god I can’t stop thinking about the ways motion’s relationship to her elects are more like the relationship between divines and candidates in counterweight than the relationship between divines and excerpts in the twilight mirage; the candidates, the elects, they are just tools to be used until they break, they are not equals or partners in the way the excerpts were. and like motion is the only divine who directly speaks in the road to partizan intros, rather than being spoken to (which. on the subject. the way motion speaks to hyacinth is itself painful), and so it’s a little difficult to tell whether this is characteristic of her specifically or if it’s a broader pattern in the divine principality, but it’s just interesting to think about how these divine-people relationships have changed through each season of the divineverse