May 30, 2023
To be fair to the Magus in The Thief, a perilous road trip with three teenagers who can't stop fighting would drive me to threaten violence, too
seen from Australia
seen from Russia
seen from Russia
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Philippines
seen from Malaysia
seen from Taiwan
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Jordan
seen from Germany
seen from Bangladesh
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Israel
To be fair to the Magus in The Thief, a perilous road trip with three teenagers who can't stop fighting would drive me to threaten violence, too
another bit in my modern au
party formed let’s gO
Landscape practice with a different pen
Ambiades: I can see what you’re up to.
Gen: Five foot two inches. I suspect that is all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.
Chapter 6
>Fuck the Magis and the mother who shat him into this world.
>He's genuinely a terrible person, all it took was half a sentence to remind me why I hate him. Also fuck him for being stupid and not packing enough food for the journey. He's a terrible planner and if I were the king I would have hung him for his incompetence.
~
>They actually can't see the ocean anymore and as someone who has lived by the sea for a long time, I feel vwry sad about the fact. It's pure projection, but it would be a neat bit of characterization of Gen were to miss it just as much. You don't understand the ammount of melancholy I got from a single line.
>Gen living a better life than Pol despite being a thief aka not very rich, puts into perspective how a super agressive external policy affects the citizens. Aside from a drain on public funds, it also exhausts supplies.
> Olive mention!!!!!!
>The SEA of Olives!!!!
>Don't tell me that the Magis didn't plan on how to get down, I'll shit myself.
>Phew, slow chapter innit? All my homies hate the Magis.
>OLIVES!!!
>The landscape the narrator is describing is literally what I see everytime I travel to the big city.
>I forgot these two were training with swords (Sophos and Ambiades)
>No offence meant at all, but I couldn't care less about the sword prowess of these two.
>Aw Ambiades is nice. Wonder if it will last.
>Does our titular thief know how to fight with a sword while judging others so harshly 🤨?
>"What is his weakness?" "His height." "Yes, Remember that." Pol you're being an awful sussy baka.
>Hol up, I might have to check on later but they suddenly got food? I thought they had to ration their stuff and it had been a while since the inn?? Gen said fresh bread and cheese. That's impossible? Eh, maybe a small error.
...
OR is it? *VSauce music*
>The Magis is a horrible human being and also stupid. Just because an accent is spoken by the low-classes it does NOT mean that it's undistinguishable from other low-class dialects- especially if they're so far geographically. He's once again, putting their very important mission to risk to satiate his own ego. Electric chair.
>They have compasses. Don't know if I mentioned it before, but they have those, very useful! But uh, again. The magis should know which way is north and which way is south, they have a sun right there. Still. Better to have than not.
>Ambiades is mad after hearing that they would be beheaded if caught. I don't know what to do with this. Oh wait, yes I do. LMAOOOOO THIS STUPID MF THOUGHT THAT HE WILL GET AWAY WITH ATTEMPTED THEFT FROM A QUEEN AND DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET HANGED AT BEST LOLOLOLOLOL. FUCKING DICKHEAD GET FUCKED!!!
>They let Sophos travel with an expesive cloak while undercover. Unreal.
>Get 'im, Gen. Get 'im!! (He told Ambiades to go fuck himself for his prejudices)(Though I know that he will become a class traitor) The lord of rags and tatters is right. He did get his ass whooped for it tho.
>At this point Gen could totally make a scene and get away with it. All he needs is to approach the first travellers they meet and start shouting that he's being kidnapped, he would get taken of course, but since his case would be taken to the queen he might've gotten away with it. Just tell her that he's held hostage and she'll probably forgive him. Also his bruises totally help, more proof that he was a poor kidnapped victim, help him trader-oniisama :((
>They have coffee 🤨, they live close enough to an equivalent of south america and are cultivating it enough to export to troops and soldiers who were stated to be in a bad economic position? 🤨 sus
>Double whammy. He's messing with Ambiades hardcore. Hahahahahahaha.
>And now Sophos got Gen back. Stupid. I take it back, he deserves every second of this mission.
>Gen has way too much empathy for Ambiades. Doflamingo headass. Also like- I'm happy that at least someone tried to stop the King and reinstating the Oligarchy. Honestly? Honestly? I hope that the King dies and the Grandpa's dream comes true even if by his grandson's indirect actions. What a Chad.
>○●○●○●○●○●○●○●○●○●○●○●Get circled.
>Oh no, not fucking mythology again.... . So Eugenides the OG underdog. Lann the Clever, Loki, Prometheus type beat, self-made man, that gets godly attributes, yadda, yadda, yadda. He goes flying like the horse plinko but up to heaven instead of hell. He also stole the thunderbolts literally like in Percy Jackson, if I were Zeus- I mean, totally not Zeus, but the sky god(s), I would've manifested into human form and strangled him myself.
>Anyway Hestia = the Queen who will win because every power she has was stolen and given to her by someone else, and the Magis is honestly as smoothbrained as they come for being happy with the story.
>Oh and before I forget new gods = olympians, and old gods = titans. It's just- it's just a copypaste introduction for greek myths, I read something like that when I was 11.
>■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□■□
Get squared.
>that's uhh, that's chapter 6 folks. Honestly it was slow, but to compensate I (the most important part) am back. It took me a while and I genuinely forgot about some things but here we are again.
>anyway, hope this are the same tags i used before because tumblr is playing tricks on me again and I can't find my old posts. I think am being gaslighted by a website.
The Queen’s Thief Appreciation Week, (Very) Belated Day One —> The Thief Day
Day 1: The Thief
*For this Queen’s Thief appreciation week, I’m going to randomly select a page in each book, and see what pops out at me.*
Page 111 of the Jesus Hephestia cover book
What happens: Sophos and Ambiades spar while Pol and the magus are off scouting.Thoughts:
-Gen shows himself to be a competent swordsman, if you’re paying attention. He’s able to call out advice to Sophos during the sparring, things that Pol was also trying to teach. Gen gives good, specific advice about how Sophos can block and counter, things only someone trained in the sword would know.
And he can see that Ambiades “guard is terrible. I know that any opponent your size would cut you to pieces.” When Ambiades asks if Gen thinks he would be able to cut through Ambiades guard, Gen gives a typical non-answer “I’m not your size.” He doesn’t say he can’t fight, or doesn’t know how to get through a guard, he redirects and lets us think that the reason he won’t fight is because of the size difference.
-At the start of the match “Sophos brought an elbow down to cover too late, as if an arm would have stopped anything but a wooden sword.” which makes me think of the sword catch reveal in KoA. An arm was enough to stop the wooden sword in the training ground, but it’s also enough to stop a metal blade if necessary. But Gen doesn’t know that yet!-Just that Ambiades is six inches taller than Sophos, of course Gen has advice on how to fight a taller opponent! Everyone’s taller than him!