Itās time for more gif-inspired meta!Ā Because that is my way.
First off, I donāt think Isaac looks at Rey as an animal, but he is 100% certain that the Camarilla does and that view would forever exclude Rey from the Camarilla clubhouse.Ā That is not what I find most interesting about this moment.Ā What I find most interesting is that Isaac is both wrong and right at the same time, and both how heās wrong and how heās right are shaped through a lens of aggressive and unrecognized projection.
See, heās wrong in that I do think that if Rey did enough and kept working at it the Camarilla probably would eventually let him in.Ā But heās right that Rey will never be anything more than an animal to the Manhattan Camarilla (your mileage varies city to city, but the Manhattan Cam is yuppie and elitist as fuck, from what weāve seen).Ā They would accept Rey, but he would never be anything more than a pet to them.Ā He would never be treated as an equal, and to Rey thatās going to be just as bad as being excluded entirely.
I think it would be similar for Serif.Ā Isaac insists that she would be executed by the Camarilla right along with him, but from what weāve seen in season 2, reactions to Argus are not nearly so extreme.Ā If anything there is a generalized apathy about him.Ā So I think that Serif would not be entirely shut out, but she would be treated very much akin to how the homeless are treated by an elitist society: she would either be ignored, shooed along to be someone elseās problem, or treated as a charity case.Ā She would also never be equal, but she could be someoneās pity-cling-to-their-humanity-project.Ā Which would be frankly on the same level of mistreatment as Rey, and just as unacceptable to her.
But I say Isaac is projecting because he really is.Ā He looks at how the Camarilla would treat the others through the lens of how he knows they would treat him.Ā Just look at how Coco reacted when she learned that there was a Tzimisce in the Bronx.Ā This was not the apathy given to the Ravnos or the vague fascination given to the Gangrel.Ā This was a visceral horror and disgust, and it seems to be shared from the bottom to the top of the Camarilla.Ā The only thing they told Panhard that seemed to really get her attention was that their city had a Tzimisce in it, because Isaac is not a person to the Camarilla, and heās not even something as benign as an animal.Ā To the Camarilla, based on nothing more than his clan, Isaac is a monster.
Ā And you donāt treat monsters as pets or charity cases.Ā You put them down.Ā Ā
Isaac is in the unique position of being part of the one clan who the Camarilla genuinely would not accept, and would hunt down and kill rather than even consider tolerating.Ā He is a threat that has to be eliminated, the stain of the Sabbat never washed away the way that the Lasombra managed.Ā His clan isnāt just mystical orĀ strange or ruthless; they are body horror personified.Ā And there is nothing he can do about that except keep his head down and get in good enough with the Anarchs that he buys himself a measure of protection.
So of course he looks at the people who--through no choice or fault of his own-- want to exterminate him, and view them and their actions through the least possible charitable lens.Ā And it even makes sense that he would take the danger heās in and project it onto otherĀ āoutcastā clans like Gangrel and Ravnos.Ā Itās safer, and frankly thereās a level of comfort there, not being alone to face the axe.Ā If thereāsĀ a whole lot of clans who would also be killed or shunned, heās less of a priority.Ā If heās alone as the one Anarch Tzimisce, the only one of that faction that the Camarilla would actively hunt down purely based on his clan, thatās so much worse.
I think this is whatās so much fun about having the most experienced and knowledgeable of this coterie still be very young and his perceptions still be very warped by wrong conclusions about things heās heard and experienced.Ā It means that Isaac is often wrong, and the information the coterie is running on can also often be wrong.Ā But it also means heās right on weird levels, that he perceives the way things really work, and even if he comes to the wrong conclusions about those things, you can figure out fascinating truths about unlife in New York through his perspective.
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