#togw

Golden Daughter was an excellent read.  I very much enjoyed it. :)

Stengl’s worldbuilding,,, is just,,,  👌 👌 👌  And the way she handles the allegorical themes and the Lumil Eliasul and Hymlume’s song?  hhh I had shivers. ;o;

Also this is Jovann through the whole book:

Where have you been hiding yourself anon, that you’re in three such small fandoms as TSE, ToGW, and The Queen’s Thief, all at once and I didn’t know about it? *stares at message trying to figure out who this could be*

Noah St. Claire–

Realistic: He took dancing lessons while he was at university, so he could teach the steps to Idony when he got back home. Would practice with Love Interest.

Hilarious: Can I cheat and use this as my answer?

Heart crushing: In his spare time, he requests medical texts on ophthalmology from the universities and libraries not just in Gallitan (Galitan?), but in every country he visits. (Look the word up.)

Doesn’t work with canon: If there were toasters, he’d tend to forget that he put something in, and then get frightened when it pops up. Elsabet, if you’re reading this, you know what I’m referencing.

Beana–

Realistic: Only child. Never handled or even really been around children younger than her. Was not prepared for taking care of Rose Red–not in the slightest.

Hilarious: One of the times Eanrin ticked her off (and that’s a frequent occurrence, let’s be honest here), he really ticked her off. She ended up chasing him up a tree. (I’m not sure whether this is funnier if they’re in the shape of animals or not.)

Heart crushing: Tbh, I don’t think I ever had any heart crushing headcanons for her. And I can’t think of any right now...so rain check?

Doesn’t work with canon: There wasn’t much canon info on her background or anything to contradict. Hmm. I headcanon she’s a descendant of Leta and her husband. (Although that could be canon. Eh.)

Shiro–

Realistic: He had can function on a only a few hours of sleep if he needs to…but not for too many days in a row. If he goes for longer than four days without enough sleep, he gets either really on edge and snappy, or is essentially a zombie.

Hilarious: Kinda related to the above, when he’s under stress he develops a terrible sleepwalking problem. He’ll just be up and about, doing sit ups or making a sandwich or something normal. But he’s asleep. Sometimes he’ll even make full coherent sentences. (The other paladins know this because they’ve caught him in the act sometimes. They were a bit concerned at first, and still kinda are…but mostly they just think it’s so amusing. Pidge and Allura are not above taking full advantage of this situation, and making him do weird and hilarious things.)

Heart crushing: He was an orphan, who moved between a few different foster homes. The couples who ran the houses were always nice and caring…but he never felt at home with them. Not that he blamed them (or blamed them much, anyway); they were busy, and did their best, and he was just one more kid passing through. (But Shiro would do his best to get to know and look after any the younger kids.)

Doesn’t work with canon: I just want this to have happened in canon. Please, I want him to have talked with Keith, and listened to him about this situation.

Costis–

Realistic: His favorite color is blue. (No reason why, I just feel strongly that he’d like the color blue, and thought you ought to know.)

Hilarious: Actually referred to himself as the king’s right hand man once, without thinking, during a conversation with Aris. Is still paranoid that the king will find out, because he’s honestly not sure if he’d be offended or not.

Heart crushing: He has dreams, some nights. In them, there’s a twisting, maze of a garden. There are dark figures, reaching the person who can’t see them, can’t hear his shouts. In them, the queen cries–actually cries, the queen–before him, and she doesn’t even blame him, just weeps in sorrow when she should be angry and tossing him in prison, or executing him, or something.

The mornings he wakes from these dreams, he spends a little longer in the practice yard, pushes himself a little harder, and smiles a little when he sees the king pass by.

Not saying it isn’t bad, but...listen, I wrote this gigantic, messy self-insert thing with incomplete sentences and ramble-y paragraphs, that included me saving all of Faerie and lecturing (Post-Moonblood) Eanrin and Imraldera about how they need to admit they like each other and get together. And I sent. That. To. Anne. Elisabeth. Stengl. Your fic can’t be any worse.

Jasper, current Gods’ Chosen of the nomadic Tribe of Good Wishes.