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My hcs for the Neverseen

•Trix and Umber have beef with Alvar (pettiest stuff ever)

•Glimmer and Ruy are forced into this beef

•Vespera is borderline friendly with Ruy (not much but its the thought that counts) since she deep inside (subconsiously atp) she doesnt want him to feel the way she did all those years ago

•Fintan recruited Alvar

•Gisela was a messy farm girl before her evil girl arc

•Ruy tried to be as fancy as possible to show everyone that he didn't need to from nobility to be worthy before being expelled

•Alvar and Ruy were friends before Ruy got Expelled

one thing abt Keeper that I'm shocked no one rlly talks about is how the Keeper crew and the neverseen main members low-key parallel eachother in different ways,

Like Tam & Linh w/ Ruy. All of them traumatized and hurt from the treatment of Exilium and Elvin Society. The humiliation forming a hard defense that comes when they feel stinging again.

Maruca & Alvar are both motivated by family whether it be love or hatred. Both want to valued more, Maruca wanting to help more, knowing the hurt her family went through & Alvar wanting to destroy more after learning what his family has done.

Brant and Fitz and their unfiltered rage whenever someone hurts someone they love, its blinding. But it comes from the desire to help others, to find a answer thats been prolonged. They both hold this but one manages it and one basks in it.

Biana and Giesla, strong hardworking beautiful, yet majority of their lives were spent overshadowed by the men in their lives. Biana fought to be seen while Gisela stood down to downplayed. being underestimated was a constant for both of them.

Sophie and Trix being torn by the people they love, wanting to let out the frustrations, Their power is what makes people fear them and is prevents most from seeing whats underneath. People not only restrict their power but also their emotions causing them to slowly spiral into insanity and stress.

Fintan and Keefe are both desperate for something to fill the gaping hole in them, Fintan insane from the voices begging him for just one little spark while Keefe is begging for a voice, to guide him to assure him it'll be alright

ill add more later but for now this is good

edit- Y'all can talk you aren't on mute

ever wonder if Alvar and Ruy actually did know each other in their Foxfire years, like yeah Alvar said he didn't but thats because it would make him look suspicious. Like I'm just wondering about their dynamic and stuff

dont want to be annoying but i feel like shannon made a whole new story half way

the jaw was NOT giving

HES SO UNATTRACTIVE IM SORRY

Unreal

You know what would've been fun? If the elves had indefinite lifespans but not indefinite bodies. and them just like. not talking about it it being sort of an open secret that your parents take you aside to quietly explain, then make sure to say 'never mention this again'

Because just think about it. Elves taking a special elixir that maintains their body in its prime state. Skip a day and the decay is obvious, especially if you're already centuries old.

Some of the older elves obsessing because the elixir isn't perfect, it staves it off but they're not eternally twenty anymore, they look human forty now and forty is too much by elvin standards so they get plastic surgery.

Except elves' surgery consists of more elixirs. And the elixirs are almost perfect, too. They don't have the plastic botox effect that humans' plastic surgery does, that makes their face harder to move. The elves just...have this weird feeling about them. Like there's no obvious plastic surgery effect. It's just that uncanny valley feeling of 'face too perfect, too unreal.'

Elves obsessing over taking their elixirs, because there's a single Wanderling of an elf who was an Ancient. She lived in isolation. One day someone visited her and screamed because all that was left was a pile of ashes on the floor within a dress. She didn't want to live anymore and skipped a single day of her elixirs.

Elves can live forever, but unless they use elixirs to maintain their body then they will die. Except this contradicts itself, doesn't it? The very definition of quasi-immortality is living unless an outside force kills you. Your own body shouldn't qualify. And of course it's Sophie who brings this into question when she first hears it.

So what's happening is that elves aren't actually immortal. They just take elixirs to stop their bodies from aging and decaying to nothing. Otherwise, they have a lifespan just longer than a human.

And the very first elixir one takes to slow their aging, preparing your body for the rest, is Youth.

My literal biggest fear rn is that kotlc ends like this:

Sophie and everyone is in a battle right, and then the neverseen blow up or smth

and then the last line is just

we won.

like, no

i dont know exactly what i want to happen

(i know i want sokeefe)

but it is certainly not that

*Sophie and Fitz sharing ALL their secrets during cognate training*

Tiergan: 😶

Hear me out kotlc but every time there is any type of conflict whoever’s involved just throw down

I want muscular Sophie. I want Shannon to give Sophie the proper build to beat the shit out of people.

WAIT IF SOPHIE IS FROM CALIFORNIA DO YOU THINK SHE HAS A VALLEY GIRL ACCENT

the fact that sophie’s actually really strong and she doesn’t use that more often is saddening

idk why but the solinh fanart all yall be making is just itching an itch i didnt know i had so PLEASE keep making it 😍 like idk how you guys make it so beautiful and majestic

by the time book 10 comes out i’ll be older than sophie 😔

my powers out right now so i’m re-reading stellarlune but it really makes me miss that hot minute where sophie and stina like were civil and almost friends( i just want to add this in bc like i think it’s funny but i found 6 dollars in my book)

Pls I beg of you not to fight me or get mad at me but Sophie foster from kotlc just pisses me off.

Like if I'm wrong my bad I haven't read the books in a while, but like... its not even that she's boring or anything it's just.... You do kinda be ditching dex and biana. Like my fam didn't deserve that shit bro like.... dex was kinda ur first real friend but I guess he'll just never be as important as the new ppl you meet everyday😀. And like you kinda just icky me. And i get that shes a teen and she has struggles but can you at least address them? Like maybe a 'dang sorry i barely talk to you bcs i like my new love intrests better' but like she isnt that self aware and thinks that theyre fine, like girl WAKE UP. Like Dex probably has some kind of mental health problems now but NOOO thats not important. 🤫 and also Marella! I am a Marella apologist. Bcs shes hot asf. Like my girl welcomed you, my girl ate with you, my girl, saved you from some drooly motherfuckers, like and with the shit shes got at home? And her forbidden ability? Like Sophie fr went 'oh dang you have it pretty bad...' and MOVED TF ON! Like aslo while her struggles are valid they're just kinda unrealistic and I can't relate to them. And that sounds stupid like she's in a fantasy world ofc u can't relate but I mean like socially and like even when she was in the human world. Like that's not rlly how life works bro. Sit down, you ain't the it girl. But that's just my opinion, debate is welcome but no angry comments pls.

TY, TY🫶🏾🫶🏾

Pls I beg of you not to fight me or get mad at me but Sophie foster from kotlc just pisses me off.

Like if I'm wrong my bad I haven't read the books in a while, but like... its not even that she's boring or anything it's just.... You do kinda be ditching dex and biana. Like my fam didn't deserve that shit bro like.... dex was kinda ur first real friend but I guess he'll just never be as important as the new ppl you meet everyday😀. And like you kinda just icky me. And i get that shes a teen and she has struggles but can you at least address them? Like maybe a 'dang sorry i barely talk to you bcs i like my new love intrests better' but like she isnt that self aware and thinks that theyre fine, like girl WAKE UP. Like Dex probably has some kind of mental health problems now but NOOO thats not important. 🤫 and also Marella! I am a Marella apologist. Bcs shes hot asf. Like my girl welcomed you, my girl ate with you, my girl, saved you from some drooly motherfuckers, like and with the shit shes got at home? And her forbidden ability? Like Sophie fr went 'oh dang you have it pretty bad...' and MOVED TF ON! Like aslo while her struggles are valid they're just kinda unrealistic and I can't relate to them. And that sounds stupid like she's in a fantasy world ofc u can't relate but I mean like socially and like even when she was in the human world. Like that's not rlly how life works bro. Sit down, you ain't the it girl. But that's just my opinion, debate is welcome but no angry comments pls.

just reread, and she's still a bit annoying, but God I love her and she's an innocent little bean and deserves the world. And she still needs to stfu sometimes but like, don't we all.🤸🏾‍♀️🚍

Pls I beg of you not to fight me or get mad at me but Sophie foster from kotlc just pisses me off.

Like if I'm wrong my bad I haven't read the books in a while, but like... its not even that she's boring or anything it's just.... You do kinda be ditching dex and biana. Like my fam didn't deserve that shit bro like.... dex was kinda ur first real friend but I guess he'll just never be as important as the new ppl you meet everyday😀. And like you kinda just icky me. And i get that shes a teen and she has struggles but can you at least address them? Like maybe a 'dang sorry i barely talk to you bcs i like my new love intrests better' but like she isnt that self aware and thinks that theyre fine, like girl WAKE UP. Like Dex probably has some kind of mental health problems now but NOOO thats not important. 🤫 and also Marella! I am a Marella apologist. Bcs shes hot asf. Like my girl welcomed you, my girl ate with you, my girl, saved you from some drooly motherfuckers, like and with the shit shes got at home? And her forbidden ability? Like Sophie fr went 'oh dang you have it pretty bad...' and MOVED TF ON! Like aslo while her struggles are valid they're just kinda unrealistic and I can't relate to them. And that sounds stupid like she's in a fantasy world ofc u can't relate but I mean like socially and like even when she was in the human world. Like that's not rlly how life works bro. Sit down, you ain't the it girl. But that's just my opinion, debate is welcome but no angry comments pls.

immortal elves are cool or whatever but what if it was external?

They look the same age eternally, but their internal organs and body age normally? imagine the acients, literallly dead inside

kotlc sht theories #1

Kenric is alive (and maybe in the Neverseen?)

He is mentioned more times after his death than before.

And when he is mentioned, it isn’t super necessary. Shannon didn’t have to write so many Kenralie scenes, she could’ve just made all of his cache memories about Elysian if opening Kenric’s cache was only to forward the plot. But she adds Kenralie into it for emotion, so he will definitely hopefully somehow be in book 10 and it will be related to Oralie in some way.

How did Gisela get to Elysian?

He was investigating Elysian and may have had a way to get there.

Possible that he didn’t erase all of his memories about the investigation since we only saw one in his cache, and that was probably because he didn’t want to get Oralie into trouble for being involved.

i think im just being delusional with this one tho