#omfg thank you so mush for your replay

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Ohhh yesss i love how the magic elements are ONE. It makes so much sense like it's the nature and so on. I love how fire saves your life and soul if you put too much effort in bending water, earth helps you from being devoured by air, and reversed. Like, they're paired and helping you! Hehe nice. And there is CHAOS. Oh i love chaos. Everything and nothing. The arteries of the world (really cool addition to the nature of chaos magic even if it was made in the g*lden t*wer). All together they make balance in nature frfr. Fuck, now I'm scared by Call's potential as a full-grown Makar, like he saw all this in age 16, what would he be able to do in his 30-s??? Creepy. Lol

Relationship between Call and Alastair is bittersweet. I can't believe they made such a long way in the 2 book and in the same time it felt so natural and smooth, even though Call thought that his father is not his father and that he tried to get rid of Call and so on. But then he finally heard that Alastair loves him bc Call's his son!!! And he's a good kind boy!!! And Joseph go fuck yourself you bastard keep away from my little boy baby you will never ever get him like you got Constantine. So sweet i died (also i remembered that Call's father was not just Constantine's classmate, but his closest friend, sad that it wasn't actually developed more deeply. AND ALSO I REMEMBER THE QUOTE THAT GOES LIKE "ME, CONST, SARAH AND JERICHO WERE VERY CLOSE" AND I WAS LIKE "WTH WHAT ABOUT FUCKING DECLAN A U SERIOUS ARE YOU REAL FOR THAT BRUUUUUUUH well ok whatever")

Now (and sometimes throughout the series) Alastair's behaviour makes me think: what actually made Call so vulnerable to other's opinions? Why is his self-esteem lies in the depth of a Mariana Trench? What could Alastair said and did to achieve that and why did this happen, did he really knew whom his soul was? Did Alastair hate his son suspecting him? Was he just cold, but enough to traumatize the little boy? All this additionally to his canon depressive state and loneliness which couldn't not affect the child! Interesting. Not a minus to the books, some details should be left to our interpretation

Writing the OP, I forgot about this essential detail - Call's guilt. Like it's the main theme in the 2 book but i somehow forgot it. I love the depiction of his guilt, he's so agonized and torn apart by it, his pain started in the ending of the 1 book and followed him- forever ig? Bro, so relatable. I can make parallels to my anxiety disorder and constant guilt that i feel from literally just being alive. This detail makes him my comfort character. The one more reason to adore him. And i think im not the only one

Oh goddess. Aaron Stewart. I feel so bad for him. Rn I'm reading the Bronze Key, the episode when all students at school started suspecting him. He suffers so much bc of it bc he has sorta saviour complex and obviously is trying his best to be loved by everyone, to ensure his place in society (i see it as he tried to be loved in every family to stay w them as long as possible, but rarely succeeded. How could they be so blind??? So he trained himself to be loveable. Omfg). And then all of a sudden he loses it all. His hard work, his place, his insurance... Ironically it all started his downfall to death. Yeah and then people say that social anxiety is irrational! Lol

Bittersweet that he was reborn in the Alex's body. Idk, i don't like that trope bc it has only pleasure and absolutely no moral. You can reincarnate your loved ones!! You don't have to learn and overcome your grief, cause you can have them back alive no consequences!! Yappie!! I love Aaron and it's nice to have him back but it's meaningless. Only meaning i see is that he lived in Call's head and taught him to be more eeeh social ig. It was really fun to read. Also it could be a thought like "don't give up on your friends" but I can't really see it. Cause he died

I 100 percent agree w your thoughts on Tamara. But on the other hand, i feel bad for her character. It's not something special for her, it's a common problem amongst female protagonists in the group of three (two men and one woman). Two men always get the most of it. Literally, Call and Aaron are makars, they're super special in this world and in the plot. And Tamara is just.. a great firebender, and smart and sarcastic. She's cool and strong, but not on their level(( They are ANOTHER. Something similar happened in Naruto, where Naruto was mega giga cool, Sasuke ultra gigachad from a superfamily, and Sakura is said to be weak... She's a love interest and a healer. Another level. Can't imagine a plot, where Tamara was in Aaron's place, being the second Makar and "Call's mortal enemy and best friend whom he pulled out from death betraying all his principles and morals" hm i understand why ppl ship calron and not calmara. Well the point is that she (or Sakura, for instance) is not playing the same level role as Aaron or Call, and i call this misogyny

Ohhh yeaaaah i love this sentence "Constantine literally haunts the narrative" that's so true. Even much bc our main character's soul is said to be Constantine's. This is so real

Master Joseph is an interesting villain fr. He's just fucking crazy lol.... But he acts more or less normally, i like the details that he enjoys cooking, he is often calm and so on, like it gives more depth to him and he is not just mindless creepy crazy killer

I love bringing analysis bc it helps me structure my thoughts about the series or movies, and they don't rot alive in my brain to be forgotten forever. I love having more reasons for reading than just "consuming" the "content". This is art

If i ever were able to list all the things i dislike in Magisterium series, this post would've been endless. Instead, I'd mention smth i love so much that it makes me re-read the series for the fifth time and gives me inspiration for new drawings and playlists

The first one is aesthetic. I don't think I've ever read a YA book with the death and necromancy as the main lore theme. Also, the first book in series is so sweet and innocent compared to the fourth I can't believe it lol. Corpses. So gothic. So edgy. Love it

The second is very similar to the first - chaos magic. We come across elemental magic in all sorts of media, but they don't usually have the 5th element, or if they have it's more likely to be electricity or smth. Not ACTUAL NECROMANCY omfg... I love it. Also Makars being able to manipulate not only chaos (the void itself) but the soul.... Cute

So next. The main character ofc. Callum Hunt. What can I say he is such a cinnamon roll hating himself for what he is not. Screaming, crying, throwing up. I can feel his pain with every fiber of my soul he's so relatable. He is a type of chaotic neutral main character which is rare I guess, and at the same time he doesn't act like a total jerk and piece of shit. Can't name some other like him, idk. He's sweet but also edgy. His self-confidence is below the surface of the earth. He's just like me frfr my poor little meow meow. Also he is disabled and it influences the events of the book. Sometimes. Cool, representative. Not a disabled person myself but can appreciate it

Another reason for me to love the series is the changing of Call's secrets idk how to call this. The structure of his character lore. His secrets and abilities, they're layered.. you know... And every book one by one uncovers these layers: 1 - he uncovers that he is the reincarnation of Constantine. 2 - he gets his powers (which made Constantine evil at the first place). 3 - he learns more about Constantine's family, and the whole world finds out that he "is" the Enemy of Death. 4 - omg how much he uncovers here lol i can't. May be my favourite book thanks to its maaad vibe. Everything he learns here makes him closer and closer to Constantine. 5 - i know that most of the fandom thinks it was stupid to make Constantine himself a reincarnated thousand-years-old evil Makar. And i may agree. But in the moment of reading this it was so impactful for me idk why.... I literally cried idk!!! Lol. Love the moment where Call opens his memory to help his friends to fight wolves or smth, and PASSES OUT. KING. So, the other secret is uncovered here. Everything he learns makes him understand Constantine's/Maugris's motives, but he never ever becomes anything like them nor wishes to follow their path. Pretty symbolic and meaningful

Upd. SOME MOMENTS ARE FREAKING HILARIOUS

So what can I say? Every series has it's weak and strong points. Some of them become classic literature, some are forgotten in the abyss of YA books. I understand why Magisterium's place is with the second type of series, and it's not even saddens me anymore (we're so underground teehee). But i see many posts where the series is shitted over, and not much of posts appreciating the things that we actually love in it. Aren't they the reason you started and finished it sometime? So I'm here spreading positivity! And also because I'm so tired of being a fan of this shit so i tried to acknowledge all that i love, and why am i here in the first place

I think it's all for now, maybe I'll come with more ideas later

Fandom are you alive? Heh am I a Call kinnie to the point that i become necromancer?...

P.S. sometimes i think I'm so cringe to be periodically obsessed with this STUPID POOR-WRITTEN CHILDISH BOOK ABANDONED EVEN BY IT'S OWN CREATORS BUT I CAN'T HELP IT...... AND THE WORST THING IS THAT I DIDN'T EVEN READ IT IN MY EARLY TEENS (except the 1 which i read when i was around 13. Read it twice in one week so maybe that's the moment my brain was damaged) I READ IT WHEN I WAS 16 ALREADY aaarrrhh I'm so cringe. Why obsession why why why why why why i hate this but this is literally the only book which makes me cry and scream and feel every fucking time i re-read it even when i know EVERYTHING THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN LITERALLY EVERYTHING reading it all again for the 6th time FOR GODDESS SAKE WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME