#the hand

(I mean I know the red they’re wearing technically matches the red in spidey’s suit but there’s more to visual unity than just matching colors)

You know how in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, there’s a cohesive design? Like, Steve’s suit is a more muted blue, for “stealth” and night missions. Overall, he looks more like a professional tactics operative than he has in previous films—because that matches the serious tone of this particular political-thriller superhero movie. The villains in that film don’t have bright red masks, they wear black tactical gear like super spies. Even Dr. Zola, a disembodied head in a computer, is just monochromatic lines of code and a voice—he still doesn’t push the “weirdness” boundary of the visual imagery in the film, even though he’s the most beyond-belief part of it, because the film has that dark, real-life tone.

In Guardians of the Galaxy, on the other hand, you have more “Star Wars Meets 80s album art.” Star Lord looks like Han Solo with more red and leather. But Rocket is a talking raccoon with dirty fur and an orange jumper on. And the supervillain does have a big blue face and black armor. Nobody is just, like, a regular-looking dude (once you get out of the flashback sequence.)

But in this Spider-Man movie, we have bio-mechanically mutated people —Scorpion with the robo-tail, the Hulk, and then we also have a nice contrast—normal, grungy looking people who are in on the action but more real-world dangerous: Punisher in his tactical gear and Jean with her dramatic hood up, and Spidey himself. Feels like superhero stuff, but still “Superheroes in a world of mechanical engineering and spies.” You’ve got your costumed mutants, and you’ve got your dark and armored tactical operatives.

And then boom, in the climactic scene, in the scene where the character is pouring his heart out, where it fulfills his character development, where emotions are highest—the bad guys I have to look at during that moment are not mutant monsters or soldiers.

They’re brightly dressed Kung fu movie ninjas.

It would’ve made more sense to bring back in the Hulk, visually. Peter’s fighting as someone who’s been repressing his dark side. He’s about to yank his mask off and show off the black eyes and the blank British-man face. That sounds like a thematic rhyme to the Hulk’s whole deal. Or you could’ve kept soldiers, as a contrast of “armored normals” to his “powerful mutation” nature.

But no. Ninjas. Ninjas that have no thematic or symbolic significance. Ninjas that haven’t been a part of the movie before this in any meaningful way. Ninjas that don’t look like they belong here, visually.

Idk how to explain it, but the way she teaches him here makes me think she's a separate person. And I feel like she could have made him, "I wouldn't want you to come undone" then was she the one who 'done' or created him? How would she know telling him her name would alter him in some way? maybe learning someone else's name when he doesn't have one yet could alter him in his current state? Like change his identity somehow? But Lindel told him his name when they first met and Elias didnt have a name, It could be because of the Scotland Fae queen's curse or the situations circumstances that he's so fragile that even a name could alter/make him come undone perhaps.

I feel like Elias might've been created using one of Ms. Hand's fragments

Yk Joseph's curse? His curse could be transferred onto chise because they switched eyes. There's also smth u do with some sort of ritual thing where u use someone's hair, tooth, or fingernail, to create a new being or voodoo shit. What I'm trying to say is Elias might've been created using one of Ms. Hand's uhhhhhhh DNA? Or part of her which is why he likely had white hair in Ch.40.

One of the things a fae probably needs is "essence" basically an element, like the Ariel wind sprites, the fire sprites at the aerie, and Angelica's vodyanoi friend being water. Elias mentioned his essence being shadow in ulthar, and what u need next is "flesh" for his body, maybe that part was made from Ms. Hand, who is a human mage, and why the fae says he wears "a shell of flesh", maybe he was created using some her blood, or some of her teeth, finger nail, hair, or whatever

How is she up his ass??? I don't fucking know LMAO 😭😭😭, If I could guess, it's 🌈MAGIC🌈. like how Joseph's curse, even though it was just a fragment, is able to talk to chise, Elias, who carries Ms. Hand's flesh, is able to talk to his creator. The only thing that doesn't make sense tbh is how she's inside him, could Ms. Hand be dead and this is only what's left of her? Or is she dilly dallying in some other place in God knows where?

So basically.. Elias was created by Ms. Hand and she used her blood or smth from her body for his flesh, which is why he has the "shell of human flesh" thing, and she used the essence of shadow for his essence somehow, maybe she's some sort of shadow mage? Like how chise uses fire all the time.

I'm also still holding onto my Elias-has-a-human-mind theory, and basically: the rest of him may be fae, but one of the things that isnt is his mind, what made ,e think this is because of his choices and way of thinking e.g.

Titania suggests taking chise back against her will, it's what the fae would do

Elias (the goat) decides to change for her sake instead, instead of taking titania's suggestion

"Any one of us (referring to the fae) would have done the same" Elias did something so unfae-like, faeries doing whatever they want regardless of how the other person feels is in their nature, but Elias doesn't do this. Which made me think his mind might've been human

The trace of human Rahab mentioned might not exactly be his flesh either tbh, it could either be his mind, flesh, or both. Or maybe the "flesh" is referring to his mind because when Chise absorbed part of Elias when they were confronting Joseph there wasn't any blood, he was all shadow, so flesh likely isn't his literal body. Welp, whatever the "flesh" is, I'm thinking it's Ms. Hand.

I think Ms. Hand could also be a deity like mannanan, but mannanan technically isn't a deity? He's really just a mage that humans started worshipping as a deity, so... Maybe she's like mannanan? Idk...

One of them has a simelar but very minimalistic version of the Hands Outfit.

How funny would it be if Lindel knew her but had just forgotten about her because they didn't see each other to often.

Besides im wondering if we see the other two who stand behind Lindel maybe as some kind of arc mage who are as old as him and have either the same opinion about Humans and fae or the opposite.

After all he seems to be a kind of antagonist at some point of the arc. And for some reason i think Elias wouldn't be able to treat him as such. They spent so much time together and he always behave like a Son around him. So it would be an opportunity to introduce some other old mages to stop Lindel from what ever he will try to do.

I made this yesterday and posted it but I HAD to tweak smth, I tried ignoring it but it was bothering me too much so here it is for the second time 😔✌️

The hand gives me similar vibes to Rahab and she seems like a mother figure/guardian to Elias, so

AU Fic idea Idea: The hand x Rahab, two yuri moms raising a possibly autistic son!!! Meanwhile Lindel is the weird uncle that shows up every now and then (or he could be also raising Elias alongside them, POLYCULE), and they leave Elias with him to go on honeymoons and chise is the uhhh older sister or girl next door or maybe childhood best friend