#gisorkle

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FakeMintie here! (hi) To clarify, Gisorkle is both a ship and a long and complicated theory. To summarize:

Gisela and Forkle were in love

They were both members of the Black Swan and worked on Project Moonlark together

Gisela is Sophie's mother (Keefe is actually Oralie's son—he inherited his ability from her)

Gisela, like most polyglots, has a second ability. She's an enhancer. This is why Sophie is an enhancer, even though Forkle said he didn't intentionally give her the ability—she inherited it from Gisela.

Gisela wears fancy clothing to avoid anyone noticing that she always wears gloves—the same strategy that was suggested to Sophie when she first had to conceal her ability

Gisela and Forkle had a disagreement regarding the Black Swan's decision to modify Sophie's genes. Gisela angrily left the Black Swan, but not before they had already taken her DNA/eggs to create Sophie.

Forkle is still in love with Gisela. It's a lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers arc. My favorite.

!! hello, FakeMintie! I saw the ask you sent Cath and honestly I'm honored to have such an icon following me. also, this is absolutely fascinating hold on let me process. the kotlc fandom chaos is most active at night, apparently (at least it's night for me rn)

"Gisela and Forkle were in love." Ah, so that's who Forkman was thinking of when he was in Magnate Leto mode and he mentioned that he'd never been married and then spaced out really hard. he was just thinking about Gisela and what could've been. at least that's how I've interpreted it.

"gisela is sophie's mother" you lost me for a second but I'm back in. I'm down with this. Perhaps she left the project because she didn't agree with the methods the Black Swan were going to--wait I just realized that's what you said at the end of the ask. I should really read all the way through, huh. But maybe she needed that child still for some reason, hence Keefe. Wonder how she got him/the DNA for him though. Keefe being Oralie's son: they do both look similar, but that's based mostly in ability and hair color.

oo right gisela's second ability! that one's very interesting--i'd forgotten she'd had one. And the clothing hiding the gloves really does work with her style. she's just an elegant person; they fit right in. (note to self--need to find/make some fingergloves!! could embellish different pairs after different characters). Forkle actually suggests that to her specifically because he knows that's what worked for Gisela, but he always noticed her gloves. he noticed every detail about her--

but that's an interesting connection between an enhancer and sophie's inherited ability. we've been looking so closely for someone who's a telepath that we (or at least I) overlooked the enhancing! maybe shannon will pull an even bigger twist on us and it turns out she's a combination of two different eggs/embryos and actually has more than the standard two genetic parents. just food for thought.

that last bullet point really came for my throat. "lovers to enemies to lovers." that means they'll get together again...but how, i wonder? what will draw them back to each other? Forkle corruption arc as he joins the Neverseen? Gisela getting fed up with the Neverseen and leaving to do her own evil things but it's hot girl summer and she goes back to her old flame? so many questions, i have.

FakeMintie this is incredible. it sounds absolutely ridiculous at first glance but upon closer examination there's a lot of logic and thought behind it. Which makes it right up my alley. This scratches an itch in my brain I didn't even know was there

I will probably still think of gisorkling whenever I see the name tho

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I CANNOT believe fakemintan + Dawnbreaker infiltrated the Tumblr fandom. That's absolutely insane. Fakemintie was a popular figure on the wiki fandom from about 2018-2019, and I think about her almost every day. She was the creator of bald Keefe, as well as many other wonderful edits, and she shipped herself with Fintan: FakeMintan. quil if you want me to, I could go on forever and tell you the entire history of fakemintan and the fakemintan wiki and what the 2018 wiki fandom was like. it's a RIDE. there was also gisorkle, which was some really complicated theory involving Lady Gisela and Mr. Forkle (not a ship), but I'd have to consult someone more involved in that.

Unfortunately, most of the original posts were lost when FANDOM transitioned to a new platform in 2020. The content was so good, too... it's too bad. But one of the current wiki administrators, Gildie-Everblaze, was one of the authors of Dawnbreaker, and she would know better than me.

unfortunately the legend fakemintie disappeared one day and was never seen again :( and her IRL friend Mintie, who was a wiki admin 2020-2021, is gone now too, so there's no way at all to contact her. I miss her.

sorry for infodumping, it's just that I could talk for literal hours about the history of the fandom + explaining it— I've thought about making YouTube videos before about it—

who knew my offhanded shitpost would awaken such a visceral, ingrained memory in so many people !!

the wiki sounds like an absolutely chaotic place to be, I must admit. though the FakeMintie being a username makes a lot more sense as to where the name came from. naming a goldfish after yourself or however that worked out is a little less explainable but honestly projecting yourself into a story as a goldfish is understandable. wake up babe new y/n just dropped, if you get what I mean. Also, I think i've seen bald keefe! I don't see a lot of kotlc edits (in case you couldn't tell, I've kinda dug myself very deep into the character analysis/logistical side of the fandom. i might be that side of the fandom). I have a memory of other bald edits following afterwards, some becoming profile pics. but i could be making that up

gisorkle is funny just for the name itself. like snorkling. brb just gonna go gisorkling. but whatever theories there were behind that sound intriguing!

oh no! sorry so much of the content got lost--I can only imagine how devastating that would be. FakeMintan seems to be pretty well loved by a fair number of people...

it's always bittersweet when people you interacted with/followed/just saw around disappear from the internet. Not too long ago i was going through my following list and unfollowing a bunch of blogs that were inactive now and so many of them hadn't posted since like 2019 and it felt so strange, which i guess my brain has made an association to your Mintie disappearing. i hope maybe one day you'll be able to get in contact again--you never know! Just a few weeks ago one of the people I knew from elementary school found my email and reached out to me to reconnect. Hadn't seen him or heard from him in over five years and yet suddenly we (and another person from then) were just talking like we'd never separated. so maybe you'll find him again!

and don't worry: there's nothing to apologize for! i think a lot of the knowledge you have is fascinating, and I'm entirely open to hearing whatever it is you'd want to share. Also, if you felt like making youtube videos, I'd 100% watch! it's super cool when people have very expansive knowledge of very niche things!!