#nathaniel brennan

[5ftboy]

[darc-la-farse]

Happy candela obscura day to those who celebrate.

[chaosgenasi]

What a bunch of bums. They got no batters, they got no pitching. You did good, Finnerty. Very good. Five for five, batting a thousand.

[marvelousbelladonna]

Character Art

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty (solider)

Travis Willingham as Nathaniel Trapp (journalist)

Marisha Ray as Beatrix Monroe aka Auntie Bea (criminal)

Zehra Fazal as Dr. Jinnah “Jean” Basra (doctor)

Luis Carazo as Marion Collodi (medium)

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Endless Candela Obscura

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Patroclus/Achilles - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Thomas McNulty/John Cole - Days Without End (and A Thousand Moons) by Sebastian Barry

Luke Sunborn/Elliot Schafer - In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Nathaniel Bainbridge/Sea Hawk - Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews

[candelaobscuremyheart]

travis's face after The Talk was already everything, but then - THEN you remember nathaniel was sean and marion's lieutenant. this man basically raised those boys on a battlefield and you can't convince me this isn't the biggest "LOOK HOW IN LOVE THOSE TWO BOYS ARE" dad energy.

[heckblade]

i do not miss being on twitter but i do feel nostalgic for all of the unhinged candela obscura posting i was doing there last fall

[dailymarisharay]

[its-mekjt]

here once again to scream and shout about candela obscura.

first of all, i LOVE that people are shouting at tbe table. I LOVE IT. its a lot different to the normal table and it's just the difference of it all. from marion (luis) screaming 'no' at the end of episode 1 to Sean (brennan) shouting at auntie bee. impeccable. really conveys the emotion of it all.

second, jean (zehra) rping as her father and that DESCRIPTION? i loved it so much. it was amazing, like I could actually see him in my head.

these are just two of the things that stuck out to me but if i continued, i would not stop.

[handbellanon]

Every scene with Sean just…is so chewy. There’s so much characterization built into the way Brennan chooses his words and inflections.

Also: I would watch an entire prequel series that was just Nathaniel, Sean, and Marion. Them meeting, the war, the whole thing. There’s so much backstory there.

[5ftboy]

[colorfulandblack]

Marion's Starburst Scar is Not a Bleed Scar and Also the Case of the Missing Soul

Here's some theories and thoughts so buckle up

So, ok let me begin with comparing the scars and reviewing what we know about them.

A person gets a scar whenever they receive 4 marks in either body, brain or bleed. This also changes one's character.

We saw Howard's scar, might I add self inflicted, then Charlotte's scar and we saw how the fact that they got them changed their personalities ever so slightly but also what's notable is the difference of the body/brain scar to bleed one. Howard performed a tracheotomy on himself and Charlie arm is rendered useless.

However, Arlo Black, who entered the latest assignment with already one bleed scar which was a result of her sticking her hand into a portal and being exposed to the Flare. Because of this her next bleed scar expanded beyond her hand onto her side of the face and heightened her abilities as an ocultist. Whenever she is exposed to bleed she feels it in her hand.

Sound familiar, doesn't it?

Marion also entered the assignment with a scar. However it was never specified how he got it and which sort is it. Seems pretty certain it is a bleed scar but hear me out cos that's not necessarily the case in my opinion.

Based on previous observations (especially Arlo and the fact that they are both under Weird category) and the fact that the scar seems to soak on the bleed as the blue veins show a bit more each time Marion uses his abilities much like Arlos points to it being a bleed scar. And the fact that after receiving a (second?) bleed scar it expanded up his neck.

But what drives me insane is why the hell is it starburst shaped? How the fuck would that manifest as a sign of bleed or be an indicator that he was exposed to the bleed? Arlo's scar makes sense because her hand was exposed to another dimension/plane.

What if Marion's first scar was a result of body marks?

First of all the fact that it's starburst shaped, for me immediately brings an image of an explosive. Which makes sense as Marion was a soldier and mortars were flying left and right on the battlefield.

It is also not specified when his premotions manifested in terms of had he already have the scar or not? See it is possible that once he started getting those premotions he maxed out on bleed scars pretty quickly. But his abilities are not inherently a sign or result of bleed. He soaks up other people's marks and given the fact he saved Sean and Nathaniel probably several times his tally for body must have been full. They had not encountered bleed during the war!

Again because of the shape of his scar I imagine that it is possible that the last mark he took was a body from a bomb going off. Now that wouldn't just leave a scar, that just puts you in the ground.

Now this is when it gets interesting both based on facts and on my headcanons.

Have you noticed how Marion's "Medium" underneath his portrait looks like a toetag?

I mean it could be just a little note thingy that you attach to gifts or use as a bookmark as a stylistic/aesthetic choice but if the fact that Luis names his character Marion Collodi like the author of Pinocchio who's a MARIONette and sings how he doesn't have any strings left (while Spencer graphically described the Eldrich terror reaching for their soul strings and finding nothing) taught me anything is that NOTHING is random here.

So, here's the thing. Marion dies. Marion dies in an explosion. He dies because he soaked up that last body only it wasn't just a body mark. It was entire fucking life. His scar is a result of body marks being full.

And because it was an entire fucking life his starburst scar becomes the centre of the bleeds that starts to enter his life well before Candela. Because this life that he exchanged was a result of some powerful magik that in the world of Newfaire ways manifests in the form of bleed and therefore marked this spot as it's home and now whenever Marion uses his abilities the scar pulsates and grows.

That is also a reason WHY he hasn't got a soul, because he exchanged it, saving someone's life. I like to imagine it was Sean and they are literally soulmates, two people, one soul. I mean I don't know if their relationship will play out more romantically or platonically/brotherly but they do have an insane bond together and it would make more sense, based on the conversation between Marion and Sean in the metro tunnels alone that they would fight alongside more often that they would alongside (literally in close proximity) Nathaniel. Sean said that Marion would often call the shots, how to maneuver the battlefield and Nathaniel being the lieutenant would put him in more commanding position. I just don't imagine he would tag along Sean and Marion having entire troup to command.

Either way bleed has already entered Marion's body/soul before Candela or any previous contant with bleed and marked him and that's why the thing said that he's a perfect vessel already prepared for whatever evil plan the monster have.

This of course DOES NOT explain the definitely DELIBERATE choice on Luis part of naming his character Marion Collodi, as elaborated above and what the fuck does it mean but perhaps we will learn about it later on.

Or perhaps because Marion is a vessel, because he exchanged his soul for other person's life he will become possessed and become a plaything, a mariontte to some Eldrich terror puppetier. Like some sort of cruel cosmic joke that prays and exploits Marion's heart of gold and innate inability to take care of himself and just soaking those marks left and right.

[raguonmynieceandnephew]

TRAVIS IS LUCAS'S DAD, CALLING IT RIGHT NOW, QUOTE ME ON IT

[marvelousbelladonna]

Always good to have a medium with you

Are you weakest at the shoulder or the elbow

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Endless Candela Obscura