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Me to my brain: Don’t think of stupid stuff.

My brain at 3 am: What happens when an Oculator’s uses bestowers lenses and accidentally bestows their own oculatory abilities through them-

Just had an idea for an AVTEL OC backstory!!!

So we’re gonna start out with the fact that there are probably kids from surviving lines of Oculators in the Hushlands who, having lived there their whole lives, (and with everyone around them being brainwashed to boot,) don’t know they’re Oculators and will probably never know because who gives random Hushlanders access to Oculatory lenses, right?

And AVTEL is canonically being printed in the Free Kingdoms as an autobiography AND IN THE HUSHLANDS AS A FANTASY SERIES, right?

So let’s say one of those surviving Oculator-line kids got their hands on AVTEL at the bookstore and found themself really liking it.

So they read the rest.

They didn’t think anything of the factuality of the book until some undisclosed amount of time later they found a relative (distant either figuratively or literally) of theirs (who was, job description, a librarian) sneaking away somewhere, so the kid followed said relative into a room. There are lenses on the shelves, various panels and shards of glass in various tints and shades.

The relative leaves the room at some point, at which time the kid curiously picks up a pair of red tinted lenses, puts them on as a joke, and promptly falls backwards from the sheer light emitted by all the glass stuff in the room.

Shenanigans ensue.

@obsessed-with-words-on-a-page i may be an idiot but we who are burdened with the knowledge of the Librarian Empire must share it alone sorry