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Todoroki: Almost started a fire in the kitchen today.

Midoriya: What did you do?!

Todoroki: I was TRYING to make you a nice dinner.

Midoriya: Aww, Todoroki-kun. What was it?

Todoroki: So far? Just boiling water. I think I burnt it.

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[20180618] JB’s IG Story with Youngjae

Yeah?

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Regarding parallels between Miriam and Rameses and parallels between Aaron and Rameses, I tend to think of them the same way: that they show certain similarities, but they also reveal fundamental differences. Character traits such as Miriam’s and Rameses’ stubbornness, and Aaron’s and teenage Rameses’ cautiousness, come to mind... though not the best or most “go-to” examples, maybe. (I have given more thought into Aaron’s and teenage Rameses’ cautiousness, mainly because I’ve had more time to sit with it.)

I’ve written about some of the parallels, or seeming parallels, between Aaron and Rameses before; however, this is probably my first time writing about a Miriam and Rameses (seeming) parallel. The screencaps are meant to highlight similar emotions rather than strict or overt visual connections. (Also, as more of a side note, I feel like I rarely find their names next to each other, and seeing the combination — typing it — is unsettling.)

1. Excitement and expectation: Brother, you’re back!

Miriam and Rameses express joy when Moses appears before them. For Miriam, her brother’s return is something she’s been waiting for and believing would happen (“when he was ready”). She’s caught off guard by his arrival at her and Aaron’s exact door, but she is overwhelmed to see him, the brother she was not allowed to grow up with, at last. Rameses, on the other hand, might not have been waiting for Moses to return to Egypt*, but there are also no hard feelings built up or expressed in this moment. Instead, and like Miriam, he’s surprised and happy to see his brother again.

In addition to this joy over seeing Moses, is the significance of his return: what his appearance means to Miriam and Rameses, and what they think his reasons are. For one thing, I think that both Miriam and Rameses want Moses to stay. (And however different my feelings are about these two characters individually, or particular about the finer details of these scenes, I do believe that the desire/expectation that Moses will stay is honest.) There’s a comparable “welcome home” kind of feeling to how they receive him, reclaiming and proclaiming him as family (which actually makes me reflect on their dissimilar histories with him, and what Moses might be feeling over the course of his life about his two families, being caught between them ...but that’s a post for another day). In these two scenes, Miriam and Rameses seem to take his return as meaning that he’s going to stay, and they assume reasons or purpose for his coming back in the first place.

2. Disappointment and hurt: Whose freedom?

Among Miriam’s expectations are that Moses must know the truth about his identity and past; that he knows about his people, and cares about their freedom; that he’s returned for these reasons. When it becomes clear to her that Moses hasn’t been told anything, but also that he himself is indifferent to their plight, she’s blindsided and pained. She’s hurt when she realizes that her brother, whose return and aid she anticipated for so long, has not come back to deliver their people to freedom.

One of Rameses’ expectations, and probably chief among them, is that Moses has returned for Rameses’ sake (or for Egypt’s sake ...which is synonymous with Rameses’ sake, since he is Egypt). He’s eager to use his full authority to carry out his promise to pardon Moses, and he believes they can pick up where they left off, actions and wishes that I think are genuine and understandable, but also (ultimately) reflect his ignorance. By the end of the throne room scene, it is clear that Moses has returned with an intention wildly outside of Rameses’ hopes, and comprehension. He’s hurt when he realizes that Moses has returned to Egypt to free his people.

What Miriam and Rameses share is a sense of disappointment and hurt: that Moses doesn’t care, and he didn’t come back for the reasons they expected. (As another side observation, I think it’s interesting that all three of Moses’ siblings experience fallout from Moses’ indifference.) What’s particularly pressing about the parallel at hand is that Rameses is and remains totally apathetic to the value of Moses’ mission and indeed the value of the people he, Rameses, owns (rolling his eyes: “Slaves”). To him, it’s unfathomable as to why Moses would come back to free them. Miriam, by contrast, has been a slave her entire life; she’s been oppressed directly by Egypt’s — in her lifetime, Seti’s and Rameses’ — unyielding cruelty. She has an indisputable right to a life of freedom, to fight for herself and her people’s survival (though she shouldn’t have to, if only Rameses would do the right thing), and her hopes for liberation and for Moses’ return are justified. This is just one of the fundamental differences between the two that not only adds layers to their respective interactions with Moses, but also validates Miriam’s experiences and needs over Rameses’.

Last edited: 11/14/18, minor edits

* Rameses does ask, “Where have you been?” So perhaps he has been waiting for Moses’ return... but not necessarily. (I might add more to this later.)

Notes: I hope it’s clear that I’m not calling Moses and Rameses’ relationship unreal or inauthentic. They are brothers. What I am saying is that Rameses’ attitude towards and treatment of Moses’ people are wrong and invalid ...which of course cross over into their relationship.

Rameses’ ignorance refers to the fact that things being “the way they were before” involves the suppression of Moses’ Jewish identity (and Moses won’t/can’t allow himself to go back to his old willful ignorance regarding his people’s suffering). When held by Rameses (or Tuya), the attitude of “it doesn’t matter where you come from, we still love you anyway” isn’t actual acceptance, because it does matter where Moses comes from; who he is and how he came to be a member of his adoptive family do matter. This part about accepting Moses is another key contrast between Miriam and Rameses.

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[20180618] Sunshine Youngjae’s IG Update with a handsome selca

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