#mydivinevision

[pangurbanourcat]

There's something in "Barry Loves Lucy" I've been thinking about.

When Fox is trying to eat Lucy and Rabbit and Terrapin keep interrupting, Fox is very specifically shown to lock the door. The door never gets unlocked. yet later in the episode Barry is able to interrupt and save Lucy by barging in with all his gifts and things, opening the door himself from the outside.

When I first realized this I was like "oh I guess that's a mistake." But I thought about it more and remembered earlier in the episode when Terrapin was freaking out about Barry waiting outside the house, and basically says that locking the door would be as effective against him as "putting up a No Wolves sign".

I'm really not sure whether I believe this was intentional or not. On one hand it's just really odd and specific, but on the other hand this show is really clever, and it's quite the coincidence that both those things happened in the same episode. If it was intentional, it implies that Barry specifically or Wolves as a whole in this universe just have a latent ability to magically bypass locked doors.

Then as I was formulating this Tumblr post in my head I remembered the episode where Barry literally has a whole B plot caused by him locking himself out of his own house. So if the lock thing was intentional by the writers, they probably hadn't thought of it by that point, and/or it's a wolf ability that takes time to develop, and/or Barry developed it as a result of that incident as a means of self preservation.

Then I checked and according to an episode playlist on Youtube it seems like Simon the Werewolf actually comes after Barry Loves Lucy so I don't even know.

[pangurbanourcat]

I have a hypothesis.

spoilers for wof book 16, and also book 14 I guess.

I wonder if the entity that took the egg at the end could be Jerboa 2 (the first Jerboa clone that Jerboa 1 got rid of before making Jerb 3). I don't have any evidence for this except that Jerboa 2 could have probably existed around the same time the prison was made, and the fact that Jerboa 2 is a narrative loose end.

[pangurbanourcat]

The way Sunny treats/thinks about Stonemover is frustrating (not seeming to make much of an attempt to help him, + being internally angry at him for picking himself up), but I understand why she thinks that way. Her go-getter attitude is something she had to constantly prove that she had, she's a very driven character, and she was raised from birth with the responsibility of the prophecy.

I really hope we get a Stonemover Winglet at some point. I would wish for it to show his backstory AND his future people where people hopefully actually help him in some way and Sunny deconstructs some of her beliefs.

[pangurbanourcat]

I don't think "love at first sight" is possible in real life, but it can be fun to read about. It's magical. It's a fairy tale. Especially if the characters do actually connect and talk to each other after they become infatuated.

I think Wings of Fire does a good job with the latter (characters emotionally connecting) when Tui is given the page space ("screen time"?) to have that. Like I've said before, I think characters are Tui's strong suit, they just tend to get squeezed in between the plot, and plot is not as much her strong suit.

In regards to Umberry... I hope something weird and spooky happens to COMPLICATE their love-at-first-sight fun. There must be something weird going on with how people are so drawn to Mulberry, right? The way the word "special" kept being repeated tripped my internal alarms.

[pangurbanourcat]

Is it translation error or does Wolf refer to himself in the third person in the Finnish dub

[pangurbanourcat]

I finally understand rabbit tropes

If you are a non-sentient rabbit, terrible awful things are about to happen to you. If you are a sentient rabbit, you are probably an asshole to some degree.

I think it's because they're perceived as being so innocent. This makes them simultaneously easy targets of thematic violence (you can show something is really bad by having it hurt a bunny, which stereotypically can't defend itself except by running away), and also really funny to make evil.

in real life of course rabbits are not very nice. they do actually defend themselves, by biting. but we love them all the same.

I miss you, Little-Bit...

[pangurbanourcat]

regarding the scene where Kinkajou says that she wants the Jade Winglet to be the second coming of the dod

each of the characters Kinkajou sees as an equivalent to one of the dod have a fundamentally opposite trait to that dod member. @thenweatefivesoups made a post that made me realize those characters all have some direct connection to each other as well

here are specifically the characters who were present (in the scene where Kinkajou says the line about being the second coming of the dragonets) at the beginning of their character arcs

-Turtle

is cowardly and hates to rock the boat to a fault

vs Tsunami who is brash and reckless and just does whatever she wants

siblings

-Kinkajou

believes she has a great destiny

cheerful to a manic level

vs Glory who long believed she was insignificant because that's what the guardians told her, and is depressive

close friends after Glory rescued her, Glory is Kinkajou's idol

-Qibli

(Doesn't seem like he's opposite to Sunny but hear me out)

Desperately wants to be important but does not believe he is

Others see him as being more competent than he feels he is

vs Sunny who has always had complete faith that she is (and the other dod are) important, others see her as far less competent than she is

Thorn's kids

-Moon

On first interaction others view her as meek and unimportant, but of course she has psychic powers

makes decisions with her heart

vs Starflight who is initially expected to act like a Superpowered Nightwing (when everyone thought NighWings had powers) but has no powers. Thinks through things logically.

I don't remember how good he is at intuiting the intentions of others. It would fit if he was good at that because Moon isn't.

mentor relationship that thenweatefivesoups mentioned in the above post

interestingly to me...

Umber has the direct connection to Clay, but the Jade Winglet member who was present in the aforementioned scene and who is in direct opposition to Clay is Winter.

-Winter

Does not want to rely on other people or be close to his friends

Is Winter (personality wise)

vs Clay who is Clay (personality wise) and is extremely close with his friends

They were both raised as weapons, but Clay was scared of meeting that expectation whereas Winter was scared of not meeting it.

They are both self-sacrificial.

Their relationship to each other is tangential, through their sisters.

[pangurbanourcat]

I really hope Caine's not dead but I know in my heart it will have more emotional weight if it's just "nope, he's gone." Same with the characters escaping the circus. I want them to but I have a sinking feeling...