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jnjlen-ou-skinjbir · 8 months

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Imagine Blasius crushing hard on Wolf but thinking he has no chance because due to his bad luck, objects keep falling whenever they're close together.

He eventually realizes that it's actually Wolf's animism acting up bc he also crushes on him lol

#the mirror visitor #la passe-miroir #blasius x wolf #professor wolf #blasius lpm #headcanon?

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child-of-hurin · 4 years

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notes to myself... random LPM disjointed thoughts and comments / book 3 & 4 spoilers

1. Book 1 and 2 - Ophélie is the girl in the tower - The tower of Farouk.

Despite living in a so-called ~matriarchy, the Doyennes/society keeps trying to make her submit to a family-based society, and, failing to do so, send them to the patriarchal tower of Farouk. They hope that, if the mother-oppression can’t force Ophélie into the wife-mother role, the father/husband-oppression will.

2. Book 4 - Apart from the obvious ‘Tower of Babel’ symbolism, it also makes me think a lot of the tarot card The Tower, also called The House of God. It is actually impressive how much it fits...

(Also: two towers! Makes me think of that thing I saw here that the only people who live in towers are princesses and wizards. And Ophélie is one on book 1 and 2 and another on book 3 dbhnjmkf... and then on book 4 instead of ascending, she finally descends... heaven and hell)

3. It is obvious that Blasius and Wolf are echoes of Ophélie and Thorn respectively, down to communication issues. IMO Elizabeth seems a reflect of Thorn as much as a reflect of Ophelie....rigid, thin, distant, brutal in her communication, as desperate to form a real bond as to keep as distant as possible... except she loves Hélene where Thorn hates Farouk...

4. I really like how Ophélie and Thorn’s communication issues are handled in book 3; it is easy to focus on Ophélie’s fuck ups because we are her, but I think it’s fascinating that Thorn doesn’t have a mirror. It is definitely a way of (symbolically) locking Ophélie outside, as well as locking himself inside. He doesn’t give himself an escape route.

5. There’s a lot about mirrors and how one sees oneself... because Ophélie saying Thorn looks disgusted before crossing a mirror makes me think that there isn’t a ‘true’ reflection, or a universal truth about someone’s character? It’s gotta be more subtle than that... It makes me think of how Thorn is always embarrassed to catch the way Ophélie looks at him: he stares at her when she’s fighting him, but looks away when she’s looking at him with love or admiration. “I’m not used to being looked at me like that”?? The self he sees in Ophélie’s gaze is a self he has trouble recognizing/accepting...

6. I’m absolutely fascinated by how in moments of vulnerability Thorn has some attitudes that are more often seen in female characters... I love love love their first sex scene, I love that Ophélie tells him to undress, I love the development where Thorn is always the one asking for physical affection one way or another but usually waiting for Ophélia to take the initiative... Culminating with Thorn saying she will have to ASK HIM IN MARRIAGE... I love that Thorn is Eurydice to Ophelia’s Orpheus... .. Of couse it’s NOT a reversal but, basically:

7. I love that book 3, when they go to Babel, the arc of ultimate gender equality, Ophélia - who comes from a matriarchy and has always had an extremely feminine presentation - steps up to some more traditionally ‘masculine’ performances, both in appearance but esp. in taking the active role in the relationship with Thorn, who takes the passive, waiting role. In this book, Thorn is the prisioner in the tower, isolated, unattainable, (wearing the bride’s white in a bedroom ‘virginal and spare’), who will be freed only by the partner’s proof of true love... I mean... Fuck!!!! Ophélie even needs to complete some tasks in order to get information (from Mediana, the wizard in the tower dfbnfjmkd) and ascend to the tower and find Thorn!!!.... Oh, I don’t know, I just like it...

7.5 (EDIT). I almost forgot, but also!!

The tower of Babel: the tower built by humans trying to reach heaven and godhood. Check.

Ophélie joins at the very bottom. She and her peers wear midnight-blue and silve. Meanwhile, Thorn, locked at the very unattainable top, wears white and gold, and an unsubtle golden sun brooch.... Let it be noted that the Genealogists know their symbolism well enough :O

Thorn goes from his black Pole uniform to a completely white uniform Ophélia goes from gray to black, and then to white in book 4....

Ophélie tries to climb the tower from within, because she wants access to the top. Failing that, instead of ascending (book 3) she descends (book 3, book 4). In both cases, she achieves the truth at the top (Eulalie’s work room and mirror, the horn of plenty) once she hits bottom and accesses Another Self (the mirrored isolation room in Book 3 as well as the end of the program in Book 4).

It’s really interesting though that the horn of abundance is simply fake. Rather than give, it takes....Book 4 is so symbolically juicy, it makes me want to sink my teeth in it!!!!!! I really wish someone more competent than me analyzed and wrote more about it sdbhnjdmk

8. I think it is FASCINATING that Eulalie is a WOMAN and that she creates LIFE but?? once she (becomes fixed in her trauma and) usurps the god she becomes recognized as a ‘male’ entity... The Father... tbh it is amazing, I love it, no explanations, it just Is. Good job CD I love it 👌

#the mirror visitor #la passe miroir #book 4 #la tempête des échos #SPOILERS

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jnjlen-ou-skinjbir · 2 months

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Haven't reread the books so I might've missed something but do we ever know why/when Blasius and Wolf "broke up"?

If not... (TW: homophobia/discussion of conversion therapy)

...my bet is after Blasius getting sent to the Observatory after his parents realized he was dating a dude to "fix" him. Happened so suddenly Blasius didn't have time to explain anything to Wolf. So when he finally got out of the Observatory, Wolf didn't want to talk because he thought Blasius ghosted him after getting bored of him/Blasius was just another rich kid who got a job/internship at the Observatory despite no corresponding skills - and Blasius didn’t dare to talk to him due to the consequences of the conversion therapy (became even clumsier and lost overall his self-esteem, so how could Wolf want to be with someone like him?). Hence the 15 years of silence

#also adding to Wolf's paranoia #la passe miroir #blasius x wolf #the mirror visitor #professor wolf #blasius lpm #have I broken your heart yet?

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jnjlen-ou-skinjbir · 8 months

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La Passe-Miroir/The Mirror Visitor ask game: give me a character's name and I will give you three headcanons + an AU! one for them

Blasius

1 - Whenever there is an insect, a spider or a scorpion in the house, he doesn't kill it (not because he doesn't have the coordination for it nor because the smell of freshly killed arthropods is unbearable to his Olfactive nose, but because he doesn't want to kill animals if he can help it), he uses the glass + paper method and releases it outside

2 - He began practicing yoga, hoping it would help him less clumsy; and while it didn't do miracles for his coordination (he regularly falls in the middle of asanas), he kept practicing because he felt better afterwards

3 - He can tell when a dish is done cooking only by the smell (to his parents' dismay, his powers are the most efficient when it comes to food)

AU! - His parents wanted him to follow their steps and become a nose for luxury perfume brands, just like them; so they were réal mad and disappointed he didn't nothing of the sorts and began working in a library because the smell of books was one of his favourite

Wolf

1 - He isn't a morning person, he is definitely a "don't talk to me until I've had my coffee" (nor after the coffee for that matter) type

2 - He easily gets freckles when he spends too much time under the sun (which never happens given he spends his time scooped up at the Secretarium, the Good Family, his home or Blasius')

3 - He is secretly a cat dad (yes, the irony to not like canines when you're named after one) and can't resist petting cats, even if it means spending half an hour picking all the feline hair out of his black garments

AU! - He would totally be a military historian and, convinced what actually happened around the Tear is a heavily curated version, would be spending his time trying to get special exemptions to consult the relevant archives.

Wolf/Blasius

(because why not, we need moar content for them!)

1 - It's no secret that Wolf is perpetually grumpy, even around Blasius; hence the latter's surprise, when he realized that Wolf almost always smiled when they kissed ( when he pointed that out, Wolf blushed a bit and grumbled an unintelligible answer)

2 - The first time Blasius went to Wolf's, he saw a black cat on the doorstep and immediately began to wonder if it was a bad omen. Turns out, it was just a stray cat that hangs in the block and that Wolf often feeds and pets (and despite his wariness of cats, discovering Wolf was a doting cat dad just made Blasius fall a little more in love with him).

3 - Wolf never once complained about Blasius' clumsiness, no matter how many times he got harmed or his things got damaged as a result

AU! - They'd be both into alternative music: Wolf more into hc punk and black metal, and Blasius into post-punk/wave/goth stuff (Wolf makes a whole show of groaning every time before going to a goth/alt night with Blasius, but once there he actually enjoys himself there and eventually began to two-step on certain Sisters of Mercy songs)

#la passe-miroir #the mirror visitor #blasius x wolf #blasius lpm #professor wolf #lpm asks #if u feel like turning any of these into fic fanart photoedit or whatever creation pls do so and tag me!!!#again we need more content for these two!#and just like I said to est1el: it's not us who are way obsessed with them but the fandom who's way not obsessed enough #anon who asked for archi: dw I haven't forgotten you !

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jnjlen-ou-skinjbir · 10 months

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Transmasc Blasius bringing his introverted metalhead bf to the Pride Parade

(No, Wolf doesn't know 99% of the songs played. Doesn't keep him from enjoying the event and getting second-hand happiness from Blasius shouting all the lyrics)

#the mirror visitor #la passe-miroir #my fanart #blasius x wolf #blasius lpm #professor wolf #yup I made blasius transmasc so what?#blasius' shirt was supposed to have a hedgehog pattern but I couldn't draw it as I wanted to so weird scales it is

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jnjlen-ou-skinjbir · 1 year

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