#henry bolet

[vafr0]

Yesterday I played the game "Nancy Drew. The Legend of the Crystal Skull." I am very glad to return to this series of games. As a child, there were only three or four discs, and I didn't complete any of them, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the process. Now my goal is to go through all the games and draw fanarts for them. And… I saw this dude and….Well, he's good :^D Sad but good Henry Bolet

[janepennvellyn]

henry bolet: (freshly grieving, earlier seen weeping at his parents’ mausoleum, and just got finished confiding in nancy that he is QUITE LITERALLY in a financially abusive relationship)

nancy:

[mrs-xenia-and-dagny]

Nancy: Hi Henry! Do you think I could have your weird dead great-uncle’s glass eye that you keep on a key chain?

Henry: um. No

Nancy: what if I blackmailed you 🥺

[bloody-icecream]

The people of instagram did NOT like this one

[knock-off-krolmeister]

Do we know what Henry's major is at school? Or is it not even hinted at?

Like, he's got a class or two with Ned evidently. What does Ned do?

[prettyboychainsaw]

Sorry this isn't Outlast, but they've been on my mind recently and I need to make sure I'm not the only one who has to suffer it

[punchylr]

Ned talking about Henry (Brian) in the Crystal Skull book.  (Ned’s friend was originally named Brian.)

Also, Nancy refers to Ned as a friend and they aren’t mentioned to be dating.  Their relationship status varies from book to book.  Sometimes Ned is just a friend, sometimes they’re exes, and sometimes Ned is never mentioned at all.

[spookieloop]

Playing Ghost of Thornton Hall and then Replaying Legend of the Crystal Skull back to back really makes me appreciate the difference in mood.

Both games are Southern Gothic, but the deep sorrow of Thornton Hall really really emphasizes the joyousness of Crystal Skull. Despite Bruno literally being murdered, Nancy spends the game totally immersed in all the strange things that Bruno loved, that he surrounded himself with. Bruno's puzzles weren't some long-held ancestral duty, or bred from generational paranoia; Bruno was just a weird old man who loved the macabre and loved puzzles.

Bruno and Henry didn't really have a relationship to speak of, but the epilogue does confirm that Bruno cared about Henry--he was just bad at showing it. I don't think any of us can judge Bruno too harshly though; Bruno was an eccentric old man who was suddenly a child's only living relative, meanwhile never having a nuclear family of his own. Considering his propensity for dangerous pets and secret passages, the Bolet home was most definitely not safe for a child; even if Bruno did know how to raise a kid.

Given that Henry was the kind of person to want to keep the glass eye his great-uncle was wearing during his death as a keychain, I think it's fair to say that they probably would have got along great if Bruno had been equipped to care for him--or even tried a little harder.

Playing that game as an adult, after coming off of the deep sadness that is Thornton Hall, I have so much more appreciation for what the game says about Bruno's life. You can almost feel Bruno's excitement while he sets up all of these puzzles for Henry. It makes it very clear that Bruno didn't know Henry, if he expected him to go through all these puzzles, but that doesn't change the fact that the house itself is a monument to that fact that Bruno Bolet surrounded himself with all the odd things he loved, and was the type of person to wander the streets of New Orleans with all 25 of the freaky custom glass eyes he owned.

I think it's interesting that a game where Nancy only shows up to check on a man who's just lost his only living relative manages to be so cheerful beyond the gloomy(gorgeous) aesthetics.

[nancydrewandthecluecrew]

NANCY DREW CASE FILES : 17

LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

Down in New Orleans, an artifact known as the "Whisperer", a glass crystal skull believed to grant the one who possesses it with immortality, but not in this case when the last one to obtain the rumored unearthly artifact, Bruno Bolet, is found dead. Meanwhile, the artifact remains missing.

Is his death merely a result of his own mortality? Or is time not the only cause of concern?

Head down to New Orleans for rainy nights and warm gumbo to track down a missing artifact and possibly a murderer.

Cody Fern as Henry Bolet Jr.

Bruno's great nephew, who he had taken in when Henry's parents had died, but with all that time Bruno believed to harness from the crystal skull very little would be spent with Henry, who in Bruno's passing was left to tend to the estate. With a somewhat detached nature to the situation, is it possible he is hiding guilt? or is he simply numb to grief?

Danny Glover as Gilbert Buford

Dr.Buford discovered the body of his late friend, Mr.Bolet, in which he determined the cause of his death natural, Meanwhile he possessed the knowledge that his friend claimed to hold the key to immortality, while harbouring secrets of his own. Did he use his medical position to falsify his cause of death for his own ticking clock?

Catherine O'Hara as Renee Amande

The Housekeeper, who spent a great deal of time in Bruno's presence. With a proclivity for dabbling in the other worldly, and tending to her garden, did she unearth Bruno's secret?

Daniel Curtis Lee as Lamont Warrick

Runs Zeke's Curio shop, with an eye for antiques and strange items. Is it possible the crystal skull caught his eye? Or perhaps it would attract the eyes of buyers to his shop.

7.DOG 10.SHA 11.CUR 13.TRN 15.CRE 16.ICE 17.CRY 22.TOT

[francie-froo]

if her interactive was actually smart theyd bring Henry Bolet Jr back. like THATS the only acceptable way of bribing the fandom and id be so ready to be bribed 🤓

[realize-who-i-need]

left nancy drew tumblr for a year and came back a lesbian. should’ve known considering i had a massive crush on henry bolet as a child. he has dykeish characteristics

[simp-for-henry-bolet]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[punchylr]

Nancy Drew Games: analyzing the couples

4. Jacques and Isabelle – There was speculation that Jacques married Isabelle just to get a green card.  If this is true then they will probably break up eventually. ❌

10. Mary and Tex – Good couple! 💚

11. Linda and Hugh – There was speculation about Hugh meeting up with Renee in Rome, and to be honest, I don’t think Hugh should have married someone who wouldn’t be a good stepmother to Jane.  (Linda called Jane a pest, who says that about their own stepdaughter?)  So even though Hugh said he would do what it took for them to be a family again, I kind of think Hugh and Linda eventually broke up. ❌

17. Henry and Summer – I think Henry hopefully came to his senses and broke up with Summer.  I’m sure this is one that everyone can agree on. ❌

19. Kyler and Matt – Matt comes to his senses and realizes he shouldn’t have jeopardized his friendship with Kit just to date Kyler.  But by that point it’s too late and Kit has cut ties with him.  Now his relationship to Kyler has soured since it ended up costing him his best friend.  They fall back into their old pattern of fighting every day, and speak less and less to avoid conflict.  Kyler loses herself in her books and Matt loses himself in the internet.  (This person collected quotes that say Matt is tech-addicted.) ❌

23. Miwako and Rentaro – Rentaro has goals and aspirations beyond romance so I think he should just move to the city like he always wanted.  Too manipulative. ❌

23. Bess and Logan – I actually thought this pairing was kind of cute.  But the main problem is that Logan likely doesn’t live in River Heights. 😢

24. Karl and Mildred – Very happy in Canada together! 💚

28. Colton and Lexie – I don’t like the fact that Lexie accepted the bribe to leave Colton.  If Lexie really loved him then no amount of money could make Lexie stay away.  But I suppose there might be some nuance to this, I mean, maybe Lexie knew that Colton’s family would never accept their relationship and didn’t want to ask Colton to cut ties with his parents just so he could be with Lexie. ❓

28. Wade and Savannah – I’m kind of hoping it works out between these two. 💚

30. Leena and Patrick – There’s nothing glaringly wrong with this couple so maybe it could work out.  Although.  Leena doesn’t remember how she and Patrick got together!?  And Leena was pressuring Patrick to do something unethical that he felt uncomfortable with, during that argument of theirs.  I do like how Leena defended Patrick though about him having a depth that most people don’t see.  And how she was a rugby fan until her favourite player retired.  Just, the things she was saying about him were nice.  They seem like a good balance.  And Patrick stands up for himself when he disagrees with Leena so that’s good.  Though she shouldn’t try to pressure him into things in the first place. 💚❓

32. Elisabet and Magnus – Sea of Darkness was one of the only few games I didn’t rewatch, so I don’t know about them.

[wickfordkoko]

hello! a while ago, you drew some lovely bess/henry fanart, mentioning that someone (presumably me, as I'm the only person I know of who has ever brought that ship up) had mentioned that they might be a good match, and that you weren't entirely convinced yet. if you're still curious about them, I recently wrote a fic for them that is now up on ao3! archiveofourown . org / works / 56932018

there's no need to publish this, I just wanted to let you know :D

omg I will definitely check it out!! Tysm for letting me know! It was so long ago that idk who I was referencing, but you're a safe bet because not really anyone talks abt this ship.

I will go read it soon <3 <3