#setne tkc

[tsartistry]

rachel just wants to sleep you guys

[wanderingmind867]

The Kane Chronicles and Percy Jackson crossover actually works pretty well, if only because of Setne. I think Setne as a villian makes those stories work. His gaudy fashion sense, his weird gangster wannabe aethestic, even his plan to absorb all the gods from all the religions and take their power is clever. At least, that was what I think the plan was. I read it yesterday and may have forgotten some things. In any case, he makes the story actually fun to read. He's just a charmingly evil man. He's hilarious, on top of all that. So it all works.

[wanderingmind867]

I always liked Octavian more. I don't know if I always sympathized with him (who knows my thoughts years ago anymore), but I remember finding him a compelling villian. Meanwhile, I've found Luke reminds me of eugenics and survival of the fittest stuff too much. Also, he's just a jerk. Octavian, Set, Setne, Loki, etc. Now those are some good villians. Luke? Not so much.

personally i think octavian is more deserving of forgiveness than luke and i absolutely think the fact luke was described as handsome and octavian wasn't plays a big role in the fandom views on them

[percabeth4life]

Do you think that Rick will ever revisit magnus chase or the kane chronicles ? .

Not sure, I'm also not sure if I want him too. I mean, TKC wasn't too bad but... there's def some issues people pointed out. Plus he kinda shut the whole thing down at the end in a way he didn't with either of the other series he has...

[rynnaaurelius]

Kane Chronicles for the fandom ask?

(Fandom ask HERE)

Anon, I went a tiny bit feral here, but I need you to understand that I love these characters very, very much.

Blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): I would fight God for Sadie Kane. Love the way she'll kick someone's ass into the great beyond one moment and then stutter because her crush looked at her the next, love her relationship with Carter and how she knows that she adores him and will rely on him at the end of the world, no questions asked, love how calculating she can get, I love the fact that she insists on her dyed hair and leather combat boots, judgy grandparents and magic rules be damned.

She refuses to doubt herself because people are counting on her, damn it, she'll be enough and yes, she is that good, and I just think she's neat.

Scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Felix Philip and his band of penguins. I mean, how can I not?

Scrimblo Bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): Amos Kane, which is a predictable answer for me. The fact that he goes from being possessed by Set, trying so hard to protect Carter and Sadie, that the aftermath canonically sends him into a depressive episode and leaves him with PTSD, and then turns around and willingly takes on Set to help save the world? Fuck yeah.

Also, he's got the best music taste in the Riordanverse. I'm not taking arguments on this front.

Glup Shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): Cheating to pick two, but Emma and Liz! I really wish they had shown up more. They and Sadie must've been absolute terrors in grade school, and I think the truest display of friendship is when your friend shows up with superpowers and possessed grandparents on her birthday, and your immediate response is to turn around to said possessed grandparents and declare your best friend is about to kick their ass. I have headcanons for days about these three.

Poor Little Meow Meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): Vladimir Menshikov, because Riordan dropped a Russian horror movie antagonist into TKC and thought I wouldn't notice.

Horse Plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Carter Kane, because torturing Carter requires torturing everyone else, so this is really a cheating answer, really. Also, we never really got an analogue to Sadie's birthday adventure in London, and emotionally torturing Carter while watching him magically MacGuyver his way out of certain death would be fun (We come kinda close with him finding Actual Zia Rashid and then Setne in Demon Land, but both times result in Carter needing to have his ass hauled out of the fire by someone else).

Eeby Deeby (character I would send to superhell): Setne. There's no secret motive here, he's just one of those characters you want to smack in the face a couple dozen times.

(I thought about sending Zia, but she's annoyingly well-adjusted in canon and I like her far too much, so there's no inherent fun in sending her there by herself)

[avymiir]

just realized i imagine setne’s voice as bill’s from gravity falls

[haec-est-fides]

I’m sorry but I’m SUPER curious about how the Triumvirate deals with the House of Life. 👀 Have they ever crossed paths? Come on, they’re like the two biggest, global institutions in the riordanverse.

You could actually argue that the House of Life is more global than Triumvirate Holdings, which is firmly USA based (though very interested in expanding), but they’re both huge players. They have to at least be aware of each other, unless the Mist is working overtime (for some reason).

Like??? What was the House of Life / the Egyptian pantheon doing when the Triumvirate kidnapped Harpocrates?!

Also, all of these tags from my other post:

[winchestee-shirt]

i like to think im funny sometimes

[yourlocalfrenchie]

So uh

Im not done rereading serpents shadow but setne's been said to be a descendant of ramses, right?

And ramses 1st

Wasnt he like

The granpa of ramses 2nd? Or maybe his dad? (I forgot which the begining of thwir dynasty is slightly muddy in my memory oof)

But Either Way

Hes

Hes technically related to the Kanes

So

Uh

Did this ever get addressed bc theres some potential there

[luffysfakebeard]

I loved Setne from the moment he was introduced

[tsartistry]

It's a crime these two were never in a book together.

I know in my heart that Setne would address every Norse god as "kiddo" if he thought he could get away with it.

[wanderingmind867]

"Where are we?" I asked. Loki polished his medals with his coat sleeve. "Well, neither of us is here, of course. I'm still tied up on a stone slab with snake poison dripping in my face. You're dying on the banks of a river in Jotunheim."

Gods, I love Loki in these books. The best villian since Set or Setne in the Kane Chronicles, I think. Seriously, why is it that Rick Riordan's side books get all the funniest villians!? And before you ask: I am aware Apophis is the villian of the Kane Chronicles. Apophis is probably my favourite of Rick Riordan's big bads, because I love the themes of order vs chaos. But Loki, Set and Setne are all hilarious villians.

Honestly, I think Set and Loki might as well just be the same person. They're written in the exact same way; as maniacs with a bold sense of humour (yet who get frequently underestimated because of their humour). They're cunning, they're silly, they're charming, they're the epitome of perfection for a villian. I love both of them so much. Although I must say: there's a reason I prefer Loki in Marvel Comics to speak in Old, Shakespearean English. It's not just because it matches the vibes of Thor's comics, but also because it helps differentiate those comics from these books. I like having two incredibly entertaining versions of Loki, and I enjoy having them be similar yet different.

[riordanuniverse]

How many shots it would take me to kiss these fictional characters...

✨𝑇𝐾𝐶 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛✨

Carter: SOBER- my mans be so cute PLS🥁

Sadie: 4. Eh I’ve calmed down w my hate towards her, she’s definitely attractive , but I still don’t really like her😃.

ZIA: OMG SOBER MISS GIRL- what a queen. Like shut up and take my money.

ANUBIS: sober. Sir is the god of funerals- which is kinda creepy- BUT IM ALL HERE FOR IT😀. Have you seen his FANART-?!? Man be fine. He’s not even that OLD compared to the other gods. And if he can date A 13 YEAR OLD SADIE KANE, he can certainly kiss a 14 year old Anubis simp. Ion see the problem🙄✋. Sir also gives me massive Corpse Husband vibes haHAAHA

Bast: 18928292💀. SHE CREEPS ME OUT- like ik the Kane siblings safety is her top priority, but she seems a LIL too nice. Something makes me feel off abt her.

BES: 1828. Dude BES IS MY FAV TKC CHARACTER BUT LIKE he’s the dwarf god... 👁👄👁-?!? He’s shorter than me- has long nose LIKE UHH SIR DONT POKE MY EYE OUT PLS. He is also 😏ya know?😏 dating TAWARET MY OTHER BEST GIRLLLLL- (pls I act like I’m best friends with these characters) and yuh✨ I’m not gonna kiss Tawaret’s man. Thats rUDE.

TAWARET: 299392, uhh shes the h i p p o goddess, and takes the form of a hippo-😃✋?! Would?? That?? Not?? Be?? Scary?? MISS GIRL IS MY OTHER FAV THO, and SHE GIVES ME THE FUN AUNT KINDA VIBES. I love her sm.

Set: sober💀💀. PLS JUST READING HIS DESCRIPTION IN THE RED PYRAMID HAD ME SCREAMING.

Walt: 1- bby be precious bean🥺. I would just wanna be his friend, but I wouldn’t mind a lil kith👄.

JAZ: sober. Dude I would FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS GIRL IF SHE LAID EYES ON ME- she’s such a good friend, sweetheart, and genuinely one of the most underrated characters in the whole Riordanverse in my opinion. HER CHARACTER WILL NOT DISAPPOINT. She can own me. Pls. All I ask for is Jasmine (Jaz) Anderson supremacy🧎‍♀️. She gives me major Pansexual vibes, and I’m currently writing a headcanon about it😀✋.

Setne: ♾/never. PLSSS MAN BE SO ANNOYING HE GETS ON MY FRACKING NERVES. Like tf is, “hIs ShInY sLiCkEd BaCk HaIr” nah man just need to wash his hair. Idk there’s something about him that makes me want to punch him. Lol. I dont have anger issues<3

Cleo: hm maybe like 2? She’s a bookworm😏 but she’s a minor character... so I’m not sure.

Felix: 179137282872. SIR- OKAY I SHOULDNT HAVE TO EXPLAIN- KID IS 9 YEARS OLD😃. He reminds me of my younger cousin, who’s also obsessed with penguins.

[riordanverse-dorphin]

D&D head canons for tkc please? :D

Disclaimer: I don’t know how D&D works. I went to two sessions at the library & have spent ~10 min actually playing.

So D&D au’s are usually “the story is actually a D&D campaign, I’m gonna roll with that

They made their own homebrew classes for the campaign

Cleo is the DM

She & Zia spend the first session whispering about stuff they won’t tell anyone else

irl Bast is only like a year older than Carter & Walt & Zia

She’s also a massive troll

Walt didn’t have a character sheet for the first session but everyone else did so they started without him

Anubis was his first character as an act of vengeance

“Fuck you, my character’s a GOD”

Anubis is also his service dog’s name

Carter: “you named your character after your dog?”

Walt: “I named my dog & my character after the same ancient deity”

Cleo gets Walt back by never letting his character go anywhere

Julius walks in to check on them right around the time Set is trapping game-Julius in a coffin

“Hey kids what’s up?” “Noooothing”

When game-Zia dies Carter’s like “okay I might have a healing spell”

But Cleo just shakes her head

Zia slams her hands on the table and yells “I CRUMBLE INTO POTTERY SHARDS BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY A SHABITI THIS WHOLE TIME!”

She’s so excited about it

The room goes wild

Jaz joins but then she has to go on vacation which is why she’s passed out for most of book 2

Sadie & Carter keep splitting up the group & Cleo is this close to strangling them

Bast doesn’t make Cleo do storylines for her when she isn’t with the main squad

Which is why she gets to be a goddess

She’s just off to the side drawing their characters

irl Felix is only there occasionally

Zia really wants them to wake her up so she can play

Cleo: “plot, Zia, plot!”

Zia: “I’ll plot your demise”

Alyssa & Julian show up for 1 battle at the start of the campaign & that’s it

irl Bes is either “I made my character ugly bc in D&D u can be something you’re not” or “my character’s main trait is ‘ugly’ bc I’m criticizing beauty standard”

Depends on his mood

Also same age as irl Bast

Bast: “is making your character in love with mine your way of flirting?”

Bes: “...no”

He played all the gods w/ Cleo in the first campaign

The two of them had too much fun

Sadie “get a can opener, there’s a god in my head” Kane actually had a can opener at one point

Bast is now designing a character who’s weapon is a can opener

Carter & Walt take bets on how long it will take for the session to devolve into yelling

Cleo argues that yelling is a productive form of communication

Sadie does too but everyone knows she’s not serious bc she has to put in headphones if too many people are yelling

It’s the ADHD

She also does the ADHD eating sugar thing

Constantly eating the snacks bc It’s Free Real Estate Dopamine

Bast never gets her own snacks she steals them from everyone else

Mainly Bes

He buys lots of cool-shaped chocolate

Cleo has one of those cardboard walls DMs sometimes have, so her snack are safe

Carter had to miss a few sessions & that’s when the running around to all the hotels thing happened

*after he comes back*

Cleo: they went through three different hotels while you were gone,

Zia: *raising her eyebrows at her*

Cleo: and now you’re in a crappy hotel,

Sadie: *kicks her under the table*

Cleo: *sighs* and you’re wearing pokemon pajamas

Alyssa showed up for 1 battle at the beginning of the next campaign but leaves again

Leonoid is a gem irl & in the story

irl Setne... they’re just Doubble Trouble from She-ra. don’t @ me.

all of the outfits game Setne wore irl Setne was wearing

irl Zia & irl Setne have beef from elementary school they refuse to explain

game Zia: *ties up Setne*

irl Zia: that was for throwing my homework in the trash

Walt: he did what now

*later*

game Setne: *sics Aphis bull on Carter & Zia*

irl Setne: that was for telling the lunch lady I didn’t pay for my lunch

Carter: wha

[rynnaaurelius]

Hi! I went scrolling though your tumblr and stumbled upon one of your previous asks where you mentioned a carter-and-sadie-get-thrown-back-in-time au. I’d love to hear more of that!

Oh hell yeah let's do this. Mind, this AU is The Absolute Most at all times.

-Okay, so, first off, extremely obvious place for this to happen is at the end of The Serpent's Shadow, when they fail to banish Apophis for whatever reason during the final battle. This is a fun place, sure, but I think it's A, better for character development, and B, funnier, if they both bite it while in the Land of Demons with Zia and Setne. Let's say they both wind up in the Sea of Chaos, win the lottery spin of various universal outcomes, and boom. Time travel.

-This is totally how magic works. Uh-huh.

-Carter has a fucking aneurysm That's Not How The Force Works-style over this, trying to figure out what the fuck happened. It's great.

-Seriously, the PJO time travel thing is fun because Percy angsts and things go wrong and he tries to do everything Alone. The Kane Chronicles one is fun because Carter and Sadie have negative respect for authority, neither of them have any issue with throwing someone through a window to save time, and they both know about a dozen different ways to get it done.

-Oh yeah, speaking of throwing! They both wake up with massive headaches right after Julius explodes the Rosetta Stone. Carter stabs a bitch (Set) with a magic sword, then passes out because ~head trauma~.

-Also, bear in mind that these kids are fourteen and twelve and the House of Life just went to six years' worth of trouble to try and keep them as much out of the know as possible. And then they show up, kicking ass and taking godly names and knowing things that they really shouldn't, like they've been at this for years.

-Desjardins needs a drink. Or possibly six.

-Something something butterfly effect something something chaos. Anyway, things here are largely Their Past But Two Inches To The Right. Sometimes things change that are small but explainable, things that are big and inexplicable, and some are medium-sized and only resolved after an offhand comment from Zia a decade from now. The biggest thing here is Carter and Sadie struggling to manage everything.

-See, the fun thing in TKC is a lot of the big decisions? You can't just speedrun that shit! Re-opening the path of the gods is dangerous and takes time. Zia won't be in a spot where she's willing and/or able to take on Ra for years. Sadie can't just walk up to Walt and say that he should just merge with a god to fix all his problems when he's barely come to terms with Tut's curse.

-Fuck, they can't even go to the Duat and start shit with Apophis because. . .well, first off, they need to go and get the shadow, which they didn't even quite manage last time, because Setne and Land of the fucking Demons. Second off, no matter how powerful they are, starting shit with Apophis with an extra plan or two is pretty suicidal. Also! There are a lot of magicians who want to kill them! They need to be careful!

-Half of the gods are extremely freaked because Carter and Sadie's minds are Not Right and getting Horus and Isis to play ball is a chore, since they need that agreement do things like the combat avatar or casting really complicated spells, even if they have two-ish years of experience under their belts.

-This does not, to be clear, stop them from trying to speedrun The Red Pyramid, or this being their exact attitude towards their resident gods-in-the-head:

[Picture ID: GIF of a Black man pointing two fingers at his eyes, staring at someone off-screen with a serious expression, and saying, "Look at me. . .look at me. I'm the captain now." End ID]

-Since. . .well, uh, look. Carter and Sadie are incredibly hyper-competent. But they're also incredibly freaked teenagers who haven't had serious adult supervision in. . .a while. They also the ability to warp reality, and have the respective jobs of: Future king of the universe and his sister, saving the world from the snake who wants to eat the sun, and re-opening an really dangerous path of magic that the Reigning Magic Organization has said they'll kill for doing.

-Also, all their friends no longer have a fucking clue who they are. Carter already did this song and dance with Zia, too, which is. . .huh. Fascinating neuroses forming there.

-The Kane siblings are very fun here, because Sadie is Very Loudly Not Fine about very mundane changes, but not saying a peep about the things that are actually fucking her up until someone taps her on the shoulder at the wrong moment when she's gone vacant-eyed at the sight of her gran and she flinches like she got punched in the jaw, while Carter is Insistently Just Fine until Jaz says hi to him one morning and he starts sobbing.

-Bast doesn't count as supervision either, because she's a cat god. Bast wants to shake them by the scruffs of their neck until they start acting their own ages or she gets a satisfactory explanation for what's taken residence in their heads. Their magical auras are wrong.

-About the only fun part of dealing with the gods is when Sadie sucker-punches Serqet and goes What, Like It's Hard?, Legally Blonde-style, to a very confused and unnerved Zia. This move is not something she can make a pattern of, to be clear. But it feels good and she can do it now, so she does.

-I have no idea if Amos is definitely still possessed here by Set, for the angsty comedy of Carter and Sadie repeatedly knocking him out and dragging him around until they have time to Deal With That, or if it's ambiguous and possibly actually in someone else? And they have to go Holmes and Watson on the case.

(Of course, they may have different gods themselves altogether, and goddammit, I need to stop coming up with AUs)

-Like, yeah, sure, they know Set is the problem, their dad is probably fine, but they have to explain this in such a way that people don't think they're possessed! This is a very valid concern and leads to worries that they're terrorizing their younger selves by stealing their bodies or something.

(they're not. but it's a Recurring Thing that people think that they've possessed Younger Carter And Sadie)

-Anyway, they still get dragged to the First Nome, because Julius broke half a dozen rules of magician-ing, these kids are acting. . .like they've been possessed by Horus and Isis, to be honest.

-Carter tries to warn Zia about the being-possesed-by-a-god thing before Iskandar tries to save her life and inadvertently consign her to Watery Nightmare Coma Hell, to convince her to come with them, and thinking honesty may be the best policy--Zia's pretty morally upright, and more than trustworthy and willing to trust the Kanes, after all.

-This does not go as Carter planned.

-Sadie, remembering Iskandar fucking dies and not wanting to deal with the complicated and short reign of Desjardins as Chief Lector (or the whole guilt thing about him dying and just. . .complicated. Inconvenient. Just make sure it never happens!) by giving him a boost in the health department and extending his life.

-This does not go as Sadie planned.

-Oh, and neither of them know how to convince Nephthys to play ball since neither of them know Set's name, so even though they know how to defeat him, short out of an out-and-out brawl that there's no guarantee they can win, they need to get that! And Anubis is super suspicious and not into getting bullied by Isis into giving them a Feather of Truth!

-On the bright side, they decide to pull the Carter Will One Day Be Pharaoh Card and convince Sobek to be, like, marginally useful as the pharaoh's enforcer after Sadie dropkicked Serqet into next week.

-Meanwhile, Iskandar is alive, but reluctantly all They Should Probably Be Brought In And Restrained At Minimum. Zia is contemplative and ends up pursuing Carter and Sadie on her own after her powers start going sideways and Iskandar nearly does knock her out.

-So now Zia's a fugitive. Sort of. Iskandar really doesn't want to do it, but Desjardins is doing the Godlings Must Die thing, and a lot of the First Nome is on his side.

(He lightens up after the Kane siblings + Zia manage to save the world and certain things about Sadie and Iskandar's health come to life. Marginally)

-Anyway, things are chaotic, sort of working out for the better, but Carter and Sadie are about fifteen times more traumatized than they were last time.

-Also, Jaz is canonically from Nashville, so I say that when they decide to drop by Thoth's place to try and get an idea of What The Fuck happened, they find her and she joins their ridiculous quest to Save The World: Electric Boogaloo, because Highly Enthusiastic Southern Cheerleader Who Just Found Out She Can Commit Arson With Her Mind is a brilliant person to have along.

-I think the last big thing I have from this, beyond everything going so sideways (The House of Life is, like, ninety percent sure that Carter and Sadie are possessed, but can't do much about it at the moment beyond periodically trying to kill them) is the whole power thing.

-The urge to basically blast their way through everyone until they agree with what's up is strong, guys. Also, the urge to drag Setne out of the Underworld just to beat him up for a bit. Lots of power struggles and reminding themselves not to commit too many war crimes in the face of an oncoming apocalypse where they have no idea what their best plan is, and also, half the people they could trust off the bat this time? Don't trust 'em this time.

-Oh yeah, and for a while, Amos and Julius/Osiris aren't unconvinced that this isn't some sort of power play by Horus and Isis to leverage things in their favor, so. . .. Sad times. :(

-I am a big fan of "Time travel doesn't necessarily fix everything", but this trilogy is just so fucking chaotic, and so many of the biggest parts rely on character growth, and you can't force that! No matter how much you may get frustrated and want to, if you're Sadie and/or Carter.

[parismelodies]

wow this is the end of my series. i kinda started hating it at the end, but i think this will be my favorite one out of all of them. that’s because the kane chronicles is amazing and i love it with most of my heart. anyways last but not least in this little series i made is...

My favorite scenes in the TKC books

(spoilers obviously)

the red pyramid

their dad blows up the rosetta stone

muffin reveals herself as bast and they run from the scorpions🐈‍⬛🦂

the entire first night in the first nome

the airport and leroy the set animal

thoth/ elvis’ house/ carter turns into a lizard

anubis 😏

sekhmet and the salsa factory

amos is actually set duh duh duhhh🤯

sadie doesn’t kill set + they realize zia was a shabti

bast is revived/ the ending

the throne of fire

the museum heist/ FREAKKK

sadie visits her friends and her grandparents get possessed (i lowkey wish i was emma or liz but whatever🙄)

st. petersburg

bes and carter finding and releasing zia only to find out she doesn’t remember them (that was so funny to me)

walt and sadie kinda fight the roman mummies

the sunny acres assisted-living community!! 👴

bes’ ren go bye bye🥲

desjardins sacrifices himself

bast takes ra to the sky

amos is now chief lector!!

the serpent’s shadow

the museum’s destroyed

the BAGS dance!! 🕺

they get setne

walt merges with anubis

the zarter kiss💏

the sea of chaos🌊

the fight in the first nome

defeating apophis

the ending 😌

that’s it!! honestly idk how i would have done everything without the riordanverse fandom because i would read through the plot in order to remember events😅 the end and thank goodness this is finally over bc it took FOREVER