Hi guys! Basically, I want to know everybody’s weird, wonderful, random and pointless headcanons about the Green Ember world. (Apologies if this has been done before, but I can’t find it so it needs redoing XD)
I’m going to dump some of my headcanons here, to get this started and because I need somewhere to put them because frankly nobody else cares.
A small selection of my GE headcanons:
#Nayna is real. In my world, they got together after the war ended and have sons called Victor and Bleston.
Kylen never gets over Heather. Unlike Garten Longtreader, though, he doesn’t start a war because of it. He just occasionally wishes things could have been different and never loves again.
Lund, Junder and Kent are with Wilfred when he arrives at First Warren in time for the last battle. Lund survives, just, but Kent dies protecting his best friend Nate. Junder lives too, having been set to work helping Moonlight feed everybody.
The remaining Bracers (Nate, Junder, Owen and Studge), after the war, buy a farm together and annoy each other as best friends are wont to do.
Cole and Jo, after the war, once try to trick Picket by howling like wolves behind his house. Possibly the worst idea they (by which I mean Jo) ever had. Picket was not impressed, and they all went away wiser.
Wilfred and Airen adopt little Helmer after Hewson’s death, and he is brought up on tales of his legendary namesake.
Heather gathers a history of Helmer’s life from those who knew him (Airen, Winslow, Wilfred, etc.) and writes the history of it and that of the other lord captains. She calls it The Last Lord Captain.
Winslow and Helmer were friends in Winslow’s youth, despite a ten year age gap. Winslow really respected him, until he had Daggler’s bitter words in his ear. They never got to have a reunion.
*pauses*
*looks at the ‘short’ list*
*grins sheepishly*
*shuts up*
As you can see, I could go on forever. I want to hear your thoughts, though. What random things are true in your Natalia that make it a better place for you? (Or worse, in the case of some of mine XD)
I'm assuming that the "Na-" in Nayna comes from Prince Naylen? That would be an interesting matchup, though since Heather and Emma talked about Heyna and also about "Naylen's wedding" I figure they would have mentioned if the two of them were an item. You did say "your world", though, so have at it. I know some fans would object to the suggestion based on the fact that, as Naylen is descended from Lander, he and Heyna would technically be (extremely distant) cousins. The idea of anyone naming a kid after Bleston seems just a tad awkward; it'd be like "hey son, let me tell you about your grandpa who wanted to murder everybody."
That Kylen idea makes me rather sad, I must say. There were definitely hints of him liking Heather, but never any sign that she reciprocated even remotely. I'd like to think that eventually (particularly given the whole "no one may ever die again" angle of Firstflower) he would have found another doe he could love and who would love him in return. I would hope Lund survives, since he had the unfortunate distinction of being Jo's friend before being ditched for the Bracers and, later, the Fowlers. I'm honestly kind of worried Studge may have been killed in the final fight.
The ex-Bracers all owning a farm together is an interesting concept; sounds like the basis for a sitcom. I'd imagine that any who survived would have eventually started families and maybe joined in expeditions like those led by the Pilgrim. The Helmer Hewson idea is a cute one, though I'd imagine he probably came into the care of one or more of his elder siblings. Even if the oldest ones didn't survive Harbone's fall or the final battle, we know Amber and two others were at Blackstone. As to the idea of there being an in-universe book about Helmer:
Winslow certainly knew Helmer at some point, but I don't get the impression they were all that close. He didn't immediately recognize Helmer when they first met and didn't seem particularly happy to recognize him later. Helmer, meanwhile, doesn't talk about Winslow as though they used to be pals.
Hope it doesn't feel like I tried to shoot down any of your ideas; I definitely like/support some of them. I'll probably contribute a few of my own at some point.