Vicious Ve Schwab - Blog Posts
been in college one week, where is victor vale at
I want to read more books like the secret history & vicious in terms of writing, any recs?????
Same, i did not enjoy Vengeful in the same degree i did Vicious. Marcella and June had great backstories, but their use in the story felt weak. I would have ADORED to see much more Evervale flashbacks and an actual conversation. If they'd imprisioned both at some point and they'd bonded over that once again like in the old times I would have definitely lost my mind. The developement from that would have been insane. And, maybe unpopular opinion, but death trope was such a good option for BOTH Eli and Victor. Just for the symbolism of it. It would have been brilliant.
god, maybe I do need to reread vengeful
I just do not like the marcella and june chapters lol. marcella’s girlbossing and june’s… whatever she does… isn’t as good as the toxic evervale obsession plotline. NOTHING will ever be as compelling as that. it is the foundation of the whole series and there wasn’t enough of it in vengeful!
honestly I think I just need to annotate the book so I can find all the good parts more easily. because there are some lines that make me go insane
One of my favorite moments from Vengeful that is not talked about enough.
(Vengeful page 494)
(This is inspired by this edit: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1XWjrMNmdZ/?igsh=NnA3NWl4ampydzg2 )
Ran to draw them as soon as V.E.Schwab posted that story.
Bonus because Eli deserves to be a silly guy.
I think it's worth observing that Eli as a character had an established backstory and principles even before Victor while Victor's whole character and narrative predominantly revolves around Eli and going against him. Even during Lockland, he found a way to make himself the main focus of Eli's project, twist his thesis into their thesis. He forced himself onto Eli's narrative, made himself the main focus. While Eli's 'kill all EOs because they are an affront to God' was because of what he experienced with Victor and their falling out, he was still more independent a character in terms of purpose. And then there's Victor on the other hand whose whole purpose in the first book was to kill Eli. It's so fascinating and is also incredibly funny considering Victor is the main character.
Lockland evervale makes me go crazy
He's so extra
Other versions and a bit of rambling under the cut
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I've been finding it so damn hard to draw Victor which is mainly why I draw more Eli than Victor. I think it's because I've got this image of him in my head which is hard to translate to paper. Blonds am I right?
"You'd let me die. Wouldn't You?"
Religious trauma, am I right?