#gilear faeth

Diversity win! Ancestral curse recognises non-biological parenthood!

please don’t compare gilear to wealwell…. one of them was punched in the head by a gorilla and died instantly. the other did the splits and used pure groin strength to save his brother and their strange new haunted friend

What you have to understand is that Gilear and Wealwell are the exact same character except that they’re on opposite ends of the “Has plot armor purely for comedic effect” spectrum and what I mean by that is Gilear is protected by The Plot because it’s hilarious for this guy who’s so unbelievably pathetic and incompetent to keep surviving every horror against all odds and also his own will, and Wealwell is protected by The Plot because it’s hilarious for this guy who, by all laws of storytelling, should be utterly useless to the other characters, to be unbelievably strong and successful at everything he does. Gilear survives because it’s funny for him to endure every possible horror pathetically and often and still come out the other side relatively unscathed. Wealwell survives because it’s funny for him to utilize his whimsical, hyper-specific, and seemingly useless skillset to defeat every opponent the narrative throws at him with infuriating ease and a constantly changing, completely unpredictable attitude.

ive said this many times before and here i am saying it again but. sandra lynn and gilear i think was the healthiest couple on the entire show despite the fact that they divorced because of a cheating scandal. because like. she is so so flawed and problematic and troubled and broken and he is so so insecure and unlucky and sad and depressed and they did love each other. so much. sandra lynn "commitment issues" faeth found someone she was willing and happy to settle down with for over 15 years. gilear "my existence was a joke the universe made" faeth was so secure in their relationship that when he felt betrayed (ie cheating) he had the confidence to leave. did you guys hear that gilear had confidence because leaving a relationship requires that!! what the fuck. when sandra lynn is at her lowest, in a one year relationship with another man, she goes to gilear. when his daughter (a product of his wife cheating on him) is mad at her mom gilear goes hey cut her some slack. she's having it rough and there's more to her than you know. she took him to rock concerts. he moved countries for her sake. the saddest man in the world felt good enough to leave

The fact that the Bad Kids chose to bring Gilear with them on spring break and then have to spend every fight trying to keep him alive is so funny. Absolutely negative value ally. Truly nothing but a liability. I love him so much.

I love that Brennan claims that Gilear is canonically ‘just a normal guy’ but he’s not. To us he is, he’s just what a human would be in combat. In the world of Spyre? In Elmville of all places? He’s so normal it loops back to being absolutely insane. This man can do nothing in battle in the same town with a school that actively breeds students who take down gods for their grade credit.