#my art (bc im M.I. about them)

[the8thsphynx]

Hi. Belt it out for Romani/Solomon for the character ask thingy

HRNNGNG HI YOU KNOW ME TOO WELL

favorite thing about them

Romani is Solomon facing the consequences of his own actions and that's just funny to me. He asks to be human and while he's going looking at Mage Society (esp when he gets to Chaldea and sees all the shit Marisbury has been up to) and then getting to the shenanigans Goetia was getting up to the past 3000 years, Romani's just like--

On the bright side! I think this is what leads to Romani trying his best to be a good parent to Mash and also how he’s able to put on his Big Boy Pants and perform Ars Nova. It’s the most he can do to patch over what he’s allowed to happen.

least favorite thing about them

HMM... We talked about this together in DMs but I’ll lightly dabble on it here, too:

A lot of the writing for Romani early on, specifically the implied l*licon shit and how they went out of their way to make it seem like we had to hate or dislike Romani without discernable reason bugged me.

Also without going to into it... other Romani fans kind of get on me, too. There are people who either take Romani as a character too seriously or people that boil him down to just ‘gets pegged’ and both are nails on a chalkboard to me.

favorite line

His outro speech for Ars Nova.

LISTEN!!!! Temple of Time was so fucking good. 

brOTP:

Da Vinci and Romani. I don’t ship them romantically, I just love their dynamic and how well they work together. I see Da Vinci as the one that kicks Romani in the ass and pushes him to own up to his shit and to enjoy himself when the time is right.

OTP:

I!! AM!! A FILTHY!!! OC X CANON SHIPPER!!!

I AM A DIRTY NASTY OC x CANON SHIPPER WHO SMEARS MY OC X CANON THOUGHTS ON THE WALLS LIKE A MADMAN PAINTING CRYPTIC AND PROPHETIC CYPHERS AROUND MY ENCLOSURE!!!

nOTP:

None, really! I think every popular Romani ship has its really high points and reflects on his character and the other’s character (Meroma, Shebamon, Romavinci...). I guess if I had to pick a ‘block on sight’, it’s David/Romani or Mash/Romani, which I had the misfortune of learning exists.

random headcanon:

Romani is a Moe Shop and Takayan fan. His favorite anime is also Madoka Magica. (yes this also goes into how River’s favorite anime is Ergo Proxy.)

unpopular opinion:

Solomon was a horrible husband/lover and an even worse parent and I wish we as a fandom would clown on him more about this.

*points to his heir, Rehoboam* Look how bad he done went and fucked this one up. Legit to the point that when the much more well-adjusted son he forgot he had with his very much more well-adjusted ex-girlfriend showed up to ask for the back-end child support, Solomon tried to beg him to take the throne instead and then this illegitimate son looked him dead in the eyes and went ‘no thanks’ and fucked off.

...Also his wife who was the mother of his ONLY three other children left him to go be with his other wife.

That’s fucking hilarious. RIP Solomon, you’re the deadbeat male protagonist of an ABC sitcom.

song i associate with them:

Jeff Williams - ‘Indomitable’

...Yeah, sue me. I used a song from the Series We Don’t Talk About On Here Anymore.

favorite picture of them:

*struggling to breathe*

AND...!!! THE COSTUMING... AND CASTING... FOR THE STAGE... WAS SO GOOD!!!!!