lastflowerofyourhouse:
harrow the ninth is really like. what if orpheus didn’t turn around. what if he wasn’t going to turn around. what if he kept his face pointed resolutely ahead and trusted that she was there even not knowing what he was hoping for. what if orpheus had to be cajoled and threatened and eventually forced to turn around. what if eurydice hadn’t been told the rules and also had a crippling fear of abandonment and spent the whole time pleading with him to look at her. what if orpheus trusted that she would follow him but eurydice couldn’t trust that he would care. what if orpheus was told point-blank that eurydice was almost certainly not actually behind him and he chose to keep walking anyway. what if eurydice touched sunlight again and orpheus wasn’t there. what then.
why-is-it-always-autumn:
Sometimes you read/watch a thing, and a character will remind you of another character in something else, with enough notable differences that you’re not sure whether they’d be best friends or hate each other’s guts, but you could probably write a whole comparative essay about them and how their differences reflect on the larger narratives they belong to, but you don’t have any friends who are into/caught up on both of those stories, so you’re just Revolving Them Around Each Other
An incomplete list of characters I want to pair off, lock in a room together, and just Observe:
- Michael from Supernatural and Gabriel from Good Omens
- Shaffa from the Broken Earth Trilogy and Marsh from Mistborn
- Murderbot (The Murderbot Diaries) and Breq (Imperial Radch Trilogy)
- Anna Harley (sonnetstuck’s version of Dirk Strider’s version of Pony Pals: Detective Pony) and MSPA Reader (Pesterquest)
- GLaDOS (Portal) and Hal 9000 (2001 A Space Odyssey)
- Jon (the Magnus Archives), John (The Locked Tomb), and John (The Adventure Zone)