“Montresor never would have stayed with Will, it’s so out of character!”
Agreed! Montresor absolutely would not have stayed with Will, he would’ve thanked him for his service and then gotten tf out of there.
That’s why he was purposefully given a debilitating injury.
Monty has been shown in the past to have some amount of fucked up “care” for Will, that’s undeniable. It’s also undeniable that he’s a selfish bastard who would have probably abandoned Will the second he could.
WHICH IS WHY THE AUTHOR MADE IT SO HE CAN’T.
Monty’s not an idiot- despite everything he’s just not. He’d very clearly putting on a brave face about the extent his injury is disabling him, we see that as the audience. He also knows it’s serious, it’s why he humiliated himself by begging Annabel for help, he would have bled out and died on those steps because he can’t move.
Monty not leaving Will isn’t out of character because there is quite literally no logical reason for him to leave.
Let’s say he leaves Will behind. That gives him maybe a few seconds, even a minute let’s say, to escape from the Wild Hunt. This mythical beast they barely know shit about who’s essentially immune to the only defense these people have and who is laser-focused.
Montresor can’t stand up unassisted.
He can barely stand up at all.
He’s dead either way, he may as well stay with Will.
(Also, Monty is a cruel and careless piece of shit, but his words contradict his actions because his words aren’t reliable. He’s a liar and like Annabel says, he’s severely insecure. He’s very intentionally projecting the “I don’t care about anyone” mask; we see that especially in the new episode where he purposefully puts on an air to save that dog.)
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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.
Takes a deep breath.
Montressor has always cared for William.
I started to suspect it the first time.
That very inconsequential time when I thought the Clusterfucks were just a group of people using each other for convenient power plays. When Montressor showed up to Will's room and Lenore had a gun to his back.
It shouldn't have meant anything, it was just Montressor calling Will to go have lunch. Montressor should have easily ditched him and he left. However for some reason Montressor lingered.
(The fact that he recognised Will's toothbrush AND picked it up was crazy to me. Didn't fit the arrogant ruthless persona I imagined him to be).
When Will said he was praying for Montressor.....gave advice. And it's the way he said it. The way he said it damnit.
If he was just a casual atheist, he would have laughed and then left. But he lingered and he said ......something he believed with all his heart. And you can tell that he's not just saying it to mock Will's faith. He's saying something he feels he should have heard ages ago. Like a past anguish weighs heavy on his heart. And that is so interesting to me, because for someone who has denied his religion, Montressor carries that cross with him everywhere. 💀 Bro never takes that shit off! It's so delicious!! (I love religious trauma when it's written well)
Back to Will!
Montressor had no reason to come down here and save Will. It was one guy, probably the weakest member of their team. The most pathetic guy. The guy we all thought was just Montressor's door mat. Not only did Montressor detect that Will was in trouble, he came down in person to save him....and then got his ass handed to him. 💀 (It was a diabolical beat down.)
Pluto nearly shot him. Bro nearly died! 💀
Which brings me to another fun fact about Montressor (stay with me, stay with me here). Or....I guess check out the next post, I'm at a picture limit. 💀
i got scolded for swearing like shut the fuck up before I swear upon an oath of prophecy about me dying at march 18, 2067
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
why does my tumblr feed match my tastes so well all ive done here is read en[redacted] stars tl stories shoutout to my translator homies I could never do it like yall do I love you
I suppose someday, you will become my enemy as well
Rereading Nevermore and this time reading through the comments under the chapters, and christ alive am I frustrated by all the absolutely awful bad-faith takes on Annabel Lee's character. If she were a man, everyone would be fawning over her/him and calling him a wifeguy.
A guy being an asshole and cold and sacrificing everything including his own life for the sake of protecting and saving a woman he loves above all else? Who only has a soft spot for this one person, for whom he never fails to melt? People would be wetting their knickers, it's one of the most popular fictional archetypes, and something countless women are hoping for in a man.
But if it's a woman? A lesbian? Crucify, crucify I say!
ON GOD when we get another mitsukou chapter i WILL make a mitsukou animatic
Eyes blue, like the Atlantic