I Need Someone To Be The Annabel Lee To My Prospero. What I’m Just Supposed To Sit Here And Drink Tea

Uh oh I platonic’d your romance plot they’re declaring a sense of relentless devotion to eachother completely devoid of any romantic intention tehe

I was thinking the same thing when the authors mentioned there being another category all the students fit into the only person who doesn’t make sense to me is theo. The deans mention theo having gone to the academy before lenore I have two possible explanations for this

1. Theres a different characteristic for each class that comes through only this class is murder victims

2. Maybe there was foul play in theos death thats yet to be revealed

theory time: what unites all the students at nevermore academy?

tw: death, violence, blood, all the bad & sad stuff.

considering that nevermore academy is a kind of purgatory, there has to be a reason why it holds such a small number of people. in this realm must be plenty of places where different people, united by one characteristic, end up after death. this was also confirmed by the authors.

for a long time now I've been following the theory that all the characters of "nevermore" are united by the way they died. namely, they all were murdered.

almost from the very beginning of the story we were aware that annabel lee was murdered. the same thing was stated in the latest chapters too.

ada was clearly also brutally murdered by the nobleman she loved. the poor girl's body was probably never found. I'm afraid no one really looked for it though.

recently we also learned that duke didn’t just drown. his magical performance was sabotaged by a person unknown to us.

the cause of pluto's death was not specified in detail, but I'm inclined to believe that he was strangled by his tyrant father (and my baby felt a huge relief, I'm crying).

berenice was hit by a car, but I'm pretty convinced that it counts (?), because she was running away from a bad person. especially if we take into account the story of the poe's character with the same name.

oh, and I almost forgot about montresor, although there have been a lot (too much) of him lately. well, he was thrown under a train. not much to add.

the only people who stand out from the general pattern so far are prospero and eulalie. eulalie died in a fire. the exact cause of prospero's death is unknown to us, but with a high probability it was caused by some kind of disease, presumably the plague. however, I wouldn't rush to write these two off. the fire could have been the result of arson. not necessarily for the sake of killing poor eulalie. but in any case it's a deliberately arranged action. remember, in the eyes of the public, duke's death also seemed like an accident.

and the final chord of prospero’s life could have been, for example, not the disease itself, but a medical “mistake” during the surgery or something like that.

phew, feels really nice to finally have a platform to share some thoughts! and what do y'all think? it'd be interesting to read your theories.

One of the coolest things about reading webcomics is watching artstyles change and improve over time especially when you stick with one for long enough were it gets to truely gorgeous art and you go back to the early episodes and its like ??? My series??? I forgot you looked like this

Big artstyle change comics I’ve read

-bluechair

-castle swimmer

-lumine

I’m the grim reaper and nevermore have had artstyle changes as well but they haven’t been as significant to me

Guys I’m coming out /j (you already know im trans masc aroace lol)

I used to be an annabel lee hater.

BUT LISTEN I’VE REFORMED IVE REFORMED I’VE CHANGED

So originally I didnt like annabel lee that much which was mostly because I was a huge duke fan and I enjoyed his friendship with lenore more then lenores romantic relationship with annabel (aromantic :P) and the way she would essentially brush off all of lenores friends irked me then it turned into actual hate when she was part of the reason duke almost died

BuUuuUuUut

Then I became more of a prospero enjoyer then a duke one and lemme tell you annabels friendship with prospero completely redeemed her in my eyes

Anyway so don’t kill me I love her now shes so silly, I love posh besties, annabels just a girl how could you hate her?

Omg nevermore post this is crazy

Anyway I want to share a song from my prospero playlist, beneath the mask by lyn (from the persona 5 ost) this song has lyrics directly referencing the masque of the red death by edgar allan poe which if you didn’t know is the story prospero comes from :D

Heres the lyrics that directly reference the story

In the masque of the red death the kingdom the prince prospero oversees it facing a plague and the rich avoid it by hiding away in their homes which the poor cannot afford prospero grows bored waiting for the plague to pass so he hosts a masquerade (“at poe’s masquerade”) at the masquerade a figure appears wearing all red and a mask of a corpse prospero is offended by what he assumes is a cruel joke so he unmasks the offender (“please don’t take off my mask”) only to find there is nothing underneath (“I have no face to show”) the figure was a manifestation of the red death itself and everyone in the masquerade had just been infected

I was playing persona 5 sitting in cafe Leblanc and listening to this song when I was like “poe’s masquerade??” “Masque of the red death???” “PROSPERO!??!?!” Just wanted to share ^-^

(oh also this is an oversimplification of the masque of the red death I skipped a lot of the details and didn’t get into the themes at all please go read it yourself or find a more detailed summary its so good)

Tysm for the recommendations I’ve been thinking about reading some of these already so I’ll definitely check them out funnily enough I’ve already read suitor armor lol marionetta is probably the first one I’m gonna read just cause I’m obsessed with circus aesthetics lol

Oh also anyone wanna give me webtoon recommendations? The less romance the better but I’m ok with some. Nothing sexual. I do enjoy a good magic system. Complex characters are always good as well.

Also I’ve never seen one but do any dark academia esc webtoons exist? With or without romance, for some reason I’m ok with romance if its in the form of disfunctional academic men (maurice ✨)

I love the tumblr side blog system but I hate following people revealing my main like guys I want to have different presences in different fandoms but also follow the people whos stuff I like ugh

I’m biblically accurate frog

(I don’t feel like I know anyone well enough to tag them just yet so I’ll just leave this here anyone who wants to please continue it)

What kind of frog are you?

*not my quiz

npt: @juniperberrypipebomb @thelycanwitch @freelancing-mycologist @zipthegreat @glitchyycatt @niredsw @hefkerut @emo-space-wizard @karkat-homestuck-vantas @p-r @im-too-emotionally-involved

Rip eulalie you would have loved sam and colby

Rip prospero you would have HATED covid

Rip will you would have related to basil hallward

Rip annabel you would have loved chess.com

Rip ada you would have loved royal high

Rip berenice you would have loved my babysitters a vampire

Rip lenore you would have loved drag

Rip montresor you needed therapy

Rip duke you would have loved workplace safety laws

Rip pluto you would have loved the furry fandom

Rip morella you would have loved a break from ada

If dream is gonna keep acting like its 2021 does that mean we can put him back in prison?