#he would chose anyone else over pokotho too though

[acutemushroom]

The way I see Pokotho and Paul's relationship really can be summed up that way:

Pokotho : "I could have chosen anyone else, yet I chose you" (frustrated) (affectionate) (condescending) (angry) (questioning his life choices)

Paul : *Blowing up yet another meteor*

[fruity-phrog]

I'm an impatient mf so here's what was going through my head during the pleasurable hour I spent making that:

(also, I don't touch on why Paul, Bill and Hannah are where they are, because they're the favourites so it's a given)

(also also, I worked very hard on that analysis. But it is long. Read more at your own risk)

Pokey is the most obvious. He wants conformity. He wants the entire world to be in agreement over everything, to be nothing more than a singular organism, and for his voice and thoughts to dictate what that organism looks like. That's why Jer(i)ry and the Chasity's are there - they want their beliefs and ideals to be forced upon everyone. The D's, Ruth and Hidgens are just there for their love of drama, though Hidgens and Ruth are also united under the idea that everyone agreeing would lead to a better world.

Blinky was really fun to analyse, because I had to go beneath the surface (and buttress opinions that were formed entirely through fanfiction). He's an eye, watching over something literally called Watcher World. Over all, he wants knowledge - he's a gossipy bitch. He wants to know what every single one of his carnival players are doing, and wants to watch the entertainment they set up for him. He wants control. Not power, specifically, but to feel completely at ease, knowing that he is aware of everything around him. That’s why Grace, Charlie, Nora, Jonathan and Pamela are there - and, come on, Solomon literally bugged his daughter’s phone. Howard is the President of the USA, he knows more about everyone than anyone else, and Richie was being bullied because he didn’t know what to do and not to do. Of course they would benefit from a deal with the Watcher With A Thousand Eyes.

Then there's Tinky. His motives are different from the others, because his main motive is chaos and fun. He wants to have fun, and so Barry Swift and Ted Spankoffski - two people who seem to thrive off of chaos and dysfunction - are perfect for him. Stopwatch can literally control time to a degree, and Cineplex Mall Teen feels like his life is a time loop. Andrew is there for obvious reasons, as is Jenny. Sherman and Sheila both manipulate time and act outside its reach to some degree, and if anyone's going to make a deal with a Lord in order to go back in time, it'll be the Houston boys.

Nibbly…Nibbly was fun. I really liked analysing Nibbly, because you’ve got to look not into his motives, but into the acts of the characters he focused on. Linda was chosen as Honey Queen because of her ruthlessness. She was willing to hang a woman to get what she wanted, and that’s exactly what Nibbly liked. Nibbly chose Honey Queen winners - winners who were specifically singled out as wanting "Bigger and better things". He values ambition, demolition, tunnel minded obsession. Linda, Ezekiel, Gerald, Kale, Roman - they all demolished everything in their path for their goal, even if they didn’t want to, as in the case of Kale. Sometimes it wasn’t even a bad thing - Spitfyre was just fighting for her family, Becky was fighting for her freedom, Ziggy was fighting for their liberty. But it remained that they persisted until they won, and inadvertently caused damage in the process - mostly to themselves. And, I’m gonna be honest with you, I meant to put Lex with Nibbly, too.

Wiggly is probably the easiest - he wants power. Not just control, like Blinky or conformity like Pokotho, but power. The ability to make people do what he says but not in the sense of the Apotheosis, but in the sense that they are scared of him. He feeds on wrath and emptiness and anger and uses it to make people obey him. This makes Jane, Max, Willabella and Zoey perfect candidates. His thirst for power is why I put Cross, Eddie, Miss Tessburger and, honestly, Gary Goldstein on there. Frank is there because he almost single-handedly caused the Hatchetfield outbreak of Wiggly and Lex is there because my finger slipped.

And Webby. Sweet, kind Webby. Good hearted or not, she’s still of the same blood as her brothers, and the effect she has portrays that. Webby represents justice, sure, but at a cost. For her I’ll just give examples. MacNamara could have shot Paul and got the hell out of Hatchetfield, and he could have left Howard in the Black and White - but both times, he believed in the goodness of mankind and died because of it. Ethan vowed never to let someone hurt the Foster girls, and died because of it. Miss Holloway continued to battle against the Black and White to protect the children she met, and (basically) died because of it. Steph and Pete refused to let Max continue killing nerds, and were prepared to die because of it. Emma came back to Hatchetfield because of her love for her sister, and died because of it. Even Greenpeace Girl sacrificed a lot for her views. Webby represents morals so unbreaking they kill you, a compass so rigid it leads you off a cliff. People who keep promises, protect those they love and believe in the goodness of humanity to a fault. And I.

Am so unwell about it.

Assigned all of the Hatchetverse characters a Lord. I will fight for this tier list. Seriously. Debate me on this. I'm right.

BTW, Webby wasn't a "they are too nice they'd never fall for a lord in black" copp out, but basically my idea of Webby representing a sense of justice so strong it harms you.