House of thoughts

fellow emerald duo enjoyers.😎

we know like four things about this woman and two of them are essentially just variations on the theme "she did not want her son to grow up in the culture she loathed"

none of them is her given name

she was the one with the family crest to pass down, apparently, and the surname, which is fascinating to me but I suppose Mages Are Weird About Naming is just one more thing about Worst Possible Magical Britain that we're meant to take for granted.

just... god. you give me a character who starts off in a tailspin after being told he cannot, in fact, fix the fucked up dystopia he wants to keep living and become (in)famous in and I get attached. you make it clear in supplemental material that his upbringing might be where that initial naive hope sprang from and I get stupid and go crazy.

there is a mother-shaped hole in his backstory. maybe it's more of a chalk outline. she only studied magic in order to honor her own mother and with no particular enthusiasm or desire to find the Root. I'm losing it.

Rocky was going to say "fans of PHM" but Grace panicked! 🏳️‍🌈

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

‘phil heard it in technos voice that he was tired of this “bit”, they’ve done this to tommy before, but right now it feels like overkill’

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