Queen of Air & Darkness Q&A: Kitty
onomatopoeiasuga said: Throughout LM and LOS, weāve seen Ty caring so much about Kit. He slept by his door every single day when Kit first arrived in the Institute, he tried to include him in his and Livvyās activities, tried to make him feel safe and welcomed and just helped him adjust to his new life. But in QOAAd Ty seemed so distant and negligent, itās almost like he didnāt care at all about Kit and he was so unfazed by the fact that Kit left. Was it an aftermath of losing Livvy or maybe he just never cared all?
Well, I said Iād answer the opposite of this question here, so letās go!
Ty isnāt distant or negligent in Queen. Heās fractured by an immense grief. Losing a sibling is terrible; losing a twin is a unique kind of hell that many people donāt survive. Thereās a specific term for someone whoās twin has died: Twinless twin, and there are support groups and special therapies to deal with the profound loss.Ā
Profound grief affects people differently. In Tyās case he focuses entirely on the idea that he can save Livvy and bring her back ā that he hasnāt lost her at all. Sometimes that belief frays at the edges (causing him, for instance, to tear up his room) but mostly he hangs onto that as a survival mechanism. That simply doesnāt leave him a lot of emotional capital to spend on Kit. Again, thatās not negligence and itās not lack of caring. Ty is in incredible pain. That he wants Kit around so much while he goes through trying to get Livvy ābackā indicates how much he does care for Kit; heās leaning on him because he no longer has the emotional strength to be someone Kit can lean on, but heās also leaning on him because he trusts him. The worst thing that has ever happened to Ty in his life has just happened to him. Itās not at all strange he canāt think about how he should be there for other people. He can barely be there for himself.
Nor is he unfazed by Kit leaving. He asks repeatedly if he can see Kit.
āWhereās Kit, really?ā Ty saidā¦ āI keep asking, but no one will tell me.ā
Magnus looked up, his catās eyes hooded. āKitās all right. Heās with Tessa and Jem. Heās going to be living with them.ā
Ty begs to be allowed to say good-bye to Kit.
āI know,ā Ty said. āI know, butācan I say good-bye to him?ā
āHeās already gone,ā Magnus said. āHe didnāt want to say good-bye to you.ā
Itās made very clear to Ty, by Magnus and others, that Kit doesnāt want to see him. So keeping on pushing would only be disrespectful of what has been stated to him to be Kitās wishes; it wouldnāt be a sign he cares about Kit, but rather the opposite. The smallness of Tyās request ā that he be allowed to say good-bye to Kit ā and the fact that it gets turned down, is one of the saddest outcomes of the whole mess, to me, though again, it is no oneās fault.
Itās totally normally when something happens between two people in a book thatās sad ā like two people breaking apart when you hoped theyād get together ā thereās a desire to blame one of them. But no one is at fault in this situation. These are two people who are not in the same emotional place at a crucial time: that doesnāt mean they never will be, or that either of them did anything wrong.
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