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rxttenfish · 3 months ago

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i absolutely cannot let myself get started on another fic until im at least onto chapter 5 of caecilian but the temptation to write something of aaravi taking miranda monster hunting and describing the entire EVERYTHING there is real

#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#miravi.txt #mostly in the duality that is #what aaravi actually does as a monster slayer and the context that it exists within both in her own life and within the world #and with the fact that miranda doesnt actually sincerely identify as a monster nor care about that divide #to her this is landfolk on landfolk problems that merfolk have absolutely no involvement in #she only gets labelled a monster by landfolk who care about this and using criteria that wasnt made with merfolk in mind #and goes with it because really shes trying to do her job and serve an ambassador role and Whatever #its the same as her picking a gender basically at random. there wasnt a none of the above option that was offered nor applied #to her aaravi is basically a mercenary and thus her feelings are the same as a mercenary #shes not meaningfully different than anyone miranda already knows through bellanda #and aaravi has. complicated feelings about it.#aaravi has complicated feelings about all of this #miranda occupies a role like aaravi herself where she fails to fit into either side of a duality #but aaravi also has a rising guilt about her involvement that she has to explain to miranda in the first place #and all of this parallels miranda's role as princess too #about how little aaravi knows about her atrocities and what shes done and what it MEANS for her to be what she is #as someone who was never subjected to it and has no context for how bad it really is #theyre very much two sides of the same coin tbh #very alike each other but in opposite contexts #which tbh is part of why they work so well #its the combination of understanding and support and yet just enough challenge to stop them from buckling down harder #theyre able to call each other out because they know personally exactly whats happening in the others mind #which is also why i dont like ships that just wholeheartedly encourage aaravis whole everything without understanding whats going on #the same as why i hate ships and endings that have the other person just joining miranda as royalty #like. no. no these are not neutral endings here. you do not get to absolve anyones involvement here.

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