Jedao has??? castmates???? wild

I would love a cheris so much. he would have so many messy feelings. hakkai hate her. it'd be a mess

idk that there's anyone else that's appable + wouldn't totally ruin him (kujen is appable but i don't think Jedao could handle it)

Skye wants Gemma but I don't think Gemma is appable

nobody else in her movie is, really, it's so tight in her head

would be really interesting for her to meet Rose or Joel although idk that she'd open up to them necessarily

Kahl doesn't want to see anybody from his stupid universe :|

Sieh would be fascinating but would probably destroy his ability to graduate

as far as he knows, he at least did kill Sieh

and that's the only reason he can reconcile himself with not having destroyed the world

Hado would be interesting though

Yeine, I don't know

Me - god I want to play this bitter spidercreature from Spiderlight

Nth you are so valid

the creepiest looking warden in a LONG time

also Heno still lives rent free in my head

a high-powered Orc Wizard from a classic high fantasy who has absolutely murdered and tortured hundreds of people but didn't like his own people being slaves and betrayed the dark lord at the last minute, leading directly to his downfall

he'd be such a grenade of a warden

7ft tall with tusks and ritual scarrification, considered a delicate nerd by his own people

cynical as hell but with a soft spot for pure heroes that aren't too high on their own righteousness

but also like, fuck all y'all Forces of Light

you had to deal with the Dark Lord for what, 5-10 years? and not for generations from the earliest inception of your kind

Dillon wants to come back

... which high fantasy is he from?

HE IS FROM Redemption's Blade by Adrian Tchaikovsky

he's got a mustache

orc of all time

okay because my brain was immediately going to Order Of the Stick and I was like "are you making a joke?" XD

(there is an orc wizard much like this in that webcomic, but I couldn't remember his name)

OotS and Tchaikovksy are definitely riffing on some of the same tropes

Dillon would be fabulous. extremely casual twentysomething who rivals John in power but is like. the opposite

anti-entropy

has absolutely been through the ringer and is trying so hard not to run the world but also not let the world explode now that it has hundreds of millions of superpowered babies post-canon and he and his 5 soulmates are the only "adults" with powers

the barge is vacation to him

Hakkai would not like Cheris but it would be complicated because I suspect he'd realize she's the kind of person he would normally like a lot

Dillon was so good <3

Jedao: look she only shot me the second time because I goaded her into it on purpose

Hakkai: ....honey

honestly he's more likely to forgive a straightforward murder attempt or two than imprisonment & manipulation

I suppose it depends on how much she, like, is willing to accept that his initial deliberately provocative self-loathing confession to her was actually wildly inaccurate vs how much the jedao self-loathing in HER head keeps her thinking the worst of him

and also whether she's post-glass canon

LASTLY Lucifer from the vertigo comics

prooobably as an inmate from the Watters run in Sandman Universe in spite of the fucking gaiman of it all because Watters is still a whole different writer, and the Watters run has a meaningful inmate arc into my best-beloved version of the Carey run

it'd just be really funny for him to show up

between John and Zerxus and Oscar

just the regular christian devil is here now

he plays the piano

he's in a homoerotic murderhunt situationship with the ghost of Achilles

he's got no dick

he looks like david bowie

and also he's got a very convenient death point at the end of Wild Hunt

just The Devil, From Hell

hello ladies

i love this motherfucker guys

it would in fact be hilarious and tbh, as much as I'm pissed at Gaiman... the Sandman comics are still a favorite of mine

so little of 'my' lucifer is gaiman proper, too, it's all Watters and Carey

I read the Lucifer comics before Sandman somehow and I still love them best

I keep telling myself I should check them out and then not getting around to it. One of these days...

they're so fucking good, kira

and extremely your shit in particular tbh

everything I've heard about them makes me think that's very true!!

as someone who now owns the omnibuses, and it is entirely isabelle's fault: yeah do it

yessss app in the morningstar!

I can't really do more than 3, it is known

but perhaps after Skye graduates ouo

the problem is how reasonable and mature lucifer looks next so so many other devils

he can coast on that forever

lucifer: might be the all-time daddy issues champion, but at least he's not fucking needy about it

can talk to his brothers without turning himself completely inside out

literally untouched by the sunk cost fallacy, which is probably his greatest point of comparison

'yeah I've been doing this for 13.8 billion years but i've decided i'm bored and it sucks. i'm OUT'

HIT DA BRICKS

zerxus: can you teach courses on this

(for other people. not him)

maybe also for him

it's not a fallacy when he does it, for reasons

if you can't figure it out yourself why should i

stay if you want to stay. he's not your god

imagining asmodeus and lucifer onboard at the same time

everyone else: look two devils

Asmodeus and Lucifer: WHO IS THAT OTHER DOG

Asmodeus: he's not EVEN a GOD we are NOT THE SAME

Lucifer: he's like a bad parody, gross

AND he's got god cooties

but also truly like. the stupid skirmishes are just a buffer because their fundamental philosophical underpinnings are so diametrically opposite

utterly

tyranny and control vs absolute nietschean free will libertarian bastardy

(avandra would love him)

(going against certain other principles of hers < pissing off asmodeus this much)

drives them both up the WALL that everyone keeps putting them in the same box

two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT flavours of bastard!!!

Lucifer: he's literally more like Yahweh than me. fuck off!!!

everyone else: the box is labeled 'selfish' and you can step out at any time if you don't like your company

also the fact that he's the lamplighter the morningstar the first fire

to asmodeus's eyes he's a horrible twisted combination of avandra and pelor

taking into account that other people exist: a lesson they have both avoided learning for thousands of years

honestly getting to thumb his nose at asmodeus would be great for lucifer probably

"hmm well at least I'm having fun with it"

"at least i didn't murder michael"

"have you tried"

(asmodeus very much does not want to say yes OR no, because yes is embarrassing for failing and no is embarrassing for admitting he still cares - fuck!)

update: i have never felt so defensive of a spider in my goddamn life

RIGHT

y'all came in and ruined HIS life and now you're giving HIM shit about it!!!

(definitely cackled at "i see no potential downsides". most wizard to ever wizard)

i'm only around 20 percent through but man, it really skewers the worst aspects of tolkien-flavoured fantasy very elegantly

right? omg

dion, my girl,,,

she is having a time

dion meeting the head of the church and realising he questions himself just as much and doesn't actually have any answers for her

(and the subtle but INTENSE hilarity of them going "oh the prophecy doesn't like, specify who it is. but it's definitely you, obviously"

WOOPS

also, zerxus desperately wants to dump harathes into a freezing lake

please keep liveblogging I am enjoying immensely

I'm only not saying much bc i don't want to spoil you :3

<333 i'm dipping between reading and tagging around, at last check lief was Absolutely Not Going To Get Himself Killed

rogue being the biggest sweetheart: always a welcome curveball

you've heard of elf on the shelf

get ready for your new favorite human, lief the thief

much better tbh

GODDAMMIT LIEF I WAS JOKING

he had to try!!!

and poor nth couldn't do anything about it :c

(except after the fact. for a second. COME ON DION BE LESS RIGHTEOUS FOR FIVE MINUTES)

and now the poor guy's stuck with cyrene u.u girl i know you're dealing with a lot -

LET HIM POP THAT HEAD OFF

"it was lief's nod, she realised, that the creature had somehow come to adopt" oh no cute

"its shoulders sagged, forlorn" stilling calling him 'it' but recognising emotion in his body language I SEE YOU CYRENE

lief gave him beer ;;

oh. oh dang, dion

against her will she is having character development

man i deeply appreciate that there isn't just, a lazy flip of black and white. the church is deeply flawed and there are plenty of corrupt or misguided or ignorant people - but the potentate really is Trying His Best

(it's also v funny that harathes was always just Like That. no one likes this man)

LIEF IS OKAY

update lief is extremely bummed

cyrene!!

WHAT SHE DOIN

promising nth she'll speak up for him and get him back home

and she's officially switched to 'him'

AND: i'm in love with Estellan the Fair

she's so good!!!!

that's the leader at Cad Nereg right?

YEAH

oooooh my god

"ah, so she and lief - "

"oh"

"oh i see,"

oh damn and it IS directly addressing the "we can order him to do things" issue. cyrene herself headon addressing it

meanwhile, Nth's concerns -

SPIDER SEX IS INDEED WORSE

man between All That and this spider cave he sure is having a time

the spider cave

and now we're at the castle post Yet More Killing and he is REALLY reading them for filth

I know what it means

And then he got to take it all out on the bastard who wrote the prophecies, bless

THAT WAS VERY GOOD

RIGHT!!! i'm

"i want to go home" killed me

:c sorry buddy

(....last unicorn crossover when)

THE INFLUENCE IS THERE

I should read that again

I re-read it as an adult and was just bowled over by how beautiful the writing is, which I did NOT notice at 11

i'd only watched the movie as a kid, and reading the book blew me away (the movie is VERY GOOD but! damn!!)

amalthea's POV chapters 🤝 nth's pov chapters

Peter Beagle adapted it to script himself, which helped