ararararara guys do you know how much I love Gyn (slight spoilers for the Gyn and Elodie (+a little cella bit) on 7/17)
Despite his age and the wisdom that comes from that- in fact, probably because of that- he has a special skill for meeting people where they're at. No matter whether that's Theo, Bite, Moki, Elodie, even Cella. He meets those people where they're at and tries to pull them higher. Challenging their thinking, their morals, their care, their beliefs about themselves or others.
In that cage, he laughed with Elodie. He joked, but he also challenged their thought process. Who they believed their friends were.
With Cella, he was more guarded, but still showed care for the mer who had stuck him in a tiny cage. Gyn is so understanding that it makes Cella angry. Gyn's grown that intuition over the years. He knows that Cella still cares, at least a tiny bit, even if it's brain is muddled by Zipher and whatever else is going on. Gyn stares one of the few people who knows how to kill him and wields a weapon that can and doesn't back down. Not in an angry or spiteful way, but in one of care. A powerful yet gentle demeanor, a mind and body tired from the end and all the time he's lived. But he hasn't become jaded.
Heck, even Cella says his heart is too big. And maybe it is. Or maybe, he's learned that it is better to be hopeful of others than to fall into pessimism and misery. The world is as bright as you can make yourself see it. And it can be far darker if that's the only thing you see.
Elodie has gotten herself to see the darkness, the danger, the horrors of living, but ignores the light. The laughs, the smiles, the true friendships and even the plants growing and livestock milling around. Elodie is scared. They might not know it themselves, but they're scared of Cella, of Zipher, of Theo, and their family, and the world. Sometimes if all a dog knows is being kicked and hurt, then it'll begin to bite back at everything, even if those things won't hurt it.
Gyn is behind bars. He is no threat, and he says that himself. Gyn won't hurt Elodie because Elodie doesn't deserve to be hurt. So those two talk, they laugh, Gyn shares secrets and Elodie does in turn. Even though Elodie isn't letting him out, Gyn understands. And he has faith that Elodie can recover. Because heck, if Bite can, so can Elodie, and he sees that potential. She isn't 'evil' because she wants power... she's here because she's scared, and truly thinks she's doing the correct thing.
And Gyn knows that sometimes what one believes to be correct must be challenged.
Yet he'll do it with kindness and patience everytime. The kindness that will truly wish a good night to a person who has locked him in a cage and threatened his life, who has mocked him. Because sometimes all someone needs to become better is someone willing to give them something to light the way.
