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i am so sorry people ship you with keefe 😢😢 i would never

MAX MY (tied) FAVORITE FINTANPOSTER!!!! I KNEW YOU'D HAVE MY BACK IN THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES. thank you for your support. it is eagerly accepted and desperately needed.

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you should draw short haired fintan…. for my soul….

(idk if you’ve drawn him before but you should)

i can only do this if you agree to endorse & vote for gethen in the keeper sexyman 2025.

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stria are you going thru my fintante tag and reblogging them all as aldella

where else am i meant to get good quality aldella posts

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“ask box is finally open” ok write an essay on fintan. go.

no, thanks. i think you got that covered. how about i give you random, assorted fintan thoughts, fanfic ideas, and headcanons instead:

thinking about that moment in everblaze during the healing scene where he says "his identity dies with me" about the pyrokinetic he's protecting right before the entire building goes up in flames. was he planning on killing himself to protect brant? everblaze harms pyrokinetics, so he knew that it would harm him. the other option, of course, is that he was willing to take the risk of everblaze to try to kill someone else so that he could escape. everyone was canonically wearing fire-resistant clothing, so he couldn't have done any damage to them with regular fire.

how did he even actually escape oblivimyre? he couldn't have had a leaping crystal on him, or someone would've found it. did the neverseen hide a crystal in eternalia somewhere for emergency scenarios?

this post by quil inspired an au idea where bronte is a telepath, and is responsible for shattering fintan's sanity instead of alden, and fintan is just horny for him the whole time he's doing it and it makes bronte super uncomfortable.

HIS CIRCLET COLOR WAS BLUE. THE SAME BLUE AS HIS EYES, WHICH IS SKY BLUE. also fintan loves cool colors. he dresses in them frequently.

there's a very good chance that he's one of the councillors that threw vespera in the dungeon, since he knows about her existence, and he also knows all the secrets in his cache. so there's some tension between the two of them, even though it was his plan that ultimately set her free. it's kind of like him supporting the pyrokinesis ban, but also being the one that'll likely get it unbanned (indirectly through marella). he's all about breaking cycles that he himself started. something about guilt and admitting you're wrong to yourself, but being too proud to admit it to everyone else.

he served at the same time as fallon vacker, and was present during the story bronte told in neverseen about meeting king gowg. this means he was councillor while bronte was emissary. i think this is how they met, and how their "long history" started.

he was messing with keefe the entire time he was with the neverseen, like pretending to be drunk to mislead him. there were easier, better, safer ways to lead keefe down the wrong path than pretending to be drunk, but this is fintan, and he's dramatic.

alden had a celebrity crush on him. i don't make the rules here.

HIS HAIR IS LONG. IT'S SHOULDER BLADE-LENGTH. PLEASE, I BEG.

he wears lots and lots of jewelry. all the time. he's so extra like that. also all the jewelry is blue/green/purple because he's a cool colors guy.

fintan seems to regret his time as a councillor, not just what he did to get pyrokinesis banned. in neverseen, he says that when he was a councillor, all he did was sit back and do nothing. so there's a possibility that he might've written off important things as nothing or something along those lines. people might've come to him with appeals to reform exillium or exile, or fix the separation between the talentless and the talented, and he might've refused. either way, there's something else he regrets. it might be in his cache.

what's your beef with ruy, man? there's something there canonically. i need to know. it's so juicy. gethen also hired ruy to the neverseen, so i imagine he's more partial to ruy, which means fintan may or may not also have beef with gethen.

he talks to himself in the mirror. shut up. i know he does.

when he faked his death, he wanted to immediately reveal himself as alive again, and it was only the collective cooperation of the other neverseen members that stopped him for so long.

HE HAS A FLAT FUCKING ASS. FLAT AS A FUCKING PANCAKE THAT GOT FLATTENED EVEN MORE. IT ISN'T CONCAVE, IT ISN'T BULBOUS. IT IS FLAT.

he wears heels to make himself feel taller, because even though he's tall (6'2"), he wants to be towering.

he probably found vespera's journals somehow. but how? did lady gisela show them to him? is that how she got her acceptance into the neverseen? vespera's main philosophy is ruthlessness, which fintan would agree with, but in a less intense way than vespera, i feel.

he probably heard brant gush about jolie a lot. i bet that was funny, since he was probably utterly disinterested. "so, it's about time you learned to summon bigger balls of everblaze. here's how t-" "FINTAN. JOLIE CALLED ME PRETTY TODAY" "wow. i would've never known . . . "

how did brant even reach out to him about manifesting? probably he hailed him or something. but remember, fintan's an ancient. so i doubt brant would've been able to properly get ahold of him (like how fallon wouldn't open the door for alden in nightfall). so did brant like burn down his door and scream ALRIGHT BITCH I NEED SOME LESSONS to get fintan's attention or something?

or was it the opposite? did fintan somehow know that brant was a pyrokinetic and reach out to him? if so, how? maybe he keeps tabs on everyone who's considered "talentless" and checks up on them to make sure they aren't exhibiting signs of being a pyrokinetic or something? if so, that's kind of sweet, not gonna lie.

it isn't an essay, but i hope i satisfied your greedy little fintan heart

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why are you a HATER

because i'm morally and emotionally opposed to the existence of joy and whimsy and peace and love on the same plane as my own existence. so i've decided to hate fanartists . . . and i've decided to expand this to fanfic writers. no one is safe from my all-consuming hatred

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my favorite number is six does that make my favorite number the child of yours or something

i think the relationship between six and sixteen is irrelevant and only a result of our society's use of the base ten number system . . . if we were to use a better number system (cough. base sixteen. cough) there wouldn't be any relationship at all between the two. so. idk

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why is aldella not a sweet couple tho… just curious. like is that just your personal headcanon or

no, it has (some) canon basis. annoyingly, the line with the strongest piece of evidence is broken up by a page break in my physical copy of unlocked, but it's on pages 187 and 188 (della's registry file). basically, the council speculates whether alden and della might've noticed that alvar was a traitor if they hadn't been so busy hiding shit from each other. clearly, there's some trust issues going on. della was also ordered by the council to spy on alden, and while she didn't actually tell the council anything of substance, it's hard to say whether that's because she truly didn't know (which would indicate trust issues from both alden's side, from not telling della anything, and della's side, because that implies that if she had known, she would've told the council) or because she purposefully hid alden's search from the council. at the end of her registry file, the council mention that she did tell them something of importance (which is redacted), and context makes it seem like it's a secret of alden's. hence the trust issues.

so clearly, they both prioritize their jobs over their relationship with one another. the themes are theming . . . prestige and protecting the vacker family name will always come before strong interpersonal relationships, and the best way to maintain the name is to do what the council tells them. interestingly, della is implied to be the one that's more dedicated (for lack of a better word) to the council, not alden. i have some lore about that (basically that della and other people that marry into the vacker family feel insecure about not being "real" vackers and therefore have to work twice as hard to prove they're worthy of the name; this would push them to try to be the perfect noble, even more so than vackers by birth). but even though della seems to be the one that has a tendency to be more loyal to the council, alden also keeps plenty of secrets from her. it's heavily implied that he never trusted her with the details of his search, not the way he trusted his sons or quinlin. so who knows what other secret projects he never wanted her to know about? he doesn't trust her, she clearly prioritizes being seen as a loyal noble over him, so that leaves them. somewhere i wouldn't necessarily consider wholesome.

but it's also true that they genuinely care about one another . . . we can see this in della's reaction to alden's mind breaking. nothing particularly bad has happened to della (which shannon should consider doing something about ahem) but we can safely assume alden would have a strong reaction to that as well. they are so screwed up . . . i love them . . .

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strieefe might be more popular than fintante at this point ngl

that's horrifying . . . strieefe for sure has more fics atp, although i'm not so certain that's an indicator of popularity. strieefe fics are hella easy to write, seeing as how they tend to be cringe and low-quality, so they can be pumped out easier and quicker. there's also the fact that there's only a handful of people that consistently write strieefe fics. but i do think more people ship fintante than strieefe . . . so if we go by that measurement, fintante still reigns supreme <- *said in guy who's trying not to have a mental breakdown voice*

and while there is strieefe fanart there's definitely more fintante fanart. so fintante wins by that metric as well