#mother of learning

[mage-witha-glock]

You know what just hit me? The Zach Noveda and Percy Jackson parallels

Both of them are really smart, but people see them as dumb

(Also it's their respective best friends that acknowledge their intelligence the most)

Their best friends (Annabeth/Zorian) are the brain and they are the brawn, but they have plenty of brain themselves

They are both easy going and laidback but god forbid you piss them off

Can hold a grudge, especially against a person that has betrayed them

Pretty overpowered

Really adaptable in a fight, but also in general

Can solo big monsters

Have a big pet that is a monster (Mrs O'Leary/Princess)

They are both quite impulsive

Are both one man armies

They are both described as really attractive and charismatic

#this hit me like a truck #zach noveda #mother of learning #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #zz duo #percabeth #zorian kazinski #annabeth chase

[readsquirrel]

Post series Mother of Learning Zorian is the kind of normal-looking teenage boy who looks so precisely normal that it starts to be uncanny. He’s the kind of exacting facsimile that doesn’t give purchase to suspicion, that in itself becoming unsettling. A little prickly, a little friendly, and somehow always knowing what you’re about to say before you say it.

Imagine then, being one of his classmates, eating a polite and casual but somehow disquieting meal opposite this eerily average standup of a teenage boy. Then suddenly Zach, the charming rich slacker who as far as you know has only rarely interacted with Zorian up until summer break, wanders in. Casually, Zach tosses his arm around Zorian’s shoulders and uses his other hand to grab Zorian’s wrist, just below where he’s holding an apple with one bite out of it. Zach pulls whole hand up, and takes one bite of the apple, then a second. Then he releases Zorian’s wrist, looks up at you, his classmate, and winks before walking off.

Zorian continues eating his apple as if nothing happened.

That’s the kind of weird experiences the rest of their class is gonna have to deal with in the near term.

#mother of learning #zorian kazinski #zach noveda

[spacefairynayu]

I can’t stop thinking about how Zorian is of mixed ethnicity and how that adds so many unexplored layers to his befriending of the indigenous minorities within Eldemar(ie. a morlock, shapeshifters, the aranea) AND layers to his mother’s rejection of her heritage.

Especially to his mother’s rejection of her heritage.

Witches are explicitly indigenous to Altazia, and yes part of the negative perception of them comes from the fact that many witches have done terrible things, but the villager’s treatment of Cikan and her mother also easily parallels plain racism. Cikan’s reaction to this being to completely abandon her heritage screams of a choice to assimilate into the majority culture to avoid discrimination. Her insistence on raising Kirielle as ‘the perfect lady’ by Eldemar’s standards is an almost obsessive attempt to erase any trace of her ethnic background and present both Kirielle and herself as ‘proper’ Eldemarian/Ikosian women. She says she’s doing it for Kirielle’s sake, and partially it is(albeit while heavily projecting), but it’s mostly to reinforce the family’s image, her image, as 100% Eldemarian/Ikosian.

Not to imply that abandoning one culture to embrace another is inherently a bad thing, Cikan is very clearly happier living as an Ikosian woman than an Altazian one. This probably was the correct decision for her. The problem is that she is taking the choice to embrace or reject their heritage away from her children(as well as doing the exact same thing that she hated her mother for, attempting to force a certain way of living onto them that made them miserable).

And then there’s Zorian. The Kazinski child who resembles a witch the most. He’s anti-social and withdrawn, he fiercely holds on to grudges and memories of every slight(and holds to memories of kindness just as tightly), he parleys with non-humans and ‘undesirables’, and to top it all off he inherited the bloodline ability that his witch ancestors cultivated and passed down to a degree that likely hasn’t been seen in generations.

Zorian embodies everything that Cikan has tried to erase from their family history. He’s a walking symbol of their Altazian ancestry.

All this to say that I feel it was a massive waste for Nobody to not explore Zorian’s heritage, his relation to it, and his family’s relation to it, as well as how that in turn affects his relation to/perception of Eldemar and it’s politics.

#mother of learning #mol #zorian kazinski #cikan kazinski #I normally only lurk but I can’t stop rotating the fact that zorian is of mixed ethnicity in my head #so you all get to be subjected to my brainworms #I can only imagine how much worse cikan and zorian’s relationship is going to be once she realizes #embracing the heritage she rejected and rubbing it in her face #who cares if he’s a boy being a witch is a vibe

[ttobi-aakira]

There ain't nothing quite like two men intrinsically linked across space and time involved in grand, mysterious, and complicated plots that will in some way end the 'world'

#the first fifteen lives of harry august #mother of learning #weirdest tags i think ive ever put together

[dantegotitwrong]

theres a scene in mother of learning, the first time we see zorian's simulacrum spell in action, when

The simulacrum frowned, a little annoyed at the response. He didn’t answer with words. Instead he forced a connection to Zorian’s mind and blasted him with a few choice memories. The nerve-wracking wait before the platform’s descent. The terrifying sight of the grey hunter jumping out of the cave and seemingly towards him. The feeling of frustration and powerlessness as he watched the battle without being able to meaningfully contribute anything. Zorian gasped and took a step back, caught off-guard by this sudden pseudo-attack, and gave him a shocked look. “Very different,” the simulacrum said, and then deliberately collapsed his own ectoplasmic body and dissolved into smoke. His job was done, anyway.

and this is pretty good look at zorian's character and how he thinks about his purpose. he just deleted himself because a) he wanted to prove a (somewhat petty) point, and b) felt his "job" was done. so that was it - spite and duty were the only things keeping him around.

#mother of learning #mol #zorian kazinski

[merdochk]

and if you wanna cry, make sure that they never see it

or even better yet, block it out and never feel it

zorian as a preview of my fav song - boys will be bugs by cavetown. this song means a lot to me, and i think it’s so relatable for zorian :(

#mother of learning #zorian kazinski #art #taiven #cavetown #boys will be bugs

[braininatankwithalaptop]

My headcannon for how Zorian approaches problems post-timeloop

#mother of learning #mol #mol meme #zorian kazinski

[darkelectron]

im gonna forget about this later but, just finished reading mother of learning (yes I binged most of it in a weekend yes I have a problem) and like.

trans woman zorian. Just, big woman vibes for some reason. no idea when he'd figure it out given he didn't in the entire time loop, but I'm also not convinced about his level of emotional intelligence.

I think she would begin the transition after fully planning it out, and everything would move very quickly because she doesn't know how not to overachieve. I think Zach would start to have a crush on her. I think she would come out as a lesbian.

The energy I think between these two is the 'straight' boy who's going to figure out he's bi in a few more years of actual puberty and by then it'll be too late to date Zorian, and queer trans girl who's as uninterested in dating as she ever was and only learnt to kiss girls when she was one. between the two of them they've turned pretty much everyone at the academy gay.

anyway those are my thoughts.

#mother of learning

[bar-les-coucougnes]

my favorite part about Zorian visiting his brother in Koth is when Daimen just immediately and innocently assumes that Zorian's been interacting regularly with Fortov in the 5 or 6 years he's spent in the timeloop and Zorian just straight up "yeah no i talked to him like twice lol"

Daimen: but... but he lives next door?

Zorian: so what

Daimen: and does he survive the invasion or...

Zorian: how should i know???

#mother of learning #and he's surprised ppl think he's a big jerk

[cal-cium-the-nerd]

Dangers for a time traveller (a growing collection):

men in red robes

spiders

widower men with soul magic obsession

thousand-year-old lich, blessed by the gods before they abandoned humanity, with access to forgotten magic far above a mere human's comprehension

flowers

#mother of learning #i probably forgot something

[mage-witha-glock]

You know, something that has been bugging me is what are the regulations on guns??

Because Zorian really just walked into a shop and was like: I want one. And the guy went: Uhh, okay?

Zorian is fifteen. I don't think he altered his appearance. It wasn't mentioned as far as I remember. He looked fifteen.

I know that are new tech, but was it really that easy? Do you even need a license? Did Zorian end up stealing them??

#i cannot remember what chapter this was #but i swear i vividly remember him going into a shop #mother of learning #zorian kazinski

[xvimism]

I've been thinking and, what if we (mother of learning tumblr fandom) had something like an annual event week to create fanworks for?

It could have prompts for each day, also allowing people to just do whatever, and it wouldn't need to only encompass fanfic/fanart— memes, analysis, theories, drabbles, headcanons etc type of posts could all be welcome

For the dates/timing, maybe either October (to celebrate the anniversary of MoL's first chapter on October 17th) or February (to celebrate the anniversary of MoL ending on February 10th) could be a good idea?

I don't know. Thoughts? Would anyone be interested in participating of something like this? Should I just have made a poll?

#mother of learning #i can #i can still make a poll #i guess #if thats what you guys prefer #me whenever the MoL tag goes quiet for a couple days: *on my knees* DONT DIE! SPEAK TO ME! PLEASE!!!!

[veltaleart]

Silverlake from the web novel Mother of Learning!

#mother of learning #silverlake #character concept

[motheroflearning-events]

The world's longest interest check ever is OUT! It includes questions for both the prompt week and the gift exchange (feel free to skip one of those sections if it doesn't interest you). I put a lot of love in it. Please tell me your thoughts! Please Link in case the hyperlink breaks: https://forms.gle/ZgqqaB3ze76DJ7neA

#mother of learning #stares at you like a little wet cat and asks you to pwetty pwease fill out my little itty bitty form #(it's not little) #it's anonymous btw i'm not collecting anyone's email #(...yet) #send in asks to this blog for the events! anon is enabled #and i don't want xvimism to get spammed with this lol (it's supposed to be an archive OTL)

[dantegotitwrong]

“Watch out, you stupid savage!” Sudomir’s voice suddenly echoed all around the mansion, magically amplified and projected so that it could be heard clearly in the whole region. “You’re lucky they got rid of that projectile or you’d have leveled the whole mansion! Since when is this kind of magic acceptable when you’re defending a place!?” “Shut up!” Oganj yelled back in clear human tongue, his voice just as loud as Sudomir’s, despite using no magic to amplify it. “I know what I’m doing! Go whine to your dead wife instead of bothering me when I’m fighting!”

funniest exchange in the whole book. this dude is NOT pulling punches - he gets a lil annoyed and IMMEDIATELY goes "yea well your wife is dead!". instant kill shot no kindness no mercy

#mother of learning #mol

[merdochk]

i was playing in valorant and my friend said ”zorian should have sheriff like yours”

#mother of learning #zorian kazinski #art #fanart