oughghg a glimpse of the result of shadow weaver's conditioning in the flesh... catra is not allowed to be individually defined outside of adora. she is force captain catra now but she is always stationed to adora. she is still curled at the foot of adora's bed. shadow weaver's powers might be borrowed but it's crazy how easily she puts adora's big shadow over catra and asks her to chase it so that she never leaves that shadow. that'll damage a person in a way magics can't.
i'm gnawing on this actually. catra should develop an identity crisis and singleminded obsession over adora as a treat. for me specifically.
can i ramble because there's something delightful about vaelus' and thimble's narrative encircling each other. both immortal beings confronted by mortality in different unique ways. thimble beginning to age after the door to the faerie closed those years ago. vaelus' open desperation for her stone that promised her place after death, like a sick mix of faith and *preparation*. both "immortals" being denied of their forever homes - thimble is kept away from her birth place and thimble kept vaelus away from her resting place. like oh for two people who were considered the most deadly, that had felt delicate.
when vaelus looked at halandil and said with a veiled smirk that she was sorry she had forgotten how grieving was supposed to look like? that was insane. the grief found in hal's house was precious, kind and an open wound. vaelus' grief from 70 years ago has since crusted into something hardened. thaisha's jab at the death of vaelus' god was met by a smile, hidden beneath a mourning veil made of chainmail. and that's the point of it i think. vaelus wore her grief like an armour, heavy, impenetrable and made for wars.
i Love being unnecessarily conspiratorial so hear me out when i say lady aranessa royce was responsible for the attempt on thimble's life and the robbery of stone of nightsong.
thjazi's secret apartment was found out, thimble said nobody knew about this so it must've been an inside job.
the crow keepers were accompanied by, from the footprint, someone who was likely a noble.
aranessa was not present prior and during the execution.
aranessa is capable of holding a grudge on the halovars over implied house dispute decades ago. thjazi betrayed aranessa's house two years ago.
(here's where it gets tinfoily!) bolaire isn't the only one in the funeral who knew about the stone of nightsong.
vaelus declared something was stolen from her and aranessa's first question was to clarify if vaelus was from mournvale, which happens to be where the stone was stolen.
earlier, aranessa showed concerns that house royce lost its relevance after the faerie door closed, meaning her house is dependant on faerie influence.
stone of nightsong might be key to opening the door again? it had the ability to bypass underworld. house royce to reverse engineer the stone to bypass the door between araman and faerie.
consider: lady aranessa was not a grieving widow, she was through and through a woman scorned - "the pain is mine to feel".
like what do you MEAN both pelor and sarenrae are the god of light but pelor was of light because he lit up the entire vessel to chase the darkness away and sarenrae was of light because asmodeus was of flame. he was burning and he was burning so brightly that the light from his flames clung onto her for eternity. his pain informed her existence. her light mocked him at every step. whose light do you think lit the nine hells forevermore?
i'm in physical pain bc they look so much alike but look at the fullness in imogen's cheeks and look how hollowed liliana's were. her scars, while not as extended as imogen's, are concentrated with red.
few episodes back i've always wondered why liliana had to risk and force a daydream out of imogen. like why hadn't liliana simply visited her during their slumbers like imogen always do? but now all i can do is look at the dark circles around liliana's eyes.
sarenrae's divinity diminished in one single act of betrayal and was left vulnerable for the rest of calamity and more. god, she forgot how to do the only thing she knew how to do. she almost became the first god to achieve mortality. and her siblings wondered why she settled so well with the war-weary mortals that she married into them. mothered two of them.
so important to me that, during a war, the god of compassion was the one to find home in mankind. ough sarenrae.............
