aaighh thinking about Blackavar. this is gonna be long:
so when Holly first mentions him:
"I've never been near anyone so frightened in my life" really hits different knowing that Holly lived through the destruction of Sandleford :'(
'I can't seem to remember anything' 😭😭
honestly, fuck you campion. But shoutout to Blackavar for giving him a good fight.
even when he's escaping he immediately looks to Bigwig for orders:
It looks like he has a grudge against Campion (perfectly reasonable, so did I):
And this scene is fascinating to me:
'I thought you gave an order' ahhh!!! He's so...conditioned. Efrafa fucked him up bad 😭😭
He's absolutely shocked to see Bigwig casually joking and arguing with Hazel:
Blackavar becoming just as important at WsD as the Sandleford rabbits <3:
and I won't go into his whole backstory but just--his contradictory attitudes toward Efrafa: he wanted to "make it" in the system and was proud to train in the Owsla, but at the same time he resented that whole system
The implication that at first he was only upset about being passed over for a promotion and got more radicalized when he made friends with Hyzenthlay:
and even after the escape he still "saw himself as a trained Efrafan":
it's all about those damn wide patrols
PLEASE SAY MORE ABOUT THE EFRAFAN ACCENT. DOES HYZENTHLAY HAVE AN ACCENT TOO
either he's got crazy traumatic memory loss (entirely possible given he's introduced saying he can't remember anything), or is just so afraid to admit to having a different opinion than an authority figure that he hasn't gotten over it when talking to Hazel and Bigwig. ugh!
back on the "we've got to kill campion" train:
(side note: book!Campion must be pretty scary-looking for Hazel to mistake him for Woundwort!)
I'm glad Adams follows up about how he gets on back at Watership Down:
he's besties with Holly and amazing at patrolling <3 also important to note that he's permanently disabled
and he's the one who knows best exactly what the Efrafans are capable of:
but he still stays in the warren and fights:
I love him!! Even on top of getting arrested and maimed, he's so psychologically messed-up from being raised and trained in Efrafa, and he sometimes comes off as detached but he's so earnest and loyal and tenacious! 10/10 character
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