i can't expand on it in any way that is eloquent but i think amethar rocks is the pinnacle of a tragic character. another lou wilson slam dunk of a guy whose clumsy lack of regality makes you chuckle until you remember that he wasn't supposed to be the king at all, and that he only found himself in this position because all four of his older sisters died during the war, and he was the only one left. his marriage is played for laughs until you realize that caramelinda was not supposed to be amethar's wife — and if things had gone to plan, she would in fact be his sister-in-law. instead she's a poor facsimile of everything he lost along with his freedom and individuality. she doesn't love him; she doesn't even really like him.
"The Unfallen" is just another in amethar's long, rambling list of titles, but the longer you know amethar, the more you understand what it really is: a curse. amethar can't fall, but he can't stop those around him from dying. his sisters. his friends. his daughter, leaving in her absence a gaping wound where the curse has passed down and taken jet but left ruby, like father like daughter. sisters don't last long in amethar's life. and when he finds a man whom he loves like a brother, that man stabs him in the back. and still he can't help but live. you wonder sometimes just how much of that is will, and how much is a cruel sense of humor from whatever god or devil is responsible for amethar's life. make plans and the bulb laughs. when everything else is lost, and everyone he knows and loves has given up the ghost, only amethar will remain, because as caramelinda remarks in episode one, the battlefield is the only place where amethar has excelled. he doesn't know how to fall. but the last one standing isn't always the victor.
