#6oc

If I had a nickel for every time a fandom I was in had a dark-haired comparatively skinny character that could be charitably described as creepy yet ends up a fandom heartthrob with an aesthetic they're entirely too dedicated to as part of a gimmick they invented to build fear who fell into crime at a very young age, had a sibling that died tragically young, trauma associated with sickness, an older male caretaker figure who died and set them on a path to take revenge for the circumstances that killed them by creating an entirely too convoluted plan in order to make their killer lose everything, have the notable canon event of recuing a member of their crew from slavery AND have been forced to spend time in a pile of corpses I would have two nickels and JESUS FUCK HOW DID IT HAPPEN TWICE

I actually love that we don’t get a wylan pov until crooked kingdom, because you go through pretty much all of the first book thinking it’s a story about a sweet, innocent, delicate little mercher’s boy who is, under the tutelage of a hardened criminal, learning to express his true self. And then you get wylan’s pov in book 2 and realise his “true self” is completely fucking unhinged