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Lilia’s Lie: Dark Mirror, Carriages, Planes, & Land of the Red Dragons

This is one of my wildest titles for a theory yet haha! BUT I HAVE A POINT, I promise 🐦‍⬛

This one line from Book 7 has been driving me nuts. This is the scene at the end of Lilia’s Farewell Party, because he’s losing his magic and is going to the Land of the Red Dragons to live the rest of his life. But that’s when Malleus comes in, puts everyone asleep, Overblots, etc etc. But the CARRIAGE is a fascinating, and I think purposeful detail.

Because what is this carriage for? The Dark Mirror is well established to take students anywhere they want in the world. In all the homeland events that come to mind, such as Scalding Sands, Harveston, Tamashina-Mina, White Rabbit Fest, etc, the characters travel to their homelands through the Dark Mirror. And all these lands are far away from Sage’s Island, which is expected because it’s repeatedly mentioned that Sage’s Island is isolated from the rest of the world.

Well, Lilia’s party was in the Diasomnia dorm. Looking at the school maps, the Dark Mirror is a decent way from the Hall of Mirrors, which is where the student dorm mirrors are located. And since Lilia supposedly can’t teleport anymore due to the loss of magic, having a carriage transport him to the Dark Mirror made…some sense. However, the carriages have not been mentioned throughout the whole game- and I can’t immediately think of a vignette either. So why now? Why Lilia?

What truly stirred up my suspicion is Lilia’s explanation to Silver. Silver says the Land of the Red Dragons is on the other side of the world, but Lilia claims he can just hop on a plane instead of using a broom or a boat.

BUT THIS IS A LIE.

When looking at the Sage’s Island map (haha chicken drumstick 🍗), there is no visible airport that this mysterious carriage could take him to. Considering how isolated the people of this island are, an airport should be in well use, wouldn’t it? However, the airport should be visible somewhere from this map. If we’re being extremely generous with measurements, an airplane that can hold 50 passengers would require a 1200-1500 meter runway to safely land and take off. A standard narrow-body airline would require 1800-2100 meters for a runway. In miles, it isn’t a lot- just around one mile-ish. BUT THATS THE POINT. In this map of Sage’s Island, the BOATS are visible from this map. I have no idea how people measure stuff to figure out measurements for stuff in video games haha, but if passenger boats are visible from this birds-eye view, a runway AND an airport should very well be visible from the map too.

But all this nonsense about a plane runway is completely unnecessary! Why? In the first Halloween event (Terror Is Trending), Ace explains Sage’s Island tourism industry and how difficult it is for outside people to visit the island. No one can use a plane to just get there, not even the islanders. After all, if Sage’s Island had an airport for the islanders, it would reasonably mean that outside people could land there by plane. But they don’t. They HAVE to board multiple ferry’s to get there, the airplane is only needed to get to a certain bus stop outside the island to even get to a boat.

Furthermore, in Port Fest, Jack explicitly mentions passenger ships. Boats and ferries are the primary source of travel for islanders and outsiders regarding Sage’s Island. There is no easy way to both exit or enter the island WITHOUT the use of a mirror.

And again, all of this just brings up the question of why Lilia would use a plane or a boat of all things instead of the Dark Mirror. Much like the carriage, planes have only been mentioned one time in the story, where STYX when transporting the Overblotters through a cargo plane. Lilia’s lessening/lack of magic shouldn’t affect mirror travel at all, as Yuu can go through the Dark Mirror without any complications, even though they’re magicless.

So Your Honor, LILIA VANROUGE IS LYING! But that is nothing new haha…ha…But what does this mean exactly? Why the carriage, why a plane?

The black carriage has some extraordinary abilities- even able to travel underwater. Since it picks up students from all over the world, it seems to have an ability to teleport somehow (or at least someone else is controlling this system). What’s interesting about this is that this carriage system is under Crowley’s control. He knows exactly where Lilia is going if the carriage would, for some reason, take Lilia instead of the mirror. Again, the use of the carriage is strange, because they specifically are meant to receive the students chose by the Dark Mirror- not serve as some public transportation system.

Plus, it’s also a bit frightening symbolically haha, because the carriages in NRC look much like hearse’s, vehicles that transport the dead and their coffins. Carriages were obviously the common hearse back in the day. In Lilia’s case, the carriage picking him up almost feels like a death sentence.

But then I remembered of Ace’s line in the end of Book 4 when he and Deuce tried to rescue Yuu and Grim from Scarabia: “The mirror gate wasn’t open, so we couldn’t warp back with magic.”

The mirror gate wasn’t open because it was winter break at NRC, so it makes sense that for safety precautions, the mirror was shut down to prevent any outsiders from getting in. But that’s when I thought of another possibility: What if, before Malleus’ Overblot, the Dark Mirror was locked just like in Book 4? Meaning that Lilia HAD to travel by carriage, which seems to be able to travel to faraway lands.

Of course, this is a bit more of a stretch. But the more I thought about it, I remembered Endless Halloween/Spectral Soirée and how even though time stopped, the Dark Mirror was able to be connected to another realm. Sure, it was this ghost realm and not an actual place outside NRC. But even when time is stopped, the mirror seems to be functional. We can’t say if the Dark Mirror could work or not during Malleus’ Overblot, just because Malleus’ barrier the prohibits exits- Ortho was only able to escape through radio signals, not even able to go through underwater cables. But at the end of Book 7 Chapter 6, Ortho was able to infiltrate the magic barrier somehow with STYX technology. So there is some way to bypass the barrier, which I assume we’ll find out in the next update.

So what if Crowley had the Dark Mirror locked for some purpose? He and Lilia must have some sort of understanding with each other if Lilia agreed to take a carriage instead of the mirror. Lilia would have to go to Crowley himself to drop out and explain his reasons why, after all. There are so many theories I could probably connect the locking of the Dark Mirror to haha (e.g Meleanor Dark Mirror theory), but if Crowley does have a connection to the Overblots somehow, perhaps he knew Malleus would Overblot at the farewell party. Crowley’s purpose here could go at least two ways, depending on his intentions. For one, he could be locking the mirror to prevent anyone from escaping the island. If Malleus’s barrier grew and grew, the mirror would be functionally useless. But on the other hand, perhaps Crowley locked the mirror to prevent Malleus’s magic from spreading across the world.

Because thinking about it, Malleus cast his realm magic inside the Diasomnia Dorm, meaning that his magic escaped the dorm mirror and spread across not only NRC, but to other dorm mirrors as well. Hm…his magic can both escape and enter mirrors and affect those realms. So what if Crowley locked the Dark Mirror as a precaution to prevent Malleus’ sleeping magic from spreading across the world? (｡･ω･｡) In his Overblot state, Malleus could easily do this. But Malleus himself seems to be confined to the inside of his barrier. Perhaps Crowley was doing something noble here…

So basically this could just be me over analyzing the text as usual, and Lilia was just referring to planes casually outside of NRC 🧍 And the carriage could just be Crowley being extra and giving Lilia a ride to the Mirror Chamber so Lilia doesn’t have to walk all the way 💀💀💀 Still, the specification of a carriage is just…odd. Or perhaps I’m just coping and in severe denial

Anyway, let me have my fun!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I should be a goofy Ace Attorney-esque lawyer in the Twisted Wonderland world. I’d get so many contempts of court because I am being too silly \(//∇//)\

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The prince and his Physician. A role-reversal au based on a dream I had that I wanted to draw something for. More ramblings under the cut

In this au, there is a kingdom of men where the briar valley once stood. Silver, the heir to this kingdom, has been the only member of the royal family for centuries, the result of a curse that causes him to die before he's old enough to ascend to the throne and reincarnate days after his passing. Silver's immortality was once a symbols for the kingdom's permanence, but the repeated death of their monarch every two decades or so has left the citizens with perpetual, generational sorrow with seemingly no solution as no one besides Silver was alive when the curse was placed.

A few centuries after Silver was born and it was believed the last full-blooded fae in briar valley had either abandoned the land or died, a draconian fae child is found in the brambles. This fae, given the name Malleus, was brought to the kingdom at the request if the prince and raised as part of the royal court with the express purpose of becoming the royal physician/chemist. It is believed that Silver's curse, as everlasting as it seems, was placed on him by a fae with extreme magical prowess and if anyone has a chance of breaking it, it's another fae. The kingdom believes that Malleus will be able to break the death curse and allow Silver to become their immortal king.

However, Silver has other plans for his chemist. From an early age, Silver requested that Malleus use his talents to find a different kind of solution to his curse that he can never tell anyone. He wants Malleus to find a way to stop his reincarnations entirely and let him unburden his people with the monarchy. Whether to fulfill the request of the kingdom he calls home, or the prince that took him in is in Malleus' hands.

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✨ Blog Event!! ✨

Night Raven College cordially extends an invitation to you, the family members of those in our student body.

Come to NRC for Family Day!! Tour the historical campus, meet our esteemed faculty, pay a visit to your beloved children and maybe leave a generous donation on your way out; we happily accept cash, credit, and checks!

The family members of NRC’s students have landed in Sage’s Island for this special school event!! This is your chance to interact with them ✨

From now until the 14th of May (Mother’s Day) 11:59 pm EST, the inbox is open to NRC Family Day requests~

Just submit dialogue or an interaction with the family member of your choice! I’ll write an in-character response to your ask.

This isn’t limited to just family member and reader/self insert/Yuu interactions!! You can also request interactions between family members (Mama Spade and Lilia Silver’s Dad, Cheka and the Clover Siblings, etc), between family members and a TWST boy; whether related or not (Papa Zigvolt and Sebek, or Mama Rosehearts and Trey, etc), and between family members and NRC Staff (Crowley and Papa Asim, etc).

2 family members maximum per interaction!! (TWST boys, NRC Staff, and Reader/Self-Insert/Yuu do not count toward this number.)

Please avoid interactions that amount to asking family members for their approval to date/marry the boy of your choice; I’m restricting this kind of interaction because I worry it will otherwise be the bulk of the writing requests, and I don’t want to write similar responses again and again.

Don’t act rudely/violently toward any family members!! I know Mama Rosehearts and a few others are particularly disliked, but don’t go out of your way to fight them. (Sarcastic and snarky remarks are still fair game though, just don’t go too overboard!)

Don’t give parenting advice! The ones most likely to receive it probably won’t take it to heart.

All other blog rules still apply! (This means no OCs, no NSFW, avoiding certain topics, etc.)

The available family members to interact with are (This list does not include ALL known family members. I mainly included those with enough characterization to write, but I did also try to include at least 1 family member per boy):

Mama Rosehearts / Big Bro Trappola / Mama Spade / Clover Parents / Younger Clover Siblings / Older Diamond Sisters / Falena Kingscholar (with Kifaji at his side) / Cheka Kingscholar / Granny Bucchi / Younger Howl Siblings / Mama Ashengrotto / Stepdad Ashengrotto / Mama Leech / Papa Leech / Papa Asim / Younger Asim Siblings / Viper Parents / Najma Viper / Eric Venue / Hunt Family yes, they’re a hivemind / Marja Felmier / Papa Shroud / Maleficia Draconia they didn’t forget to invite her / Lilia Silver’s Dad / Mama Zigvolt / Papa Zigvolt / Baal Zigvolt

***NOTE: Though I will do my best to stay true to canon, we aren’t given the same amount of information for every possible family member. This means that I will have to take creative liberties with the interpretations of some characters, such as the Maleficia’s personality or how the family members may look.

Please also be aware that as new TWST content comes out, my portrayals may become outdated or inaccurate!!***

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