#christopher chant

[earlgraytay]

If you feel like your gender is Howl Jenkins Pendragon and you also feel like you're getting too old for that shtick, GOOD NEWS

Christopher "Chrestomanci" Chant exists and is the exact same gender but ten years older

he's most known for wearing Absolutely Magnificent dressing gowns at all hours of the day, including a sky-blue one with Chinese dragons all over it

[libraryfag]

why do you, as a man have weird dream powers, so you can dream about other men?

[chelshiart]

chrestomanci sketchdump!

[the-forest-library]

I upgraded my Chrestomanci collection

[goddessofwisdom18]

Millie the school girl

[herbofgraceandpeace]

something something it’s really interesting noticing all the times young Christopher feels ashamed of his appearance or realizes he’s poorly dressed in The Lives of Christopher Chant, given how obsessive he becomes about being well dressed as an adult something something so much of his personality is formed by his horrible experiences of powerlessness and being unloved as a child

[thatu]

it’s been long enough without me being here so a lot of u don’t know that I actually tattooed Christopher chant’s “chrestomanci” signature on my ribs (in DWJ’s handwriting) a couple of years ago because a decade or so before a friend said “but if u tattooed chrestomanci’s signature on u then you would always be protected since all of you is made of magic, Thais” when my life was really sad. So I keep forgetting this one but yeah I take Christopher with me wherever I go.

[snitling]

CASUALLY rereading Conrad's Fate and Millie saying that Christopher is too lazy to learn how to do magic properly, "he just bluffs", well MAYBE, Millie, remember that for the first twelve or so years of his life he was unconsciously FORCED to always tell the truth, including to his tutor Fabian about how good he was at magic, until he met THE HUMAN ASPECT OF A GODDESS who told him about it and then TAUGHT HIM HOW TO LIE

[quietflorilegium]

"He was wearing clothes Cat had never seen him in before, plus fours with thick knitted socks and big walking shoes, and a sweater on his top half. Cat had never seen Chrestomanci in a sweater before, but as he was also carrying a walking stick, Cat supposed that these were what Chrestomanci thought of as clothes for walking in."

Diana Wynne Jones, "The Pinhoe Egg"

[kattahj]

Thinking of Christopher and Millie, how Millie never wondered what would happen to her after she got too old to be the Goddess, while Christopher honed in on the question and figured out that she would be made a human sacrifice.

Millie had been pampered and spoiled her whole life; she had no reason to doubt that she would be taken care of. Meanwhile, Christopher had been betrayed by his own family and knew damned well that there are people who will think nothing of murdering children for a bit of power.

And as readers, we know that this is true. Millie came to believe it too. Adults really can be horrible.

But there was one thing Millie knew that Christopher didn't, that the readers don't. She knew Mother Proudfoot.

Christopher wasn't wrong to think that adults do atrocious things. But Millie wasn't wrong either, to believe that this particular adult would always take care of her. Because in the end, she did.

[dragoneyes618]

So Christopher's definitely done this at some point, then.

[wizardbracket]

Round 1: Match 23 of 64

*Sorry for the blurriness, I couldn’t find a good photo in focus for Christopher

Why they deserve to be the ultimate wizard according to YOU:

Christopher Chant:

“The Chrestomanci is the most powerful and magical person in all Related Worlds. He has nine lives and oversees all magic within this multiverse. But most importantly: Chrestomanci has one dressing gown for every day of the year, including leap days. They are all fabulous.”

“He's a nine-lived enchanter, one of the most powerful magic users in his world, and will casually show up whenever anyone says "Chrestomanci" to try to solve the current magical problem. In a group of 9 related parallel worlds, he's the only version of himself.”

Galadriel:

“She’s awesome”

[chelshiart]

This Barbie is a Nine-Lifed Enchanter!

[no-where-new-hero]

i need a dwj crossover where chrestomanci meets howl and they have a magical cat fight over their fancy apparel.

[sophia-sol]

turns out Christopher Chant fits exactly into the character type I most enjoy playing in zoom theatre. I reread The Lives of Christopher Chant endlessly as a kid, because it's just such a fun book! And now as an adult I can see how it sunk its little hooks into my brain.