#new strategy where i offhandedly reference pact in wormposts like how i mention worm in pactposts to encourage people to read pact

[lakesbian]

still head on my desk wheezing hysterically about it being canon that the siblings cherie and alec talk abt in worm like they're older than him were just like. Six. while chasing after cherie. felt like i was being pranked when i find out they're just mentioned being like. 9yos playing video games in ward or whatever it was??? anyway i'm still split between retconning it (as i have supreme authority to do when wildbow is wrong about the heartbroken) and the much funnier option of deciding that guillaume and nicholas were just for real the world's most hellish 6yos to the point of being able to successfully bully siblings up to 15 years older than them. those toddlers stole alec's lunch money. also re the inexplicable age gap. it's particularly funny bc wildbow has literally said in WoG that alec's older siblings, Plural, were responsible 4 some of the sexual grooming including a mention of big brothers. but like. Which ones. We only know of cherie and valentina if you squint. Whomst. What older brothers. if it's not nicholas and guillaume then Whom. ur got them.

i think cherie is mostly well utilized for who and what she is but it sucks that the only interactions she has with other characters are the 9 (absolutely fucking nothing to dig into there because she's the odd one out and for these purposes just extensions of jack) and alec. we dont even get any mentions of her in ward to chew on despite the heartbroken being major characters, although some of that can be blamed on them all inexplicably being a couple years younger than alec at the minimum, as though heartbreaker stopped breeding for the roughly 6 year age gap between alec and cherie and then for a couple more after alec for good measure