#everyone thinks hes just going hehehaha and doesnt care and he actively cultivates that image

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

ora this post is so fun bc

let’s not forget that the timing on her part was entirely accidental. she didn’t really mean to prevent the dungeon sink; in fact i’m pretty sure she actually forgot about it. you’re telling me she could have been all the way back in the vinchester kingdom doing her little slice-of-life activities while tesilid’s entire life crumbled around him????? irinbi what the FUCK

and there's this line in webnovel ch 19, right before ailette goes to the vatican:

"Speaking of the protagonist, what is he doing while I'm busting my butt down here?" (...) I wonder what the young boy's life was like right now. Hopefully, he's not out there living the good life by himself."

like she Knew his life was going to get Fucked Up eventually, and she just did not care 😭 i think it didn't register for her that he was a real person who would carry that trauma for the rest of his life. and then she saw these three kids being very much kids, and like man... how can you not want them to grow up well. and then she dedicated the next 10 years of her life to protecting tesilid argente even though she never saw him again. ailette probably constantly read the original story to take notes and concoct plans and went "what the hell. you're telling me that kid i met back then will have to go through this? No."

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also hestio thinking that ephael was joking w plan B is suchhhh a fun piece of characterisation. I love it. i love characterising hestio as the softer and More Caring One, Actually, because of this. (and the many times when hestio is the one yelling at tesilid to look after himself better.) it just never crossed his mind that ephael was serious.

and hestio did die before ephael enacted Plan B, probably because once hestio died there was even less of a chance for them to defeat the dungeon boss. which is such a fun thought, honestly, because OG!hestio died not knowing his friend was capable of this, and canon!hestio just never gets to learn about it. ephael just goes hehehaha and be his silly self the whole time without anyone knowing that he's capable of such callousness and brutality at the same time. and of his capacity for heroism as well - he doesn't have many lines and at least 2 of them are him going "nah i don't really wanna save the world... i want to leave the religious order"... and then he goes and does this at age 10. because out of everyone trapped in the dungeon, tesilid was the most capable of saving the world after surviving it and the one who most "deserved" to live. crazy. he contains multitudes. in another story he could've been a main character.

i got the second volume today 🎉 the cover color schemes are switched…….THEY MATCH……..!!!! AGGHHHHHHHH

+ obligatory plan B mention. it truly never fails to make me sick (/pos). you may notice hestio absolutely thinks he’s joking / doesn’t even consider that an option! haha! i wonder how badly it hurt tesilid to see ephael massacre innocent children all to save HIM! did hestio die first? did he die last? even worse, did he agree??? rereading this has made me reevaluate just how absolutely FUCKED tesilid’s life was from the start. how did he not break sooner. me personally if the closest people i had to friends commited a massive murder suicide for the express purpose of me being the Lone Survivor i would actually just perish on the spot.

it really messes with me that the vibe of this little arc is so chill, because we as readers know that if ailette hadn’t happened to be there, Everyone In That Dungeon Would Be Dead. let’s not forget that the timing on her part was entirely accidental. she didn’t really mean to prevent the dungeon sink; in fact i’m pretty sure she actually forgot about it. you’re telling me she could have been all the way back in the vinchester kingdom doing her little slice-of-life activities while tesilid’s entire life crumbled around him????? irinbi what the FUCK

“the day of sacrifice has taken something from me every year after that” you can’t do this to me