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thinking about banicarlos again

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i always assumed keel was a kiyoteru because he was descended from pale and milky’s kid, but the actual story of his origin is so much fucking funnier, i love this stupid series so much

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Wtf im thinking about gast venom and wtf. You know how in Clôture he’s looking for somewhere to die, and how he’s originally like ‘idgaf about this riliane brat, the people who hired me are getting wrecked and i have no personal investment so im outta here’ up until allen begs to hire him to keep defending his sister (ironically this ends up almost having him kill germaine, Allen's other sister, instead)

And as we know ‘im trying to save my sister’ is one of if not the only motivation that gast will sympathize with deeply enough to consider it worth dying for, so he agrees. And obviously in canon this ends with gast and allen both dying. Which I find kind of unsatisfying, bc Gast really died for nothing in the end, bc he didn’t stop Germaine from capturing the princess, Allen did by being her doppelganger, which he could’ve done anyway.

So basically I just had the thought. What if, in an alternate timeline, Gast had succeeded at reclaiming the Venom Sword? And what if he knew how to use it?

Someone had to be executed at the guillotine, or the fighting in Lucifenia would’ve never stopped. But what if the real twins had both worn Allen’s clothes, and escaped out different exits of the castle?

What if Gast’s heritage, which was nothing but a source of pain and shame his entire life, ended up allowing him to have the noble, meaningful death that he craved? He believed combat was his only skill, what if he was proven to have worth beyond that as a fighter in his final action? And he remained an undefeated swordsman, whose sudden disappearance became the stuff of legend?

Of course, if Allen survived, Riliane may have never grown as a person or truly regretted her actions. That could take the whole next chapter of the story in another direction. Or perhaps, they lose track of one another, and Riliane doesn’t know about the Venom Sword, and when she finds out that the ‘princess’ has been executed, she draws the wrong conclusion, and mourns him anyway. Maybe Allen is injured and becomes an amnesiac like Gakusha, knowing that he’s forgotten someone important, trying to find his way back to who he should be. Maybe by the time he and Riliane find each other, they’re middle-aged and she’s long-since settled into her role as an orphanage nun and adoptive mother. Or maybe they never find each other, or he learns their story when he’s successfully tracked down by the children from Reach for the Stars.

I don’t know! I just thought this idea was interesting, and that Gast deserved more narrative closure than he really got.

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i havent read any of the weed arc books yet and im sure its 1000% more heartbreaking and fucked up in canon but i cant stop imagining this conversation

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inspired by a real conversation between my little brother and me when we were kids

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evillious chronicles sinners' songs

venomania, margarita, kayo, and nemesis: song is in the first person, the singer justifies their actions/is an unreliable narrator

banica and riliane: song is in the third person, objectively and mostly accurately describes the heinous acts

gallerian: "I'M a CORRUPT judge, I'll do ANYTHING for money, I'm the fucking WORST, I make bad people laugh and good people cry! I don't give a FUCK whether you're innocent or not!! Even if I die and go to hell I won't give up my fortune and I have NO REGRETS!!!"

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my brain: the clockworker’s doll is irina, so she got the court ending and didn’t get to the fourth period

my heart: ok but consider- what if she and michelle were twins

(bruno took the picture)

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sth I think was really interesting about EFEC is that despite Banica being the main character, she's almost never the POV character. We're shown her early childhood and her mother's abuse through her father, and her teen years through Carlos. Then her young adulthood and early decline through Juno. Platonic and Carlos then narrate most of the rest of the decline, and after he dies Arte and Pollo get a small bit.

The only times that Banica herself is the POV character for her life story, is when she's talking to the demon. We get to see inside her head directly when she makes her contract, and in the final scene when she defies the demon and dies for her baby. Then in iirc the epilogue, she narrates a bit from inside the glass, as the new demon.

It has the effect of

a) forcing the author to do a REALLY good job showing and not telling what Banica is thinking, what her motives are, and how she's been affected by everything that happens to her (which mothy does, 100%)

b) making those scenes where Banica is the POV character feel far more intimate than before, in a way that totally works for the seriousness and emotionality of the scenes, and provides a vibe of something like secrecy.

All in all, absolutely excellent book, and I now understand why everyone loves Banica and Carlos and the twins so much