#dykamedes

[liesmyth]

22!

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

I wouldn't say "everyone ignores it" but EYE would like more eyes on it: the shady past of TLT old folks that the fandom looks upon, broadly, as "more moral" than the rest. I'm always thinking about Pyrrha's early days founding the Cohort. Pyrrha "loved being a cop" who started the Cohort intelligence department and most likely set up the imperial propaganda machine. On a lesser note: Cassiopeia who founded the Sixth House making sure they could secede at will — but she was also a cutthroat layer in a past life and I would bet anything that she was the one who came up with the lifetime contracts stratagem between the Empire and their colony planet. At which point did these guy decide enough was enough? How do they reconcile their past actions with their eventual goals? Or are they on the hypocritical side, thinking that the main issue with the Houses empire is not its structure but who's currently ruling it?

IDK I just think it's very juicy to explore because these kinds of contrasts make my brain go brrrr. It's the same part of my brain that really loves analysing all the ways in which Abigail was a kind-hearted person who may or may not have managed the necromantic version of the East India Company, or likes to read long meta on what the dynamic between Juno and baby Pal might have looked like.

Hopefully this makes sense, I got a bit rambly

[theriverbeyond]

💌 :3

HELLO im still obsessed w your new url. dykamedes forever. also i love your writing!!! ur prose is so evocative and u get Ambiance SO well im eating it all up with a spoon and licking the bowl