#bartimaeus of uruk
I go insane thinking about Bartimaeus and Ptolemy sometimes.
It’s been over two thousand years, and I cannot even hope to conceive how long that is, but Bartimaeus still carries Ptolemy with him at all times. His default shape is that of Ptolemy to the point where people like Kitty and Nathaniel automatically associate it with Bartimaeus. He constantly thinks about Ptolemy, referencing him whenever human/spirit bonds are mentioned, comparing Kitty and Nathaniel to him, etc. He is never not thinking about Ptolemy. There are people I see every day that I think about less than Bartimaeus thinks about Ptolemy. Every interaction with humans and every moment on earth is colored by his time with Ptolemy, and Bartimaeus is so aware of that
Like despite only showing up on screen for like 5 or so short chapters, Ptolemy is such a big presence that he feels like the fourth major character after the main pov three because that’s how important he was to Bartimaeus, that’s how much Bartimaeus loves him
Ptolemy has been dead for almost half of Bartimaeus’s life, but his ghost pervades the entire series because Bartimaeus is holding on to his memory too tightly to let it fade away
“I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni, N’gorso the Mighty, and the Serpent of Silver Plumes! I have rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak, and Prague. I have spoken with Solomon. I have run with the buffalo fathers of the plains. I have watched over Old Zimbabwe till the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people. I am Bartimaeus!”
I love my boy so much.
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*throws bart*
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Thinking about those 20 minutes bart had to spend in that bottle in Ring Of Solomon… Must’ve been agony. Suffering, truly.
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(more Bartimaeus sequence art coming soon. perhaps fanfic, even)
