#balbulus

[thelastofthebookworms]

Inkworld's Characters 1/3

Balbulus

Mortola

The Piper

Darius

Minerva

Firefox

Meggie

The Black Prince

Resa

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Voting ended onMar 4, 2023

Poll 2 and 3 in my pinned post.

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

Some thoughts I have about the last few released chapters in The Colour of Revenge:

Spoilers below

1. Meggie’s thoughts about her feelings and thoughts turning into colours is so heartbreakingly innocent.

3. Resa’s POV right before she vanishes is just so incredibly painful. It was so cruel to make her discover that her own family is gone before she herself was converted into paint. Her last feelings were probably pain and terror for her missing loved ones.

4. I really feel for Dustfinger’s grief at losing Roxane and Brianna, but come on, what about the Folcharts? Dustfinger had grown pretty close to them, particularly Mo and Resa, but all of his grief and rage seems focused on Roxane and Brianna. Which I find weird since in Inkdeath he was shown being pretty close to Mo and Resa. I mean, I get it but I thought that after everything they’d been through together he would at least think about them.

5. Good god, are the Folcharts, Fenoglio, Doria, Roxane and Brianna conscious inside that book?? If so that is downright horrifying and brutal. It might even count as Fridge Horror since iirc Balbulus thought he could hear or imagine them screaming. And it would be doubly nightmarish for Dustfinger if his soulbond with Mo is still in effect, because that means he would be feeling whatever Mo is feeling. And if Mo is in pain then… *shudders*.

6. Goddamnit, all of my favourite characters are among the ones who Cornelia Funke whisked away. I like Dustfinger well enough, but I was never as invested in him as I was in Mo, Meggie, Resa, and even Roxane and Brianna.

7. Why did Orpheus include Elinor and Darius in his revenge book? As far as I know they never did anything to piss him off. Also did Minerva and Dante also get trapped in the paint? I know they melted away like the others but I couldn’t tell if they were shown in the book.

[incorrect-inkworld-quotes]

Balbulus *as he illustrates books*: Let's see, where were we? Ah yes. The pit of despair.

[studyofdragons]

Please send literature about dragons.

I just borrowed a large anthology of classic literature to read during off times at work.

Found a refrence to a dragon in Notker Balbulus’ s A Hymn to Holy Women.

Talks about a ladder circled by torments. At the base an attentive dragon stands on guard forever awake.

Implies Immortality or long lived. Serpent Deceiving Is defeated by being hooked in the jaw Desires Virgin women to hold. Very stereotypical dragon. Kinda neat that it’s defending the ladder to heaven.

The next level is guarded by a devil welding a sword. Kinda neat though while implying that the dragon is ferocious that it’s not the devil. Or not as evil as the one who’s defending the ascent

Plus more. Very symbolic kinda fun.

I want to find more and make observations about dragons in classic or obscure literature.