echo echo

not siobhan fully breaking brennan by solving this riddle over the course of mere minutes

bonus:

This kind of bullshit needs be banned from Connections immediately, fr, Siobhan was right

This kind of bullshit needs be banned from Connections immediately, fr, Siobhan was right

A house on the edge of Scrapsylvania.

Okay so ramble about my headcanons for scrapsylvania incoming (i haven’t watched the first cloho episode since it came out which was 11 months ago so if i get any canon facts wrong please correct me)

What i remember is emily describing it as being like the giant trash islands in the ocean but with scrap metal instead of plastic and with mainly trash from a war between two continents. Also everyone has to make do with very little cause their entire city is built on scraps, with little access to resources. Besides that it’s definitely taking a lot of inspiration from czechia / eastern europe with details on both marya and ludmila’s outfits, and with marya, ludmila, kočka and straka all being czech names or words.

So what i am imagining is that there used to be a little fishing town/settlement in what was basically czechia if it had a coast (so YES i have taken inspiration from norwegian fishing villages here cause if you give me the chance to project parts of my life onto marya, i will) but when the war happened and these huge giant masses of trash and metal got washed ashore it poisoned the ground and a lot of people starved and died.

Those who remained and maybe including a few war refugees from said giant war, rebuilt as best they could, on top of the scrap heaps, with walkways and houses built from whatever they could find. So most of the people in scrapsylvania now live in very dense housing in what’s basically the city centre, kinda reminiscent of the slum districts in manila philippines. As they have to live close to the water since fishing is the only food source they still can rely on if they go far enough out at sea.

Of course they are still building up the city and the houses get better the more time goes on. Out from the city centre houses are more spread. Marya’s toyshop exists north towards the hills. To the west, at the edge of the scrap heaps, some old wooden houses still stand from before the war. And now as enough time has passed, grass is beginning to grow again. So some people are moving out there. (Considering this house being Ludmila’s house maybe?). Marya is definitely from the city tho, the only wildlife she saw as a kid was crows, as they’re one of the few living things left in this place. There’s also very little vegetation in the city itself.

Under is a very rough draft of a map of the city

Green: what used to be farmland/countryside, mostly dead and empty now apart from a few remaining houses from before. Grass is starting to come back.

Brown: giant heaps of scrap metal and other trash

Gray: densely populated areas, houses built from scrap

I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful—a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.

hmm. hmmmmmmmm.

I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci Thee hath in thrall!’

kings and princes, indeed?