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Sophie Hatter and Lucy Gringe/Heap should be best friends. They are very similar I don't think the Castle nor Ingary could survive them but I would be very happy.
Meanwhile Howl would be having a weird eye contact game with Marcellus Pye to determine who is the more vain and dramatic (and Howl would win because he is the most dramatic and vain AND because he punches people who kidnap children while Marcellus kidnaps them).
God I don't think I've ever loved a character solely on account of their name as fast as I've loved Beetle from the Septimus Heap series. O. Beetle Beetle. The joy that shoots through me whenever I see/even think of it is just immeasurable.
Also shout out to 10 y/o me who was legitimately angry with Jenna for ignoring Beetle after that whole deal with the Darke Domain and the Manuscriptorium. I know she didn't really in reality and had other things to deal with at the time but also grew and apologized for it in Fyre but god I really was all for Beetle at that time, I would've gone to war for that boy.
Septimus Heap, and it's been my favorite gem ever since. At ten, my parents got me a lapis stone, and at thirteen, I stole some lapis earrings from a museum gift shop. When I have enough money, someday I want to buy myself some sort of really cool lapis jewelry.
its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags
Hello, everyone! I'm going to do this fun expression challenge!
Just send me the letter and number of your chosen expression, and a character from one of the following games/fandoms:
Fire Emblem (7, 9, 10, & 16), Xenoblade Chronicles (the original), Metal Gear Solid (any), Final Fantasy VII (the entire compilation), Final Fantasy XV, Star Wars (the originals, the prequels, & the Disney sequels), Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Septimus Heap, Lockwood & Co. (The books, not the show.)
I might add others if I think of them.
Thank you @magicalpouchofmagic!
Which Septimus Heap character most deserves to say Fuck?
Ok I know you’re an Animorphs blog, but I’ve just seen some of your Septimus Heap takes, and I’d like you to know that I’ve immediately fallen in love with you. Worry not though, since it will most likely last for only a couple of days.
Thank you! I love Septimus Heap, because I love children's SF about trauma and war and post-colonialism. And because I'm a sucker for weird-ass found families, and the Heap family is about as weird and found as they come.
Some other Septimus Heap headcanons:
Marwick is trans. Look at that birth name, look at how fast Marwick sets it on fire and pees on the ashes like "what the fuck, I'd literally rather go back to being named 409," look at the kid who called himself "Wolf Boy" for years rather than bothering with a proper moniker. Marwick is trans. And back in the day Septimus was the only one who stuck up for him, and that is how Boy 409 ended up taking one look at Boy 412 and going "this is my useless nerd boy, and if anything happens to him I will kill everyone." Speaking of which...
Septimus would've died a dozen times over if not for Marwick. Poor 412 is ridiculously ill-suited to the Young Army. Sep's scared of heights, he hates the outdoors, he's too kind-hearted to kill bugs, he can't read a map, and he catches colds easily. Septimus is the paragon of nerdism: he likes reading books about Magyk, reading books about witchcraft, reading books about Physick, and that's about it. He'll occasionally do Magyk, but just to be sure he understands the readings correctly. I'm not saying Marwick literally carried Septimus out of danger on several occasions, but I am saying it's a miracle that Sep makes it all the way to age eleven and I'm pretty sure that said miracle is spelled four-oh-nine.
Jenna and Septimus both insist the other one is younger. They were born within hours of each other, and Jenna always wanted a younger sibling while Septimus definitely doesn't want to be the baby of the family. When talking to new people, Sep always introduces "my little sister, Jenna" and Jen always starts with "my baby brother, Septimus." For the record, Silas and Sarah compared notes and they're pretty sure that Jenna is older, but they're not going to tell their kids that.
Marwick named William (by accident). Between Lucy's fascination with witchcraft and Marwick being an actual witch after Aunt Zelda dies, I imagine she leans on their friendship to get scrying from Marwick all the time. Anyway, she definitely asked Marwick to scry her pregnancy, and then straight-up asked Marwick what name she was going to choose for the baby. And Marwick just stared at her in uncomfortable silence for several seconds, trying to figure out the people-words for "that's the stupidest circular-logic question I've ever heard." But then Lucy blurted out "is it William?" and Marwick immediately went "Yep." It got him out of the conversation, and that was that.
Simon regularly checks in on Merrin. To be clear, the visits are awkward as hell — the tea is terrible, the conversation is nearly nonexistent, and the fact that Merrin insists on Simon calling him "Septimus" is just downright confusing. But Simon also figures that someone has to do it, and him being at least 15% responsible for Merrin being in this position means that he should probably step up because DomDaniel certainly won't. Plus, I don't love Merrin's mother being given custody of the kid she chose to sacrifice for her own gain, so I like the idea of Simon as a sort of guard rail on the situation. Because torturing Simon with bad tea and worse conversation is no less than he deserves.
every once in a while O. Beetle Beetle comes out of some random trapdoor and takes a stroll through my brain. he doesn't say anything. he just whistles "how much is that weasel in the window" tunelessly. sometimes he sits down with a cup of that fizzy stuff Marcia doesn't like.
You know, one of the reasons reading the Septimus Heap series was important for me was because, for whatever reason, I had never before really realized that authors really could be alive. Like, obviously I knew they could in theory, but for some reason, I just assumed all the books I read had dead authors. They weren't, by the way. At the very least, I read plenty of Junie B Jones books while Barbara Park was alive.
So I'm just going along, reading all the Septimus Heap books when- oh! shock! I discovered the series wasn't complete yet! Fyre was yet to come out and Angie Sage was still working on it. Simply put, she wasn't dead and I had just learned of this fact.
It may not be a particularly fancy milestone, and it isn't the only reason that series is important to me (I also like it, first of all; Flyte was my favorite book for like five years), but I think it's interesting that I know all this stuff. It definitely made the importance I've placed on those books last longer, I think.
Anyway, it's not particularly amazing, but that's the experience I wanted to share.
Round 2 poll 15: Jenna Heap from Septimus Heap vs Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events
its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags