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Wednesday, 16 October 2024 11:37 (UTC)Ha, you used my name! Awesome.
Wait, were they doing this at night? Because rabbits are nocturnal. You check the traps in the MORNING. And what's with "the rabbit traps" like it's some sort of village fixture that's supposed and expected to be there?
So... bards are mighty warriors in this setting? I mean that's what it SAYS. This is what sloppy wording gets you, Douglass.
This is breaking POV and also not funny.
This isn't funny either. You can tell Douglass is just trying to make the villagers look bad, and this is just about the cheapest possible way of doing it.
Long-term abuse victims are almost always incredibly good at masking, so yeah, this doesn't gel.
Because then there's suddenly just ONE GUY doing the guarding, and sucking at it so badly that he gets taken out by an unarmed woman with no combat training.
Just how long have they been here that the smell has gotten this bad?
Yeah, the hypocrisy here is really gross.
Hagen's evil, like Gorge's, is so cartoonishly over the top that you just can't take it seriously at all. Meanwhile Axis' evil (and later Azhure's) is far, FAR too believable and awful.
And you two are every bit as bad as he is, so get the fuck over yourselves. You don't react like this when it's humans being tortured (by Axis).
This isn't his last paedophilia tinged moment with him and Shra either.
Albeit in the clumsiest way possible.
Yeah, that they got this messed up in just four days is really straining credibility.
You can tell he's evil because he's fat (the horror).
Axis could have just ordered the guy to let them go or have them cleaned up and fed - there's no way he doesn't outrank him. But nope. If there's an opportunity to beat up someone weaker than him you bet your booty he's gonna take it.
Because of course Belial is on Axis' side here, even though BOTH of them should have pretty much the exact same attitude as Hagen and the villagers, ie that the Forbidden are pure evil and deserve everything they get. I would have been okay with Axis saying something like "you should have just killed them out of hand instead of allowing this cruelty; they may be fiends who would have done the same to us, but we are better than they."
Also, comma splice.
Um, YES? And you should fucking know that?
Yeeeah, this is not how someone in Axis' position should be behaving.
Oh get over yourself.
Join the club. Threatening people is Axis' immediate go-to reaction, when he doesn't instantly jump straight to violence. At "best" he just snaps and snarls at people.
YES, THE SENESCHAL YOU'VE SERVED YOUR ENTIRE LIFE YOU FUCKING SELF-RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITE! Why is he suddenly going against what he should know damn well his "beloved foster father" Jaime would want?
Yeah, this is not how you show someone getting over their prejudice. You don't just have them "somehow" decide someone they've been taught to hate and fear from an early age isn't so bad after all.
If you want a good (if brutal and sometimes hard to watch) example of someone going through such a character arc, watch American History X
Short summary if you'd rather not or can't find a copy: it's about a Neo-Nazi who murders a black man and is sent to prison. While he's behind bars he joins up with the clique of other Neo-Nazi scumbags there, but his world is torn apart when they gang up on him and brutally assault him for doing something that displeased them. Meanwhile the other prisoner he's put on work detail with, a black guy, is a nice man who offers him friendship and sympathy which he ultimately accepts. When he is finally released from prison he's a changed man who now understands that the Neo-Nazis he once hung out with are vile human beings and that blacks aren't automatically his enemies. And this is a process that takes YEARS.
It also costs him enormously, as his former friends all turn on him after his release (including his girlfriend) when he tells them he doesn't believe in that white supremacy bullshit any more. It also puts a strain on his relationship with his younger brother who hero-worships him and wants to be just like him, and who he wants to save from going down the same road.
Nothing remotely resembling this rich tapestry ever happens with Axis. He switches sides at the drop of a hat and never has any doubts or regrets. Nor does he care a damn about the supposed relationships it costs him, most notably his relationship with his foster father Jaime. We're told he loves the guy and that the feeling is mutual, yet Axis has ZERO hesitation about turning against him, and indeed just wants to kill him in cold blood!
My old highschool has only been around for about 40 years and has changed its uniforms multiple times. But then this is crap fantasy, where "a thousand years" is the equivalent of less than a century where social and technological change are concerned.
But the Avar are totally anti-violence, honest! Also if Hagen has been out for this long then he's probably not going to wake up, or at least not without some serious consequences. https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/types-of-brain-injury/traumatic-brain-injury/how-severe-is-the-brain-injury/
Yeah, by this point he should be comatose or at least too weak to be thinking much at all.
Because the old days when all three races "spoke a common language" apparently never actually ended in that respect.
I don't agree, and I can give a very recent real-life example. In fact it even ties into my earlier discussion of American History X.
Just a couple of days ago I was at a local takeaway shop, and the customers ahead of me were a young man and his girlfriend. The two of them were laughing and smiling and chatting away with the server. They immediately struck me as really nice people.
Then I noticed the tattoos all over the man's exposed arms, neck and face.
Norse runes. An iron cross flag. A large bolded 1488 on his forearm.
If this "nice guy" who was acting all loving towards his girlfriend and being nice to someone working in customer service hadn't been covered in Neo-Nazi tattoos he clearly was making no effort to hide, I would never have even suspected.
Evil knows how to mask itself when necessary. Neo-Nazis, original Nazis, fucking serial killers, are perfectly capable of going home and playing with their kids and being loving toward their spouses while being complete monsters in other areas of their lives. Often those who live in their "nice person" area have no idea. The BTK Killer's daughter for example was completely blown away when she found out what her "loving father" really was.
So no, this shouldn't change Axis' opinion of Raum or the rest of the Forbidden at all. No doubt plenty of the "witches" he helped to burn at the stake had loving families too, but hell if he's going to ever give a thought to that
Fast forward to book three and he's snarling about murdering an infant.
Because Humans Are Lame. And again, the Horned Ones shouldn't be called that because antlers and horns are not the same thing!
Douglass had a horrible habit of constantly giving things away as early as possible, then pretending they were still Big Mysteries until it suited her.
We need her alive so she can become Azhure's enabler/cheerleader later on!
I don't, because it comes right the fuck out of nowhere with no explanation.
And then to stay on as the only guard on duty, and be as lax as possible.
Same Teres-time, same Teres-channel!