#oh hah yes there is thanks tangledbea for accidentally letting me know

[gottagetmeoneofthese]

So I really liked the idea that Eugene’s parents sent the Flynnigan Rider books with him to the orphanage. I loved it, even, until I first saw Return of the King.

So Edmund has a stack of wanted posters and the Flynn Rider book. (Maybe others in the series now, but this book would be more treasured because it belonged to his Horace.) And he would know it’s his son’s favorite book because he took on the name and the book was probably well worn before he dropped it off the cliff.

So imagining Edmund reading the book over and over again, and then the others in the series, so many times, almost hurts. Because he’s desperate to know any part of his son that he sends crows to gather anything they can. (Though I wonder if they started doing it on their own, to cheer him up? It’s implied they were only sent to watch him at first.)

During those years when Eugene knew no one loved him was a man slowly losing his mind from loneliness. When Eugene thought he was alone in the world there was a guy trying to get to know him through his favorite toys and then, later, his favorite book series.