clearly grand mother silk loves lace enough to sustain her, keep her useful in the main citadel, and lay down her life for her…
but she doesn’t seem to love her enough to actually remind her of this until the time is dire. by the way lace acts we can clearly see that lace feels (and is) neglected and unloved. she feels her life is meaningless and isn’t even a life anyway, moreso a construct, because of the way she was made.
comparing hornets upbringing to laces assumed upbringing, and how the two act, shows that the two had insanely different experiences of motherhood. one had three mothers, all having good intentions for her and genuinely wanting to see her succeed, and helping her achieve this by encouraging her to follow her own path and be able to defend herself when needed. she is mature, poised, honest, able to take responsibility, selfless, and doesn’t take anybody’s bullshit. the other one, however, HAS no present mothers to fall back on. she is angry, childish, erratic, selfish, cynical, horrifically depressed and, to top it all off, Insanely suicidal. all while covering that up with a snarky, sarcastic mask.
so clearly lace didn’t have those good influences in her life like hornet did.
so clearly grand mother silk didn’t nurture her as a traditional mother should. she sustained her, yes, but actual emotional support and encouraging her to grow past being her loyal perfect daughter was completely out of the question. she was silent her whole upbringing.
there is also the inclusion of phantom that, once lace found out about, surely pushed her into an even worse place mentally. although lace is the ‘favourite’ child out of the two, they end up two different types of sad and neglected. i am assuming phantom started to grow emotionally, so they were cast out. imagine the fear it cast in lace to realise phantom was cast out because of their eventual maturity. that if she does that too she’s heading for the same fate. that’s nothing a daughter should ever feel. for either of them.
lace could’ve easily had the same fate as phantom if she decided to speak her own mind more freely. instead she probably bottled it all up. out of fear, i guess, especially if this started after meeting phantom. nooot normal.
grand mother silk is territorial and selfish, and loves her daughters. i guess. but in a doll-like, neglectful, incredibly selfish way. they can only EVER BE her little daughters and if they turn into anything else e.g independent adult women (or just…bugs in phantoms case) they’re cast out. if we’re going with the assumption that the weavers were cursed with infertility after they rebelled, that is like. the ultimate punishment … just for realising that grand mother silk betrayed them and speaking up about it. woah.
that’s why whenever i see people say grand mother silk was a good mother that loved lace it kinda…rubs me the wrong way? Like yeah i guess she did but not necessarily as a DAUGHTER more like a security doll she couldn’t give up. silk would say daughter yeah but she’s incredibly unreliable. to me, it seemed the only motherly thing grand mother silk did for lace was what she did in the abyss. but even then im like … this isn’t genuine motherly love to me.
a good mother would never make her children frail on purpose. a good mother would never make her children do her bidding forever like that.
grand mother silk to me seems like somebody who prefers the idea of being a mother to actually being a mother. which is incredibly neglectful and selfish. kinda mother gothel vibes? especially if you compare her to someone like herrah like i did earlier.
idk man. yeah she did love her but… I don’t know man. if she just wanted children for the sake of having children she wouldn’t have made them frail on purpose, nor would she have shunned any one of them that even dared to speak up.
i think her making sure lace stayed alive was too little, much too late. although it’s nice to see silk finally admit SOME love for her daughter by giving up her life to see her okay, it’s just not enough is it?
