#kotlc questions

[thepumkinmoth]

wait can elves have beards

#Keeper of the lost cities #kotlc #kotlc fandom #kotlc theories #kotlc questions

[the-way-astray]

so i'm almost halfway through my reread (done with neverseen) and as i've been reading i've been making a list of every single question in the series (the answered and the unanswered).

so who wants to see my massive list of questions from kotlc once i'm done. it's turning out to be pretty fucking long and i'm only done with the first four books so far.

(i've also been making a list of all my least favorite keefe moments and why i do not like this character, so i guess who wants to see that as well.)

#kotlc #kotlc reread #kotlc questions #kotlc keefe #keefe sencen #anti keefe sencen

[fitzvackertheritzcracker]

#im asking the important questions here #kotlc #kotlc ask #kotlc poll #kotlc questions #kotlc thoughts #mcr #my chemical romance #keeper of the lost cities #sophie foster #poll #mr forkle #dintair #that's not his name fuck #fitz vacker #keefe sencen #kotlc sophie #kotlc fandom #tam song #amy kotlc #kotlc amy #tiergan #elwin #kotlc elwin #kotlc headcanons #kotlc alden #alden vacker

[winwin17]

Why aren't there more banshees besides Bullhorn? How common are they? Where do they live naturally? If they're so sensitive to when someone's life is in danger, how come a thousand banshees don't come running out of nowhere every time Sophie and her friends almost die??

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #sophie foster #bullhorn #banshee #kotlc questions

[belovedyareli]

which Disney princess do you guys think would be Dex's favourite? (doesn't have to be an official princess)

#dex dizznee #kotlc #kotlc questions #keeper of the lost cities #disney princess

[astatine-17]

Do you guys think the elves know about the moon landing

#Sophie mentions it offhand one day and the rest of them are like #what do you mean humans put themselves on a missle #and fucked off to the moon for a bit #kotlc fandom #kotlc headcanons #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc questions #kotlc

[identitty-dickruption]

emphasis on NO STAKE IN. we are not talking their blorbo vs your blorbo or whatever else. we are talking about something you know zero about or something you do not personally care about. NO STAKE

#polls #inspired by the number of kotlc polls I’ve voted in #sorry kotlc mutuals whoever I see begging my vote first is the vote I do #edited it because some people already didn't read the question properly

[purplesoup-lad-le]

sometimes i wonder if one of those couple name generators would do better than what we've come up with.

I don't have to wonde anymore

#LIKE #IM SO. #THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I'M BORED ALONE AT NIGHT SND DON'T WANNA WORK. THIS #GOD. I DON'T #I CAN'T TELL WHETHER IT'S BETTER OR WORSE. #BUT I FIGURED Y'ALL WOULD GET A KICK OUTTA IT #SO HERE #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc fedex #detz #do i tag the characters is the question. #probably not? since it's just their names? #nah nvm I'm tagging their names it can't be worse than some tags I've seen #fitz vacker #kotlc fitz #dex dizznee #kotlc dex #this is a good name I've decided because would shannon be able to put it in her books? no!!!!! so its perfect #good day to y'all

[inkcovens]

image 6 year fitz old roaming the streets of italy or something just grabbing random smart 4 year old girls with blue eyes. like the boy had NOTHING to go off of, wtf was he even doing. he deadass just found sophie from a newspaper about a child prodigy?? and she didn't even fit 1/3 of the criteria?? do you know how many child prodigies there are. was fitz binging episodes of like Ellen or something to find kid geniuses

#kotlc #sophie foster #fitz vacker #i have SO many questions #i think it wasn't intentional to make it so silly and more like #shannon not realizing the bad timelining #but its was funnier to imagine this

[camelspit]

the current debates on sokeefe/sophitz and alden rn are so funny i feel like i was forcefully put in a time machine and blasted to a few years ago

#its so funny bc i have no stake in either arguement tbh #the sophitz/sokeefe one rn is so funny i cant take it seriously #i just havent seen the arguement this. relevant. on tumblr in a while #i had to guess id say the reactions to the keefe pov book are what set it off #as for the alden one. idk. #i think my personal opinion is that hes made some questionable desicions but not out of malice #i havent seen anyone yet bring up him sedating sophie in nightfall which. i think is one of his most memorable scenes. #for me at least!! idk #kotlc

[reinedeslys-central]

kotlc things that I keep thinking about that are never really addressed by canon

there is a complete replica of sophie's bedroom and perhaps countless other rooms just. somewhere in a building in mysterium that the councillors just know about.

alden and other telepaths were instructed to monitor the citizens' minds for signs of dissent around the time the prentice thing was going down

they regularly torture prisoners and dissenters into literal insanity that they can't come back from

they also have a super weird prison only accessible by quicksand (????) to house said prisoners

there is an ENTIRE DUNGEON OF WEIRD LAB EXPERIMENTS DOWN BY THE VACKER HOUSE?

okay. how - how big is havenfield?

the entire thing with - is their name twix? the person dex was working with for something. why do we not get to see that more. why is dex the criminally underrated goated character and WE DON'T GET FLESHED OUT CHARACTER ARCS FOR EVERYONE

linh flooded. atlantis. linh song FLOODED ATLANTIS hello what do people think about that?????????? do they see her on the street and whisper? what's up with "The Girl Of Many Floods"? Where else did she flood?

What is up with the song family (tong? their name changed after their grandmother or smth got famous with their music right?) that both their children not only have two very powerful elemental abilities, but are also crazy skilled with said Talents.

why are music, art, and culture not a bigger thing? like yeah, plot, obviously, but that's just worldbuilding!!! I wanna see!!!! art hanging on the walls! Defying gravity! more sculptures! more music playing in the shopping centres!! If they have imparters why don't they have long distance radio? are there mandatory dance lessons? what's the etiquette like besides what we already know?

more animal husbandry at schools. speaking of schools: we KNOW foxfire and exilium aren't the only schools. are smaller schools more specialised? are their community colleges or academies dedicated to specific career paths? universities?

okay but the polyglot ability is SO COOL???? tell me about the archaic variants of the enlightened language. there's no way that's just the elves' one language and the other species picked it up due to their 'superiority' or wtv. the goblins have cities of gold and metal and the trolls age backwards, you're not convincing me of anything.

secret societies in the other species. that has to exist right?

.....is squall dex's mom or not? I genuinely can't remember.

anyway remember when she froze gethen's fingernails off, yeah that happened (I think)

so instead of rehabilitating teenagers who have dangerous abilities and not much control over their powers, we just do....whatever the council did with gethen, ruy, and linh ig

hey, um...are we just not going to talk about dex casually HACKING INTO A GOV DATABASE WITH SOME RANDOM BITS OF ROCK AND TWINE? he can just do that. okay. okay. that's - yeah, okay.

did he match a frequency or something? how does the signal network even work in kotlc when everyone is technically all over the world in unplottable locations and they get around by LIGHT LEAPING???

ON THAT NOTE. light leaping. yeah haha funny let's just teach our kids to casually break down their very particles and hold onto their consciousness to travel at the speed of light using quantum mechanics and crystals that are specifically cut to project light in such a way that'll take you only to a specific location nvm im not thinking more about it.

flickering? is apparently a skill you can learn even if you're not a vanisher? remember in book two when fitz got prissy at sophie for knowing how to do it apparently b4 we figured out that she's a teleporter

keefe is a fun loveable goofball and I've always been on the sokeefe train but now the more I think about it he's really um.... yeah, uh, sophie? darling, please just don't date any of these people. obv you can make your own decisions but at least not now, okay. take care of yourself hon

the fitz hate is kinda weird ngl. wdym you don't want your problematic traitor brother to move back in to living literally with your family after supposedly losing his memories and that's a bad thing? wdym your close friend/crush is hiding things from you when yall are supposed to be cognates and she's kinda gaslighting you since, forever? wdym your father's been shadily telling you to stalk this girl in the human world since you were a kid? yeah definitely he does pull some weird stints throughout the series. but the bigger things i see ppl hating on him for are. hmmmmm

the council themselves choose to lock away the government secrets and wipe them from their memories. hey, um - recordkeeping is great, obvious, but - wiping those secrets from your minds isn't gonna help you lead while accounting for those parts of history, is it? nevermind how dangerous it is when there are huge species-wide secrets that NO ONE remembers. society-threatening incident waiting to happen.

the concept of vociferators. that's just kinda funny lol even if it is weird

are their schoold for diff abilities?

what's the genetics of talent inheritance? why are 'stronger' abilities rarer? In my opinion, p much every talent is goated, I don't see why more characters aren't more creative about it.

banning talents is just a bad move. like. are you serious? how is that going to make it better? that's how you get brant. brant was a pyrokinetic, without getting into the primary issue of the whole talentless/talented discrimination discourse, the secondary issue is he wouldve been able to marry jolie as two talented elves. would he have cracked if his ability was just a bit better handled by society?

grady is a mesmer. how - that's a really powerful ability???? how do you even train to use that? what do you even use it for?

same with whatever that lady councillor is that tried to seduce alden during his own wedding. fun times, yall.

rainbow fire??? cool????

so we have the sanctuary, do we also have a gigantic library of alexandria-esque thing? a botanical garden?

according to jolie's wiki she died at twenty as a level 8 at foxfire. so... hang on a minute. okay, sure, numerically that could make sense since sophie, at 12, became a level one - but are you telling me she went through the whole matchmaking process and was planning to get married that young????

hey, here's an idea - in a relatively stable society where economy is great, trust funds exist, people work to have something to do with their lives, birth rate is generally low (now through prejudice as well as societal comfort and ease/cost of living), why are they marrying so young? WHY ARE THE KIDS STARTING THE MATCHMAKING PROCESS IN THEIR TEENS???? the elven society has p much every mark of a stage 5 developed country? help? middle-high school human geography??

if they apparently live so long, show me the funny messy family trees with couples having children generations apart.

so, trust funds of lusters??? lustres?? (which we barely ever see. why is there little-to-no use of money?) which equate to roughly one trillion USD (in value? are you. are you - um. are you....serious?) exist. but I guess inflation and relative currency value from mass money printing doesn't count in this world, as well as the fact that there's only one currency for all the elves.

I wanna see a divorced elven couple now. how does divorce law work??????

if there's such a low BR and low population and people are yet still encouraged to have less kids to 'not dilute the genes' (that's my next point btw), I'm guessing matchmaking is encouraged younger to make sure population stays stable/growing? obv you need it to ensure genetic diversity and no incest, but if it's heavily encouraged for elves to have children like this, are queer elves mandated to have children with a surrogate/other couple even if they have a same-sex marriage?

i'll probably edit this or reblog it to include more stuff (character limit lol) as i remember the books bc it's been a hot minute since i read them.

#kotlc #thoughts #headcanons #meta #questions #the series is actually really interesting worldbuilding-wise #shannon messenger #what's going on????? #keeper of the lost cities #sophie foster #grady ruewen #edaline ruewen #jolie ruewen #fitz vacker #biana vacker #dex dizznee

[crescentpaws]

once again thinking about. Them. i feel ill

#god help me #kotlc #no follow-up questions i’m gatekeeping my posts now

[nectorbruise]

Sophie is honestly one of my favorite characters and despite being main, I feel like she gets sidelined in the fandom. Sure, she can be annoying but I think she’s incredibly likable and interesting despite her Mary sue set of abilities. Destined for greatness; constantly losing but hey, still alive. She’s just so real to me.

So boom, a character sheet with my gay agenda headcanons

Happy queer month everyone

#nector art! #kotlc #Sophie foster #she’s just internally screaming everywhere #the question marks and speech bubbles are human thoughts #for young Sophie #fuck im obsessed #blorbo

[fitzvackertheritzcracker]

no but genuinely is shannon going to make tam and biana endgame?

because it kind of feels like the kind of thing she would do...

#im sorry shannon my dear but neither of them are straight #ik ppl like them together but not me im afraid #i do not see it #my eyes are blind when it comes to tiana (?) #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc fandom #kotlc questions #kotlc thoughts #shannon messenger

[winwin17]

Ok, but why didn't Alden suggest becoming cognates with Fitz, his own son, one of the strongest young telepaths? As a parent/child duo, they'd probably already have a strong bond, and anything in the way probably needs to be worked through anyhow.

To be honest, I do love Fitz and Sophie as cognates, but not sure how that's working out right now....

And just, I don't think anyone's ever thought of this before?? Was it just plot convenience? Or is cognatedom not achievable ever again after it's been broken, like in Alden's case with Quinlin? Idk, just a random thought.

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #cognates #alden vacker #fitz vacker #sophie foster #kotlc cognates #kotlc telepath #kotlc questions #shannon messenger

[bookwyrminspiration]

¿Huan tlan nimitzihllizquia quitl ayoccanah niquinmahpachoa botonez? 

#kotlc #fitz vacker #y'all better fucking appreciate the fact I asked. in class. directly. to my profe's face. how to translate this sentence #it's on video. with my face asking this question #anyway. i love fitz :3 #the things I do for that boy