#BUT just narratively speaking.. having a character like devo become someone like john hunger... in my brain it just WORKS it fucking WORKS!

[siriwesen]

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why would you challenge me like this??? I HAVE LIKE? so many ethersea thoughts but to elaborate on this one: I think narratively speaking, i havent listened to "the stolen century" arc in a while, but I think it would be so beautiful and yet ironic and perfect if Devo became John Hunger in his quest to open the portal to save Amber + Kill God. Like hear me out. Devo is.. so angry. He is full of trauma and anger and the anger is what fuels him and what keeps him going. By the end of ethersea he chooses to become the Voice of Hope. The person people look to when they despair. And Devo has a goal and ambitions! But also anger is fucking exhausting! Like - no one ever tells you how exhausting it is to be angry all the time! And Being so driven, being so desperate in a world that is hostile to your existence and the people you love, being driven to connect to other worlds, fucking up timelines in the process, who knows if Devo truly achieves his goals. Who is to say that by the time he achieves them he is not a totally changed man? One that may not even be fully in control of his powers/magic/apperature? To get as powerful as John Hunger is with his world consuming ... essence, you gotta have ambitions to get started. You need anger, and love, and hope, and so many many many emotions. No one EVER starts a project because they don't care about it. No one ever stays on a thing when they stop caring. But when you're too deep in your personal little cycle of hell, of your own making, allowing yourself to take a step back and acknowledge you wasted your time, energy, ressources... it shatters you. Better just keep going with whatever is left of your original plans. Abandoning them, even if they have become a mockery of your original intent, would mean to admit defeat? Idk where I'm exactly going with this. But I love stories that lead a character to the opposite or very far away from their original starting point. Especially in terms of morals and view on the world. I mean, i could also nominate Toliver, but Toliver is already KINDA??? cynical and wants to see the World burn, so Devo is just a more beautiful and terrible journey. Also the rafts/black goo/ black rain in the Finale of Ethersea, when Devo walks up the stairs to Orlean, this really feels like vaguely hunger adjacent. The imagery just made me think of the hunger and I wonder if there is some sort of connection to whatever Orlean was building and causing with those portal rifts and whatever made the hunger become what it would become eventually in Balance! Also we have in the early beginnings.. the infinite clam arc - the crew hunts down some fucking weird magic anomaly bright light thingie???? That is never really further explained except that it creates infinite spaces apparently (?) > Trash hole and ambers bag of holding.

And it's never explained really what the fuck it is or where it came from or why Orlean was even studying it and I think about it every fucking day.

If Steeplechase is connected to Balance

And balance is connected to Graduation

Dust being connected to Amnesty

Then Ethersea origin of John Hunger?