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Hi!! Quick question, out of pure curiosity... Are there literally only three teachers in NRC???
I certainly hope not š
NRC has a student population of ~800, and judging by the homeroom class sizes (20-30ish?) and numbers (A through E), there has to be more than just Crewel for sciences, Trein for humanities, and Vargas for physical education. If itās just those 3, that means they each take on 266 or 267 students at one time, and while that may work for very general introductory classes for freshmen, itās not as feasible for highly specialized upperclassmen courses. Those 3 may just be the āleadersā of their respective departments, sort of like department chairs at colleges.
Thereās so many elective classes and homerooms with instructors that are unaccounted forā¦ (Like, Crewel teaches Advanced Poison Making, but who here is teaching Music, Lucius?!) Itās just not logistically possible; there have to be supervising homeroom teachers for the different grade levels and classes because Crewel canāt be ALL of the homeroom teachers in multiple rooms at once.
We do know that a team of ghost chefs teach the Master Chef course, so maybe itās possible that ghosts help fill in for other teaching positions?? Ghosts also help out with other jobs around campus, such as being delivery people and handing out Vargas Badges during the boysā training camp. Alternatively, itās probably just a game limitation. It would be too taxing for the devs to make and implement a number of staff characters that is proportional to how many students NRC actually has so they have to default to reusing the ones that look unique.
I find it odd that we donāt have generic mob teachers or ever hear dialogue from someone labeled a āNRC teacherā though š¦ so maybe it really is ghosts doing everything elseā¦ It keeps Crowleyās costs low since ghosts donāt need things like food š
Iāve been watching through the Stitch event and thereās a bit of dialogue Lilia says that unfortunately made me Think, so I wanted to gather my babblings here.
This post contains spoilers for: Book 7, Tsumsted Wonderland 2, Lost in the Book with Stitch, Spectral Soiree/Endless Halloween, and Tamashina Mina
After spending the day fighting off Gantuās robots, scavenging for food, and exploring the island, the boys rest for a bit in an old cottage they found. Lilia wants to take the opportunity to spruce up the cottage and make it more resort-like while theyāre enjoying this āvacationā, and Riddle and Jack are both surprised and a bit peeved to hear him say this.
Riddle: Donāt you want to find a way off this island as soon as possible, Lilia Senpai? Malleus Senpai, Silver, and Sebekā¦ Everyone at Diasomnia must be worried sick about you right now. I should think youād want to assuage their concerns a tad bit faster!
Lilia: ā¦Thing is, I trust them.
Riddle: You trust them?
Lilia: Mm-hmm. Knowing them, no doubt they understand Iām safe and sound and having a good time right now. Malleus and the others know Iām not the type of guy whoād get in a pickle over something as trivial as this. And thatās because they know me very, very well ā just like family!
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Lilia: Itās truly wonderful having people in your life who trust you and wish the best for you - and for whom you do the same in return - no matter how far apart you may be.
When you take this dialogue and look at in isolation of this event, then itās a wonderful thing to hear Lilia say. He trusts his boys and they trust him - because theyāre family, and thatās what families do. Itās always great to hear the characters themselves acknowledge their strong bonds with each other, and I thought it was really cute how Stitch got so happy to hear Lilia talking about his Ohana.
But when you take what he said and consider the broader story of Twisted Wonderland (vignettes and events, included), and you consider other things heās said and done in the pastā¦ This dialogue just hurts.
Thereās been small moments here and there that made me think Lilia has kind of an unhealthy(?) or warped(?) view of love. Iām not sure what the best word for it is, but Iāve noticed that he doesnāt like people worrying over him, he doesnāt like emotional farewells/sappiness, and he really doesnāt like letting others see him when heās weak.Ā Additionally, he seems to value himself very little ā he doesnāt think people would be worried about him if he were in danger, or that people would be happy getting pictures of him, or that his departure in Book 7 would hurt those around him so much. Iāll go ahead and put examples for each point so you all can understand better what Iām trying to say.
He doesnāt like people worrying about him
We can see this partly from the quote this whole post is based on, as well as from Book 7.
Based on his conversation with Riddle, Liliaās way of thinking appears to be:
If someone trusts me -> that means they wouldnāt worry about me
As well as:
If someone worries about me -> that means they donāt trust me
But we do worry about the people we love and care about, donāt we? We worry about our spouses getting home safely from a business trip, and our kids making friends at school, and our friends acing the interview theyāve been practicing for because we love them, donāt we? And because we want the best for them. But it doesnāt seem like Lilia thinks the same way.
And to add onto this point, itās very clear the boys do worry about Lilia a lot, contrary to what Lilia claims. Due to Liliaās departure, Malleus brought a snowstorm to the island in his sadness, Silver considered dropping out of school and leaving with his father, only to end up breaking down and crying in front of their crown prince of all people, and Sebek used his one wish to make Lilia be healthy and have him stay with Silver forever. They were all worried terribly about him in their own ways, but it doesnāt seem like Lilia ever noticed (or maybe he did, and just didnāt want to bring it up for some reason. Who knows.)
At any rate, he also gets mad (well, more like tsundere lol) at Silver when the boy was on the verge of tears after Lilia took a nasty hit for him. (I know this exchange occurred with General Vanrouge, and he was quite the asshole back then, but heās still retained that dislike for people worrying over him.)
Lilia: Oh, would you quit it with the sniveling. I drank the potion, didnāt I? I just to rest for a little bit, and then Iāll be good as new.
He doesnāt like emotional farewells/sappiness
He exhibits his distaste of sappiness in Book 7 and the Welcome to Tsumsted Wonderland 2 event. In the latter, when everyone is saying goodbye to their tsums, he mentions he doesnāt like the gloomy atmosphere. He wants goodbyes to be happy (and most likely, free of any emotional weight). The same can be said in Book 7, when he wholeheartedly agrees to the going away party the students wanted to put on for him, as well as when Silver mentions his father had wanted them all to send him off with a smile. Iām not sure if Lilia just doesnāt enjoy people getting serious with their emotions towards him, or if he doesnāt like seeing it in general. It gives me Macho Man (tm) vibes, kind of? Like, ādonāt let people see you cry and feel sad because then you look weakā kind of thing but idk.
Lilia:Ā Farewells are certainly sorrowful, but I hate leaving things on such a gloomy note. Letās keep our chins up until the end. Tsum, your ability to surprise others was exceptional, and you made today so much fun. So long!
He really doesnāt like letting others see him when heās weak
Thereās still a lot of loose ends to be resolved in Book 7, one of them being the full extent of Liliaās motives for wanting to leave so suddenly. It does seem to be heās telling the truth that his magic ran out early, since he couldnāt muster up enough strength to fight back against Malleus when he was about to Overblot, but we donāt know if the real reason for that is just because he āwent a little to wildā in his youth, like he claimed, or if something else caused his magic to deplete so prematurely. But we did hear him reveal a little bit of his motives when he was talking to Floyd at the party.
Floyd was dismayed he never got a chance to fight Lilia, and he wished he couldāve seen Lilia go all out at least once. When he asks Lilia why heās dropping out, Lilia says under his breathe that he didnāt want āthemā to see him so weak.
Lilia (whispering to himself):Ā ā¦Itās because I didnāt want them to see me so feeble.
Regardless of why his magic ran out and why he wants to go the Land of Red Dragons of all places, we know part of the reason for his departure is because he doesnāt want Malleus and the others to see how far heād fallen from his former military glory. (sidebar: I have a feeling he thought heād be a burden on Silver and co. with him losing his magic, and he was trying to leave so quickly to escape his shame towards his rapid loss of strength and independence (I imagine since heās a magical being who comes from a country that runs on magic, him losing his powers must feel very isolating and limiting, like heās lost a lot of the control he used to have over his own life).)
He doesnāt think people would be worried about him if he were in danger
In Endless Halloween/Spectral Soiree, Lilia was surprised by how much Silver and the others had been worrying about him and Malleus when they disappeared. Interestingly, even though Lilia is the one that Silver was the most relieved to see (itās hard to tell with the live 2d models, but it looked like he went up to hug? Lilia and Lilia slapped his hand away), Lilia later says āI didnāt think youād be so worried about us.ā (referring to himself and the others involved with the party shenanigans).
(I am aware they changed this line to āI didnāt think youād be so worried about meā In TWST EN, but Iām just focusing on the JP version).
I just found it weird that even though Silver was very clearly worried about Lilia the most, Lilia kind of redirected Silverās concern over from āLiliaā to āLilia and everyone elseā. Did it make him uncomfortable to hear Silver was that worried about him? Iām not sure, but it just stood out to me as being a little strange how he responded, and how surprised he was that his own son would get worried about him suddenly disappearing.
He didnāt think people would be happy getting pictures of him
At the end of Liliaās Tamashina Mina vignette, Yuu stops by Diasomnia to give him some photos heād taken of Lilia on their trip, and Sebek, Silver, and Malleus are delighted to see them, since itās not often they get to see photos of Lilia. Lilia is surprised at how happy they are to receive those pictures of himself. But why wouldnāt they be happy? They love him and treasure him dearly, of course theyād be overjoyed to have pictures of him to remember him by. Itās like he thought they wouldnāt care about him that much, which is really bizarre, considering the whole āeven if weāre not related by blood weāre still familyā thing he told Malleus before.
Lilia: To think, youād all be so delighted just to see some pictures of me. I never wouldāve imagined youād all react like this.
He didnāt think his departure in Book 7 would hurt those around him so much
This relates back to what I mentioned in the first point, but thereās one scene that demonstrates this perfectly.
After Silver breaks down in front of Malleus, Malleus teleports both of them to Liliaās going away party. All eyes should have been on Malleus with how strangely he was acting, but the first thing Lilia honed in on was that Silver had been crying. And not only that, but Lilia looked surprised that Silver had been crying. And why wouldnāt he cry? The one person who formed Silverās entire world and sun and stars was about to leave him and go die all by himself on the other side of the planet. There is no reason Lilia shouldāve been surprised at Silverās tears, yet he was. And I gather thatās because he never thought the boy could ever possibly want to choose to stay by his side, to choose him over all the hopes and dreams heād burdened on the poor child from the moment he could walk, to choose him over his real friends and his real family members.
I hope when Lilia āwakes upā from his dream, the first he does is ask Silver what heād been crying about back at the party. And I pray to god they will actually talk things out and Lilia will finally apologize for how much of a complete idiot heās been acting.
My headacheās coming back so to wrap this up quickly, my current understanding of Lilia Vanrouge is that he either doesnāt realize just how loved and cherished he is by his family members, or that he does realize it and just pretends not to. If itās the latter, which is what I personally lean towards, I think he does this as a means to protect himself.
Heās already lost so many of his loved ones, and he very well may be putting up these walls around his heart and pushing away the people who love him just so he doesnāt have to get hurt again. We donāt know how he became an orphan, but his birth family either gave him up or passed away and left him behind. Even when Queen Maleficia took him in, he was always made the scapegoat for the princessās schemes, and it sounded like he was brought up more as Levan and Mallenoaās inferior than their equal. And then war struck their nation. And then his one best friend went missing and the other one probably gave up her life trying to protect the very child who'd go on to shatter the ice surrounding his wounded heart.
Perhaps with Malleus and Silver and Sebek now, he thought his best option would be to exit their lives before they had a chance to do the same to him, because he knew they would do the same to him. Everyone does.
As a final note, I still keep going to back to what he said in Caterās Halloween vignette. I think this one line sums up his views of love better than I ever could:
āBut the more precious a bond is, the more pain it can inflict.ā
Based on both decent and not so decent replies, I have made some changes to my original post below.
It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:
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No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. No, posting it online is not an open invitation for that. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity and just want to share. Don't ruin that for them.
Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.
There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.
For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.
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It's come to my attention that metaworks ARE allowed on AO3, which is something I wasn't aware of. So if you do post an essay or theory, please tag it as such so others can choose to search for it or exclude it.
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I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.
Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!
itās been two years, but i think that an icon like her deserves to be known about by more people.
her name was freddie oversteegen and she, at the age of fourteen, along with her older sister truus who was 16 and their friend johanna āhannieā schaft who was 19, was a part of the netherlands most famous all female resistance cell which was dedicated to fighting the nazis and dutch traitors.
among other things, they are known to have blown up bridges and railroads, smuggled jewish children from concentration camps and, as the tweet mentions, seducing nazis and then shooting them with guns that they had hidden in their bike baskets. freddie is quoted as having said that they āhad to do it.ā and that it was a ānecessary evil, killing those who betrayed good people.ā
though freddie and her sister truus were both lucky and survived the war, hannie schaft wasnāt. at the age of 24, hannie was caught and around three weeks later was executed by nazis, only 18 days before the netherlands were eventually liberated. she was shot with one only wounding her, and, before the final shot, hannie is quoted as having told the executioners: ik schiet beter, which translates to āi shoot better.ā
though she didnāt survive, hannie is recognized as a national icon and a face of the dutch resistance, with her story even being retold in a movie from 1981 called āthe girl with the red hair.ā along with this, truus also founded the national hannie schaft foundation in 1992, on which freddie served as a board member.
freddie, at the time of her death, was 92 years old and the last surviving member of the resistance cell, with truus having died two years earlier at the age of 92.
though these women and all that they did played an important part in the dutch resistance, they are often overlooked in history outside of the netherlands. itās important that they are remembered and that their work to save people isnāt forgotten. itās incredible what they did, especially given how young they were, and they deserve more recognition than what theyāve gotten.
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