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Incredibly fucked up (affectionate) of The Mighty Nein to go all in on the Volstrucker being groomed to see Trent as their father. Like, there's a lot of "come home" style rhetoric that's aimed at Caleb in the original campaign, but the animated show does away with any pretence of those kinds of phrases being metaphorical
Owelia outright calls Trent "father" and expresses the kind of jealousy one sees from an angry child that's bitter about their fuck-up sibling being given preferential treatment. And based on the flashbacks, it's clear that Trent is the one pushing that cult-like father/child bond with the Volstrucker (rather than the other way around)
When he's coaching Bren through the residuum insertion, Trent says "your father needs you to be strong." The first layer of meaning is Trent reminding Bren of Leofric. He's reminding Bren that his parents sent him to the Soltryce Academy for a reason, and succumbing to the pain means failing them. But it's equally (and more so) evident that Trent was referring to himself as Bren's "father". It also would not surprise me if we learned he pulled the exact same move on Astrid, Eadwulf, and eventually Owelia, in their respective tests. One has to assume that using childrens' weakened states to plant such an association would be quite effective in ensuring that it's deep-set and goes unnoticed! After all, I'd say it's quite difficult to recognise a violation of healthy boundaries with your teacher when you're in the middle of withstanding literal torture, let alone call the perpetrator out on it
What I'm now curious about is the depths of the programming. I want to find out if some part of Caleb is still wired to call Trent "father" in spite of everything he knows. I hope we get to explore if Astrid and Eadwulf, who've been Volstrucker for years, possess a child-like association to Trent akin to Owelia's
the mighty nein + text post memes 6/? caleb and essek edition
Mighty nein shitpost 66/?
Rip Owelia, no bug shall visit your corpse
I find it SO interesting that Owelia messaged ASTRID and not TRENT
I mean we've seen her relationship with Trent more that with Astrid and Wulf, but it seemed like Trent would be the person to contact, both to make Caleb's life harder and to please Trent as she dies (no matter how wrong it sounds). So her contacting Astrid? Makes me veeeery curious
owelia things bc i like her voice a lot and her expressions and her design . and the way she talked about ikithon and her last moments asking why he wants bren back when he left and she stayed . godddddddd. so fucked up, so good. rly compelling . rip queen </3