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South Park in the Cas Van Der Pol's "Ultimate Recap" style!
This was pretty popular on Pinterest when I posted it there so that's pretty cool
I think it's interesting that Squall never contests what people say about him, and even go as far as to repeat it to Morrigan (I can't remember the exact quote but I swear he calls himself a "maker of monsters" in Hollowpox)
He never tries to convince Morrigan that he's in the right, and he doesn't seem to be using her to try and get into Nevermoor. He even helps her take down the Hollowpox and turns back time to prevent all the silverborn deaths caused by the Guiltghast
I think the closest we've got to him arguing with what people think of him is when he yells at Morrigan for bringing up the Courage Square Massacre
I don't have a point here, I'm just excited to see what Jessica Townsend will tell us about Squall in the future. I NEED to know what happened during the Courage Square Massacre.
heard y’all liked peanuts halloween steddie 🎃
Our clerics Will the Wise and Holly the Heroic 😭 and their paladin, I guess.
i hope the cut will always bleed
I'm back to cook.
RAHH IM HEALED ENUFF TO DRAW LETS GOO!!!
I tried to draw in the TBHK art style and got a bit impatient... which reminds me t for being patient with me I'll cook as soon as i get a full 8 hours of sleep finally!
Holliday and Carlos😌
I am going to NEED more of them in Neverfive. My nee favourite wlw/mlm duo
Drew them shopping together. They probably also got their nails done.
safer????
i wonder if jupiter feels like if he had been there, rosie and arj would never have disappeared
and that’s part of why he goes on so many missions, cause if someone gets hurt on one he’s not on it’s his fault for not being there, he could have prevented it
like this part in hollowpox
Mildmay has given this fandom so much trauma that whenever a character is acting a bit too nice we immediately get red flags
See the one issue I have with Nevermoor is that Morrigan is still the only person to have met Squall. I mean, can you imagine if Jupiter met him? I want to see that fist fight. Also I need to see Cadence trying to use her mesmer on him, and realising that doesn’t work and just deciding to go completely feral. I want to see Hawthorne set dragons on him. I want to see Anah use her scalpel. I want to see Arch pickpocket something really important and use it as blackmail. I need to see Martha make him fold napkins. I want the Deucalion to make him his own special room filled with all his nightmares. I want to see Fenestra to use him as a scratching post. I need to see Frank bite him.
So, I finally finished Silverborn. I think the inclusion of time travel is a mistake because it's always a mistake but maybe this time they'll pull it off? (nobody has ever pulled it off). It was weird back in Hollowpox that people in the ghostly hours could see the person reading them, if only for a moment, but it's okay-ish since it can be interpreted as a recreation rather than actually being there, but now Tempus can allow for time-travel. Okay sure.
It's pretty obvious (to me at least) that the "waking giant" is Morrigan herself. It's actually so terrifying what she's capable of. She tried to use Nocturne, the most basic and vital of the Wundrous Arts, and her lack of knowledge led to her, in one timeline, accidentally killing dozens. Wundersmiths are dangerous. Sure they're not all plotting to kill, but they can with so much ease. The real danger here is Wunder itself, which is described with so many paradoxes (it's simple, but it's intelligent. It's aimless, but a Wundersmith should let it have control over their art, etc), but the one that makes the least sense to me is the existence of the Wundrous Divinities. The Kindling, at least, is perfectly sentient, so I think there's no way the Kindling or any of the other Divinities are naturally occuring. Perhaps they're creations of the original nine Wundersmiths or something.
Wunder doesn't appear to be a finite resource, but it needs time to replenish itself. With only one Wundersmith in the Wintersea Republic, Ezra doesn't have to share. I don't think even he can harness that volume of Wunder, though, so he uses it as energy. Morrigan, even now, even though she has so many ways to use Wunder, is on track to be drowned by it because she too has nobody to share it with. All the Wunder in the Free State is drawn to her. Perhaps something like this was Ezra's motive for the massacre. Perhaps he just wanted power and the murder of all his friends and teachers was the best way to get it.
But I still have this nagging feeling that it's not so simple as "Ezra is a guiltless murderer who attempted to enslave his beloved city just for power". I honestly wonder if it was an accident, if he tried to do something, create something, and it got out of control.
These are kinda old but i just realized i never posted them here and i do still like the designs,,
A drawing of Jupiter I did a whileee back
[PHOTO ID: a digital drawing of Jupiter North. He’s wearing a lilac coat, a top hat and some type of bow around his neck. He’s facing to the side. He’s got holding a brolly in one hand and reaching out to someone with the other. He looks serious. END ID]
Wintersea Basement Theory + Five Years
One thing I noticed a few rereads ago was there was an interesting line up between Corvus Crow becoming Chancellor of Great Wolfacre
"That he was enjoying his fifth year as state chancellor despite such a handicap was a daily miracle to Corvus Crow, and the question of whether he could sustain this implausible luck for another year was a daily anxiety"
(Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Chapter One: The Cursed Crow)
and Jack's permanent residency at the Hotel Deucalion
"'Your chair? You've lived here all of five minutes and you've claimed the furniture? I've lived here five years. This happens to be where I eat my breakfast.'"
(Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Chapter Twelve: Shadows)
Originally I wrote this off as a coincidence, since I had been of the camp that Jack's parents were dead and nothing more was to be said about it without more information. But! With Silverborn out we have more information, and I'm more interested now about what could possibly be up with Rosie and Arj and where they could be.
Last summer, when the final delay was announced, and AUS paperback/US cover was revealed, Jessica Townsend did a Q&A, with two answers in particular that I found curious [full transcript here and video by @/nevermoor source:
What’s one thing about the direction of the series from Silverborn onwards you can say? This is such a good question, So I remember, one or two books ago, talking to my publishers about kind of the structure of the series and the way that I see it. And I've talked about this before in interviews about how I see the series as being like, it's all one story. It's all Morrigan. It's all Morrigan’s point of view. But thematically they feel to me like three separate “acts.” And I feel like the first act is Morrigan. It's like her immediate world. It's herself. It's her friends. It's finding a new family. It's finding her way in this new city. And books four to six sort of feel like it's zooming out. So we're in quite close on Morrigan and her immediate, like, experiences of the world personally. And it's seen through that lens. And then with four, five, and six, it's like, we sort of zoom out and just see more of the world. We see more of Nevermoor kind of socially and politically and geographically A lot of different parts of Nevermoor that we haven't seen open up. She learns more about the Wundrous Society, more about herself and her own past and origins and family. And then book seven, eight, nine kind of zoom out again. And we see… it's really tricky without trying to sort of give too much away, but, yeah… I feel like I nearly said too much.
Are we getting a realm hopping boom? Well! Definitely possibly!!
In Silverborn, Jack reveals that in the Spring Term, he's planning on accepting the League's offer to join them, with conditions around becoming an officer far sooner, to start his plans around joining the League and immediately going AWOL to look for his parents.
He smiled a disconcertingly vicious smile. 'Because I want them to keep coming on their little fishing expeditions. I always decline to speak to them, but I'm letting them see my resolution waver, and in the spring term I'll finally, reluctantly agree. Then my plan begins.' [...] 'I'm playing the long game. Laying the groundwork for a negotiation. If they want me to enlist, I'm going to be the first person in history to become a ranked officer at eighteen, after my year of academy training. As a lieutenant, I won't have to wait four years to travel to outer realms like the other academy chumps.' His eyes locked on Morrigan's, blazing with reflected firelight. 'And on my very first outer realm mission, I'll abandon ship, set out on my own, and find my parents.'
(Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow, Chapter Thirty-Five: Merriment, Mystery, and Mutually Assured Destruction)
This scene ties into what was said in the Q&A
Is there more of Jack in Silverborn? There is more of Jack in Silverborn. I will be honest to tell you, there's not like a mountain of page time for Jack, but the scenes that he is in are crucial, and they're really important for… I would say that there's a scene with Jack in this book that is probably the most important scene in the book in terms of what it sets up for future, for the rest of the series. (I've probably said too much, that's all I'm gonna say.)
And the final part of the Q&A I find relevant/interesting to this is this part:
Will we see more of the Free State as opposed to just Nevermoor? Not in this book. In future books? I think so.
Now, what am I getting at here? Why am I calling it Wintersea Basement Theory? Um so the name is sort of a joke, like a very hyperbole thing of Rosie and Arj have been in Wintersea's Basement the whole time. Do I think they literally are? No? Yes? No? Maybe? Yes? I functionally think that Jack is not going to find his parents when he inevitably goes AWOL, but Morrigan is either going to ask Squall to help her, and find something nasty about that, either Corvus or Ornella were involved at some level, directly causing Corvus to become chancellor through some shady dealings, or that Bertram did something, or tried to stop it and failed. A big reason I think Morrigan is going to find Rosie and Arj is simply because she is the main character. That is what she does. It's so big that if it happened off screen, I think it would be less satisfying. I could be wrong, Jessica Townsend is a very skilled writer, but if I were writing that, I would have Mog find them. Or find out what happened to them. Why does Wintersea have them? Dunno, maybe they were spying on her and got caught à la what nearly happened to Jupiter when he met Ornella:
"As part of my work with the League of Explorers, I am sometimes required to provide intelligence to the Free State Security department regarding conditions in the Wintersea Republic ... could have made one cry for help, and I'd have been arrested and likely never seen again."
(Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow, Chapter Forty-Four: The Letters From Jupiter)
In Chapter Thirty-Five of Silverborn, Jack says that his mother worked for the League, while his father was an interrealm diplomat. Although Jack says his parents were on an outer realm mission, it's not impossible that they might have lied to him, since that's a lot less vague and scary than "we're going to spy on our enemy nation for a fortnight or so, cheerio", although Arj's occupation wouldn't make much sense here, unless he was doing spy work as well. It's possible too that their gate was interfered with. I think it's been suggested already that Rosie or Arj was a spy for the Wintersea Republic, and did something. Chickened out, or got caught, or were double agents for the Free State. But they're in the Wintersea Republic, and Squall knows where they are/what happened to them, and at least one of the Crows adult had a hand in what happened to them and it's related to how Corvus became Chancellor.
Fucking PARALLELS!! Both Ezra and Jove are such drama queens istg
And for a piece of analysis: isn’t it weird how, in Ezra’s case, he appeared with the intent to explain and (sort of) reassure Morrigan — even if he left without providing her with the help she WANTED (not the help she NEEDED, mind you) — while in Jupiter’s case, the phrase was spoken before he decided to 1. Ground Morrigan 2. Cut her off from her family 3. Involve himself in a shouting match with her?
Last time there were such stark parallels between the two (“I see you, Morrigan crow”), the “roles” were reversed: Ezra was trying to convince Morrigan that she had “black ice at the heart of [her]” while Jupiter was trying to convince her that she was not a curse. It’s interesting to see the tables tabling so
squall parroting morrigan’s words back at her like a petty little child is so funny actually. he’s such a cunt i love him
They are both so sassy towards each other it’s truly amazing
I hope they never stop but I also hope the sarcasm eventually turns into playful banter instead of something that is meant as negative, it would be so so so interesting to se Morrigan becoming actual friends with Squall just because she spends so much time with him and understands him more and more
Is it really that negative in silverborn tho? Compared to the last three books I mean. In book two and three she was still describing how evil he is and that she would never let him teach her. While in silverborn she's like "Yeah this is Ezra Squall...his hobby is murdering people...but he's a grate teacher".
Now she isn't using sarcasm against him and his morals and more to get what she wants or to criticise how he plans things. Especially in chapter 40 where she apparently makes puppy eyes as a last resort and HE CAVES! Out of context this seems like a child begging to get sweets before dinner and the exhausted adult giving in...
I never imagined this dynamic back in book one but I'm not complaining!
I see their banter as like, Morrigan still holding some resentment for him, or at least trying to. She’s getting more and more used to him so she’s not scared in any way, but she still knows she’s not supposed to take lessons from him… That’s what I mean by their interactions being negatively loaded, there’s still a (very thin) barrier between them in the sense that Morrigan still tries to hold some dislike towards him and Squall still tries to only see her as an apprentice and not a successor or, even worse, a daughter. Morrigan has made it abundantly clear, at least verbally, that she will ONLY let him teach her and nothing more.
None of them want to form a genuine connection outside of their agreement because for Squall it would complicate things and possibly hinder his goal, and for Morrigan it would mean “turning evil”.
I thought of the puppy-dog-eyes from Morrigan more as like, a way for her to see how far she can go before Squall caves, kind of testing the waters a bit. Of course she really wanted the Ghostly Hour, but I don’t think she fully expected Squall to actually go through with it.
I hope we get like, some sort of a turning point where Morrigan starts calling Squall by his first name. I think her calling him Ezra would be the ultimate “we’re family, I see you as an equal to me” from both sides.