juliacaesaris:TM Character Appreciation Week | (belated) Day 1: Julia Wicker“Julia knew things Quent
juliacaesaris:TM Character Appreciation Week | (belated) Day 1: Julia Wicker“Julia knew things Quentin and the others didn’t. She hadn’t had the Brakebills faculty standing over her for four years making sure she colored inside the lines. She’d talked to people Quentin never would have talked to, picked up things his professors would never let him touch. Her magic had sharp, jagged edges on it that had never been filed down.It was a different kind of education, and it made her different. She talked differently. Brakebills had taught them to be arch and ironic about magic, but Julia took it seriously. She played it fully goth, in a black wedding dress and black eyeliner. Janet and Eliot thought it was funny, but Quentin liked it. He felt drawn to er. She was weird and dark, and Fillory had made the rest of them so damn light. Quentin included. He liked it that she wasn’t quite all right and she didn’t care who knew it.The Fillorians liked it too. Julia had a special rapport with them, especially with the more exotic ones, the spirits and elementals and jinnis and even more strange and extreme beings–the fringe element, in the hazy zone between the biological and the entirely magical. She was their witch-queen, and they adored her.” - ‘The Magician King’, Lev Grossman -- source link