one thing i find interesting about Danaâs words about Caleb and Evelyn from the livestream is how she seems to center events from Evelynâs perspective (she refers specifically to the âEvelyn and Flapjackâ lore when the question prompting the discussion also named Caleb, tho I donât think thatâs like. A calculated decision, it might just reflect who she views as the most significant characters in the grand scheme of things)
itâs about what Evelyn was doing in gravesfield, why Evelyn liked caleb, how she first presented herself to him. itâs about her family that he married into, the Clawthorne family, blood members like Eda, chosen/adopted members, like King and honorary members, like Luz. Thatâs who the story really centers around, so it makes sense that when approaching this nugget of lore, theyâd tackle it from Evelynâs POV.
But i just find it interesting bc itâs so unlike 90% of the fan content centered around that era. Like most of the things ppl make related to Evelyn and the Wittebros is usually set from one of the brothers perspectives (with a couple of exceptions! @/moonmegâs comics and @/litfeathers various drabbles and dubs all have a good balance of Evelyn and caleb/philip perspective!). Obviously this is mostly bc we got the Wittebros lore first (all the way back in yesterdayâs lie) and because we know (marginally) more about them, people have been playing around with them for longer and with more material.
But Iâm honestly really interested in Danaâs version of the story! Especially considering it seems like Evelyn had much more agency in the story than we give her credit for. Sheâs the one who went to gravesfield, reached out to Caleb, presumably taking either the romantic or platonic initiative and thus setting things in motion. Why? we donât know! Dana says Caleb seemed more reasonable than the rest of the population in gravesfield, that they bonded over flapjack like dog owners over pets, which is all very interesting when we know he was a witch hunter, implies a lot of interesting things about why he was doing that career and what his status in the town social climate mightâve been like, but thatâs where fan interpretation comes into play, so I digress.
(also, this is a tangent but Iâm a big fan of Dana implying that Evelyn took initiative? We only have huntlow to go off of but generally speaking the show likes to subvert overdone or overly stereotypical m/f romance tropes- while not being too pointed about it and still leaving room for nuance and characterization- and I like the idea that if they had the chance, they wouldâve done that w/ Caleb and Evelyn, with her being the passionate Romeo and him being the more longing, pining-maiden type in the relationship hehehe)
Point to all this being, I think itâs very funny how we all got wrapped up in the mystique and intrigue of (Belosâ biased, carefully crafted and incomplete) narrative of ~the tragedy of the brothers Wittebane~ bc he was our main source that we failed to consider that Evelyn, who fits the character archetype TOH likes to use as a focal/viewpoint character much more cleanly that either Wittebane (what with being a young woman, a âweirdoâ estranged from her home, a Clawthorne, etc), mightâve actually been the perspective we shouldâve been looking at things from. Danaâs based for this actually
