#ophelia lake

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Rereading the scholomance (yes again, shush) and I’m a bit obsessed with the differences between Ophelia Lake and Gwen Higgins. Strict malia vs strict mana. Lives in a luxury enclave apartment vs lives in a yurt in the middle of nowhere. The way that they raised their kids.

Mostly though it’s their worldview that hits me, because they’re DEAD OPPOSITES. We spend three books being told that Gwen gives as freely as a person can, even when logic says she could stand to take more in return, and when she’s in need she just kind of blindly trusts in the goodness of humanity and the universe at large. Even when summoning the sutras, it’s the same pattern! She didn’t name a price, trusting that the world would be kind enough when asking her to pay!

On the other hand, Ophelia is a full maleficer. She takes even when she absolutely doesn’t need to- she has New York’s mana supply at her fingertips and STILL drains the people in her lab every day. And when confronted with the horror of mals being made when people use malia, she defends it by saying that everyone uses malia anyway- she builds her life on the assumption that the world will be selfish in the end, the exact opposite of the way Gwen banks on it being kind.

I just think it’s so fascinating the way that these two women are foils, even as El is trying to set up her and Orion as the ones truly balancing each other out. Every time she says that she’s balancing out her mom’s goodness, I need to shake her because 1) honey you are every bit as good as your mom, you’re just angrier, and 2) OPHELIA is balancing out your mom, you just don’t get to know it until after you survive graduation!!!

[isitfanon]

Ophelia Lake deserved to die and I will take no criticism please and thank you

[erosia-rhodes]

Spellbreaker: A Scholomance Sequel

I finally finished my fic! I've been cranking away at it for 10 months like El translating the golden enclave spells when she should have been doing schoolwork, but it's finally done, yay!

Summary:

I wanted to be a wizard, but I guess I was doomed to be Grandma’s little monster instead.

El and Orion’s son is a mundane struggling to cope in the wizard world, but as Jacob gets older, his disdain for wizards’ treatment of mundanes grows like the distance between him and his parents. When Jacob develops a strange new ability, his maleficer grandmother preys on the opportunity. What side will Jacob land on? His decision could change the world of wizards and mundanes forever.

(This fic has a humorous tone similar to the original series, builds on the established magic system without contradicting any existing elements, and contains additional worldbuilding. )

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47025136

Rating: Mature | Warnings: None

Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik

ETA: I learned bookbinding and created a hardcover version of this fic! Here's a post with more pictures.

[shinyyrabbit]

So I'm currently reading The Golden Enclaves and I just got to the part of the revelation about what Ophelia did to Orion and... What am I supposed to do with my life now? How do I just keep going after reading this? What do I do???

[readingabookmostofthetimes]

Ophelia is a monster. She does not deserve happiness

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

It was their responsibility to do the terrible thing for everyone else. To bear the scars of it like a burden, as if there was something noble in doing something so horrible that most people couldn’t stand doing it, for the sake of those squeamish people

Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

[gyossefka]

[nanlawson]

Ophelia

[letsmakethenaughtylistt]

bog witch was too much responsibility, so i settled for Lady of a Lake

[cwpcakee]

Oh Ophelia

[horrorcitos]

Celia Norman

[pbthesimp]

Rate my kins

[isitfanon]

I speed-read The Scholomance trilogy in 4 days and I have never felt more like I've been run over by a train than right now

[erosia-rhodes]

Spellbreaker: A Scholomance Sequel

I'm still cranking away at my sequel fic to Naomi Novik's Scholomance series. It's been a productive month (except at my real job) and we finally got to the "his maleficer grandmother preys on the opportunity" part of the blurb. Thank you to everyone who's been reading and commenting. You're the best!

CH 18: Busting Out Jacob tries to do a good thing.

CH 19: Lost and Found A new friend!

CH 20: Taking Care of Business Graduation, finally.

CH 21: Curses A late night at Gran's.

CH 22: Conference Call This wasn't on the schedule.

CH 23: House Call What's for dinner?

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47025136

Rating: Mature | Warnings: None

Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik

Summary:

I wanted to be a wizard, but I guess I was doomed to be Grandma’s little monster instead.

El and Orion’s son is a mundane struggling to cope in the wizard world, but as Jacob gets older, his disdain for wizards’ treatment of mundanes grows like the distance between him and his parents. When Jacob develops a strange new ability, his maleficer grandmother preys on the opportunity. What side will Jacob land on? His decision could change the world of wizards and mundanes forever.

[alicentflorent]

“Alicent has an Ophelia complex” or what if Alicent has Kendall Roy complex? Anyone ever consider that?

[readingabookmostofthetimes]

Ophelia is a Maleficer? How can she run the New York enclave then?