#narrative parallels

[clairedelune-13]

If there’s anyone Solas sees himself in, it’s Inky???

Rook’s writing is too inconsistent.

They may have started out being a reflection of him back when the project was Joplin.

But definitely not the Morrison version.

[heretherebedork]

Hope and Jack are the most fascinating parallels that the show did because the real parallel about them isn't about their willingness to hurt people for their job or their want to be an enforcer.

It's about how they love the person they chose.

Because Hope would let the world burn if it was to protect Save. He'd light the fire. He'd take anyone down if it meant his boyfriend was safe for another day, another moment.

But Jack will threaten to kill Joke over a crime he only might have committed and turn his back on his friends even when they're in the hospital for his adopted daughter. Jack cannot simply forgive Joke because he does not have that in him, he cannot simply turn his back on his beliefs.

And that is the ultimate parallel. The one you love versus the world.

It's also there for Joke and Save, Joke would do anything to help Jack but he would never deliberately hurt the people around them while there was no one off limits for Save if it meant Hope was safe... intent matters but not to Hope or Jack because their morality is so, so different.

(That's why Jack saying he would kill Joke in front of Hope and Save meant so much, because it is unimaginable to either of them that you would hurt the person you love for hurting someone else for your sake, that you would not accept a sacrifice done for you by the person who loves you because isn't that what love is, in the end? At least to them.)

[the-mechanica]

Cracking the World's Shell Much???

It's not the biggest connection, but seeing as how in ISTG this a scene about how rebirth can break you out of a false reality by accepting who you truly are and not what society tells you to be.... *gestures between the two narratives*

[ladythomasina]

I look at the one red smile. The red of the smile is the same as the red of the tulips in Serena Joy's garden, toward the base of the flowers where they are beginning to heal. The red is the same but there is no connection. The tulips are not tulips of blood, the red smiles are not flowers, neither thing makes a comment on the other. The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind.

--The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

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She thought, hard. Her day had been bitty, but full of things: Stephanie, Calverley Minster, Racine, the moorland, Ed, Alexander. Taken together, as they undoubtedly could be, these things had alarming aspects. If, for instance, you took the bad pictures of Daniel, and related them to Vénus toute entière, and that to Ed, and Ed's hot swollen tongue to the donkey's hot swollen tool, and those to Alexander, and if, for another elaboration you pressed, in a military sense, the Cathy-Heathcliff aspects of moorland, the crude Freudian view of the upthrust of the spire of Calverley Minster, you had what could be called an organic image that was, there was no question, extremely depressing, if undoubtedly powerful.

But if you kept them separate. If you kept them separate, in many ways you saw them more truly. [...]

One could let all these facts and things lie alongside each other like laminations, not like growing cells.

--The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt

[eat-a-handful-of-bees]

On the one hand I’m a sucker for narrative parallels, but on the other I have to face the idea of Gaius and Uther kissing.

[dent-de-leon]

oh my god I just remembered that Lucien playfully asked Frumpkin what his dreams for the future are. He’s so cute, I love those little moments when he indulges in that same love of ridiculous whimsy as Mollymauk—

Also I was going to say it makes me feel some kinda way that Lucien gives Caleb a little nickname too, how something as small and teasing as, “Broody one,” betrays just how much of Caleb Lucien can truly see, how the depths of this wizard’s heartache and pain isn’t lost on him.

But, even more heartbreaking… “Perhaps we’re more alike than you think.” Lucien saying that, even though he can’t possibly know how terribly true it is. Lucien who doesn’t know that Caleb is the only person who would understand how he woke screaming and crying as a child from nightmares of setting his childhood home on fire. Lucien who watched his parents burn, lost his whole family—and spent years blaming himself for it, desperately trying to bend reality to his will just to bring them back.

Never mind that he did it to save himself and his little sister, that he did it to stop them from using his brother’s corpse as an undead puppet—saved countless others from being sacrificed to the same fate. He still hated himself for it, still let the gutting guilt and grief eat him alive. Lucien who is a victim of the Cerberus Assembly and several other very powerful, manipulative mages—just as much as Caleb is.

We’re more alike than you think. Lucien who resents his blood hunter scars and all the Eyes and his own infernal blood—every time he tried to close off his own heart to keep from losing anyone else. It could have saved him, I think. If he knew just how much Caleb would understand. And I think, for his Magician, that shared connection would be a comfort too—

[tae-rambles]

parallels and shit

Skypiea is truly a must-not-skip arc

[edwardsissyhandsthtdanceslikeabb]

✧ parallels : rue bennet (euphoria) + kendall roy (succession) a very poor set of my fav white lesbian boyfailures

[canichangemyblogname]

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[alaynasansa]

I just saw a post drawing a parallel between Dæny and Coin

I never thought about it until now

[heretherebedork]

I'm glad we only have one evil former love interest in Wandee Goodday. Ter's already doing enough, I couldn't handle it if Taemrak was doing stuff too.

No, no, Taemrak is an angel who deserves lots of love and to be able to see Yak happy with Dee again. Thank goodness!

It's actually really nice to have the contrast between Taemrak and Ter, to have the possessive person who cannot give up on the attention he was getting and to see a true friend who cares for Yak as a person first and foremost and wants to be sure he's okay.

Ter's first concern has always been the scholarship but Taemrak is there to offer support to Yak when he's struggling.

Dee was trapped in an absolutely one sided relationship with Ter while Yak has an equal friendship with Taemrak that absolutely would have survive him confessing even if she doesn't feel the same way.

And it's beautiful to see.

[indigobackfire]

With the parallels I see between Harrowhark and Merula, I think she could've been fixed by a Going Insane arc

Not something permanent but concerningly long

[pathetic-wizard]

[qilin27]

So I’ve been thinking, and though JKR attempted to portray Voldemort as Harry’s narrative foil, I feel that in truth he was more-so Dumbledore’s.

Voldemort

Primary/Secondary antagonist

Overarching goal is to kill Harry in order to win the war

Obsession with the prophecy

Magically powerful AND knowledgeable

Political/war-time stance heavily influenced by Grindewald’s war (Fear of death and muggles due to WWII)

Grew up impoverished, hating his father for abandoning him and resenting the other children in the orphanage

Obsession with the Deathly Hallows

Fear of Death (dying)

Viewing Hogwarts as a seat of power (not a home, JKR) and a place from which to “guide” the next generation

Wielded the Elder Wand

Entrapped Snape

Plan of Harry dying ultimately foiled by a mother’s love (Narcissa)

One of two people Harry met in King’s Cross station after dying

Meant to serve as ultimate representation of Slytherins (Lineage, basilisk, army comprised primarily of Slytherins, Slytherin’s locket)

Battle in the Ministry book 5

Dumbledore

Secondary/Tertiary protagonist

Overarching goal is for Harry to be killed in order to win the war

Obsession with the prophecy

Magically powerful AND knowledgeable 

Political/war-time stance heavily influenced by Grindewald’s war (Fear of his own bad traits as well as powerful wizards being left unchecked)

Grew up impoverished, hating his father for abandoning the family, and resenting his siblings

Obsession with the Deathly Hallows

Fear of Death (the people who have died because of him)

Viewing Hogwarts as a seat of power and a place from which to “guide” the next generation

Wielded the Elder Wand

Entrapped Snape

Plan of Harry dying ultimately foiled by a mother’s love (Lily)

One of two people Harry met in King’s Cross station after dying

Meant to serve as ultimate representation of Gryffindors (Was Head of House, phoenix, army comprised primarily of Gryffindors, Gryffindor’s sword)

Battle in the Ministry book 5

Please add more parallels if you can think of any, I’m sure that I missed some.

Also disclaimer-JKR is obviously a very discriminatory person and her prejudice is undeniably present in her books. That being said, I enjoy the premise of Harry Potter and I love the fandom and community that I have found through the books.

[minecraftbookshelf]

Does anyone else ever think about how Scott Smajor’s Third Life series ended being hunted through the woods by Ren and Martyn…and then his Last Life series ended hunting Martyn and Ren through the woods?

[tae-rambles]

The parallels in the narrative arcs of Helmeppo and Donquixote Mjosgard (and the reasons for their inclusion in the story) should be appreciated more me thinks