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Logan Analysis (Otherwise known as Emotions, Who’s She?)

So, I recently reread a book of mine entitled All The Crooked Saints. Some background to explain: In this book, the Soria family can practice miracles, which come in twos. The first visualizes one's darkness and the next occurs when the receiver, or pilgrim, is able to conquer it. Spoiler alert from here on: One of the Sorias, Daniel, helps a pilgrim which is taboo and therefore brings his own darkness upon himself. This causes most of the conflict in the story.

The main character is Beatriz Soria, who is often called la chica sin sentimientos. For those who don't speak Spanish (it's set in Colorado and the Soria family is from Mexico), that means The Girl Without Feeling. Beatriz is logical and prides herself on her intellect. She invented a language at age 9. She's an inventor and built a radio station.

And she too believes that she's unable to feel emotions. This causes problems, obviously, and she doesn't recognize her feelings. She's like Hermione from the books; intelligent, ruthless, no emotional intelligence. And (more spoilers) at the end of the book, her emotions cause her to go out and rescue Daniel. This brings darkness upon her, taking her sight.

It takes confessing and realizing the truth of her emotions to Pete (the guy she's in love with who was also causing emotional problems for her) (also, not romantic feelings, cuz they already kinda did that, but the fact that she has them) for her sight to return. Her darkness was the limitations her logical facade placed upon her because she was unable to comprehend the reality of her illogical emotions.

And this is where Logan is in the series. He obviously has emotions and he's shown them more and more since the first video. But he keeps his emotions pent up and they explode. He doesn't acknowledge them and that makes it so much harder for him to deal with them. He's being listened to less and less, which causes jealousy and more icky emotions. He doesn't know what to do or why this is happening or why he feels awful.

He's trapped.

Trapped in his own logic.

Trapped in his own emotions.

In the Crooked Saints universe, one cannot vanquish their darkness without giving it form first. And one cannot vanquish their darkness alone. Let's focus on the first part. Logan keeps refusing to acknowledge the problem, but by now, he knows it exists, he's not stupid.

In the next Sanders Sides, we're going to see one of two things. Either Logan continues to bottle up his feelings, which will impact Thomas, and we're not going to get character development until the video after. OR, Logan gets his character development now. He didn't get much screentime last video. He feels bitter and slighted and Deceit set him against Patton with his line about Patton saying to leave Logan alone. He's not going to be quiet this video. He's going to explode and his darkness is going to take form.

But Logan's been ignoring it this long, he will need help in dealing with his 'uh oh, feelings'. Who, then? Not Patton, Patton's been taking over. He's ignoring the others and controlling Thomas much more than the rest of them. Roman and Logan always fight and Roman's dealing with his own darkness. Deceit is still a villain and the embodiment of lies. If he shows up, it's going to be a confrontation between him and Logan in order for Logan to live in his truth.

But Virgil? Virgil is logical, he's analytical, he is Logan but he takes the worrisome and fearful parts super far. He is logic that permanently screwed by his fear, his Anxiety. He's going to be the one to help Logan recognize that being emotional and being complex isn't necessarily bad. Change isn't bad.

I also watched Ralph Breaks the Internet last night. The message there was that things changing isn't bad, and things need to flow in order to stay healthy. You can't pretend to be something you're not, you can't ignore your emotions. (Man, hitting it hard recently with that theme. Maybe that's saying something about me...)

Virgil is going to be the one that allows Logan to explore his feelings and accept all parts of him, even the ones he might not like.

Logan is going to feel. This is his character arc, and it's been building from the beginning of the show. He's been factoring Thomas' friends into his logic, because he recognizes how important they are. But he still has difficulty, and he cannot accept them in himself, until now.

Also, I predict that someone's going to say something about how emotional he's been acting, he's going to scream FALSEHOOD and everyone's just going to stand there with The Look on their face, like, 'just wait a moment,' and he's gonna be like 'oh, i apologize'

(Yeah anyway can you tell I'm a nerd and projecting onto 3 different characters at once, I'm also pretty excited for the next video)

Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a thing she feared: being asked to do anything.

Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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daniel soria: i have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life

marisita lopez: i know this, and i love you

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The wind nudged it for ninety-nine weeks in a row, and still nothing happened; the barn did not budge. But on the one hundredth week, the wind nudged the barn and the barn fell onto itself. It was not that the one hundredth week of nudging was any stronger than the previous weeks. It was not even that the one hundredth week of nudging was what had actually knocked the barn over. The ninety-nine weeks of nudging were what had truly done the job, but the one hundredth was the one around to take the credit. We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don’t always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change.

Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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