#hilbert from tov

[thecomfywriter]

Why do you think Hilbert has so many simps?

okay! welcome to hilbert day! starting it off with a fun one. hi sol! thanks for the ask! let's get straight into it!

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert's peculiar fanbase [no spoilers]:

this is goofy because i think i actually know the reason why (unlike morreial). there are a couple of reasons i've picked up on for why hilbert has "simps".

(1) he's an interesting character:

i feel like this is the biggest factor, but i might be wrong. hilbert as a person might suck ass, but as a character, functionally for the narrative, he's FASCINATING. bro is mysterious. he's a villain, sure, but he's conflicting because in his pov, he's almost persuasive. not only towards alan, but (as i have experienced it) towards the reader as well. i feel like while reading hilbert's chapters, i found myself liking him more and justifying his existence in the story. he might be rotten to the core, but the guy exudes presence and a certain level of charisma that keeps him intriguing and entertaining.

plus, there's the entire desire to figure out what he's actually like. what is his true face? how does he look when he's not manipulating someone? who was he before the plot started? a big part of hilbert's character is the uncertainty behind his lore, which kinsa incites people to figuring him out. you almost want to make a definitive opinion about him, but each pov represents him in such conflicting ways, its hard to set your mind on if he's actually a good person or not. alan is deadset on believing hilbert has changed and wants to redeem himself. caramel refuses to even entertain the idea. morreial is just pissy at him, and cara has an odd sense of neutrality and fondness. soilaila hates him enough to try and mob him on the first day, but no one is actually arresting him for some reason. even without his limious status, he seems to hold the most power in this situation, and it begs the question why and how.

(2) bro was a dilf:

I KNOW THIS ANSWER IS WAY MORE UNSERIOUS THAN THE LAST ONE. LMAO. HEAR ME OUT.

hilbert in his prime is the entire reason why i personally started to feel conflicted about him. apart from being gorgeous (bruh... the luscious silver hair, the battle scars over his muscular body, the striking baby blue eyes, the slightly blushed cheeks and his maleficent smile? bye-- i had no business making him that majestic 😭😭), he also had this glory to him. there was a slight arrogance, but it almost felt like he deserved it. bro held the limious title for SIXTY YEARS. he went from being a nobody earth-elemental to one of the most powerful people in soilaila. he rose the ranks, got knighted by von doro herself, and became markum's biggest rival. he has this esteem to him that is simultaneously commanding and hot as balls.

THERE. I SAID IT. ARE YOU HAPPY?

all of hilbert's young chapters in sai just had me simping in the comments of the annotated draft LOL. i was so far gone it was embarrassing.

(3) the narrative:

the narrative purposefully tricks the audience a lot of the time, mainly because alan has the most chapters, and he sees hilbert in this truly respectable light. paired with how much magic hilbert knows, there's a certain degree of fascination to him that is naturally developed over the course of the book.

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again, i could be totally wrong about all of these. for all we know, it was that one hilbert edit and the fact that bro has a v-line of the gods that caused him to develop his fanbase. you'd have to ask them. but these are personally my reasons for being on the fence with this guy. as i said previously, he's rotten to the core, but my god is he fascinating.

thanks for the ask, sol!

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[thecomfywriter]

How would Hilbert react if I gave him a snickers

this is so silly goofy lol. half the asks for hilbert day are just gaffs and it's honestly hilarious. let me answer this way too seriously lol.

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert's reaction to modern day delectables [no spoilers]:

okay so, per lore, hilbert's diet consisted of primarily fruits, vegetables, and hearty vegetables, with plant-based proteins since he was of the purists in soilailan society that considered the consumption of meat as "monstrous" and "animalistic" because of the semblance it carried to dragons. as a result, i feel like the modern american diet would give him an aneurysm.

mcdonalds as a whole would send him on an impassioned monologue about the blithe of society and the regressive tendencies humans carried in their woeful nature, and then compare them to cairoyas to explain how "our abstinence from such monstrosities is why we carry the light of yozar within us. not even the war commander of the gods would have reckoned with such pitiful platters."

bro was so extra for no reason lol.

he'd probably carry the same sentiments about a snickers bar. it would enrage him for NO good reason. he'd see it as an insult to offer something so, "destitute of nutrition and purposeless for the consumption of the soul and body." as you can tell, bro is an almond-mom to the bone, and he'd see anything sugary like chocolate as an insult to his limious status.

"bah! do you truly consider me so simpleminded, foolish child, that i would indulge in the temptations of the cane snakes? the intoxications of the soul masquerade in different forms, but all my eyes have been sharpened towards wisdom. you cannot harken a fool out of me, to have me indulge in such pitiful attempts of joyless delicacies. tell me, fruitless child--have you ever tasted the ambrosia of the gods? the ichor of their golden blood flows within the natural currents of this earth. why would a man such as i, who has taken seat at the zaverena's throne room--why would i entertain anything less than ambrosia? my lips have tasted more finer tarts that your feeble snickers only evoke pity from me. present me a platter worth feasting upon from the sight alone, and i shall take a chair to dine. but do not insult me with your horridities. my answer shall be my blade, next time."

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that being said, if bro was old, haggardly, and starving like he is in tov, he would wolf i done like a freakin dog and not even thank you for the sweet.

thanks for the ask, ain!

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Alright….sigh..here we go…checks notes

Did Hilbert ever love Caramel.

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I remember you saying how being cruel and manipulative had to become second nature to be a limious, but before that…

Where did it begin? When compared to Alan’s character arch, did he have a similar “fall”, was it always going to happen? Would he be happy without being a limious? And does it have anything to do with this mysterious lover I keep hearing about..?

But most importantly, was Caramel ever more than a tool?

okay! finally finishing hilbert day oops. this is such an interesting ask. let's get straight into it.

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert's love for caramel [tov and sai spoilers]:

okay this is a multiparter so i'll answer this in sections. starting with his relationship with caramel:

(1) Did Hilbert ever love Caramel.

that's complicated.

once again, hilbert's genuine feelings towards everyone is unknown. however, i'll indulge you a little bit and answer what little i know about their relationship pre-tov, considering i have author privileges.

caramel was the closest thing hilbert ever had to a daughter. so in some twisted way, althought he mainly calls her "child" to piss her off, it wouldn't be far off to say some deeper part of him truly was attached to and cared for caramel. he was a terrible father, without a doubt, and he truly was bitter and horrible down to the bone. however, if you were to ask him if he ever loved caramel, he would say no, but he was proud of making her as good as she was today.

(2) Being cruel and manipulative had to become second nature to be a Limious, but before that… Where did it begin?

i actually don't ever remember saying this LMAO L on my behalf. my horrible memory strikes again. whenever i said that, allow me to clarify my previous miswording to accurately convey the burdens of being a limious.

alan's infamous (and i'm talking his most notable in BOTH books) monologue is called, 'Hindsight is a cruel power' monologue. i'll copy it down below for reference and highlight the portions i'm going to be using to clarify my previous point.

“Hindsight is a cruel power. If I may relay anything to you now, as I describe my story from the memories that haunt me, it is endless rage and frustration that arises within me. For, at every turn of the way, I had yet another person warn me of his malevolence. Belittle me for my naivety. Yet what did I do about it? Fell into the inevitability that was my fate. Blaming fate would be easy, in truth, for it removes the blame off my person. But if we speak in truth, then the truth says only one thing: I should have known better. Better than to make a blood oath. Better than to stick by it. Better than to commit all my mistakes in secret. I should have known better, been better, listened more. For Morreial was not speaking in vain when he warned me of this curse. To be a Limious is to wear gloves of scarlet and ice. I did not see its harm because I did not realize those gloves would never come off. I should have listened. But I cannot change the past. Only grieve it.” - Alan in narration (‘Hindsight is a cruel power’ monologue), Chapter 25

becoming a limious doesn't necessarily turn a person into cruel and manipulative person. 90% of the limiouses didn't become that way. that was just hilbert, and whomever hilbert mentored (aka alan and caramel). but it does force a person to become capable of losing themself in that way. there are unspeakable lengths a limious has to be capable of going to for the sake of soilaila. for some people, they die in the process, but those who survive usually morph into what hilbert had become.

when it comes to the precise turning point of hilbert, it is undefined for a reason--we don't know, and we never find out. who hilbert was before he became a limious is just as undefined as the type of limious he aspired to be. hilbert as a sane and noble limious, as 'the noble child' he calls alan, is forever left as an unknown, because the point in which he changed, or whatever had caused him to change, is never detailed to the audience. you're left to wonder if he had reached a breaking point, just as alan had, or if the nature of the job itself--the glory of the power, and the magic he had gained--if those forces had corrupted him instead.

(3) When compared to Alan’s character arch, did he have a similar “fall”, was it always going to happen?

alan and hilbert are meant to be parallels to each other. in all the ways hilbert's lore and arc is undefined, the parallels to alan are supposed to fill those gaps. by that assumption--yes, he did have a similar fall. but what caused that fall, what edge he fell from, what his breaking point was, how inevitable it was compared to alan... these are things we never find out.

(4) Would he be happy without being a limious?

if hilbert had never become a limious, he might have been sane and 'happy' in a more typical manner, but not truly. he wouldn't have been satisfied, because he wouldn't have succeeded for what he strove for. hilbert set out to be a limious. if he had never become one, sure, he wouldn't have become the miserable excuse of space that he is in tov, but he wouldn't have been happy either, because he would have never fulfilled his life's greatest ambition.

(5) And does it have anything to do with this mysterious lover I keep hearing about..?

your theory isn't far off, but i also can't confirm or deny anything, because i have chosen to keep myself in the dark about this as well, despite being the author. i don't know the extent to which eden, her lore, and the end of their relationship played on hilbert's downfall. it's funny you say this though, because i actually went on a 30 minutes mockcast episode asking all the same questions you ask me now.

the truth is, i don't know. and i don't think i ever will, because i will never write canon lore for all these unanswered questions. keeping hilbert a mystery from myself is what makes him, in my opinion, the best character i have ever written.

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thanks for all the questions, smihi! and sorry it took me so long :((

happy writing! cheers!

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[thecomfywriter]

What would happen if I chucked a tangerine at Hilbert's head?

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert's reaction to a tangerine attack [no spoilers]:

he would crush the tangerine in his hand, spray the acid in your eyes, and then go on however long of a hunt it took to chase you down and slice you up into fragments for the insult.

bro doesn't take kindly to insult or injury. and he'd consider your attack both.

just look at his reaction to cara stealing a book from him. bro went for the KILL. because she borrowed a BOOK FROM HIM.

it's chapter 24, if you're curious. i'm not even joking when i say bro caught 3 bodies that day, and he would've caught 4 if cara wasn't as lethal and secretly psychotic as she is.

thanks for the ask, ain!

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For the fifth day of askmas! How would the story change if I gave Hilbert a shotgun?

this is so silly i love it.

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert with a shotgun [no spoilers]:

honestly? not much would change. bro would probably just be more efficient with killing dragons, but honestly... he was doing just fine with his regular degular spears and arcanic weapons, so i'm not sure how big the change would be.

that being said! he probably would have committed a lot more homicides because for some reason, i imagine the non-magical component of the technology would mean you couldn't use artist eyes to figure out whose magic it was, and therefore bro would essentially get away with it easier.

wild west headcanon of hilbert and markum having a shootout. what a blast.

thanks for the ask, ilia!

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on this fine day I ask of thee: what would it take to give Hilbert a redemption arc? How would others react?

hi hello this is a very heavy ask for how delirious i currently am. yikes forever, let's see how coherently i respond.

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert's original ending [prev draft lore + headcanons]:

okay i'm going to yamble for a bit about the original (ogog draft) ending for tov+sai, originally called dragon adventure, because i think it's relevant to this question.

originally, hilbert's entire character arc WAS a redemption arc. the first chapter was called "the lost hero," and the reason why hilbert had sought alan out was because he was the only person who truly believed hilbert was capable of redemption. alan's entire "forgiveness to all" ideology was based on the idea that anyone was capable of overcoming their past by putting in the effort to redeem themselves from the damage inflicted onto others from their sins. that's why he invests so much into hilbert, and why hilbert strives to prove alan right. no one had ever had unshakeable faith in him like alan did before. he was hilbert's new moral compass, and the reason why hilbert called alan "erevana."

throughout the entire ogog draft, you read the book strictly through alan's pov (except the first chapter which is hilbert's), and you watch him grow emotionally attached to hilbert, especially since the stronger their bond got, the more hilbert was changing.

he was becoming kinder, especially to caramel. he got a real job. started helping around the community. tried to right his wrongs however he could, no matter how humiliating. and it made the theme of the story lean towards "redemption is possible" for the entire journey.

but then the warehouse scene happens, and for a brief moment, when caramel accidentally hurts alan while trying to protect him, you see hilbert's entire demeanor change. when he thought alan's life was in danger, he snapped and became vile again. it was only for a brief moment, and the moment alan had gotten better, he apologized to both of them for his sudden regression, and even bowed. and alan is convinced the stress of the situation caused a lapse in character, just for a brief moment.

that is, until the climax happens. the second incident starts, and rather than fulfil his promised duty like he had sworn to alan he would, hilbert tries to run away again.

once more, he prioritized his own safety over soilaila's. once more, he abandoned everyone to let them rot. and once more, when confronted about it, the vileness of his character broke the facade that was alan's unreliable narration, as he finally realizes that hilbert had never changed--he had just hidden himself in plain sight. he was irredeemable because he was rotten to the core. and in that moment, after the rosiness leaves his vision, alan's entire ideology around forgiveness and redemption changes, as he adopts the new idea that, "once a sinner, always a sinner." once a change had occurred, it was irreversible. and that is why, once alan crosses a line during the second incident to save everyone's life, he accepts that momentary unethical part of himself as a character change, and succumbs to it. he believes he is incapable to reverting back to who he was before that change, and thus, adopts a new fragmented identity of himself and his morality.

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i know that wasn't the ask, but my point of bringing up the original ending is to illustrate how no matter what version of tov i write, hilbert will never have a redemption arc. because no part of hilbert is genuine enough to have a redemption arc. the only way for that to be possible is if the core part of his identity was not him anymore, in which case, i would be creating a new character capable of growing. if we are taking about hilbert limious as every draft has ever known him, this man is irredeemable, because he doesn't see himself as needing redemption. no matter how rotten he is, if he is powerful, then he is proud.

thanks for the ask, wyked!

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Hey Nav 👋, I'm wondering about Eden and Hilbart.

1. What do they associate with their partner? What is the deeper meaning to it?

2. What do they like most about the other? How does it shape their relationship?

what a fascinating ask. hi wyked. let’s try and answer this.

bear in mind, hilbert’s history is a mystery to me too oops. so i don’t actually have FULL answers for all of these, but i do for some.

1) i’d say hilbert associates eden with purity and illness, and eden associates hilbert with perversion and power. what a healthy couple 🫠

HOWEVER, i will say this… the iron rose dagger on tov’s cover. that’s it. that’s all im saying. iykyk.

2) hilbert probably liked eden’s softness and her gentle boldness. she stood her ground but retained her femininity. as for hilbert? idk wtf she saw in that man LMAO but then again, hilbert of young, back in his peak Limious days, was a man none of us recognize . so there was definitely something there. i just have NO CLUE

thanks for the ask, wyked!

[thecomfywriter]

Okay okay we’re being silly now

What Hilbert’s getting for Christmas

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What holiday is his favorite?

coal.

i'm not even gonna format this properly. this man is getting curses and coal. c^2.

thanks for the ask, smihi!

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Hilbert day!

Here to request some of this man’s backstory. It feels like we get only the small snippets he wants to tell us about but there are so many years where we don’t have a clue what Hilbert was up to. (Maybe intentional??)

So my question is can we have some more about his past specifically while he was a limious but before the incident?

hi pae pae!

this is an interesting one. i'm going to jump straight into it because i don't want to waste time. without further ado...

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--the mystery behind hilbert's past [tov and sai spoilers]:

alrighty, so i wanna highlight something you said in your ask, because it's a core part of my answer:

Maybe intentional??

100% intentional.

i've said this before on my blog, but everything about hilbert is shrouded in mystery because nothing about him is genuine. you are never given the "true, objective, unbiased" truth about hilbert, simply because it does not exist. there is no "lore" about hilbert that isn't, to some capacity, tainted by his own skewed interpretation or in how he deceives people and messed with their interpretation. at the end of the day, no one knows who hilbert limious is, because he himself finds power in being unknown.

i'll indulge you slighty, but only slightly, because in giving you lore, i remove the entire purpose of hilbert's character. there aren't a lot of hard, objective facts about the guy, but i will say a couple of things before i do grant you a couple: sai goes into hilbert's past QUITE A BIT. sai, and chapter 19 of tov. chapter 19 of tov is a HUGEEEE character for the plot and all the characters, because it is the chapter where not only hilbert's past is uncovered, but alan's spiral begins.

sai builds on that by having full segments of the narrative (3 chapters, i believe? 2-3 chapters) where alan 'goes back in time' and witnesses hilbert's past through the perspective of markum and jervee iyzela. it's some of my favouriie chapters, i'm not going to lie.

anyways... some hilbert facts for you:

his limious mentor was a man named coze limious, who was known for taking a regular man and making a limious out of him

he is from the elemental family, specifically an earth-elemental

by the time he "debuted in society" as a limious, markum was already high within von doro's leagues

he once "loved" (allegedly, accoridng to him) a woman named eden, who gifted him an iron-rose dagger with their initials carved on the hilt

hilbert's rivalry with markum predates the incident by decades for unknown reasons to anyone except for the two of them (and von doro).

when asked about where eden is now, hilbert responded with, "markum ja reminded me the cost of being a limious" and ended the discussion

when hilbert first debuted as a limious, he had debuted with 16 others. by the end of his career, he was the only one left

hilbert had gained such notoriety, fame, and support from the masses of soilaila, that when von doro tried to revoke his limious title, riots broke out until he was reinstated

the dragon hunts were hilbert's most famous 'accomplishment' and were what helped him receive his cult fanbase

the most famous dragon hilbert had ever killed was the purple dragon that seared the skies, larger than the entire lenoq ring. he had created a mysterious spear of his specialty magic and aimed it directly into the dragon's magic bladder midflight, causing everyone to cheer as the dragon fell to its demise.

note, the last post is a now deleted scene, but it showcased hilbert, at the end of the hunt, capturing the dragons body, climbing atop its body, and riding its back like a chariot as his party of dragon hunters dragged it back to the bazaar, where a live-descaling and declawing event occurred. he would wear the scales of his previous conquests as armour to the next.

anyways. that's all i'm willing to indulge.

thanks for the ask, pae pae! i promise you, you'll like my secrecy better when you read the lore from the actual book itself. i don't want to ruin it.

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Dilfbert gives the vibes he'd be a really good dance partner but does he actually have the skills?

it's only 8:30pm but travelling has exhausted me for no good reason so let's see how delirious these answers become.

hi slat! thanks for the ask. calling hilbert dilfbert is such a violation to my eyes. anyways, let me get straight into it.

day five of tcw's 12 days of askmas--hilbert's dancing abilities [no spoilers]

alrighty, so you're right with your vibe check. hilbert can definitely get jiggy with it. however, in terms of actually having the "skills" per se, by soilaila's standards, no he doesn't.

considering soilaila has a family called dancers who are literally famed for performing magic through dance, bro doesn't compare to those leagues. however, he is def groovy, and he def knows how to have fun (though his def of fun also includes massacre and violent crimes, but we ignore that minor character flaw to focus on bros disco charlie brown meow meow).

that being said, post-incident, hilbert gained a suspicious degree of different familial abilities. the arcane for starters. bro performs a lot of arcanic magic for someone who is an earth-elemental. and his dancing (if he was allowed to attend the festival of magic) is suddenly extremely wowza kamboom. maybe its the influence of being caramel's mentor for so many years. perhaps something else. who knows....

you would, if you read sai. teehee.

thanks for the ask, slat. i probably wont have any recollection of my answer tomorrow so lets see how much i regret saying this.

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hi hello i caved an made young hilbert

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HEAR ME OUT

HEAR ME OUT--

young adult alan makes me want a whole spinoff on him post-sai because OH???????????????????????????????????????

[thecomfywriter]

Hi! Tov characters go on a road trip! What happens?

hi hello let's get straight into this because i immediately had an answer

morreial is driving: aint no way he's trusting anyone else behind the wheel. caramel would speed, cara wouldn't even have her license and end up going the opposite way on a one-way, and alan would follow the law to a agonizing degree ("it's a 50 zone, guys, I can't go any faster." "YOU'RE DRIVING AT A THIRTY." "safety first!" bro would be a hazard in the opposite direction)

cara is shotgun: she'll probably be tlaking to morreial the entire way and helping him navigate. also actively pulling caramel down from trying to climb out of the sunroof to sit on the roof because she wants to "feel the breeze!"

caramel is aux: everyone else's music taste is trash, in her opinion. she's not letting anyone else touch the aux wire. and lowkey? she's playing BANGER tunes. senti for when its nighttime and they're under the stars. hype for when the windows are down and the vibes are immaculate. karaoke, dancing, talking, being the general energy and fun of the entire experience. when she's not trying to climb out of the sunroof, of course.

alan is basically there for the vibes: his head is out the window. hair flapping in the wind. eyes closed, sun on his face, smiling and enjoying the entire experience. he feels alive, and content, and generally at peace. he has friends. that's all he needs.

i like to imagine the car filled with the adults would crash because markum was driving, hilbert was shotgun, and the jervees were in the back. at one point, a fight broke loose because of something petty markum said, and the jervees, while trying to break the two up, end up crashing them into a steel beam or something.

thanks for the ask, bun bun!

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okay i’m bored at work so time to ramble about sai and cos

the SaI tangent

where do i begin…

SaI > ToV LETS START THERE

sai was just… tumultuous. the first four chapters were so fluff and fun—just the gang vibing and being friends. AND THEN—AND THEN—

THE END OF CHAPTER FOUR—

WTF WAS THAT???

HOW DID IT GO WRONG SO QUICKLY???

and it just continuous to spiral from there omg. chapter five was ALL drama and i ATE THAT SHIT UP 🙂‍↕️ YES MAAM

bro markum’s lore and the drama behind von doro’s court had me HOOKED. i was SAT AND LISTENING. YOUNGER HILBERT BEING A HUNK AND A MENACE WAS…

rude asf tbh bro was lowkey majestic.

ANYWHO—the end of chapter five had me raging and crying with alan. i was so mad because bro how did this guy end up getting DROPPED??? JUST LIKE THAT??? yall all pushed him towards hilbert i blame EVERYONE.

AND THEN IT GETS WORSE.

CARAMEL. BABES.

I UNDERSTAND why you reacted the way you did to hilbert. TRUST ME i do. i too would panic if alan disappeared for three days no contact all of a sudden. BUTTTTTTT

girl.

GIRL—

i know you know THAT wasn’t the solution.

it’s the way EVERYONE in his life betrayed alan in the span of three chapters. that too, BRUTALLY. like… morreial???? i feel like we don’t talk about what morreial did enough. all the blame going to caramel isn’t fair because first of all, IT WAS IYZELA’S IDEA, LETS START THERE. second of all, MORREIAL MADE THINGS SO BAD.

bro is always harping about privacy and then proceeded to do that.

vile.

anyhow… i’ll continue this rant after work and then move onto cos because I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTs, esp about the climax.

for now tho, back to work.

[thecomfywriter]

hi hello i wanna yamble for a second

so i did something almost a year ago where i made a document that compiled all of tov and sai’s monologues, speeches, and the best quotes from them and put them into one document. its called the “tov best monologues and quotes” (referencing tov the epic vs just volume one).

anyhow, in that document, i ended up naming each of the monologues. i.e. hilbert’s “power” monologue or “we are perfect” monologue. or alan’s “i knew they could take it so i went harder” tangent that ive shared here on tumblr before.

there’s a monologue in sai that lives in my mind rent free. it’s called the “sigh of bemusement” monologue, and it’s (imo) one of the best and most pivotal moments, aside from the devas myth in the end of tov. i can’t explain why without delving into spoilers, but to keep it vague, alan ends up only partially releasing himself from his own pressures in that monologue, but not fully.

it’s such an IMPORTANT and deeply thoughtful moment from him… SO TO SEE A CALLBACK TO IT IN GOTN?

bro… i don’t remember writing that in because of my post-writing amnesia, but when that callback was made and the moment was revived in the context of evan, alan’s son…. I GOT SO SENTIMENTAL.

it was acc so profoundly emotional i did not expect that. because where alan only partially released that sigh, evan let go entirely.

AND I FREAKING CRIED.

i didnt acc, but i did get emotional and teary. i didn’t expect that monologue to hit so severely, but somehow, even just referencing it in that new context made it so much more beautiful oh my days…

i wish i could share it with you guys. maybe i will. i don’t know. but its genuinely so so amazing and im so glad i added it in, because wow…. it was a gut punch

[thecomfywriter]

If Cara had been born the eldest of Carmel's family therefore getting the thingamajig instead of Carmel how would that have affected the storyline?

okay i literally had to hunt down our convo from last night to figure out what the thingamagig was. lol.

WHAT A SPOILERY ASK LMAOOO. let's jump straight into it!

day three pt 2 of tcw's 12 days of askmas--cara/caramel role switch au [tov & sai spoilers]

i know i did a spoiler tag but i'm going to try and keep spoilers at a minimum. lol.

okay! so three fun facts for you: (a) caramel and cara are not actually related; they just consider each other sisters; (b) cara is older than caramel, who hates this fact and therefore refuses to acknowledge it (lol); and (c) the curse has nothing to do caramel's family tree.

caramel wasn't born from anyone special that she inherited the curse. her parents didn't carry it, neither did it have to do with her family tree. ALAN'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY ON THE OTHER HAND??? but that's a different topic altogether.

HOWEVER, in the spirit of making this a headcanon, let's pretend cara was the one who somehow inherited the curse instead. a lot of things would change plot-wise. first off--caramel probably wouldn't have been of any interest to hilbert, because the main reason hilbert was interested in her as a child was because seh had a strange ability to perform magic from all the families. if caramel didn't have the curse, that wouldn't be a thing. cara would have had it instead, but cara only encounters caramel after watching her train with hilbert. so cara and caramel would have never met.

another thing--cara probably would have been raised by von doro, or stayed with the black dragon she was raised by. but most likely, she would have been raised by von doro. she would have been groomed for von doro's desired task, and as a result, alan's entire downfall probably wouldn't have happened because cara would have inherited his curse too in his place, allowing alan to have a somewhat? happy ending. especially considering he wouldn't have known her to become attached to her, cara would have simply taken the fall for one generation before alan's children would inevitably have to reinherit the curse. unless cara managed to, during her generation, figure out how to break it. but i seriously doubt it, not going to lie. it's extremely difficult to break, hence why it has lasted so long.

anyways! that was an interesting headcanon. thanks for the ask, wyked!

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@leahnardo-da-veggie

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[thecomfywriter]

Oh darling I have a billion headcannons, you'll never be done making this series lol.

Anyhow, Morreial has either dyslexia or dyscalcula, possibly both, or some such similar disorder

Evan is left handed, but taught himself to be right handed so that he could be ambi dexterous because he thought it was cool

Either Markum or Hilbert had a massive emo phase and the other one had the exact opposite, like an obnoxiously preppy phase and that's part of what fuels their animosity towards each other

This one isn't tov but James has some sort of colour blindness like red green or blue grey but he's trained himself to be able to hide it and gaslights people when he slips up

okay fun yay.

a) morreial in previous drafts was confirmed as “an avoider of reading” because it pissed him off. so ill go with dyslexia for it

b) that is 100% an evan thing to do (you really understand my characters, ain, wow), and honestly? he feels like a leftie to me too so we’ll go with it

c) markum is (headcanon au) confirmed emo i guess because there’s no way hilbert’s arrogant ass wasn’t the preppy one. i refuse to believe it. he channels inner diva core.

d) james being colour blind for purple would be hilarious considering the marxian violet significant so ill figure out what type of colour blindness removes purple from the equation and go with that. i’ll have him in a crossover episode, i guess

thanks for the headcanons ain. made my day better <3