#franchia

Now, back to our hazy memories of Svitz, Franchia, Luftnarp, and Nulogorsk: the locations of our Top 10 Europe headcanons.

38) Guglielmo Marconi was Cecil’s traveling partner in Svitz. Cecil’s hazy and disjointed memories of this whole affair are due to his mind constantly deleting information relating to his true age and nonsensical timeline.

43) Cecil found nothing alarming when Carlos told him that the countries he mentioned in “A Memory of Europe” don’t exist and never existed. Traveling to other dimensions or alternative timelines while trying to leave Night Vale is pretty common.

44) English is the language of weirdness in Nulogorsk. For instance, the second head that a sentient meteor gave to that Nulogorsk High wrestling champion? It only speaks English.

49) Svitz was Oz, under a different name. No one knew about it in the next country Cecil went to because The Wizard of Oz hadn’t been written by then (one of the people he spoke to in the other country happened to be a tourist—named L. Frank Baum). And those flowers that Cecil mentioned? Blue variants on the poppies.

67) Night Vale chanting at World War II didn’t cause the US to win, it caused the war to escalate and go on for decades and bring on global destruction by 1983.

68) Cecil had brown hair until he visited Franchia and the fear of the monster he may or may not have imagined turned it white/blonde colour.

69) The Man in the Tan Jacket is from Nulogorsk, and is the one to undo the destruction of the world - however, this manipulation of the timeline undid his own existence, which is why nobody can remember him. 

75) Nulogorsk is stuck in a time loop (a la Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) which repeats the day the town was destroyed up until a few seconds before the explosion. A few Nulogorskers have left the loop by escaping town before the explosion hit, and altering the timeline.

82) Franchia, one of the countries Cecil visited, used to be full of people. Then Strex came, and left it a hollow shell when they refused to give in, leaving only the knotted arches as a sign of human presence.

Feature Friday- Franchia Cafe, Park Avenue

Franchia is nestled between two residential buildings on the bustling Park Avenue in New York City.  Sister to the ever amazing and delicious Hangawi, a fully vegan Korean restaurant with a lengthy gluten free menu, Franchia offers a similar zen like atmosphere, with a more casual vibe.

I have been dying to visit Franchia for a while now and finally paid a quick visit after a semi stressful day…