“no,” she said, startling me with the weight of rebuke in her voice. “mastery was not given. they had the deep knowing of things. not mastery. to swim is not mastery over the water. to eat an apple is not mastery of the apple.”

I remember a hollow apple.

Write it before we forget.

Trump as their trump card, feels.. forced. Reaching.

A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games.

Names are important things

The English word trump derives from trionfi, a type of 15th-century Italian playing cards, from the Latin triumphus "triumph, victory procession", ultimately (via Etruscan) from Greek θρίαμβος, the term for a hymn to Dionysus sung in processions in his honour.

Trick-taking game like Spades/Euchre, but the Fool is our focus, the highest trump card

The tarot deck contains a fifth suit, known in gaming as the atouts or honours, which serves as a permanent trump suit in games played with the tarot deck. The suit consists of twenty-two cards, including a Fool which serves as the highest trump

So Trump is a... counterfeit trump card? Presented as a clown by the media. Forced perception, but he's missing a heeler. The Fool needs the heeler, hard requirement

“What?” the Cthaeh asked. “Are you looking for a different why? Are you wondering why I tell you these things? What good comes of it? Maybe this Cinder did me a bad turn once. Maybe it amuses me to set a young pup like you snapping at his heels.

It's not just about being mocked or perceived as Foolish. It's shadow, your shadow, at your heels. That's what makes a Fool.

James

masc. proper name, New Testament name of two of Christ's disciples, late 12c. Middle English vernacular form of Late Latin Jacomus (source of Old French James, Spanish Jaime, Italian Giacomo), altered from Latin Jacobus (see Jacob).

Jacob

masc. proper name; Old Testament patriarch, son of Isaac and Rebecca and father of the founders of the twelve tribes, from Late Latin Iacobus, from Greek Iakobos, from Hebrew Ya'aqobh, literally "one that takes by the heel; a supplanter" (Genesis xxv.26), a derivative of 'aqebh "heel."

There is no Peter Pan without Captain James.

lmao Captain. And I named mine Chief