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eliotquillon · 9 months

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what breaks my heart about the ending of wayward is the fact that ollivan had the evidence to prove his innocence all along. maybe he wouldn’t have been able to get hester to turn against fisk without the extra incentive of using it to emancipate cassia, but the evidence was always there. the eyewitnesses were always out there. fisk was weak and ollivan had enough dirt on him to bury him in it and might have been able to secure his old life back that way but instead of choosing revenge ollivan chose to help his sister. throughout wayward cassia calls him selfish and a lying narcissist but that’s his final narrative act. trading the proof of his innocence for cassia’s freedom.

#wayward #witherward #ollivan sims #cassia sims #it’s never clear just how much hester is bluffing in that confrontation with fisk about how much evidence she has re: ollivan’s innocence #but while i believe she’d move heaven and earth to get cassia out of the heart i don’t think she’d have used ollivan’s innocence #if she wasn’t convinced that he was innocent #she’s just too pragmatic to place a bet on an uncertain hand #whatever contacts and evidence ollivan gave her had to have been enough to convince her on their own merits #especially since ollivan got to her with the blackmail idea before cassia did #so ollivan 100% had the proof that fisk set him up #he basically confirms as much when it comes out he never actually told anyone HOW he was innocent of jonas benn’s murder #the reason why virgil doesn’t initially believe ollivan’s innocence is because ollivan never explains or proves it #he chose not to do that #because ollivan thought people would believe the truth reflected just as badly on him as the lies did #ollivan initially doesn’t prove his innocence out of ego #but by the end of wayward he has all the tools to fuck everyone in his family over and secure his own safety #and he chooses to trade it for cassia instead

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