Summary; Love exists on the isle of the lost even if no one is willing to admit it.

Trigger warning; the isle being horrible, child abuse, etc.

Let me know if I should add to the list.

I also do not own the pictures. I just made the edits.

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Despite popular belief, Love is not exclusive to the United States of Auradon.

Love is a universal thing that exists everywhere and in many different forms—philia, object, pragma, storge, eros, ludus, mania, philautia, agape, platonic,—and that is something no one can take away.

Not even heroes and villains.

So, it really shouldn't be all that surprising that love exists on the isle of the lost, too, or that it wasn't strictly only the object, Philautia, and mania kind that existed there.

Even if it was never outright stated and people pretended that it didn't.

That the isle is the only place that love can't touch and that love is a useless weakness that wasn't needed. It still remained, regardless of those claims, and flowed through the air just as it did everywhere else.

It was just expressed in different ways and rarely—if ever—spoken.

It is shown in the way the older children shielded the younger ones from the adults of the isle and each other. Shown in how the younger kids played and talked freely with one another while the teens ran around working, reeking havoc, and keeping a stubble eye on them.

It is shown in how fast the gang members of the isle are quick to jump to the defense and stand by one of their own. And in how they split their goods up evenly between them when the adults aren't looking—rarely ever trying to screw each other over and sometimes giving the other more than they owed if their family is struggling.

Love exists on the isle—a fact that is ignored but proven every single day by the actions of each of the youth living there.

It's proven by how the isle kids and lesser villains give those grieving a grace period of a couple months when a family member dies and add more depending on the level of the tragedy and amount of deaths.

It's proven by Anthony Tremaine who follows his little cousin, Dizzy Tremaine, everywhere after their family's untimely deaths and threatens pain to everyone who even dares to look at her funny. It's proven by how gentle he is with his family's 3 remaining pets after the fire and how he will do anything to make his littlest cousin smile.

It is shown in Anthony's anger towards Shan Shiro who started the fire and the violence he throws at him whenever he is near.

It's shown in Shiro's regret, shame, and remorse, and the nonstop apologies he gives that are always ignored or spat upon.

It's shown in how the Bad Apples and Harriet's crew shunned and banished the disgraced warrior from their groups and the docks in a show of solidarity for Anthony. And in the way Uma's crew and the core four do the same for Aaron (R.I.P) and Dizzy.

It's expressed in the way the graves of the Tremaines, Stabbingtons, and Hans are well-maintained by the only 2 remaining members of their family and in the way Dizzy continues to run Curl up & dye long after Lady Tremaine's death.

It's shown in how the Tremaine cousins are never left alone by their friends on the anniversary of the fire.

It's expressed by how no kid or lesser villain goes without a funeral—no matter how young or how old they are—or grave even when their family doesn't care about them.

Love exists on the isle.

Everyone knows it.

Everyone sees it in the way the last two Badun cousins interact with one another and the de vil kids while avoiding their poor excuses for parents.

And in the way no one questions this.

It's shown in the way the two charge into danger armed only with a singular gun and toothbrush shanks, and in the way they run their private eye business with their friends.

It's shown in the way they deal with bodies and how they pose them respectfully while they take a picture of them so the dead are never forgotten, even if they never made it off the isle.

Love exists on the isle and it is remembered by everyone, even the ones in denial, when they enter Carlos's long abandoned tree house that has become the Badun cousin's new home and base of operations.

It's remembered when they see the pictures hanging on the wall and when justice is brought to them, no matter how small the victory is.

It's felt and remembered when Dr Facilier hugs his daughters before they leave the house and when Harriet Hook nags her siblings for being reckless while tending to their wounds.

It's shown by how protective Harriet is of the Smee and LeFou brothers, and in the way the siblings and cousins of the isle pick fights with those who dare mess with their sibling/cousin because only they are allowed to do that and no one else!

Love exists on the isle.

Why would the de vil cousins take time out of their day to invent or design or dine together if it didn't?

Why would Mal go nuts about Hadie being sick and go out of her way to get him medicine if it didn't?

Why would Harry sneak Evie food after her banishment and make his younger sister a Tinkerbell doll if it didn't?

Why would Mal feel guilty about Maddy and Evie and Uma if it didn't?

Why would the core four let eachother kick it at their place when they got locked out of their own if it didn't exist at least a little bit?

Love exists on the isle.

And it's shown by actions more than it is by words.

It's shown by how Harriet helps Sammy look after the twins and how she helps them feel out their applications. How she encourages them too, despite how wary the idea makes everyone. Despite how controversial the topic is and how soft it makes people see her.

It's shown in how Harriet Hook genuinely cares for the animals whom she can talk to and her siblings and crew.

It's shown by how supportive of LeFou Deux and Sammy's inventing their crew is and by the way they all take turns hiding Claudine from her father.

It is shown in how the Gaston twins once went off on someone for hitting Gil, yelling "that's my brother! No one HITS my brother!"

Love exists on the isle.

It is shown by how Uma taught her crew how to swim and by how she keeps the sea critters away from them.

It's shown by her crew's loyalty to her and each other, and in the way they help Uma run her mother's restaurant when they barely get anything out of it.

Shown by how Frollo's house still gets vandalized by Harriet's crew years after Claudine came to live with them— years after she is safe from him— as revenge.

And it is most especially shown when both the Gaston twins and Hook sisters refuse to talk to either of their fathers after they take a punishment too far one day with Gil and Harry.

Love exists on the isle.

It's a fact everyone knows but never speaks. And it is shown by actions, as stated before. And it is universal.

It is shown by the way none of the kids break the isle rules once they arrive in Auradon and by how they never use each other's trauma as ammunition against one another, no matter how angry they are.

Shown by how no one abandoned Harry Hook when he finally snapped at 13.

Love exists on the isle and is shown by every single child, despite their flaws and general lack of morality, despite what everyone of them and Auardon thinks.

And it is every bit as beautiful as it is heartbreaking because Auardon will never know love isn't just exclusive to them. To Auardon.

Because most of the isle kids don't know that is and the ones that do don't share this information all too willingly.

Love exists on the isle, even after the villains tried to irradiate it—and it is never ever going away.

No matter what anyone has to say or think about it.