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utilitycaster · 1 year ago

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now that I think about it, and brought to you by seeing a deeply terrible take re: the Raven Queen, I think this is honestly also how a lot of people want to see the gods as well, as just "well there is a power imbalance so they are always going to be in the wrong and my blorbo [on whom I am very much projecting] is no longer accountable for any of their actions."

I could talk about Steel forever bc I love her and she's fascinating and complex but while all those thoughts about what she means within the worldbuilding and the story and to Suvi and during the children's adventure and within the Empire are important I really do think in the end I'm like. some of you just want all parents to be evil, and not just evil, but evil in a very easily written-off way that requires no thought or understanding of why they might be that way [which does not mean their behavior is justified, simply understandable] and I think that is very boring and dumb of you.

#someone used the term grooming for the raven queen for vax and like. honey. he was 28.#the tragedy of vax is that he offered his life to the raven queen when he absolutely did not have to #he'd seen another resurrection. he could have promised less; he could have beseeched Vex's soul #he did not. matt's point on 4sd was really incisive actually like vax has a grip on his relationships no different than vex with hers #and in perhaps a less healthy way in the end #and then she called in the deal in the end simple as that. i mean this was also vecna's fault for killing him but you know.#there was no manipulation because he made the deal without ever having heard from her when he did. it was his own impulse in the end.#and people do NOT like stories where people are responsible for their own tragedy even though those are the best ones.

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