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Aedion Ashryver is a hell of a character. Change my mind.

Aedion Ashryver is an absolute emotional and moral powerhouse of the entire series.

The guy:

is loyal to the point of pain – literally and emotionally. In "QoS" when he knew he would be sentenced to death but still he wanted to die on his own terms and damn it, he almost succeeded! His determination to die with dignity, on his own terms, without mercy, without self-pity, without begging – THAT'S CHARACTER. He knew he had broken the rules of Adarlan. And seriously – he was one step away from leaving with such a bang that only Aelin could stop him at the last moment and change the course of history. And Aelin entered this scene. He had already accepted his fate. He wanted to die like a hero, but he is still alive and our beloved S J Maas allows him to be ridden even more. Now he has to live, fight, love, fail, torment himself… and grow as a human being. Because life is a harder road than death.

Carries tons of trauma with pride and jokes on his lips. 14 years old taking part in a historic battle? Put on his CV. Orphanhood and loss of family? No problem. Despite this, he still listened to others and acted for his beloved cousin even though he didn't know if she was alive at all, he was willing to die for her even before he knew she was alive,

created an internal, silent resistance movement before it was fashionable: LOSS

didn't have time to enjoy time his beloved cousin who definitly will makes his hair turn gray

lost his Blood Oath, Aelin,unknowingly, deprived him of the only dream he had for himself and despite everything he was proud to fight alongside Rowan, even though Aedion himself is a fucking legend

turns out that his mixed heritage is not just a part of his blood but actually half of it! And that from a warrior he's a fan of

met his Old Man, one of the last people connected to him by blood but hated him for leaving his Mother

unconscious humiliation by his beloved Aelin at the end of "EoS" That wasn't a plan. It was a continuation of his trauma - dressed up as "reason". And that with a woman he started to feel something for. Because let's be clear: he didn't want to be the "solution". He wanted to be loved. And what did he get? Duty. Again.

He deserves his own whole trilogy. He wanted to be loved unconditionally and once again he became a sword.

Sarah, for fuck's sake, give him his own book 🐺💔

The Old Guard (comics + movie) Comprehensive Timeline

Edit: 14 July 25- updated to comply with TOG 2

I spent way too much time spent researching the comics one night resulting in this, my TOG magnum opus, including every confirmed event up until the beginning of the first movie. If there's anything I missed let me know. This is mostly for my own purposes, but absolutely feel free to use it for your own fics/art/meta/etc

Also thank you @yumekuimono for the putting together the photographs on Copley's hyperfixation board, which inspired me to make this.

It's long, so it's all under the cut. Enjoy!

#tog #the old guard #tog meta #the old guard meta #tog timeline #the old guard timeline

(Enjoy my drawing of what I think Vaughan looks like)

One of the many things that facinates me about the Cadre is the potential within their inter-personal relationships. Now, admittedly I'm going to be getting into a Lot of my personal HCs about the Cadre's history and place as a part of Maeve's court, especially Vaughan since there is quite literally nothing about him except that he's a sea bird and is a master of not confronting the issue (U go girl, give us nothing to work with) so, this is not to be taken as just an interpertation of canon (though there will be some of that), but as my personal "what I wish we got."

Alright, with that disclaimer over, the Cadre is *old.* Canonically, Gavriel is it's oldest living member at about 600 years old, but by no means is he treated as it's founder. He was not the first bloodsworn, and as a fairly prominent character, especially in relation to Aedion who IS the founder of his own unit, the Bane, I feel it would have been mentionned or alluded to if that were the intention. So, the Cadre is old as BALLS. My guess is that they were formed during the first vlag conquest, and thus the original members of the Cadre would have been contemporaries of Brannon Galathynius and Athril.

#throne of glass #ToG #ToG meta #art #Don't get me started on the twins and how they would fit into this #I could write a whole other essay on it #lorcan salvaterre #vaughan tog #Gavriel Tog #Rowan Whitethorn #Cadre

FUCK IT TOWER OF GOD LOVE POST TIME

The series is so so so good for being running for 14 years, with weekly COLOR CHAPTERS DO YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND HOW BIG A DEAL THAT IS?!

And the story has been so consistent with the plot, the most impressive thing abt TOG is how crazy the plot is. That there’s still so many plot twists THAT ARE DONE WELL, that the plot is linear even after this many years and the escalation of events makes actual sense

Bam becoming more morally grey as time goes on is also really well done i think, Bams character makes me uncomfortable at times but I also cant fault him for it either cuz we see in real time WHY he changes. Its not like w Khun and Endorsi where the reasons for how cynical their characters are happened before entering the tower. Their moral codes are defined when we meet them, where as Bam’s is the one literally being made as we watch him. He has the naïve understanding of a child since he grew up knowing nothing beyond what Rachel taught him and he’s taught that the world is grey by being thrown into the deep end. He’s literally taken by the Mafia/FUG, taught that his friends lives depend on him and him alone so yeah no wonder he also ends up developing a possessive streak too

I liked that in season 3 Endorsi’s character is developed more and we see beyond her fascination w Bam, I just especially liked the showcase of Endorsi knowing Khun and Bam well enough to know what their next move is and Endorsi standing up for Bam and showing Lilial that the world is bigger than the Lo Po Bia’s.

I liked that we actually saw Bam stressed abt Khun and Rak being killed and actually seeing it happen in real time as every time Khun was killed before, Bam is only there for the aftermath.

I liked the confirmation the moment of Urek realizing Bam is from the Outside and telling him that the Tower actually is NOT Bam’s problem and he has EVERY right to leave if he wants to.

And yall dont need to get me started on how much I love Bam and Yuri’s relationship that to me reads as doting older sister w OP baby brother who is AWARE of how doting said sister is.

I love the unhealthiness that exists in Khun and Bam’s relationship AND THE FACT THAT IT IS MUTUAL

THE HUG HOW CAN I NOT MENTION THE HUG

I love the moment Hwaryun breaks her know all characters briefly to actually warn Bam for once that she might be taking him down a route that he could even resent her for. That might be the first and only time we see Hwaryun actually show that she does care about Bam and her relationship with him, that it matters to her at all cuz all this time she firmly emphasizes that she does things because Bam is her ‘God’.

#tower of god webtoon #tower of god #tog #the 25th bam #hwaryun #khun aguero agnes #endorsi jahad #yuri ha #yuri ha jahad #jinsung ha #rak wraithraiser #siu #tog meta

don't worry I very much continue to be on my TOG linguistics bullshit. today's installment: what is Nile's hieroglyph

The English name Nile and the Arabic names en-Nîl and an-Nîl both derive from the Latin Nilus and the Ancient Greek Νεῖλος. Beyond that, however, the etymology is disputed. Homer called the river Αἴγυπτος, Aiguptos, but in subsequent periods, Greek authors referred to its lower course as Neilos; this term later became generalized for the entire river system. Thus, the name may derive from Ancient Egyptian expression nꜣ rꜣw-ḥꜣw(t) (lit. 'the mouths of the front parts'), which referred specifically to the branches of the Nile transversing the Delta, and would have been pronounced ni-lo-he in the area around Memphis in the 8th century BCE. (source)

the mouths of the front parts hehehe >:) alternate literal translations include the naked mouth (hehehehe), the mouth of the neighborhood, and my personal favorite: the mouth of abundance

our abundant Nile ✨

none of the hieroglyphs for those are especially pretty though, and our Nile's an emoji user, she doesn't need the etymology to be flawless, she needs her icon to be iconic. so I present to you:

nꜥrt conventional anglicization: naret a sacred tree

the main shape is the tree heiroglyph: 𓆭 supported by a throwing stick: 𓌙 and a loop of rope: 𓍲

the throwing stick is thought to be one of the hieroglyphs that were borrowed and transformed to become the Phoenician alphabet, specifically gimmel, which went on to become Hebrew ג‎, Arabic ﺝ‎, Greek gamma Γγ, and eventually English Gg.

g as in gulp. y'know, that thing Booker does whenever he thinks about drinking from the sacred, abundant Nile >:)

#nile freeman #linguistics #tog meta #tog #mine

There’s no way Dorian is not immortal, or at least capable of making himself immortal. I refuse to even consider it.

You’re telling me, the human boy more powerful than any living Fae in the known world, whose powers can match (and daresay overpower) the Demi-fae heir of Mala, is somehow perfectly human??? All that power and might, condensed into a mortal body when he inherited it from a Demi-fae herself some thousand years ago.

Aelin having all that power in a partially fae body, who could shift forms since birth, and destined to settle by her twenties, and yet the only person who could match that might unquestionably…is an untrained mortal boy barely older than her.

No. There’s no way he’s purely human. Either those Fae genes are gonna wake up at some point, or all that magic will keep him young. Sure, he has less magic than he did before the Lock. But what remained, if trained the way Aelin was trained, I daresay is still more powerful than even Rowan.

#tog #throne of glass #tog meta #does that count as meta #dorian havilliard #tog spoilers

I think the term, “flaws” as a necessity for writing well-rounded fictional characters is often misunderstood. It can lead to new writers thinking these flaws should be in a laundry list alongside their OCs hobbies, eye color, and favorite food.

All of the above traits shouldn’t exist in a vacuum. They all need to serve the story in some way, usually by illustrating plot, character, or themes in a way that enhances the story.

Saying a character’s flaw is that they’re “clumsy” isn’t really a flaw unless this trait stands between them and what they want in a meaningful way. Being clumsy is an obstacle for a dancer, or for a teenager who will be socially judged and derided in a meaningful way to the story. Even still, it’s a somewhat shallow and overused flaw.

What got me thinking about this is the fanfic characters I tend to enjoy writing are flawed people. The more flawed, the better.

I struggled to write Nicky and Joe in The Old Guard because they don’t really have any flaws. They’re never stupid, or selfish, or awkward, or mean. I couldn’t really write them until I wrote a story where the plot is that one of them gets returned by amnesia to his pre-character development Crusader self, back when he was prejudiced, quick to anger, and provincial in his world view. Then I had somewhere to go with them.

By contrast, Newt and Hermann from Pacific Rim are riddled with flaws, and it made them not only popular characters, but a blast to write. They’re rude, loud, snarky, selfish, self-involved, self-important, arrogant, and mean. They’re also both sincerely trying to save the world and willing to sacrifice themselves to do it if necessary. It makes them a wonderful mass of contradictions and it makes them feel like real people.

And recently I wrote about my desire to write Dream and Hob from Sandman as more like their comic selves, with all the rough edges and taciturn misanthropy and selfishness and rudeness that implies. I don’t want to write perfect people.

I saw a post that imagined Hob as passionate about returning artifacts stolen by the English to their country of origin. It was a very sweet post and fun, don’t get me wrong. But as a perverse creature, my first thought was, “Ok, but what if he wasn’t? What if he, as a former bandit and soldier for the Crown, wasn’t in favor of the artifacts being returned? What if he was the opposite?”

Now to be clear, I think it’s more in character for the brief glimpse of the Teacher Hob we see for him to be more worldly, more in favor of repatriation. I genuinely think that take is probably more accurate to the character.

That’s not the point.

The point is that I think one way to avoid creating these sort of perfect shiny soft characters with all the rough edges sawed off is to ask, “Ok but what if they didn’t do the right thing here?”

What if they don’t have perfect, up to date progressive political views on all possible topics? What if they weren’t always altruistic? What if they don’t always say just the right thing to their lover when that person is feeling down? What if they have moments where they’re stupid, selfish, insensitive, prejudiced, rude, awkward, or off-putting?

Personally, I think that’s how you get more interesting characters, who are more like real people and, more importantly, have room to grow or sometimes not grow in a way that better serves your story.

#Maggie rambles #writing #sandman meta #tog meta #pacific rim meta

Another day, another round of "Booker should've never been mad at Nicky and Joe amidst his grief!" bullshit that once again centers all this shit on Nicky and Joe when it's not about them.

Grief is a monster. It digs its claws in you in ways that leave unimaginable scars. And losing a child is a *far* different monster than losing family or losing friends. I recently lost my dad and, while the grief was overwhelming, the thought of losing my son is earth shattering. Losing a child upsets the natural order of things and, if you listen to anyone who has lost a child talk about it, it's a pain that never heals. Not after five years. Not after ten years. Not after twenty or thirty.

And Booker had to do it not once, but three times.

And Jean-Pierre, his youngest and last son, dies at 42 years old. The same age Booker was when he suffered his first death. He dies of cancer in a time where there is no treatment, no way to ease his pain. Jean-Pierre dies a horrible, slow death and Booker has to watch it, knowing that his son hates him with every fiber of his body. There is no reconciliation, no forgiveness, no closure.

And that wound inside his soul bleeds. And bleeds. And bleeds. Because there is no way to heal. Grief ebbs as time passes and you're able to try and move on with your life, but when time has stopped at a stand-still for Booker? There is no way to move on.

We can see the complete and utter devastation on Andy's face when Quỳnh is simply mentioned, and this is 300 years after losing her. The pain that Booker is carrying around from the loss of his sons, after a little more of half that time? Unimaginable.

Joe and Nicky got off light. And it's not about them. Because, as Booker correctly pointed out, they had each other.

All he had was his grief.

#the old guard #tog meta #sebastien le livre #I'm so tired of people who do not have kids brushing off Booker's grief and I'm not gonna shut up about it #y'all are WRONG and I will continue saying it until y'all get it through your heads.