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the thing about their information on gargarin right. is that yeah eighteen years ago he was the king's favourite advisor. but no one checks where he was thirteen years ago even though those answers (in the dungeons/who fucking knows, depending who you ask) would seem to imply that perhaps it is not so clear cut that he was responsible, and instead assume this based on that letter he sent the belegonians
#i do think it's a cultural thing in lumatere there is very much this tendency towards honesty and bluntness#like if they don't want to talk about something they just won't. rather than lying (as a general rule!!!)#so when they see him talking to the belegonians in a roundabout more political manner this implies that he is untrustworthy#& therefore most likely responsible#+ they don't have the context we as the audience have regarding him#anyway this is a deeply miserable chapter & finnikin never really manages to come back from the shit he pulls here for me#just this genuine lack of respect or trust for isaboe & instead this assumption she must be lying/have feelings for froi#nasty fucker#lumaterereread
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ok just started quintana 馃憤 if finnikin was real i would hit him with a car
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trevanion&perri beatriss&tesadora i see it i see the vision "you trust your children with those who have the power to protect them" i'm connecting the dots
#lumaterereread#guy who takes six readthroughs to catch the most obvious parallels in existence: guys are you seeing this??
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rereading ch1 thescreamingskull.gif what is he supposed to do what is he supposed to do!!!!!!!! he can't be a farmer and a soldier hes only got one choice but anytime he moves in that direction they get pissed at him!! gee i wonder why he keeps skipping out on lessons with the priestking do you think perhaps sending him out to torture and kill people (starting at 15/16) and letting him think that's all he's good for may have influenced his thoughts on the matter? why would he bother. genuinely. "oh you'll have to bond with a girl eventually" okay well first of all that's very heteronormative of you perri*. second of all i think it is like, pretty clear to the people around him that to froi being part of the guard in the way they want him to is very much an all or nothing deal. even discounting his relationship with sex&romance if he's not able to do both (family+the guard) now how is he going to be able to expect to do it later? like he's backed into this corner where he "can't do both" explicitly, but at the same time he's expected to do both but only in the way they want him to he is not being given a choice in the matter. "Once a boy with no home, Froi now found himself torn between two." and this is about sayles/the guard in chapter 1!!! how well did this mindset work out for you guys now neither of you get to keep him. they turn him into a weapon (this is text there's the whole flashback where trevanion says like "You're a weapon Froi. Maybe the best we've ever created.") then when he thinks of himself as one they act as though he's wronged them personally
*i know tomas and bosco are sick of his ass
#the thing about froi i think is that he pretty consistently exists in this third space?#like outside of working in sayles there's not much evidence of him sort of just spending time with people i guess? he doesn't have a -#distinct in group other than sayles#in the context of the guard we know he isn't a proper member and outside of the trevanion/perri/moss/aldron square there's no interaction#where they aren't antagonising him/vice versa. but he's also separate from the trainees like it reads as though perri mostly trains him 1on#or with the guard#so he continues to lack the exact sense of belonging they expected him to feel at the end of book1 in favour of a different more specific#(i want to say nationalistic but i really don't think that's the right word. they expect him to love lumatere the country in it's entirety#when that isn't really how he tends to do things? idk i'm rambling)#sense of connection with the people and land around him which is actively being uprooted whenever they tell him he can't belong to sayles#tldr his list of people he trusts must be like 2 thirds villagers in sayles we never see him interact with bc there's no way in hell he's#making it to 30 otherwise.#lumaterereread
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isaboe & lucian wip + this whole chapter is crazy when you're froiposting but this part in particular is like. okay so it's true, right? he doesn't have some forgotten family waiting for him in lumatere, he doesn't have that connection everyone else seems to have and think he should have to the land. but also: arjuro is fully in the dungeons and he was only in lumatere in the first place bc he was going to search for froi lol
#omg froi i can't believe you want to farm when you should be getting into assassination!!#whatever. not looking at those hands anymore they've tormented me for long enough#lumaterereread#edit this did nawt format how i'd hoped lol !
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forgot how many caves are in this damn book
#like ok. to me 2&3 are thee cave books#but then you go back and reread finnikin and every five seconds they're walking through some ancient tunnel or sleeping in a cave#finnikin can't go six chapters without getting distracted by cave art#lumaterereread#n e ways i'm done w/ finnikin. gonna wait a couple days to start 2 bc i have um. many assignments
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ok i know i talked about this a few months ago but i'm doing trevanion maths again. i didn't notice this before, but realising that he was stuck protecting the duke of sayles while his village was attacked and his parents and sisters were killed/captured and then when he asks that the king like, do something, he got thrown in prison only to get released what, 2-3 weeks before bartolina dies? anyway it is doing terrible things to me
#lumaterereread#<- tagging these posts now so they can be blocked lol#anyway. trevanion is a better man than me because if all of that happened to me devoting myself to the royal family is not the trajectory i#would've gone down
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idk finnikin i feel like nearly tanking relations between your two nations for the foreseeable future is maybe not equivalent to ruining orlanda's shoes
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i don't care what finnikin thinks jehr is fine like he is okay nothing bad ever happened to him everrrr <- in denial
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fully 100% my clearest belief regarding froi is that like sixty percent of his issues with anger and self control could've been solved if they gave him a spinner ring or some shit and let him leave for a bit whenever he got agitated
#not clenching his teeth is part of his bond? you are having a fucking laugh if you think this is going to teach him anything#hop off his dick!!!!#lumaterereread
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pg 76 we have hit our first tunnel
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if finnikin was a real boy he'd be your mate who fucked off to melbourne for uni and now you can't have a conversation without him telling you how great it is the whole time
#no shade to melbourne here. to be clear#also. finnikin i read ferragost i know about budget cersei lannister#you can't say this shit and expect me to believe it#lumaterereread
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i love you lying liar who lies 鉂わ笍
okay yearly finnikin reread time 馃憤
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regarding my previous tags + obviously the mention of lumatere is going to provoke this response given charyn/lumatere relations and the fact that this letter is very much targeted to the way the belegonian government seem to conduct their affairs. i do think their response is like. understandable like i very much get where they're coming from. it's just that finnikin is a such a cunt in this chapter (& ch 8 & 10) that it colours how i perceive everyone around him by extension
the thing about their information on gargarin right. is that yeah eighteen years ago he was the king's favourite advisor. but no one checks where he was thirteen years ago even though those answers (in the dungeons/who fucking knows, depending who you ask) would seem to imply that perhaps it is not so clear cut that he was responsible, and instead assume this based on that letter he sent the belegonians
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