((chain of thorns & rule of wolves spoiler))
i was about to post something like “listen it’s okay that christopher died and we never got gracetopher endgame, because shadow & bone season 2 ones out soon and i can just project grace & kit on genya & david” and then i remembered that DAVID DIES TOO 😭😭
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can we talk more about the fact that kaz called it the silver six? after the crows? about how they're silver, not gold, because they're not as respectable and they'll only be secondary in the eyes of everyone else? about how it's representitive of the way they took down pekka rollins and renamed his gambling dens after them because they bested him? can we?
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God has her favorites and with "god" i mean "Leigh"and with favorites i mean "Wylan" because
-Mal almost had debris crushing him and freaking died
-Kaz bought a ship and found her parents
-Matthias betrayed his mentor and the army that raised him
-David made that speech
-Nikolai handed her the throne
But what did Wylan had to do to get Jesper? Nothing, he just existed and the man´s mind was already all over him,no effort, bet not even he know how he did it.
"lied to his dad" oh please, thats just Wylan being himself
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Hi Raven! Have you seen the Disney 100 Jack birthday card art that has been circulating around yet? Any thoughts on the paintings? I think I remember you mentioning that the portraits would be good for figuring out what inspirations more ambiguous characters like Jack were twisted from.
The idea that the background frames for the new birthday series would reveal the explicit Disney reference for each TWST boy was popular fandom speculation when Platinum Suit Jamil was initially teased, NOT something actually ever confirmed, stated, or even implied by official TWST sources. Some people were also speculating that maybe the background frames were just the respective G7 of each boy's dormitory. We only had Jamil to go off of at the time, which didn't give us a lot of clear information since Jamil is both very clearly twisted from Jafar but is also in Scarabia, a dorm which has also has Jafar as its representative from the Great 7.
Then Platinum Jacket Ace came out in late September and seemed to continue the pattern of "the background shows one image that shows direct inspiration for the TWST boy"; there were heart card soldiers in one frame, which is what Ace seems to be twisted from. This made a lot of fans hype to finally get character inspiration confirmation for more ambiguous characters like Jack (which has been an ongoing debate in the fandom for years now).
***Spoilers for the main story, as well as Jack's Platinum Suit initial art + related discussion below the cut!***
... However, that ended up not being the case as soon as Jack's Platinum Suit card preview was released. Which brings us to today 😅 I think you see what the "issue" here is, right??? How can Jack, a wolf beastman, possibly be based on Rafiki, a baboon???
Mmmm, I don't have really anything to add regarding the actual frames? It is what it is, and though I will admit it got my hopes up when Jamil was first revealed, I also suspected it would be a long shot given how eclectic ("borrowing from many sources") some of the characters are.
I guess it was presumptuous for us to jump to a conclusion when we only knew about Jamil and even when we also knew about Ace; the problem is that two in a row doesn't make a pattern, just a coincidence. We need at least three to establish a pattern, and Jack here disrupts it. What we actually see here is that the frame to our left (the character's right) is likely just the painting the birthday boy chooses as a decoration for the Guest Room. (It is listed as “[Character’s] chosen painting” in Sam’s shop.) Alternatively, maybe some boys will have their character inspo if it is very clear (like how Jamil is twisted from Jafar) while the non-determinant characters like Ortho will get some other Disney character from the same film (ie Pain/Panic, the Fates, etc.) rather than a single specific inspo.
I think the TWST fandom is like... very fixated on picking ONE exact character that corresponds to each TWST boy just because the dorm leaders (ie the most iconic group in marketing) have clear inspirations. That expectation then gets extended to the rest of the cast, even though it's not true that everyone only takes inspiration from their own films--even the dorm leaders make references to and allude to various Disney properties. There's no harm in debating, having your own interpretation, or drawing parallels for fun, but it gets to a point where it's... fruitless??? To try to come to a firm conclusion on the subject.
It may be less contentious to accept that some of the cast are a blend of inspirations, ideas, and motifs. Even the more "concrete" characters can functionally serve in multiple different roles or as correlates to many different Disney characters. Azul is twisted from Ursula, but he is also able to be Jamil's "Genie in the Lamp" (a line which Jamil actually uses to refer to Azul) for book 4. Vil is twisted from the Evil Queen, but he is the hero Hercules when he sacrifices his youth to rescue Idia from Tartarus. At the same time, you could argue that Ortho (who is very Pinocchio-esque, going from robot to "real boy"), also has Hercules traits and Vil is serving as a dual role as Megara, the damsel in distress. (More on that in this post!)
None of the TWST characters are bound to one movie or to the characters they're supposedly based off of, and this works to the IP's advantage. It allows each character to feel like their own person, not just a copy of or a reinvention of one Disney counterpart.
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HimeRita - Episode 47
NO BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT THESE CRUMBS?!?! PLEASE???
Like Himeno was on a mission to hunt down Grodie but when Rita grabs her arm and just stares her down! They didn't even have to speak for her shoulders to relax after a freaking 3-second silent conversation! Just Rita going "No. This is not the time for that" WITH JUST AN ARM GRAB AND ONE EYE to calm her down enough for Gira to speak!
And then the ending hug?! Rita didn't even fight it when Jeramie grabbed them and they didn't hesitate putting an arm around her for the huddle! Sure, their hand was hovering (bc they shy as f—), but then just didn't fight the fact that Himeno was still holding onto them even after everyone let go of each other?!
I- OH MY G- I AM NOT OKAY! DO NOT ASK HOW LOUD I FCKING SCREAMED AT THE ARM GRAB!
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