#mim bad

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One captain to another, talking of the old days.

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After months/years of trying to stay apart, Katherine sends Nightlight a welcoming message. He's on his way to her right away

HC: MiM bad. Lunanoffs bad. Kinda long post. Nightlight/Katherine centric

We disliked MiM ever since we've seen him in RotG, and after reading the books our dislike of him only deepened. The reasons for that deserve a separate post, but today we'll focus on Nightlight.

Even though Nightlight thinks he and MiM are friends, they clearly couldn't have been. His existence had been kept a secret, so the only people he knew were Lunanoffs, sleeping toddler MiM, and Pitch. But then a little girl flew up the clouds and drew his attention, and Nightlight was never the same. The way their relationship deepened and blossomed, we only expected that the natural conflict of loyalties will arise. That it would look even worse after previous biggest Golden Age hero fell to despair because of having second loyalty. Or simply because lonely MiM might be jealous to share his only "friend" with anyone.

The books hinted that Nightlight was developing a personality thanks to his relationship with Katherine. In our version, it also makes him grow and makes his light dimmer. Since no one Nightlight ever did anything like that, Katherine gets scared and distances herself from him. Both suffer.

Jack gets into this mess from Katherine's side just because he's a disruptor by nature, honestly, and doesn't like any kind of forcing people into loneliness. And from Nightlight's side, Moonbeams do their best to distract him from heavy thoughts. Pretty much like that.

Early in the books, Moonbeams are known to "get Night out of his shell" and push him to wherever MiM needed him to go. So here, too, they did their best to distract him from undesirable thoughts. Except this time, they fail. Only getting happy now makes him brighter.

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With all due respect, Joyce needed an editor. Whimsy in his books is great, but please let us be arses about the big lore stuff.

The end of Sanderson's book:

"For the first time, the boy who never slept [Nightlight] finally did."

Meanwhile all throughout black pages of Sanderson sharing a dream with Santoff Claussen, Nightlight sleeps just like everybody else. He goes to sleep with everyone.

"Then everyone, right down to Bear, fell into a deep, restful sleep."

And he's described to stand up upon waking up. Implying he was lying before.

To top it off, it's an explicit "Nightlight rule" in the Jack Frost book that Nightlight shouldn't be able to sleep, not before the kiss anyway.

We love these books, but these kinds of things are tiring.