#Nathaniel benedict

[nobodysdaydreams]

The difference between book and show Curtain is that if show Curtain was a cat, he’d be a passive-aggressive fancy show cat that would look you dead in the eyes as he jumped up on the counter and knocked one of your glasses onto the floor.

Meanwhile, book Curtain is a scraggly old cat that hisses and yowls whenever anyone gets near him.

[lotsofsq]

i adore nathaniel (as you know) and i think it’s really funny for him to try and be a normal parent after his choices in sos (by @nobodysdaydreams )

[ID copied in alt text: a drawing of nathaniel with a pained expression sitting gripping his knees and vibrating in his entire body. there is a note that reads “Recovering helicopter parent limited to 1 phone call a day”]

[myfairkatiecat]

This post has a niche audience of about three existing people BUT.

The Benedict Twins as the Vacker brothers anyone? (Bods if you see this, this is your fault)

The Benedict twins as born-to-an-influential-Elvin-family is already a HUGELY interesting concept given the fact that twins are greatly prejudiced against in the KOTLC universe. So if the Benedict family was like the Vackers they might try to pull something like the Songs did where they just pretend the brothers aren’t twins, and one is slightly older than the other.

Nathaniel was the one allowed to exist a year before Nicholas was “born,” so he always holds his “extra experience” (of being a baby) over Nicholas’ head. They look identical, yes, theoretically, but they style themselves so completely differently that they are able to pretend Nicholas is a year younger and no one questions it for the longest time.

Now in order to get to the Fitz-and-Alvar model I’m working towards, Nicholas obviously joins the Black Swan and Nathaniel joins the Neverseen. (Nathaniel joined the neverseen first and much longer before Nicholas got involved, so it’s a shock and a betrayal to see his brother for the first time on the other side.) and this makes PERFECT SENSE, because of how the tmbs characters would handle twin bias in the lost cities.

Nathaniel sees it as a grand injustice, and develops a grudge against his family for trying to hide the “imperfection” of their children, similar to Alvar’s grudge against the Vacker legacy.

Nicholas sees us as something that needs to change, but allies with the people trying to work somewhat with the council. He doesn’t want to cause a commotion or send a message—he just wants things fixed.

I think if Nathaniel was sedated with soporidine and had his memories wiped when he became no longer useful (like Alvar did) he would remain equally as angry especially since he’s the type of guy to want to be in charge? And I think when he goes through his whole “whoever did all that, it wasn’t me, I don’t remember it” phase, unlike fitz, Nicholas isn’t angry at all. He WANTS to believe it, so he does, and they go back to being brothers, and…

…Nathaniel gets his memories back. And just like Alvar, a switch is flipped. Now he’s livid at his family AND at the neverseen. I foresee him playing a Lady Gisela move and just… making his own neverseen branch. But instead of immediately trying to kill him, Nicholas pleads with him to come back. It doesn’t work.

But the real question is, in a mutant troll hive, if Nathaniel were to fall into a pod and Nicholas was frantically pressing buttons, trying to figure out how it worked, and suddenly the pod closed up and started filling with toxic orange goo, and Nathaniel was banging on the glass and yelling, screaming, pleading with his brother to save his life despite his obsession with dignity…

…would Nicholas keep pressing buttons?

I think he would.

I don’t think he would let his brother die.

Because he has the opposite of Fitz’s character flaws. He always sees the best in people. Especially his brother.

Nathaniel escapes. But he wonders, for the first time, if maybe Nicholas isn’t the traitor.

Just some Benedict brothers kotlc Vacker family au thoughts that no one asked for.

[italianldcurtain]

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[bi-demon-ium]

someone do the 'psychically projecting her period cramps onto [x]' meme but with constance and curtain. honestly i was picturing their show counterparts but it being roa slightly grown up constance and old man book curtain is so fucking funny

[cindyslesbian]

dare i say kathryn hahn fancast for nerissa benedict?

[s4w-yer]

constance angst animation :3c

animated by me :b

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[a-chess-lesson]

so y'all know the 'against the kitchen floor' meme?

and y'all know mr curtain's gay little cringefail dance?

(thanks to @personinthepalace for the footage; song is against the kitchen floor by will wood; inspired by that one Garfield video)

[f1gure-skater]

He's literally that theatre kid

(Please excuse the terrible quality)

[thesorrowoflizards]

"BIG DAY TODAY" (THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY) // "BIG WEEK" (TED LASSO) // TEASER FOR OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

[nobodysdaydreams]

I love how in The Mysterious Benedict Society they have the tech for a brain sweeping and mind control, but everyone, including Curtain, is still out here using landline phones.

If Curtain wanted to be rich and powerful, all he had to do was make an iPhone, but nope. Not enough drama involved in that.

[lotsofsq]

in honor of pride month i am posting these queer headcanon charts i made a while back!! happy gay everyone

[ID copied in alt text: two circles of pictures of the book and show characters respectively, accompanied by flags.

first chart is of my book characters queer headcanons. reynie: demiromantic andbisexual. sticky: nonbinary and bisexual. kate: bisexual. constance: aroace. SQ: demisexual and pan. the ten men: achillean and polyamorous. milligan: bisexual. Ms perumal: lesbian. rhonda: pansexual. Number Two: aroace, lesbian and transgender. Mr benedict. Transgender and Gay. Mr curtain: transgender, achillean and aromatic.

second chart is of my show characters queer headcanons. reynie: bisexual. sticky: transgender and bisexual. kate: sapphic. constance: aroace and agender. SQ: nonbinary and achillean. Martina: transgender and lesbian. milligan: bisexual. rhonda: pansexual. number two: aroace. transgender and nonbinary. Ms perumal: lesbian. Mr benedict: transgender and achillean. Dr curtain: transgender and aromantic.]

[myfairkatiecat]

TMBS FANDOM I DID A THING

still don’t know how I feel about it but I Did It

so I was like

I was having Benedict twin feelings

and I

I wrote a song???

I usually just write songs about stuff that happens in my life and then I shut them up in a book and forget them but I wrote A SONG ABOUT TMBS???

….all this tmbs musical writing is getting in my head.

ANYWAY. I don’t have a recording studio or anything and my voice definitely isn’t the *greatest* thing in the world but BECAUSE I LOVE YOU GUYS, I used my phone’s microphone to try to record SOMETHING like what it sounded like, so here you guys go!

have a Benedict twin inspired song!

(If you’re not interested in hearing my phone attempt to be a recording device and fail miserably, just scroll for lyrics :)

Lyrics under the cut:

once there were two boys

who shared the same life

same parents, same orphanage

same hair and eyes

two halves of an

imperfect whole

safe in the illusion

they were inseparable

one of them silently

tired of a life

in the shadow of a boy

who was his same height

the other was constantly

after respect

for himself and his brother

he wanted to protect

they were not the same

in more than just their name

you’d never know it

from pictures of them

you would never take

them for each other by mistake

not your average

identical twins

one day the life they shared

was split in two

and each of their hearts

had to learn to make do

with half of the whole

that they had once had

what made it imperfect was

it wasn’t built to last

they were not the same

in more than just their name

you’d never know it

from pictures of them

you would never take

them for each other by mistake

not your average

identical twins

one of them grew up

and grew a hard heart

a stone cold exterior

to protect from more harm

and one of them learned

to find a family of his own

he wasn’t complete

but he wasn’t alone

[heyitsthatonesmolgay]

What do y'all think Mr. Curtain's guilty pleasure music is? I'm thinking he'd have a secret thing for big band jazz, something about the chaos creating something beautiful despite the lack of control.

Also, thinking abiut Nathaniel's guilty pleasure music and coming up with like. Idk. He's a closet Swiftie, okay?

[mbspolls]

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