#fablehaven sexyman

[candlemouse]

fablehaven sexy man march madness bracket

Now let me explain…

1. This was made before the first poll closed and I am sticking to it even if it is now incorrect.

2. I will put a ✅ or an ❌ if the prediction was correct or incorrect.

Ahem…

First Round

Ronodin must win. The Sphinx is no sexy man. I think this one is self-explanatory. ✅

Come on, guys. Dale? Dale versus my first literary crush and absolute charmer Warren? Warren is everything a sexy man can be. Charming, handsome, funny, a little fruity at times—ideal man. Ideal Tumblr man ✅

Again, easy one. Navarog is such a strong contender. He is young, he is twink. He is again someone my young self would have absolutely blasted across all of your feeds if I had tumblr. Celebrant is great—but not great enough. ✅

Okay, I saw the results for this. I am disappointed, Fablehaven fandom. Hugo over Raxtus? Imagine a fairy boy raxtus anime drawing. That has such tumblr potential. Hugo—big dirt baby. Adorable dirt baby. But not a sexy man. ❌

Now, Bracken and Garreth is tough. Because logically I do know that Bracken is the number one love interest. However, I feel, in my heart, that if Fablehaven was much bigger and had a screen presence maybe, Garreth would be the best friend everyone would want to see Kendra with. Sure, does he have any personality in canon? No. And that is absolutely perfect for Tumblr sexy man. He can be anything you want. He is baby girl and sexy man all at once. Now, as we head into the runoff for this one, I am counting on you all. (this one was a tie) (Also, I have written literally the only two works on ao3 that have Garreth in them so I do in fact feel a personal stake in this) (please)

Patton and Tanu. Tanu is amazing, but Patton, again, guys, let’s think back to your first read as maybe a young one. Maybe it was just me, but Patton was literally dream guy in big, cursive letters. He may have lost the sexy man competition, but he has a place in my heart. ❌

Errol and Mr. Lich is interesitng because they’re both dependent on very little canon screen time. I would even say that Errol probably has more. But I am thinking of a Fablehaven show, and I am thinking of the edits of Mr. Lich standing silently beside the Sphinx and edits that like zoom in on the brief touches between the two. Anyway ✅

For Newel and Doren, I honestly have no feelings. In my head, the only difference is that Newel got rabies in the second or third book (third. I think. GOTSP) and Doren didn’t. I think Doren is more baby girl and Newel is more “oh god, what is that?” Either way, it’s a coin toss for me. I guess it just depends if people were into Newel in rabid mode. ✅

Now it’s harder to go past the first round, seeing as some of my predictions were already wrong. However, I will give my case for what I think are the strongest contenders.

In order of weakest to strongest:

As aforementioned, Patton is dreamboat, at least in my memory. Let’s forget all the thinking I did after i first read it about the coercion in him and Lena’s relationship and instead focus on how I felt before I examined the book at all. And how I felt was enamored! Super cool guy, but I think what is holding him back is his age. And that we see him super old. Kind of kills the attraction.

Next, Warren. Warren is literally sexy man. He is the sexy man before Navarog shows up. Because let’s be real, when I first read that Kendra had that little crush on him, I wasn’t thinking “oh my god, he’s your cousin!” That wasn’t even crossing my mind. I was thinking, me too girl!

Now, we have Navarog. Gavarog. My sweet baby boy Gavin. Gavin is a stuttering love interest that turns out to be a demon dragon. He is literally gorgeous lovers to enemies, and if Fablehaven had any screen presence—the absolute amount of edits you would see of him would be insane. As he would deserve.

Finally, what is there to say about Ronodin? He checks every mark and I will be so incredibly surprised if we does not come out on top. He inserts sexual tension into literally any scene he’s in (no I have not read the fifth book, no I have not read that proposal scene) and he is such sexy man. So many Fablehaven characters are closer to baby girl, male wife, girl boss, but Ronodin? He is ultimate Fablehaven Sexyman

Share your thoughts! And thank you to @carolinelikesdinner for organizing @fablehaven-sexyman. Absolute delight in my spring break!

Also it was insane seeing just how close literally all the polls were. The division!

[facetsofthecloset]

i'm sure it's been said but i feel like both Raxtus and Ronodin can be argued as "the only gay kid in the family and consequently shunned/rejected" and it's like. so weird bc Mull is so Mormon he'd probably rather eat his shorts than even acknowledge the possible existence of gays but

i mean. Raxtus literally has a fairy form. he's a fairy dragon.

Ronodin was just emo lol

and they both get so thoroughly rejected and sidelined by their families their whole lives and it turns Raxtus into an awkward but basically decent guy who runs back to the approval of his family once he's performed masculinity/violence enough to be accepted, only to then realize that he's basically just being used and still not fully trusted/accepted and having to betray them to save his real friends

(who sadly are probably actually homophobic but that's ok bc they're not dragon-phobic so that works out for him)

while Ronodin's like "fuck it. chaos and murder then!" and can you really blame him? he spent his entire life trying to conform to the "right" (in this case, Light) way of life, started spending time with the outgroup and learned to question things, then was told he was "too corrupt" to remain in his home

like. the symbolism is right there.

it's so funny, because sure Raxtus isn't a bad guy, but Ronodin definitely is and he pretty much gets sent to a type of hell at the end of Dragonwatch

and while Raxtus gets kind of a happy ending, like, him becoming an effective killer in a war and being accepted by his dad for being Good At Murder in the first Fablehaven series is presented as a happy ending. if Celebrant didn't wind up being the main villain for Dragonwatch, that probably would've been the end of it! gay kid learns how to soldier and is finally accepted by his homophobic family bc he's finally aggressive enough for them to love him

(i mean i have MANY issues with Celebrant being the main villain later and the reasons he's framed as bad but like. that's a separate rant lol)

the queer reading is right there. but also it's very bad and you can tell completely unintentional. or at the very least highly repressed. idk man i don't look into Mull as a personal individual bc i doubt i'll like what i see and i don't care that much but Dragonwatch was SO MUCH MORE MORMON than Fablehaven already was and it's so weird, seeing the fingerprints of it all over.

i feel like he either has a new editor or he's been doing this for long enough and sold enough books that he has the clout to veto changes made by editors or SOMETHING, bc i feel like? he's gotten worse?? and more unfiltered?? that or something happened and he's like. even more religious than before or something idk

like fablehaven was just kinda generic/bland fantasy with some fun ideas for magic items/powers/one sentence character premises, with just a hint of sus Mormon ideology, and then Dragonwatch just went. Full Mormon.

but then there's somehow even more weirdly queer shit. like. he's repressing so hard he's approaching queer from the other side??

idk man i wish this deeply mediocre man's writing wasn't a formative piece of middle school reading, leading to me still giving more of a shit than i really should over questionable children's literature now

[fablehaven-sexyman]

[a-dip-in-the-source]

I had to actually kill my shadow self in battle in order to stop myself from reblogging from a main to garner support.

[carolinelikesdinner]

RONODIN SWEEP ‼️‼️‼️🤭🤭🤭

[walrusbutter]

So the other day, it hit me like a bolt of lightning that I have this silly little fhdw blog. Naturally, I opened up the old computer and went on down to tumblr.com, searched up the main fablehaven tag for the first time in five months to see what I could see. And what do i see? You're all obsessed with polls. The Gavarog stans have slunk back into the shadows. You've all been hard at work in the lore mines unearthing more Dragonwatch plot holes. A plethora of new fanart awaits to blurse my eyes. Tanugatoa Dufu is our sexyman????????

Why Tanu though? Y'all really saw him in a lineup including mustached violin-playing Indiana Jones? And a nefariously pretty Demon Dragon?? Emo Sadboy Horse of Darkness with eyeliner sharp enough to kill??? Warren Freaking Burgess™???? The oh so babygirl Cottagecore Prince?????? And y'all really said. "After some consideration, we'll take unethical chemistry guy from Idaho as our lawfully wedded sexyman."

[fly-lumiere]

The sphinx lost The fablehaven tumblr sexyman I will raise HELL

IDC IDC you are MY tumblr sexyman plus I love you my Ethiopian Dark Evil Pretty King

[saltedsolenoid]

rip ves and i . somehow missed the fablehaven sexyman bracket

[fablehaven-sexyman]

THE FINALE OF THE FABLEHAVEN TUMBLR SEXYMAN COMPETITION HAS FINALLY REACHED ITS CONCLUSION!

THE ULTIMATE FABLEHAVEN TUMBLR SEXYMAN IS…

TANUGATOA DUFU!

Who won against Ronodin the dark unicorn at 54.1% of the vote!

[fablehaven-sexyman]

THE POLLS ARE OFFICIALLY CLOSED!

OUR WINNERS ARE…

RONODIN THE DARK UNICORN

Who won out against The Sphinx, at 64.9% of the vote!

NAVAROG THE DEMON PRINCE

Who obliterated Celebrant the Just, at a whopping 77.8% of the vote!

HUGO THE GOLEM

Who won out against Raxtus at 57.1% of the vote!

TANUGATOA DUFU

Who narrowly beat Patton Burgess at 52.4% of the vote!

MR. LICH

Who won out against Errol Fisk at 65.4% of the vote!

DOREN THE SATYR

Who narrowly won out against Newel at 52.2% of the vote!

WARREN BURGESS

Who won out against Dale Burgess at 61.9% of the vote!

AND FINALLY…WE HAVE A SHOCKING TIE BETWEEN BRACKEN THE HORNLESS UNICORN, AND GARRETH DALGOREL!

Who are at a standstill at 50% each! This calls for a rematch…vote wisely!