#silas heap

[septimus-heap]

Tbh I think staying at zeldas cottage together is the funniest possible thing that could've happened to silas+marcia specifically. Silas goes from thinking marcia is cold and unfeeling and insane to being like "oh so she CAN experience joy but only when she's telling us over breakfast all about the latest extremely niche topic she's gotten invested in. And also she's insane"

[meganelixabethh]

Ok so we all agree watching the violent murder of your mentor and best friend while trying to save your friends baby and prevent yourself from also being murdered is a rough time. We also all agree that Marcia had to get over that very quickly because she had the tower to run and the Heaps to keep safe and the Supreme Custodian to keep in check. But here is what I think the run of events was like from the moment she leaves the palace to the moment she goes to bed that night

She absolutely pegs it down wizard way, pressing Jenna against her front so not to jostle her too much, and taking full advantage of her very long legs. When she bursts through the doors of the wizard tower all the wizards are gathered there, excited to see Alther and Marcia back from visiting the the Queen and the baby. Marcia bursts in, her hair is wild, she’s holding a crying baby, the amulet is hastily thrown around her neck and she is COVERED in blood. I’m talking soaked into her robes, splattered on her face, smeared on Jenna’s swaddling; she looks like she dressed up as Carrie for Halloween. All the wizards immediately think she’s done something to Alther; they can’t help but think about what happened to DomDaniel and wonder if it will become tradition for the apprentice to kill the master to supplant them. Marcia tells them what’s happened and who the baby is in a quick and panicked voice. She stopped crying on the run down the way, and she can feel the tears drying into her cheeks and making her skin feel stiff. The wizards immediately feel bad for doubting her and horrified at what she witnessed, they know how close she and the Queen were.

The wizards begin to cast protection spells around the tower and Endor, who is older than Marcia, comes over and gives her a bottle for Jenna, who is crying the entire time while Marcia rocks her and gently tries to shush her. She’s not called Jenna yet, and Marcia calls her Mattie, because Cerys was going to call her Mathilde after her mother. When Jenna goes to sleep, she thinks about putting her down but can’t face it, opting to hold her instead. When the spells are cast, the wizards reconvene around her. She’s sat on a chair looking at Jenna sleeping, and she looks up, a splatter of Cerys’ blood still on her nose, at the expectant faces of the wizards, and realises that it’s her that has to deal with this now. She’s in charge. It’s her. She looks down again and, even though she always imagined Jenna would grow up with her near, she knows she can’t stay here. She thinks of who can have her and her mind leaps to Silas. He did over half of the apprenticeship she just completed, and he left it all behind to look after his children. She knew Jenna had lost so much that day, but Marcia couldn’t bear the thought of her losing all the love she was going to have too- because this baby was going to be so very loved. She told the wizard she was going to take the baby to a safe place and got up to leave. Endor stopped her and reminded her that she looked like she had just witnessed a double murder and that she couldn’t just walk to whoever she was leaving the baby with and pass them over, it would be too suspicious. Marcia told her who she was was going to leave the baby with and Endor set off to find a way for Marcia to pass the baby over covertly.

When she left, Marcia took the stairs up to the rooms her and Alther had lived in so happily. She walked in and placed Jenna on the sofa, awake now but contented, and squarely ignored the door to Althers room and the bowl of half eaten porridge he’d left on the table. When she looked in the mirror, she startled at the sight of herself, and in panic performed a QuickClean spell. She knew she wasn’t meant to use Magyk for comfort, but Silas would never take a baby off her if she looked like that. She also needed to wear the ExtraOrdinary robes. If she was wearing her green robes Silas would 100% insist on talking to Alther and she wasn’t going to have time to explain everything that had happened today. She knew that the robes appeared on the wizard when they accepted their role as ExtraOrdinary. She looks in the mirror and says ‘I accept the role of ExtraOrdinary wizard’ but nothing happens. She tried to think it to herself, say it out loud like an affirmation, look at her exam results, but nothing happens. She’s still wearing her green apprentice robes. While she tries, she feeds Jenna again, who promptly falls back to sleep and Endor comes back. She tells Marcia that Silas has gone into the forest for herbs and will be back around when it gets dark, which is soon. Marcia knows nobody will be on the forest path that late, and that she can leave Jenna by the side of the road and Silas should Sense her. Endor makes it clear she needs to go now, and Marcia knows she’s right. The acceptance of her role sweeps through her and her robes change to the deep purple robes of her new position. She’s never worn Althers robes before, and they feel deeply powerful around her.

She hurries to the gate to get out to the forest path, her robes drawn around her and Jenna tucked out of sight inside. Dusk is just falling as she finds a bush and leaves Jenna there. She double checks that she can Sense her heartbeat clearly from the path, and she definitely can. Feeling as though she is ripping her heart out of her body, she walks away from the baby and goes to wait in the shadows of the lane she knows Silas will take once back in the castle, distractedly pressing a half crown into Gringes sticky palm as she passes. She waits longer than she would like, worrying about Jenna more and more every passing minute. Maybe she’s expecting too much of Silas, and Jenna will die of hypothermia by the side of the road. Cerys would come back from the dead to kill Marcia with her bare hands if that happened, and Marcia can’t quite bring herself to complete any thought that begins with her vibrant friend being dead. Just as she’s about to scurry back out the gate herself, she sees Silas hurrying down the lane, cloak pulled protectively around something and she knows it’s going to be okay. As he approaches her spot she sweeps out in front of him ‘tell nobody you found her, she was born to you, underhand?’ Is the best she can come out with before Transporting herself back to the tower. She couldn’t bear him asking questions.

When she gets back to the tower, everyone is in bed, even Endor, so she steps onto the stairs and unfocuses her eyes for a moment as the stairs lazily curl upwards on their slow night time mode. Her arms feel odd and empty without Jenna. She realises she forgot to tell Silas that the baby was called Mathilde. Another way she failed today. When she gets into her rooms she walks to her bedroom door in a daze, desperately tired and dreaming of falling into bed and never waking up. She walks straight into the door and no matter how hard she rattles, it won’t open. As she’s pushing at the door, Althers door opens with a creak, and Marcia realises that her new role isn’t just a set of robes, it’s a room too. There is no longer an apprentice, so the apprentice room is locked. She will not sleep in his bed. Not tonight. Not when he’s lying cold on the floor of the throne room. She casts an UnLocke on her door and rattles it again, nothing. She tried a different UnLock. Nothing again. She cycles through every spell she knows that might help and then makes some up and the stupid door will not budge. She tried a thunderflash, it doesn’t even dent it, she tries to shapeshift the door into an ant, it just stares back at her. She loses her temper and screams that she won’t sleep in his bed while she beats the door with her fists and her palms. She sobs, she screams, she throws the porridge bowl at the sofa and splatters the nice cushions with oats. She eventually ends up on the floor, laying on her side, tears sliding straight over her nose and onto the floor without her even blinking. She fuzzes out of the world for a while; the table legs blurring out of focus as she settles into the pleasant feeling of nothing mattering. She’s not sure how long she stays there but there wasn’t light when she left her mind and there is when she comes back. Her limbs feel heavy and she doesn’t want to move even though she knows she must. Endor will knock on her door soon and nobody can see this. Endor will knock on her door and patiently wait to be called in. If Marcia never says ‘come in’, Endor never will. Alther is gone. Cerys is gone. Milo is gone. There is nobody coming to pick her up off the floor and she doesn’t have the luxury of dying of thirst right in this spot. She heaves herself up and pick up the jagged parts of the broken bowl she threw earlier. She performs a Clean spell on the sofa but the stain won’t come out. She’s going to need a new one.

I warned you @septimus-heap

[friedwizardwhispers]

Septimus Heap really starts its first chapter with the death of a baby and its second with discrimination against wizards and a government with very obvious parallels to real life.

But it's lighthearted book... I promise.

[sunnysaystuff]

queer hcs for septimus heap characters

canon compliant <3

simon heap: he's trans. he's genuinely just a little trans boy. he and lucy are absolutely t4t pookies

lucy heap (nee gringe ig): trans girlie. she and simon are 100% adorable wholesome cuddling et cetera and i need them in my life forever

marcia overstrand: have you SEEN her? have you HEARD her!???!?!?!?! she's 100% aro lesbian she and milo had a cute lil thing going there in todhunter moon (and fyre iirc) but it was 100% qpr coded like ain't no way they were romancing . aroxaro hc, fight me

milo banda: deadbeat dad SORRY sorry um. aro pansexual because yeah he was 100% getting it on while at sea like some ofmd type shit

queen cerys: heehee i actually really don't like her but anyways. aroace girlie like she did not want to do any of that shit i hc she and milo fell in love in a cute platonic way and it was like "yeah you can go to sea and fuck whoever ily bye" core ngl

sarah heap: bi. she and galen the physik woman 100% had something going on don't even argue with me

silas heap: stop he and sarah were 100% bi4bi bbgs and i think silas and gringe's frenemyship is VERY homoerotic but not in the way that either are cheating because they'd never, silas would NEVER

septimus heap: sooo yeah. he's ace. 100% fight me. i think he's also aroflux panromantic because likee. sep is so very Flamboyant with romance it's really funnie and the way he has Stuff Going On with syrah driffa aND rose is hilaaaarious. also he and wolf boy,,,,??? kinda gay??? wolf boy is canonically homo so don't tell me that at some point they weren't crushing on each other. also2 septimus was giving genderfluid vibes throughout the series like idk i always got the vibe that he didn't always feel like a boy but maybe i'm tripping

jenna heap: ahhh my bbg<3<3<3 she and beetle were so cute but let's be real jenna was Not straight like errrrm anyone remember that one scene from darke??? her first kiss was a GIRL???? jenna is The fuckyouidowhatiwant pansexual and i'm so proud of her for it

marissa: stop her thing with jo-jo was so sillybilly i'm ngl Also also She Was Definitely like. demigirl. on the nb spec. she kissed jenna and definitely enjoyed it soooo do with that what you will

o beetle beetle: AGH he's so pookie i genuinely can'tttt. trans boy and he's so wonderful btw

part 2 to come?!?! comment requests !

[qwillreign]

Heaptober Day 1: Darke

Silas Heap was not, in actuality, a bad Wizard.  He had dropped out of his apprenticeship to be sure, but not before passing his qualifying exams.  It was simply that he was a father, not a fighter. He didn't need his boys to be the sons of the Extraordinary Wizard, and he didn't want them to be either. Recognition and money were never his goals, and he knew for a fact that Sarah would hate it.   There was a reason none of the past 10 extraordinaries had been married. 

But above all else it was the presence of the Darke that he couldn't bear to bring home to his boys, to his Sarah, to the child growing inside her. The Darke was corrupting, and Silas didn't need the Darke week to be an Ordinary Wizard, so he just stopped. 

Alther had been upset at first, but years later he told Silas how proud he was of him being able to step away and protect himself from the Darke (the way Alther never could). And eight years after he became an Ordinary, four years after he had stopped regular work at the tower and moved to freelance, (with the occasional duty shift) Silas was absurdly glad he had moved to the Ramblings. When he found his baby girl, his baby princess, he knew that he could never have kept her safe if there was even a touch of Darke in his home. (She would find her own touch of the Darke in due time, but Silas refused to be the source.

Silas was a poor man in gold, but a rich one in heart. People could judge him for his choices, his wasted potential,  but his true potential was his children, his sons and his daughter, growing whole and hale. Safe from the Custodian Guards because their father was a failure, not a real wizard. 

So he let them believe it, and he didn't show his true power to anyone, despite his room being by far the most Magykal in the Ramblings, underneath all the children.  He let even Marcia,  who had once been like a little sister to him, (on account of Alther’s paternal instincts) believe he was an incompetent wizard. Silas was safest, his boys were safest, his princess was safest if nobody knew their father had quit the best Apprenticeship in the Castle to avoid the Darke, not the Magyk. 

[flammableengineering]

Which Septimus Heap character most deserves to say Fuck?

[obscuredilfoff]

Propaganda below the cut! (Michael art by @moimster)

Michael Walters

40yo time travellin' cowboy with a SEXY ASS DEEP GRAVELLY ACCENT. dark and brooding and covered in hot scars from all the time travel murder espionage he's been thru. nice thick beard. uses his time protectin' younger versions of himself and his (deceased) husband. one time duplicate/iteration of him sings in a country / folk rock band in a dingy Texan dive. in conclusion: time travellin' cowboy dilf with a troubled past.

Silas Heap

a seventh son and the father to seven sons (and one daughter!), he's a bit scatterbrained but he loves his family so much he gave up an apprenticeship with the extraordinary wizard (an important political position he would then have had the potential to ascend to following the previous's resignation/death) to have more time for them. sometimes he wanders around in the woods looking for his dad, who shapeshifted into a tree many years back

[jadescribbles]

the future that never was

HI HELLO TIS I ONCE AGAIN i made art of @septimus-heap's epic time travel au

i ramble about silly things below the cut

progress images:

and copy-pasting my message about fun details no one cares about: i put the little gold bits in the akhu amulet, all the heaps have the same tiny lower lashes, and jenna 412 and 409 have matching friendship bracelets!!

[confusednymphinayellowdress]

Marcia: I'm going to beat Silas Heap at his own game: loving and nurturing his children Gringe: I'm going to beat Silas Heap at his own game: Counter-Feet Simon: I'm going to beat Silas Heap at his own game (that he gave up years ago): becoming the ExtraOrdinary Wizard

[septimus-heap]

ID: text reading "This is an important, full-time position with responsibilities" /end ID

My bad. I was looking for a stupid job that didn't mean anything where I didn't have to do stuff. Sorry, I guess.

[brave-symphonia]

I find it a little funny Silas just thinks to himself, "Already have 7 kids, what's one more?", and tucks Jenna into his cloak.

Although, thinking about it, the alternative is abandoning a baby to freeze out and die in the snow in the woods. So this was probably one of the only options available to him.

[septimus-heap]

I think at some point silas+marcia should be alone and silas should do a powerful, complex spell perfectly first try. And then he turns to marcia and goes no one will ever believe you :)

[meganelixabethh]

I know Silas is a fan fav; but at the beginning of Magyk I HATE this man. During the assassination attempt and subsequent fleeing I think you could reasonably argue that Marcia is having the worst time of anyone in the party (if she is second to anyone it’s Sep, and even then it’s close). This woman has relived the worst day of her life, gotten stinky and slimy (and we all know she’s ND so that would be hell) and then harnessed so much magyk she almost ceased to be a human while everyone acted like she was doing nothing that hard at all, in order to save everyone’s lives for a SECOND time in this sequence of events (and don’t forget in all of this she also managed to save Sally Mullin too).

Then, just as she thought they might be safe for a bit (it’s midnight on this beach and she was awoken very early by alther if you recall from the Scene of Hair Curlers™️, so she’s probably creeping up on 20 hours of being awake) Alther comes and tells her 1) the one terrible thing she thought she’d done enough to stop happening had, in fact, happened. 2) the only person we hear Marcia mention with any kind of positive attitude; and by extension, someone she could trust, is dead. 3) that person was murdered as a direct result of number 1. 4) Not only has this insane sociopath that would very much like her dead not only invaded her place of work, that clearly makes up part of her identity, but also 5) moved into her HOME (siri play my tears ricochet by taylor swift) which is an absolute violation.

The Very Short List of people Marcia trusts and cares about gets another person on it murdered, and Marcia does not have the time to mourn her AT ALL because she knows she needs to focus on how she can undo this mess without causing the death of a ten year old girl. And what does Silas say? ‘The custodians are simply a load of thugs any *decent* ExtraOrdinary Wizard would have seen off years ago’. Be so fucking real right now. Fuck you man. She saved your sorry arse TWICE. She kept you and your family alive for TEN YEARS. SHES THE ONLY REASON YOU DIDN’T WATCH YOUR TEN Y/O KID GET VIOLENTLY MURDERED. SIT TF DOWN.

[friedwizardwhispers]

I just realized that both Jenna and Sep got a present from Silas for their 10th birthday, even if nobody knew at the time. I mean obviously Jenna got Petroc but Sep got the red hat.

[meganelixabethh]

Because it’s the only time he spoke some fuckin sense💀

That one time in Magyk when Marcia agreed with Silas without an argument. 

[qwillreign]

Heaptober Day 1: Forest

Finding a talking tree in the Forest is like finding a leaf in a haystack; it’s difficult, but at least you’re not looking for a needle. 

But Silas Heap feels like he’s been looking for a needle in a hayfield by this point. Everyone else has found it, stepped on it simply by accident, but he has been looking and looking for years, and there hasn't been a single word.

He misses his dad. Plain and simple. 

For years he was mad, madder than he thought he would ever be, but now he’s simply resigned. Resigned to go down among folklore as the man who’s flown over every inch of the forest, and walked among every grove, and never stopped. They don’t know why but they do know that he is determined. 

Silas Heap made himself a family, had eight wonderful children and is currently losing count of the grandchildren, but he misses the one he had before. He is going gray and he is losing hope. 

But when his wings stop working and his legs stop moving, he has still not found his dad. He cries about it, sometimes, but he loves his family, old and new, and he will not stop. He has the grandkids take him out in his chair, and they go on wonderful, bonding adventures together. He does the Magyk and they do the running away, and they are all so talented. 

He wonders if his Dad even wants to talk to him. Maybe he’s simply hidden himself from view. He has to have, silas has touched and talked to every tree there is. Even the ones that look too young. 

The children still meet their grandpa and their great grandpa, it’s just that when they take Silas, they are never able to find him again. He stops asking eventually. 

His kids and grandkids will not be left behind like he was. He refuses. 

When Silas dies, he does it in the castle, in the room he shares with Sarah. She joins him in ghosthood a day later. A year and a day after that, they go into the Forest and they find his dad. 

There would be tears if they could still cry. There aren't any. 

Benjamin Heap sheds a few leaves that day. He is so happy, and so sorry. 

Silas Heap’s ghost leaves the forest to see his family, and he never finds his dad again. 

The children do though. Every single generation of heaps for years to come gets to meet their Grandpa Silas, and every single Heap meets their Grandpa Benji exactly once from then on.