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I base how good a book series is by how much I can actually enjoy a straight couple in it

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this desperately needs more context because wtf is a SpongeBob adult????????????

finian de seel is a spongebob adult

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This is after the bachelor party

will you make one for Libby and Nash

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You can literally see the way she becomes addicted to the being the Trigger through learning how to use it.

When she first discovers it, she mourns the fact that she’s no longer an ordinary girl. She sees her power as something that’s not a part of her, and depends on the squad to help her. As she develops it more, she depends on the power instead. She pushes Kal away when he notices that she’s enjoying using it, showing how being the Trigger, something she had previously been TERRIFIED of and rejected, is something she now accepts. It is textbook addiction.

Personally, I would’ve liked for her to end up with some sort of side-effect of the power even after losing it. Addiction often leaves people sick or injured (whether mentally or physically), even after they’ve been sober for years. It honk it would have made sense for to have something like that.

I know I KNOWW that so many people were mad about losing Auri losing her powers at the end of Aurora's End, and I know that it's because we want to see more powerful women in media that get to keep being strong ok I agree we deserve that. HOWEVER. UNPOPULAR OPINION. Aurora never should have kept her powers. I think we forget - that stuff was hurting her. It was quite literally a drug!! She felt great, and got strong, but it was slowly corrupting her mental (and physical) state, and genuinely making her kind of sadistic and really selfish?? Because she just wanted to feel strong, even if the cost was wayyy to high and not at all worth it?? The whole idea is that being a Trigger is an awful thing. It's not a beautiful chosen one story, it's a; "You have been chosen. We are so sorry" type thing. Auri never should have kept her powers!! It would have ruined her :(

Also she deserves to just be happy i love happy auri

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Moo do you need a trusted adult

do you need to shit or does the shit need you

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Underrated fact: Saedii fell first.

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Two notes:

1) Finian dresses like Wendy from Gravity Falls

2) I’d like to correct the notion that Kal “doesn’t need good clothing at all.” This is misleading. Kal doesn’t need ANY clothing.

modern aesthetics of squad 312 :)

Tyler - I know we're all very tempted to say EVERY WHITE MAN IN NIKE EVER BOOM but i fear that my son is a little classier than that. Don't get me wrong, he is a teen boy first and foremost, but Scarlett Jones is also his sister, and he has some self-respect. I think he would wear a lot of unbuttoned shirts over white singlets, caps, and good sneakers that he doesn't get dirty EVER. He would hate wearing cargo pants unfortunately, and despite all this semi-class, he's also a fanny pack defender til the day he dies. Lots of neutral, dull primary colours. He knows he's too pretty in the face, his clothes don't need to do a lot of work. Also probably a string bracelet guy. Couldn't explain this, but I just know he loves string bracelets, and Scarlett hates them.

Scarlett - Y2K WOMANNN!!! cheetah prints galore, low v necks with a pink bra poking out the top, chunky jewelry and those big, slightly pink sunglasses. She's just that girl and she knows it. Should be noted, I think Scarlett is much classier than a lot of y2k truthers, because I don't think she's going duck nails or having so many textures it hurts (no neon colours either, I think her hair is bright enough to do that work), but the styleee is there. I know that white, gold and pale blue are her colors because imagine that with the orange hair!! Her makeup is definitely very shimmery, and her lips are popping. im not jealous of her at all

Cat - she was our alternative queen and we know it. I also know that she definitely devoured graphic designs like it was her first meal of two weeks!! Graphic shirts, graphic eyeliner, the whole bunch. She's got the real brightly colored, ever so slightly punk vibes. If you want a comparison, think Billie Eilish if her tops were tight. Cat is definitely a small shirt little pants person and she rocks it!! Lots of bright blue, RED RED SO MUCH RED, orange and black. Where Scarlett is gold, Cat is silver. Probably has chains everywhere too. Also, super long, SUPER SHARP nails.

Finian - once again fighting the fashionable Finian allegations all by myself because this man is a LOSER!! He doesn't like attention!! But at the same time he is still a little special and therefore i think he probably wears mildly alt clothing. Flannel, probably, and while I want him to be as loser as possible with baggy everything, that's probably SO inconvenient for his exosuit. Therefore he probably wears shirts just slightly too small for him so they kinda cling to his skin, usually with weird little faded writing or brands on the front, and cargo pants i think Fin would LOVE cargo pants! (Also the bagginess is probably ok for his legs cause he doesn't need to reach down there often) I think that overtime he would become more confident and his clothes would become brighter, more interesting, with cooler designs, but he's not quite there yet :') lots of greys, neutrals and blacks.

Zila - my beautifully unexpected fashion icon. I think Zila's love for earrings is so cool, because they do NOT seem like something she would like (flashy, cute, Scarlett even says they're the kinda thing you wear for attention), but she loves them. Therefore I think her fashion is similar!! I think that Zila would be very preppy! Cute skirts, pastel colours, but still has that academia vibe that matches her personality. I think she would be a big fan of cardigans (she would be an Ariana grande sleeve victim but none of you want to talk about that) and chunky mary janes. She's just adorably put together and very pretty (#neverstoptalkingaboutzilabeingpretty2025) <3

Kal - Oh Kaliis what are we going to do with you. Now, the thing is, Kal is a beautiful, divine looking specimen. He doesn't need good clothing at all. Which is good, because I fear he would fall into chronic active wear syndrome </3 He's a man of function, not fashion. He needs to be ready to jump into action at any point, and this is simply the most convenient way. Now, I think after his character arc is done he would move into something more comfortable, like shirts and normal pants (he's also a robe guy btw) but active wear is ultimately what he's most used to i fear

Auri - THRIFT CLOTHINGGG!!!! i think auri buys ALL of her clothes thrift, (except shoes) and this means that her wardrobe has tons of second-hand whimsycore and those cute little cottage core shirts with buttons :) she would have bell-bottoms galore, trust and believe!! She would also have a very impressive collection of alt baggy brown jumpers with cool ink prints on them (not jealous at all 😒). Again, tons and tons of shoes, probably especially ones with huge platforms!! Now, does this aesthetic have name?? No idea!! But I think it just fits her so well :)

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The Legion is like the CIA

the uhhhh…. The money….. from book 2….. where did the legion get it from? Does the legion have a black budget? What else are they doing with it?

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This could be something I just made up to make it make sense but I believe Laeleth encouraged Kal to join the AL when the Terran/Syldrathi war ended, which is why he wasn’t killed

as promised, I’d forgotten that Kal is fucking mental, and here are the parts that embody that, poorly retold in no particular order.

is raised from birth to be super good at fighting, and can win a 1v5(?) against other legion tanks, but nearly gets disemboweled by some random (non warbreed) refugee.

Lies to everyone about his family

gets the hots for a girl who until (respective to her time) a week ago didn’t even know aliens existed.

lives with his mom on the planet that got exploded until he for some reason didn’t die because he wasn’t on the planet? I never understood this one someone please explain.

Has some random voice in his head that keeps telling him to go on a mass homicide spree.

gets dragged around on a leash by the more interesting jones twin (the moral implications of this are unclear)

does the fake out of the century and tries to murder his dad, who is apparently built so different he survives a wound that should have paralyzed him.

Gets his soul put into a paper shredder

gets his souls put back together by said girl he has the hots for who he is also now dating

has his first kiss on a planet that has a minor fungus problem

Beats multiple highly trained armed warbreed single-handedly (how the fuck did he almost get disemboweled)

has an extremely homosexual moment with his commanding officer in a server room. Both of them are straight

Is so smitten with Aurora he starts having auditory hallucinations.

Touches a funny rock and goes on a 6 month trip.

Plays a string instrument.

attacks his squad mate because… well it’s a long story

goes to the future

Nearly spoils the birth of his niece to his sister and now brother in law while having dinner with said sister and brother in law and also his girlfriend and also his brother in laws sister and his brother in laws sister in laws boyfriend. Or something

dresses up as a pizza delivery boy (the moral implications of this are unclear)

scar next probably. Send in moments you want me to add if you have any.

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guys imagine saedii and scar touching up each other's roots in their hair that is all goodnight

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And he is still somehow the less interesting jones twin

I keep forgetting that Tyler was completely bananas. Cookoo for coco puffs. A few letters short of an alphabet. He, in no particular order:

broke a ton of regulations, flew into another dimension (illegally), showed up on some random ass ship that was lost 200 years before and when presented with an SOS beacons decides to check it, rather than assuming it wasn’t just broken. In the middle of a reality warping storm.

trusted Aurora. Like out of universe it makes sense but in universe he’s crazy

goes full 19 year old solider in Nam by going tunnel mode with a pistol, flashlight and knife.

gets drunk and shags his best friend the second he graduates

procedes to hold said friend at arms length

Is so good at everything he has a fucking fanclub

gets imprisoned by the earth government

Has a run in with his childhood best friend who has developed a really bad fungal infection

Escapes the earth government with an evil ass space jihadi

gets imprisoned by said fucking space jihadists, kills their big lizard with a butter knife, and saves the daughter of the evilest guy who ever eviled.

be then gets medical aid, and shags the daughter of the guy who can be described in the sentence “he eviled maliciously across the evil room evily”. While being the prisoner of the space jihadists. She is wearing a necklace of severed body parts and has a belief system somewhere between human sacrifice and a fucking death cult. He is a prisoner of war BTW

Insults the second in command of the space jihadi ship.

gets stabbed in the stomach and instantly after waking up shags evil mcevilfaces daughter again, who tries to skin him with her weird ass finger nails. They also destroy a room while doing so.

has random ass psychic visions

murders his childhood best friend who now has an even worse fungal infection with the knife of the space jihadist.

Has a decidedly homosexual moment with the son of John evil. In a server room, while conducting espionage.

Im forgetting something

might do these for some of the other characters

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That was in Fahrenheit (wow I actually spelled that all on my own) so because freezing is 32° that would be about -30 which I think was around -30 C as well

"why dont you shave" i'm growing out my fur coat for the harsh winter, janet

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don't worry, I am.

I googled it and that is about -36 C

"why dont you shave" i'm growing out my fur coat for the harsh winter, janet

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😐

It regularly gets 60 degrees below freezing where I live in the winter

"why dont you shave" i'm growing out my fur coat for the harsh winter, janet

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Amazing no notes

Aurora cycle characters but I describe them badly and in a sentence or two

Aurora: Record holder for longest hangover sleep in at 2 centuries. Doing her Irish ancestors proud.

Finian: standards so high he considers the peak of human legionnaires to be a rebound.

Zila: “What do you mean tazeing people is illegal? I do it all the time!”

Tyler: What if goody two shoes, but dating a war criminal?

Scarlett: earthly manifestation of a god of trade. Once bought a designer handbag with two chocolate coins and a wink

kal: Violence isn’t the answer

saedii: it’s the question, and the answer is yes