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banished-away · 3 months ago

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artemis and dahlia are so good. the contrast between the supposed hero drizzt always keeping her at an arm's lenght, preferring the "soft look" she puts on to please him where she acts and looks softer and covers her tattoos and scars, knowing she had a painful past but not bothering to ask or look into it because it would shake his morals and he would rather pretend to not know than to actually confront it or even help dahlia through it. meanwhile the supposedly cold killer artemis with just a few looks saw the pain in her, let her have the kill against herzgo because he realized it was important to her even if he had just as good reasons and he didnt know dahlia's yet, and when they were alone he let dahlia be vulnerable to him, asked her about her pain, and when she was not comfortable to speak about it he just stayed near her and comforted her

#bani.txt #impressions so far. im halfway through charon's claw #i really appreciate these books for very much showing drizzt's asshole side #he does not even realize he is one. from his point of view its just dahlia being manipulative or erratic #which granted she is but not to the degree he assumes.#drizzt hardly second guesses his thoughts on her from the moment they start travelling together #i feel like i understand why people see dahlia that wrongly now. they take drizzt's pov as the right one #which makes dahlia's actions seem much worse #meanwhile as someone who has been in dahlia's shoes to a much minor degree if someone thought of me as drizzt does id fucking slap them #its interesting to see the flip coin to drizzt's habit of putting people on pedestals #he put zak on the 'only good person beside me in menzo' pedestal when he was just a man doing his best and not even very well #he puts catti on the 'taught me to tolerate everyone' pedestal when all she did was maybe ask what the goblins were doing #instead of going for the kill immediately (and then happily join when the goblins turned out t be enemies after all)#so now he puts dahlia on the 'mysterious woman manipulating me along' pedestal bc thats easier to say #rather than admitting that the world has changed and so has he #legend of drizzt

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