Anya told Curly. The game not showing us what was said in specifics is intentional because they want us to know this and only this: Curly did something wrong. He has to have for the themes of the game to work. He works as Jimmy’s foil. He has to do shit wrong, not taking Anya’s fear seriously and not stopping Jimmy immediately from crashing the ship (which is also an effect of his trust- with a mixture of his own feelings of doom and failure,) to take responsibility where Jimmy cannot.

What substantiates that to me is Anya’s line, “I have to believe our worst moments don’t make us monsters.” It’s a line in relation to Curly. We’re meant to believe that this is her thinking he crashed the ship, but she’s actually talking about how he failed her. That was Curly’s worst moment. And Anya, in that statement, forgives him for it, or at the very least, doesn’t see him as a monster. Jimmy takes both “Our worst moments don’t make us monsters” and “I’m taking responsibility” and tries to reflect them on himself, but really they are statements bound to Curly. Curly is everything Jimmy wishes he was and because of that, Curly’s character shines a light on everything Jimmy isn’t. Curly ran into the cockpit in an attempt to salvage the ship, even when he knew it would crash, while Jimmy sat in a fetal position outside the door, weeping. Contrast.

That’s really all I have to say. I needed to get this off my chest, because Curly is probably the most interesting character to me in Mouthwashing, but gets a lot of one dimensional character analyses. I think a lot of it stems from the subject of SA being touchy, which I understand. People want to see it in black and white because it’s comfortable to them, but it gets complex with other people involved like Curly, who has good intentions and still ends up enabling Jimmy.

I would love to see what other people have to say about this because there’s probably a lot of things I missed. Thanks for reading all this if you did.

I'm down on my knees, THANK YOU, let everyone in the fandom read it

some things from mouthwashing that i think need more attention:

UPDATED version because I've been corrected on some things

jimmy, as co-captain, was unfortunately needed and couldn't be disposed of

pony express should carry the brunt of the blame - sending people into space and THEN telling them they're fired; not installing locks in the sleeping quarters; etc.

anya said "i have to believe our worst moments don't define us", implying she forgave curly, at least to an extent

every moment seen through jimmy's eyes could and should be questioned. he's an unreliable narrator

jimmy wanted curly to take the blame. he wanted the crew to blame him. the game wanted us to blame him for the crash (until the reveal)

curly got burned because he faced the explosion head-on; trying to fix things

anya died first; she did it with the last remaining painkillers which could've been used for curly; she even did it in front of him

jimmy shamed and attacked curly during the birthday scene and curly didn't react; implying their relationship was never smooth and truly friendly

it was never explicitly shown what anya said to curly. perhaps she never specified jimmy raped her. curly was shocked when she said she was pregnant, he didn't connect it with anything

anya telling jimmy she was pregnant is what made him crash the ship

it's implied anya told swansea about jimmy and he did nothing. he only attacked jimmy a while later, as revenge for daisuke

it's possible curly was only ever visited by jimmy, aside from anya

jimmy crashed the ship 147/365 days into the trip; the same day anya told him she's pregnant. assuming she found out a bit before that, and women find out they're pregnant when they're two weeks in (by "default", it could be later), by the time they got off the ship she would've been about 7 months pregnant - she would NOT have given birth on the ship

swansea had been 15 years sober

curly most likely wouldn't survive the cryopod. entirely skinless and then frozen? hell

curly was the only one to have clearance for the sweetener

curly very pointedly looks at jimmy ALL the time after the crash

after curly's conversation with jimmy (the "feet in cement" one), right before jimmy crashed the ship, the screen goes black and there's heavy breathing, implying curly was left panicking

jimmy gives curly medicine 3 times - first, with anya relatively nearby, a fairly normal intervention; second, with no one nearby, where jimmy assaults curly; third, alone again, he doesn't assault curly but he still cries, he's permanently scared of jimmy

curly was already struggling with insomnia before the crash

while anya was locked in medical, jimmy told daisuke she might do something to curly

anya said the mouthwash couldn't be used as disinfectant and jimmy still did it

jimmy drugged swansea; he convinced daisuke to go in the vent by saying swansea would be proud of him

curly and anya and jimmy all talk of "handling things"

jimmy says curly receives praise all the time; implying he was a good captain (he was also the only one to get exceptional references)

swansea had a wife and kids; daisuke mentions his mother, the creators of the game said curly loved spending time with friends and family. they had people waiting for them

jimmy said cartoon horses excite him and anya's baby is presented as a horse

Mouthwashing, but Anya is a vet <3

Do you folks like my vet Anya AU?

What do you mean it's not how "I can fix him" works??

Close-up on fixed jambo, as a treat:

Get balls chopped lmaooooo

"Anya and Daisuke get really intense about game night."

I don't really draw people, except redrawing memes, so this drawing was a bit of torture, but. For all the world, let these people have some fun. Let them be friends. I want them to be happy ;-;

I like the game and characters a normal amount, trust me bro XD

Funfact: Jimmy is not participating in this game night, he ate a truckers kinda meal, got exploding diarrhea and shit himself for the next three days, it's canon.

Version without shadows and backgrounds and a close-up on smol Swansea and Curly, because this is important, under cut:

Also, the kinda hibiscus and palm tree, which I used to build a pattern on Daisuke's shirt, because that shit took so much time to look good, does he have to be a stupid fashion kid and wear such things? (affectionate)

What do you mean this is not what happened? There WAS a taste testing, no…?

I'm pretty sure someone already made this meme, but I'm ready to fight (I have a knife))

Funfact: Mid drawing this my Spotify played, like, six love songs in a row and it was diabolical.