I'm Basil (he/him) and I made this blog because I did not want all the content to get lost in the chaotic mess of a main blog that is drjohndisco! (This blog was re-established (again) on the 6th June 2019)
ive been rereading my childhood fave the inkheart series and i just got to the bit where dustfinger [redacted] so here is a little gwin. for my agonies.
When the fools in tumblr.com invest hours into torturing Blorbo from their books, it is "fun" and "a good creative outlet" and "art", even, but when I, Orpheus from the Inkheart novels....
Farid remembered Dustfinger’s warning ‘Never light a fire when it’s windy. The wind will catch hold of it and it will forget you, it will fan the flames until they leap up and bite you and lick the skin from your bones.’ But the wind was sleeping tonight, and still air filled the alleyways, like warm water in a bucket.
actually that last reblog made me think about basta/farid parallels again while doing laundry just now. i know i talked about it before at some point but lads, the similarities...
abused/neglected young boys unappreciated by the people around them
find a role model with skills/personality traits they want to emulate
latch on to said role model HARD to the point of complete idolization, despite being not necessarily being treated well (at first)
ruthless streak and certain skill for violence (remember when farid assumed they were just gonna kill basta and flatnose and basta was like "damn, we could have used that kid"? also, dustfinger making farid kill the rabbits they caught lmao)
superstitious and scared of ghosts in particular
vain
attention-seeking
hot tempered
enjoying and being (sort of kind of) good at receiving romantic attention* while not taking rejection well**
team up with some guy they cannot stand in order to reach their goals when their idol is dead which goes super well for them
terminally unable to be normal about poor dustfinger
farid easily could have turned out just like basta if he'd stayed with the robbers in his original world, with capricorn in ours or if dustfinger happened to be a different kind of person is what i'm saying
*okay, farid is a ladies' man once he grows up, we know this. but i feel i might have to defend this point a bit with basta - listen. he showers, okay? he showers and smells like mint because ONE girl told him ONE time his breath stank, it's an objective fact this man takes constructive criticism. he wears that stupid flower with his (presumably clean) button-down. cornelia funke, who hates him, did not outright call him ugly. i'm not saying he's a likeable or romantic guy but there's no way he's not getting wenches. thank you.
** okay, no need to explain basta for this one. but farid was a huge baby about it when meggie started dating doria even though he had been the one ignoring her in favor of getting dustfinger back and following dustfinger around and generally just being around dustfinger unless specifically being sent away into time-out. and i'm specifically thinking about that scene in lockdown-tcor when, at her engagement party, farid is like "damn, you really wanna have boring sex from now on forever? :/".*** get a job stay away from her-
***i know i know, that's not canon anymore but this is my blog and i spent one million hours with those chapters. they count. to me.
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