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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Moroccan architecture (specifically, amazigh from Chefchaouen)

Post-colonial Algerian architecture (Algiers and Constantine):

Mozabite architecture (from Ghardaia, Algeria):

*walks out of the homoerotic friendship covered in blood and wounds* you should see the other guy

*regular guy walks out, completely unaware anything is happening*

saying "acknowledge racism in the things you like" will have people saying things

Ik people want flashbacks, we all do. But yo the flashbacks I wanna see???? I wanna see these people as kids, I wanna see their childhood. Especially Monty and morella’s

Nevermore Ch 120 spoilers..

Well that was some chapter...

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If a guy saw another guy die in front of his eyes right after he had suddenly kissed him and while he was dealing with the grief and shock and confusion of what just happened a perfect copy of the other guy popped up like nothing happened while the previous guy melted. Would that be fucked up or what?

hear me out, theory time:

so, both of the Wills were technically "real" it's just which one of them has the current version of him in there. i think when he died he may have switched, this would make the most sense. less a bunch of copies and more a ton of puppets with their conductor.

i think that therefore, this Will knows about the kiss, what happened beneath the stairs and Montressor's reaction. so why didn't he act like it?

1. plot, i'm assuming that things would be very different for willtressor's relationship if the will that had just died came back exactly as he was. they would talk and panic and Montressor would get to be like "WHAT THE FUCK" and they would have to explain Will's powers [i'm assuming it isn't right for us to know that yet though] and Will would have to deal with the consequences of kissing him and it would be a whole thing. we don't have time for that, and i'm guessing there is other points we need to hit before any of this gets sorted.

2. the main reason though, is the consequences of his actions and repression. Will and Montressor both lived and died in times that were fucking terrible for gay people. Montressor has probably never even considered it, but this post isn't about him. Will grew up forgotten, being seen as 'pathetic' and just another kid running the shop. he probably spent years repressing and hiding any urges he ever had towards other boys. the kiss with Monty was the first time will kissed a boy, we know that from both in-comic and historical context. Perhaps even the first time he's kissed anybody in a romantic way. and following Montressor's reaction of "ew. what the fuck?" he probably felt glad that at least he had done it, and now he knew what it was like and that Monty didn't like him in that way. when he came back, my theory is that he remembered that, and panicked. so to save himself from having to talk about it and open the floodgates on however many years of repression [idk his age] he just pretended he knew nothing, he didn't know he'd just kissed Montressor and had just stumbled across the scene. therefore, he wouldn't have to talk about the clones or the kiss.

this is just my theory and if anyone has anything to add feel free!

NEVER HAVE I DRAWN FANART SO FAST ever since I read the episode this morning I knew I wanted to redraw that scene cause omg ??? half dead will just holding onto monty and kissing him like it's his dying wish, you can tell he's using all his courage to do that, also the way monty is so surprised - i just wonder what he's thinking, if he's thinking anything.

Anyways yes here's my little fanart of the whole thing I nearly gave up on it halfway but I'm actually pleased with the result ?? I added some extra blood cause idk i wanted to. And the little quote because it just summarizes the whole thing perfectly, will is doing that because he has to know, and before it's too late.

Also I don't think this will is a clone, I'm thinking he might be able to share/transfer his conscience to his clones so that they're all him or something like that. I might change a few things on this drawing and repost the final version later but for now here it is

Will but make it horror (in honor of ch 120)

(Cw: disturbing imagery)

Still pictures below^^

I’ve figured it out guys Will is actually a blob (Physarum polycephalum)

Alright so you might be wondering what Will has in common with this acellular slime mold, and the answer is.. a lot of things, suprinsigly.

1) they can both clone themselves

2) they can both find their way though a maze

3) They can both appear gluey

4) They can both “come back to life”

5) Blobs can wrap their “veins” around food, Will can wrap his ribbons around people (entanglement)

6) Monty subconsciously comparing Will to a dog, not understanding wtf Will actually is and perhaps growing to like him is very typical behavior for someone who meets a blob/slime mold

Now could someone check if Will can find the shortest way to a source of food 😔🤚

(Idk where this post came from, I was thinking about clones, then about Will, then about how in school a few years ago they made us cut blobs into pieces and the pieces became creatures themselves)

WIP ‼️ the kiss 🫡 (totally normal and cute kiss that did not escalate into psychological horror trust me <3)

Yeah, okay Willtressor kiss, please go wild.

BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS FROM. MONTY’S PoV??

Your only friend (arguable) in this school dies in your arms, you literally check to see if he’s stopped breathing and toss his corpse to the side, and then you hear his voice again?

That is not the face of a man who is glad to see someone again!

THIS BOY IS TRAUMATIZED!

He doesn’t even know if that’s even really Will or if the person who just kissed him was Will! Monty’s brain is probably short circuiting, questioning if anything is real.

Will, why do you bring so much nightmare fuel to Nevermore. Like, Will. Of all people, WILL is the one pulling the freakiest moves out.

Montresor (and Willtresor) is the Bad Ending of the White Raven IV: the saga continues

Okay, now that these chapters have been released I can talk about this issue. I must say that this twist has been just the way I like twists: no, the surprising thing is not that it happened, but that, when you look back, it not only makes sense, it also recontextualizes some little things that stick around.

A person who is not there

There's one thing that's cross-cutting to these four idiots: they're absolutely desperate for someone to look at them. And when you think about it, it kind of makes sense: Lenore has lost the one person who seemed to even slightly care about her and locked up like an animal, Annabel is a hypocrite so terrified of being perceived as crazy that she's a breath away from collapse, Will is the kind of guy who blends in with the walls to such an extent that hardly anyone remembers his face, and Montresor has been seen as an devil since fucking birth.

However, the fine line that separates the Annabel/Will and Lenore/Montresor duo is drawn into something quite complicated: who are on the edge of the abyss and who can't fall any lower.

Both Montresor and Lenore, for different reasons, are trapped in inescapable situations: Montresor will never be anything more than a shit-talking charlatan in anyone's eyes and Lenore will die before she shakes off the label of a madwoman.

Then, they come along. These two people who have not only been able to look them in the eye, they are also people in whom they can see themselves reflected: a weak pushover who can't fend for himself and a lady who is one mental health slip away from being put in a straitjacket.

They have been that person. And their desperate cries for help have never been answered.

But this time may be different. If Lenore and Montresor can save Annabel and Will, in a way, they are also saving themselves. A 50/50 between a selfless motivation and a huge reassertion of one's own ego.

Which leads to the first difference.

Where Lenore offers Annabel a deal on equal terms, a “you and me against the world, baby”; Montresor has with Will a relationship based on subordination: it is he who must take care of Will and, thus, Will is beneath him.

What Annabel and Will understand from the arrangements of this deal are two very different things: where Annabel must live up to the extraordinary person that Lenore is in order to accompany her on equal terms, Will must make sure that he is a weak individual that Montresor can take care of and mistreat in order to feel superior when necessary.

This is not a problem for either of them because there is one little thing that Annabel and Will are able to mold as if it were plasticine: their identity.

Fragmented identities

These scenes have exactly the same purpose.

And I absolutely love them for that.

But let's take them one at a time.

Both Annabel and Will are two invisible people who at least feel like they've been saved by their favorite person. Lenore is Annabel's knight in shining armor and Montresor is the bad boy capable of moving forward despite everything that Will longs for.

They love them. And they need them.

Because Annabel is just a pretty accessory incapable of thinking outside the golden cage she's lived in all her life. And Will is incapable of thinking for himself because he doesn't want to deal with the responsibility of doing so.

So they build this perfect mask to please their special people. A carefully chiseled mask tailored to be loved based on what they believe their special person wants from them.

In both scenes, Annabel and Will have their world fall apart as they realize that the mask they have created for their loved one is not only unwanted, but viewed with disgust and contempt. So the mask slips for an instant to reveal what lies beneath only for their special people. But to very different ends and consequences.

Annabel drops her self-imposed role as unbeatable queen, begins to cry her eyes out, has a panic attack and even -to Lenore's surprise and horror- comes to doubt that she is loved. She is far from living up to the role she should have: she is scared, lonely and, from her reaction, probably doesn't even want to do this.

Of course, Lenore swoops in to comfort her because her beloved damsel in distress is in a vulnerable moment. But all it takes is for Lenore to suggest that Annabel can approach other people for the unbeatable queen to come back: even pushing her to the limit hasn't gotten her to get what's really going on out of her. And after Annabel would rather have Duke and Pluto throw her off a balcony than allow Lenore to reveal herself as a traitor to her friends, it is definite that Lenore has lost this battle: she has already exhausted all her options which have ranged from pleading, to loving words and, in this scene, to verbal violence. The unbeatable queen is in a place where she can't reach her and any future attempts will only succeed in putting the two of them in a more complicated situation.

On the other hand, Will has a small moment of vulnerability with Montresor, giving her this little speech that works as a confession: this confusion about whether he wants him or wants to be him is, as I read in some places, a fairly common situation among gay men. Before he dies, he ends up stealing Montresor a kiss.

But all this has been nothing more than to see his reaction. Because Will is not dead. Not at all.

Although he's put his feelings on the table, he doesn't seem to expect Montresor to return his affection. Just knowing that he cares seems to be enough for the moment, because he plays dumb after it all happens. But Will's made it pretty clear that he is capable of an enormous level of manipulation and that he works with a subtlety that even Annabel couldn't dream of.

Now that they've gotten a peek at what's beneath the masks, Lenore and Montresor find themselves trapped with monsters of their own creation that they are unable to comprehend: Lenore can't even fathom why Annabel continues to do this despite how much she's suffering and Montresor doesn't even know what Will's intentions really are.

Kind of deliciously ironic because didn't Lenore want her partner in crime? Didn't Montresor want his little mutt to fight a little?

Weren't they the ones who wanted to be their number one?

And, as the icing on the cake, they are alone in this, because the monsters they have created only let them get close. Everyone else in the world has been fooled by Annabel and Will's perfect masks, so if they wanted to (or even could) tell anyone about this absolutely no one would believe them.

Even if Lenore wanted to convince her friends that Annabel isn't a homicidal maniac, it's virtually impossible for them to believe her after what happened with Duke. And Montresor can't even begin to explain what Will did.

Love and control

Here I need to stir up the duos a bit.

Montresor and Annabel are not only blonde charlatans with parental problems, they have also learned to relate to the world in terms of control: they protect themselves by moving others around like pieces to get them to do what they want (at least in Nevermore, Annabel in life would not have been able to do these things as far as we know).

Where Annabel puts herself at the center of the board as a queen, Montresor is all about pissing off everyone around him because that's the only way he feels seen.

But they are not the ones with the upper hand in their relationship.

Will and Lenore have demonstrated by actions -we can't be sure in Lenore's case it's a conscious thing- that they are capable of giving all the affection, security, and loyalty if they get what they want from Montresor and Annabel.

It's hard to know what Will wants from Montresor at this point, but he seems quite content for his bad boy to remain his bad boy who has something resembling a soft side to him. In Lenore's case, this waltz between having doki dokis every time Annabel exists around her and being absolutely furious seems to be tied up in her desire to have Annabel by her side: when Annabel plays queen and walks away, pushing Lenore away from whatever is going on; she immediately becomes wary or, at worst, aggressive; but is caring and responsive when Annabel shows a vulnerable side.

This ends up generating a funny situation where the relationship between Montresor and Will is more functional than Lenore and Annabel's because there is one side subordinate to the other: Will has Montresor by the balls, but lets himself be mistreated; while Annabel refuses to put Lenore's desires above the danger they are both in (and even refuses to tell her what the fuck is going on).

Conclusions

Okay, I have to admit that I have been a bit dramatic in some parts of this essay and I have to rectify that so that you are not left with the wrong idea.

The first (and most obvious) thing is that it looks like Annabel is going to get to have honest relationships beyond Lenore. Of course, her friendship with Ada and Prospero can't really begin until the “allies till battle royale do them part” deal is dissolved and she's confronted for putting them both in a sticky situation. That yes, they signed up to be allies of the Machiavellian mastermind, but to Caesar what is Caesar's: no real friendship will form here until those bumps are crossed.

And speaking of Annabel, if there's one person who has a microscopic chance of believing Montresor the fucked up shit Will has done, it's possibly Annabel. My only argument is this:

Like, she doesn't say Will is harmless, she says isolation makes him pliable. And although she is underestimating him and not knows Will is a threat, but maybe she'd be willing to think Montresor isn't crazy if she finds out what happened.

Another point is the conclusion she ended up coming to in all these trials: the line that separates things is drawn on who has their heart in the right place and who doesn't. So, where Montresor is terrified of Will while Will holds a threat over Montresor's head, neither Lenore nor Annabel is afraid that the other might hurt them. And while we don't know what Lenore's feelings are about how she's been treating Annabel in some respects (this for the date I've uploaded this essay), if her face in this scene and the little spoiler that was uploaded to tumblr tell us one thing: It's that the answer is probably guilt. Let's see what comes out of that.

Finally, there's one not too nice thing I'd like to say about when I saw spoilers from the fast pass. Okay, I know this comic is moving at a snail's pace and that while it's been a few days for the characters, this chapter came out like fifty weeks ago. But people, with all my love: I want you to see the difference between Ada and Will's reactions in this scene. Ada is obviously uncomfortable and guilty; while Will has an “upsi” face.

And when Lenore confronts him, Will has the face to complaining that he is scared. He at no point in this confrontation shows a single shred of real remorse.

I know there are people who have been through abusive relationships who have identified with Will and I don't mean to go on to bring that up. But what these scenes raised at the time is that there is something off about this guy, something that should give you a bad feeling because his behavior doesn't fit that of a person who has been forced to do something terrible.

Another thing I've seen someone point out at the time is that Will feels different in his character presentation and has been getting more pathetic as we see him more screen time. We now know that he has been learning how to behave.

Add to that that his reaction is the only one we don't see when it's revealed that there's only a second life available and we only see it when Montresor shakes him. But he doesn't seem particularly affected beyond the chaos that's going on around him.

All these little things keep telling you that there's something wrong with Will. And what Chapter 120 does, is show you what the thing that didn't add up was: what we've been seeing so far is a mask worn by a much more twisted individual and, now that we know that, we can start to figure out who he is and what he really wants.

This, people, is William Willson in all his glory. And Will turns out not to be the protagonist, but the doppelganger tormenting him. I don't remember who said that theory, but: you were absolutely right.

Anyway, this has gotten long. Thank you very much for making it this far.