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Monday, 7 October 2024 12:46 (UTC)Amen to THAT. Appearances seem to be all that matter in this stupid fucking trilogy. If you look at what Axis (and later Azhure) does, he's objectively ten times worse than Gorge, but he's handsome so who cares, right?
How are you even supposed to pronounce that anyway? I've been pronouncing it "smear town".
As I said in my own spork, if Faraday has two older sisters (both of whom are married), how is she such an insanely rich heiress? Shouldn't her two brothers in law have inherited the lion's share? Not that we ever see either of them. Or the other sister, for that matter. We only get to see Annwin (I might have spelled that wrong but fuck it).
Also, if both sisters are married adults why haven't they moved out to live with their husbands on their presumed estates?
Also also, when Faraday is finally set free in the sequel trilogy, why doesn't she ever (as far as I recall) go and see them? She leaves the rest of her surviving family still believing she's dead! I don't think she even makes any effort to protect them when the Assrape Demons show up! Good fuck.
Because only Axis' feelings matter. And nobody (author included) stops to consider how cruel leaving Faraday's family in the dark is.
Axis doesn't really experience true guilt anyway. When he claims to be feeling guilt it's really just thinly disguised selfishness. He never expresses true remorse and doesn't ever try to make amends. He just postures about how he feels so bad about whatever it is he's doing, then keeps doing it anyway.
Actually I just realised what this reminds me of.
[Source: https://youtu.be/ohoLzH9EQzg?si=Rees7wkaUFfP4d6o ]
Axis does shitty things all the time but he hides behind excuses and blame-laying. Constantly. He never cops to it and tries to do better. And the author enables him because he never really suffers any consequences at all. He's always let off the hook because he's just so goddamn Special and superior.
Oh, that's exactly what Belial is. His sole role in this story is to prop up Axis' ego and agree with everything he does.
Sues always need enablers. Otherwise the reader might forget just how Special and always right they are.
Instead, we NEVER find out just why the AW are the best army ever. Or indeed why Axis is the best commander ever. It's all just shoved into the background and you're expected to take the author's word for it.
And just how did this group of "bandits" become so numerous anyway? Is there no local law enforcement at all?
We could have been SHOWN this and gotten some character development for Axis in the process, but noooo, that would have been too hard and couldn't have just been handwaved with a bunch of narration which included "powerful" and "beautiful" being used ten times a paragraph.
Seconded. Even I know this isn't what medieval peasant villages were like, and yet Douglass was the one with the PhD in history and I'm just a history enthusiast who watched A History Of Britain a bunch of times.
Though as it happens I have a friend who is also a medieval historian with a PhD, and she told me that in life Douglass was, and I quote, "a crap historian" who taught materials which were "forty years out of date".
...case in point.
You can tell Hagen is evil because he's fat, also a Christian priest uh I mean Plough-Keeper.
Ah yes, the old stereotype of the happy plump farmer's wives. And here we've also just been introduced to Wainwald Powle, who will have a truly disgusting reappearance in book three.
Him too, only more so.
Oh fuck OFF.
POV jump alert.
If she's being abused by her father why the fuck is she provoking him like this? Later on she even thinks about how he's totally going to beat her again for making a fool of him in front of Axis and Belial and that she's still recovering from "three broken ribs" he gave her the last time that happened!
It's painfully obvious that Douglass had no idea how to write a victim of domestic abuse. Azhure isn't quietly avoiding drawing attention to herself or going out of her way to keep her "father" happy. Instead she's deliberately provoking him, showing disrespect to the (ugh) BattleAxe in front of him, and now getting all belligerent and sulky - again, in front of him. He beats you so badly you should be fucking DEAD, Azhure. If it's too much to expect from you to have gotten out of there years ago, you could at least have learned some goddamn self-preservation.
Why is the execution always "tomorrow morning"? Why is it never "immediately"? It's not as if they're going to put the two of them on trial first.