Five Curiosities For The Next Book, After Reading The Sunshine Court

five curiosities for the next book, after reading the sunshine court

a non-exhaustive list, but five things i'm curious to (hopefully) find out more about in TSC2, or that i have questions about still:

what happened at the trojans' fall banquet (presumably jeremy's first year)? it's a Scandal, and jeremy cannot stand to be around bryson, and annalise has never forgiven him for sticking with exy after that, despite having attended all his games in high school. given the allusions to his stepfather, and also his step-grandfather being a congressman, i can see how jeremy's sexuality might be relevant to the situation—especially if we read into lucas' stiff apology and shame at his implication about jeremy and jean as being born from more than just common decency, but rather knowledge of this being a previous sticking point in terms of jeremy's scandals—but i also keep thinking about what cat said. jeremy has—three. two brothers, one sister. the way she says it, how it sticks out to jean as an odd switch, and the fact that we've only met two siblings – it makes me wonder what happened to the third. or if that's even the right question to ask, regarding jeremy's siblings.

elodie. i'm curious if we learn anything about what happened—by and large, i kinda hope not, if only because then jean has to too, unless it turns out stuart is lying, but that's a very different kind of fallout. (i don't actively theorise he is—at some point, these kids will run out of tolerance for ghost stories coming back to life—but i think its possibility ought to be considered, at least). i think we'll get more flashes of her from jean's thoughts, though, and i anticipate lots of heartbreak lmao

lucas. assuming stuart's contact comes through, and neil's hit goes ahead, we've got lucas in the aftermath of finding out his brother is a monster, and jean saying not to call the police, and then possibly his brother being dead. if it happens any other day—if it happens in west virginia, especially—i suspect lucas might be able to look at it like another domino in the ravens machine falling down, or even that something horrible happened to him when he returned home, but if it's still in LA, after what he did to jean, after jean said no cops-------i can see how that might twist into something more suspicious. who knows! i'm curious to see what happens there. grayson is a monster, but he is still lucas' brother. aaron and kevin still have complicated grief about tilda and riko, and they were their direct, constant abusers; cass never learned until after the fact, and lucas is in a complex space between the two parts of that spectrum. if grayson dies, i think the fallout will be unavoidable for exploration

this is a small one but man, i just want to keep seeing jean's list grow. it tears something out of me every time, and stitches me back together, and i want to go through that over and over, because i want to see a jean who not only hears that his life is his and worth living, but a jean who learns to believe it too

i'm just kinda assuming we see the foxes again, because i remember nora's character list having new details about characters who didn't show up in this one, but i'm also quietly hoping for more thea. their scene made me ache, and he'd never had good defenses against thea, and kevin knew that. jean would kill him for bringing her here made my heart do the !! double-tap. i'm extremely invested in jean, thea and kevin as a unit, and it would be so incredibly wonderful to see more

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Jean's french accent is probably still so fucking strong. I have a french friend and she said that their accent is so deep rooted it is almost impossible not to have it, and Jean was 14 when he was transferred to USA, meaning he still spoke French the majority of his life, so Jeremy hearing his name from Jean, his crush, his TYPE, with a fucking french accent must have been disarming. I would MELT right there and then if I were Jeremy.

the sunshine court has been out for less than two days and i already fear i am returning to my roots (all for the game blog). in my defence that book was everything i wanted. everything i needed, even. and i am not letting go

Jean swallowed hard against everything he knew better than to say and managed a quiet, ​“I will burn the house down.”

it may be a conjecture but his quote about martyr being a monster when camera stops rolling rings a little bit to personal for me.

he also said specifically that his dad was stationed in France once. stationed → military man?

and the number of siblings = we know bryson, we know annalise, but where's the last brother?

plus his dislike of cops. I think there is a chance of his father being police adjacent/military man and some policemen from around the city knowing jeremy by face and name because of his father.

I know we’re kind of talking about how normal and untraumatized the trojans are but I have to know Jeremy’s backstory okay I HAVE TO

these are all out of order but

why does he sleep with the girls on the weekends??? what’s the deal with his family??? What happened at the banquet with his sister???