#and she said 'i didnt say that i would never say that!!!!' even though sge literally just said that.....

[acciostorian]

hort: the sge marmite

(you either love him or hate him)

now, i’m making this post because it has come to my attention that the fandom’s opinion(s) on hort are very mixed.

you either love him: from what i have seen (from instagram and tumblr) a good majority of the fandom adore/stan/love hort. but why? (i am keeping my personal opinion out of this until the end.)

let’s start with the school years (sge, awwp, tlea)-

sge: hort is first introduced straight off the bat as creepy, skinny and a weasle in general. the first interaction we have with hort as a character is him asking to touch sophie’s hair the moment they arrive at the school for evil.

literally the first mention of hort is to do with one of his biggest character flaws, being a sophie simp. now, i’m going to be honest, i don’t remember anything to do with hort for the first book for the most part. i thought hort was going to be a small/side character that’ll be mentioned once or twice - kind of like how kiko was mentioned as agatha’s friend in sge.

horts love confession in sge, this is a scene i didn’t see coming. as i said, i didn’t really pay attention to hort i kind of forgot his presence until it was towards the end of the book when sophie was getting jealous of agatha (and blossoming tagatha) and she was researching evil shit in the common room with hort for the circus of talents.

so hort on the toilet trying to turn into a man-wolf without shitting himself and sophie is like evilly rambling about agatha and tagatha and she slips something about ‘love’.

hort offhandedly says, “i know evil cant love but if i had to love someone, i’d love you.” and then just fucking falls asleep?!! like okay, hort, you drop probably the cutest and most heartfelt comment that has ever bounced off the walls of the school for evil.

this was the first signal, at least for me, that hort was going to be a recurring character. everything goes down hill from here.

before we start on awwp, an honourable mention:

the nevers’ no ball where sophie whispered something into hort’s ear. SOMAN I NEED TO KNOW WHAT SHE SAID.

awwp: this is where we start to see hort’s crazy, obsessive side. hort studied tedros from afar, taking in his movements and mannerisms to try and steal his ‘style’. so sophie would love him because she ‘loved’ tedros.

what i find so funny about awwp is that hort unknowingly simped over sophie’s boy form. like he didn’t have the faintest clue that filip of mount honora was in fact the girl who keeps him up at night.

if you think he wasn’t simping than let me remind you, he practically begged castor for filip to be put in his room, he sacrificed his own grades to help filip do better than everyone else, he stuck to him like a piece of gum, he can to confirm every other day wether or not filip was still his best friend because he didn’t want to loose him. heck, he made filip his best friend without even knowing what filip was like!

anyway, before we shall hop into tlea let me just say: personally i think in the first two books hort is a sweet, cute, funny-ish character.

tlea: tlea is like where we see how fucking far hort would go for sophie. so hort gets absolutely swol like tedros and starts ‘focusing on himself’ by getting his grades up and being the best in the school for new evil.

the only reason he did this is because he was pretty sure sophie was becoming evil’s queen and marrying a man that could kill hort without a second thought.

once rafal allows sophie a tour around the school hort is there to silently show out his new form. (you can’t convince me he was just ‘there’ for the hell of it).

like rafal is being the aladdin and practically singing ‘i can show you the world- that is dark and twisted and completely controlled by me, this is not a democracy,’ and hort is leaning up against a wall, waiting for sophie to pass so she can see how he’s evolved.

even fucking rafal knows his game, literally says, “wow, you’re the top student- well done. anywayyyy, shouldn’t you be working?- she’s out of your league.”

then we have the classic hot tub espionage. they have a bath together yarda, yarda, yarda soman love it.

in the book hort at least becomes self aware of his sophie obsession and kind of takes a moment to have small breakdowns about what the fuck he’s doing with his life.

okay so it’s cannon that hort’s tedros impersonation was so good that he could even fall sophie who was basically in love with him back then. like c’mon, that’s fucking weird.

now for something i can’t process and hate:

*inhales heavily* HORT FUCKING LEFT SCHOOL, HIS STUDIES AND HIS SAFTEY TO BE WITH SOPHIE! LIKE HE LITERALLY LEFT THE ONE PLACE HE’D SORT IF BE SAFE IN TO JOIN THE MOST WANTED GROUP IN THE WOODS BECAUSE SOPHIE WAS WITH THEM. AND THEN WHEN SHE PLAINLY SAID THAT SHE DIDNT WANT HIM THERE HE STILL PROCEEDED TO WALK SEVERAL PACES BEHING HER LIKE A CREEPY SHADOW. HE WAS HER BODYGUARD EVEN THOUGH SHE FRANKLY DIDNT NEED ONE BEING EVIL’S QUEEN! THEN LATER ON WHEN SOPHIE IS CLEARLY NOT INTERESTED AND IS BEGGING FOR TEDROS TO TAKE HER HORT FINDS SOME WISH FISH AND PLAYS AROUND WITH THEM! AND YOU KNOW WHAT HIS FUCKING DEEPEST TRUEST WISH WAS??? IT WAS TO MARRH SOPHIE— I CANT WITH THIS FUCKING MAN. that’s all i have to say on tlea.