#rafal potocki

[nicetoart]

5 - Researcher

[chodzacaparodia]

I can't believe I ignored these obvious things for so long and didn't think about the characters in Orb in this way.

I've always just seen Jolenta as Jolenta. But she's Nowak's daughter and apparently this information didn't get through to me in EVERY aspect before.

Jolenta is a first name. Nowak is a last name. Her full name is Jolenta Nowak.

And considering that in old Poland, special suffixes were added to male surnames, depending on whether the woman was married or unmarried, this character isn't simply called Jolenta Nowak.

Nowakówna is the last name used by Nowak's unmarried daughter.

She's one of the few characters in Orb who we know by name and surname.

So this is our best girl, Jolenta Nowakówna:

It is also worth adding that nowadays the name Jolenta is used in the form Jolanta and with emancipation, suffixes are no longer added to surnames, so in the modern form she would be called Jolanta Nowak.

It's a similar situation with Rafal (or Rafał). He's adopted by Potocki (another typical Polish last name), so if he took his adoptive father's last name, then the full name of the first protagonist of Orb is Rafal Potocki:

[empty-dream]

The thing you all oppose isn't me. Nor is it heretics. It's part imagination, part curiousity. In short, it's the truth itself.

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth episode 03. I… believe in heliocentrism

[nijigasakilove]

Man this might be AOTS. Crazy how slept on this is rn. Genuinely had my jaw on the floor this entire episode. I KNEW Nowak was closing in on Rafal, but I didn’t expect bro to only last 3 episodes?!! Like that’s some bold writing and it really does drive home how perilous and dangerous this time was for men of science. Incredible writing and twists.

We’re so used to our protagonists having plot armour and getting out of these situations with smooth talking and I fully expected Rafal to somehow wiggle himself out. But nope, even in the face of death he refused to sell out on his convictions and would rather die being true to himself than living a lie. Fuck, that hurt though. Rafal had so much more life to live and Hubert passed on the dream to him, guess it’s time for him to pass it on to someone else now.

I did love that whole convo with Nowak on the eve of the torture/him being put to death. Nowak’s face when Rafal showed no fear and didn’t back down was amazing. He’s so used to seeing people cry and shaking in these sort of situations, he was the scared one this time around I love it 😂.

Like Rafal said, you can’t stop the truth. You can kill the man, not the idea and it is kinda cool to have a story that goes from one protagonist to the next passing down ideals and a mission until the ultimate goal is achieved. I don’t think I’ve seen that other than Fumetsu with the MC taking different bodies

I know Potocki gonna feel like shit for selling out his own son now lmao. Guess he overestimated how much Rafal wanted to live.

Can’t wait to see the next protagonist!

[yuyuunon]

Potocki and Rafal in the new ed 😭

[myrfing]

the way rafal left 10% to potocki who sold him out. and how badeni spared the chest and then gave it up just so oczy could see the stars as they were executed.

[chodzacaparodia]

SOMEONE REMEMBERS THEM ALL!!!

Their memory did not die with them

[nijigasakilove]

Man, even in anime misogyny straight pisses me off. Very hard episode to watch. Jolenta is just as talented if not MORE talented than the men at the academy and just gets walked all over and taken advantage of. I can’t believe this bitch Kolbe had the AUDACITY to take her work and publish it as his own. What women have had to go through throughout history in the STEM field just enrages me.

But what’s even more wild is that it’s NOWAK DAUGHTER?!! This is gonna be crazy, is he really gonna have to kill his own child when she inevitably gets involved with the heliocentric theory? I’m lowkey not looking forward to these next few eps because I have a feeling I’m gonna be heartbroken.

Ironically, if Jolenta told the count that it was indeed her treatise, she might not have got involved with the bulletin posting which could ultimately alter the whole trajectory of her life

Didn’t really vibe with how Badeni wanted to screw over Potocki and not honor Rafal’s wishes. Also a 90-10 split is crazy disrespectful to Oczy. If he gonna be an asshole like that I’m lowkey not gonna mourn him if they get caught lmao. Good episode though, again this show just really keeps you on the edge of your seat!