#carswell THORNE

[eerna]

the moon queen & her getaway pilot

[lynsstrange]

one of my favorite parts of the lunar chronicles has always been how batshit insane it is. just the the genuine unhingery. the main character kidnaps her love interest from his wedding. said love interest stabs his arranged bride (a murderous dictator) with scissors at the altar. cress and thorne stay at an inn in the middle of the desert, and while he’s fucking around gambling she gets kidnapped into an underground medical experimentation human trafficking ring and bought by her long lost father. there’s evil moon people. scarlet and wolf get it on in a boxcar after like two days of knowing each other. 4/9 of the main cast aren’t human. cinder crashes kai’s wedding (again), murders twenty people, and jumps off a ten story balcony into a lake. kai keeps cinder’s metal foot so he can stare at it and long after her while she’s a wanted fugitive. cress fangirls over and stalks her outlaw crush on the internet for years and then bags him when they meet. not one of them is over twenty or mentally sound btw. no other YA series is doing it like that. applause

[first-mate-cinder]

Thorne, thinking that Scarlet is Princess Selene bc she has no hospital records: I've connected the dots

Cinder, actually Princess Selene: You haven't connected shit

Thorne: I've connected them

[iambecomeafangirl]

„Lunars were a society that had evolved from an Earthen moon colony centuries ago, but they weren’t human anymore. People said Lunars could alter a person’s brain—make you see things you shouldn’t see, feel things you shouldn’t feel, do things you didn’t want to do”.

[chemicallyyourss]

WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAAAAHHHHH

LUNAR CHRONICLES MOVIE SCRIPT???

[birbliophile]

The Lunar Chronicles is so funny because at one point the cyborg character sustains water damage and she wakes up to find out one of her friends suggested putting her head in rice

[impossiblesuitcase]

I feel like Thorne would list Cinder as his second emergency contact after Cress. But to protect her identity he uses a pseudonym so he tells her, "Cinder, if you one day get a call asking for a Gloria Bottlebook, know that I am probably dead."

[moon-mirage]

“No one in this palace is as beautiful as you think they are. It’s all just mind control.”

Thorne grinned and squeezed her closer against his side. “I’m fairly certain there’s at least one exception to that rule.”

Cress rolled her eyes. “Yeah. Thaumaturges.”

He laughed and dropped his arm, though she wasn’t sure what was funny.

[some---weirdo]

Lunar Chronicles headcannon:

Thorne got a fake ID to gamble and drink when he was a teenager, and ended up joining the military with it. By the time he's a fugitive with Cinder, he forgets he told everyone the wrong age. So he's actually like 18 instead of 20 the whole time, making all of the character dynamics on the Rampion make a lot more sense (including his relationship with 16 year old Cress)

[ikosburneraccount]

lunar chronicles fandom canon event is for some reason thinking thorne is blonde even though he is explicitly stated as a brunet

[gingerale2017]

im bored SO I MADE THESE

[eerna]

as promised bc they were born for the meme

[yellowraincoat]

Cinder and Thorne, my favorite fugitive duo 🥰🥰🥰

[lostwarllock]

Looking at the stars admiring from afar✨💫(except he couldn’t because he was blind) ((also from a few months ago))

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@aspenaspenaspenaspenaspen (you’re so special taking up the entire list)

[radkatzzstuff]

cinder the typa gal to say “he’s right behind me isn’t he?

scarlet the typa gal to yell “GET OFF MY LAWN!!!”

cress the typa gal to say “Heh. I’m in.” after hacking into something

winter the typa gal to say “GLITTERally!” unironically

kai the typa guy to say “erm… guys? i think you might want to check this out…”

wolf the typa guy to say “it’s time to unleash the beast.” before a fight

thorne the typa guy to say “oi oi oi…. BAAAAKA!” with the movements and everything

jacin the typa guy to say “Heh. Not on my watch.” whenever someone or something bothers winter

[brainrotlesbian]

I think one of my favorite parts about the Lunar Chronicles is how Carswell Thorne was minding his own damn business and then suddenly he’s part of this rebellion against the fucking moon. He didn’t really have a reason to be part of it, not like the others did.

For comparison, Cinder is the missing Lunar princess Selene, so duh she’d be involved, it’s up to her to stop her crazy aunt. Kai is a whole emperor of a country and is the one being very pressured by Levana into marrying her. Scarlet was also kinda minding her business but then the police didn’t do their job so she got swept up in the wolf army and that’s pretty reason enough (also her grandma died at the hands of the wolf army). Ze’ev is a rogue wolf soldier who wanted to make his own decisions and a life for himself. Cress was Levana’s best hacker and a witness/victim to the systemic mistreatment of shells like herself. Winter, being the Queen’s stepdaughter and one of the first and closest victims to Levana’s cruelty, had every reason to turn on her stepmother but she would never turn her back on her people, especially the servants and other lower-class citizens who saw her and her refusal to bow to Levana’s demands/use her Lunar gift at all as an act of rebellion itself. And Jacin had been silently rebelling against Levana since he was 15; he is Winter’s closest (and only, it seems) friend on Luna, so he too was witness to many of Levana’s atrocities, along with the atrocities of the thaumaturges he assisted.

But Thorne? He’s a petty criminal. He organized a prison riot over fucking soap. He has no personal connection to a rebellion. He joined cause he wanted to cause chaos. And I respect that.