#tbbc jesper

[ranger-raziel]

Jesper: I love cheating if you don’t cheat what the hell is wrong with you

Stig: have you ever been cheated on?

Jesper: I forget some people are in relationships, to clarify I love to violate academic integrity on exams

[brotherbandchronicles]

last one, i think! this is the one that annoys me most i think. a lot of important characters don’t get a backstory! it’s especially noticeable in tbbc. the only fleshed out backstory we get is hal’s. a lot of characters have so much potential and yet they’re basically swept under the rug. personally, i’d love to read about karina, hal’s mom, more. she seems badass! she was kidnapped and enslaved in an enemy country, and survived. how is she not a role model for the girls in hallasholm?

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oooh. this. t h i s. AND THIS

the books are literally full of characters i would like to know more about! how did jesper learn how to steal? from where came stefan’s imitations skills? does anyone in ingvar family has problems with their sight too? i could go on and on!

i have to say i thought about karina a lot. mainly because i want to know why she didn’t come back to araluen... because... that’s the most presumable thing she could do?!

i think this could become an amazng discussion! does anyone have any headcanons about any character?

[ranger-raziel]

I fully believe that in a modern au Jesper would run a Jerma meme account. I will not be further explaining.

[ranger-raziel]

Tbbc as youtubers

Hal: does videos talking about crossbows and ships and the history of those things, occasionally vlogs the ocean

Stig: does combat tips ‘n stuff like that

Lydia: does parkour and vlogging, also shows off her dart skills

Jesper: absolute gamer, also breaks into his friend’s houses and pranks them by pouring shredded cheese on their tables

Edvin: makes videos explaining medical stuff and ends every video by saying “now go make sure your idiot friends don’t die” because speaking from experience, his idiot friends almost die a lot

Ingvar: workout and motivation videos, also hiking

Wulf and ulf: prank channel prank channel prank channel prank channel prank chan

Thorn: too boomer to use YouTube.

[brotherbandchronicles]

flanagan definitely showed us that the herons worry for each other but only very superficially. he showed us body language and words (which some of us suck at deciphering) but gave almost zero emotions. yeah, one could argue that tbbc is for kids but that’s not an excuse to omit emotions (especially when there’s topics like death, torture, slavery and all that). also, i refuse to believe that the characters’ personalities stay the same. humans are ever-changing, after all!

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you have a point! it doesn’t matter how much i love bb characters, almost all of them are canonically based mostly on their skills (i know, the twins are playing tricks on someone all the time, edvin is clever, jesper has tendency not to follow orders... yeah but those are just unchanging facts that were given to us in the beginning and still last.) and i had to make their natures mostly by myself. (i guess we all did.) the small amount of traits that appear in the books do not change (well, stig did but we leave him out of it this time.) which, how i already said is so unrealistic. (can i get a scene when jesper actually does what he’s supposed to and hal doesn’t expect it and is actually suprised when he finds out? thanks xx)

i would sell my soul to get some emotions to the books. one smile or any other expression or concerned question on every few pages would be enough for me. then, maybe, i would not have been holding that much on the scene in the newest book when stig is helping hal to get on heron... one look, two hands, helping gesture and it took me ten minutes to get over it. oh shit. i have to read it again.