My brain is too mushy to go into detail but is anyone else feeling like Brennan just turned the “How much can you trust authority?” dial up to fucking 20.
Suvi has always had the Citadel breathing down her neck. Checking she is her place. Steel may be a guardian but she has trained Suvi and is her superior nonetheless. We, as the audience, know the Citadel is not to be trusted as an institution, Suvi has yet to learn that lesson.
I want to like Steel, but I don’t trust her. Being fine with delaying breaking the binds of Naram and Ame’s curse when the group has the means at their disposal is a power move I don’t like.
The obvious answer for Ame is the great spirits, but I argue it’s more the memory of Grandmother Wren. The image of the bowl sitting on the alter. She’s been here before, she did this right, don’t fuck up what she did. Ame clinging onto any scrap of training for something she could never be prepared for as Port Talon descends into chaos. Did Grandmother Wren always know what was best? We know little of her in all reality, mostly through vague stories by people she maybe knew and how she acted towards literal children.
Eursulon is an interesting one, because I think he no longer has someone looking over his shoulder. The thing that will always come back to me about him is that his father ate the children that grew too old and did not leave, but he was almost expected to keep in the parade until the moment he was old enough. There might be something there. I think, save for Grandmother Wren, that’s the only authority he’s ever truly respected. He will be kind and cordial but he’s going to do what he believes in. Steel told him to stay put, he believed it was wrong so he left. He’s a wild one after all.
Brennan Lee Mulligan I would like to see inside your brain please