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fitz is so augh. he's broken, but he's keeping it together. his ex was neglecting him throughout their relationship, but he was doing everything for her. he wants to conform to society. he's struggling to break free of the norm. he won't let anyone walk all over him, but he's still letting it all go to his head. he's everything. he's nothing (but a vacker). do people care about fitz, or about fitz vacker? do people care about fitz, or about alvar's brother? he's angry, he's sad, he's perfect, he's flawed. he's a guy smashed into pulp and then reshaped into something else.

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The Vacker Legacy

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jem carstairs the only man ever <3

the thing about jem carstairs that i remember so clearly is that he was the first fictional character i had seen, at the time of reading clockwork angel for the first time, who chose to be kind.

this was a guy who had suffered so much and had become addicted to a substance completely against his will. a substance that was slowly killing him, but he still chose to live. he still wanted to live and not give up

and instead of being jaded and negative he was soo fucking kind and sweet and im afraid reading that at 14 years old altered my brain chemistry forever

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why are we all ignoring alvar canonically being a k-pop stan

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Fitz Vacker core

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thinking about a while ago when i found out my calculus friend also liked kotlc and then immediately after found out she was the biggest fitz (and sophie?!?!?!?) hater ever but she was also my only friend in that class and like two years older than me so i just had to smile and nod along like i didn’t run a blog called “fitz vacker defense squad” in my free time

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Keefe in Unraveled: I will do what it takes to KILL my traitorous mother who leads a terrorist organization that is willing to kidnap and torture people to get what they want.

Also Keefe in Unraveled: Fitz was WRONG to try and kill his traitorous brother who is in a terrorist organization that is willing to kidnap and torture people to get what they want.

…..Keefe you make it really hard to keep defending you….

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do you- do you ever think about how Fitz Vacker grew up loving his big brother and admiring him and how he had no idea that his big brother secretly hated him the whole time and actually favored his sister and best friend over him

do you ever think about how Fitz truly loved Keefe and wanted to be there for him, only to find out that Keefe has resented him for most of their friendship and would choose his betraying brother over him

do you ever think about how Fitz told Sophie she was the only one he trusted, and how willing he was to share himself with her, only for her to withhold from him and run to his best friend and leave him in the dark

i'm ill.

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I really think fitz deserves a hug

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how it feels to be a teen wolf fan in the year of our lord 2024

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best friend i hate when people try to criminalize fitz to make other characters the victim in every situation. it’s so annoying. like he’s such a good character and barely anybody actually sees what a complex person he is. we think there’s nothing wrong going on in the vacker family? seriously? i mean if biana felt invisible and ignored her entire life and alvar joined the fucking neverseen there must have been something that was happening. you cant tell me they were just like that. the plot twist of alvars betrayal was actually so shocking because, like, you would have had no fucking idea. he must have been a good person, but he could have just snapped. biana wants to create her own legacy. she wants to break rules. she wants to tear away from the norms. idk where this is going i’m just rambling about random stuff at this point. but BIANA FEELING INVISIBLE HER WHOLE LIFE THEN MANIFESTING AS A VANISHER IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME. alvar and biana escaped. for better or for worse. fitz cant. and omg i fucking hate when people get mad at fitz for ending things with sophie after the matchmaking thing. he literally said and i quote, “i would never hear the end of it. my parents and sister would never hear the end of it. and i don’t think i could deal with that.” FUCKING GOD. GOD FORBID A TRAUMATIZED TEENAGE BOY DOESNT WANT TO DISAPPOINT HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. FUCKING HELL. fitz cant escape from whatever fucking legacy he’s in. he’s stuck there. he always has been and he always will be. he’s the perfect child. the golden child. the favorite child. i swear i should start counting how many times he’s been called perfect. he’s been put on a pedestal his entire fucking life and the second he tries dipping a toe in the water below he gets attacked. there’s nothing he can do but stay. he’s not allowed to be anything but perfect. he can’t stray from that. he’s been at it his entire life. HES NOT ALLOWED TO BE ANYTHING BUT PERFECT. and now here’s the part where i get talk about keefe. don’t worry guys he’s a cool guy i just don’t rlly like him😔 keefe is allowed to be imperfect. he’s allowed to be messy. fitz isn’t. i know it hurts him whenever someone(mostly keefe) makes a comment on him or his family being perfect, when they’re anything but. but he tries and tries and tries. he can’t be imperfect, but he can’t be too perfect. there’s nothing he can do. he’s put under all this pressure at a very young age and he’s expected to succeed at everything. and it makes me mad that keefe is so ignorant about it. he makes jokes and i know that he knows it hurts fitz. he’s literally an empath. bye i’m not taking any criticism 🙏

(i found this in my notes and i genuinely can’t remember when i wrote this help)

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congratulations ap soldiers. uou are better than any elf ever bc elves don’t know what an ap course is

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guys whether you like him or not, Fitz Vacker is the hottest fucking man I’ve ever seen in my life

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I know this has been said before, but the fact that this is canonically a portrait that the Vackers commissioned is so funny. Why did the elf who painted it make Alvar so evil??? The fact that he's evil isn't public knowledge yet! He's just a guy! A perfectly nice, relatively well-respected member of elvin society! What beef does the painter have with Alvar that led them to paint him like that?

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imagine taking an ap class in foxfire and having class constantly cancelled bc some little horse girl and her boytoy keep shutting it down with explosives and gang wars and whatnot and then by the time you reach the ap exam youre 5 units behind and you dont even have youtube review videos to help you study bc theres no internet. i would join the neverseen.

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i have compassion for Fitz Vacker in the same way I have compassion for Child stars in Hollywood.

He is perceived as a living dream, while he exists in a nightmare that people have so little understanding and empathy for. There's a level to him that is fundamentally unrelatable to most. He has no perceived lacking. At least, not when you're taking in the situation at face-value.

And this^ way of seeing him is fundamentally isolating. It strips him of depth and realness, and it makes him into an image to ascribe ideas and false perceptions onto. A blank canvas to project all of your worst insecurities . After all, He's not real- it doesn't hurt him, right? In fact, it's trendy among the lower class to dislike him. If you aren't obsessed with him to the point of a parasocial relationship, then you resent him. He cannot struggle or have any issues whatsoever because the perception of what luxury is, is so powerful.

This is reflected in the way Dex saw the Vacker's in books 1 and 2. It's reflected in the fandom's inability to empathize with Fitz is any way shape or form (at least on Pinterest/YouTube/Instagram)

He's socialized more around adults than his peers, because of the idea of giftedness and notoriety. Which just puts him on a higher pedestal, and makes him a larger target to hate among kids his age.

He is known, but he is not known. If anyone pursues him as a friend, it is for the sake of making connections and being popular. It's disingenuous. It's to use him as a stepping stool on a rapid rise to fame. to exploit him for personal gain. His trust issues don't come from nowhere, after all.

He had one friend his entire childhood. and what do you know? It's a kid who is trying so hard to outrun the exploitation of his dad's dreams and wishes for him.

Sure, Fitz's parents are present in his life, but they can only mitigate so much of the outside world before it starts seeping right through the walls of their home.

I just think it would be so strange to have so many people barely know you and either obsess over you to the point that you are more fantasy than reality, or resent you so much that you can't say a word without hearing some snide comment in response. And to know that NONE of it is real. None of these people know you.

Fitz's family obviously represents a really big issue in society. Because Dex, Sophie etc... they are RIGHT, that the standards of their world aren't fair. They are right to call it out. They are right to have anger towards the 'upper class' who does nothing to help the lower class. It's understandable. and it's far more relatable than Fitz's situation. but the thing is, shame is shame. and scorn is scorn.

the upper class may whisper. But the lower class does too.

and that's just it. Therein lies the issue with the lost cities.

IT"S NO ONES CHOICE. It was not Dex's choice to born into a bad match marriage, it was not Keslar and Juline's choice to be born in a world where a system like mathmaking even exists. It wasn't their choice to have triplets. But it also wasn't their choice to raise them in a society that hates them.

But no more was it Fitz's choice to be born a Vacker. No more was it his choice that his parents happened to be a good match. It's not his choice to be born into a society where that stuff matters. He's a kid.

But because he represents something at face value that people tend to hate, he is undeserving of compassion when compared to a character like Dex. Fitz is dismissed and disliked because he represents something about their society, even though he's a child who has no real way to combat what generations older than him have enforced.

He is the vessel that is easy to target and to hate, because people need to find someone to blame. Even if that person technically has not contributed in any way to the thing that the people wish to destroy.

and it can only cause resentment to build between the two classes.

Idk man the perception of Fitz Vacker will forever have my head spinning.

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thinking about fitz who grew up surrounded by people praising him and admiring him but never really connecting with him.

thinking about sophie who was ostracised and othered by her peers and never fit in with her family, feeling lonely even when hearing everyone’s thoughts.

thinking about fitz who craved and desperately held onto the idea of cognates because finally someone was like him. someone was put on a pedestal and could relate to feeling smaller than your reputation.

thinking about sophie who latched onto fitz because she found someone like her. and then she found one, then two, then a whole community of people like her. she was in a place where she was valued.

thinking about sophie finding those people in her life who make her feel normal. despite all her exceptions, she’s accepted and unconditionally loved.

thinking about fitz slowly losing his sense of normalcy as façades fall and secrets are withheld from him.

thinking about sophie building her confidence up as she’s integrated into a world of support and guidance, even if from the shadows before her conception even started. how despite all the pain and fear, she has a support system.

thinking about fitz’ tall legacy and history of status quo to uphold. the heavy sword that dangles from the hands of the vacker patriarchy looms over his sense of identity. how his emotions are left alone in a family so large and revered.