#the king with a hundred hearts

[jane-d-ankh-veos]

(Reblogs seem to be broken again, so... apologies, no idea how to fix them...)

OMG, I remember the Schlomoctober theory, it was from the time when the only piece of information about October was "a book of dreams" from The Calendar Code 😀

Also still this...

The King with a Hundred Hearts:

Enkidu:

The lore fan-wiki:

(By the way, the wildest theories and headcanons and personal AUs are absolutely valid and great! It's just that the wiki that aims to be an accurate credible source must try to live up to it and mark any unconfirmed assumptions explicitly.)

[the-insouciant-scientist]

#2 (forehead kiss) with the king and the manager… they make me insane

There was love here, and it mattered. Even if it didn't save them.

[j-a-m-e-s-s-i-l-v-e-r]

dear Fallen London fandom.

1. please, please stop erasing a canonically Chinese character by saying that the King with a Hundred Hearts is 100% Enkidu

2. for y'all who complain that May doesn't look middle eastern enough in Mask of the Rose cuz something something NO BEARD and BRIGHT EYES and SMOOTH HAIR and that he simply must be Black cuz in fact you don't care where Mesopotamia or any other foreign land is...... behold:

indigenous Assyrians whose hair is even straighter than his indigenous Chaldeans, no mandatory beards Kourosh Sadeghi - Iran Farhad Mosaffa - Iran Alexander Uloom - Iraq Omar Borkan Al Gala - Iraq Madiha Knyvany - Syria Enas Taleb - Iraq and some Insta dude

and anyway how dare his authors decide how to design their own character? unthinkable! /s

[adorablegorilla]

"No man is an island"

The King With A Hundred Hearts:

[bizarrebazaar13]

You've answered one for the Manager, so how about a playlist for the King with a Hundred Hearts? :3

In Loving Memory- First and Forever

Long & Lost- Florence + the Machine

Poor Atlas- Dessa

Bad Blood- Sleeping At Last

+ reasons & lyrics

in loving memory: this is actually the first song on my manager and king playlist lol. there’s a lot of it that works for the king, especially the chorus, and I like the line “I always find my way back in the end” because he’s never gotten over anything ever. which is understandable but still.

long & lost: what is home when you are the city where you live? I also like this song as an exploration of the dynamic between the king and the manager if the manager becomes a city.

poor atlas: short and bittersweet song about bodies, gods or lack thereof, and how to exist in a body with no god attached and no architect’s plans.

bad blood: going to cheat and add two lyric screenshots for this one. to me, this song is the clay men’s perspective on the king. I think this song captures both the pain and beauty of their creation really well.

[maudlin-scribbler]

okay im at the polythreme part of heart's desire.

Gonna find out all about the manager and his ex i guess!

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London’s True Identities

Enkidu as the King With a Hundred Hearts

[hauntingblue]

LUFFY!!!!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN CONVERTED!!!! LUFFY BELIEVER FULL TIME!!!!! LET US WORSHIP THE SUN!!!!

[thedeafprophet]

i'm gonna say i don't actually think that The Manager is a direct 1:1 with Gilgamesh, personally. Mostly in part because the stories don't match up one to one in general, but also because, irl, the poem is, well, a story. A very important story and of course very respecting to the people of those times it was first created in, and a telling of the history of man kind and our important of storytelling to our cultures.

But a story, none the less.

more so, there is evidence that there was actually a historical king with the name, so its possible if we're going to go historically wise, that it was instead overlap there? which is why the stories dont match 1:1

That being said, i do still quite enjoy the comparisons so i will keep doing it lol. and i think some of the main points and the themes still carry over

[thegreatyin]

..........Do living cities even have the ability to sleep. Do they get tired? Hungry?

WHO FEEDS THE SCOUNDRIL-CITY AND WHAT DOES HE EAT???? am horrified.

as far as we know, living cities don't need to eat and/or sleep! we're not even sure if they can!

the scoundrel just has a penchant for being delusional.

[jane-d-ankh-veos]

Feeling feelings because of May and Clay Men: episode 999 💔

Resonates so well with FL:

[the-insouciant-scientist]

Number 6 with the Manager and the King with a Hundred Hearts…. i am mentally unwell about them 24/7

Oh, my heart. Oh, his heart. Oh, all our hearts.

[andromedasummer]

Good morning, today im going to pirate 5-7 videogames made by small indie game devs who are heavily dependent on sales 😚✌️

in WHAT world is the sims 4 or fucking crusader kings 3 an INDIE GAME

[bizarrebazaar13]

good evening I’m doing just fine btw

[maudlin-scribbler]

talked to the King with a Hundred Hearts (FINALLY) so now I gotta get that shard back for him.

i find his and the manager's story very interesting, and very tragic. Like. I just have a lot of feelings about them.

[jackalhadrurusluvr]

i hope that the person who liked my tweet about dunes birthday and has been reposting dune the movie things knows that idc about dune the movie i only care about dune my oc. my beloved oc. my very very very beloved oc who was named after a grumpy elderly character in the hit book series wings of fire, not dune the movie