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[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[akantorrr]

[possamble]

Needlessly close reading and long commentary on chapter 57 and how the audience actually has an extremely limited view on what Marcille has been like over the course of her life.

I am once again thinking about how pre-dungeon Marcille is so quiet and stoic that she seems like a completely different person. How jarring chapter 57 is for the audience. Like you have Marcille, who has been just the most blindingly expressive person with resting baby face

And then the chapter drops a title page of Marcille hearing from Falin for the first time in four years and it's like.

Who is that. Genuinely. Would you even realize that's Marcille without the context clues?

And then the chapter just keeps coming in with the sucker punches.

We have SEEN Marcille meet strangers. It was never with this understated of a smile.

literally who the hell is this. the few times the audience gets to see some Signature Marcille Faces that they're used to is when she finally gets to see Falin again

when she's testing out her new spells

(and when Laios and Falin are fantasizing about her being their damsel in distress, funnily enough)

And then finally. Finally you get to a fully recognizable Marcille when she fucking DIES and comes back to life to geek out about necromancy.

We know she loves magic. We know she loves Falin. So it's not so surprising that she wouldn't be able to keep a mask up when thinking or talking about the things she loves. But why the mask in the first place? Where does it come from? It's tempting to think that, maybe, Falin's departure just hurt her so much that it turned her into a quiet person.

But that's only half true. If you go back, the first instance you see of this incredibly mild personality is actually introduced much earlier, in chapter 17.

What if she was always like that. What if her default after her father died was to hold people at arm's length, to never really emote past being polite and friendly. What if Falin was the first person who was able to bring her out of her shell, and when she left, Marcille just went back to how she was.

And when comparing her detached demeanour with someone else...

It's not exact, but wouldn't you say there's a resemblance? Wouldn't you think she might be trying her best to imitate what she saw of her own mother working as an accomplished mage?

It would certainly explain why she's hiding behind her portrait in her nightmare, at least.

We aren't told that Marcille has been distancing herself from everyone around her using a mature and dignified personality she modelled off her mother. But we sure as hell are shown it, I think.

[girldadbuckley]

His name is Buck.. a buck is a male deer.... Bambi is a male deer......

9-1-1 3.08 // Bambi (1942)

[corvidus-fr]

when's Tidelord coming back, anyway? i can't wait for his new album to drop

[official-english-major]

Truly no other fictional couple can match each other's freak like Odysseus and Penelope, because a normal couple reuniting after years apart would be hugging and crying, meanwhile odysseus is spying on her in disguise and she's gaslighting him to see if he knows about their marriage secrets

Like for a while there they were literally just both eyeballing each other distrustfully like:

[odd-critter]

i leave and come back bearing a new interest. Hi

[highdensityrabbitsituation]

i am absolutely howling with delight

[tasaq]

Bill baby laces are not fascist

naked triangle with yellow hands

[obsob]

one small step for. kitties

[mwagneto]

ruby and 15 finding the same guy hot and having a joke catfight about it vs donna and 14 finding the same guy hot and just agreeing and moving on. this is coz the former are young & sexy and the latter are geriatric

[solcarow]

Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto // Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint by Sing Shong

[sleepsucks]

[elipsis-art]

could you draw the people a cubfan135 please ✨✨✨

i have never drawn cub before,,,

[troyandabedsnewapartment]

THE PLACE YOU MISS DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE, HOME IS THE FIRST GRAVE.

1. Mateo Manaure, Suelos de mi tierra (1967) | 2. tumblr user @ryebreadgf | 3. Manuel Cabré - Sol en los cerros (1919) | 4. Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch | 5. José Antonio Quintero, Vista del Ávila desde la avenida Sucre hacia la Cota Mil (1977) | 6. Anna Kamienska, A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook | 7. Pedro León Castro, Armonía (1947) | 8. Vardges Petrosyan, “A Shirt Made of Fire” (trans. @metamorphesque) | 9. Próspero Martínez, Paisaje del Ávila —vista desde El Calvario— (c. 1920) | 10. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room | 11. Jesús María de las Casas, El incendio del Ávila en 1883 —reverso— (c. 1915) | 12. Miriam Adeney | 13. Gabriel Bracho, (detail of) Cota 905 (1956)

[stromer]

clocked him a bit