Cliopher Mdang never having his accomplishments recognized by his family because the truth and news simply weren't reaching them and he assumed it was... kip...

thinking about the symbolic significance of cliopher playing the oboe, which is used to tune the entire symphony

A little thing I’m obsessed with from AFTOS is that we learn from an outsider perspective that HR does in fact look like a guy in his sixties. Like in HOTE we had Cliopher waxing poetic about HR’s relatively ageless appearance and his subtle eye wrinkles. Sure, there’s a few years in between the scenes in question, but it’s so obviously Cliopher’s besottedness goggles and his middle aged pov. And I think that’s cute.

sometimes im in the mood to read fics where kip’s family realize the magnitude of things he downplays (eg his job, the trip home after the fall), and then i remember that very very few fics will ever evoke the same feeling as the canon reveals