#skeletonwhale

a guy!

this is Bayou! he's a fairly reclusive woodcarver, usually putting his craft to work on pieces of dead desert trees, but he'll occasionally slip into the market for different types of wood to experiment with. he does sell his works, though he tends to get Frolic to do it for him; he already hates going to the market to buy new wood, there's no way he's sitting out there for hours for several days just for some sales.

he came to town about as quietly as he is day-to-day. one day he rode in on the train, picked out a spot near the edge of town, and made himself a small cave near the top of the cliff. Bayou won't necessarily turn away visitors, but he really doesn't go out of his way to invite anyone. his preferred interaction is someone coming by for some custom carving and leaving.

The explanation we’re given for how “smiting” works is that Jon is able to turn someone who is a “Watcher” into “Watched,” i.e., someone who is feared into someone who is afraid. And that when someone’s existence relies on being feared is flipped, it destroys them entirely.

Presumably to “smite” everyone, he’d have to kill every current Watcher, elevate some of the victims to that status, allow them to live that way long enough for "their existence to depend on fear” (it can’t be immediate, since he told Jordan he could put him back under the ants if he wanted) kill them, and repeat the process until there are so few people left that Terminus gets them all.

@skeletonwhale submitted:

Muusa in her summer cottage

kerri would tell you that that’s far more badass than being half human, although now i’m wondering what that would even look like