#but if u pretend for a moment that septimus was 17 and had been raised by the heaps. A lot of what marcia does | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

septimus-heap · 7 months ago

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Agh I know I talk abt this all the time but I really do think marcia would have been such a good parental figure, if that had been her goal. Unfortunately!!! Unfortunately!!!!!!! Her goal was "train an apprentice" and in that! IF septimus was, say, a young adult who's only connection to her was because he was her apprentice, then a lot of the stuff he does WOULD be considered out of line, and the way marcia treats him WOULD make sense. Unfortunately for both of them, septimus is a very traumatised child and marcia is for all intents and purposes, his stand-in parental figure. Marcia was the first person to offer septimus a home and the first adult to show him kindness and she's pretty much the only adult he can talk to about young army stuff as far as I can tell. He is not just her apprentice but neither of them recognise that, and that's. A bad thing

#sep talks #septimus heap #marcia overstrand #i think marcia probably models how she treats septimus on how alther treated her? (ofc different bc she. Isn't alther. But still)#but SHE was 17 going on 18 and had not been a child soldier for most of her life #so it. Doesn't fit. It doesn't work quite right #as a parental figure marcia sucks. Like its cute and sweet sometimes but most of the time she's shit at it #even just as a responsible adult figure. She's not good #but if u pretend for a moment that septimus was 17 and had been raised by the heaps. A lot of what marcia does #makes a lot more sense #she treats him like an adult for better or for worse #anyway I could be totally wrong. It's nearly 2am #but this is what I mean when I say shes not raising a child she's training an apprentice

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