I'm being absolutely fed.

Heyyyyy who made that post calling Tarvek Gil's official "evil vizier"? I think maybe you were noticed!

Also I'm completely thriving. Gil just said Out Loud theoretically within Tarvek's hearing range (I wish) that he trusts Tarvek. With no caveats or specifiers or limitations.

(He also maybe implied that he's actually trusted Tarvek since the Si Vales Valeo which happened ages ago. Which, like, I knew that and you knew that but I didn't think he knew that!!! And here he is! Saying it out loud!! With words!!!)

In fact, he goes on to say that he trusts Krosp, or at least trusts that he'll do what's right for Agatha, a clarification that he notably did not provide in his statement about Tarvek. Which suggests that he no longer feels the need to offer that clarification about his trust in Tarvek.

I am flourishing right now. Life is beautiful and nothing hurts! (Ignore what's happening to Seffie right now.)

Gil is very smart!!! He's just also a bit of an idiot sometimes. Normally especially he acts stupid around people he really really likes. (I would also describe the way he's been seen and described to behave around Tarvek literally always as "acting stupid" but that could be nothing 👀)

Yay! Dragon-based transportation!

[Sadly that Tarvek expression does not look like the expression of someone who just heard what Gil has just been saying... sigh...]

Poor poor Seffie, who is having a breakup with someone she didn't even know it was possible to be together with like that. Still, I'm somewhat enthused to hear that she's having the reaction to this that I thought she would have to this. It suggests even further that this plotline is saying and going where I think it is. [I am rooting for their relationship so hard you have no idea.] But hey, Seffie knows now! That's very important! Because I'm pretty sure she was completely clueless about it before. So, a kind of progress, at least.

I assume we'll be picking Seffie up on our way over and get some more perspective from her. Looking forward to it. It's definitely about time for a Seffie arc. Let's get that girl some Character Development! It's time to reassess priorities and evaluate personal motivations and reconsider some assumptions! Which is more important; familial obligation to Grandmamma or friendship/relationship with Colette? Which is more important; duty to her family or loyalty to her close friend? Which is more important; obedience or freedom?

And furthermore!! Whose good opinion actually matters more to her; Colette or Gil? Who would she actually want to spend the rest of her life with; a long-term very close friend or a guy she kinda knows? Which relationship status would actually be more valuable; wife of Paris Herself or wife of the leader of the Wulfenbach Empire (which is currently tied heavily to the political powers of the nacent Storm King and The Lady Heterodyne, much of which is based on his relationship with them)? And who does she care more about; her dear friend Colette Voltaire who has always been supportive of her or Gilgamesh Wulfenbach who she has been trying and failing to court while he's been focused on other people?

What has she been prioritizing and what should she be prioritizing? It's time for her to ask herself these questions!

It's time for a crisis of identity and a breakaway from the default way of her life! It's time to get mad at her family and crash out and cut her hair (and change her eyeshadow) and yell! It's time, Seffie! Go off!!

This was not meant to be a Seffie post but I actually have a lot of feelings about her potential upcoming arc and I've not actually posted about it before so it came out. Whatever, I can be deranged about Seffie and seffette (aka parisian coffie) and gilvek all in one post, it's fine.