#fletcher bowman

I had already started working on this a few days ago, but it kinda fell behind as I .. well did other stuff. But realizing the anniversary I decided to finish it. Been working all day on it, hence the late post.

Also why I didn’t do my usual line art. But I hope y’all still like it! Saves me time so I might keep doing this, as I do also like the sketchy look of it and stuff.

Anyway! Can’t believe it’s been 10 years!

Thank you for the request!

Here are your Clay and Fletcher! (they are not yet properly, proovably aware that they're brothers, but Clay has a hunch, after an honest talk with Merlock)

Kinda more a doodle than a full blown piece, but it's 7:45 and i am yet to sleep, so.. Yeah ^v^"

(transcript of handwritten text:)

Clay: So, uh, are you, by any chance, also an orphan?

Fletcher: I am, actualy!

I think I didn't post that old thing

Fletcher but older

When the fuck were Clay and Fletcher born-??

Here's what I know of the timeline:

Monstrox has been a book for 100 years

Monsters in general haven't been seen for 100 years

"Clay was a young child when his mother was turned evil..." - Merlok, S4,Ep8 6:28 Iron Grip

Merlok didn't even know she had CLAY until after he petrified her and it took Merlok five years to find him.

Does Merlok know about Fletcher? If the show had kept running, would devastating reveals about Clay's past be brought up by Merlok every season a la Wu telling his ninja, "There's something I haven't told you," before revealing the enemy of the year is somehow his fault?

I'm going to assume Merlok didn't know somehow, because if he did I can only assume he would've kept looking for Fletcher until he found him. I haven't read The Forbidden Power, so anyone who has - can you sum up Fletchers backstory? (Thank you, @nexocreature for righting my wrong, I can't believe Fletcher didn't get adopted by the orphanage owners like I thought. That was so cemented in my brain as canon LMFAO.)

Merlok specifically is over 500 years old, and on pages 52 and 53 of the Book of Monstrox book, Wanda looks pretty young compared to Merlok's white mustache and eyebrows, so I think it's safe to assume she's at least a couple decades younger than him at the least.

I've always assumed Ruina was petrified around the same time the other stone monsters got put away, but it must've been decades later if she managed to have children, right? Unless she put Clay and Fletcher in some kinda magic stasis that was never brought up, but like- mmm, I don't see why she would bother if she turned evil. From the way it's talked about in the show, didn't she just up and leave one day?

If the knights are graduating when Robin and Ava are Freshmen, and assuming Fletcher's the same age (ignoring how Robin and Ava skip a year in season two and jump to Juniors) that puts at least a three year age gap between Fletcher and Clay. Alternatively, since Fletcher (and Izzy for that matter) are introduced in 4x1 Weekend at Halbert's, I could see one making the argument that Fletcher and Izzy are in the Junior-year group that Robin and Ava jumped too, which would put a one year difference between Clay and Fletcher.

UNLESS, in episode 1x1 The Book of Monsters Pt.1, when Ava says, "We're only Freshmen at the Academy, Robin," Ava meant they already were Freshmen by graduation, which would put them in their Sophomore year when school starts back up after summer break. In which case, if Fletcher and Izzy are in their Junior year by 4x1, then that would've made them Sophomore's by the graduation in 1x1, which would put a TWO year difference between Clay and Fletcher.

...But even then, how long was the time-skip between season 2 and 3? I wanna say it's at least been a year because Jestro hate has simmered down enough for him to maintain a very public job, and fear of Monstrox has similarly died down enough for Cuthbert Richmond (fuckin' Cuthbert, UGH) to turn the Redoubt of Ruination into the Lava Lands Amusement Park. But then, since Robin and Ava are specifically named Juniors in season two, that would make them Seniors in season three, and they can't be Seniors because the Nexo Knights had adult legs when they were Seniors in the first episode, and Robin and Ava still have their kid legs throughout the whole show. So assumedly, it's only a couple months between seasons 3 and 4...