#i dont know anything abt tv though. and that's never directly stated. so i'm choosing to believe this is not the case

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

I should be doing homework but I'm too busy being obsessed about Rift Nocturna's entire thing. She drives me crazy I swear to god.

She works in children's entertainment but she can't remember anything about her youth. And even if she COULD remember anything about her youth, it would be so far removed from what modern day children like that it probably wouldn't help anyway. She's very clearly out of her element- clearly self conscious about her ability to provide a thorough service.

But not only is she doing a good job- as demonstrated by the fact that she is very much rising through the ranks of the corporation- but she also WANTS to do a good job. She wants to provide this service. She wants to keep these kids happy.

This immortal vampire who tears into the throats of forest animals and drinks their blood with her hands, who tried and failed to cheat death, who left everyone she knew as a human behind, and then everyone she knew as a vampire behind in a fruitless quest that probably only sunk her deeper into the denial and depression she was already in, wants- more than anything in this strange new universe- to keep children happy. That drives me crazy. She drives me crazy.

It's kind of difficult to judge how the modern natives have been reacting to... the everything that the rifts have done. And Matron isn't really a 'native' per say, just disguising herself as one. But I find it really interesting that she's the only real character who weaponizes the identity of someone who isn't human against them.

Matron belittles Nocturna specifically for her species. Calls her a bloodsucker, a menace to society. Finds the thought that Cadence- or anyone- could consider her a friend to be laughable.

And now I have to wonder if Nocturna's had to deal with those sorts of things before, or if that was just the perfect way to get under her skin. Because either way, clearly it was what wound up tainting her.