#Orion lake

[elizabysmal]

I’m about a third of the way though the third book in the scholomance series and I’ve been rotating these two at 350 degrees in my brain for two weeks

#el higgins #orion lake #the scholomance #hARTcore #wanna draw more but I gotta finish the got dam thing like!!! get me my fucking boy back!!!!!!!!! #scholomance

[hatepotion]

so i read a deadly education

#a deadly education #the scholomance #scholomance #el higgins #orion lake #my art

[kaetor]

You're already dead. But stay anyway

cried while reading the end of the golden enclaves so obviously I immediately got to drawing. everyone go read the scholomance series by naomi novik

#a deadly education #the golden enclaves #the scholomance #el higgins #orion lake #scholomance #naomi novik #pleasepleaseplease reblog this i spent so long on it and I Know its gonna get like 10 notes #cos paintings i spend time on always inexplicably get less notes than my shitty sketches & its for a book most ppl haven't read #k-art #cleb art

[izzenithal]

this is their whole dynamic and i love them for it

#the scholomance #naomi novik #orion lake #books #the last graduate #a deadly education #my art #fanart #I’m only on book 2 #so no spoilers please!!! #el higgins #galadriel higgins

[nepttunnee]

i just finished a deadly education and let me just say i adore el and orion. i love how they fall for each other but for the exact opposite reason of the way other ppl see them. el looks at loved for being a knightin shining armor who can do no wrong orion lake and goes. hes actually cringe and fail. i like that in a man. and orion lake looks at weapon of mass destruction knows multiple languages to roast you galadriel and goes shes actually kind of nice. she shares her food with me. i want to marry her i think. thinking abt them

#elrion #a deadly education #galadriel #orion lake #scholomance

[bleepabloopa]

two lonely kiddos

#the scholomance #fanart #a deadly education #the golden enclaves #el higgins #orion lake #ok I’m slowly coming up upon the end of scholo fanart drafts I’ve started #so don’t expect too much more :0

[emily-e-draws]

wip of the faves... at any given moment I am thinking about the scholomance trilogy

(preview from the latest batch of sketches going up on my patreon!)

#a deadly education #orion lake #galadriel higgins #naomi novik #scholomance #i've read this book several times but every other week i'm like wow i should read deadly education again i love that book #just barely finished the temeraire series and now i'm in the middle of a spinning silver reread lmao #naomi novik the chokehold you have on me...

[jadempress]

Imagine you're in school, fall in love, and get pregnant. He comes from wealth, so you think you and your baby are going to live a nice cushy life with your new man. Then he gets mauled by a bear. He's eaten right in front of you. You grieve for him. You go to his family, hoping they'll take you in, but they're awful and they want to harm your baby. So you end up raising her alone. It's tough being a single mother, but you do your best to love and protect her. She grows up and goes to school. The school is known for its bear attacks, but what can you do? It's a good school, and you can only protect her so much. Eventually your baby has to fend for herself. You can't help but worry though. The cell service is terrible but you manage to reach her and warn her to stay away from bears. She seems happy though, and even tells you she's made friends. Finally she graduates, and you're so happy she's safe. She brings her boyfriend home to meet you. It's the bear that ate your boyfriend.

Anyway, that's what happened to Gwen Higgins of the schomance series.

#the scholomance #naomi novik #a deadly education #the last graduate #the golden enclaves #galadriel higgins #el higgins #orion lake #elrion

[fullmetalfisting]

ok I'm rereading the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik and I'm at the part in the second book where Orion says, "Even my mom and dad, they always thought something was wrong with me....they always thought I was weird."

And I'm like. Can you imagine being a woman who gave herself a pseudo-abortion to create a child who was a ghastly, already-dead, always-hungry monster and then incubating him in your womb and raising him like a Normal Boy™ and then being like, "It's really weird that this nuclear weapon I made and impregnated myself with shows no interest in anything other than being a nuclear weapon. I should make him feel guilty about his lack of interest in this XBox I bought him."

#naomi novik #the scholomance #a deadly education #orion lake #the last graduate #golden enclaves #galadriel higgins #tw abortion

[lostinhewe]

She has such a way with words

*Orion’s hair gets fluffier*

#the scholomance #a deadly education #orion lake #galadriel higgins #naomi novik #violence is always the answer #feminine rage

[ao-ihinata]

El : Orion and I are not dating !!

Aadhya : Everyone who thought El and Orion were dating raise your hand

New York, London, Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai Zanzibar, Toronto and every other enclave kid, the losers, and Orion raising their hand :

El : Orion, put your hand down or so help me ...

#fyp #the scholomance #el higgins #orion lake #el and orion #a deadly education #the last graduate #the golden enclaves

[kazz-brekker]

el leading orion out of the scholomance in the golden enclaves is like a reverse orpheus and eurydice…you're bringing the one you love out of hell but you don't look back because their time in hell has turned them into something so horrifying you can't bring yourself to look at them…

#naomi novik did you do this on purpose!!! i must know! #pie says stuff #pie reads #the scholomance #the golden enclaves #galadriel higgins #orion lake

[ivy915]

I love this fanart!!🤩🤩🤩

Ladies and gents! Galadriel Higgins. I love her!! I am starting the third book- The golden enclaves!! I am really hoping Orion to be alive. I cried so hard when he died 🥺🥺🥺

#naomi novik #a deadly education #galadriel higgins #fanart #orion lake #the scholomance #el higgins #the golden enclaves #love them so much #this is perfect #i love her sm

[rotationalsymmetry]

Imagine being Orion in A Deadly Education.

People are mostly not that interesting to you. They don't like you so much as they like what you can do. Maybe at some point you tried to really connect with someone, and it didn't go that well, so you didn't keep trying. Fighting mals though? You're good at that. It makes sense to you, unlike most of the things people do. It's rewarding -- intrinsically rewarding -- and people seem to be happy that you're doing it? Because they don't like doing it but it benefits them. So, basically no downside.

And you go off to school and it's full of mals, and people think you're great because you fight the mals, and you ignore them as best you can when you're not fighting mals for them. (You're polite, your mother always wanted you to be polite and you don't want people to be mad at you. But you don't do anything beyond being polite.) And people seem to think you're doing a good thing. So. It's ok. It's good enough. The world makes sense, more or less. This is what you're for.

And one day you see a soul eater go under another student's door, and you destroy it like you always do. Except this person is mad at you. Which makes no sense. No one's ever been mad at you before, not for fighting mals. So apparently you did something wrong even though you only did what you always do which has always been right before. But you guess you should probably make it up to her? So when she says she needs to go to the shop at dinner you offer to go with her, why not?

Except somehow she's mad at you again. So you have to make it up to her even more now, you guess?

(You don't like it when people are mad at you, but you know what to do when people are mad at you. You Make It Up To Them, usually by doing whatever they tell you to or fighting a mal or both, and then they stop being mad at you. You prefer to understand why they are mad at you, but most of the time it makes no sense, and you know what to do when it makes no sense to you why someone is mad at you.)

So you guard her door while she fixes it. Which takes her a weirdly long time. You've just taken down several mimics, you're bursting with mana, you'd give her some if she asked. Mana has never been a scarce resource for you; on some level it hasn't really occurred to you that it could be a scarce resource for anyone else. People aren't that interesting to you, you don't think about them much, except when someone tells you to, like your mother making you do flash cards of other kids' names. But she doesn't ask, and she doesn't cheat either, she does things the long and hard way, which makes a third thing all coming from the same person that doesn't mesh with your pre-existing worldview. She's fascinating.

And then she pulls on your mana like it's nothing and she's even more fascinating. How did she do that? Is she a malificer? (Is that why she keeps being so mean to you, when nobody is ever mean to you?) What's going on?

And you've never voluntarily fought alongside anyone else before, but she's good to fight with. She's annoying, but she does also point out things you missed or didn't know.

And she stands up for you, in a way that nobody has ever stood up for you before. She's not nice. She's the opposite of nice. But it's starting to dawn on you that being nice is not the same as something else that seems like it should go with being nice. And if El is not nice to you but is that other thing, maybe some other people who are nice to you are...not that other thing to you?

It's a lot to think about.

Anyways. You like her. You're not very interested in people. But you are interested in El.

And then you have the best day of your life, when you've gotten to take on more mals and scarier mals than you've ever taken on before, and you did it and you were good at it, and you kind of didn't want to leave but you were supposed to leave because that was how the Mission worked, and then you were about to die because you missed the bell and the cleansing fires had started and there was nowhere to go, but at least you were going to die next to El.

But she didn't think she was going to die, and she cast a wall of mortal flame (who does that?) and it worked as a firebreak and you didn't die and no one had ever saved you before. That wasn't how the world worked. Who was this person who kept breaking the rules of how the world worked like they didn't even apply to her?

(And then you look around and she isn't there and you kissed her earlier when you thought you were both going to die, and she, uh, didn't react well and oh no, what if you've ruined everything what if you like her but she doesn't like you like that what if she won't want to be around you any more? What if the one interesting person in the entire world doesn't think you are interesting?) (it'd be ok, right? It was ok before.) (it wouldn't be ok. So maybe it wasn't ok before either.)

#a deadly education #the scholomance #Orion lake #a deadly education spoilers #the scholomance spoilers #they are two dorks who are utterly incapable of normal human interactions and I love them #the mortal flame was not the first time el saved Orion's ass #it was maybe the third #freezing the grogler and making sure he didn't go down to the graduation hall alone #at least #oh I just realized at the start of the book el said it would be ok if Orion #saved her life a ludicrously high number of times like 13 #and at the end Orion says his count is 13 #so I guess el got what she wanted there in a weird way?

[byooregard]

very important to me that even after the whole endless pit of hunger & torture of 400 dead children situation gets solved orion is still deeply strange and off-putting like the mix of not being constantly endlessly starving and also no longer being 17 allows him to find more interests but his interests are things like "waterfalls" and "fire, in general". he doesn't listen to music cos it's all just noise to him but he does love the general concept of noise. he likes going to baseball games not because he understands a single thing about the concept of sports or baseball but because he likes the sound and the energy of being in a crowd of thousands of people & also the snacks are good

#the scholomance #orion lake #cleb talky #the golden enclaves

[irrelevant-pseudonym]

Okay but if the Deadly Education movie does get made, it needs:

all the characters to be dressed in ragged gross overworn clothes. their shirts have holes and stains and their oversized drawstring pants have sloppily sewn extensions and patches

Make these kids look like Disney channel kids surviving a 90's zombie apocalypse

maybe it's just El's unreliable narration + denial about feelings for Orion, but please do not cast an airbrushed heartthrob

Orion is weird and needs a haircut and has a beaky nose, please let him look like a normal person

I would take it as a personal favor if El is permitted to snark via constant voiceover narration

Particularly if her narration directly contradicts what she's doing

'I was too busy with homework to think or do anything else' *staring across the cafeteria at Orion*

Plenty of scenes of El, Aadhya, and Liu hanging out!

Please let El call Orion an absolute aardvark on screen

#the scholomance #a deadly education #the last graduate #the golden enclaves #el higgins #orion lake #naomi novik