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Homecoming

Like he's genuinely terrifying. I mean so are Adam and Amon but they have had hundreds of thousands of years to gain the power they have.

Klein has been at it for less then 2 years and he's making a demigod of the spectators pathways walk into a trap unknowingly in his main domain.

At least he knows what he's doing.

BUT his reasoning is "I'm not so weak and can withstand even more horrific deaths and restorations now :D" is so fucking baffling. YOU ARE ABNORMAL SIR.

Genuinely how does he keep putting himself through this...

Something is so incredibly wrong with him. Wrong wrong wrong.

Lotm mer-may doodles that I have yet to color

Octo-Fool

Tuna & Fake Tuna Gehrman

Koi Audrey and Susie

Moray Eel Alger

Coelacanth Azik (extra bones for the fossil fish)

Vampire Squid Emlyn

so basically the idea is that sometimes after getting revenge on ince and joining the tarot club leonard decides to go visit his old colleague in Blackthorn

And after he goes there they all start reminiscing about Klein and the captain and kenley and old neil and rossane and Frye start talking about little things that Klein used to do like how squimish he was around dead bodies, or how cute and happy her used to get about cakes and how, despite priding himself of being a gentleman, used to be so obvious about his feelings, especially with how expressive he was (cause cmon face it, donghua Klein is very very expressive) and Leonard, who has been in corrospndance with Klein and actually knows him even now is very confused cause, no? Klein? Show expression? KLEIN?? Gun weilding, marrionette making blood thirsty terror of the seas Gehrman Fuckimg sparrow ??? No way

It was literally Leonard saying "Come back to me. Let's be pressed back to back, side to side. Partners though it all. Life and death."

And Klein slowly lowering Leonard's hands that had clenched on to his coat and going "To much has changed. No matter what I can't stand beside you or anyone anymore."

This is why Leonard being described as listless is so important to me personally. He was never described in such a manner before Klein's death. It's only after he begins grieving that he loses that spark.

Another important moment and description is after Klein tells him he's not coming back to the nighthawks Leonard starts talking about their power gap way more. Because suddenly it matters. Suddenly that distance isn't going to go away and their difference inability is making it even larger.

This is why the "Hall of Truth" scene is so important to me as well. It's a moment where Klein is physically unable to keep people at such a large distance and nothing bad happens in turn. And ignoring how much that is a big deal for Klein Leonard seems to actually regain a bit of his liveliness when that happens. He feels like he isn't listless anymore.

Because just for that moment in time in that grand mysterious place him and Klein are both uniquely small against something so powerful and therefore our once again close to each other.

I feel like if Leonard clearly knew how powerless Klein feels right now—

— that he wouldn't feel so far away from him. If Leonard knew that Klein is also a small dot in the eyes of the true gods he would be able to notice that the distance isn't as big as it feels.

I love them they aren't inherently doomed in my opinion It's just that both of their character flaws line up with Canon such a way that they can't truly reach each other despite having the ability to.

what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world

his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression

he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest

henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 

afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?

Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 

the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.