hello to all 5 people that still care about fates. guess who’s replaying conquest
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hello to all 5 people that still care about fates. guess who’s replaying conquest
(Skyrim, PC screenshot)
still inigoposting please don’t mind me
does anyone still care about laslow and azura in 2025. hey. does anyone still think of them. of differing shades of blue. of song and dance. of loss. the parallels have me clawing at the walls
this came to me in a vision
i believe severa’s fixation on femininity is just as much a lovingly crafted prison AND method of her own empowerment as masculinity is for inigo. i give you two mercenaries. one is a woman and the other is a man. that is their baseline, that is what their supports in awakening are. this is how the story goes because that is how it's supposed to go.
it's not so simple as to say either of them are (completely) unhappily trapped in these roles, there are benefits that they absolutely stand to gain and that's what keeps them perpetuating the status quo of a heavily gendered society but it's also what keeps them from discovering anything new about themselves or each other.
and then you have owain who is supposed to be fitting into an even bigger role than either of them and he... doesn't? and it's not that he doesn't care, he just doesn't benefit any more or experience loss any less than anyone else because of it. no one looks at him and says "oh poor prince owain he lost his kingdom" because that's not the point. he is a son without a mother or a father. they are all children without their parents. what do they have to cling to? their imaginations, really. which can be a source of torment if you’re trying to live up to an ideal and one of great comfort if you’re just trying to be yourself.
owain has a role he created for HIMSELF (IMPORTANT.) over the one he could theoretically be placed into. the expectation from many people is that one day he will simply "grow out of" it. fates tells us very quickly that he won't and he never will. and neither inigo or severa will ever “grow out of” their real personalities either, but there is one thing that time can either take or reinforce for them and that's the ghost pressure of a society that no longer exists.
all of this is to say that when you put these three in a unit there is something very obvious to be said and that's that owain knows who he is. what does that say about the other two?
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hey watch this *turns them into toploaders*