I've got another game for you guys today.
Basically, in the comments below, post your headcanons for my books - any of them that I have published, even the short stories.
Put each headcanon in a distinct comment. Feel free to comment on other people's headcanons and build upon them.
Each headcanon is three points.
The blog of a girl who's looking for God's plan for her life. In the mean-time, she's knitting books and writing scarves ... or something like that.
I'm thinking Andrew's mother is still alive somewhere in Rizkaland--either as an ice statue that somehow never got thawed, or trapped in some prison or other. That, or she died in Rizkaland, and that's why she disappeared in our world. But I like to think Clara and Andrew will find her alive someday....
ReplyDeleteI think Sarah will marry Robert eventually. :-P
ReplyDeleteEver since I read The Ankulen, I've wondered if the other Ank' Jen revived (that were focused on) were the Ank' of some of your other works--just as Megan is the Len for the world of Half-Hidden, and Jen's mom is the Anka for the world of the Sun Singers and all.
ReplyDeleteOOOH. Building off this- Sylvia loves to write. And she mostly writes factual/journal/autobiographical type stuff, but sometimes she delves into fiction (especially spec fic, drawing from the various worlds she's known when her imagination gives out). And she eventually becomes an Anka and it terrifies her at first, because the scars of what she did in Rizkaland are still there, but then she starts to view it as another second chance, a bigger one than she had after the Final War, and she does a really good job as Anka.
DeleteBasically, writer!Sylvia is one of my favorite headcanons, if you can't tell.
That'd be kinda meta ... but now you have me wanting to write an AA story on this theme...
DeleteNoraeto and Ashna's children, being mixed humam and elf, make human and elf intermarriage slightly less rare.
ReplyDeleteI posted this one already on the Goodreads group, but I'm reposting:
ReplyDeleteReuben and Richard/Granite have the same sense of humor and tease their wives and sisters-in-law to no end. Amber/Sylvia and Petra have given up being annoyed at this; generally they just look at each other and roll their eyes to silently say "Yep. I know alllll about it. We married idiots."
Occasionally Robert tries to join in, but since he's only their brother-in-law and not married to any of them, Petra, Sylvia, and Sarah all give him such a withering look of "Not you too" that he very quietly and apologetically creeps away.
This is kind of bouncing off one of my interview questions, which was meant to confirm a headcanon, but-
ReplyDeleteBy a few years into Reuben, Petra, and co.'s reign, the two sets of triplets re-know one another well enough to each copy the others' mannerisms and such. Midway through one long and stressful day of meetings, Petra has an awful headache that nothing, not tea, not chocolate, not caffiene, not even Sarah's gift can cure, and she doesn't think she can manage the rest of the meetings. So Sylvia or Sarah (one of the two, probably Sarah) offers to go instead, and actually convinces everyone there. So then it becomes a thing that if one of them has to do something, but isn't feeling up to it or has to be somewhere else as well, one of the others who's free and healthy will just take her place. Usually it's Sylvia and Sarah taking Petra's place, but not always. It comes in really handy day about ten years in, when there's danger of war and Petra's supposed to attend some important official thing, but she's super sick (she was poisoned, they later find out) and can't even get out of bed. So one of the others goes instead, and it actually averts the war because the antagonistic country is like "What. Their queen can ingest our most potent poison and not only live, but actually get up and do official stuff and then do awesome stuff the next day- no way we're messing with them."
Eventually, the rumor gets out that the three of them switch places, but no one can actually tell when they've done it, so everyone carries on as usual except that Sylvia and Sarah get a little more respect than they used to. The only people who can tell are Robert, Reuben, and Richard, but they don't say anything because they started trading places (sometimes for good reasons, sometimes just for fun/pranks) within the first month after they were reunited.
Sarah discovered her ability to change her appearance because she got so frustrated with people thinking she was the Tela Du when she first arrived in Rizkaland.
ReplyDeleteThis might be more of a future speculation, but it's also a headcanon, so-
ReplyDeleteLaura is actually pretty involved with the second generation of world-hoppers (e.g. Clara, Petra, and co.'s generation) and with the kids of that second generation. She basically becomes the honorary aunt (or honorary cousin, depending what age she shows up as) of those kids, and the kids love her because she has the best stories/games and occasionally brings them cool souvenirs. Laura absolutely loves it because it makes her feel less lonely. When she eventually dies, she does so protecting some or all of them.
Sort of a future spec again, but also a headcanon:
ReplyDeleteAfter the events of the series so far, Robin becomes an unexpected role model to many girls and younger ladies all across Bookania, who now wish to learn to swordfight and go on quests and wear pants just like Robin does. This causes parents no end of annoyance. (Most eventually give in on the swordfighting, and a polite sort of fencing becomes quite acceptable among the ladies of the court, while the middle or lower-class girls learn real swordfighting from their brothers.) But the girls who want to be like Robin eventually become a whole movement, and people start having arguments about whether it's better to be a "Robin" or a "Rosamond."
Robin is amused, pleased, and a little bewildered by the fact that she unintentionally started a movement- but she's not at all happy about the arguments. She and Rosamond (who are presumably friends as well as sisters-in-law by this point) make a point of publicly praising each other and doing everything they can to let people know that one way isn't better than the other, with mixed results.
Fun fact about Robin to build off of this headcanon - Robin LOVES teaching, and is pretty good at it, so she'd probably take it upon herself to go around making sure that those girls know some proper swordplay. She wouldn't even care about class. If she runs across a girl trying to learn, she'd drop everything to give the girl a quick lesson and tips. But, yes, she'd be properly horrified by the arguments.
DeleteOk, now I want to write a fanfic about Robin giving some random (non-noble) girl a swordfighting lesson, and the girl doesn't realize it, and then Robin leaves to continue her quest (because obviously she's on a quest) and one of the girl's friends rushes up and is like "Was that Princess Robin?" and the girl is in awe. (And then maybe meets Robin again and they do awesome stuff together? IDK.)
DeleteAnd to build on that, perhaps Robert becomes a role model to quiet, reserved boys and young men who prefer reading and creative hobbies, etc. to politics and warfare.
DeleteRobert's a rather shrewd politician, actually.
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