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seagullcharmer · 1 year ago

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rusty lake posting (again)

this is really just a little thing but i keep thinking abt it. i've seen people talk abt how horrible nicholas is (he is!) but thru the lens of his marriage to caroline and how he's completely grey by the time david is born ('ewwww he must be soooo old!') and while i do believe he's older than caroline, i don't think it's as awful as people make it out to be. sure, we don't know for certain the age difference between him and caroline, nor between him and gerard, or his age in general really, but i do believe he went prematurely grey. this is entirely because when we see david (canonically somewhere between 15-17, due to him being Very Small in the family portrait where jakob says 'my family, 15 years ago' or whatever) without his hat, guess what! his hair's turning grey!

idk if i had a point with this. i just like thinking abt the eilanders.

#libra.txt #unrelated but caroline is so powerful. she based her entire look off of that one painting of salome with the head of john the baptist #like girl. where did you get that blue dye. and the intricate beading of her headpiece.#i do believe she did the work herself. all to cosplay this one girl.#caroline you sure made some fascinating choices #yeah nicholas is terrible but i like to think there was some affection between them. at least at one point #maybe he thought she was really cool for cosplaying a painting #although it's still just. an interesting choice. rusty lake i want to understand why #i want to know more abt caroline. like there's gotta be a reason beyond just the aesthetics right?#what does it mean abt her?#although it is an interesting inverse. salome asks for the head of john the baptist while caroline refuses to let her son be sacrificed #it's not a 1:1 inversion but it's still an interesting contrasted parallel #idk how to do proper analysis. if anyone else has thoughts though my askbox is always open

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