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I understand why this is the case, to be clear, because what we see of his character is extremely limited, but I find that so much fanon characterization of Colum Asht relies on the presumption that he's a normal person. Specifically, that he's a normal person who could be rehabilitated by people treating him normally.

In context, this is generally true, because he exists primarily in relation to an obsessive religious zealot whose external socialization consists primarily of telling people about themselves with zero regard for whether that's a normal or decent thing to do in context. Because we see Colum, with very few exceptions, constantly attached to Silas throughout GTN, he looks significantly more like a regular person who's sort of being forced to drag around a purse dog who bites. I believe no one has ever deserved to step outside for a cigarette and stare at nothing more than Colum; again, I understand where the characterization comes from. I do however think it's wrong. This post is very long. Sorry or whatever.

#colum asht#silas octakiseron#[should she light it on camera voice] should she put it in the main tag?#the locked tomb
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I wish Colum Asht could have talked to Magnus and Abigail. I feel like that would have helped him. Or even Silas. Even the Templars can’t avoid being adopted by them if they had a conversation with the Fifth

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I love your optimism, OP.

Because I fear a conversation between these four is Colum shooting apologetic glances at his fellow 30-somethings while Silas earnestly explains to a bemused Abigail that her marriage is disordered and unjodly, before Magnus makes their polite excuses to avoid Abigail and Silas having an argument about the authority of the Koniortos Synod of 4378 or something.

#opens mouth. sees hannah has already responded. closes mouth
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Anyone else jazzed as hell that an annoying sixteen-year-old boy in their area appears to have taken his own life

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Fanon Magnus: wants to adopt every teenager, made of sunshine, baked you some cookies.

Canon Magnus: I'm glad that teenager killed himself. He was awful and people should have hit him more. Harrow, for someone so smart you are being really dumb right now. I'm gonna go punch a ghost.

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My favorite part of this exchange is that Magnus, having been dead at the time and apparently quite far from his body, did not witness Protesilaus' corpse knocking Silas flat-out unconscious in real life. Protesilaus wasn't there to see it either!

Magnus, completely off the dome, unprompted, and uninformed by real-world events, talking about a malnourished teenage boy in dire need of a serious attitude adjustment: I think the biggest guy here should've punched that guy's lights out

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man… the broadcast scene in Nona is really something

It really drives home the perspective flip we get in Nona, having grown accustomed to necromantic hijinks in previous books. We've gone from domestic drama with God's polycule to being one of nine million normal people stranded on a decaying colony planet, where all we know of necros is that they're terrifying wizards.

And then you go to the civic centre for a broadcast from the Empire telling you what's gonna happen to your planet, and you get:

  • a dead guy with fashion hair
  • next to another dead corpse who doesn't speak, doesn't seem to breathe, and is just propped up there
  • we're informed that dead girl is the Emperor's daughter??
  • β€œthere will be no widespread retaliation against the population, and you will even get to have elections! … unless a single one of you tries to fight, in which case the entire population will be considered a unified legal entity. and by the way, pleas will not be answered by local representatives but by the Emperor. welp”
  • the first obviously dead person announced themselves as a new lyctor
  • we're informed that Ur tried to rebel too and they've been annihilated
  • (meanwhile, the people in charge of the broadcast keep having frankly stupid technical difficulties)

So… yeah, they are wizards and zombies and evil, and also somewhat incompetent.

(Also… I know Ianthe is all about β€œapplying the boot”, but I'm also convinced she could never rule through charm. She completely lacks the ability her sister or Jod have.)

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