#TPN S1e04

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In honor of Gilda’s recent birthday do you have any gildemma headcannons?

Not a ton, but I've talked about the foundations of Gildemma in this Gildemma and Gildayshe post.

(S1 Episode 4)

The way they have her eyes shimmer in the anime during this conversation. ✨💚🧡✨

☆ In the time between Isabella realizing Gilda needed glasses and her receiving glasses, Emma insisted on acting as Gilda's eyes. She even temporarily rearranged the dining hall seating arrangements so they could sit next to each other. If they weren't sleeping, taking tests, or doing a myriad of things that required privacy, Emma was by her side guiding her.

(Chapter 19 Cover Art)

↳ Prior to getting glasses, Gilda appreciated how much Emma's homing beacon of an orange mop contrasted against the regular scenery of their daily lives so her eyes were naturally drawn to seek her out.

☆ I default to Gilda being involved in sustainable fashion in some way as a career in the human world.

(S1 Episode 1: “I read a book one time; it said the outside world has hundreds of clothing designs and patterns, and I wanna wear them all!” | Chapter 181.4)

↳ Emma loves watching Gilda work. The intensity and focus in her eyes, the deft movements of her hands, the stunning final results, it's all so mesmerizing to her. Sometimes though, Gilda accidentally pricks her fingers. Even if it's not bad, they fall into a ritual of Emma wordlessly making her way over to Gilda and gently taking her hand to press her lips to the wound. It's not uncommon for them to hold their gaze for a bit or for Gilda to decide now's a good time for her to take a break. ↳ Emma also acts as a model for Gilda's work. One time they were doing a photoshoot around a water fountain and Emma almost tripped while walking along the edge, but in an impressive show of speed Gilda manages to catch her. Emma's expression morphs from one of shock into a brilliant grin of gratitude as she dubs Gilda her hero. The smile Gilda gives her in return isn't quite as big, but it's no less loving. Being able to be a hero to the girl she's admired since their time at Grace Field who's accomplished so much and overturned fate, even if she can't remember those spectacular feats, makes her heart swell with pride and contentment.

☆ Between the two of them Gilda freezes more easily, so on the off chance she's not prepared for the weather with a sudden drop in temperature, Emma will happily lend her her jacket. ↳ Emma also likes to bundle them both up in a single scarf in autumn and winter while they're walking about running errands or attending events, no matter how impractical. ↳ They also like to snuggle together under a blanket and read books in front of the fireplace. Sometimes they end up discussing what they're reading in detail, sometimes they just make offhand comments, and sometimes they don't say much of anything at all, but they enjoy being in each other's presence regardless.

☆ Going off this ask about Yuugo having tea parties with the kids, I like to imagine Gilda being really into tea in the human world and Emma also adopting a fondness for it by extension, though her favorite is always tea Gilda's made for her ↳ Gilda also spent some time searching for the same set Yuugo and Lucas had in the demon world, and one day while her and Emma are out she manages to spot it at a shop. It's a bit overwhelming for her once they get it back home, but Emma gives her the time and space to articulate what the set means to her, an arm wrapped around her shoulder. How special that moment was of her (their) dad extending that olive branch to her, of opening his heart to them after sealing it away for so long. Emma can't recall the man's face or voice, but when they have over friends and family to celebrate their find (Gilda holds off on making just her and Emma a cup since the first use is meant to be shared between all of them) and that atmosphere of love and warmth is recreated, she feels a sense of comfort and connection to the men who took care of these people in her life who are so very dear to her.

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Tweets that are iconic. to me

Smirk of a boy who thinks he's so smart

(narrator voice: he's not)

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I wonder how much Sisters are in the HQ. Because even if the selection is hard, a lot much sucess.

Isabella's orphenage ship 6 children by year, so 6 new kids must be given to her.

There are 5/6 orphenages for Grace Field. So 30/36 children shipped by year and 30/36 new given to the orphenage. EVERY YEAR. So even if it's sure that the Sisters gave birth of more than one child (only the Mother can have only on).

Because if 30/36 children must be given by year to orphenages, 30/36 must waiting their turn in the nursery and as much sister must be pregnant. I think that every sister has the right to take a break after a pregnacy.

For Exemple if Sienna is the mother of both Emma and Carol, seen there are more or less 10 years between them, it probably mean that there had at least one kid between them. Maybe more.

So i think that, even if the selection is rude, a lot of girls survives. Because if they need 30/36 new babies by years...

And it's just Grace Field. It must be worse at Great Vallley (especially that Barton must have took a lot of children for his huting ground)

[Response to this ask]

I'm not sure where you're getting all moms having only one child being common from?

From your previous ask:

Isabella is an anomaly when it comes to moms in that she's the youngest one to ever be selected in the history of at least the current incarnation of Grace Field that's been around for roughly 400 years.

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 181.2 | Chapter 181.3) Her excellent test scores at the farm and later at headquarters combined with favoritism from Sarah led to her placement being expedited. With there being an extremely limited number of mom positions, most sisters (because they're all sisters first, Isabella being the exception and not the rule) are left waiting for years, and this is what results in them having multiple children if they don't retrain for another path, not that moms are limited to having a single child. If anything, you'd think they'd want more children bred from those who reach that position, so the time spent waiting for spots to open up would be beneficial for the demons. Sarah had enough sway to persuade those in charge to get a recent graduate of the sister training in there, though, so Isabella was able to skip to the front of the wait list.

And it's confirmed there's five plants plus headquarters for Grace Field.

(Chapter 29 | Chapter 100 | S1 Episode 4)

So assuming there are no oddities, they're averaging 30 kids per year between the five, and if each plant maintains the same number of children plant no.3 normally does, there's around 190 kids at a given time outside of Grace Field headquarters prior to Isabella taking over as grandma when she reduces the number of shipments beginning in mid-January 2046, which is kind of wild given how low it is already.

(Chapter 181.3)

So I think that, even if the selection is rude, a lot of girls survives. Because if they need 30/36 new babies by years...

The second light novel does say this, yes.

Even if it's hard to calculate exactly how that math works out with how gleeful Sarah seems about eliminating Cecile and Krone's entire class, along with not having any information about how often the moms are recommending girls for sister candidacy.

(Chapter 181.2)

Chapter 166's bonus sketch gives us headquarters' layout, but no listing of how many people it accommodates, though it does look massive between this and the amount of running around the kids do in the Return to Grace Field arc.

It must be worse at Grand Valley (especially that Bayon must have took a lot of children for his hunting ground)

To be fair, those children were going to be eaten regardless, so Bayon Sr. taking some for his hunting grounds isn't altering the general death count, just where it's being distributed.

(Chapter 84 | Mystic Code Book Chapter 7 Series Timeline)

Sometime between 1801–1900, Bayon is looking so miserable some of the staff of the farms he's in charge of start shipping children to him alive.

I'm defaulting to this being at Yverk's or Leuvis' behest—Yverk as a means of keeping Bayon comfortable in order to maintain the status quo of Legravalima's regime, Leuvis as a means of satisfying the hunger he knows still resides in his friend—but maybe they just decided to do it on their own because of how bad he looked, who can say.

Regardless, he's approached by another party to begin his hunts, and it isn't until he's given this push that he gives into his impulses again when he told Leuvis centuries ago he was committed to upholding the promise, in a similar manner to how we see Bayon Jr. adhere to upholding decorum and duty during the gathering for Tifari in 2047.

Bayon Sr. starts off with one human every three months, but after that it's hard to gauge exactly how the numbers ramped up. Over two hundred years, it was in the hundreds to potentially thousands.

I'm assuming it maxed out between five and ten at a time, though. Enough of a significant gap where Bayon accepts Peter's offer to use Goldy Pond, originally meant to be a village of refuge for escaped cattle children in James' plan, as his new hunting ground starting in late 2031 with more humans and supplies being available to him.

(Chapter 98)

63 - 17 (15 Grace Field escapees and 2 adults not counted among the Goldy Pond population by Bayon) = 46 children who escaped from Goldy Pond on January 29, 2046 after a hunt had taken place the previous day. We don't know how many children are killed during regular hunts, but I'm guessing they would keep the population between 50 and 60 at any given time. Enough of a thrill to entice Bayon to take Peter's offer, not enough between the 18 farms he supervised or was in charge of to give unaware staff pause to want to stick their noses into noble business because the yield between them was vast enough to make it negligible.

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 3)

Grand Valley, Glory Bell, and Goodwill Ranch are large enough that the demons don't invest in implanting trackers in the children like at Grace Field because it's too costly, though once the mass production farms begin during Peter's tenure as the 36th head of the Ratri Clan, the minuscule dent Bayon's hunts put on Grand Valley's output is even less conspicuous.

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The loss of Conny is unquestionably devastating to Don, but the “and I wanna know Mom…I mean, the real Mom” gets me every time for how resolute it is despite his visible nervousness and knowing it will do nothing but hurt him. It's one aspect of their search that's not for anyone but himself.

A small but desperate desire to understand a woman he trusted and loved with his whole heart.

(S1 Episode 4 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 2)

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This is another unintentional funny line because Norman is like “I clocked your dumbass the second Krone showed up” to sort of rub in how could Ray ever even think to betray them. As if he wouldn’t notice.

And for the most part, he keeps his cool about it during the two weeks prior to confronting Ray.

But when he lets the mask slip the tiniest bit—

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Lesbeans,,,

LESBIANS

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#ray gaslighting emma for no reason (colorized) #ray: emma there's a traitor you need to suspect evERYONE #also ray: oh about that i was the traitor hah #ray: gee i wonder where the trackers could be you better figure it out #also ray: oh i broke mine when i was six i knew where they were (via @nullaby)

Emma: FOUR MONTHS

Norman: what's going on?

Ray: Emma, it's not that big of a deal

Emma: FOR FOUR MONTHS YOU STOOD THERE AND WATCHED ME WATER A FAKE PLANT

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#this whole *the farm isn't lacking in human staff* is somewhat bothering me #since almost every single girl must survive so they can maintain Status Quo? (via @officersnickers)

Same, I still don't understand how the math works out for this in the present day, let alone in all the previous centuries before artificial insemination and the mass production farms were a thing. Dystopia horror magicks.

#would make an awesome AU with Emma as Sister and over time Gilda and Anna come to HQ too #so the three start plotting again #not too fond of Emma in HQ-AUs but a bigger role for Anna and Gilda? hmmm... (via @officersnickers)

Also same. I talked about my predisposition against the AU here along with some others:

With Mama Emma AUs, especially if there's a timeskip to her becoming a mom with the focus on her being broken by the farm system, it feels like an exercise in excessive sadness and despair and the tragedy of abusive cycles for the sake of seeing just how sad one can make oneself, without any additional nuance to make it worthwhile for me. --- #my Norman fic is literally him being a Ratri so can’t choose that one !! #I also hate Mama Emma au’s because lord would she rather die than do that #yes #yes she would #but Emma Ratri AU takes the cake I am raising my brows at you . (via @sleepyhouzuki) --- #mama emma au for me personally bc I can't see emma ever doing it unless she was absolutely forced to #and even then she's still gonna be difficult about it (via @silentstudiosyt) --- If she keeps her rebellious spirit and some degree of her idealism then it's a bit different, but there's still my personal hangup of not wanting any of the characters we're introduced to as children experiencing the horrors of systemic medical rape, so there's not much to entice me unless the farm system is dismantled before it gets to that point. (But then there's also my grievances with how canon speedruns this after nearly a millennia of inaction and without larger collaboration with the general demon population so I'm just never completely happy dljfks) --- #i voted for mama emma but tbh im not a huge fan of norman ratri either :/ #im not inherently against mama emma AUs if they manage to keep her personality intact and she's realistically affected by her situation #but most i've seen just use that concept for extreme angst and nothing else and that's...not for me to say the least lol #and i'm also not a fan of the hyper-feminization of her character that i see too often in those AUs #that being said i still think the concept can be interesting in some cases (via @noremrays) --- God I forgot to include the hyperfeminization that like, thematically can make sense as she succumbs to patriarchal violence, but it hurts my soul when her conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards is upheld as something desirable, along with how often that's tied up with scientist Norman/Norman Ratri for a forbidden romance NE AU. But again, an exercise in excessive sadness seemingly do with the main purpose of seeing just how sad one can make themselves with the most easily identifiable markers of a bad end.

But one with a focus on some of the other girls from Grace Field too could be interesting.

I wonder how much Sisters are in the HQ. Because even if the selection is hard, a lot much sucess.

Isabella's orphenage ship 6 children by year, so 6 new kids must be given to her.

There are 5/6 orphenages for Grace Field. So 30/36 children shipped by year and 30/36 new given to the orphenage. EVERY YEAR. So even if it's sure that the Sisters gave birth of more than one child (only the Mother can have only on).

Because if 30/36 children must be given by year to orphenages, 30/36 must waiting their turn in the nursery and as much sister must be pregnant. I think that every sister has the right to take a break after a pregnacy.

For Exemple if Sienna is the mother of both Emma and Carol, seen there are more or less 10 years between them, it probably mean that there had at least one kid between them. Maybe more.

So i think that, even if the selection is rude, a lot of girls survives. Because if they need 30/36 new babies by years...

And it's just Grace Field. It must be worse at Great Vallley (especially that Barton must have took a lot of children for his huting ground)

[Response to this ask]

I'm not sure where you're getting all moms having only one child being common from?

From your previous ask:

Isabella is an anomaly when it comes to moms in that she's the youngest one to ever be selected in the history of at least the current incarnation of Grace Field that's been around for roughly 400 years.

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 181.2 | Chapter 181.3) Her excellent test scores at the farm and later at headquarters combined with favoritism from Sarah led to her placement being expedited. With there being an extremely limited number of mom positions, most sisters (because they're all sisters first, Isabella being the exception and not the rule) are left waiting for years, and this is what results in them having multiple children if they don't retrain for another path, not that moms are limited to having a single child. If anything, you'd think they'd want more children bred from those who reach that position, so the time spent waiting for spots to open up would be beneficial for the demons. Sarah had enough sway to persuade those in charge to get a recent graduate of the sister training in there, though, so Isabella was able to skip to the front of the wait list.

And it's confirmed there's five plants plus headquarters for Grace Field.

(Chapter 29 | Chapter 100 | S1 Episode 4)

So assuming there are no oddities, they're averaging 30 kids per year between the five, and if each plant maintains the same number of children plant no.3 normally does, there's around 190 kids at a given time outside of Grace Field headquarters prior to Isabella taking over as grandma when she reduces the number of shipments beginning in mid-January 2046, which is kind of wild given how low it is already.

(Chapter 181.3)

So I think that, even if the selection is rude, a lot of girls survives. Because if they need 30/36 new babies by years...

The second light novel does say this, yes.

Even if it's hard to calculate exactly how that math works out with how gleeful Sarah seems about eliminating Cecile and Krone's entire class, along with not having any information about how often the moms are recommending girls for sister candidacy.

(Chapter 181.2)

Chapter 166's bonus sketch gives us headquarters' layout, but no listing of how many people it accommodates, though it does look massive between this and the amount of running around the kids do in the Return to Grace Field arc.

It must be worse at Grand Valley (especially that Bayon must have took a lot of children for his hunting ground)

To be fair, those children were going to be eaten regardless, so Bayon Sr. taking some for his hunting grounds isn't altering the general death count, just where it's being distributed.

(Chapter 84 | Mystic Code Book Chapter 7 Series Timeline)

Sometime between 1801–1900, Bayon is looking so miserable some of the staff of the farms he's in charge of start shipping children to him alive.

I'm defaulting to this being at Yverk's or Leuvis' behest—Yverk as a means of keeping Bayon comfortable in order to maintain the status quo of Legravalima's regime, Leuvis as a means of satisfying the hunger he knows still resides in his friend—but maybe they just decided to do it on their own because of how bad he looked, who can say.

Regardless, he's approached by another party to begin his hunts, and it isn't until he's given this push that he gives into his impulses again when he told Leuvis centuries ago he was committed to upholding the promise, in a similar manner to how we see Bayon Jr. adhere to upholding decorum and duty during the gathering for Tifari in 2047.

Bayon Sr. starts off with one human every three months, but after that it's hard to gauge exactly how the numbers ramped up. Over two hundred years, it was in the hundreds to potentially thousands.

I'm assuming it maxed out between five and ten at a time, though. Enough of a significant gap where Bayon accepts Peter's offer to use Goldy Pond, originally meant to be a village of refuge for escaped cattle children in James' plan, as his new hunting ground starting in late 2031 with more humans and supplies being available to him.

(Chapter 98)

63 - 17 (15 Grace Field escapees and 2 adults not counted among the Goldy Pond population by Bayon) = 46 children who escaped from Goldy Pond on January 29, 2046 after a hunt had taken place the previous day. We don't know how many children are killed during regular hunts, but I'm guessing they would keep the population between 50 and 60 at any given time. Enough of a thrill to entice Bayon to take Peter's offer, not enough between the 18 farms he supervised or was in charge of to give unaware staff pause to want to stick their noses into noble business because the yield between them was vast enough to make it negligible.

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 3)

Grand Valley, Glory Bell, and Goodwill Ranch are large enough that the demons don't invest in implanting trackers in the children like at Grace Field because it's too costly, though once the mass production farms begin during Peter's tenure as the 36th head of the Ratri Clan, the minuscule dent Bayon's hunts put on Grand Valley's output is even less conspicuous.