#4. both sad boys -- hob being a sad pretty boy and carrion being a sad goth

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been reading a lot of clive barker recently and find him to be incredibly whimsical, life-affirming, and wondrous so I decided to read his ya series "abarat" which as it turns out isn't finished, so we're waiting at a point of utter despair for the most part, rip to the kids (that being said I do wish I'd known of it when I was a kid, no matter how frustrated by the wait I might have been)

anyway, do think I will write a little fanfic that nobody is going to read of christopher carrion and finnegan hob working through their mutual realisation that they were both being used by princess boa (meanwhile she's shooting finger guns at them, love her, love how she fucked up not one but two incredibly powerful silly boys, love that she just loves being bad, it appears to be her whole raison d`etre), and then they make out or smthin, unclear

#abarat #clive barker #carrion and hob have barely met like... once #as in they were both so down to fight in one scene but they never did and then the leads were all whisked away #but carrion and hob 1. sounds great together (carrion and hob - perfect teamup) 2. both have surprisingly similar ideas on romance #3. both are related to the theme of night and day should get together to solve the problems of the realm #(which was poisoned by boa's abuse of the trust of the people + her manipulation of them both) #4. both sad boys -- hob being a sad pretty boy and carrion being a sad goth #5. ofc the fact that hob starts out as the Hero capital H and carrion starts out the Villain capital V #before that gets poked at and dismantled #im just saying i think they have a lot in common - they're foils who never foiled - they were manipulated by the same evil being - #they're both Romantics #they're both flamboyant af #yes yes carrion was a very bad man for awhile but he's getting better... he's had a tough life he's working on himself #CMON barker carrion and hob i am projecting it to you wherever you are #youve got two books left to make it happen!