I really want to talk about how culturally speaking the moment Ambessa died and said, "You are the wolf." She emotionally and mentally doomed Mel.
I call this complex the burden of God's gift.
This happens a lot to pastors and chiefs who's children aren't fully expected to take over but there's an expectation that the child will have that interest.
Ie; my father is a pastor. Many were prepared for me, by the fucking 8th grade, would be into pastoral work. In fact, they have begun to ASK ME now that I'm an adult for things to preach about.
Keep in mind, the moment my father dies he will hand the torch over to me and I will throw it into a damn lake.
Pastoring is not for me.
Now, let's put this into Mel's perspective.
Your whole life you've had to prove yourself as a Medarda. As a Noxian. You think that's what you have to do, but you do not enjoy the way your mother rules.
You leave to carve your own path but she follows with the same ideas and ruins almost everything you've worked for, all for HER SAKE.
When you learn to retaliate, she keeps saying you're not ready until she fucking dies.
And then passes the torch to you saying "you are the wolf"
Congratulations, you did what your MOTHER. AND EVERYONE ELSE (Noxians) WANTED. AND NOW YOU MUST RULE A NATION YOU HAD NO INTEREST RULING.
Culturally speaking, you just crushed Mel's hopes, dreams, and goals.
Ambessa thinks she's doing a good thing bc of the wolf god thing and she's like "you're ready"
But clearly Mel was *not* training for that. Or may not even WANT that.
I just wanted to say that this post was made while talking about how the Medardas were based off of some African influences, specifically Eastern Africa, but yes many African influences. These analyzations come from personal experiences I've had with my father who is from Ghana