#christopher chant

[earlgraytay]

If you feel like your gender is Howl Jenkins Pendragon and you also feel like you're getting too old for that shtick, GOOD NEWS

Christopher "Chrestomanci" Chant exists and is the exact same gender but ten years older

he's most known for wearing Absolutely Magnificent dressing gowns at all hours of the day, including a sky-blue one with Chinese dragons all over it

[chelshiart]

chrestomanci sketchdump!

[libraryfag]

why do you, as a man have weird dream powers, so you can dream about other men?

[herbofgraceandpeace]

something something it’s really interesting noticing all the times young Christopher feels ashamed of his appearance or realizes he’s poorly dressed in The Lives of Christopher Chant, given how obsessive he becomes about being well dressed as an adult something something so much of his personality is formed by his horrible experiences of powerlessness and being unloved as a child

[snitling]

CASUALLY rereading Conrad's Fate and Millie saying that Christopher is too lazy to learn how to do magic properly, "he just bluffs", well MAYBE, Millie, remember that for the first twelve or so years of his life he was unconsciously FORCED to always tell the truth, including to his tutor Fabian about how good he was at magic, until he met THE HUMAN ASPECT OF A GODDESS who told him about it and then TAUGHT HIM HOW TO LIE

[callonpeevesie]

hear me out, conrad christopher millie polycule

[the-forest-library]

I upgraded my Chrestomanci collection

[mary-annstories158]

I recently finished re-reading "Castle" trilogy by D. W. Jones and please, tell me that I'm not the only one, who thinks that the world, where all plot happens, one of the worlds under Chrestomanci's control (I'm sorry, if I called it incorrect, but English isn't my first language and I don't read this book on it) . Like, it's one of my favorite headcanons, that ever came to my mind. And I guess it probably can explain how Howl and Sullivan came to Ingary from Wales. Or i just need Christopher Chant's and Howl's interactions, who knows?)

[dragoneyes613]

Of course he had known about the mermaids.

The Wraith trusted him by then. Mostly, anyway.

Christopher was the most valuable asset the Wraith had, even more than Mordecai, spy and dream-walker, was. The Wraith was hardly going to let the boy gallivant around the worlds without briefing Mordecai on who and what they would encounter and what they were to do.

And Mordecai was responsible for the boy. He tried his best to keep him safe. That disaster in Asheth's temple had been quite enough; he did try to find out what they would face so he could plan for it.

He had known very well what those fishy-smelling packages contained, and his stomach had turned for more reason than the strong smell.

But when Christopher asked him if he'd known, forsaken or betrayed by mother, father, uncle, wide eyes desperate and hopeful and beseeching, and he couldn't say it. He couldn't shatter the light in Christopher's eyes. He couldn't be yet another person in Christopher's life to have betrayed him.

So he lied. It was hardly the worst thing he'd done.

[goddessofwisdom18]

Millie the school girl

[kattahj]

Thinking of Christopher and Millie, how Millie never wondered what would happen to her after she got too old to be the Goddess, while Christopher honed in on the question and figured out that she would be made a human sacrifice.

Millie had been pampered and spoiled her whole life; she had no reason to doubt that she would be taken care of. Meanwhile, Christopher had been betrayed by his own family and knew damned well that there are people who will think nothing of murdering children for a bit of power.

And as readers, we know that this is true. Millie came to believe it too. Adults really can be horrible.

But there was one thing Millie knew that Christopher didn't, that the readers don't. She knew Mother Proudfoot.

Christopher wasn't wrong to think that adults do atrocious things. But Millie wasn't wrong either, to believe that this particular adult would always take care of her. Because in the end, she did.

[chelshiart]

This Barbie is a Nine-Lifed Enchanter!

[quietflorilegium]

"Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person."

Diana Wynne Jones, "Charmed Life"

[sophia-sol]

turns out Christopher Chant fits exactly into the character type I most enjoy playing in zoom theatre. I reread The Lives of Christopher Chant endlessly as a kid, because it's just such a fun book! And now as an adult I can see how it sunk its little hooks into my brain.

[thatu]

it’s been long enough without me being here so a lot of u don’t know that I actually tattooed Christopher chant’s “chrestomanci” signature on my ribs (in DWJ’s handwriting) a couple of years ago because a decade or so before a friend said “but if u tattooed chrestomanci’s signature on u then you would always be protected since all of you is made of magic, Thais” when my life was really sad. So I keep forgetting this one but yeah I take Christopher with me wherever I go.