#hey m utilitycaster whatcha doing on your week off? oh just writing a couple hundred words about a banana man with a french accent

[utilitycaster]

The other fantastic Colin moment in the episode, other than his resignation as Deli's Skald, is how he undergoes pretty significant inconvenience, traveling something like six hours out of his way, to make up in a small way to the murder of the banana guy for no other reason than he was in the wrong place during a political assassination. Colin understands why his grandfather was murdered, even though he doesn't like it, but his father - who wasn't a good man at all - was killed for being the descendant of the wrong noble house despite being a child during his father's coup. Colin himself is at risk despite being born after his grandfather's death and never experiencing any of the privileges of nobility, only the liability. Pamela Rocks is politics - you wear a crown, you take your chances - but the banana man is murder. He's just some guy who was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and while Colin is most certainly not just some guy, he has the worst aspects of that banana man (poverty, lack of influence, fucked over entirely because of the political machinations of others he had no way to stop or even know about) and none of the good ones (the freedom of truly being just some guy, who won't be blackmailed or executed on the basis of blood ties alone). I really don't think he cares about Pamela Rocks' death, and maybe if the banana hadn't shown up Colin would still be at Deli's side, or at the very least not vehemently opposed to the FDA, but the banana did, so here we are.