#jess brightwell

[jellsmells]

this specific ephemera stings so bad u know cause like. they so badly wanted to be family to each other but the environment they were raised in would never allow for them to be much more than competition and there was never going to be a world were they didn’t have a certain degree of resentment and distrust for the other despite their love. i think about how callum brightwell was the guiding force in severing their relationship and how the last thing brendan ever said to jess was about him and i feel my soul decomposing inside my body

[camelspit]

jess calling anit super young over and over again is so funny bc like. he is 16/17. she is 14. jess u cant really be saying shit.

[gay-otlc]

I strongly believe that Jess is some variety of trans/genderqueer but I believe even more strongly that they would never, ever actually figure this out

[spillingskies]

jess brightwell being so full of love and loyalty without ever knowing it from his family is my roman empire

[confuseds-library]

my tgl gift exchange for @rosalind-of-arden

the kids absolutely passed out on a couch

happy holidayyssssss

[moodindigov]

“I can walk.” [Jess] wasn’t sure, but it was something to aspire to. “I’m all right.” He wasn’t. Definitely wasn’t. “Let go.”

Paper and Fire, Rachel Caine

[sheyri]

At some point during the series

Nic: „You're up late.“

Chris: “Huh, what? Oh, yeah. I need to finish this.”

Nic: “What is that?”

Chris: “I just realised the first of the children is turning 18 soon and we should probably make the adoption official before that. I'm getting the papers ready.”

Nic: ...

Chris: …

Jess outside the window: …

Nic: “Yeah okay, fair enough. Where do I sign?”

Chris: “Right here at the bottom.”

The next day

Chris: “Alright children. I have some important papers here for you. Just sign them and they'll be transcribed into the Archives and your Codex.”

Dario: “Adoption?! You're kidding, aren't you?”

Chris: “Am I known to make jokes?”

Khalila: “I'm honoured, sir, but I have two living, loving parents.”

Chris: “So? Now you have a second pair.”

Thomas: “Are you two even married?”

Chris: “I don't see how this is relevant.”

Nic: “Look, just accept your fate. It's best not to argue with Chris about this. He can be quite stubborn.”

Glain: “Here you go, sir. Already done.”

Dario: “No argument from you?”

Glain: “What? My captain signed. I trust his judgment.”

Nic: (proud dad moment)

Morgan and Jess both quietly sign while the others are talking. Jess is definitely not fighting tears.

[ironwingedhawk]

The great library as BFU/ Watcher screens I found on the internet and saved on my phone

Nic and Chris at the end of Sword and Pen:

Dario about the library training:

Chris and Nic in Stormcrow:

Khalila about the burners (probably):

All of the kids about SanWolfe

Jess after Nic opens Chris' door half naked:

Thomas and Chris post Rome:

Jess:

Chris and Nic the moment one of the kids is in danger:

Chris about the archivists schemes:

[confusedartblog]

so this was supposed to be Jess but then I kind of got lost in the sauce of colors I never use and a fucming gorgeous new texture and also the liquify tool and now i no longer know if its jess but anyway heres someone i guess

[sidebyside-withafriend]

Jess Brightwell || The Great Library 1/9

[romanreader]

I will NEVER get over Jess describing himself as half a twin after Brendan dies that shit broke me

[jellsmells]

From the personal journal of Jess Brightwell

he’s been sheared …sorry gang i tried to lock in and finish this but it’s been months and im aware of my limits and that it will not happen😓 maybe in the future ill remake this when i can acc make comics LOL

[camelspit]

the dudes !!! redraw of this post from april lol

[bookwyrminspiration]

jess’s harness being under his clothes is so fucking funny to me. endless situations of “hang on, I have something you need to see*starts stripping*”

[emborgor]

The energy they bring to the table though

Santi, willing to sacrifice everything, and i mean EVERYTHING, for his lover.

wolfe, believing he doesn't deserve this, but still relying on santi and taking his support, and whenever santi is in distress or injured, he feels such immense guilt for it.

and then dario trying to be the thief and black market expert in jess's footsteps, as if he looks up to him, but the two also working well together. Also the general impulsivity of the entire crew is wonderful.

[moodindigov]

a possibility could be this:

the brightwell’s are well known and i wouldn’t put it past them to stage something shortly after the event. like you guessed: going to fight against the welsh. this explains his absense for a month, maybe two and also allows callum to say his son wanted to fight for his country and wanted to be noble—it gives him more leverage to make his family seem more honorable than they are and gives him a spot of trust in the social hierarchy of sorts. and then they stage the untimely and tragic death of their eldest, lost in the fight to the welsh. it brings up amounts of grief from trusted trading partners for goods and further stabilizes that position they’ve gained because now they’re just a family who lost a son in a tragic but noble incident.. c. brightwell’s certainly wealthy enough to pay someone to write a document that seems official enough. they would have a closed casket funeral and worst of all it would maoe sense. there’s no way to recover his body in the middle of a literal war. hell, i’d go as far as to say they had a whole mourning period for him, too (fake of course, only foe the benefit of the public because brightwell’s cant be seen as weak-backed people.) jess and brendan would likely be told to sell the lie the best they can, though how they fared we can only guess based on characterizations of them now.

as for like officially to those he knew as a market trader, i cant say much. but this is such an interesting train of thought, genuinely!

Random angsty fandom thought before I try to sleep (hello and fuck you 1am):

Liam was hanged. His father didn't 'step up to identify him' and as a result he was chucked into a mass grave. All right.

But like... The Brightwells had a cover story. A cover life. A comfortable, nay aspirational middle class family with a London town house, a housemaid and a parlourmaid (mentioned in Ink and Bone). Callum is a 'successful importer of goods'. Liam's absence - the eldest son - would have been noticed.

What stories did the family have to tell? What were 10 year old Jess and Brendan ordered to say? That Liam had gone travelling? Gone to fight the Welsh? That he'd drowned in an unfortunate accident, no you can't see the body, it's a closed casket funeral (where everyone is in the pay of the Brightwells.)

Idk. Just some thoughts.