Ripred raises Gregor-
gregor: uh what’s for dinner
ripred: well we have raw fish and…
ripred:
ripred: hey don’t kids like the whole sushi thing?
gregor: i miss mrs. cormaci
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ripred: and for a bed i’d like to introduce you to this lovely thing called a nest!!
gregor: …better than a box i guess
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gregor: can i fight yet
ripred: you’re a child
gregor: ares is a slightly larger child
ripred: …fair point, no extreme violence and minimum 4 puns per battle
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ripred: when a mommy rat and daddy rat love each other very much—
gregor: i am not doing this with you ratfuck i know what sex is
ripred: wait no pup i have a powerpoint presentation. it’s color coded and everything!
gregor: i wish i’d just stayed poor
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ripred: okay that’s enough, you know what, get on top of the fridge
gregor, hissing as he climbs onto the fridge: this house is a fucking nightmare
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Ripred teaching gregor to fight and rager stuff 😭
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ripred: listen my support group says-
gregor: you joined a support group for single moms ratfuck, that doesn’t count
ripred: it does too, they all think i’m very brave for doing this alone
gregor: for fucks sake-
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ripred, coming home late from something and seeing the lights on: uhh hello?
gregor, sitting on a stool: and just where have you been all night young man?
ripred: IM LIKE FIVE TIMES YOUR AGE
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Gregor, looking dow at the merry little band of rats, pointing: so who do we like, and who do i hate on principle
ripred:
Ripred: *choked up* im so proud
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ripred, who pulled an all-nighter working on peace: good morning!
gregor, who was reading some romance and didn’t notice the sun came up: right…morning
ripred:
gregor:
ripred: you didn’t sleep did you
gregor: well clearly neither did you
ripred: fair enough, overland coffee run?
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gregor: so this guy in Regalia was shovin’ me around and-
ripred: i’ll kill him
gregor: …no.
ripred: but-
gregor: his bond is in charge of the aerial teams and i can’t afford to fall out of Shalais good graces. for ares.
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ripred: look it’s not my fault i’m so charismatic
gregor: i’m not asking for a lot here
ripred: you’re asking me to suppress my nature
gregor: i’m asking you to stop flirting with all my teachers at parent teacher conferences
ripred: c’mon it’s not that big of a deal
gregor: …miss shields gave me her phone number to pass along the other day. so did mr. burnes, it’s getting outta hand red
ripred: oh i see, this is serious
ripred: she’s really cute, maybe i should-
gregor: STOP IT
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CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF!!
Boots is not Ripred's baby. That is TEMP'S problem. Yes Ripred understand's she's Gregor's sister, but Temp has custody over boots and Ripred has custody over Gregor. It's a broken little family but a family nonetheless.
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the princess dancing with the crawlers
wanted to wait till i finished this but not sure if that will ever happen </33 have the sketch though, still heart them forever
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Okay, but as two years old tantrums go, Boots having a meltdown when the spinners lock them up is pretty justified. If I’d been bumped around for two days, hadn’t seen my mama for the longest time in my life, and Gregor ate my cookie, I would probably cry too. And I wouldn’t have the good grace to wake up an angel again twenty minutes later.
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So what do people actually think the background characters in the Underland chronicles look like
Just wondering. From all the (amazing) Fan art I have seen of Gregor , Lizzie, and Boots the fandom seems to have a pretty cohesive Idea on what they look like. Luxa also seems to have a pretty standard image in the fandom (Though wasn't she on the cover of the first design of MOS) with the only differentiation being how far along she is in puberty. Reminder if she was in the overland she would be in the sixth grade.
Other characters though Like really what do people think they look like. In my head Mrs. Cormaci is a plump/rounder women and I thought for years I had read that in the books until I saw fanart of her being drawn as more slim. Then I reread part of TPOB and was like Oh it never says what shape she is, I guess I just thought she was bigger because she is always cooking so much rich sounding food for charities. Then I remember seeing some one post once that what if she was Hazard's maternal grandmother. His maternal grandparents live in NYC, and Mrs.Cormaci is mentioned to have had a daughter.
Well that is bitter sweet because on one had that means that Mrs. Cormaci's daughter has been missing for years and in fact died without her mother ever knowing what happened to her (she also would not have known when her father died). Gotta then wonder if Mrs.Cormaci giving Lizzie her daughters old cloths is more than just her trying to help the Campbells while also declutter her house. But that also means Hazard has at least one Grandma who is really grand, if this relation was ever realized then maybe Hazard could come up to the overland for visits and stay with Mrs. Cormaci. Also she would probably have pictures of her daughter that she could show Hazard so he could remember what his mom looked like. Anyway I really liked this theory and wanted it to be cannon, but then i realized that since Hazard's overland features are his black hair and green eyes his overland relations probably have them to, and was like oh wow I never pictured Mrs.Cormaci having green eyes.
Another character I think about is Vikus. In my head the males in the underland Henry, Mareth, York all have short close cropped hair because they fight so much. Or in Howard's a short stack of wavy/curly locks cut just short enough to stay out of his eyes when wet. I do love the fan art I have seen of Henry with long hair though. But When It comes to Vikus , I guess since he seeks peace and is better relations, I usually imagine him with long grey hair and a long beard. to me he winds up looking kinda like men in biblical stories. Solovet however is muscled with a near shaved head. She is on the small side and slouches a bit when trying to appear as a gracious hostess and that plus her wrinkles make her seem non dangerous. When she is in planing/battle mode though she stands perfectly straight and those seemingly kindly wrinkles disappear, and she just looks completely terrifying.
Dulcet and Nerissa are other cases. Dulcet is described as being shy and very pretty. But as someone who works in childcare I can say with certainty that her hair is most likely a mess, her simple cloths likely have stains and crayon markings all over them. This girl is a beautiful mess. Then we have Neressa whom everyone knows is a mess. Since she is constantly described as wide eyed, tired, frail, to thin, and wearing her long hair a loose pony tail. But I don't often see it acknowledged that she canonically wears multiple layers of cloths at once or that her cloths never match.
I said most of the men in the underland would have short hair, could Hamnet have grown his hair out longer in the jungle, to try and make himself look different from how he did as a solider. Likewise I also imagine his lizard skin cloths being frayed and raggedy at the edges, much different from whatever military uniforms regalians wear. Anything to help hims see something different when he looks into the water. Can we talk about how when Gregor first meets Howard he describes him as tall and really strong, Then during his time with the plague Howard looses like 20 pounds and has scars wear ever he had bumps. Howard likely could not even fit into his old cloths after getting better.
What do Gregor's parents look like. We know they are both thin and tired. His dad's hair has gone completely white. Grace's cannot be to far behind with how hard she works and being in a state of constant worry for her family. Do fans still Agree with the theory that Grace is white and the Dad is black?
Also one more thing. Why does everyone think any of the underlanders that haven't completely greyed over have silver-blond hair. Like I know Luxa has that shade. Luxa would also probably be blonde if she has been born i t he overland. But it only specified that a silver tint was part of what distinguished the underlanders. Personally I always thought they could have any hair color (examples I imagine Howard being brunette and Mareth having black hair) but that it would always be paler than an overland counter part.
Like I know and respect that the characters descriptions are vague on purpose, and that the fun is that we can imagine them looking in so many different ways. But like really how do people imagine their favorites look. What little we get implies that the characters do not fall into the young adult novels trope of making them all look super hot. They are scared, beat up, anxious, and some are wearing cloths that do not fit them, some are missing body parts. To me that makes them infinetly more fun to imagine than most YA novel characters
So seriously if you have any strong clear/headcannons as to what you think certain human characters look like, please share them int he comments.
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i think a horrifying scene in tuc that i never really see talked about is in book 5 after gregor gets his ribs displaced by the bane. he's left in the high hall and curls up next to a pot because everyone is running around and being carried in to the palace (after the city gets invaded) so he can't get help. he just sits there and it's honestly terrifying because he can't even inhale properly and he thinks he's going to die before howard rushes in and saves him by painfully and viscerally forcing him to breathe and it's just. scary. i really appreciate that suzanne collins lets her characters be injured so brutally because i feel like that's not usually in books like these, especially not the main character.
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