#that was back when i couldn't keep up with the fanart for SAL

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I just saw the bgreatest showman and i loved it but pitch black would adore it because your the only other person that canons/thinks he's into musical theater theatre in general from the globe scene from the movie. also does gwyn ever use a compass? cause i've had it in my head augus gifting him a very well designed engraved compass and i'm like...but would he like it though?? . oh and does eran like mild to moderate or heavy eye kohl?? and thank you for your writing i love it and your so nice

Hiya anon!

Omg Pitch would adore that film in SAL. I’m pretty sure that Barnum and Hugh Jackman like, unified in a movie, would be very inspirational for him. (SAL Pitch and his love of musical theatre foreverrrr - I’m also not the only other person that has headcanoned this! Back years ago now, like immediately after the movie came out and in the months that followed, there was a lot of people in the tags who headcanoned this - at least 100 - possibly in the hundreds with the amount of people who reblogged / liked those threads specifically. There were memes, there were stories, there was fanart of Pitch teaching Jack how to dance in a musical theatre way. Lol.

It’s tragic to think it comes across like I’m the only one who headcanons it now, but the fandom is pretty dead these days compared to back then, when there was all this meta. You could find at least five (5) posts that talked at length about who his musical inspirations were even, like, Gene Kelly, Astaire, that choreographer whose name I always forget but was really famous back in the 50s I think etc. Like folks got way more into confirming that headcanon than I did. I actually just followed fandom there, since they pointed it out to me first, and it made a lot of sense, since he was using actual moves from vintage films).

That landscape of the Rise of the Guardians fandom was extremely different back then compared to how it is now. The depth and level of the meta paralleled huge fandoms like Marvel. There was a boom of doujinshi. A good meta post could get 1,000 notes. Good gif posts would get thousands. You had to go into the RotG/Rise of the Guardians tag twice a day if you wanted to keep up with it, and there was almost no crossovers with any other fandom because Frozen hadn’t come out yet. People argued about how there was no way that Pitch or Jack could ever have a healthy relationship and so people should always say that the relationship was bad and wrong even if they enjoyed it, which was like, gestational anti bullshit, but very amusing.

So trust me when I say you and I are not the only ones who headcanoned that re: Pitch. It was a thing. Sort of like calling Emily ‘Seraphina.’ There was a time when that was just…canon. Not even ‘a headcanon where a lot of people disagreed.’ Was a time when no one disagreed, because there were no names and a popular post went around hinting that Joyce had confirmed Seraphina, which was all the fire the fandom needed lol.

Gwyn has compasses, many of them (they are given to him as gifts) and he occasionally uses one, but he’s not super attached to them and he has a habit of losing them or forgetting to use one. I think he would have used one a lot more when he was younger?

As for Eran, he wears kohl on his upper and lower eyelids but it’s not a smoky looked (it is winged though). This is a good example without the wing.