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do you ever think about the tragedy of falcio val mond respecting his loved ones' wishes no matter what, only to feel like the end result of that is losing said people. bc I think about that a lot

#I think about this FREQUENTLY #falcio val mond #the greatcoats

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The Greatcoats x Guide To Troubled Birds

Falcio:

Kest:

Brasti:

Valiana:

Ethalia:

Aline:

Darriana:

Trin:

Paelis:

The Tailor:

#I love these #Kest #Brasti #Falcio #Valiana #the greatcoats #sebastien de castell #Darriana #the tailor #birds #paelis #trin #she who shall not be named #Aline #ethalia

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Aggressively Arospec Week!

Aggressively Arospec -

Kest Murrowson, The Greatcoats Series by Sebastien de Castell - Demiromantic Ace, at least in my mind :)

#kest murrowson #he's a little bit in love with falcio #the greatcoats #saint of swords #sebastien de castell

Sometimes I think about how Falcio perceived the Magdan before he even knew it was Morn. He wasn’t necessarily wrong in assuming the Magdan wasn’t from Tristia - that’s fair, I’ll give him that

But like he really saw the biggest motherfucker in the ring and was like ‘oh yeah, it’s that one. That’s the chief’ as though he hasn’t been having his ass deceived and handed to him by Trin for nearly the past three books. Like you would think he would’ve learned by then that the villain was never who he thought it was. Or at least be able to sense bastard vibes from a mile away but nah. Nah nah

I’m a billion % convinced he never would’ve survived anything without the power of friendship and spite on his side he’s so dumb but I love him lol

#the greatcoats #sebastien de castell #falcio #like hes praised so much for his critical thinking but where was it then lol #i dont know i just always thought it was a little funny #morn #tyrant’s throne #midnight thoughts and im a little drunk but listen

fandom-paloza

Trim: “And you are one? A master archer, I mean?”

Brasti: “One might fairly say so, I believe.”

Falco: “One says so frequently.”

#traitors blade #the greatcoats #brasti #falco #lol remember when they all thought trin was cool?#good #times #quote

The Tailor seeing Falcio & Co. still have their old Greatcoats:

#lol remember when she tried to make them new ones and Flacio was like #whats wrong with the ones we have???#and then they ended up getting new ones anyway #unrelated but not gonna lie Morn’s Greatcoats with the furred coats?#👌🏼#prime #arguably gucci material #they just needed the new chanel boots to complete the look #the greatcoats #sebastien de castell #mean girls

Mateo would join Quentis Mueren to the Raid on Area 51

#headcannon #but fact #he would #mateo #antrim is in the back drinking tea bc he minds his business #the greatcoats #sebastien de castell

Darri: “I was raised as one of the Dashini”

Falcio, in the middle of war flashbacks:

#yo that was my fav part #everyone was like oooo we dont know how to get to dashini stronghold #and darri was like #funny story #ya girl grew up there #and everyone was like 😱😱😱#but falcio was like 😐.....👯‍♂️🌫⚔️⚰️🔥...😲!! she can take us there!#the greatcoats #sebastien de castell #falcio #darriana #darri #wonder woman #steve #saints blood #pretty sure this happened in saints blood anyway

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I IMPULSIVELY DECIDED TO ASK SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL ABOUT KEST AND FALCIO AND I GOT AN ANSWER

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The Lord, he speaks 👀

#sebastien de castell #kest #falcio #in love????#its more likely than you think

Hey there! First of all thank you for running this blog you gave my poor greatcoats loving heart a reason to keep beating💖👑Also I saw a post where you mentioned Kest being in love with Falcio (and I'm down for that especially after Paelis letters) Which brings me to my main question do you think Falcio might have been in love with Paelis to some extent? Because honestly he does love him somehow and with him having lost Aline I could see him falling in love again and just denying it?

I do believe that Falcio loved Paelis, but I don’t think it was in a romantic way. I’d definitely submit to the argument he had an infatuation though. Falcio’s love for Paelis seemed to stem more from admiration and respect than anything else. Paelis was something untouchable, an ideal, he represented what Falcio wanted and so he put him on a pedestal for it.

If you think about it, Paelis was the first person to believe in Falcio and he was the one who dragged him tooth and nail out of his berserking phase. He showed Falcio a future that he could get behind, and he helped Falcio to realize that not all nobility are bad people - granted, the GRAND majority of them are, but there is still hope and that was what mattered. And if he can’t change the Dukes then he can change their suffocating influence/control over the people. Which at the end of the day was what Falcio wanted. He wanted justice for all the injustice he’d lived through, what with his own family, and what happened to Aline, and how that Duke and his men weren’t punished for what they did to her. Paelis was the first person to help him realize that was possible. And he wanted that justice so badly he idealized it, he stuck to it because it was the only thing that mattered after he lost everything that had mattered to him - and since Paelis could make that kind of world possible he was worth knowing and defending.

There’s no doubt that Paelis and Falcio had a relatively intimate relationship (they did see each other at their lowest points after all) but I think that at the end of the day the two were too different from each other to be romantically involved. There was love there, no doubt, there’s textual evidence of it lol, but I don’t think Paelis could romantically fall in love with someone who was as much of a wildcard as Falcio was. And I think Falcio was too in love with the IDEA of Paelis and what he represented than he was romantically in love with Paelis himself.

(Sorry for the late reply I’ve been busy with finals ✌🏼)

#the greatcoats #sebastien de castell #falcio #king paelis #asks #sorry if that wasnt the answer you were looking for 😅#thats how i interpreted it anyway #but honestly #feel free to interpret their relationshil however you like #thats kind of the beauty of books #you can read them however you like #😊

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good news everyone i’m now In The Zone so i’m going to write more bullshit about the greatcoats!!!!!!!! i have no self-restraint. sorry.

relationships we deserved to hear more about:

kest and brasti the most obvious one, but GOD i wanted more of the two of them. we often see them arguing in the background, until falcio inevitably tells them to shut up or tunes them out because of his Important Thoughts tm (more important than my love for supporting characters? i think the fuck not falcio). their bickering is largely friendly, but there are also quite a few occasions where kest is genuinely pissed at brasti, and/or vice versa - i think the main problem in their relationship isn’t their largely opposing personalities (kest being serious and studious where brasti is playful and not particularly book-smart, although he’s putting on some of his dumbness) but their conflicting priorities. while brasti is deeply loyal to his friends, he also cares a hell of a lot about the people he doesn’t know, and the good of all others is what he puts first. kest, on the other hand, does care about the general population, but is loyal to falcio above all else, and that seems to be where most of their conflict comes from. i just really want to see more than extracts of their arguments and moments of friendship shared with falcio - i want to know how the two of them work, how they show they care and what they talk about besides falcio and whatever potential death they’re facing this time! also brasti’s backstory. please. i need it. i’d sacrifice my sister for it.

mateo and quentis okay in tyrant’s throne there’s this section: “’Lately, Mateo and Quentis Maren [have been watching over Aline]. They work well together.’ I found it odd that Mateo, about as heretical a man as I’d ever met, and Quentis Maren, a former Inquistor, had become such close friends, but really, it was none of my business.” @ SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL WHERE’S MY NOVEL ABOUT MATEO AND QUENTIS BEING BEST FRIENDS AND DEALING WITH ALL THE SHIT THAT FALCIO GETS THEM INTO tbh i… kinda ship them? i have no valid basis for this apart from that I Think It Would Be Good, but platonic or romantic i think their relationship would be a really interesting one to read about. the mentioned conflict between quentis’ faith and background as an inquisitor and mateo’s lack thereof would naturally lead to conflict, or at least some difficult conversations.

quillata and falcio falcio says that they were once close friends, and!!! i’m so curious about that! i’d also really like to know how she got along with kest and brasti, given that they seemed largely inseperable from falcio!

darriana and valiana and ethalia compared to some of the others i’ve mentioned, darri and valiana do get quite a bit of development, but still not enough (in my humble opinion). darri and ethalia have a relationship, of sorts, which mostly involves darri talking shit about ethalia and ethalia talking shit back but subtly. ethalia and valiana kind of do, but again i’d like to see more. i love the way that darriana takes valiana under her wing when she’s still so unsure of her place in all this (and constantly gets on falcio’s case about his parenting skills), and it would’ve been great to hear some of their one-on-one conversations! i’d also like to see where darri and ethalia’s relationship goes once they begin to make peace with one another. i’d also like to fight sebatien de castell for constantly having darri deride ethalia for being a “whore”, even though it brings ethalia no shame. his whole thing with women in this series is just a bit…… eh.

antrim and like… everyone (but particularly mateo, quentis, and talia) i have so many questions about antrim!! tbh i have a lot of questions about all the greatcoats who spent a lot of time together in aramor while the main trio were fucking around in avares and the like. antrim seems like a really likeable character, and i wish he’d gotten more screen time, so to speak.

brasti and gwyn so at the end of tyrant’s throne brasti decides to join the rangieri? which i think would probably involve him being taught quite a lot by gwyn. they seem to spend a lot of time together before the war with avares as well, scouting and following people and tracks. i think brasti would probably intimidate gwyn a bit at first, because on the surface he’s all loud laughter and dirty jokes and messing around. once they got to know each other better, however, i do think they’d get along well, and brasti might take on a role somewhere between brotherly and parental for gwyn.

valiana, aline, kest, and brasti just the four of them in various configurations!!!!

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i still think that the romance between falcio and ethalia was forced as hell sigh i was so bored and mildly irritated reading about it. also lowkey shipped dariana and valiana HAHAH i really thought they had chemistry (more than dari and brasti anyway)

ANON UR SO RIGHT!!!

god i have so many feelings about these books and everything that happened in them skgjdkg

i love ethalia as a character (particularly in books 3 and 4, once she got more development beyond “love interest”), and i will admit the ending with her and falcio expecting a child who will be loved as FUCK is pretty sweet, but just… ugh. i still don’t really understand half of her story? what the fuck was that time where aline like… possessed her? why did she and falcio fall in love so quickly? admittedly, that last one was kind of addressed with the whole “hey maybe this wasn’t a great idea and we should just be friends” bit, but then they got back together and it was just all a pain. i wish the books had spent more time on falcio’s relationships with others, rather than constantly going back to his pitiful love life!

and HONESTLY darri and valiana deserved each other so much, and they made a lot more sense than brasti and darri. i can understand why they ended up together, and i don’t hate them together, but darri would definitely be better with valiana. like. how can sebastien de castell have darri spend a whole book calling valiana pretty bird and defending her and training her and then just……… put darri with brasti.

although, i could also accept an arrangement of darriana + brasti and valiana + chalmers. i know valiana and chalmers didn’t really interact much in canon, but they’re pretty similar in age and i just think it would be cute okay sdkghdfsk.

unrelated to what you said but i’m on a roll now and i’ve been desperate to talk abt these books for months: i’m so fucking glad kest wasn’t killed off. after aline died and i realised the author was actually willing to kill important characters (although not to the same extent as SOME OTHERS cough scott lynch cough), i was really worried that he’d die, because (a) he’s falcio’s best friend and one of, if not the, most important person in the world to him, and (b) he doesn’t really fit nicely into the series of romances within the group. like, brasti and darriana are an item, falcio and ethalia are an item, and kest is just there, still totally in love with falcio. romantically. i’m willing to die on this hill. i do wish he’d gotten more closure, in a way. like, sure he’s going to reform the honori and protect people (which i do like, because protection is kinda his whole thing tm and has been for a long time, and “Falcio, I know something of what it’s like to always be seeking purpose by following someone else around” DID very nearly make me cry at work), but i wish he’d had a chance to talk to falcio, one on one, about everything that’s happened and about his feelings. the closest they got to that was when he visited falcio while he was imprisoned, and that interaction did add like 10 years to my lifespan, but there was still relatively little acknowledgement of everything kest did for falcio, in my TOTALLY UNBIASED opinion.

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