#casimir coridan

[professorlegaspi]

Honestly, referring to Neeghan’s childhood home as ‘her Huperpetra cell’ is overkill on my part because really all of Huperpetra is a cell. It may disguise itself as a stronghold but it is fundamentally a prison, even and especially for its most powerful inhabitant

[professorlegaspi]

The characters in a PJO AU

Celia: Daughter of Cronos. This is a Big Deal and is the source of conflict in this universe. She arrives at Camp at around the same age as in The Book in the Attic

Maddie: Daughter of Tyche. She’s on the weaker side, but able to balance odds really well. She and Celia met at the Hermes table since neither of their parents have a cabin.

Josh: Son of Ares. Love is war.

Kitt: Centaur and camp storyteller. He’s pretty young so he’s not a leader but he supervises during campfire and Capture the Flag

Heath: Son of Hephaestus, he mans the forge and is the second oldest in his cabin. He comes across as laid back but he’s really good about making sure no one gets hurt in such a fire-prone environment

Audra: clear-sighted mortal and Hunter of Artemis. She arrives in camp later on, effectively as their liaison. Her role among the Hunters is diplomacy

Doxa: Also a Hunter of Artemis, and is Artemis’s representative amongst the council of the Gods. A bit of a bully early on, but she lets up on Celia when she realizes they both want to protect those who are powerless

Quiroz: Son of Hermes, the God of travellers, messengers, thieves, and Psychopomp

Lyerly: Daughter of Apollo, specializes in truth and prophecy, eventually becomes the Oracle of Camp when they let the attic mummy pass on

Casimir: Son of Zeus, and feels entitled because of it

[professorlegaspi]

Every time I think I get Casimir Coridan, something new comes up and makes me reevaluate.

And I think this is because Casimir, interestingly, never actually gives a stereotypical villain monologue. We know his story, we have all the puzzle pieces, but we never hear it from his mouth. It’s always from outside perspectives. And none of those people have the same picture of him

[professorlegaspi]

Casimir is interesting in that he doesn’t ever really seem to want to be a villian.

Like, he promised his dad he’d ascend to the throne so he’s gotta, and he’s certainly power hungry, but there’s a certain going-through-the-montions feeling to it. The only moments I can remember him being truly angry are when Celia humiliates him and when his media ploys backfired. He doesn’t even seem to particularly like having followers. He just convenes them because it’s the most efficient way to achieve his goals. Honestly he could have had a good life as a politician and just called it there. He enjoys toying with public perception and definitely gets something out of being well-known and (temporarily) well-liked, but it’s not like he needs to do evil machinations from his evil castle to live that lifestyle. And now I’m thinking about all the times he passed up on doing evil deeds himself - someone else kidnapped Celia, someone else kidnapped her family for that matter, someone else put her in the dungeons, someone else read her mind, someone else beat Quiroz to death… we don't actually know he was the one to wipe Sam Gemynd's mimd… he's kind of bad at the whole villain shtick. I wouldn’t call him a tragic figure, because he’s not, not quite, but he’s certainly… not fitting into his shoes perfectly if you know what I mean

[professorlegaspi]

Heavily implied in book 4 that the reason Casimir didn’t kill Celia’s parents was because his own parent had been murdered and he Felt Bad about it

[professorlegaspi]

It’s so funny that in Celia’s Journey the main, overwhelming, defining trait of the villain is just that he’s an atheist

[professorlegaspi]

You’re telling me the Desert Knights were sealed into service with a ring? Like marriage? Like you do when you’re getting married and you present a ring to your betrothed and they literally did that. like marriage

[professorlegaspi]

I wish I had the confidence of pre-pubescent Casimir Coridan

He was absolutely, 100%, unshakably certain that he would win in a fight against Professor Spadaro. He called it “absurd” and “a farce.” He was up against the leading body gifts Professor in all of America and he was utterly convinced he would win. AND HE WAS RIGHT

[professorlegaspi]

This song is so AU where Casimir is a religious fanatic who is trying to become Princep in order to attain the closest possible relationship with God

[professorlegaspi]

In a world where prophecy is real, Casimir’s actions aren’t just unnuanced evil, they’re also acts of desperation. It was decreed by God that he would fail, so the only way to avoid that failure was to become God

[professorlegaspi]

Really interesting that there are only two characters in the entire book series that wear capes…

[professorlegaspi]

What I don’t understand is Casimir has the ability to go into every school in the country and he only goes into the library? Why not kidnap the children and use them as bargaining chips to seal his power? Wouldn’t that be miles more expedient?

[professorlegaspi]

This is so funny to me, because it makes Casimir sound like Wile E. Coyote to Celia’s Roadrunner. This whole time he’s been operating on the assumption that he can logic and democracy his way into the line of succession when really it’s like … you have to get tapped on the head by a fairy godmother. Most doomed scavenger hunt ever for him. His rationality is utterly useless

[professorlegaspi]

Really weird that Casimir was trying to get Quiroz to transfer his gifts, because even if that worked, Celia still had three people’s worth of extra gifts, and he’d only have one

[professorlegaspi]

A concise list of all the villains in the Celia’s Journey series

A politician

Another politician

The Head Chair of Student Affairs

That one popular guy who everyone likes and is perfect and hot and cool and is so perfect that it rubs you the wrong way and makes you hate him

Another politician

Cat lady

[professorlegaspi]

Sososo sad that Celia’s Journey doesn’t lend itself well to ‘Casimir was right’ arguments because I am the #1 villian apologist. Pleeease give me actions I can reasonable excuse, I wanna be a Casimir advocate I wanna spread propaganda