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Favorite Bal moments?
Ben standing up for Mal during family day.
Ben admitting he never faked anything and kissing Mal's hand
Mal holding up her hand with his ring on it and Ben happily twirling her around in his arms
Mal's kiss breaking the spell on Ben
The engagement
Mal and Ben running into each other's arms when they meet again at Evie's house
Mal appreciating Ben's new beard
I’m making this post for @hannahhook7744 since her ask about this topic is now gone from my box 😞
Classes At Dragon Hall (Canon & HC)
Selfishness 101
Enrichment
Villainy Through the Ages
Tall Tales & the Tellers Who Tell Them
Evil Schemes & Nasty Plots
Evil P.E.
Wickedness
Vanities (both Regular & Advanced)
Artists & Thieves
Scheme Management 101
Coin & Jewel Calculus
Unnatural Biology
Hey do you know what happened to @hannahhook7744? I tried clicking on her blog and it said it didn't exist, her comments are all gone and it says I'm not following her. Kind of concerned here.
Her blog was terminated for, as of now, unknown reasons. She's working on getting it back
Saw you were wondering about the scrapped daughter of Qoh.
Her name's Quinlynn btw and she was in d3 during the opening song.
Well now I have to watch Good to be Bad to look for her. The hair in the concept art is also so funny to me.
Hi, I saw you read 'The Dark Ascension Series: The Wishless Ones' and was wondering if the book ever mentioned the name of Jafar's parents?
Unfortunately I think they're only ever referred to as Mama and Baba. The most name-wise is Jafar tells a guard to the House of Wisdom his full name is Jafar ibn Ali al-Abbad from the village of Ghurub. I just did a skim of the book and never saw mention of the parents' names, though. I saw you asking for a description of Rohan and I can see if it mentions hair color etc etc tomorrow, if you'd like. Do you mind spoilers? Just in case any come up
Additionally, it doesn't seem like she currently uses it so it might not bear any results but Hafsah Faizal has a tumblr so you might be able to ask her if she ever had the parents named in like her writing notes etc. It's hafsahfaizal. tumblr . com
Her website has other contact methods, as well
@hannahhook7744
Hi, sorry to bother you but I'm curious about your oc, Purl.
I see you've found The Knitter comics!
Purl is not especially my OC- she's based on the initial post by @bespectacledbookworm, with a character design by @fernacular
At this point I made the comic and art 12 years ago, so I don't have much to say about her that isn't in the comic, and I'm unlikely to continue anything.
I'm glad you enjoyed her though! I think she's pretty cool!
Thanks @cleverqueencommander for the birthday gift!
Random question but I just realized/remembered that Calvin and Sam were YOUNGER than Barbara.
Yet I don't remember them being babysat by her the night she died so where do you think they were?
Also I was wondering if I'm the only one who thinks Rick might not have killed Barbara?
Cause it COULD be possible that the serial killer/deranged fan part of the comic could have been real. Meaning that that could be why Rick disappeared.
Anywho sorry for the out of the blue question/rant. I just didn't know who else to ask.
(Sorry for the late reply @hannahhook7744, it's been kind of a Weird Hectic Weekend for me)
The thing about Barbara's Death Sequence is that it's really the most 'distant' one we've had. Most other Finches have records written by themselves just before their deaths or written by someone close to them just after their deaths. Barbara got a fictionlized comic book written by strangers for strangers that came out a full year after her death.
Sure, it seems like the Finch family collaborated on the story (since they've got the music box in there), but it's still pretty different from Molly's diary or Lewis' therapy notes. Espacially as a lot of little details in Barbara's room seem to contradict the story. So it's probable that Sam and Calvin were also being babysat by Barbara that night, but as they didn't figure into the narrative the comic-writers were telling they just casually dropped them from the narrative or merged all three younger brothers into Walter's role.
Or maybe they were out having a sleepover with friends or a boyscout camping trip or something but the comic didn't mention it, cause, again, it didn't factor into it's story. This comic was obviously not a serious documentation of Barbara's death, it's a fictional horror story targeted at people with just a casual understanding of the Finch Family outside of Barbara - if at that. So if that comic dedicated a whole narration box to "and also Barbara had two other little brothers but they were off at camp and had nothhing to do with this story" that would just seem Weird to the in-universe readers of 'Dreadful Stories'. Even if it might be useful to us, the REAL audience trying to piece together the timeline of the Finch family.
(Also I do suspect that at some point of WRoEF development Calvin was supposed to die before Barbara and then their timelines ended up being Switched so the Weirdness here might be a remnant of that)
As for the matter of Rick. I think the reason why he's considered the Prime Suspect of Barbara's death within the fandom is due to the Law of Conservation of Detail. You know, like, Details in stories come up because they're important to the story in same way. And yeah, 'What Remains of Edith Finch' is not exactly a traditional narrative and not every detail here has to "further the plot" - but even the most unimportant little details in WroEF still serve to add flavor to the characters, atmosphere and the themes. Which are things that are important to the story.
So why bring up the fact that Barbara had a boyfriend and even give him a name and a face? (which is very rare for anyone outside of the Finch Family in this game) Why doesn't Barbara just die alone in the house with just Walter? Rick has to be Important in some way if the game went to all this effort to create and establish his existence to us, right?
Plus, there's the thematic role of 'Dreadful Stories' within the narrative. Personally, I can't see the idea of there really being a serial killer or a real-life crazed fan that inspired the 'monsters' at the end of the comic. Because my read of 'Dreadful Stories' is that it's made to be so ridiculous and sensational- with both a serial killer AND monsters out to get Barbara - to showcase a little taste of the wild and weird stories being told about Barbara's death. And to put the first subtle little wrinkle in the poetic idea that the Finches deaths always match their lives - Edie had to choose this silly little comic to deliberatly turn Barbara's death into something horror themed. And if she chose something a little closer to reality, it would've turned out to be much different.
So what is the mundane Not-Thematic-Enough-For-Edie's-Tastes way for Barbara to get murdered? I can see why for a lot of people, the 'obvious answer' was 'got killed in an argument with her boyfriend'. Since, again, we need to have a reason why he exists in the first place.
...Although that's actually not my favorite theory lol
I think Barbara's death was even more mundane than that. One of the few details about Barbara's death we can confirm are based on reality is the moment where she pushes the killer off the railing.
In the current-day Finch House this little piece of railing IS noticeably broken.
So someone did absolutely fall off the second floor of the Finch House at some point.
So what I think happened is that Rick and Barbara did have some sort of a lover's tiff that night, then Barbara slipped on these rollerskates the Hookman slipped on in the comic.
In a panic she tried to grab on to something and only managed to catch one of Rick's crutches. (The important thing here is that Barbara is ALWAYS memorialized holding that crutch. Even in pieces that were made prior to the comic's printing, like her portrait)
So that part of her story has to be true in some way.
Barbara's death was just yet another Patented Tragic Finch Accident, but suspicions kept falling on Rick from the General Public and the media, and so he had to go into hiding. Meanwhile the Finch Family, or at least Edie, kept promoting the most Bonkers version of her story they could find.
