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jeremiahthefroge · 3 months ago

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god if I get to that rewrite I am going to make cadenza an uncanny horror girlie. Doesn't blink nearly enough. Sits eerily still sometimes. Just beautiful and very sweet but also just Unnerving. I want the scene of her father finding her to be really uncomfortable, not just because of the tragedy, but because of the WAY Cadenza acts. The way she talks. I want her to speak in a way children do not speak, but sound calm, turned away from Hayden, still picking the flowers, maybe some soot on her. Then he asks her a question, and she turns around, and she looks at him and there's tears running down her face, but her expression is mostly calm, her eyes wide open, looking into his, as she tells him how her mother and father are burning alive in the village. Clearly something is WRONG with her. And maybe Hayden chalks it up to the trauma at first, the way she responds to the tragedy, but even as she grows up, she's still got that weird stare, that odd way of speaking.

#cadenza mcd #mcd #jeremiahs mcd notes #now listen here #i do not care for sarah j maas' books all that much #i have read many of them bc there is stuff in there that is legitimately well done and somewhat interesting #but she usually manages to ruin that cool element as she's introducing a new promising thing to follow #it's a whole thing #the books kind of keep you hostage #but one thing i did sort of really love was armen #the way she is so fucking disconcerting #but she is treated as an equal and a friend to these people #i like dynamics like that #just a weird weird girl and her loving friend group #and i think i'd like to take it sort of that route with Cadenza #except with Armen they are very very afraid of her bc she could do them harm #i think the fear around cadenza is mostly just not knowing what's up with her. like what her deal is.#bc it is clear she isn't normal #but it isn't clear just by those signs WHAT makes her abnormal precisely #she just isnt #and they do not know what she sees or what she does #but she is sweet to them and she is their friend

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