lyney & lynette: the matter of the assistant
[before excited word vomit, i want to emphasize that i am not a professional linguist. i'm a chinese-american person who can read moderately (and practicing) but speaks/hears the language better. the phrase i'm talking about is on a similar reading/contextual level to what i consider myself to be familiar with, but if i'm missing grammatical/lingual background, please tell me!]
one last thing about as light rain falls without reason -
in the eng trailer, lyney introduces lynette as "my wonderful assistant."
however, in the og cn trailer, he introduces her as "my most important assistant." [italics added to emphasize the description]
this is really interesting to me because it makes me wonder about lynette's part in the water tank disappearing act. she looks reluctant to go in, hesitating before taking the dive (not to mention what sounds like a very monotone "ta-da" in her cn intro)...but it doesn't seem like anyone else can do the job except for her. lyney seems to be at the forefront of their performace, the emcee, if you will. but we haven't seen him do any of the more stunts lynette does - primarily the one we've been shown, the drowning tank.
and freminiet doesn't seem like he wants to be involved in anything the twins are doing at all. per his helmet, he seems to be content to block out the spectacle and just...be void. (lol)
i also want to add that right before lynette dives into the tank, there's a cut to the icewind suite automatons placing their hands together. like a reminder of an agreement she made with lyney, or a cause she's committed to - and then she dives.
lyney needs lynette. not just for their performances - for whatever they're doing under arlecchino's hand, whatever the fatui are planning in fontaine. lynette, i feel, is the lynchpin. without her, lyney's scheme can't go through.
so, i'm just saying...depending on how our dynamics play out with the fatui in this archon quest (because what's up with childe? and, more importantly, where is his vision??), lynette might just be the person we need to convince/turn for everything to turn out all right.