#on the whole and nein aside bc all the characters were good liam and marisha's style just isn't my style for a number of reasons

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supremely correct take on orym. i feel like liam is trying to do a quieter sort of tragedy than what vax and caleb went through. fundamentally, orym’s grief is a very real grief that so many people go through—he lost his husband, and he has to navigate the world in the context of such a devastating absence, but also Will’s death was 6 years prior to canon. orym’s in the long term period of mourning, and it’s emotional and moving but fandom keeps painting Orym as a hopelessly tragic figure. and it sucks bc Liam is such a good player and actor and his characters have such fantastic depths and he’s SO GOOD at playing sorrow and loss but the side of effect of that is every character of his gets little meow meow’d and it makes me want to Scream because LAUDNA is THE LITTLEST OF MEOW MEOWS AT THAT TABLE but it’s fine

I think the most graceful way to answer this is that if you believe, even facetiously, that there is some kind of contest for most little meow meow in a show with an ensemble cast, that post about angst was directed to your address. The current response to Orym was a bit of a last straw, but the fandom response to Liam and to Marisha's characters cross-campaign, and notably to Laudna, was the build up.