#and considering how fucking inaccurate shotguns were back then??? if he actually did land shots where he wanted them to he’d canonically be-

[welcome-to-the-end-of-eras]

The implications of that scene in tlfop where Thaniel has the fucking shotgun are insane to me because there’s only two ways it could have gone:

1.) he shot into the crowd and was completely inaccurate because of how disoriented he was, and very likely killed someone

2.) he shot into the crowd and was insanely accurate despite how disoriented he was, canonically making him the best shot in the entire pulleyverse (aka the ONLY character to use a gun that doesn’t have military experience)

And he’s such an unreliable narrator, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HE’S SO DISORIENTED, so we have no idea which it is

Just to give you an idea about how fucking out of it he was, let’s recap what he’s working with in terms of physicality:

- went fully unconscious minutes before shooting directly into a crowd

- very likely still healing from a concussion

- was locked in a room by himself for days and is likely malnourished (I know they like gave him food but like probably not enough considering he’s a pretty big guy)

- HAS A MASSIVE GUNSHOT WOUND IN HIS SHOULDER

- Climbed and descended an entire fucking mountain with like half his normal lung capacity maybe a week prior and never had time to properly recover

- Sustained a full sprint (again at half his normal lung capacity) all the way up a flight of stairs, through the legation, out the door, and down to where Takiko was when she got fuckin murked

All this on top of a whole assortment of mental health concerns, and they thought it’d be a good idea to stick a shotgun in this man’s hands and tell him to have at it. AND HE DID. It’s fucking wild.