#fiedra marrow

[hollyevolving]

I love how Matt's instinctive DM poker face doesn't really show a reaction to this scene, while Liam's eyes already say EVERYTHING.

Also, I love the way Jasmine and Alexander played their relationship. Boss/bodyguard, adoptive mother/adopted son, whatever.

Exandria Unlimited: Divergence, Episode 3: Mirror and Key

[twinklestarss]

[sqwamps]

Shoutout to Jasmine Don for moving the story of Divergence forward with every step. Script coordinator on tlovm, UCB, sketch writer, birdclump here locked 3rd eyes with the DM from the word go and started Telling A Story. I want to see your notebooks so bad.

[justsomeone76]

I'm insane over the fact that the one aspect of Fiedra that Asmodeus didn't account for was her parental instinct. He sees her ruthlessness, her cunning, her willingness to cheat and fight and kill to protect herself, so he tempts her with riches and safety and freedom from her rotten lot and he knows she will say yes, because she is a liar, a survivor, a roach who always has an out, just like him, and Asmodeus always chooses to save himself.

She should say yes, but against all odds, she says no.

But she says no. She says no, and destroys the key to give back Timothy his soul. She says no to save a young boy because she is at heart a parent. Just how she chose to save and protect Crokus (even if it came with a fuckload of emotional baggage and mistakes) at every chance. Just how she chose to protect, to be the watchful parental guardian at Torm's Hill. Fiedra says no, not because she isn't ruthless and cunning and selfish, but because she is a parent and she loves her children.

And of course Asmodeus doesn't see it coming, because parental love is the one thing he never understood. Fiedra Marriw is perhaps the first person in all of EXU to truly beat Asmodeus, to see through his lies, to foil his plan completely, and she does it through the power of a parent's love.

[mayapapaya33]

In the continuing theme of Divergence being TOO relevant to reality, I think a lot of people in the coming days, months, and years are going to have to become the Fiedra to someone's Kephekedriel. There's a lot of discussion on this website about going no contact with people and sometimes that's what you need to do for your own safety. But the world is getting darker and more fraught, and if there's someone in your life who sucks but you love them and they love you, honestly, now's the time to reach out and talk.

Letting people wander into the open and waiting arms of the darkness when maybe you can stop them is a choice. It SHOULDN'T be your responsibility, and in a fair world it wouldn't be. But we don't live in a fair world. Friends and family have been propagandized into believing and supporting terrible things with the concerted effort of 24/7 mind melting insanity for decades, and it takes a strong will, compassion, and relentless drive to counteract that.

"Those that are standing back have a hope in their heart. The hope they have in their heart is that the world might be saved without any danger, fear, or risk on their part. Many of them are weak, and it should not be asked of them to be brave. If they are not asked to be brave, it is possible that they will watch the brave quickly die."

A brilliant and depressingly pertinent quote from Brennan. This goes for physical danger sure, but it also goes for mental battles as well. You need to be brave enough to reach out to people, to have tough conversations. To put up with shit you shouldn't have to put up with. To do the work of rehabilitating someone with terrible thoughts. To be the stable anchor of morality in a shitty person's life. To be blunt, we are all in danger, and if you think you can stop someone from becoming a full on nazi, you need to fucking do it if you can.

It's not fair, we shouldn't have to put up with homophobia or sexism or transphobia or racism or just general stupidity. But it's not about fairness, it's about effectiveness. Can you weaken the darkness' grip? Can you steal people from the dark? Perfect is the Enemy of the Good. Any damage mitigation you can do will save lives. Including possibly the life of the person trapped in the dark. Even if you never fully drag them into the light, if you can make someone think, redirect them to something better, or make them hesitate even just a little, that's worth so much.

[mayapapaya33]

Oh No, there's so little Divergence fanfiction, this is awful! lol, it's been MONTHS, where is everyone??? Where are all the lovely talented people who provide the sustenance my soul requires?

[sqwamps]

Fiedra's such a Pike ancestor to me.

[sqwamps]

Picks up Jasmine Don and puts her on a little plexiglass shelf next to Erika Ishii, Laura Bailey, and Ally Beardsley labeled GOBLINS