it kills me a little whenever people misspell Eliot's name

yeah thats SUCH normal bonding /sarc

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i am literally so (not) normal about these two and i am staying up COOKING some headcannons about them ૮₍ • ˕ - ₎ა♡₊˚

Arthur Pendragon canonically knows how to comfort people. I will leave you with this knowledge

I don't understand the idea that Victor has no backstory. Like- yeah, his backstory isn't as horrifically tragic and detailed as Eli's is, but we do know a good bit about him from what he's said so far.

His parents are pretty successful, so we can assume he grew up rich. Victor states that they write all of these books about family but have never taken time out of their day for him, even saying something along the lines of the last time they put aside time for him was his birth (not exact quotes, I don't have the energy to look back through the books rn), so we can assume that they were incredibly neglectful, most likely leaving him at home for days, weeks, maybe months at a time and probably not paying much attention to him even in times when they were home. Whether they paid someone to take care of him in that time or he had to learn to be self-sufficient is debatable.

I personally don't think they were physically abusive, and there doesn't seem to be any evidence at present that supports that idea. Verbal abuse is more likely, but I still don't think it was the case. It doesn't seem like they were around him long enough to do either. I don't think those things really need to be a part of his backstory to make it interesting or compelling. His parents were neglectful, and it shaped pretty much everything about who he is.

The biggest and most obvious one is Victor's obsession with attention. There are multiple references throughout the books of Victor craving attention from those around him, namely Angie and Eli. More than anything, Victor wants to be seen. He wants to be a part of something. He wants to be remembered and acknowledged and thought about. He craves the attention his parents never gave him. He doesn't want to be left behind or forgotten.

Being left behind is another big fear for him (I'm mostly speaking about Lockland here, as he becomes a bit less dependent after he becomes an EO, though there can still be an argument made about him latching onto Mitch and Sydney and Dol and Dominic in a kind of makeshift family he never had). He hates seeing Eli succeed because it feels like he's being left behind. He wants to be so intertwined with another person that they can't possibly forget him. He wants to form a connection so deep that it's impossible to sever. To Victor, there's a connection between 'success' and being left behind. He doesn't want to just be an expendable sidekick or an accessory. He wants to be an integral part of someone. Victor's life revolving around Eli is a symptom of his upbringing.

His social skills and general demeanor are also something that can be analyzed. From the beginning, he's set up as the antithesis to Eli, from social class to backstory to appearance to demeanor. They're the same at their core, but opposites in nearly everything else. Compared to Eli, Victor is a total recluse. He hates being around people, he avoids parties, and we barely see him interact with or pay attention to anyone except the people he genuinely cares about unless he absolutely needs to. His demeanor is off-putting, and he doesn't really make an effort to hide that, although he does just enough to make sure he isn't a complete social outcast. Victor grew up in one home with no siblings and parents who were hardly around. Compared to Eli, who was carted from home to home, meeting new people and learning how to blend in all the time, Victor likely doesn't have much in the way of social experience. He didn't have to hide who he was nearly as much as Eli did because there was no one there to see it anyway.

This being said, he is described as being a good liar and able to fool those around him, although notably worse at it than Eli. This one is more of a longshot, but I don't think it's improbable. Victor's parents were successful published authors who garnered their success based on the books they wrote about family. It's possible that Victor had to make press appearances at some point when he was younger, and learned how to lie for the cameras, or he just spent so long out of the company of others that he started seeing other people as more objects to use and less real living people, making it easier to learn the motions of manipulating them. Either way, Victor learns how to do or say the right thing to get someone to believe him, but he states that Eli is much better at actually faking emotions than he is. This is because while Eli spent his life following his father's death surrounded by people and thus learned how to change his entire self to appear more presentable to the general public, Victor only learned how to manipulate people through speech or actions. He can tell you exactly what you want to hear, but he can't put on a fake persona the way Eli can because he never needed to.

In conclusion, Victor does have a backstory, and it informs every aspect of his character, including his relationship to Eli.

If this post gets 15k 10k notes by my birthday (January 10th, 2024)

I'll turn this into a whole comic on Webtoon or Wattpad or some

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man i bet people are making a lot of funny tweets about this situation shame i can't read them

not one, but TWO moon kisses drawn by tumblr user cacaocheri????

postmaster pearl and her *ahem* postmaster pigeons

you’re a loser, baby! a loser, goddamn, baby! you’re a fucked up little whiny bitch <3

if these two aren’t endgame then idk what is 🤷

'hm? oh yeah ofc my internal compass led us to u'

Vintage ceramic teapots 

I have no explanation for this 4am sketch except my brain is slightly hazy and I’m a sucker for slightly bratty Tim Drake

You like PULASKI?!?!??!

Bro ngl some of you are so sexist like as soon as a woman isnt perfect shes just a bitch rather than being Slightly Complex? Its fuckin annoying?? So many men who are bitches in star trek. Like the Outrage when u funnypost abt kai winn vs the acceptance when its dukat. Characters who are kinda mean arent Bad Characters you cant Not Enjoy A Character cuz theyre imperfect. Pulaski could have stabbed data and id be like bet

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Okay that veganism ask reminded me, is it possible to find communist groups that aren't woke? I tried the only one I could find in my area and it was just white 20-somethings who literally spent half the meeting arguing about whether veganism is racist. I'm trying to uplift and unite the working class, not just do performative land acknowledgments and pronoun circles

Condemned To A Living Death!