Do you have any Horatio headcanons? Specifically in his relationship with Jacob and Noor? He's so interesting but not many people talk about him and it makes me sad.
this is probably gonna be a mix of Horatio facts and Horatio + Noor and Jacob facts. probably mostly Horatio facts but i do have thoughts about his relationship to Jacob and Noor! (important note: both me and my partner @jjackrabbitt came up with a lot of this stuff)
first to answer the specific question:
so generally speaking i think of Horatio being like a big brother to Jacob and Noor. i remember a few people being like ooo new dad character for Jacob!!! which yaay. but Horatio seems more like a brother to them for me, personally. he strikes me as still somewhat young? not as young as Jacob and Noor, not even close. but like he’s in his 30s maybe? i dunno (physically speaking, of course. i know in reality they’re all extremely old)
i think Horatio’s whole mission/purpose/task is to protect Noor, and also Jacob, but Noor specifically, since she’s one of the seven. H tasked him with this, he even gave Noor and Jacob the coordinates to V’s loop while was a half-hollow-half-wight-thing. he was tasked to make sure the prophecy is fulfilled. so when it was all over, peculiardom was saved, he was like well shit what now. cause aiding Noor in the whole prophecy thing was his only purpose, was all he ever thought about (wight behaviour. we’ll get to more of that in just a bit)
i don’t think H ever let him super close to little Jacob/Noor, or if he ever met them as a hollow at all, but if he did, he still remembers them. he does remember Abe pretty well, so that’s the connection he’s got to Jacob in a way
this next thing is a bit more complicated, cause it goes into how wights work. basically we think that when hollowgasts evolve into wights they imprint on the first person they see and will listen and follow them, and depend on them. like ducklings, i suppose. i don’t think he full on imprinted on Jacob and Noor, like most wights imprinted on Caul or other more authoritative wights he sent instead of him. but i do think it made him focus a lot more on the two, specifically Noor
we like to think that when all the horrors are over, Horatio and Noor, and probably Jacob as well (Joor is canon after all), have a fun little beach vacation. Horatio hasn’t had one in over a century and maybe doesn’t even know what that is anymore, or maybe has never had one! but yeah anyway they are going to the beach and honestly he’s probably constantly on the lookout for danger
that’s all the Horatio, Jacob and Noor related stuff i have i think. but there is some more Horatio stuff. i dunno if i’ve ever shared any of this. i definitely very badly need to
used to be a spy working for the ymbrynes. that’s right, he was never really Caul’s right hand and a member of the Claywings, but just pretending to be. Percival Murnau was a spy as well, working together with him and they were pretty good friends (perhaps even more than that. but neither of the two would admit). that was until Caul started being a little flirtatious with Percival, and he was immediately head over heels, making him a true member of the Claywings. Horatio was also in contact with Myron Bentham, he was the one who he gave the loop collapse instructions to and Horatio disguised it as his own idea. despite trying to stay out of the experiment, Caul insisted he join in and be there that day, he had the idea after all :)) (Caul wasn’t suspecting anything yet. he didn’t know Horatio was a spy until after Percival evolved into a wight and told him about it after learning how to speak again. so for Caul i think this was just a safety measure/an attempt to have control over the situation by having everyone be there for the experiment) so anyway. Horatio turned into a hollow. yadayada. we know the rest
Horatio used to be kind of sassy. i think, even now as a wight, it’s still coming through a little, just not as much, cause he has like. zero emotions. for now. but when he was on the job, he knew not to be and play Caul’s very loyal advisor, so Caul wouldn’t get suspicious
about his emotions. i know he has someone else’s face on and that’s why he can’t show much emotion, but i do think as a wight he’s struggling with that in general. he has to relearn emotions. and oh, he will. but that’s not until later. and it’s a good thing, too. there’s so many impressions crashing in on him at all times, the world has changed, he has changed, the people, who he turned into monsters with, have changed. his old friend has changed by…a LOT. he has to come to terms with the fact that Percival is a huge slug-like slime monster man now and that he’ll likely have to watch him die/kill him himself (he will). thankfully, he’s processing all that like it’s nothing in the beginning. though i do think that as he’s been a wight for longer, he will start to feel things and emotions will come up. like he’ll start being an actual person again
he misses H so so much. i know he once talks about how he loved him but also really hated him at the same time (cause i guess you’re full of hate as a hollow. i dunno about that, Riggs :P), but Horatio can’t go a minute without saying H’s full ass name. he has so much respect for the man. like that’s literally his dad
kind of related to the above: we have thought about H surviving and Horatio evolving into a wight and just kind of assisting H with things as he gets older
maybe he helps Alma and Isabel with the loop/council stuff? he goes back to working for the ymbrynes. we just don’t know what happened to him in the end (same goes for other characters) and i like to imagine they welcome him into the family with the ymbrynes acknowledging that he used to work for them as a spy and therefore can absolutely be trusted
Horatio is (or was) a librarian like Jacob. which is why he can also somewhat talk to hollows (i personally think wights can’t do it the way Jacob can. they give them commands, but not like that). gives me goosebumps to think that Horatio was right there at Caul’s side and neither of them knew he was a librarian and could have been of even more use to Caul
Horatio calls Percival “Perce”
the two of them even lived together back then. was very annoying for Horatio when Jack would come over to see Percival
as a wight, Horatio is still wearing that kerchief around his neck that he was wearing as a hollow. if i remember correctly.
this just in from @jjackrabbitt: Horatio is actually from New York and had an ymbryne, named Miss Oriole (since he has a New Yorker accent. i do think it can be due to my belief that wights pick whatever accent they hear when they evolve (similar to the imprinting thing), but we thought it would be fun if he was really just from New York. and then somehow, for whatever reason went overseas to Britain
his full name is Horatio Wythe
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