if john finally had a breakthrough on accepting how what was done to him was wrong and the justifications and reasons do not absolve it, it would hurt so fucking bad and get a lot worse before it got better.
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I love it when there's a guy who lost their name. forgot it, discarded it, don't use it, can't use it, had it stolen, even just when a title is used to avoid saying it. all good stuff
most normal shenanigans on the lost light
you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
Dust and Echoes by Buzboz (@GerardsJulien on X), prints available here.
Also think it's interesting that both series have a common theme in showing affection, in soc it's touch and in Gk it's food but both appear in either series
I made the au post as a joke but it's genuinely taken over my brain as I realized a lot of common things with both series, which are both some of my fav.
The main soc au group would be Tsukishima, Koito, Inkarmat, Tanigaki, Vasily, and Ogata. They are a part of a larger gang which is the 7th with Tsurumi as their leader. They would get in a bunch of side quests probably but would still break into the Ice Court for Jurda Parem secrets. Instead they are finding Wilk though and Asirpa would be the Kuwei who has information everyone wants after their father is killed.
None of the characters are really directly correlates to the crows though
Koito is official leader of the crew, kinda Jespers comedy but also the crews spider
Tsukishima is the right hand man and advices a lot of leadership decisions with Koito, the least like a crow I feel since Igogusa would be his Inej but shes long gone when the story starts
Inkarmat is a heart render who is the Nina of the crew, does fortune readings
Tanigaki is the Matthias I'd say except he's not fjerdan, the big one plus knows how to traverse the wilderness
Vasily would be the group fjerdan bent on getting back at someone else on the crew. I'm not sure how fjerdans would treat snipers but I think he'd defect on his own to hunt down Ogata
Ogata is the marksman of course and I would relate him to Kaz but he's honestly so much worse, funnily enough they both lost their brothers in very different ways
Also Ienaga is a healer who's also learned some tailoring that runs a hotel and Edogai is a durast taxidermist that is given skins in exchange for helping the 7th
I have so many more thoughts on them so I'm probably gonna post about this more but I haven't read shadow and bone yet
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