Just a headcanon

[pretty_plant]

I don't know why but I always like to think that John Uskglass created the King's letters when he was a boy (they could hardly be considered the King's letters back then). That is because creating your own letters sound like something a child will do. And I can imagine a very cute John Uskglass (everybody is cute at some point, including the Raven King!) being enthusiastic about this childish hobby. Maybe he had heard about writing and reading from Thomas (who has lived long enough among humans to know about the swirly thingies that spoke what you thought) or from other human slaves. Then he might have been overcome with the need to do the thing humans did but in his own way.

I also like to imagine that Thomas realized this was a childish thing to do but he also liked seeing John Uskglass having fun and maybe he might have even took some part in it by helping John creating his own letters. They might even use the letters to secretly communicate with each other.

Or this is all just my need to imagine John Uskglass as a cute boy before he turned emo (although he could be cute and emo at the same time for all I know).

Comments

[ohveda]

Ooh. Interesting. I'd never considered that Uskglass might have invented his writing while still in Faerie. I'd always assumed it was something he picked up once he was in England.

The idea of him learning from Thomas makes a lot of sense. I wonder what the fairies around them thought of this activity? Did Uskglass hide it from them maybe, thinking they might be disdainful of it?

It seems almost to be a very subversive act for Uskglass to do something so very human while still in Faerie. Is this the start of young Uskglass' determination that he was going to own the human part of himself and become influential in the human world? Or is it just a game?

(As an aside, I like to headcanon that Uskglass became emo at a very young age XD)

[regshoe]

This is an interesting idea! He was certainly precocious—perhaps the letters were one of the many magical experiments he must have tried out in those early days. I like the idea of the letters as a human thing that he does 'in his own way'—that's very characteristic <3

(In my opinion Uskglass has always been emo, but he was a very cute tiny emo as a child).