#catherine foundling

[noctilia]

[cat-foundling]

I love that all the characters so far have gotten these amazing introductory title cards:

Even Kojo has one in episode 3! (And the one for the Calamities is GORGEOUS). And then we have Catherine's:

An icon. Absolutely phenomal. What an introduction

[ecoeschatologist]

How about that 'return to ater' arc

[variouspolltournaments]

No Propaganda For Either

[egodb]

There's just something inexplicably funny about saying to the face of someone you're planning to blackmail that you would be blackmailing them. Like, not only grabbing the bull by its horns but also mocking it with a "mooo".

[dandygoblin]

Cat in that sundress cause she should wear them more.

Like imagine becoming one of the most powerful people ever and you can't even wear your favoured clothes (⁠ノ⁠｀⁠Д⁠´⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

[project-catgirlpillar]

Average a practical Guide to evil character has three titles actually Just a statistical Error. Titles Catherine who lives in a Cave and has had three Names, two callowan/Praesi noble titles, two fae Mantels, three drow titles and one epithet is an outlier and should Not have been counted

[astralprojecting]

"Like Frozen Ponds" - Fire Alpaca, XP Pen Tablet

Inspired by a line in Ch.71: Reprise.

[caramel-popkorn]

in the alternate timeline where pgte got an anime i think it'd be really cool if the ops just followed the heroes as if they were the protagonists and framed catherine and company as the antagonists they need to face it'd be so cool and epic and poggers

[cat-on-the-web]

I’m reading through ‘A Practical Guide to Evil’ and the protagonist, who is bisexual, had such a useless lesbian moment. She described the pecs of a boy she once slept with, to the girl she currently has a crush on, just after the girl not so subtly asked if she was only interested in boys

She’s so silly, the little war criminal.

[cat-foundling]

That's it. That's their whole dynamic lmao

[variouspolltournaments]

Propaganda

Catherine Foundling: No Propaganda Submitted

Setsuna Higashi: Grew up under a highly controlling ruler, and encountering the world of the Precure challenged everything she believed in. Nearly sacrifices herself for the villains in desperation before she accepts that it doesn’t need to be that way, and becomes a precure in the process. Takes a while to accept that her friends trust that she isn’t a villain anymore as well

[furicel]

Squire? Black Queen? Warden? Who's that? Did you mean...

Catherine "being stabbed is part of the plan" Foundling?

Catherine "is that a goblinfire stock?" Foundling?

Catherine "somehow palpatine returned" Foundling?

Catherine "human sacrifice is only cool when I do it" Foundling?

Catherine "reincarnation of the Queen of Blades and Triumphant at the same time" Foundling?

Catherine "I never left the pit" Foundling?

Catherine "meanest crab in the bucket" Foundling?

Yeah, I know her, she goes by Wench.

Catherine Foundling

- dramatic little meow meow

- “it’s been a bad habit since I was a girl”

- will fuck your wife

- fucks her cousin’s girlfriend

- has had a very awkward conversation with said cousin where she was trying to get confirmation that he was fine with it and he was trying to make her understand that he did not want to know the detials of either of their sex lives, please

- union rep

- has died, like, six times

- steals things

- best friend

- disaster bi

- more of a disaster than you think

- “and he invited Lily to the fair instead of me. Mind you, if I’d had my pick of the litter I’d have probably gone with Lily too so I can’t even be mad-”

- queen

- workaholic, also boozaholic. smokes a pipe as well

- eyepatch

- also two crows on her shoulders (sometimes. they are their own birds)

- rides an undead hippogryph (crow variety)

- an ominous limp. uses a staff

- more metal than you

- says “fuck”

- except when talking about having sex. then it’s all “sharing a bed”, “intimacy”, “bedplay” and embarrassed blushing

- seer

- priestess of death and murder

- facetank even when running a support build with a Con penalty

- bard (stage magician). no i dont accept constructive criticism

- patron saint of bleeding out bc she forgot she got stabbed

- not a pyromaniac

[woeful-imp]

Musical Guide to Evil

It took us way to long to figure it out but we've finally grasped enough to piece together something coherent about music in the Practical Guide to Evil. How it took us four re-reads to notice it I have no idea, but better late than never?

The Guide comes with its own internal leitmotivs, songs that make an appearance paired together with a story, and once you realize it the songs stop being just a part of the setting and become another option in the narrative toolbox.

Songs live and die alongside the stories they represent, in the Practical Guide to Evil.

The Legionaries Song makes an appearance in the first chapter, and with it, so does the story of the Legions of Terror, the armies that devastated the Callowan forces, and spearheaded the Conquest. So much so that Catherine herself is at that point dead set on attending the War College to learn from a dangerous enemy. They are strong, and the song establishes that.

The last mention of the Legionaries Song takes place right after the Battle of Kala and at this point the Legions have shattered against each other, the machine of war turned against itself, and when the song is sung then it is bitter and weary, the last notes of the Legions' story, finally slain.

Most obvious is the Girl who Climbed the Tower, which is sticks in the mind of...apparently every claimant to the title of Dread Emperor? I'm guessing it comes back so many times in the Guide because the story of the Dread Emperor is a very old one, so the groove it is set in is deep like few others. From Black hearing it even at his low point at the end of Book 5 to Catherine humming it even in Book 2 after she extorts the High Lords; and of course Akua hearing for half the story.

Which brings me to perhaps the best use of these songs as a narrative tool. When Akua, having seemingly turned coat and half-heartedly plotting in Ater in Book 7, wonders with increasing desperation: "Why wasn't I hearing the damn song!!!?"

Because you've been hearing the leitmotiv for your current story of redemption for a few books now and you haven't even realized, girl. Or did you think the Tyranny of the Sun was stuck in your head for years for no reason?

Other examples coming to mind are the Fox is King when Catherine is dueling the Wandering Bard in the Arsenal in Book 6 (it's even lampshaded and we missed it the first three times...)...She even weaponizes that by lying about it to the Bard.

One of our favorites has to be related to Cordelia Hasenbach. She notably rejects the story, or at least the Role associated with it, but Too Many Cooks is mentioned or alluded to at least twice when she is putting the screws on the Princes. It might very well be a leitmotiv to the story of the First Prince if she had picked the name in Book 5 during the Salia plots.

I think that's all of them but there are a few songs which we couldn't fit within that theory, so...well, if you have takes I for one am curious!

Also there needs to be a melody for ALL OF THESE, like, YESTERDAY.

[princesscatherineblog]

Catherine, Princess of Wales visits The Foundling Museum on May 25, 2023 in London, England.

[kate-royal-style-world]

A Royal Recycling (part 302)

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