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[finalgirlagatha]

Normally, I'm a keian anon, but let's switch it up today. What thoughts do you have for Chaddick?

LOVE chaddick in a worrying way. i really do think he is so stupid in the first two books of course but he is so so fascinating to me especially in the context of the Camelot years. i think positioning him and rhian as opposites, foes, whatever, rhian is his replacement explicitly and it's so interesting to me that they both come from the same place, are both pretty faced idiots bred to be side-kicks (per hort) but go about their paths in such different ways. of course they had the difference of origin, but chaddick rebelled against tedros in the second, his king, fought for what was good in the third, but eventually did succumb to his fate and died due to his loyalty. rhian defied his foxwood fate repeatedly, believing he was entitled to the crown, and died at the hand of who was supposed to be loyal to HIM. they could never be intellectual enemies, rhian is playing 4d chess with everyone, but i do think they have interesting positioning as foxwood lads who both took each other's side. also... was anyone else irked when tedros said rhian was better like bro he just DIED... for your kingdom... lets read the room here.

also i think it's so interesting that chaddick's weapon of choice is not a sword, or a spear, he's not fighting in the middle of the field, he's an archer, he's sharp eyed and observant and has great aim. there's also the angle of looking at it like he didn't want to reheat tedros nachos w the sword but i like to think he's really observant and intelligent in that way and provides support from a distance. and he has a potenial for everness. it's easy to stereotype chaddick as a dumb jock because of how he is in the first book but ive always liked to read more into characters and i really still believe he is wrestling with an intense form of internalized homophobia and was infatuated with ravan which i kind of talk about in this post... rereading my own posts like so real omg. i also say that chaddick and kei are poisoned by loyalty and i think thats true. i think they'd hate each other though they would hate seeing these traits of themselves in other people. mannn i really loved chaddick though love what he could have been if he was explored but alas... he succumbs to his fate as side-kick. and i lament the scraps.

speaking of scraps this reminded me i had some wips centered around him </3 rereading them was a lot of fun maybe one of these days ill pick them back up!

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[girlfriendyuki]

Shokohime??!(

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i loveee shoko and i really like utahime but i feel like they've become the last resort wlw ship due to satsosugu. this makes the ship the token wlw ship and rather bland in deciptons of them. i do like the idea of them but their portrayal doesn't really do it for me. maybe it's because i don't have a good grasp on utahimes character! I will admit I haven't formed much of an opinion of her outside of fanon, which is always a shit thing to do. but in the long haul Im not the biggest fan

[finalgirlagatha]

rate them on the homophobic scale from 1-10: chaddick, sophie, rhian, beatrix, tedros, kei, and agatha

WAITT this is fun. going off what i think from the books but also all of these characters are gay to me and i don't trust soman a single bit so. we do our best here.

chaddick: 8/10... something internalized going on there for sure. and externalized of course i didn't forget that 'fruit boy' comment from awwp.

Sophie: 7/10 i feel like until she realized the grip her village had in defining how she views sexuality, gender, and her own attraction to femininity she would definitely be the type of straight girl who thinks every lesbian is in love with her. she rejects masculinity in women because it's so unnerving to her she'd be the type to say "well if there's women like that what will the guys do? no one will want them." and then not realize. (lesbian sophie you will never die TO ME).

rhian: 9/10 i think he'd be like Sophie thinking every gay man is in love with him and he likes the attention but judging by the fallout out of jaric (which. fair) i think he'd hold some prejudice and even repulsion. "like have you even tried to kiss a girl though." and then if we dive into the layers of him and kei i think he'd refuse to look past the surface level of "he's my head of guard of course i need and love him don't be delusional. that's literally my dog." so. however there is something super interesting about how he introduced lionsmane as a literal deviation from the typical narrative of the storian favoring the rich and powerful hetero-patriarchal fairytales. it was a means to secure power but there is something there.

beatrix: 6/10 has been homophobic will not be again? came out? awwp is a hot garbage mess but I think that her liberation induced by the hands of Agatha and Sophie choosing each other was a big game changer for her. i've talked about this before but she definitely was in love with Agatha upon her return. beatrix was ready to go, her facade from the head ever girl went away with the snap of the finger. so i think the homophobia (which of course in the text was never quite homophobia but was also defined as forcing this hetero-patriarchy standard and the status quo) was just tool of that facade. it was real, but i don't think it was deep seated in her mind like these other things. beatrix is soo fascinating actually because YES awwp is so fucked up and stupid but to see her pursue a future without a prince with the same force as she endeavored to catch Tedros attentions in the first book shows how radical that was for her. NO MOM, A PRINCE WAS YOUR DREAM. and etc.

tedros: 6/10 this boy is bisexual 🙏 but he is not immune to the years of frat boy mentality heaping up from his dad and the other everboys.

kei: 7/10 he's gay but i don't think he's an ally... let me explain. i think that sexuality is just another tool to him to further the advances of rhian who is like. front and foremost in his mind. i'm referring to his manipulation of dot (and if you want to make it a little more interesting and relevant, tedros). also calling aric a monster in acot is super interesting.... drawing the lines there, huh. i see you.

agatha: 0/10. to put it shallowly, in my experience lonely weird girls are so sweet and accepting. to put it deeply, agatha grew up rejected by her village so she has a level of solidarity with those also rejected for not conforming. she didn't grow up in a house headed by a man, her mother was in charge and she doesn't really have that gavaldon hetero-patriarchy ideology baked in her like sophie does. my sexuality headcanon for Agatha fluctuates between bi or lesbian but she is definitely not straight (unless it's for a gag about canon!agatha). do you guys remember edgar and hester. yeah.... i got to reread that scene idk why that just popped in my head.

thank you for this ask!

[finalgirlagatha]

Rhian thinking every gay guy is in love with him and liking the attention... please speak further on this

jsjsjs i just think rhian is always presenting himself in a very purposeful way, we saw this especially when he was tricking tedros and sophie and the whole gang, and then when he took the throne. everything is a performance to him, and i'm inclined to think he views it as a victory when people fall for his veneer. he likes control, he likes results, he likes attention. he'd never let himself indulge any further than the knowing. also he's delusional

[finalgirlagatha]

what songs would you put on an Agatha playlist?

i love this ask!! i think i did have an Agatha playlist a while back but i can't find it now 😔 regardless, definitely these bangers

careful by paramore

i know it's over by whatever version you'd like... they're all good to me

bros by wolf alice

nineteen by hayley williams

it hurts until it doesn't by mothers

boyish by japanese breakfast

evil by nadine shah

drew barrymore by sza

nice out by kilo kish

attention politician by kilo kish

There are so many more I could think of but that would be too much... i hope these suffice!

[finalgirlagatha]

im so glad you were disappointed with the pjo show too!! It really upsets me because it feels like no good at adoption can exist without completely changing the original work :/ same goes for the upcoming avatar show

I'm so sorry it took me so long to answer this the fucking avatar show is already out 😭😭 but yes!! ugh to me it just shows a decline in writing quality and effective narrative writings where the show is more focused on it's reception rather than having a good plot line. like these shows are trying sooooo hard to appeal to a new audience and think that cleansing the story of any previous nuances is the way to do that. like the sge movie, pjo series, and avatar live action these adaptions do not trust themselves to be good enough to keep an audience while portraying less than angelic characters so they scrub the entire things clean, wipe the page. i miss shitty characters who do shitty things!! if I want to root for saints ill do that, but I want interesting and complex characters! unfortunately modern television does not think it's audience is smart enough to receive these characters without fucking... cancelling the show/ movie or whatever. I'm sick of it!!!!

[finalgirlagatha]

What is your favorite SGE ship? Is is Keian?

Also, which is your least favorite?

omg im so sorry it took so long to answer this!! no it's not keian, I like them a lot though! I like nicphie a lot, I've written things that are more intimate and personal for them but I also really like agaster agatrix anatrix etc etc. I don't really have a favorite (mostly cause i lean towards rare pairs for the fun of it lmao). I think it's cause soman writes relationships really weird, to me at least. I know agaphie will never happen but they will always have a soft place in my heart for helping young me realize they're literally me... but my least favorite is j*ric you cannot talk me into that one 💀💀