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do you ever think about the tragedy of falcio val mond respecting his loved ones' wishes no matter what, only to feel like the end result of that is losing said people. bc I think about that a lot
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The Greatcoats x Guide To Troubled Birds
Falcio:
Kest:
Brasti:
Valiana:
Ethalia:
Aline:
Darriana:
Trin:
Paelis:
The Tailor:
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Aggressively Arospec Week!
Aggressively Arospec -
Kest Murrowson, The Greatcoats Series by Sebastien de Castell - Demiromantic Ace, at least in my mind :)
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Sometimes I think about how Falcio perceived the Magdan before he even knew it was Morn. He wasnāt necessarily wrong in assuming the Magdan wasnāt from Tristia - thatās fair, Iāll give him that
But like he really saw the biggest motherfucker in the ring and was like āoh yeah, itās that one. Thatās the chiefā as though he hasnāt been having his ass deceived and handed to him by Trin for nearly the past three books. Like you would think he wouldāve learned by then that the villain was never who he thought it was. Or at least be able to sense bastard vibes from a mile away but nah. Nah nah
Iām a billion % convinced he never wouldāve survived anything without the power of friendship and spite on his side heās so dumb but I love him lol
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Trim: āAnd you are one? A master archer, I mean?ā
Brasti: āOne might fairly say so, I believe.ā
Falco: āOne says so frequently.ā
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The Tailor seeing Falcio & Co. still have their old Greatcoats:
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Mateo would join Quentis Mueren to the Raid on Area 51
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Darri: āI was raised as one of the Dashiniā
Falcio, in the middle of war flashbacks:
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The Lord, he speaks š
I IMPULSIVELY DECIDED TO ASK SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL ABOUT KEST AND FALCIO AND I GOT AN ANSWER
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Hey there! First of all thank you for running this blog you gave my poor greatcoats loving heart a reason to keep beatingššAlso I saw a post where you mentioned Kest being in love with Falcio (and I'm down for that especially after Paelis letters) Which brings me to my main question do you think Falcio might have been in love with Paelis to some extent? Because honestly he does love him somehow and with him having lost Aline I could see him falling in love again and just denying it?
I do believe that Falcio loved Paelis, but I donāt think it was in a romantic way. Iād definitely submit to the argument he had an infatuation though. Falcioās love for Paelis seemed to stem more from admiration and respect than anything else. Paelis was something untouchable, an ideal, he represented what Falcio wanted and so he put him on a pedestal for it.
If you think about it, Paelis was the first person to believe in Falcio and he was the one who dragged him tooth and nail out of his berserking phase. He showed Falcio a future that he could get behind, and he helped Falcio to realize that not all nobility are bad people - granted, the GRAND majority of them are, but there is still hope and that was what mattered. And if he canāt change the Dukes then he can change their suffocating influence/control over the people. Which at the end of the day was what Falcio wanted. He wanted justice for all the injustice heād lived through, what with his own family, and what happened to Aline, and how that Duke and his men werenāt punished for what they did to her. Paelis was the first person to help him realize that was possible. And he wanted that justice so badly he idealized it, he stuck to it because it was the only thing that mattered after he lost everything that had mattered to him - and since Paelis could make that kind of world possible he was worth knowing and defending.
Thereās no doubt that Paelis and Falcio had a relatively intimate relationship (they did see each other at their lowest points after all) but I think that at the end of the day the two were too different from each other to be romantically involved. There was love there, no doubt, thereās textual evidence of it lol, but I donāt think Paelis could romantically fall in love with someone who was as much of a wildcard as Falcio was. And I think Falcio was too in love with the IDEA of Paelis and what he represented than he was romantically in love with Paelis himself.
(Sorry for the late reply Iāve been busy with finals āš¼)
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good news everyone iām now In The Zone so iām going to write more bullshit about the greatcoats!!!!!!!! i have no self-restraint. sorry.
relationships we deserved to hear more about:
kest and brasti
the most obvious one, but GOD i wanted more of the two of them. we often see them arguing in the background, until falcio inevitably tells them to shut up or tunes them out because of his Important Thoughts tm (more important than my love for supporting characters? i think the fuck not falcio). their bickering is largely friendly, but there are also quite a few occasions where kest is genuinely pissed at brasti, and/or vice versa - i think the main problem in their relationship isnāt their largely opposing personalities (kest being serious and studious where brasti is playful and not particularly book-smart, although heās putting on some of his dumbness) but their conflicting priorities. while brasti is deeply loyal to his friends, he also cares a hell of a lot about the people he doesnāt know, and the good of all others is what he puts first. kest, on the other hand, does care about the general population, but is loyal to falcio above all else, and that seems to be where most of their conflict comes from. i just really want to see more than extracts of their arguments and moments of friendship shared with falcio - i want to know how the two of them work, how they show they care and what they talk about besides falcio and whatever potential death theyāre facing this time! also brastiās backstory. please. i need it. iād sacrifice my sister for it.
mateo and quentis
okay in tyrantās throne thereās this section:Ā
āāLately, Mateo and Quentis Maren [have been watching over Aline]. They work well together.ā
I found it odd that Mateo, about as heretical a man as Iād ever met, and Quentis Maren, a former Inquistor, had become such close friends, but really, it was none of my business.ā
@ SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL WHEREāS MY NOVEL ABOUT MATEO AND QUENTIS BEING BEST FRIENDS AND DEALING WITH ALL THE SHIT THAT FALCIO GETS THEM INTO
tbh iā¦ kinda ship them? i have no valid basis for this apart from that I Think It Would Be Good, but platonic or romantic i think their relationship would be a really interesting one to read about. the mentioned conflict between quentisā faith and background as an inquisitor and mateoās lack thereof would naturally lead to conflict, or at least some difficult conversations.Ā
quillata and falcio
falcio says that they were once close friends, and!!! iām so curious about that! iād also really like to know how she got along with kest and brasti, given that they seemed largely inseperable from falcio!
darriana and valiana and ethalia
compared to some of the others iāve mentioned, darri and valiana do get quite a bit of development, but still not enough (in my humble opinion). darri and ethalia have a relationship, of sorts, which mostly involves darri talking shit about ethalia and ethalia talking shit back but subtly. ethalia and valiana kind of do, but again iād like to see more. i love the way that darriana takes valiana under her wing when sheās still so unsure of her place in all this (and constantly gets on falcioās case about his parenting skills), and it wouldāve been great to hear some of their one-on-one conversations! iād also like to see where darri and ethaliaās relationship goes once they begin to make peace with one another. iād also like to fight sebatien de castell for constantly having darri deride ethalia for being aĀ āwhoreā, even though it brings ethalia no shame. his whole thing with women in this series is just a bitā¦ā¦ eh.
antrim and likeā¦ everyone (but particularly mateo, quentis, and talia)
i have so many questions about antrim!! tbh i have a lot of questions about all the greatcoats who spent a lot of time together in aramor while the main trio were fucking around in avares and the like. antrim seems like a really likeable character, and i wish heād gotten more screen time, so to speak.
brasti and gwyn
so at the end of tyrantās throne brasti decides to join the rangieri? which i think would probably involve him being taught quite a lot by gwyn. they seem to spend a lot of time together before the war with avares as well, scouting and following people and tracks. i think brasti would probably intimidate gwyn a bit at first, because on the surface heās all loud laughter and dirty jokes and messing around. once they got to know each other better, however, i do think theyād get along well, and brasti might take on a role somewhere between brotherly and parental for gwyn.
valiana, aline, kest, and brasti
just the four of them in various configurations!!!!
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i still think that the romance between falcio and ethalia was forced as hell sigh i was so bored and mildly irritated reading about it. also lowkey shipped dariana and valiana HAHAH i really thought they had chemistry (more than dari and brasti anyway)
ANON UR SO RIGHT!!!
god i have so many feelings about these books and everything that happened in them skgjdkg
i love ethalia as a character (particularly in books 3 and 4, once she got more development beyondĀ ālove interestā), and i will admit the ending with her and falcio expecting a child who will be loved as FUCK is pretty sweet, but justā¦ ugh. i still donāt really understand half of her story? what the fuck was that time where aline likeā¦ possessed her? why did she and falcio fall in love so quickly? admittedly, that last one was kind of addressed with the wholeĀ āhey maybe this wasnāt a great idea and we should just be friendsā bit, but then they got back together and it was just all a pain. i wish the books had spent more time on falcioās relationships with others, rather than constantly going back to his pitiful love life!
and HONESTLY darri and valiana deserved each other so much, and they made a lot more sense than brasti and darri. i can understand why they ended up together, and i donāt hate them together, but darri would definitely be better with valiana. like. how can sebastien de castell have darri spend a whole book calling valiana pretty bird and defending her and training her and then justā¦ā¦ā¦ put darri with brasti.
although, i could also accept an arrangement of darriana + brasti and valiana + chalmers. i know valiana and chalmers didnāt really interact much in canon, but theyāre pretty similar in age and i just think it would be cute okay sdkghdfsk.
unrelated to what you said but iām on a roll now and iāve been desperate to talk abt these books for months: iām so fucking glad kest wasnāt killed off. after aline died and i realised the author was actually willing to kill important characters (although not to the same extent as SOME OTHERS cough scott lynch cough), i was really worried that heād die, because (a) heās falcioās best friend and one of, if not the, most important person in the world to him, and (b) he doesnāt really fit nicely into the series of romances within the group. like, brasti and darriana are an item, falcio and ethalia are an item, and kest is just there, still totally in love with falcio. romantically. iām willing to die on this hill. i do wish heād gotten more closure, in a way. like, sure heās going to reform the honori and protect people (which i do like, because protection is kinda his whole thing tm and has been for a long time, andĀ āFalcio, I know something of what itās like to always be seeking purpose by following someone else aroundā DID very nearly make me cry at work), but i wish heād had a chance to talk to falcio, one on one, about everything thatās happened and about his feelings. the closest they got to that was when he visited falcio while he was imprisoned, and that interaction did add like 10 years to my lifespan, but there was still relatively little acknowledgement of everything kest did for falcio, in my TOTALLY UNBIASED opinion.
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The Dukes and Duchesses of Tristia:
Aline, pulling out her binder of receipts:
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hm back on my greatcoats bullshit again,,,, id fucking die for brasti goodbow
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frankly by this point the greatcoats series is 50% swordfights and 50% falcioās friends giving him parenting advice
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Brasti:
Kest:
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