Jishi, once he finally wears MaoMao down into marrying him: I’m gonna take things real slow to not rush MaoMao and allow her to become comfortable before we take the next step in any form of intimacy.
MaoMao: I know more than you.
Everyone in Orario: “You can’t associate with people of other familias, let alone be friends! That just isn’t how familias work, you’re going to start wars!”
*Bell, 14 years old and a oblivious dumbass, grabbing Lilli, Welf, Mikoto and Sanjono* “I’m going to make these people part of my familia now try and stop me :)))))”
There is genuinely nothing funnier than Brennan trying to make an evil campaign, only for the whole plot be derailed by democratic revolution, the progression of eagle rights, mental health movements and the Power of Friendship (particularly between Maggie and Leiland, who would have hated each other in any other narrative). Escape from Bloodkeep was wholesome in a way Fantasy High never was, because the Villains were high-functioning adults who only wanted the best for their land, while the Bad Kids indiscriminately killed and stole from everyone (extra points for the fact they cut off hands and ate people, whereas the Villains only ever seemed to push people off tall heights). Poor Brennan. He never wins.
Hey so this might be the late night and caffeine talking but here goes the crazy conspiracy train. Buckle up y’all. So we know that prior to the rise of Molly, his bastard og form was making a deal with a “magic woman” that may or may not have had something to do with his death. Crazy thought, but what if the woman that Lucien was making a deal with is the same woman that resurrected Nott??? Like both of them were resurrected by a “mysterious magic woman” but with major complications? Or I guess Lucien losing his memory was a complication that may have been due to it being one of the first times this experiment was done. Later on, Nott’s transformation was maybe an experiment to see if memories could be retained even if the body was altered. And this could be a reach, but what if these experiments had ties to Lucien’s desire to gain immortality, and that could potentially be done by getting new bodies every time you die?? Or changing to a long-lived race?? Or a more powerful one? We know dunamancy had to do with entropy and time, this could be the Empire’s bastardisation of the Xhorhasian concept of “birth” that comes from the beacons, and a means of gaining soldiers that can perhaps never be killed??