#and it's 14-something now

[felikatze]

What the hell is a Child of Fire and is Nagyunn an arsonist

preamble: hi i’m thinking abt this webcomic again and how little we know abt what’s actually going on with the masked bandits outside of that one guy possibly being lauzun’s dad or something. so when i reread i paid extra attention to figure out stuff but i’ve gotten nowhere. I write meta posts bcuz my thoughts haunt me and i want them gone to think about other stuff. other people think abt this for me thank you

So. Here ya go.

This post includes three sections, best summarized as:

1. What? 2. Who? 3. Why?

1. The hell’s a Child of Fire anyway?

We never get an explanation of this, but there’s some deductions we can make.

a) a Child of Fire is pretty hard to kill We see this when the masked bandits talk about killing Najin. They planned an ambush with a lot of people, and I’ve seen theorizing that they may have made Nagyunn kill Najin because only Nagyunn could.

There’s some property of a Child of Fire that just makes em apparently unkillable without special circumstances. Which leaves us with the question of, why could Nagyunn kill Najin if he’s a normal guy?

From Episode 32, said by the leader of the masked bandits.

b) a Child of Fire is presumably from Woodion This mainly ties back to Woodion being “the town of flame” and Najin being referred to as “Woodion’s flame” so this seems appropiate.

From Episode 2

From Episode 4

During the first meeting with Marsha, she also calls “Najin” “Najin van Woodion” with van being uhh dutch? for “of” so he’s “Najin of Woodion.” Names like that are typically associated with nobility. Either Najin’s family actually had some importance before biting the dust, or Najin and Nagyunn don’t have unique surnames and he’s “that guy Najin from Woodion.” Does anyone in this series have a surname actually?? Does anyone??

From Episode 19

c) Possible ties to magic? Other theorizing is that “Child of Fire” is meant very literally, what with the two counts of fire attached to our main guy. There’s also how magic works in The Ember Knight, as explained by the magician with magic being stronger if the elements just kinda like you. A Child of Fire may be a kid that fire just loves, but this point is the most theoretical.

From Episode 35

All around, we don’t know shit.

2. Who’s a Child of Fire anyway?

The obvious no brainer answer would be Najin, but it’s not that clear cut, imo.

There’s evidence for Najin being the one, namely the fact that the masked bandits are veeeeery convinced that he is, to the point they’re willing to believe Najin survived sword-through-the-heart on account of being the unkillable Child of Fire (see: the first screenshot).

Another thing is the first big count of fire in the story (chronologically): the fire supposedly set by Nagyunn that killed Luzian’s dad.

From Episode 2

Odd thing abt this is a formulation here:

[screencap of flashback during Luzian’s tryouts]

From Episode 13

The phrasing that Nagyunn didn’t feel guilt for killing the guy but rather not being able to save him, coupled with the reasoning for the fire being that “he doesn’t know”, makes who set the fire kind of suspicious.

From Episode 22

A very real possibility here is that Nagyunn took the fall for Najin if we once again interpret “Child of Fire” as being literal, on account of Nagyunn’s “I’ll always protect you!” thing

From Episode 2

but then AGAIN, Nagyunn very very much blames himself for the fire.

Also From Episode 2

Our second option would be that Nagyunn is the Child of Fire, which I think is also very possible.

First count of fire-setting could be Najin’s fault, but it could also still be an accident on Nagyunn’s part. Furthermore, the second fire of the series strikes me as notably odd.

Why the hell did Nagyunn burn his own house down? There’s a pragmatic reason, being that he needed a believable cause of death that would both obscure the actual cause of death via stabbing and also make the corpse unavailable for identity verification.

However, we don’t see Nagyunn actually set the fire. And the fire starts with a paper on the wall, without Nagyunn even being in the panel. That’s weird, right? There’s no explanation for how that happens, yeah?

From Episode 4

It’s possible we’re just not shown how Nagyunn set the fire because it would slow down the scene or something, but who else would it be? The masked bandits just up and left, they had no reason to set a fire.

If we believe Najin to be the Child of Fire, then his death could’ve caused it, just like, magically or something. If we believe Nagyunn to be the Child of Fire, then it may be like, a physical manifestation of his emotions.

It’s just weird, man.

Another point for Nagyunn is like, not really lore related but more symbolism related.

From Episode 12

Here, Nagyunn, who before was symbolically “the ash that remained” assumes the position of the fire, “the embers you couldn’t extinguish.” This also ties into the title of the comic, obviously, and this is the moment we really see Nagyunn as “The Ember Knight.” (Though rejecting being ash is additionally a metaphor for rejecting being Nagyunn. Layers.)

Like lore wise this means nothing but this is a narrative and foreshadowing can be anything. Nagyunn symbolically assumes the position of ember, that will one day grow into a raging fire. Ya see?

Maybe the masked bandits thinking Najin is the Child of Fire just comes from Najin’s strength and they’re mistaken, because they knew “one of those two” had to be it. Maybe Najin’s a red herring?

Man, maybe both of them are Children of Fire and it’s a genetic thing. Who knowwwws.

We don‘t actually know how killable Nagyunn is since he‘s never physically in mortal peril. I mean „stabbed-through-the-heart“ mortal peril. He is frequently surrounded by people with the intent and strength to kill him, though.

Moving on to a different thing, this bit from the narrator.

[screencap of the “one in a million” rock metaphor]

From Episode 9

Both Najin and Nagyunn are described as “one in a million” by the narrator. The narrator in this instance is pointedly not a limited one, as it describes Nagyunn in third person. Obviously, some random comment from the narrator doesn’t mean much, but I feel it’s worth pointing out how both of them are “special.”

And now arises the question of why the masked bandits wanted the Child of Fire dead so badly.

3. Why kill the Child of Fire anyway?

Since the masked bandits are so mysterious to the point not even some of their members know what the hell’s going on, they could be, well, not the good guys, but well-intentioned. There’s the geo-political aspect of them teaming up with the skeleton guy from the east who wanted to protect his king, and the brewing war between east and west, and the Knights are on the side of the west obviously but. The masked bandits may be trying to prevent war? I think?

So it remains within the realm of possibility that they wanted to kill the Child of Fire because the Child of Fire is inherently dangerous somehow.

Whether the presence of the Child of Fire would assure war-time victory for the west or whether the Child of Fire is dangerous to the world as a whole, I don’t. I don’t know. Both is possible.

If we believe the Child of Fire to be a danger, then it wouldn’t be out of line to describe them as “a lump of impurities”, would it.

That’s all my thoughts on the whole Child of Fire thing. Think what you will, all bets are off to what it really would be.

#Feli speaks #the ember knight #long post #it took a WHILE to get those screenshots so you better appreciate them #good thing i knew offhand which scenes had the deets i wanted #but also screenshotting on desktop is horrid on webtoon but the app blocks screenshots #so i had to use the mobile site which is why the screenshots r so dang big #cuz i'm too lazy to resize them. okay thanks #now i can finall think about the video game essays i want to write #THIS TOOK ONE AND A HALF HOURS?? SERIOUSLY?? sorry i just looked at a clock i started at like 13-something #and it's 14-something now #this si why my meta posts usually dont have sources damn #source: 'dude trust me' #also urging all my followers to read this comic it's good #visually speaking nagyunn has a strong tie to fire with his red orange color palette #but the color is vry washed out almost cold which is cool #pun not intended i think it's good character design

[vanyafresita]

cant believe that feliciano is single-handedly getting me out of an art block

#hetalia #aph italy #feliciano vargas #something about him smoking is very sexy to me STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT #his tattoo reads collige virgo rosas btw #my 14 year old self would be so proud to know that im better at drawing now and im using my skills to draw hetalia #this is for you dumb bitch u will never forget hetalia turns out ur obsessions at 14 yo truly change ur brain chemistry for life #anyways its 1am i have to get up early tomrrw lmfao #aph #my art

[moonsidesong]

i feel like everybody else's interpretations of dedf1sh makes them so cool and aloof and punk and i'm jusg sitting here like. hello this is ahato she's my little thingy. she is slightly scared but she is loving and doing her best to find the good in every day. she loves cake and smoothies and her best friends

#granted i made her when i was 15. i definitely would've done something different now #but i love my little hato she's important to me #ig also the thing is i drew her much younger than most? #i feel like a lot of the ahato mizuta interpretations i've seen have involved them being already an adult when they get sanitized #whereas crush ahato is. sixteen lol #not really going anywhere with this point i'm just drawing her rn and thinking about that #bri talks #14 crush #moonsidedoodles

[wadinginthevelvet]

having a 14-year-old brother who looks significantly like Walker Scobell and watching PJO is already emotional but the additional aspect of Walker’s growth spurt & the way he starts really growing into his face & looking like a teenager over the course of the show is really something :,)))

#the fact that little brothers grow up is something I still am unable to cope with a little #my brother is seriously a teenager now & it’s so insane. but it makes all teenagers of that age feel like babies to me #when I was 13-14-15 I felt so grown up!!! & you are in a way!! but you’re also just a kid 🥹 #<333 #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief #pjo tv show #pjo series #walker scobell

[carpathiians]

wip ill never finish

#procreate says ive spent 14 hrs on this... #anyway i dont like it #just putting it here so i can move on.. #and bc it took so damn long :( #the light is supposrd to be behind him but im sure its wrong anyway #lighting is my biggest enemy in art i dont get it and i never will #im gonna go draw something different now instead of this #goodbye #my art

[winnie-the-monster]

Please come back to me…..I miss you so much

#bridgerton #s3 #polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #colin x penelope #penelope x colin #this drought has all but killed me #and the sad thing is….my fears are starting to run away with me now #I’ve accepted Dec 14 as the release date #but I now fear that bc of the strike it might get pushed back #😭😭😭 someone do something to ease my fears

[drabbles-of-writing]

“Amity and Hunter maul each other” listen to me carefully we were all FOOLS. Luz and Hunter maul each other on the living room floor and yes biting IS on the table. Amity and Hunter are competitive rivals who are extremely sassy and petty when they talk shit. They are the only people in the entire family who can say the most SCATHING out of pocket things to each other and take it as friendly banter.

Make no mistake, sometimes it would result in a brawl, but these two are such near-mirrors of each other that it’s never serious and they think they’re hilarious. "How’s the divorce?” “Horrendous. How’s the face?” is a greeting they’ll have at like 8 in the morning and give everyone instantaneous cardiac arrest

#the owl house #toh #amity blight #hunter toh #hunter noceda #luz noceda #amity and hunter #text post #jokes #rivalry #drabble post #hunter and amity siblings #siblings #listen to me. luz and hunter may be the siblings. but amity has 2 actual older siblings #she has 14 years of experience shes not here to play games. luz initiated him into the family and now hes fresh meat #this is her future in-law shes going to MAKE him handle her at her worst. a sentiment hunter also shares #theyll compete over literally anything. it doesnt matter whos right in the end its about WINNING #unless they decide to team up in which case F to whoever theyre against cause theyre about to lose breathing privileges #theyre not therapy buddies not in the slightest but one of them will say something incredibly fucked up and the other just nods sagely #like theyll try. every once in a while theyll attempt something genuine. its always awkward but the heart is there they appreciate it #everyone ELSE thought they hated each other bc of the insane shit theyll say. but no. this is how they coexist with each other #like cats who were shoved into the same living space without sniffing each other through the door #hunter bullies amity for literally just standing in the same vicinity of luz. she hits him with the maidenless behavior #realizes he got a crush on willow. her bestie. and mocks his ass for the rest of his LIFE #she is only letting that shit go when she DIES. maybe not even then #hunter hits her with the motherless behavior. before remembering this also applies to him and amity bullies his ass again

[fafrogke]

blehhh

below the cut there is uhhhh video

what does this even mean

i love that video

i often forget that they can wear glasses i would pass by him and fog them just to annoy but i think he would love that

#14 days with you #14dwy #14dwy fanart #14dwy redacted #hey t don't lower the quality too mucb please thanks ilove u mua #now i know how to edit videos it's so over for you all...... #i wanted to do something else with the first image but it was looking too messy #maybe i can try that idea another time when my brain isn't so bad i need 500 naps #i wanted to post after the queue finished but it's still going and i want to post before the month ends #and i don't want to post on my birthday my brain will be destroyed that day i have to take advantage that im still happy now #maybe if i draw them more i won't be so stressed he's like my stress toy #okback to my enclosure 🍖

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

#i dont think i ever have it always feels cheap #but im thinking abt it now #sorta. runing right into it #bc 14 and his whole thing #but i think that like.............................you can never make 'i love you' FEEL as impactful as the feeling is #you know? #it's the ultimate telling>showing #similar with like 'i miss you' or smth #ive written it in earlier drafts sometimes to replace later with a line that would convey the feeling of it #bc i dont think the words do #or rarely #especially in writing #when youve got actors its a different story #different medium #but in writing idk ive never been able to make it work #im seriously considering it now tho #i think one way to make it work is when it's not about the line #when this line functions to show something else you know? #anyway just wanted to. see #reblog if you like or else it willj ust be my mutuals

[goldensunset]

everyone told me she was terrifying but they didn’t tell me she was so cool and nice

#blacked out and woke up with this in front of me hi. may my ten thousand unfinished older wips forgive me #champion cynthia #cynthia #pokemon cynthia #pokémon cynthia #pokémon #pokemon #dppt #diamond and pearl #oh i am absolutely not tagging all those. God bless 🙏 #platinum gang here. i am 14 years late to this party hello #i meant to begin the sv dlc tonight but i got sidetracked again lol #gotta tie up loose ends on one game playthrough before doing another #have i really completed a game if i haven’t made any celebratory artwork? i think not. #anyway this game was very cool and charming and i adore how they pushed the limits of the DS with regards to art and animation #and i’m glad bc now i get to appreciate my beloved pla in a different way :-D #my art #i’m in my no backgrounds no peer review no bothering to color lines era again i guess. lol whatevs i’m happy something is finally dooonnnee #nomura has until the tokyo game show to prove himself and give us kh crumbs or else i might make this my new icon #i. just last-minute flipped this bc i realized the bang was on the wrong side dsgxjxjzk #i flip back and forth a lot while drawing to keep my perspective fresh and sometimes i forget to flip back to the right side #bc usually it does not matter

[kicktwine]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

#say one thing wrong to me and you will have a wonderful few days with the rock #if angry silly girls have 100 fans etc if they have 0 fans i have died #sorry i saw a YouTube meme i vehemently disliked on principle and got mad at the only child behavior- #kipspeak #she is just short tempered and uses anger to mask other more ‘shameful’ emotions!!! alphy did the same thing with just deciding not #to express them. which is still not good and I think why he breaks and ends up teary so often now #this shortness does not translate to actually being mean to people. she only uses being mean as a shield for herself and being snarky #Is just fun for her. it’s fun for Me. you have to inconsequentually tease people or they’ll never learn to laugh at themselves #the twins and thancred 🫵 do this thing where they have big emotions but they don’t want anyone to SEE they have big weird emotions #so alphy pretends he doesn’t have them under a veneer of dignity and alisaie pretends the emotions are Something Else. thancred is #just so emotionally constipated he has trouble expressing anything. he’s got enough baggage for a flatbed #anyways. alisaie is such a compassionate and kind girl and she learned how to make snarky jokes and went ham. and she hates appearing sad o #weak or vulnerable so she blocks it off with an unapproachable emotion so no one pities her and they maybe get on with the plot #it is in fact also great at getting ppl to move away from the sad or embarrassing topic. even if the tradeoff is being more offputting #she would never (grabs youtube meme) she would never seriously bully her brother. this is sibling ribbing only. Cain instinct #just leave her be she is learning how to snark humor and she loves it she loves being sharp. alphy has wit he just keeps it close #my brother didn’t learn how to tell or receive a joke until he was 14 he took everything so seriously. he can do it now though and he’s #HILARIOUS. Don’t tell him I said that. my man knows exactly where the funny points are even if he hasn’t learned when to stop yet #too many tags. Whatever. jokey snark alisaie who sometimes compliments is happy alisaie grouchy snappy angry alisaie is way too stressed #very easy way to tell between the two. even alphy can tell between the two I believe! He tends to rib back in protest if they’re having fun #and try to stop her if they’re not having fun. case in point ‘what is that supposed to mean?!’ vs ‘alisaie ryne was only trying to help.’ #I know they’re twins but that’s such an intensely older sibling thing to do that it reels me #LONG TAGS AND THREE EDITS TO ADD ON SHORT I resent this stereotype taken too far into ooc behavior. it happened with nya #It will happen again and as a postscript let me regale you with Things U Can Notice About Character Motivation and Actions— #I’m not done let me s #she and raha are friends now I decree. ‘haha you like me’ SPUTTERING PROTEST FROM BOTH

[junglejim4322]

I was homeschooled so essentially everyone was autistic or learning disabled etc in some way especially the second place I lived because there weren’t many religious homeschoolers there so it really was basically everyone and I will tell you 100% there was a very distinct hierarchy with kids who could fit in better or act in more socially acceptable ways (most of whom could not fit into a non homeschool environment at all) would treat anyone with less hide-able symptoms like absolute shit completely based on the severity of it some of them were actual pariahs just by virtue of being clearly autistic. And you know what I see the exact same thing from “neurodivergent” communities and people seem completely unaware of it but the dominant voice is almost 100% people who mask well and fit into society basically fine besides being perceived as a little weird who will punish anyone the second they say or do something a little offputting or that they don’t like or that doesn’t conform to their idea of what you SHOULD be doing for or as an autistic person. One of my favorite things ever as on display here is the number of times I’ve been called ableist for writing in walls of text without paragraph breaks or lack of punctuation and tone even though it’s like a comically autistic trait and I’ve made it about as palatable as it’ll ever get. Sorry I didn’t add a tone indicator lemme do that real quick /HJ (handjob)

#i thought the ableism accusations over the way I typed would go away now that everybody is no longer 14 but nope #the thing I see most often really is people getting literally exiled and publicly lambasted for wording something poorly or #not understanding something. not just on this site in fact it’s probably worse on others and I guarantee you ~neurodivergent~ ~spaces~ irl #are probably horrible about it

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

I need the 12 year old Rangi with her mother lore dropped like yesterday FC Yee. Don't leave me hanging. TT0TT

#rangi #rangi sei'naka #rangi seinaka #hei-ran #hei-ran sei'naka #hei-ran seinaka #please theyre so funny TT0TT #is it because she didn't have military rank until rangi was like 14 or something???? jfdkls;jfa #i'll take like 8 fics of them bickering please #screw it spoilers #shadow of kyoshi spoilers #shadow of kyoshi #i know i talked about this before but that was my first read through! TT0TT I'm taking a second look! #i have more thoughts now! #did rangi go on travels with Yun before? i feel like she must've once or twice #she mentions going to other places in the earth kingdom #i need to know #did hei-ran not give her shit during that time? (she must've) #i need a series of rangi/hei-ran travels pre Yun and during yun kaljsfdlkjafsakf #rangi must've graduated at like 12/13 and then finished the junior corps at like 13/14 then she meets yun/kyoshi #wait where does Rangi/Hei-ran sleep? Kyoshi lives in the estate #do they not live in the estate? #please tell me Rangi/Hei-Ran are on an indefinite camping trip in a tent right outside the estate TT0TT #please that'd be so funny akljdfskjf;a #it'd explain how Kyoshi had never seen Rangi in normal attire too fkdasjdflf;k #please I need Rangi/Hei-Ran to be just such CREATURES! #ok ok last post for awhile #(don't mind the random meta/analysis in the tags on the pre Kyoshi novel events TT0TT)

[moonsidesong]

i dont mean to sound like a sore loser, honestly splatfest results aren't important to me, i just have fun playing with my friends and my sister, but like, good lord i feel like there's gotta be something wrong with the points system at this point.

even if you don't care as much about winning, at least having a bit of a competitive spirit is what makes splatfests fun, and its not very fun to feel like you're always either on shiver's team or on the losing side.

#also having three teams sucks bad im sorry #its not something they can reverse at this point but it was a terrible idea imo #bri talks #splatfest spoilers #i like splatoon 3 a lot i really do . its very fun #but a very real part of me just misses splatoon 2's heyday now #im really looking forward to side order but i. doubt itll be anywhere near as good as octo expansion honestly #and oh the community was so fun back then... that was 14 crush's heyday too and it was so exciting

[vimbry]

omg wait yeah a notif tag about the "isopods are cringe" thing just reminded me: you ever see that post on here with an addition where someone shyly tagged it with, "I know possums are "out" but-" what do you mean out they're an animal 😭 don't let people who twist themselves up trying to be unauthentically different to stay on trend make you insecure, none of this matters

#I think a problem this site has is that #despite people who move exclusively in circles of adults insisting this place has no children on it #it absolutely does. social media/blogging platforms have a Huge youth userbase #and sometimes one of those users - still self-conscious about their place in the world #because they're still in a judgemental school environment and that's how people act - will post something like #''lmao ok can we all admit now that [x] was never good'' #then it gains traction around all ages. and people who should really know better start going... is this cringe? #oh no I don't want to be cringe! I'd better move onto this new trend instead! #without registering that this is the opinion of a 14-year-old who had a bad day that broke containment #now if this mentality actually originates from an adult that's. embarrassing lmao #(slightly older adults. 20-21 is still acceptable to be a bit like this) #but you shouldn't care about their opinion either. it's exhausting to be someone with an outlook like theirs

[honeydots]

i've been dipping my toes into experimenting with borders, lately 🌿

#pose from a 1958 walter wyles illustration! #xanlow #fe laslow #fe xander #fire emblem fates #fire emblem 14 #feif #fe14 #something nice and green as spring gets closer.... #so some background on this is that it's actually fanart for a fic i havent written yet #its my idea for the outfits they'll be wearing. or at least something they own! i might end up changing laslow's shirt but idk its cute too #its for!!! my next longfic!!! which perhaps is ah bold of me when ive just put stigmata on a hiatus #but it isn't like ive been working on this instead of stigmata so!!! #i was juggling two ideas around for a while and i rly was going back and forth but ive 100% settled on this one now #the title is chapelle ardente and ive actually shared a brief wip of it in an ask game from a while back #but spoilers so that's all i'll say hehe!!!! #i hope i get a chance to share that fic w u guys cause im excited for it c: for now. um. enjoy the contextless fanart. dfjdksjf #dots draws