#kotlc rewrite

[thatrandomlemononyourcounter1]

man, drafting kotlc exile rewrite is making me realize how much potential there is to give Quinn (my oc) a villain arc.

#should I do it #probably not #kotlc #kotlc rewrite #kotlc oc #she just has so much angst potential and like #in this one she's struggling with her self-image a lot especially compared to sophie #who has three abilites #can talk to a magical unicorn #gets to train to be cognates #gets to go to the silver tower #gets all the attention #yeah #Quinn has a lot of built up rage #can't wait :D

[maplemantis]

Fitz Vacker

Info below the cut!

Full Name: Fitzroy Vacker

Age: 15

Gender: Transmasc, he/him

Ability: Telepathy

Trivia:

Indian

Pan

Middle Child Syndrome 👍

Looks up to Alvar (until it's revealed he's part of the Neverseen).

Loves baking!

Eyes are red with teal pupils.

Vacker Crest is a golden four-pointed star. Wears the Crest until he gets fed up with the whole Vacker Legacy thing.

Has a sort of "cuts hair to symbolize change" moment, but it's dying his hair pink instead.

#kotlc #kotlc au #kotlc rewrite #swansong rewrite #fitz vacker

[bookwyrminspiration]

foaming at the MOUTH do you understand the potential, the intricacies, the ecstasies of sophitz best friends? of them being the bestest friends in the whole wide world? do you UNDERSTAND

#kotlc #sophitz positivity #I LOVE THEM #SO fucking much #I NEED them to be best friends #ever. in the whole wide world #if Shannon doesn’t make them super good friends in book 10 I’m rewriting the book myself #all caps

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

“no one knows slow burn like sokeefe shippers” true but no one knows slow burn like prentiergan shippers

#it’s cannon I swear #if Shannon doesn’t make it cannon I will personally hunt her down #one night she’ll wake up and find me standing over her bed w her laptop in hand forcing her to rewrite the whole series to make them cannon #prentiergan #prentice x tiergan #tiergan x prentice #kotlc fandom #kotlc

[shimmeringlesbian]

sokeefe you will always have a place in my heart. you were done so dirty.

#such a good ship in concept #the execution? #rough #I need to rewrite them #please shannon #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #sokeefe #sophie foster #keefe sencen

[crunchycrystals]

kotlc has so many flaws but i love the world and the characters so i simply turn my brain off when i read the series i just vibe with whatever happens and if i think about what we've lost i'll go insane

#one day someone needs to rewrite the whole series lol #crunchyposts #kotlc #i Cannot think about potential plot lines that couldve been better #i have what i have and i will enjoy it #the first 4 books were not as flawed iirc #its been a full year though since i read it so. take this with a grain of salt

[oh-mother-i-cannot-weave]

no freaking way i am going to reread that dumb little series with all my old blorbos

#falling down the rabbit hole AGAIN. after 4 YEARS. because of rewriting that dumb fanfiction i made about it #ough #kotlc #gonna be honest tho. my plot twists were on point like go girl

[crymeariveronceagain]

I think the reason I'm starting to have trouble reading the KOTLC books is because the pain is starting to ramp up, and there is very little pay off for it. Things are starting to hurt, and hurt badly, but there's no comfort coming. I know there isn't. The good and beautiful are drowned in the sad and painful, and my will to read dwindles like Sophie Foster's will to live. The words keep growing more and more uncomfortable, like something heavy that weighs you down, drags you under, and leaves you there. It's not how like when you read a slow burn fanfic at least they're both in love. It's like what if they weren't in love and they were in pretty much constant unrest and sadness.

Kotlc has stopped having the payoff it needs to make it a good read.

It's started to have it's fun by making you feel bad things, with no reprieve. Sooner or later, you start to go numb.

#also this could be why we as a fandom have some of our widespread issues #like the books aren't super healthy to read anymore #controversial opinion #kotlc #kotlc keefe #keefe sencen #kotlc sophie #sophie foster #sokeefe #kotlc tam #kotlc thoughts #kotlc fandom #river re-reada kotlc #biana Vacker #kotlc biana vacker #everything is pain #gonna rewrite colors by halsey to make a kotlc parody and you know where its headed #EVERYTHING IS PAIN. #river re-reads kotlc

[lajqlla]

OH MY GOD WAIT IMGAINE IF KEEFE HAD MANIFESTED AS A TELEPATH HOLY SHIT FORGET FITZ SOKEEFE WOULD BE AN UNSTOPPABLE COGNATE PAIR

- TRUST EACH OTHER WITH THEIR LIVES AND EVERYTHING THEYVE FUCKING GOT

- IM SURE BOTH WOULD BE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL, WE KNOW SOPHIE IS AND SINCE KEEFE IS SUCH A POWERFUL EMPATH NO DOUBT HED BE JUST AS MUCH AS A TELEPATH

- BECAUSE OF HIS FUCKED UP GENETICS AND NEW ABILITIES AND SHIT HE COULD HAVE MANIFESTED AS A TELEPATH OR VICE VERSA

#sorry for the chaos this was already typed #i Really didn't feel like rewriting it #anyways #sokeefe #sophie foster #keefe sencen #kotlc #shitpost

[crescentpaws]

100 billion notes and i’ll give in to the urge & write kotlc fanfiction 😊

(or at least rewrite a couple scenes from my fav’s pov)

#kotlc #honestly i’m just too embarrassed to do it tbh #(obviously i’m lying about the 100 billion thing but-) #writing #like i am torn between wanting this to get notes and also secretly hoping nobody sees it #keeper of the lost cities

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

If I were to rewrite KOTLC, I would combine Marella and Biana and make Biana the pyrokinetic to give her an actual reason for being there, and I wouldn't have Maruca or Stina (or Jensi though he doesn't really count) be a part of the main gang at all. I actually might even take out Keefe, and change the Neverseen's plans a bit.

I'm also making Tam and Linh a part of the Neverseen and removing Glimmer from the equation. Wylie remains a somewhat separate peer/mentor figure due to the fact he's a whole ass adult.

Cutting the main group from ten people (Sophie, Keefe, Biana, Fitz, Dex, Tam, Linh, Marella, Maruca, Stina) down to six (Sophie, Fitz, Biana, Dex, Tam, Linh) gives all the characters more space to develop and have noticeable roles within the plot.

#i dont think i would give sophie a love interest at all either honestly #the only romance i might do is marellinh and if we need straight romance maybe biana x tam #i have a lot of reasons for taking out keefe i dont hate him #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #sophie foster #keefe sencen #fitz vacker #biana vacker #dex dizznee #tam song #linh song #maruca chebota #marella redek #stina heks

[thatrandomlemononyourcounter1]

#kotlc #kotlc oc #kotlc rewrite #quinn parker

[maplemantis]

Sophie Foster

Information below the cut!

Full Name: Sophie Foster-Ruewen

Age: 14 (as of where the rewritten first book would take place)

Gender: Non-binary, they/them pronouns (cisfem as of first book, has a gender crisis at some point)

Abilities: Telepathy, Inflicting, Enhancing

Trivia:

Blasian - Black & Thai

#??? of Project Swansong. DNA is mixed with that of a moonlark's and an alicorn's, giving them the extra abilities of Inflicting and Enhancing.

Biromantic & ace. Ends up dating Biana around the fourth book.

Diagnosed anxiety. They're Stressed™.

Skipped two grades; is in sophomore year of high school as of first book.

Adopted child of Grady & Edaline Ruewen. Haunted (figuratively and literally) by Jolie.

Has sectoral heterochromia - eyes are red, spotted orange.

Foster Crest is a gold-plated background with two interlocking hands atop it, symbolizing their mission of peace and their introduction into elf society.

Wears a moonlark earring.

#kotlc #kotlc au #kotlc rewrite #swansong rewrite #sophie foster

[bookwyrminspiration]

Hello it’s mossy back with another bodyguard ask

I’ve been thinking about this ever since I read the books a few years ago:

Do the bodyguards eat?? Or sleep?? We only ever see them eat once and it was when Sophie came back to havenfield in flashback, and we’ve only ever seen Sandor sleep in the earlier books when Sophie said that he would fall asleep in her history class

Do they need sleep?? Do they need to eat?? Are they just severely overworked? And if they are overworked what does that entail?

Hope you’ve had a good week 👾

Mossy! I've had this exact question in the earlier books in regards to Sandor, especially because of that one scene where Edaline offers him a day off and he declines it, saying that Sophie's needs his protection now more than ever.

So that shows that they can have time off at the very least. But there's also the question of sleeping and eating. Eating I think is fairly simple, they eat when Sophie eats. Her schedule is their schedule, so unless there's some other situation, it seems reasonable that they'll just be part of Sophie's family's meals, though they may not eat the elven food or at the table with them and instead have something else prepared for themselves and be off to the side. Near enough to protect her if something happens but far enough away to give a sense of normalcy, you know?

Sleeping is easy if we're looking at after Flashback when Sophie's got a whopping five people assigned to her, because they can work in shifts. That way, they can take a break and sleep/do whatever else they need to without leaving Sophie unattended, and in the event of an emergency can be awoken to join the rest of the bodyguards.

Prior to that is where I'm assuming plot convenience comes through and we just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ away any questions because those details aren't important. Because when it's just Sandor, when does he get time off? He's shown to be guarding her through the night and to be awake at least all the times when she's awake (except for that one class), and as an insomniac that is often! He can't be protecting her 24/7 because he also has needs, but with so many other plot things happening it gets swept under the table as a "don't worry about this it just works" thing. Which is fine! Totally understandable and only leads to questions when we really focus on it

At least, that's how I regard it. I did try and find some sources from real-life bodyguards to see what they do (and found out they don't like to be called bodyguards) but it seems like in the event someone needs 24/7 supervision they're high profile enough to require multiple bodyguards, and otherwise they would just be employed for events or something. So we could say that Sophie's been in need of more bodyguards since Sandor was first introduced, and perhaps he was the only one for the sake of simplicity and not having so many characters.

that's less of an in-canon reason, but I think it plays a part!

(also thank you my week is going fine so far <33)

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc bodyguards #quil's queries #mossy nonsie #the-not-deer #either that or sandor is hopped up on caffeine for six books straight #or the goblin equivalent #he's too cool for sleep #but so far the only species we've confirmed doesn't really need sleep in the gnomes #but everyone else apparently sleeps normally. as far as we know #kotlc rewrite where the only thing changed is sophie gets assigned two bodyguards at the end of book 1 #it can't be grizel tho because then there aren't the fun shipping things from a distance parallel with sophie and fitz

[twilled-auryn]

you know what I enjoy? the kotlc fandom's progression from

"AAAAAH CHAPTER 42 OMG"

to

"Yeah I'm glad it's finally canon to it was cute not the best though"

to

"bit controversial but chapter 42 wasn't my favorite"

to

"I did NOT just read thousands of pages following these two awkward little beans just for them to middle school fanfic it randomly in the forest"

to

*slams table* chapter 42 was so cringe. what in the actual wattpad. It was so bad

to

*extensive lists and paragraphs as to what could have done better and several people rallying and calling for a rewrite*

I love you guys.

if you support chapter 42 I think that's great and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

#kotlc #kotlc crit #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc thoughts

[camelspit]

if you were rewriting kotlc, what changed would you make?

would solve the love triangle in like book 5 or 6 by making them a polycule 🙏 amen

#almost said delete stellarlune but. i feel like this would solve more problems #maybe without the petty love triangle drama stellarlune wouldnt be as bad #kotlc