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Teres ([personal profile] teres) wrote 2024-09-22 11:50 am (UTC)

I think it's an early example of babies being treated like props when they aren't just cute little dolls. It gets especially egregious with Caelum the Sue Baby later on. He doesn't wake his parents up every three hours every single night of the week. He doesn't even cry at ALL. Or need changing, or do any of the other messy stressful things babies his age do. All he does is look adorable and dote over his parents.

SCSF: Oh yes, I remember the Icarii children being mini-adults... That will be great.

Doll. Then she starts talking and becomes a recording device spewing Sue apologetics on legs. In fact now I think about it she and Raum are the only two Avar characters who are ever important other than Basarbe, and ALL THEY DO AFTER THIS is be Sue apologists/praisers. While Basarbe refuses to join the fan club and is therefore painted as Bad and punished accordingly. So yeah. That's all the Avar ever do in this trilogy, other than giving Axis... a stick. There are so many Unfortunate Implications here.

There certainly are... I can only think of Mirbolt as another relatively important Avar character, so that is not exactly encouraging. (I also hate that they are not even there after Tencendor blows up. In forty years, has not a single Avar left Tencendor, then?)

Forever, apparently. She never thinks about Merlion again.

To be fair, I am quite certain Faraday does think about her later, for example in Pilgrim.

On the word of a guy she literally just met, no less. Why does she trust him this much? He nearly got her killed!

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that she wants the "joy" that she was promised if she were Tree Friend so badly that she is willing to trust him.

Because everything the author wants us to like has to be beautiful. It doesn't help that we know nothing about how Artor worshipping actually works on a day to day basis, and we never learn anything of substance about the Mother - certainly not enough to show us she's a better alternative. And we learn even less about the Star Gods, who ultimately turn out to be completely fucking useless selfish assholes who don't do anything.

It certainly comes across as quite superficial, like she just does not like the aesthetic of the Way of the Plough.

Goddamn, how cruel and dismissive is this?

Especially after he said that the hare "honoured" them... It certainly is dismissive.

I actually kind of like the Sacred Grove.

Oh, me too!

Well that was unprovoked.

I get why Timozel would want to do so... but it certainly is a bit rash.


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