hi! if you know, could you maybe explain why coronabeth is called the "worse twin"? i absolutely love the implications and definitely feel that she's hiding something underneath, but was just wondering whether the "worse twin" thing had any specific origins :)
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so the specific origins of ‘worsetwin’ are from the gtn extras, where muir said of corona and ianthe:
In the original, Ianthe and Corona were “Cainabeth and Abella,” a feat of naming so unsubtle that I might as well have just gone with “Goodtwin” and “Badtwin.” And it’s not even accurate! It should be Badtwin, and Lessbadtwin.
(which is fucking hilarious by the way, i think her introducing characters called cainabeth and abella like a page after establishing a location called canaan house would probably have made me throw the book out the window.) anyway, yeah, 'worsetwin’ is more or less a corruption of the goodtwin badtwin lessbadtwin thing, lol. muir is basically telling us that corona is analagous to the biblical cain, who, famously, killed his brother abel, and is in all likelihood going to kill ianthe in nona/alecto. the underlying implication seems to be that for all the shit we have seen ianthe do, corona has the capacity to be Worse, and god is she going to be. (hot.)
*LQR voice* There is a demonic cultivatorloose in the Cloud Recesses!
Sometimes you think, “Maybe the Second Young Master will stop the demonic cultivator.”
And then the demonic cultivator is like, “I have married the Second Young Master.”
The Untamed, as seen by Lan Qiren, who is more than happy to blame Wei Wuxian for everything
Here’s the situation, and this is exactly what happened, is: there’s a demonic cultivator loose in Cloud Recesses. I think eventually everything’s going to be okay, but I have no idea what’s going to happen next. And neither do any of you, and neither do your masters, because there’s a demonic cultivator loose in Cloud Recesses. It’s never happened before, no one knows what the demonic cultivator is going to do next, least of all the demonic cultivator! He’s never been a demonic cultivator before, he’s as confused as you are. There’s no experts. They try to find experts in Jin Clan. They’re like, “We’re joined now by a man that once saw a corpse in the port.” Get out of here with that shit! We’ve all seen a corpse in the port. This is a demonic cultivator loose in Cloud Recesses!
When a demonic cultivator is loose in Cloud Recesses, you got to stay updated. So all day long you walk around, “What’d the demonic cultivator do?” The updates, they’re not always bad. Sometimes they’re just odd. It’ll be like, “The demonic cultivator caught some fish?” I didn’t know he knew how to do that.
The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the demonic cultivator at all. You’re down in the library like, “Hey, has anyone…has anyone heard–” [imitates flute music] Those are those quiet days when people are like, “It looks like the demonic cultivator has finally calmed down.” And then ten seconds later the demonic cultivator is like, “I’m gonna use resentment energy to combat vengeful spirits. I’ve got a nice flute and a sharp sword, I’m a demonic cultivator!” That’s what I thought you’d say, you dumb fucking demonic cultivator.
And then, then you drink tea with people and they’re like, “There shouldn’t be a demonic cultivator in Cloud Recesses.” And it’s like, “We’re well past that.” Then other people are like, “If there’s gonna be a demonic cultivator in Cloud Recesses, I’m going to kidnap the heirs to all the clans and kill everyone who doesn’t cooperate.” And those don’t match up at all.
And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the demonic cultivator, and then, 5,000 miles away, Wen Ruohan was like, “I have three pieces of the Yin Iron and I’m going to send my son to blow up Lotus Pier!” And before we could say anything, the demonic cultivator was like, “If you even fucking look at Lotus Pier, I will pipe your son to death with my flute. I dare you to do it. I want you to do it. I want you to do it so I can pipe your son to death with my flute, I’m so fucking crazy.”
“You think you’re fucking crazy, I’m a fucking Wen, I live in fucking Nightless City, I’m fucking crazy.”
And all of us are like, “Okay, okay, okay.” Like poor Jiang Yanli at those goddamn family reunions. “Okay, okay, okay, okay.”
And then, for a second, we were like, “Maybe the Second Young Master will catch the demonic cultivator.”
And then the demonic cultivator is like, “I have married the Second Young Master.”
harrow with necro-cav marriage on the mind for no good reason looks like: watching abigail and magnus like a hawk, “vaguely interested” in seeing their dynamic play out, thinking about the difficult path they must have taken to get there, wondering if being married before entering cavaliership made it any easier, watching them kiss and touch each other’s faces and whisper to each other and finding herself surprisingly unembarrassed.
gideon with necro-cav marriage on the mind for no good reason looks like: saving a cavalier marriage pun to use “later.”
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