My theory for why Anya is good at classical language
I believe the reason Anya is so familiar with classical language, and the reason her name was spelled "Ania" is because before ending up as a test subject/orphan, she lived in a place that still spoke like that and her name was changed to "modernize" the spelling.
Where she grew up would probably be quite rural and isolated, so as to not develop linguistically in the same way that the rest of Ostania did. There were at least two major wars Ostania was involved in, so that could have left the town she grew up in cut off and left to fend for itself.
Being cut off due to the wars meant the lack of funding and resources dilapidated made it extremely impoverished. I see two possibilities here: A.) To give Anya a better life, her mother gave her up for adoption because she knew Anya wouldn't thrive in that environment. Or B.) The Ostanian government saw this as a perfect opportunity to find a test subject. The lack of resources and impoverishment would mean that there was no paper trail leading back there, and it means that Anya's mother would not have the ability to resist what is essentially a state-mandated kidnapping because she would not have the connections nor the resources to fight back the power of the state.
here's why yor forger being a cold-blooded assassin while also being a loving mother and wife does NOT contradict...
you think the waitress wants to smile at your dumbass when she's taking your order? we all put on a work face. hers is just murder. and we love that for her
I've never written fan fiction before but I've had this idea for one for like the past two weeks. I had to write it in my native language (brainrot) first before translating it.
I'm excited for season 3, but every day I'm afraid they will censor Twilight's scene in the shower at the end of Wheeler's arc.
To this day I still don't understand why they censored this scene by putting Loid in a shirt since the scene lasted like 1 minute and he was only on his back 😭.
(Is it just me or did they also make Yor swimsuit top longer?)
Unless in the anime they are going to show that Loid does have some scars around and that's why he doesn't usually take his shirt off in front of people.
or maybe he thinks that people would find it strange for a psychiatrist to have a toned body like him idk
To be honest, I'm torn on how to feel about the war flashback arc going on. On it's own, I really enjoyed reading it. It's a very emotional story and I love how it fleshes out the war setting that makes up the entire plot of the series. I also really really miss the Forgers. Yor hasn't shown up in a proper chapter since the beginning of the year, and the family as a whole has taken a backseat recently.
Yet when I find myself being upset at so much attention being given to, let's be honest, side characters, I have to ask myself: "If I started reading Spy x Family a year into the future, would I be complaining as much?" I don't know. Part of me wonders if the reason I'm so upset is that I have to wait weeks between chapter releases; and every single time I check it out, it's another two weeks without the characters that made me fall in love with the series.
I know this current arc has taken a toll on Endo's mental wellbeing, per his twitter, so the conclusion of the flashback arc will come next chapter. I trust that him spending 6 chapters on this will be important to the main plot in the future, and dare I say twiyor?
I miss my Forgers, but if anything, I have to have faith and let Endo cook.
Random thought - I can't help but wonder just how much Handler knows about what goes on with the Forgers and what she may have picked up on that Twilight may have missed
We know that she heard about Twilight collapsing after Anya got her second bolt
It's also all but confirmed that she knows about Nightfall's feelings for Twilight
I can't help but wonder if she at least has a good guess about what was really going on with Yor during the bullet in butt date, even though she likely wouldn't know the exact nature of that injury or how Yor got it. I doubt she's guessed Anya's powers just yet, but depending on how much detail she has about how Anya reacted to certain things she may be able to guess that Anya has seen more shit than the typical modern orphan has and may end up being the least surprised when and if it gets revealed that Anya is a former lab rat
I'll admit that I'll be very surprised if she doesn't already realize just how attached Twilight is to the Anya and Yor, and likely realized that well before he did
Okay, it wasn't the bombastic chapter with the big plot twist that we were all expecting but here's what I think...
It fits the theme of the story. I'm not talking about the anti-war theme (although, that's also the case in this chapter). I'm talking about small decisions and empathy.
Have you ever made a choice that seemed insignificant but changed your life forever? Have you made a choice that was tough but changed someone else's life?
This is exactly what's happening in this chapter. That lady changed the WHOLE sxf story by choosing to put her pain and hate aside. She saved an enemy soldier after losing her own daughter. It's very moving, because, that lady probably thought about Martha's mom waiting for her somewhere in Ostania and, even though they were enemies and she still hated Ostanians, she knew one thing: love is the same everywhere.
That level of empathy and that little action that changed a lot of lives. We'll probably see more of Martha and it wouldn't surprise me if she becomes important in the story, but even if she doesn't, Martha already changed someone else's life. Have you forgotten?
She saved Anya.
Obviously the arc isn't over and we still have to figure out how Martha made it back to Ostania, however, it seems very suspicious that Endo would choose such a small little story for chapter 100. At some point, much later, we may find ourselves going back to this chapter and realizing this small decision and this small story is what changed it all.
these last 3 chapters more than ever have left me wondering about the timeline of spy x family and in particular,
donovan's age.
i'm not going to go too deep into the full timeline because i simply don't think we have enough info to make a real robust timeline, BUT i do think we can very feasibly approximate donovan's age with our current info.
I also won’t be using any precise years like 1964 or whatever bc at this moment in time I find that to be kind of useless, bc the only years we have happen very early in the story in background details and for a lot of those ones, I noticed endo had a tendency to just carelessly put whatever so long as it looked fine from afar, which includes news that were happening around the time of that chapter's release. SO unless he decides to explicitly highlight actual years, I’m not gonna be like “this happened in 1964 and that happened in 1953” and anything of the sort.
now, i shall partake in my least favorite activity.
✨math.✨
so uh buckle up my fellas and feel free to correct me anywhere where i might be wrong bc i am more than aware that math is NOT my strong suit!
SPOILERS FOR CHAPTERS 97, 98 AND 99!
gonna start with the facts!
according to the spy x family EYES ONLY fanbook, henry henderson is 66 years old at the time of the current events of spy x family! in the past three chapters we have learned that there is a 3 year age gap between him and martha, so that would make her 63 years old currently.
as of the events of chapter 99, he is 22 years old (and martha is 19), assuming there wasn't any years-long time gap that was not mentioned within the chapter! which, it doesn’t seem like there were any MASSIVE time gaps, so I’ll be using those ages for calculating.
so, what all this means is that we are (roughly) 44 years into the past at the moment! previous info about the war of loid and yor's childhoods puts it at around 20 years old, so from where we are in the backstory, we still have roughly 20 more years before Luwen is attacked — clearly, because this first war has already ended with donovan still in school.
while we don't have loid's age, we do have yor's, who is 27 years old — meaning she was born around the time of henry being 39 years old, aka clearly neither loid nor yor have been born yet as of the events of chapter 99. too into the past for now!
now, how am i gonna get donovan's age out of all this?
simple! henry's his teacher and has a talk with him after his jail time.
like I mentioned previously, I shall be sticking to 22 for henry’s age here. it may not be fully correct, it may be a year or two off because we aren’t given concrete details on exactly how long he was in jail, so just take it with a grain of salt! it's only going to remain as a rough estimate until we get a definitive answer on donovan's age.
so! henry has a talk with donovan, but the conversation itself, while very important for the plot and especially for our understanding of donovan’s character, is irrelevant for this conversation. no, what's crucial here is what henry is holding. endo even highlights it by focusing an entire larger panel on it!
it's a history textbook for year 7 students!
it being a history textbook is very poignant for the conversation they're having, but the reason this is important to me is because it's very clearly a year 7 textbook.
now, i don't know how much of eden academy's curriculum is based on the uk! but because pretty much all of the architecture of it is based on eton college and endo has literally just returned from a london trip where he showed us he visited a kindergarten, so i think that's grounds enough for me to assume eden academy's year 7 is generally populated by children between 11 and 12 years old. luckily for me, that seems to be the general age for germany's secondary school year 7 too, so even if it's not the british one, it's still close enough!
with all that being said, if donovan is, say, 12 in that moment and henry is 22, that means there is a 10 year difference between the two of them, which, drum roll please, means donovan desmond is 56 years old when our story's events take place! assuming the war of loid's and yor's childhoods took place exactly 20 years ago (when yor was 7 and henry was 46), this would make him around 36 years old when he became ostania's prime minister! it would also mean he had damian at 50 years old, and if demetrius is 12 right now, that would mean he was born when donovan was 44 years old (and his birth would’ve been in the last years of the war).
so, rough events timeline based on all that, focusing on ages!
66 years ago: Henry Henderson is born.
63 years ago: Martha Marriott is born.
~56 years ago: Donovan Desmond is born.
49 years ago: Martha (14) transfers to Eden and meets Henry (17)
47 years ago: Henry (19) graduates Eden.
44 years ago: Henry (22) joins Eden as a teacher, in the same year becomes Donovan Desmond’s (~12) history teacher. Martha (19) graduates Eden and joins the Women’s Defense Auxiliary.
~44 years ago: Martha (~19) is presumed dead. Henry (~22) faces jail time. The war ends, and he marries.
27 years ago: Yor is born. At that time, Henry is 39, Martha is 36, and Donovan is 29.
~27 years ago. [REDACTED] is also born. Same as above, just approximate this time!
~20 years ago: Second war begins. Yor and [REDACTED] are ~7, Henry is ~46, Martha is ~43, Donovan is ~36. Yuri is born.
~12 years ago: Demetrius is born. Donovan is ~44, Yor and [REDACTED] are ~15, Henry is ~54, Martha is ~51, Yuri is ~8.
~10 years ago: Second war ends. Demetrius is ~2, Donovan is ~46, Yor and [REDACTED] are ~17, Henry is ~56, Martha is ~53, Yuri is ~10.
6 years ago: Damian is born (and most other kids in his and Anya’s grade). Demetrius is ~6, Donovan is ~50, Henry is 60, Martha is 57, Yor is 21, Twilight is ~21, Yuri is 14.
5-4 years ago: Anya is born. Damian (etc.) are 1-2, Demetrius is 7-8, Donovan is ~51-52, Henry is 61-62, Martha is 58-59, Yor is 22-23, Twilight is ~22-23, Yuri is 15-16.
1 year ago: Yuri (19) becomes part of the SSS. Anya is 3-4, Damian (etc.) is 5, Demetrius is 10-11, Donovan is ~55, Henry is 65, Martha is 62, Yor is 26, Twilight is ~26.
I HOPE THAT HELPS PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE?? melinda is not included bc we have nothing to go off of for her age outside of purely subjective things like her appearance.
super glad endo included the year 7 thing JAKLSDFKLSD
