Forest

tagged by: @auntarivia <3

tagging: @justpent @julia-beatrice @vibinggerb

rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite.

Idk what are my favourite characters of all time but here's few I have liked during my life from different sources

Wouuu how to choose which ones to put here uhhhh.....

+ Honorable mentions to: He Xuan (tgcf) , Snufkin (moomins), Nie Huaisang (mdzs), Grian (hermitcraft), Tecchou (bsd), Easthies (witch hat atelier) and Follo and Tamsy (gachiakuta)

WHAT MADE YOU SO AFRAID?

Magic is terrifying. Most of witch hat atelier is seeing our colorful cast of characters trying to reconcile their wonder of magic with the terror it begets. In pointy hat society, the fear of magic is ingrained into their very culture. However, Easthies’s fear seems to run deeper than that.

Why did he join the Knights Moralis? What informed his black and white morality? His unwavering devotion to the Pact?

My theory is that he had once drawn or been tempted to draw forbidden magic in the past.

Hear me out, the Knights Moralis do not need to draw their own spells. It’s the reason why they keep preloaded palm quires, pennants with medallions, and why their cloaks are so short. They don’t have to conceal their hands if they’re not drawing with them.

In a twitter illustration, Shirahama stated that Easthies stopped drawing magic altogether after joining the Knights.

machine TL: sketch: Easthies. Since Easthies joined the Knights Moralis, he stopped drawing magic, so he doesn't really care if his hair falls out and gets in the way. He is serious about the rules, but careless about his personal life.

Easthies is almost the perfect witch pointy hat society demands. He keeps the secret of magic, and his own secrets close to his chest. The fear of magic deeply ingrained in his mind.

But he does not create. He wipes the slate clean. He doesn’t experience the joy of creating art the way that this story hammers in as important to the human condition. He’s fond of magic but his fears of it won out unlike Coco.

Magic exists to make the world vibrant. Speaking of Coco, Easthies has a habit of targeting her. I don’t think this is wholly because of her being an Outsider, after all Easthies is able to set his rivalry with Qifrey aside with the lockscroll saga. So why the fixation on Coco?

With this theory in mind, Coco is a projection of his past self. Easthies is punishing her for his past mistakes, or for giving into temptation.

Throughout Silver Eve, Coco has been convincing the Three Wise to slowly break the Pact, and Easthies is worried that she’s doomed them all. For Easthies, Coco reveals the hypocrisy of witches, espousing the importance of keeping the Pact while seeking excuses to bend it to their will.

I finally got around to drawing them!! I'd like to comment on how amazing of a design this character is??!!!! Absolutely incredible

if you (as a creator or a fan) are uncomfortable with heterosexual ships but fine with ‘yaoi’, maybe you should reconsider your bias’ towards the legitimacy of being queer.

if you perceive nonbinary, (transgender, asexual, aromantic, queer and especially sapphic) as more pure, or incapable for sexual actions, maybe you should reconsider your bias’ towards the legitimacy of being queer.

and if you are still uncomfortable with the idea of shipping, straight or gay, something that has been around in all fandoms since their conception, then maybe you shouldn’t be looking in fandom spaces to begin with.

I am a normal person who understands thought crimes are not real, fiction is not reality, and people can read/write/enjoy whatever they want as long as it’s fiction and no one in real life is harmed. I don’t have to like it, because I know how to mute, block and scroll past what I don’t want to see. Overall I think labels are childish, but by definition I am proship and profic. I am also against censorship.