One thing I love about the dark artĆfices is the recurring theme of feeling like you donāt fit in. Emma felt that she didnāt quite fit in with the blackthorns, Julian could never think of his siblings the way an older brother might, he always felt he had to be a sort of father to them.
Mark and Helen, who come back after such a long time, and they feel like they missed all those years with their siblings, and now they donāt know how to act with them.
Cristina who is completely new to LA, Kieran who has never been to the mortal world. Kit who is suddenly thrust into the shadow world.
Dru always felt too different from her siblings, too young and bigger. Ty feeling different because of his autism.
Diana feeling she could never open up completely to the blackthorns because of her secret.
In a way, they all felt set apart from the rest. I think of Arthur as a manifestation of how they all feel; someone looking from the outside.
But the most beautiful thing is that even though they all feel different, we see time and time again that the rest love them, not in spite of what sets them apart, but because of it. That even though they are all vastly different people, they are all united with love much love. I think TDA has to do with accepting that which makes you different, and loving the things that make others different from you.
The ones who couldnāt accept these differences and embrace them ended up locked away from the world in a prison of their own making (the cohort in Idris).
So with that, love the things that make you special, love the things that make others special too, not because you envy them, but because itās just another thing that makes them⦠well them.
















