#kotlc questions

[multi-fandom-lunatic]

questions for keepblr: what fandoms do we think fitz would be a fan of??

[valewritessss]

What instrument do we think characters would play just as a hobby

[thepumkinmoth]

wait can elves have beards

[the-way-astray]

so i'm almost halfway through my reread (done with neverseen) and as i've been reading i've been making a list of every single question in the series (the answered and the unanswered).

so who wants to see my massive list of questions from kotlc once i'm done. it's turning out to be pretty fucking long and i'm only done with the first four books so far.

(i've also been making a list of all my least favorite keefe moments and why i do not like this character, so i guess who wants to see that as well.)

[winwin17]

Why aren't there more banshees besides Bullhorn? How common are they? Where do they live naturally? If they're so sensitive to when someone's life is in danger, how come a thousand banshees don't come running out of nowhere every time Sophie and her friends almost die??

[milo-igidk]

"god some of you have the reading comprehension of a 5th grader"- guy on a fandom of a book whose main demographic is 5th graders

[bookwyrminspiration]

I haven’t really kept up but what the fuck. this has been the weirdest sexyman tournament perhaps ever ??

[x3nafix]

as a former fitz hater, i apologize and see the error of my ways. Though hes not my favorite, i can see that hes not a horrible person.

[camelspit]

Roisin's Reading Rumble: Team Assignments + Discord Link

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who signed up!!! There are 78 participants which is CRAZY!!!! Because theres so many people, I am going to split the teams into 2 seperate posts (i cant tag more than 50 people in a post) so if you dont see your name here, check here

The dates beside the team names are the official posting dates!! These are the days that you will post anything you have created for the rumble (original info post here) ex: if you were on team sophie, you would post anything you've made on the date listed beside the name)

DISCORD LINK BELOW THE CUT!! PLEASE ONLY JOIN IF YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE READING RUMBLE

Team Sophie - July 20

@friendofthefrogswastaken

@three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat

@necromycologist

@umbra-1774

@the-way-astray

@chainlxnk

Team Dex - July 21

@yourloveisacurse

@mushroom-snake-coding

@midasx9

@ci1antro97

@imobsessed123

@rosenightmares

@thelavendernarwhal

Team Fitz - July 22

@bookwyrminspiration

@loveution

@gay-otlc

@thishumanformislimiting

@aphelea

@no1fitzdefender

@multi-fandom-lunatic

Team Biana - July 23

@aurenflare

@crumpetsandbiscuits

@average-alliteration-admirer

@thatdamkotlcfan

@icantrememberwhoiwaslastdecember

@bye-bye-sanity

Team Keefe - July 24

@lostwarllock

@echoisquiet

@zara-post-14

@bookworm-fangirl1

@skia-tumb

@freaky-always

@xilaxii

Team Marella - July 25

@vesperas-number-one-fangirl

@eternal-everblaze

@lesson-in-ruthlessness

@corvus-corvidae

@an-ungraceful-swan

@canonicallyconfused13

@that-fish-who-writes

DISCORD LINK HERE

NOTE: you do NOT have to join the discord if you dont want to/dont have an account/etc.

[book-lover85]

I feel like telepathy could be used in the battle field as a way to disorient opponents

like how easy would it be to transmit a scream and send someone to the ground with a headache

could they transmit something to an extent that the person thinks it's real and hallucinates?

[chainlxnk]

Tiergan wip for anyone who cares🤗

[ann-lol]

yk crescentpaws likes marella right?

she probly hates you

First of all, @crescentpaws goes by he/him pronouns. Respect and remember that.

Second of all, Marella is a FICTIONAL character so I’m sure he doesn’t hate me because I hate Marella. Plus he hates Keefe like a lot and I love Keefe and yet I don’t hate him- if anything Max is pretty chill and makes some great art and fanfics, which I am currently obsessed with but that’s besides the point.

I don’t wanna assume what Max thinks of me but I’m sure whatever it is isn’t hate.

[valewritessss]

Kotlc fandom, how do you pronounce Calla, as in Calla tree? The Spanish speaker in me wants to say “kah-jah” but I thought the same for Luke Castellan and I was wrong

[reinedeslys-central]

kotlc things that I keep thinking about that are never really addressed by canon

there is a complete replica of sophie's bedroom and perhaps countless other rooms just. somewhere in a building in mysterium that the councillors just know about.

alden and other telepaths were instructed to monitor the citizens' minds for signs of dissent around the time the prentice thing was going down

they regularly torture prisoners and dissenters into literal insanity that they can't come back from

they also have a super weird prison only accessible by quicksand (????) to house said prisoners

there is an ENTIRE DUNGEON OF WEIRD LAB EXPERIMENTS DOWN BY THE VACKER HOUSE?

okay. how - how big is havenfield?

the entire thing with - is their name twix? the person dex was working with for something. why do we not get to see that more. why is dex the criminally underrated goated character and WE DON'T GET FLESHED OUT CHARACTER ARCS FOR EVERYONE

linh flooded. atlantis. linh song FLOODED ATLANTIS hello what do people think about that?????????? do they see her on the street and whisper? what's up with "The Girl Of Many Floods"? Where else did she flood?

What is up with the song family (tong? their name changed after their grandmother or smth got famous with their music right?) that both their children not only have two very powerful elemental abilities, but are also crazy skilled with said Talents.

why are music, art, and culture not a bigger thing? like yeah, plot, obviously, but that's just worldbuilding!!! I wanna see!!!! art hanging on the walls! Defying gravity! more sculptures! more music playing in the shopping centres!! If they have imparters why don't they have long distance radio? are there mandatory dance lessons? what's the etiquette like besides what we already know?

more animal husbandry at schools. speaking of schools: we KNOW foxfire and exilium aren't the only schools. are smaller schools more specialised? are their community colleges or academies dedicated to specific career paths? universities?

okay but the polyglot ability is SO COOL???? tell me about the archaic variants of the enlightened language. there's no way that's just the elves' one language and the other species picked it up due to their 'superiority' or wtv. the goblins have cities of gold and metal and the trolls age backwards, you're not convincing me of anything.

secret societies in the other species. that has to exist right?

.....is squall dex's mom or not? I genuinely can't remember.

anyway remember when she froze gethen's fingernails off, yeah that happened (I think)

so instead of rehabilitating teenagers who have dangerous abilities and not much control over their powers, we just do....whatever the council did with gethen, ruy, and linh ig

hey, um...are we just not going to talk about dex casually HACKING INTO A GOV DATABASE WITH SOME RANDOM BITS OF ROCK AND TWINE? he can just do that. okay. okay. that's - yeah, okay.

did he match a frequency or something? how does the signal network even work in kotlc when everyone is technically all over the world in unplottable locations and they get around by LIGHT LEAPING???

ON THAT NOTE. light leaping. yeah haha funny let's just teach our kids to casually break down their very particles and hold onto their consciousness to travel at the speed of light using quantum mechanics and crystals that are specifically cut to project light in such a way that'll take you only to a specific location nvm im not thinking more about it.

flickering? is apparently a skill you can learn even if you're not a vanisher? remember in book two when fitz got prissy at sophie for knowing how to do it apparently b4 we figured out that she's a teleporter

keefe is a fun loveable goofball and I've always been on the sokeefe train but now the more I think about it he's really um.... yeah, uh, sophie? darling, please just don't date any of these people. obv you can make your own decisions but at least not now, okay. take care of yourself hon

the fitz hate is kinda weird ngl. wdym you don't want your problematic traitor brother to move back in to living literally with your family after supposedly losing his memories and that's a bad thing? wdym your close friend/crush is hiding things from you when yall are supposed to be cognates and she's kinda gaslighting you since, forever? wdym your father's been shadily telling you to stalk this girl in the human world since you were a kid? yeah definitely he does pull some weird stints throughout the series. but the bigger things i see ppl hating on him for are. hmmmmm

the council themselves choose to lock away the government secrets and wipe them from their memories. hey, um - recordkeeping is great, obvious, but - wiping those secrets from your minds isn't gonna help you lead while accounting for those parts of history, is it? nevermind how dangerous it is when there are huge species-wide secrets that NO ONE remembers. society-threatening incident waiting to happen.

the concept of vociferators. that's just kinda funny lol even if it is weird

are their schoold for diff abilities?

what's the genetics of talent inheritance? why are 'stronger' abilities rarer? In my opinion, p much every talent is goated, I don't see why more characters aren't more creative about it.

banning talents is just a bad move. like. are you serious? how is that going to make it better? that's how you get brant. brant was a pyrokinetic, without getting into the primary issue of the whole talentless/talented discrimination discourse, the secondary issue is he wouldve been able to marry jolie as two talented elves. would he have cracked if his ability was just a bit better handled by society?

grady is a mesmer. how - that's a really powerful ability???? how do you even train to use that? what do you even use it for?

same with whatever that lady councillor is that tried to seduce alden during his own wedding. fun times, yall.

rainbow fire??? cool????

so we have the sanctuary, do we also have a gigantic library of alexandria-esque thing? a botanical garden?

according to jolie's wiki she died at twenty as a level 8 at foxfire. so... hang on a minute. okay, sure, numerically that could make sense since sophie, at 12, became a level one - but are you telling me she went through the whole matchmaking process and was planning to get married that young????

hey, here's an idea - in a relatively stable society where economy is great, trust funds exist, people work to have something to do with their lives, birth rate is generally low (now through prejudice as well as societal comfort and ease/cost of living), why are they marrying so young? WHY ARE THE KIDS STARTING THE MATCHMAKING PROCESS IN THEIR TEENS???? the elven society has p much every mark of a stage 5 developed country? help? middle-high school human geography??

if they apparently live so long, show me the funny messy family trees with couples having children generations apart.

so, trust funds of lusters??? lustres?? (which we barely ever see. why is there little-to-no use of money?) which equate to roughly one trillion USD (in value? are you. are you - um. are you....serious?) exist. but I guess inflation and relative currency value from mass money printing doesn't count in this world, as well as the fact that there's only one currency for all the elves.

I wanna see a divorced elven couple now. how does divorce law work??????

if there's such a low BR and low population and people are yet still encouraged to have less kids to 'not dilute the genes' (that's my next point btw), I'm guessing matchmaking is encouraged younger to make sure population stays stable/growing? obv you need it to ensure genetic diversity and no incest, but if it's heavily encouraged for elves to have children like this, are queer elves mandated to have children with a surrogate/other couple even if they have a same-sex marriage?

i'll probably edit this or reblog it to include more stuff (character limit lol) as i remember the books bc it's been a hot minute since i read them.

[the-way-astray]

i've seen a fair amount of people that have a take that's something along the lines of "alden isn't abusive/toxic/a bad parent but i like exploring that in fic, so i often characterize him like that anyway" and i'm so curious as to why these people are not extending this same purposeful character assassination to other parents, like grady, or even kesler, and why it seems to be an only alden thing /gen

[winwin17]

Ok, but why didn't Alden suggest becoming cognates with Fitz, his own son, one of the strongest young telepaths? As a parent/child duo, they'd probably already have a strong bond, and anything in the way probably needs to be worked through anyhow.

To be honest, I do love Fitz and Sophie as cognates, but not sure how that's working out right now....

And just, I don't think anyone's ever thought of this before?? Was it just plot convenience? Or is cognatedom not achievable ever again after it's been broken, like in Alden's case with Quinlin? Idk, just a random thought.