#g!hudson

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God Jeffrey's call outs of Hudson are peak! He's saying it straightforwardly but not with derision or contempt. Exactly the sort of tact necessary to reach the kind of man Hudson is. I love it. Hudson makes a true admission but not the one that really matters. What matters is that he feels shame, and he hasn't been brave enough to face that shame, be vulnerable with those closest to him, and grow in an important way. And Jeffrey is having none of it. Sure, he can teach Hudson, but hey ummm... maybe Hudson darling, you should deal with the fact that you are too afraid to be open about something as simple and changeable as being able to read. Love that Hudson's arc doesn't have to be All About the Importance of Reading. That might be the obvious message, but there is something a bit deeper here.

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So... you're taking the scrolls out on hold without permission hm? How fast are you planning to pick reading up? Ahahaha

<Three months later>

'Hey Elisa, remember those scrolls you were ordered to escort to the museum? Here you go.'

'That was a while ago. How did you go about finding them?!'

'Uhhhhh'

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Hudson is the goat of levelheadedness this episode. I don't think he can even be totally sure this will have WORKED, but gods be damned if he doesn't try. And amusingly enough, it proves later to actually matter. Three hurrahs for a practical old man! XD

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Hudson in stone

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Oh OUCH!

I LOVE that this is said by Hudson. I think it can be easy for younger people to dream of impossibilities. I don't know, it wouldn't have had the same weight coming from those who have been adapting so well to this world. But Hudson has held back. He didn't dive into learning about this world and finding ways to enjoy it besides his recliner and TV. But he doesn't have as long to live going forward as the rest, and he can admit out loud that they had an opportunity that they passed by in order to do the right thing.

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LOVE it! That's kind of big for Hudson imo. To say it out loud. He's reeling.

And of course, by letting him say something simple like this, he can speak a little bit what the others may be feeling even more strongly, they're missed chance and fitting into the world they've been thrust into. They're alone together again after briefly glimpsing a shot at living IN the world rather than beside it.

LOVE LOVE LOVE that we get this quiet moment of their regret ldkfjoei

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Hudson is such a shit. Haha. "Yep! Totally real! ...if it's true." LKJDOIFJLKE

It's funny, but also I like the idea that this lends something to the idea that gargoyles are creatures of oral record keeping. Stories aren't just stories in their culture. Sometimes not every event retold is true to the letter, but it's sharing a truth about their history and the history of the world. So if fairies were in the stories, there was good reason for them to be so. Because they're real, and it's important for gargoyles to know that they are something that could be encountered.

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Hudson has just been ON THE BALL. A part of me wants to attribute this to Goliath being so shaken, the others all being so shaken by the introduction of a new gargoyle. So why wouldn't Hudson be so shaken? And that reason also doesn't do full justice to Hudson. He's notably not one of the fastest gargoyles or best flyers at his age, but he is so far the first go after the mirror, and the rest are actually pretty quick to let him be the one to ensure it's safety and go after Demona.

So what's up? He was the one who told them to be careful what they wish for. Surely the mirror being around to tempt them would also cause their own problems.

But I think Hudson is thinking on a whole-picture scale right now than the others. Goliath is probably stuck on the possibility of Elisa being one of them. Broadway is probably fixated on getting his friend back to normal (and B being B probably thinks perhaps mirror-smash would mean things go back to normal). The others are probably enticed by what this mirror could mean for them. If it could make Elisa a gargoyle, could they become human? Would they want to?

Hudson, I think more than anyone right now, fully feels that things need to go back to as they were. That what the mirror is doing is playing with fire, and he won't just put faith in the idea that the mirror destroyed might mean the magic dispelled. I think he's old enough to know that it would be very unwise to trust in anything like that.

I bet he's very concerned about Goliath, the head of their clan, right now. Because I absolutely think he sees pretty far into what he's feeling and also what a trouble it would be to the clan without their human contact. Poor ole' man

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And Demona's very first interaction following these dire warnings from the future is a human she has been working with calling her a beast and attacking her, making all sorts of assumptions about her inadequacy. Of course, he's not a good guy in the best of times really, but that's not the point. She's thinking in this moment that perhaps, there really was something to her future self's thinking.