did you see summer’s new design? girl help it looks super uncomfy
I did see Summer's new design and I'm like ehhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I honestly just hate how similar it is to Ruby's, colour pallete and all. Summer already struggles with just looking like older Ruby, rather than Ruby's mother, but I'm at least glad she isn't in the all black recolour of Ruby's Mistral outfit.
The positives is that I do like the style of the skirt. The red underneath with the black overskirt on top, it looks really cute, but it gets a lot less cute fast when you get to the belt. I don't get RWBY's obsession with sticking ugly buttons and bits of fabric onto everything. along with the belts on her chest that now hold her cape.
Even when every time we've seen Summer before, her cape was styled like Ruby's. Ruby's cape was always inspired by Summer's, and it was obvious from Volume 1's opening, but then this volume decided that her emblem would be her connection to Summer that she'd lose.
Which wouldn't the cape be a better choice? The red cape is the most iconic part of Ruby's design, so wouldn't her losing that be more meaningful in what this volume's tryna say?
But anyway, back to the design.
It's not the worst I've seen, but it could absolutely be better. At least she's not in Ruby's Mistral clothes anymore.
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liveblogging fotsge because i just bought it
alternatively: soman please don't disappoint me
i have no recollection of what happened in rotsge. fair warning.
"young lad with dark red curls and a smattering of freckles" oh a school master? i want to think he's a sader & a seer so i can say that my sader meta is supported by soman but this desc reminds me of tristan/yara actually...
did soman forget his own lore. didn't august sader tell rafal that he needed the readers.
hook is actually quite a good character and pissing off BOTH twins! good for him.
these evers are. wow. incredibly in character. they rly do capture the essence of good for the sake of being good? on that note, the commentary on evers being spoiled and bored in this duology has been pretty okay (if a bit. pointless? to be honest these books were pointless)
NAMELESS BOY? rhian love interest?
the idea of pan's world is actually really interesting. a place that doesn't follow good and evil, but rather chaos, which places good and evil as the opposite of chaos— order? and hook says "that's why it's so dangerous" which i guess does make sense from his pov but. i hope this concept gets explored more later
kyma questioning whether they're good is also v interesting! comparing the good pirates to evil pan (their roles are reversed, the pirates usually evil and pan usually good— also kyma seems traditional which explains her traditional fairytale view)
"close-shaven black hair [and] violet eyes" HELLO??? lady lesso??? what is your ancestor (?) doing in neverland (it can't be a coincidence right... knowing soman it could be though) one of pan's lost boys huh?
kyma IMMEDIATELY going against pan as soon as he threatened a fluffy animal. and getting them into trouble.
pan is getting more and more creepy though... especially for a thirteen-year-old?
SADERS WORKING WITH PAN????? guys look my meta was right. the saders being on the side of CHAOS instead of good and evil?? because it'll turn out better for them??
"three children who go exploring an enchanted island" rafal i'm pretty sure that's kind of important for you...
kyma is so. good. and her conversation with the ingertroll is oddly touching. she's like the sensible, good version of evelyn sader and i am HERE for it
i deeply enjoy midas' character. i wonder what the significance of the name is? midas, the greedy king, ruined by his greed? (greed for what?) (also he said gay rights. happy pride!)
i also have to say that soman writes homoeroticism incredibly well and that he should have done this more if he wanted people to think his books had good lgbtq+ rep because they would eat it up
luoto bakthi is really. the villains in this series are a lot more sinister than in the proper sge series and i'm actually kind of impressed?
that was over really quickly! good job kyma!
MALICE ROOM 66???????
"a bug crept into the plot" ie rhian spying idk this is reminding me of agatha in her cockroach form
aladdin is so annoying. please don't call kyma your soulmate you are fifteen years old. kyma is so right stop thinking about yourself!!
SADER LORE... whose side are the brothers on? pretending not to see hook and kyma? exceptions to them aging ten years for pans? THEM TELLING HOOK TO GO TO SCHOOL?
"how much these two paying you?" "not enough." i laughed sorry mistral twins. pay your employees right!
MIDAS HAS GOLD POWERS??? ok maybe the name had a more obvious meaning. should have expected that
hephaestus and the pirate captain are such an iconic duo.
midas saving rafal was the obvious choice to be honest. which brother has been a manipulative lying asshole? not rafal! and his little speech about it being midas' choice was nice.
uniting the schools under pan huh? i see where tlea rafal got the idea from
aladdin ffs STOP being jealous of hook i'm pretty sure he has more love interests (cough. rhian and rafal. cough) than kyma??? and you have more important things to worry about???
rhian is. so evil. i see it now. literal snake
fala is back!!!!
midas has THREE school masters fighting over him. it's pretty easy to forget he's the First ever reader but that says something about him.
"what he'd assumed about himself had guided his actions, and because of his actions, his true nature had irrevocably changed." this is such a clever thing to say actually! the it's not who you are, it's what you do messaging is rly coming through.
the storian guiding pan... writing his story for him... and to HELP him... i could say a lot about destiny but i won't bc it wouldn't be coherent
midas :(
i'm becoming a rafal supporter tbh,,,
rafal & hook reunion! finally!
(can't only men be seers. anyway) sader family showdown!! the elders supporting rafal the boys supporting pan and marialena??
the storian "keeps [their] world alive with its tales"?? how??
RHIAN????????????????????? i mean it makes sense the evil school master but like. But Like. school years trilogy rafal?? what??
the saders having different visions Precisely because the divergence was necessary for the future to become reality. this says a lot about seers. they're not all-powerful nor all-knowing, they're just tools trying to enable the "best" future, the stable one, the one that doesn't result in what. death?
whose side are they on?? their own or this grand unknown destiny's??
midas having nothing but rafal. okay soman. OKAY.
BOTIC REALLY IS A LESSO??????????????????
so pan has the power to change the future? to get the story back?
pan's thoughts on free will vs a good life are actually pretty interesting.
marialena you SNAKE. but also her being evil and her family being good. the interaction between good & evil, and the seers who are seemingly above it. huh. but why would she support rhian... what is her big picture...
midas is being so soft with rafal i really. i'm becoming a midas supporter too i fear
ok rafal is still evil never mind
holy shit rhian just MURDERED a guy. he's plenty evil.
so what happens when both brothers are evil? by nature or by choice?
WHAT IS MARIALENA'S AIM.
midas :(((
how is botic a lesso. man is pathetic
"good always wins" rhian doesn't that go against your ENTIRE philosophy of balance
NOT THE GOLDEN ARROW it is NOT midas' fault.
the rafal -> hook -> kyma relationships. nice.
"his princess" no more aladdin!! yes!!
"when a lost boy serves his purpose, it's time for him to grow up. only there is no growing up in my world." that hits deep tbh.
MIDAS :(((( his lines about how he became more than a boy in gavaldon... how it's not The End... his belief in rafal to his last moments... rafal BETTER make this right
oh my god the gold. seriously. the entire school?
"two brothers, eternal once more" wow. AND WHO WAS THE GUY FROM THE FIRST SCENE. i doubt he's a sader but??
the tale of pan and pen?????
the concept of pans being good and their shadows being evil is v interesting especially when you remember that you kill pan by killing his shadow.
the evil always wins, it always destroys the balance. so the evil has to be eliminated by the storian. and that's why the shadow is the thing that has to be killed. wow.
SO THE MAN WAS A PAN. OKAY.
"a gold-soaked corpse ready to fly" soman rly did write quite a few good quotes in this book
"far from the tyranny of men" midas :( kyma :(
RHIAN JUST MURDERED HIM???? WTF??????? RAFAL???????????
rhian you bastard
how is he the school master
i mean i knew it made sense but. this is incredibly unsatisfying.
oh the pirate captain is blackbeard is he.
do they KNOW it's rhian?
uhh is he calling himself "deviant and perverse" for being. straight. i mean. okay i guess.
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