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Khalila repeating Wolfe’s lessons

Just found a parallel that I fully believe is intentional.

So, in Ash and Quill, after the gang escape from Philadelphia, Khalila starts crying when she’s talking to Jess about pulling a dying man from the burning city. Wolfe says the following to her:

"We all deal with things in our own way. [...] No shame in any of it. Even despair."

While in chapter 12 of Sword and Pen, Dario is struggling with what he has just done at Santi’s command, and Khalila says:

“No,” she whispered, and put her hands on his face. “My love, there is no shame in tears for a terrible thing. However necessary it might have been.”

Those aren’t identical, but they’re very, very similar. I fully headcanon that Khalila is, probably subconsciously, remembering Wolfe’s words when she says that. Remember, Ash and Quill and Sword and Pen are at most a couple of months apart.

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Today’s terrible worldbuilding brainwave:

We know that the Library provides everyone with a journal.

(We also know that they monitor these, but not for how long they've been doing that ... that's not going to help the load on the Obscurists, omg)

We know that after death, the journal is added to the Archives. Jess talks about this in quite glowing terms, living after death, knowledge, etc, but Wolfe uses a FASCINATING word for it in Ink and Bone, which is "surrender". Specifically he's talking about tag Translation, just before he tests Jess, about when a librarian might come into contact with an original that needs sent home and he uses the word surrendered in an example that includes journals.

So that immediately made me think, if a family refused to "surrender" their loved one's journal, would they be considered owners of contraband and be subject to confiscations???

And has Wolfe had to perform those confiscations before??

I’m thinking two options and I hate them both. Either:

a) Wolfe is forced to do this after Rome, as part of the Artifex’s petty mindgames

b) Wolfe does some, because it’s part of his job, and it turns out that although he hates it, he’s actually quite good at getting these grieving people to hand their loved ones’ journals over peacefully.

bi) first option: this means that he does quite a lot of them, because he knows he’s better, even though he hates them and finds them upsetting.

bii) second option: he gets reprimanded for being too soft - maybe he takes longer at each individual house than he ‘should’, or maybe it’s played as him keeping ‘criminals’ out of the cells where they belong or something, idk.

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Jesus FUCKING Christ, Christopher Wolfe could you please emit less Parental Energy, I am blinded

(Sword and Pen, chapter 16)

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Just reminiscing over that time in Sword and Pen that knocked me for 6 when Wolfe said to Glain (paraphrased) 'Please come back alive. You're precious to us all.'

Glain: Shit I must run outside so no-one notices me crying over this.

Me: SAME

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Fun sickfic idea: Wolfe helps look after ''I definitely don't have pneumonia and can definitely walk from the bed to the bathroom unattended'' Jess Brightwell, only to come down with a nasty infection himself a few days later.

#Whump #Dad Wolfe

The Curia: Wolfe I'm making you Archivist whether you like it or not. Wolfe: Have you met my daughter Khalila?

Literal facts, right here.

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''Put the ring on, Morgan.”

“No!”

He put his hands on her shoulders and gazed down at her. His son had the same look. The same hidden warmth buried under layers of severity.

“Put the ring on. I’m here. I won’t abandon you.”

She felt her tired eyes fill with tears. When those tears fell, they tasted bitter.

“I feel so wrong.”

“Then I will help you,” he said. “Do you trust me?”

She did. Against her will. Against all her experience.

Me, weeping: YOU TRUST HIM BECAUSE HE MAKES YOU THINK OF WOLFE

#the great library #Dad Wolfe #I will never ever have enough of Morgan loving Wolfe

I am eternally sad that not all the kids got cute moments with the dads.

Morgan got one from a distance, thinking of Eskander as her honorary grandfather (im not crying it's hay-fever)

Jess, of course, got to call Wolfe his dad and then had Santi call him son (every time I read that I giggle about Santi getting pissed off Wolfe got to have all the fun of fucking up Callum)

Glain got that really lovely moment where Wolfe tells her she's precious to them.

Khalila gets a completely different one, despite this being the book where she upgrades Wolfe from I-love-him-like-a-grumpy-uncle to I-love-him-as-much-as-my-father. She gets Wolfe being her Archivist cheerleader, calling her queen and immediately deferring.

Dario gets... that meeting with Santi... argh, my soul... Edit: He ALSO gets ''Dario, don't torture that guy'' ''Fuck you, Wolfe, you're not the boss of me.'' My soul continues to shrivel.

Thomas, God bless him, gets nothing at all, I don't think??

*pounds table* CUTE DAD MOMENTS FOR DARIO AND THOMAS!!!!

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