#y’shtola’s talk about historiography would be cheapened by emet still being alive to give the answers | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

c0rpseductor · 2 months ago

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i have thought a little for my daydream emet lives AU about like. “would i enjoy it more if he lived in morningstar?” but i think it’s not really what that story is about

like it’s a nice idea to imagine that he and pfeil get to argue about everything and settle how they feel and have a real lasting relationship but it’s not what that story is about. pfeil’s relationship to emet As A Narrative Tool i think really does need to include the fact that it ends and that emet is dead and pfeil has to sort that out.

like it’s not a story about pfeil getting everything he wants. it’s a story about him having to find the value in a life that is very, very hard and often inimical to his having most of what he wants. so it feels too cheap to really enjoy as like…a legitimate part of my story and not just a flight of fancy, if that makes sense

#if i feel really hung up on it maybe i will noodle around with writing it #like as its own separate thing #but in general it feels like it’s not suited to the story bc it’s not! thematically #it’s hard to imagine how the rest of the story would go if emet was there (even effectively depowered as he is in my version)#pfeil doesn’t have to wonder or process bc emet has the answers.#y��shtola’s talk about historiography would be cheapened by emet still being alive to give the answers #biased though his account would be #he would be able to communicate the truth about azem so pfeil would never like #have his whole jealous identity crisis #which is actually really important for his growth #i think there’d be a lot of short term gains that in the long run left everybody a bit worse off

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