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How about I share this comic I drew ages ago to emotionally damage some friends :) Not sure this exact scenario will actually have the chance to happen, but this is the gist of it.

In other words: Normal! No daddy issues at all.

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Does this doodle count

And, if those boys would get a happy ending (aka, they would have lived), what would they decide to do with their lives?

I've been playing coy with these guys because I like people to learn info as the story reveals it, but at the rate I'm going tbh I might as well just go ahead and say stuff! 😩 So!

Matthias definitely has confused kicked puppy energy. He's the first grimwalker. He was brought into a world where no one had heard of Belos or the Golden Guard, and Caleb was still intent on escape. He had an especially rough time of things because he’s the one who was used to teach Caleb the consequences of defiance.

He was also created old enough that he was being handed responsibilities shortly after being born, even though he had no idea what was going on. He has no context for anything. Everyone else is expected to evangelize for a cult people are suspicious of too, right? Nobody else has childhood memories, right? It's normal for your dad to live in a cage, right? Dads are always trying to run away and arguing with uncles, right? Abuse is normal, right?

No? Hmm.

I think this was early enough that if he’d lived and they’d escaped, Caleb would have taken him back home to Evelyn, and Matthias would’ve become part of their family. He would’ve been BOTH the older AND younger brother of Caleb and Evelyn’s kid, heh. As for what Matthias himself would do, I think he’d be most interested in simply learning how regular people live and exploring the world around him? His experiences were really limited and by this point he’d be painfully aware of how not-normal his life was. He wants to know what’s out there. He wants to know what’s true and what was a lie.

Obed, on the other hand, is much more confident. He's tough. He's sure of himself. He’s good at what he does. He's had a long and successful career as the Golden Guard in an era where everyone knows what that is. People looked up to him and Belos approved of him.

He was Golden Guard before Hunter and was one of—if not THE—longest lived grimwalkers. Much like Hunter, he was created a baby and groomed into the perfect Golden Guard, and then he matured into a fully-grown, savvy, competent adult. He’s sort of the ideal that Hunter is expected to emulate. Everything Philip wanted. The shadow Hunter lives under.

BUT, in the end he was too smart for his own good…

So about what you said in one of your recents asks, can you further explain?

I understand that Puritans emigrated to North America in family units in order to escape England religious persecution, but I realize I haven’t taken the time to research what happened to orphans during that time period. So if you please, I would be very interested in learning what you know. :)

Ok! So! I started trying to write an essay with like. Sources and stuff. But I'm forced to admit to myself that I do not currently have the time to write an essay with sources and stuff. I might come back to this in like. 2 weeks.

Instead, for now, I will simply point out that the Wittebanes are from THE VERY BEGINNING of Conneticut's colonial history - a time period where the population of English colony settlements was so low and their need for labor so high that they wouldn't have been able to afford losing any member of their population. And yet it's also unlikely they could afford the upkeep of anything like an orphanage/almshouse/poor house/whatever equivalent existed at the time.

I recommend looking up the practice of "binding out." I'm not saying that's definitely what would have happened to Philip and Caleb, but I DO think it's a compelling and probable option! At least it's what I like to go with in my head.

I'm fine! I'm sorry if my silence lately has worried anyone. I've just had a lot going on.

I also reached a point in the story where I can't really move forward until I've pinned things down that were never really decided on, so like. I have to do *~story development~* But I don't actually have TIME to do story development!

And I didn't want to get anyone's hopes up or let my blog turn into an ask blog where the only thing I do is answer asks and never share any art, so. I've just kinda. Stopped saying anything.

Brother's Keeper AU Story Post 13

Luz is still getting her bearings in this strange new world. Eda, meanwhile, has more pressing things to worry about, but she's suspicious of propaganda from the get-go.

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