TSV chapter 8- aka Just Some Guy (a corporate lady) has a really fucking Weird day
I feel so bad for Paige, like imagine you are having a breakdown and run away to get away from your shitty workplace (after your bosses literally sacrifice your friend and other coworkers to make a grotesque god), only to get kidnapped and have your corporate car stolen by two cultists who are fighting like children and how your shitty parents did. And then they break into this house and turns out the previous owner was a painter and also may have been worshipping the same God these two fuckers did. Also you get attacked by a crab monster. Like what do you even do?
Another thing is like, this probably has been already talked about extensively by multiple people, but Carpenter's and Faulkner's relationship with their faith and how to goes into their relationship with each other needs to be studied under a microscope cause. Holy shit. Carpenter does believe and have faith in Trawlerman but she also seems to be selfish with it? Or atleast that's the vibe I got from her in chapter 4. She doesn't want anything to do with the Parish or the rituals or even share the moment of worship with Faulkner. And while she has wished that the Trawlerman drowns the world (or atleast used to) she didn't want the entire flesh twisting thing to be his only trait. (I could be wrong! I could be reading it wrong! I could be wrong because there's lore I don't know about yet! I could be wrong!)
Faulkner on the other hand is, as Carpenter put it, a fanatic. He is all about those rituals! Those verses! The Parish! Everything to do with Trawlerman! He is extremely cruel to the people he believes are the enemies of the faith but also believes that the parish and the cult would offer him kinship and family he desperately carves. He attaches his entire identity, his sense of self-worth, to not only the religion but also the devotees of said religion, and his entire thing with him being the 'prophet'
And all of that is shown in this chapter and most likely would be explored even further. And I am going to be honest I don't buy it that Faulkner is the chosen prophet? Like first of all it feels too on the nose?? Like this seems like the type of detail that would be used to shatter his worldview to give him development.
I think, and this might be just my bias speaking, but to me Carpenter is more likely the ~Prophet~ if there's going to be one? Idk it feels like Carpenter is the 'true devotee' considering she seems only loyal to the Trawlerman, and she has this entire 'It eez what it eez' thing going on whenever she needs divine intervention and curveballs in her life
Meanwhile Faulkner has too many expectations to all of this and too much of his identity on perfection and community and him being the Prophet over. Well the Trawlerman. Like he is still absolutely devoted to him but I wonder if it would last if the miracles don't happen and he is not his god's special little boy. I am not sure if I am making sense.
Then again this is the world where the divinity arises because of the worship and belief and just talking about it too much so who knows. (Again new listener, I could be wrong, I probably am wrong)
Anywayssss again another great chapter!! Roake was kind of a mood when it comes to being an artist cause no one would just let you Be
