Elinor, walking into her house: Hello, people who do not live here.
Farid: Hey.
Dustfinger: Hi.
Fenoglio: Hello.
Darius, standing behind Elinor: I gave you the key to our place for emergencies only.
Dustfinger: I was out of Doritos.
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Fenoglio: Elinor gave me a 'get better soon' card.
Rosenquarz: Well, that's sweet.
Fenoglio: I wasn't sick. She just thought I could do better.
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@incorrectinkheartquotes why would you hide such masterpiece in the tags
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Someone, somewhere: *dogears a page in a book*
Elinor: *gasps audibly*
Darius: What???
Elinor: Something terrible has happened. I can sense it.
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~~~Halloween Headcanons~~~
Resa loves halloween and making her own costumes. The Folchart’s have always given out the best candy and have the most decorated house in their neighbourhood. Resa makes hot coco for everyone when they sit around the fire to tell stories. Mo reluctantly dresses up but usually it’s just a pair of ears or a hat. Meggie and Farid tried to put a costume on Gwin once, but quickly learned their lesson.
Dustfinger likes to put on fire shows, he can make all sorts of monsters and figures out of fire to entertain his audience. I like to think there is some similar holiday in the inkworld when the motley folk will put on cool masks and celebrate. He makes Basta’s life a living hell because he tells them there is a witch in the forest who come into the village every halloween to pick a victim.
Farid dresses up as Dustfinger every year and takes trick or treating very seriously. He loves doing pranks and scaring everyone, but when Dustfinger tells ghost stories he has to sleep inside with the lights on afterwards.
Elinor hates halloween. She turns off all the lights and hopes no children come knocking at her door. She does enjoy buying candy for herself and staying up reading classic horror novels though.
Fenoglio always goes out with his grandchildren to get candy. His ghost stories are obviously the best, but the parents complain they are too scary for the kids.
Halloween is a bad time for Basta. He will carve hundreds of jack o’ lanterns to ward off evil spirits. They’re actually pretty good but a huge fire hazard. He also refuses to go out at night lest the witch gets him.
Capricorn puts on a huge party with a bonfire and lots of food. The black jackets will wear horrifying masks and terrorize the locals villages. It’s best not to refuse them what they want when come knocking at your door. They also enjoy smashing and stealing Basta’s pumpkins. At least one of them has gotten a jack o’ lantern stuck on his head. It was probably Flatnose.
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it’s supposed to say unauthorized but I also can’t read
Your favourite inkheart character?:)
Oh, definitely the Black Prince!!! ♥ He’s wonderful! To quote Elinor:
"The Black Prince?" She blushed like a girl as she saw him and his bear standing with Snapper. "Oh, he’s magnificent!", she breathed. "And so is his bear. The bear looks just the way I imagined him! Ah, this is all so wonderful, so incredibly wonderful!"
I do like a good written villain but most of the time my heart belongs to the good guys and he’s definitely one of the good guys. He has a heart of gold, he’s amazingly positive (even in darker times he seems to be able to hope for better), he is loyal af, he sometimes trust too easily but that means that he can see good in most people (even if some of them don’t deserve it!!!). Every scene with him and his loyal bear (and Baptista^^) makes me smile - except when he’s sad or hurt, then my heart aches for him. Like Fenoglio, I don’t want anything bad happen to him and I 100% agree, he doesn’t deserve all the bad and cruel things that happen/happened to him!!! He cares for every lost or hurt creature that passes his way and protects them and he’s so very brave!!!
So...yeah, the Black Prince is my favorite character out of the Inkworld series (and I’m so happy that Cornelia Funke said that he’ll be part of the 4th book♥♥ - tho I don’t like the rumors that she wants him and Violante to come together - I mean, they never spoke to each other, the reason (so far) is that Violante loved the role that the Bluejay played more than the Bluejay himself and since the Black Prince has a similar role she might fall for him...... idk... but if it’s good written - we’ll see🙃🤷♂️
Thanks for your ask 😊
Anonymous asked:
Meggie, Mo, and the Bluejay for the Inkheart Asks pls?
Thank you for the asks 😊
Meggie: Who are your top 3 favorite characters?
The Black Prince, Baptista and either Meggie or Elinor🤔🤔
Mo: What is your favorite part in the books?
Beware, SPOILERS!!
My favorite part is in Inkdeath the when they have to flee the Milksop and go to the Tree with the Human Nests ♥♥
Especially when the Giant comes to their rescue…. So beautiful!!! (Even with all the dangerous stuff happening)
The Bluejay: What is your favorite quote?
As said in my answer to softabomination, I can’t decide on one quote so I will answer this time with another quote than the one I gave previously 😇
Here it is, Baptista introducing us (the reader) to the Bluejay in the Secret Camp (chapter 14 of Inkspell - again):
“The songs give a detailed description of him, though.”, Sootbird gave Fenoglio a searching look. “So they do!”, Baptista leaped to his feet, put his hand to his shabby belt as if he wore a sword there, and peered around as if looking for an enemy. “He’s said to be tall. That’s no surprise. Heroes usually are.”, Baptista began prowling up and down on tiptoe. “His hair,”, he said, stroking his own head, “is dark, dark as moleskin, if were to believe the songs. Now, that’s unusual. Most heroes have golden hair, whatever you take golden hair to look like. We know nothing about his origins, but one thing’s for sure”, and here Baptista assumed a haughty expression, “none but the purest princely blood flows in his veins. How else would he be so brave and noble?” “No, you’re wrong there!”, Fenoglio interrupted him. “The Bluejay is a man of the people. What kind of a robber gets born in a castle?”. “You heard the poet!”, Baptista looked as if he were wiping the haughtiness right away from his brow with his hand. The other men laughed. “So lets get to the face behind the feathered mask.”, Baptista ran his fingers over his own ruined face. “Of course hes handsome and distinguished and pale as ivory! The songs don’t say so, but we know that a heros skin is pale. With due respect, Your Highness!”, he added, bowing mockingly to the Black Prince. “Oh, don’t mind me! I’ve no objection!”, was all the Prince said, his expression unchanged.
And another quote that I love very much (that I have to add because I really can’t decide - sorry not sorry🙃). It’s from a later point in Inkdeath - so I should probably warn you that this could include some kind of SPOILERS:
“The White Women leave silence behind them, Prince, not words.“ "Silence?”, the Black Prince laughed, and embraced him. “What are you talking about? They’ve left joy behind, pure joy! And hope, hope again at last! I feel younger than I’ve felt for years! As if I could tear up trees by the rootswell, maybe not that beech, but many others. By this evening, everyone will be singing that the Bluejay fears Death so little that he seeks it out, and the Piper will tear the silver nose off his face in a rage…”
Thank you again for the asks^^
From this ask game
Elinor & The Bluejay, asking as someone completely alien to the fandom
Thank you for the ask 😊
Elinor: What made you pick up Inkheart?
Uff, difficult. That’s like 5000 years ago 😉
I got the first book as a gift and it looked beautiful and interesting. I mean, just look at this beautiful cover:
😍😍😍
And the first few pages are captivating (just as the rest ofc) so when I started reading, I was lost 😊
If you like books that have both elements of the real world and a fantasy world, good child-parent relationships, villians that are interesting, darker themes w/o becoming an overall sad story, emotional parts that make you laugh, cry and cry w laughter, lots and lots of wonderful ♥ characters that you’re going to learn about through the 3-book series (and there’s said to be another book soon - so more to look forward to) then the Inkworld series might be something for you (the books are called “Inkheart” (Tintenherz), “Inkspell” (for some ineffable reasons they changed Tintenblut - Inkblood to Inkspell) and “Inkdeath” (Tintentod)) 💕💕
The Bluejay: What is your favorite quote?
Um...my favorite quote...hmm.. I’d say every quote with the Black Prince and his bear♥ (well except some in Inkdeath...with some red berries...SPOILER) 😉 but which of them do I like the most?????🤔
Hmmm...(btw, thanks to your ask I found a continuity mistake in my current Inkworld-WIP🙃, so thank you^^). Okay, after rereading bits of the books I’d say my favorite quote is the indroduction of the Black Prince (chapter 14 of Inkspell):
The Black Prince was not alone. Of course not; his bear was with him, as usual. He was crouching by the fire behind his master, like a shaggy shadow. Fenoglio still remembered the words he had used when he first created the Prince at the very beginning of Inkheart. He recited them quietly to himself as he approached him: An orphan boy with skin almost as black as his curly hair, as quick with his knife as his tongue, always ready to protect those he loved - his two younger sisters, a maltreated bear, or his best friend, his very best friend, Dustfinger [...]
(okay, tbh I still can’t decide which of the quotes I found (including the one above) is my favorite but someone else asked me the same question so I can therefore decide on another quote for their answer 😬😇)
From this ask game
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Elinor: Fire-eater, I told you yesterday, no pocket knifes at the breakfast table.
Dustfinger: You said the dinner table.
Elinor: It’s the same table!
And Mo would take Elenor’s side, while Meggie would playfully take Dustfinger’s. And Farid just pulls out a bigger knife, because “Hey, she only said no pocket knives.”
Helen Mirren as Elinor Loredan and John Thomson as Darius in Inkheart
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Waiiit…
Darius is reading The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux here, a play about an eccentric old lady who punishes a bunch of evil capitalists (with death), together with a ragtag crew of equally weird friends. She also convinces a young man, who was working for the bad guys, but who got second thoughts and wanted to commit suicide, to continue living and find joy in the world. It’s all about protecting beauty and freedom and humanity.
Fitting, hhm? I love how Darius looks at Elinor, looks at the book and back at Elinor^^
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ok so like idk if this is just me. But I never pictured elinor as a tiny, frail looking old lady. I always pictured her as older (but not close to elderly) with short hair that definitely went white prematurely and a more imposing stature (more heavy set, taller than Fenoglio who is short and elderly or close enough to it).