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Thaisha never got to Eiffel Tower Hannan with Julien 😔

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redjennies

ngl I'm mostly irritated by the idea of a several week hiatus because god knows how many episodes it will take for the Seekers reach the Golden Orchard and I really need to know exactly what sort of unique massive personality defect Alba Davinos has.

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revvethasmythh

i honestly love the contrast between how we see the tachonis treat occtis and the halovar treat wick. both family dynamics are deeply abusive, but what we see with occtis and primus is obviously, recognizably abuse based in fear and violence. wick and his grandmother, on the other hand, have a relationship that was viewed by wick as loving. he was the favorite, he loved her and she loved him. but the more he learns about his home life and the more time we spend with yanessa, the clearer the dangerous emotional enmeshment happening in the halovar household becomes. if primus's treatment of occtis is based in apathy and pain, yanessa's treatment of wick is an insidious kind of affection. a controlling attachment that they can publicly pretend is okay because she loves him. when everything else is gone, wick is supposed to hold onto her love for him. it is perhaps less overt than the abuse occtis faces at the hands of the tachonis, but no less horrible and detrimental for the people involved. occtis was a target for murder because he was different from him family and was unable to hide it; if wick had been a worse liar and openly deviated from the identity yanessa laid out for him, she was vocally just as willing to murder him, too

revvethasmythh

#also a thing i haven't seen anyone else point out is that as a result of most of the rest of the family being in on it#they've been able to emotionally abuse wick in plain sight as the butt of a joke for his whole life#which. is basically what happened when godard said hello to him.#“My faith in your return was as steadfast as the ever-gleaming Light that animates all.” aka: absolutely absent w. a facade for appearances @mixupmycota

oh that's a great point

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johnanderton

Hey, Julien. What if I told you that you saved the soul of Thjazi Fang?

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kerosene-in-a-blender

In light of the most recent episode showing us exactly what it looks like when Primus loses his shit, and Alex very deliberately and on purpose having Occtis react very viscerally to that (as a victim of Primus' abuse, as Alex has been pretty clearly playing him since day one), I've been thinking about the fact that Brennan has also made it very clear that the abuse wasn't limited to Occtis, despite his very limited screentime it's incredibly apparent that Ethrand was also abused. Brennan was most clear about this in the most recent episode, having Primus screaming at Ethrand while jabbing a finger in his face, but the signs were there as early as episode 4. Ethrand was gleefully asserting himself in the Palazzo, reveling in the murder of his brother and the soon-to-be-murder of the Lady Royce, until Primus showed up, at which point Ethrand was immediately cowed and diminished himself. The way Brennan portrayed that moment made it clear Ethrand is afraid of Primus, which is not the reaction of a man whose father treated him well.

What's also interesting is the contrasting ways this abuse effected Occtis and Ethrand's behaviour. One of the very first phrases Alex uses to describe Occtis is that he is "small in presence", and that's be been borne out by how he plays him. Occtis is constantly trying to be as unobtrusively and inoffensive as possible in order to stay out of any potential lines of fire from other people, and indeed growing frustrated with doing this is part of why he blew up at Julien the way he did. One notable example of Occtis avoiding potential conflict with others is when Amadah and Ingrid arrive at Castle Torch and Occtis declines going out to meet them despite Thaisha insisting that druids are cool with him now; he's unsure and avoids a potential confrontation by avoiding the interaction entirely. While Ethrand also displays this behaviour when around Primus, see again the aforementioned scene in episode 4 as well as his quiet guilt in the Sundered Houses meeting where he did not say a single word, when around people he has some power over he completely turns this around, and revels in making people feel as small as his father makes him. We've only seen this directly in interactions he's had with Occtis (throwing rocks at his head when they were children; taunting him while murdering him), but I wouldn't doubt he's also like this around the peasantry and anyone else deemed "lesser", taking the hurt that has been inflicted on him and turning it on others.

Not that any of this absolves Ethrand of the choices he has made. He still murdered his brother and told him there had always been something wrong with him as he did so. Him being made into what he is by his father's abuse explains this, it does not excuse it (and I strongly suspect that this will be a generational pattern with House Tachonis, once we come to learn more about Nullus and his relationship with his own children). But it does tap into one of the overarching themes of the campaign: becoming something more than what you were shaped to be by those that made you. While I suspect we won't see Ethrand become anything other than what he is, by virtue of being a PC, Occtis has a chance to.

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revvethasmythh

i honestly love the contrast between how we see the tachonis treat occtis and the halovar treat wick. both family dynamics are deeply abusive, but what we see with occtis and primus is obviously, recognizably abuse based in fear and violence. wick and his grandmother, on the other hand, have a relationship that was viewed by wick as loving. he was the favorite, he loved her and she loved him. but the more he learns about his home life and the more time we spend with yanessa, the clearer the dangerous emotional enmeshment happening in the halovar household becomes. if primus's treatment of occtis is based in apathy and pain, yanessa's treatment of wick is an insidious kind of affection. a controlling attachment that they can publicly pretend is okay because she loves him. when everything else is gone, wick is supposed to hold onto her love for him. it is perhaps less overt than the abuse occtis faces at the hands of the tachonis, but no less horrible and detrimental for the people involved. occtis was a target for murder because he was different from him family and was unable to hide it; if wick had been a worse liar and openly deviated from the identity yanessa laid out for him, she was vocally just as willing to murder him, too

#the light and the dark! violence as abuse and love as abuse!#< prev tags #wicander halovar #occtis tachonis #yanessa halovar #primus tachonis #cr meta