The play may be over, but the show goes on

I think this would be an incredible parallel to Bolaire and the desperation and confusion that comes with not being in control of whether you exist or not. When they are in places with thinner veils where Thjazi's soul itself can create a shadow to occupy, he's more tempered, he is in control of his "body" but in situations like going into the Eternal Night, Thjazi would've suddenly found himself in the dark surrounded by shades again, like on the night of the Davinos Massacre.

Thjazi was there in Julien's shadow by then and he didn't act even with the circle of death stuff thinning the veil, likely because he was in shock and then Julien was doing exactly what Thjazi would've done. Done his best to kill Primus and then IMMEDIATELY find Aranessa and make sure she's safe. Thjazi would die for Aranessa and to make sure this ritual that Primus was attempting didn't work, so he's fucked up but the lack of control isn't so awful, but then he's thrown into the middle of it in the Eternal Night night when Julien lights that torch and Thjazi panics. WHERE is Aranessa? FIND her. Imagine suddenly waking up in your worst nightmare and your wife's favourite cousin is SWARMED by undead, what do you do? Yoink that fucker by the first part of him you can reach and RUN.

In the manor, the torchlight and gloom gave Thjazi a lot of freedom. He could ask Julien if he wanted to go save Teor and put Julien's dad to rest, and he can respect that it's Julien's decision because it's Julien's life and Julien's dad. Then Hannan got rid of the gloom, and the only light to cast Thjazi's shadow body was the lightning that Thjazi has to act on NOW or NEVER, and it's THIMBLE and then Thimble's best friend stops him and the next lightning strike, Thjazi doesn't try it again.

Then in Hal's, they suddenly throw a spotlight on Julien and they say nothing, then Bolaire goes in with the one thing they have in hand that can really fuck up his shadow and he panics and nearly hurts someone the same way and for the same reasons as Bolaire, and nearly hurts someone close to Hal and the Theatre like Thjazi was so threatening to Bolaire about, and he doesn't try to force Julien's body anywhere to show Hal he's there because he's fucked up and in the most disorienting of positions and maybe only realized what exactly was happening by reading that letter in Koral's room, but he could tell that time he moved Julien's body, and he doesn't want to do that even to comfort his brother.

me and the devil

The [OG] Schemers, Soldiers, and Seekers, but drawn as pokemon 🕺

Just. A fun thought idea.

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

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I'm looking forward to Kattigan going to the remains of the Orchard. It could be that Kattigan and Marienna were tenants of someone under House Royce, as opposed to owning the land in Emeri themselves. Or it could be that Marienna herself had a connection that Kattigan did not share despite being her husband (my personal theory is that she was a faerie of some sort.) Kattigan's account of what happened to his family could have simply been buried under a mountain of other things—the doors to Faerie had recently closed when Marienna and Esme vanished, and both of Aranessa's parents died between the rebellion and the campaign.

She spent years as a paper doll, a loyal acolyte of Sylandri. In that community it was normal to manipulate people and lie by omission to keep them close to you; it was normal to be selective with information so you could shape and control people's choices.

Vaelus invited Hannan to the theatre half because she wanted his company and half because she wanted his help if things went wrong at the play. She was being both genuine AND manipulative: she got Hannan to do what she wanted with a lie by omission, by not telling him that they knew where Mara was. If she'd told him, Hannan would've had the opportunity to choose between going to the theatre or Obramis Manor. She didn't tell him, so he didn't get to make a fully informed choice.

Thimble's like, entire flaw is that she's a hypocrite. Like she gets it but doesn't apply it equally unless asked to, and when she has to be asked to she is reluctant unless given justification. And now that she has no single person to just blindly follow and no revenge to throw herself headlong into to pretend that isn't true, she's gonna have to deal with the fact that she was there for all the moments Bolaire has to tell her about "how horrible" Thjazi was and with Kattigan there, especially considering he saw this hypocrisy on this trip, I hope that means she has someone who will press her assumptions the right way. Like, she took so long just to ask Kattigan why he left and just assumed he told no one, but she never asked Teor where his best friend went? Like, I used to assume she had asked and Teor refused to answer but Teor wouldn't make Kattigan out to be a deserter because he was going to go be a dad like Hal. And she didn't ask before Teor died, so what's she gonna do about asking Teor why Kattigan left now?