As everyone and their pet kitten knows, I am IN. LOVE. with V. E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy. The characters are mainly why I’m so attached to it; they feel like my best friends, and with such 4-dimensional development, it’s easy to imagine how they would act in any situation. So easy, in fact, that I know exactly what they’d do in our current world. [don’t @ me about any of this]
Lila…
1. gets in a car chase
Oh boy, she would LOVE this. Alucard would be cheering her on while Kell pretended to disapprove and Rhy just looked on with amusement. I want to get in a car chase myself just thinking about it.
2. has Kell bake her cookies
Can’t you totally imagine Kell baking a pan of wonderful chocolate chip cookies for Lila every week? It’s the foundation of their relationship. Kell would sooner buy $1000 sugar from a sketchy black market merchant than leave Lila cookieless.
3. steals everyone else’s food
Never eat curly fries near Lila because she’ll inhale them all when your back is turned. She’s also that fucker who steals your cookie dough ice cream from the communal fridge. Maybe I should rethink my love for her…
Kell…
1. avoids parties like the plague
“Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing.”
-Kell during the Essen Tasch ball in A Gathering of Shadows
Kell is the grumpy kid who would rather hug a mountain lion than attend a party (or—shudder—a family gathering), during which he generally holds the couch down with the cat, and honestly? I admire him. That’s RELATABLE.
2. spends a ton of time in thrift stores
When you don’t have a magical peculiar coat, you just gotta make do by amassing as many coats as possible. So in order to be stylish AND economical, Kell spends lots of time in thrift stores buying random coats. He never even wears most of them but shhh thrift stores are amazing.
3. proposes to Lila with a knife
They are so in love, he’s probably going to propose to her at some point, but what the everloving hell would Lila Bard want with a diamond ring? When the time comes, Kell gets down on one knee with the most perfect knife he could find.
Rhy…
1. is on Tinder 24/7
This is self-explanatory. Before he and Alucard get back together, he is just this total flirt who has perfected the art of maximizing his hookups.
2. owns like 5 cats
His cat person vibes are off the charts. I am an expert on this.
Alucard…
1. probably is amazing at creating memes
You just know he’d be Internet famous.
2. has definitely been disowned
No matter which universe Alucard is living in, his blood family will always find a reason to disown him. He just has those vibes, ya know?
Holland…
1. was emo in middle school
This is not up for debate.
2. leaves everyone who texts him on read
Holland is shady in group chats and never texts back. But he’s too apathetic to figure out how to turn off read notifications, and he hopes it’ll teach people to not text him or interact with him in general in the first place.
Astrid and Athos Dane…
…I guess they’d be politicians?
I’m at the store and can’t read this yet but I already know it’s going to be the best thing I’ve ever read so I’ll be back later with thoughts
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LMAO YOU’RE RIGHT ABOUT THAT
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i feel like a buzzfeed journalist
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OMG I LOVE THIS! 😂😂😂
Alucard would definitely be internet famous… he just has that vibe. And ALL the Lila ones are so accurate (actually all of these are accurate). And just… the car chase. I need to see this. So badly.
And lmao, I laughed aloud at “…I guess they’d be politicians?”
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thanks I’m so proud of myself
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This is a true masterpiece and you should definitely send it to Buzzfeed (can you imagine they’d be like ??? HAHHA)
Kell and his hatred for socializing is… too relatable. Also Holland was FOR SURE emo in middle school, that’s just a fact. and I’m laughing so hard at Alucard being internet famous because TRUE TRUE TRUE.
Honestly all of this is too accurate. I applaud you for this
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thanks I’m smiling so hard!!!
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also are you happy that the cat is back again
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LMAO I almost yelled at Target when I saw the cat. it ALWAYS RETURNS
but honestly it really is an accurate depiction of Lila with Kell’s cookies
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oh my gosh I’m so flattered that I almost made you yell in public
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I actually got SO EXCITED when I realized I could use the cat in this post 😀
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AHHHH I’M LAUGHING AT HOLLAND’S. Omg yes. He would do that with the texts. He WOULD.😂And also Kell proposing with a knife would 100% happen. Depends if Lila would stab him with said knife or agree though?? Very up for debate.😂
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I know right?! I honestly can’t imagine Holland ever texting back to anything. He must be so shady in group chats
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