Seventeen Animatic 

Veronica: and that really blows Me: oH hOnEy

AND THEN THEY WENT TO PROM AND EVERYTHING WAS TOTALLY FINE AND THE MUSICAL ENDED THERE AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

The musical ends. *3 years later* JD: hey remember when we killed 3 people?

The crying part at the beginning when she says “don’t you want a life with me?!” It breaks me. Than I’m broken again when she says “don’t stop looking into my eyes” Than AGAIN when she’s saying “if I’m the one you choose..”

then the musical ended and no one died

Now let’s all pretend this is the last song in the musical.

AND THEN THE MUSICAL ENDED HAPPILY AND VERONICA AND MARTHA MADE UP AND EVERYONE WAS HAPPY. *OKAY?*

J.D. - "Making the world a decent place for people who are decent" "WHEN EVERY ***HOLE IS DEAD" This boy be watching death note 24/7

"Yeah, we're damaged. Badly damaged. But your love's too good to lose." Best moment. Like, that one moment brings real tears to my eyes

AND THEN JD NEVER DECIDED TO KILL ANYBODY ELSE AND HE GOT MENTAL HELP AND VERONICA AND HIM WERE HAPPILY EVER AFTER AND NOBODY DIED NOR EXPLODED. THE END.

sad it had to end badly. really shipped them :(

Can we just talk about how the lines “Maybe Prom night?/ Maybe dancing?” Are delivered real quick? Veronica asks “maybe prom night” as if she’s testing the waters, thinking this tough loner is going to say some typical one-liner about prom being stupid. But then JD responds with “maybe dancing?” In this hopeful tone that implies that it’s all he’s ever wanted on some level: to do something typical, to live a normal life, to just be seventeen, to dance with the girl of his dreams at prom. And once he reciprocates the desire to live normally, it just opens this floodgate of relief and affection when Veronica says “don’t stop looking in my eyes!” Like she’s finally got a hold on this drowning boy and is ready to pull him to safety. Those lines always break my heart a little.

THE SADDEST LYRIC HERE IS JD SOMEWHAT REVISITING HIS MOTHER'S DEATH AND SAYIN "OR THEY VANISH" IT JUST SHOWS HOW SAD AND FRUSTRATED HE IS AT HIS MOTHER'S DEATH

Other teenage drama: Omg like Courtney totally like him like omg what? Heathers drama: Can we not murder people and just be teenagers?

I call this song: When Veronica realizes that what they're doing is effed up

*4 hours later Veronica shoots JD's hand.* "You're the one I choose."

0:21 verconica: we don't choose who lives who dies. me just got done listening hamilton: WHO TELLS OUR STORYYYYYY!!!!!

"Then your right it really blows" Captions: Good choice of words veronica. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Wait, this isn’t the end of the musical. It jumps to 15 years later. JD got help and is a lawyer. They are happily married with a child.

in seventeen it says "hold me tighter even closer ill stay if i am what you choose." but in i am damaged it says "please stand back now little further dont know what this thing will do." it truly represents how jd and veronica changed through out the time they spent together.

I like musical JD more then movie JD. Movie JD is just insane, while in the musical, he has depth. Both JD'S care fore Veronica, but musical JD seems to care a little more.

part of me thinks he would have completely given up his plans of mass slaughter if Veronica had only mentioned slushes in this song. just me?

"Yeah we're damaged, badly damaged, but that does not make us wise." So true, damn, this was a good line. I feel like people often mistake having traumatic experiences with being more mature and more worldly. That's not to say survivors of trauma can't be more mature or wise, but correlation does not equal causation. I hate people who think of themselves as somehow better than others or wiser simply because they've had a rougher life. What matters is what you take from those experiences, that you use them to become stronger and wiser and kinder, not that you had them. I had a friend in middle school who unfortunately hadn't had the easiest life because her parents divorced when she was young and her mother whom she lived with didn't have a lot of money. Even so, it wasn't an excuse for her to act all high and mighty and treat me like I was lesser just because I had led a "better" life and both my parents were still together. And anyway, what she didn't know was that I was also going through some things as well. I just didn't flaunt it like a badge of honor the same way she did and tended to keep my problems to myself. But my life wasn't perfect either. No one's is. We all have our struggles and insecurities, even those who seem like their lives are perfect and they have it all.

Veronica: Can we be 17? Is that so hard to do? JD: Yes, yes it is.

JD&V's Relationship in a Nutshell: V: I love you JD: Same JD: *Kills one person* V: That's not cool, stop JD: O.K., I love you JD: *Kills two more people* V: I'm done with you! JD: No! I love you! V: Fine. JD: *tries to kill everyone* V: NO! *shoots JD* V: *tries to kill herself to save everyone* JD: NO! *kills himself to save V* V: Well shit, say hi to god *Everyone remains oblivious to the truth*

Has anyone else noticed in dead girl walking reprise and seventeen that she used this white light when veronica was softening him?

There is no “other part of the musical” in ba sing se. Here we are safe. Here we are free.

Holy shit I actually teared up and almost started crying on “maybe prom night” when they got all dressed up and started dancing, knowing that it would never happen and JD would “never see his senior prom”. This is beautiful.

WHY COULDN'T THE MUSICAL JUST END HERE!? WHYYY

And then the musical ended and NOBODY BLEW UP!

JD and Veronica: **harmonizing** Me: *I PRAISE YOU AND YOUR AMAZING VOICES HOLY SHIT*

I love how they use the music to tell the story at 2:40. When Veronica says "if I'm what you choose", a distorted bass note plays symbolizing the fact that JD would never choose Veronica over his own pessimistic views. Bravo to the score writers

I want an au where this is the last song. Where this is when the whole murdering people ends Where they are allowed to be happy with each other :'^

that time when you have killed 3 people then you ask to be normal xD

It's cute how the musical is so much more romantic than the movie. I wish he could consider her offer.....

You have no control Who lives Who dies Who tells your story

And then he kept to his promise and they went to prom 👏. . .please? EDIT: GUYS I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS JUST ADSDFGH STOP REPEATING WHAT OTHERS KEEP TELLING ME THAT I KNOW ALREADY.

but like,,, if you stop listening here it ends happy......

IMAGINE IF THE MUSICAL ENDS LIKE THIS. AAAH- They would’ve lived a happy life.

veronica: don’t u want a lief with meeee. JD: yee. also JD: *tries to bomb school*

*SCRATCHING MY PHONE SCREEN TRYING TO GRAB THE SPARKLY SHINY WHITE STUFF*

When Veronica sings high, especially when she says seventeen, it sends goosebumps down my spine. What the actual fuck oh my god.

Veronica : you’re the one I choose Me: wait this isn’t pokemon

LET'S JUST PRETEND IT ENDED HERE. *NO OTHER WORDS*

JD: You're the one I choose Me, snorting: Bruh you chose murder

And you’re right, that really *blows*

My friend: Hey, Ava, I heard loud sobbing, you ok- Me: * in the corner, bundled up into a ball, crying, and on the ground. * Me: *cAnT wE bE SevENteeEEEEEeEN?!!?!?!*

0:25 I love how you can see how Veronica is getting more and more desperate with her facial expressions.

Oh my gosh, this is so beautiful i want to cry At 1:20 it really looks like they are at their wedding And now this idea got stuck in my head. If JD had listened to Veronica, he would't try to FUCKING BLOW THE SCHOOL And maybe he would stay with her and they would marry, have children.. and oh my gosh why do u do this to me :')

I wish the actual thing ended right here. It would've been so much more happy. BUT NOPE!!!

AND THEN THEY GOT MARRIED AND NOBODY ELSE DIED

When you just want to go to the movies but your boyfriend wants to murder

WHO ELSE JUMPED WHEN THEY SAW THIS IN THEIR RECOMMENDED!

I love how in your other animatics JD has the black smoke that brings darkness not only into his life but starts to infect Veronica (when his smoke seeped under her door). But in this one Veronica has this bright smoke that brings light to her and JD and shows what could have been if he kept his promise. It's symbolizing how even though JD hates himself and is a dark and twisted person, she brings him light and almost makes him forget about his crazy ideas. I love your animatics. They're very creative and original. Keep up the amazing work!

I love how JD gets mad and then whenever Veronica talks to him he just melts 😂

I still enjoy watching this to this day. If Hollywood ever decides to make the Heather Musical a movie, I hope this would be the visual representation they would put for Seventeen.

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH BECAUSE YOU CAN F E E L THE EMOTION AND AT THE END VERONICA SAYING CAUSE YOU'RE THE ONE I CHOOSE AND BEING NERVOUS CAUSE SHE WASN'T SURE IF JD FELT THE SAME WAY AND THE FEAR IN HIS EYES WHEN HE REALIZED HER NERVOUSNESS AND THEN REASSURED HER OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS BEAUTIFUL IM CRYING (no spam)

I really love the " Glowy shit " honestly, it shows more depth of the characters and it loOKS PRETTY!!!

Me: I SHIP SO HARD Freind: He's a psycho and tried to kill everyone Veronica loved. Me: .... Shut up.

Veronica: “We don’t choose who lives or dies” George Washington: “Let me tell you what I’d known, when I was young and dreamed of glory: ‘You have no control of (Who lives who dies who tells your story)’”

THIS ANIMATION LEFT ME DAMAGED AND HAPPIER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN AT THE SAME TIME Also I really liked the contrast of the black smoke during Meant to Be Yours and the white... mist...?..,,Mist, yeah, in this one. Because smoke, like JD later in the musical, is suffocating, and deadly, and cannot be seen through and must be avoided, But JD at this point loves Veronica, and he is transparent, she changes him into something calming, something rejuivinating, (water) and something that is easily passed through, and beautiful, because together they can be something alright, rather than something dangerous.

"Don't you want a life with me?"

2:55 That look of horror when he saw that she though he wouldn’t choose her... that just

Fine, we’re damaged Really damaged But that does not make us wise We’re not special, we’re not different We don’t choose who lives or dies Let’s be normal, see bad movies Sneak a beer and watch tv We’ll bake brownies or go bowling Don’t you want a life with me? Can we be seventeen? That’s all I want to do If you could let me in I could be good with you People hurt us Or they vanish And you’re right that really blows But we let go, take a deep breath Then go buy some summer clothes We'll go camping, play some poker And we’ll eat some chilli fries Maybe prom night Maybe dancing Don't stop looking in my eyes (your eyes) Can't we be seventeen Is that so hard to do? If you could let me in I could be good with you Let us be seventeen If we still got the right So what’s it gonna be I wanna be with you (Wanna be with you) I wanna be with you tonight Yeah we’re damaged, Badly damaged But your love’s too good to lose Hold me tighter Even closer I’ll stay if I’m what you choose Can we be seventeen? If I am what you choose If we still have the right Because you’re the one I choose You’re the one I choose *You’re the one I choose* I didn’t see anyone else who wrote the lyrics and I usually like to sing along so I made this uwu

AS SOON AS SHE SAYS MABYE PROM NIGHT IM READY TO FREAKING CRY THE WAY YOU DID THE WHOLE LIGHTS/ILLUSION THING WAS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL

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Okay, this makes me really sad right now, because they never did any of that. Buying summer clothes, playing poker, going to prom. It’s just words that will never be fulfilled.

to someone who will never see this: i wrote a poem about us that's kind of based on this song. i miss you. 11.24.18 you don't know how it feels to love them until you're walking down the path on july twenty-fourth, two thousand and seventeen with their arm around you quietly singing 'can't we be seventeen' in the golden light and everything feels so new but somehow, they already feel like such a familiar presence after only a few hours and you think maybe there's something to this after all, maybe it doesn't always have to hurt and maybe (just maybe) this feeling is a good reason to keep fighting that lingering darkness in your mind. you don't know how it feels to love them until you kiss them for the first time at the piano bench, softly and sweetly and you just melt under the gentle warmth of their lips on yours so tender, so delicate and wow, it's so heavenly you can hardly believe it's real. you don't know how it feels to love them until you come so close to visiting them and then all your plans fall to pieces at the last minute and (not to be dramatic) it feels like your heart's in pieces too you're trying to hold back tears, fighting back that tightening feeling in your chest because god only knows when you'll see them again. you don't know how it feels to love them until you finally do see them again, almost a year after the last time and you want to shout their name and run to them as fast as you can but despite your shaking hands and unsteady feet you contain yourself as you walk towards them trying to be cool and ending up saying something stupid like 'hey, idiot' but they just wrap you up in their arms and it's like the first time all over again. you don't know how it feels to love them until they're walking with a boy with curly hair and they ask 'anything on your mind?' a light flashes brightly and the curly-haired boy tells them that he's in love with them and that it hurts to be in love with them because you exist and your heart shatters because you know just how painful loving them is when you know that they're not completely yours and you want to say 'curly-haired boy, i've been there too and it fucking sucks' and now you're crying because you're not completely theirs either and you're sorry, you're so sorry and they're the one you choose but you can't choose them and only them, not yet. you don't know how it feels to love them until you see how they sink to the cold concrete in practice hut number thirteen tears falling onto their glasses and dripping off the lenses, strained sobs shaking their shoulders because how dare you hurt what they love so much how dare you hurt yourself and you're terrified because you've never seen them break down like this you've never seen them so genuinely concerned and frankly, you didn't know they cared so much about you you didn't know they could (you had thought, previously, that maybe they were just using you, like others before them) but then again they've always been hard to pinpoint a beauty and a beast coexisting as one sunshine and storm clouds simultaneously complimentary colors (for example, yellow and purple) and it's only fitting that someone who is everything would be everything to you. you don't know how it feels to love them until she twirls her bow against the backdrop of stage lights and brings her violin down from her shoulder and the crowd goes wild but your applauding hands feel unbearably heavy because it's really over and it's time to say goodnight. you don't know how it feels to love them until you walk into practice hut number thirteen a few weeks later, after they're gone, and notice something written in marker on the wall i fucking love you and you can't help the tears that well up immediately and spill down your cheeks, dripping off your chin onto your collar because in this moment, it seems that no one has ever truly cared so much that you stay safe and happy. you don't know how it feels to love them until they tell you that they've got two tickets for la traviata and that's when you say 'i hate opera' but go anyway because, after all life is not the things that we do it's who we're doing them with. you don't know how it feels to love them until you're making a complete fool of yourself around them filling up afternoons and evenings with sloppy dancing drinking weird concoctions in the cafeteria breaking the tension with inside jokes shaking your head at their impressions and staying out too late trying to stay out of drama but getting caught up in it anyway saying things you never thought you would say doing things you didn't know you had the courage to do taking chances writing a poem as cringeworthy as this just to make that contrast hurt a little less just to try to stop feeling so goddamned much to turn down the amplitude of your bass-boosted thoughts (and well, shit this is basically plagiarism at this point). you don't know how it feels to love them until you're singing along in the movie theater obnoxiously loudly and all but dancing with each other in the seats and you think wow, just being able to be completely yourself around someone is so healing, so refreshing and you wish every weekend could be like this, full of smiles and kisses and joking around in thrift shops taking polaroids and walking along the beach spontaneously dancing on the streets to the macarena, or can't help falling in love and it's just so ridiculously disney-perfect it's hard to believe you'll ever have anything less than a happy ending. you don't know how it feels to love them until you're crying your eyes out on a monday night in florida or a tuesday morning in michigan (or right now, on a saturday morning, just before the dawn breaks) because damn, the way it feels to hold them the way it feels to just lose yourself in that feeling when they hold you tighter (even closer) and you rest your head in that sweet spot where their neck meets their collarbone, and you breathe them in, deeply, and you realize you're home. maybe you feel too much. maybe it's just you as a person maybe it's your age maybe it's all the drama you needlessly create maybe it's because you're slower to learn than everyone says maybe it's just how life works. but you don't know (no, you've never known) how it feels to truly feel until you know how it feels to love them. 'when someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. others are abrupt and unfair. but most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy.' -griffin mcelroy i miss you, lux. deep down, you're the one i choose.

Honestly, does anyone else notice in this song, in the end, he doesn't promise JACK SHIT? He actually never SAYS he'll stop or they'll stop, just parrots back the chorus 'Can't we be seventeen' while she asks him if he'll choose her, and then just says he chooses her. He never outright agrees what he's doing is wrong or that he'll stop, he just says what she says back to her, in a way that's just enough to make her think he's agreeing. 'You're the one I choose' isn't 'I choose you over continuing', even if Veronica intended that meaning. He just chose to interpret it differently to keep her close. He didn't change at all, even for a second, he just talked her down. And the fact that both most of the audience and Veronica believes him just goes to show how effective just implications can be. He IMPLIES that he's changing, but never intended to. He fooled most everyone, including the audience. He wants Veronica, no doubt, but he never intended to stop, honestly.

one second: wow a normal heathers animatic without any crazy shit next second: HOLY FXCK THIS IS BETTER

I love the glowy stuff, and how you continue it throughout your animatics. It just... hits in words that I can't quite find. Veronica is warmth and light and she tries to use it to save JD from his darkness, but the dark consumes her instead until her light in dead girl reprise fight back and just... Yeah I love it

the second "I could be good with you" I BROKE INTO TEARS

You're legit one of the best Heathers animatic ppl on youtube jesus your ideas are so original.

anybody got the tissues? The whole prom scene had me bawling my eyes out, it was so beautiful. 😍😭

Imagine someone watched this without knowing what the musical was about and thought this was what heathers was

"Is that so hard to do?" JD: yEaH iT iS hArD tO dO beComE iMmA pYsCoPatH

I think I'm addicted to these Heathers Animatics😅😂

Veronica: CAN WE BE 17? Me: But... I'm 14

This could be a sweet romance but he gone nuts

01:25 ... when he starts singing ... these two voices .. matching just perfectly..... MY HEART JUST EXPLODED.

One word to describe this. Beautiful.

I'm five days away from turning 18, and being 17 has probably been the best age of my whole life so far. I love being 17 so much, that listening to this song and knowing I can't go back to being 17 again is making me cry.

Yo so like.... I’ve loved this animatic since the day it came out but like...... I barely thought of something now...... “People hurt us” “Or they vanish” “And you’re right. It really..... *BLOWS*

Veronica: when does it end? JD: WHEN EVERY ASSHOLE IS DEAD! Veronica: (insert white guy blinking meme)

He kept avoiding the question as long as he could....

I AM NOT CRYING MY EYES ARE SWEATING

No one: 1:03 Captions: And your right...It really blows(great word choice, V)

we forgot they really loved each other, and it hurt Veronica when JD died

*holding my heart* *tosses it over my shoulder* *walks away* I don't need this anymore............... They deserved each other if he hadn't gone all nuts......

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO SWEET I ALMOST CRY, HOW

Not sure if you'll ever read this, but I love what you did with her dress, starting at around 1:20. Really beautiful

As far as I'm concerned this is the last song in the musical no deaths fake suicide no Vietnam jokes

I'm crying so hard. The movie didn't give his character enough depth, the musical is infinitely better than the movie

Everybody always says that “I Am Damaged” was the only one of this artist’s animatics that made them cry but- this one,, this one gets me too. You can really see how much Veronica cares for him and how willing he is to change at the time, only to go back on his word and rip her wound open. And the thought of them having a happy ending with those big, white, pure dresses.. ugh I’m shook.

"When you're on the battlefield, and everything is chaos, and you've got nothing but the way you feel, Your slushies and your tears, Please just think about the life we'll have Together in later years! So I can do it for him, So I can know that we'll win, So you can do it for her, And I can say, I'll do it for him."

0:07 this was so powerful. holy shit.

i wish they have been seventeen and lived a good life together. i really want to see that ahhhhhhh;-;

I just started watching your Heathers animatics, and I'm beginning to realize why they're some of my favorites now. You may not have the grandiose or choreography some others have, but there's an intimacy and charm to your style that makes it stand really strong on its own. I especially the creativity, like the aura of light Veronica has, reaching out to JD, contrasting with the aura of smoke and fire JD has in his songs.

*_"And then he ended up dying cause he went insane and she had to put him down for good."_* #SadStoryButAGoody

and then they lived happily ever after. yup everything goes perfectly fine from here. *sigh*