Things the TWST Cast would be fascinated by in our world
I wanted to hop on here really quick since I'm still really busy with school and had a cool idea. Cause we hear a lot about Twisted Wonderland and what's in their world and how cool it is, but like we (as in humans) are pretty damn cool too!
Mostly I was thinking about this because of the Artemis II launch and was reminded of one of the anthology comics where the Octotrio are talking about going to the moon but in a way that seems like space travel in general is not something people in Twisted Wonderland do. In fact, the way it's been talked about makes it seem more on par on how we would talk about mages here!
So, here's a small list of things that, if they came to our world, they would be blown away and captivated by:
Generally, everyone is fascinated on how much we've accomplished without magic.
It seems pretty established that magic in general has been a huge factor in how civilization has been developed in TWST, to the point that even technology is developed with magic. Not obviously not everything has been developed with magic, but it's significant enough that it's been engrained into most if not all societies and cultures within TWST. I think that they'd be both baffled and impressed that Earth has been able to do most/similar things that they have without any magic involved.
Space travel (obviously), but specifically the Moon and Mars Rover(s) missions:
Like, it is such an achievement of humanity that we were able to go to the moon!!! If you're a moon landing conspiracy theories you are not welcome here and shut up because we fucking landed on the moon!!! We've sent rovers to a whole other planet! We have discovered that life most likely existed on our neighbor! THAT'S SICK AS FUCK!!!! I think that Azul, Idia, and Malleus would actually be the most fascinated by this. Azul has the previously mentioned anthology comic where he does talk about going to space, and he seems really into it (he's not going up there tho). Idia is pretty easy, he built a whole body for Ortho to have him get the wishes up for the Starsending, which is a whole giant deal when it does happen, plus his favorite game is sent in space. I also think he'd cry with me over the Opportunity Rover. Malleus is a bit more of a sell, but I think he'd be so impressed that humanity, who he does look down on a bit let's be really, was able to do something as significant as step on the moon, let alone send objects to other planets and into space. I especially think that he would have a fondness for the Voyager Golden Record. It's not often that he can relate to others, but Malleus can find himself in Earth humans' desire and yearning to make friends with others. We have such a desire for connection with other life, we are both so surrounded by life and yet so lonely for other life just like us that, by the off chance that someone out in the vast emptiness of space, that someone will see all of our pictures, our songs, our words, directions to our home and want to be our friends. We are unique creatures, and that uniqueness makes us want for connection; what else can Malleus do other than emphasize? Afterall, he more than anyone could understand that desire for connection.
Ancient monuments and structures:
Humans built the pyramids about 4,500 years ago, and we now have evidence from nearby cemeteries suggesting that over the course of roughly 70 years, tens of thousands of skilled workers built it. These things are so old that one, it's amazing that they are still standing (and a testament to how skilled humans can be at building things), and two, that we are still trying to figure out how exactly they were built. It's not aliens, so don't come saying that, but humans using math, physics, and their hands holding tools. Beside that, we have cliff dwellings, which are literally homes (sometimes cities) carved into the sides of cliffs, my favorites being the Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings found in the Southwestern United States. Speaking of the Americas, Tenochtitlcan and Tlatelolco (now in and part of modern day Mexico City) was a city built on an island in a lake with various bridges, causeways, and canals all intersecting and connecting with each other. In fact, there are so many ancient cities and monuments across the Americas that were built into areas that today would be so difficult to build into even with the technology we have, yet ancient Indigenous Americans did that!!! Because again, they had the skill, math, physics, and understanding of their environment to build these massive structures, and no magic was needed. I think Riddle, Rook, and Lilia would love these structures and learning as much as they could about them and how they were built. Lilia is easy, he's explored so much of his own world and seen much of what it has to offer in his old age, but not only does our world have new things for him to see, I just know he would love getting to know locals and learning from them about their history and how they built their monuments. Rook is also easy, has he's stated in Book 8 that one of his interests is archaeology, and I can see him sitting in a lab going over old artifacts and falling in love with Earth humans' ingenuity and creativity. Riddle is more of a stretch, but I do think he'd be so genuinely enthralled by seeing a place like Machu Picchu or Mesa Verde and just thinking, "People just, did that?" He's been so isolated from his own world, deeply entrenched into an education that centered magic that the idea of doing something like carving a dwelling into a cliff, or building a city on a lake, or a settlement in the middle of a desert seems impossible. There are rules, a natural order to things, human limitations. It seems impossible to him that humans could and would decide, "yeah, I'm gonna build a thing here" and do it without the aid of magic. But, they did. Why? For many reasons of course, one being because they decided that they could, and Riddle I think deep down would resonate with that.
I'm sure there's more that Can be mentioned, but this is getting long and I have to get back to working, but I do think that it's fun to imagine how much our lovely boys would actually love our world. Yeah it has no magic, but so what? Magic might be their thing, we have human imagination and ingenuity, and an endless thirst for knowledge, creation, and connection. For all of humanity's faults and capability for cruelty, we are more than that. We are so full of love and yearn to create as well.
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