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18 Feb 2015 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whatevermortalI kinda feel like being on Tumblr has made me forget how to blog properly? Like, it's so easy to just reblog everyone else's content that I got lazy about producing my own. And, I mean, then Iaccidentally ended up with too many mutuals who were from my real life & don't understand fandom/shipping at all, which made it awkward to be myself bout fandom stuff. So pretty much i'm going back through my old posts on LJ and Tumblr because one is all locked up & the other is a fucking mess and I can't find anything on it, and I'm moving the stuff I still like here. It's kinda helping me recalibrate I think?
But yeah, this is a roundabout way of saying that I just found a really old inception headcanon from, like, Feb of 2011 and it was flawless ok it was perfect.
So Garth Nix wrote this excellent 7 book series called Keys to the Kingdom. I've only met one other person who's read it and also seen Inception, but look. It's essentially set on a vaguely futuristic earth with superior medical treatments which could feasibly be a universe where dreamsharing could be developing/developed.
And the main character is this boy called Arthur Penhaligon.
Arthur P is baby Arthur.
[And ok huge spoilers for the KttK series from here on out]
So, ok, basically the plot of the series is that Arthur is this kid with incredibly severe asthma & when he almost dies of an attack at the beginning of the series, he gets dragged in this sort of alternate dimension called the House where pretty much everything is done to keep the multiple worlds that exist (outer realms) running. He's tasked with bringing together the pieces of the Architect's (read: god figure) Will. As he gets further through the task, he turns less and less human and the Will (who is a physical being, rather than something written down) gets less and less helpful.
Turns out, the Will was not actually created to help the Architect save the House; it was meant to destroy everything ever created because she was bored and sick of being the most powerful being. Everything is destroyed before Arthur finds that out and she basically hands him the baton and is like, "Yo you're the new architect now, have fun." Arthur who is now not Arthur but the Architect, then recreates the outer realms as they were when they were destroyed. He then ages himself up & separates a part of himself back into Arthur Penhaligon and sends the little dude off back to his real life.
So like
1) Impossible/magical staircases are a big thing in this series, and Arthur has to use them a bunch of to make his way through the House and outer realms at various points--which ties is v nicely with Inception Arthur's fascination with Penrose Stairs.
2) Of course an Arthur who experience this as a child ended up in dreamsharing???? Can you imagine going back to a totally normal life after a childhood experience like this???
3) I can't remember if Arthur P still has his asthma at the end of the series when he's remade, but he spend 10+ years not able to run so i think the freedom of movement & breathing he would have in dreams would be incredibly appealing whether or not he fully grew out of it/was remade without it.
4) Not really evidence but, ok, Arthur P asked the architect if he was mortal now & the architect lied and said YES so first of all, v good explanation of why Arthur is such an incredible pointman and second of all, I want all the fic of him finding out that he can't die after all.
5) Definitely not evidence, but Suzy Blue is an A++++ character & she's been in someone's dream in canon, soo you better believe she would hang round Arthur's dreamscape when she felt like it, calling him Artie and making trouble and becoming BFFs with Eames.
completely unrelated, but if i can't have KttK crossover!Arthur, i want Arthur Waldorph, because if you don't think he would be perf as Blair's older brother idk what to say to you.
Apart from, like, your wrong as heck. They'd be adorable.
It provides an excellent reason for him to keep his surname intensely private: it's too distinctive and it would be way too easy for enemies to find his family. And his work in dreamsharing absolutely explains his absence from Blair's life, because either he's busy working or he's keeping away for her & Eleanor's safety.
But yeah, this is a roundabout way of saying that I just found a really old inception headcanon from, like, Feb of 2011 and it was flawless ok it was perfect.
So Garth Nix wrote this excellent 7 book series called Keys to the Kingdom. I've only met one other person who's read it and also seen Inception, but look. It's essentially set on a vaguely futuristic earth with superior medical treatments which could feasibly be a universe where dreamsharing could be developing/developed.
And the main character is this boy called Arthur Penhaligon.
Arthur P is baby Arthur.
[And ok huge spoilers for the KttK series from here on out]
So, ok, basically the plot of the series is that Arthur is this kid with incredibly severe asthma & when he almost dies of an attack at the beginning of the series, he gets dragged in this sort of alternate dimension called the House where pretty much everything is done to keep the multiple worlds that exist (outer realms) running. He's tasked with bringing together the pieces of the Architect's (read: god figure) Will. As he gets further through the task, he turns less and less human and the Will (who is a physical being, rather than something written down) gets less and less helpful.
Turns out, the Will was not actually created to help the Architect save the House; it was meant to destroy everything ever created because she was bored and sick of being the most powerful being. Everything is destroyed before Arthur finds that out and she basically hands him the baton and is like, "Yo you're the new architect now, have fun." Arthur who is now not Arthur but the Architect, then recreates the outer realms as they were when they were destroyed. He then ages himself up & separates a part of himself back into Arthur Penhaligon and sends the little dude off back to his real life.
So like
1) Impossible/magical staircases are a big thing in this series, and Arthur has to use them a bunch of to make his way through the House and outer realms at various points--which ties is v nicely with Inception Arthur's fascination with Penrose Stairs.
2) Of course an Arthur who experience this as a child ended up in dreamsharing???? Can you imagine going back to a totally normal life after a childhood experience like this???
3) I can't remember if Arthur P still has his asthma at the end of the series when he's remade, but he spend 10+ years not able to run so i think the freedom of movement & breathing he would have in dreams would be incredibly appealing whether or not he fully grew out of it/was remade without it.
4) Not really evidence but, ok, Arthur P asked the architect if he was mortal now & the architect lied and said YES so first of all, v good explanation of why Arthur is such an incredible pointman and second of all, I want all the fic of him finding out that he can't die after all.
5) Definitely not evidence, but Suzy Blue is an A++++ character & she's been in someone's dream in canon, soo you better believe she would hang round Arthur's dreamscape when she felt like it, calling him Artie and making trouble and becoming BFFs with Eames.
completely unrelated, but if i can't have KttK crossover!Arthur, i want Arthur Waldorph, because if you don't think he would be perf as Blair's older brother idk what to say to you.
Apart from, like, your wrong as heck. They'd be adorable.
It provides an excellent reason for him to keep his surname intensely private: it's too distinctive and it would be way too easy for enemies to find his family. And his work in dreamsharing absolutely explains his absence from Blair's life, because either he's busy working or he's keeping away for her & Eleanor's safety.
