[id: two panels. a woman edited to say “i’m like dropping hints that i think hamlet has ocd”, and the same woman saying “i think hamlet has ocd”. end id]
(obligatory “i can’t diagnose this guy because he isn’t real and he can’t take any sort of test for it” thing also. sorry i have to say it..)
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If it be now, 'tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare ~ Hamlet
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It's the SPCA I feel sorry for.
"Oh, hallo you lovely thing! Did you escape from the Demeter? Are you a good dog, are you? Are you ARGH!! ARGHHH!!!! ARRRRRRGGHHHH!!!!"
[quiet slurping sounds]
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“You know, I wish I could have a word with that G’raha Tia fellow.”
“Oh, he’d love that, too. He calls you Rinoire Thrice Redeemed. That’s what you were called in the stories he read.”
“Really. And did he mention when the third time would be?”
Day 18 - Shadowbringers
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"While it's fresh. I need everyone to tell me what they saw and heard, so that I can write it down. There will never be a better time."
Of all the accounts Loial gathered in Thakan'dar that day, the Aes Sedai's proved the most difficult to acquire. Those who remained were elusive, bustling around the Healing tents and churned fields. Nynaeve Sedai and her helpers, paying no heed to the fragility of Humans, were bringing back from the brink of death so many that a constant flow of barely healed soldiers and channelers shuffled toward the Travelling grounds, freeing much-needed beds inside the tents.
Moiraine Sedai would not answer his inquiries about the events at Shayol Ghul either, intent as she was on the care of a drawn, but gently chiding Tairen woman.
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@randomfoggytiger
Beyond Words, Beyond Silence...
Nan ties these episodes together brilliantly. She also captures Cathy sooooooooooo well, building more on her self-doubt than the little bits of cursory examination we were given ("In telling her what he believed, he'd also been telling her what she desperately wanted to hear - that their relationship existed on a different plane from anything she'd ever known"-- I CALLED IT. Proud of myself.)
Yep, you called it! 😁
it makes me giddy to see the throughlines (including the children and swimming, the Other and the cave-- both wanting that undivided, appraising attention.) Vincent's poem tying to back to Cathy and his fervency in tearing apart his room, breaking into her place, and driving himself into a fever until she quoted the poem back was superb.
The need for that undivided attention is also a call back to Vincent's demand in A Ceremony of Innocence. "Look at me, Catherine. Look at me!" Look at all of me and see all of me. Love all of me, if you can. Because the Other is a part of me and loves you too.
"Now she wondered if she'd been right to discount the unfitting things. If refusing to acknowledge all the anomalies - the number and scope of them! - she'd been dismissing the forest to see only the one preferred tree.... But they weren't deformities: they were Vincent. Maybe even the most of Vincent."
Nan did not pull any punches. Cathy needed a good "Come to Jesus" moment or two, and Nan gave us those.
As a final note, when Vincent speaks with shame about parts of himself and Cathy assures him those parts aren't him, I wondered how that would sound if he were a normal man with a comparable struggle; and the quickest comparison that I could think of-- though clumsy-- was mental illness. I'm mostly ignorant on this topic, so pardon my thoughts if they're too off target; but I sat wondering how it would feel if he were in the midst of a mental health crisis with everyone treating him like he needs to be "fixed", with restraints or with their love. And the shame and closed-in aloneness of that experience seems comparable in a few degrees, though of course you can't factor in his primal nature. Cathy's grand gestures of sweeping dismissal in the name of "this" not being "him" hits pretty close, as it would be denying an aspect of who Vincent is by pretending it can be weathered and then ignored-- and more tragic, because it would be spoken through well-meaning ignorance.
This whole passage is brilliant and I couldn't agree more. And when you think about it, what Vincent struggled with was a mental illness of sorts. There are those who believe V suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder caused by the trauma of his birth and immediate abandonment. Certainly Nan based much of her Vincent/Buster split in AWTN on that belief. And it makes sense that MPD would manifest in Vincent differently simply because he's different.
That whole sweeping aside of his differences and his otherness by not only Cathy but everyone else who knew and loved him had to have had a deep impact on him. Likely causing his lifelong habit of never addressing his otherness with anyone. He was just supposed to act like everything was fine, that he wasn't feeling the things he was because they were somehow "wrong" or a burden on those he loved. It's absolutely the same struggle that some folks have with mental illness. Think back on Outlook in AWTN, where young Vincent is always censoring himself and his feelings and needs because others might find them unacceptable. Because he's been told they're unacceptable.
Vincent is an almost unsolvable puzzle, not only to himself but to those who love him - including the fans. He's someone I'll never get tired of exploring, just as with Mulder. Like I said, layers upon layers.
Okay, one final thought and we'll put this one to bed. You did get that it was Buster with Catherine in the cave, not Vincent, right? That's important moving into S3.
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This is probably very far-fetched and a result of me overthinking it but i have a theory that Leon is secretly a yandere. So here's my little investigation :3
Piece of evidence number 1: I vaguely remember you saying something like "who said Ren is the only yandere in the game?" Or something along those lines, in an older post.
Piece of evidence number 2: In a post from june with some Leon crumbs you said: "When he was younger, Leon almost got into a fight because the weird kid in the grade below him tried to give you a ring on the playground. But Leon shut the whole ordeal down really quick because you promised to marry him first. Did you forget?" And that's just giving me yandere vibes
(Moving onto crackpot theories cause this is just me over analyzing jokes you made)
Piece of evidence number 3: You mentioned Leon, Theo and Jae would wear matching among us costumes for halloween, and Leon would be the imposter. Which made me think he might actually be an imposter lol
Piece of evidence number 4: This post was all non-canon and a joke but i'm still going to mention it. That one ask about Ren messing around with Angel's bedsheets, your response was "Who's gonna tell em about what Leon does in the bathroom during your sleepovers?? ^^"
Okay that's all i have ! Hope you have a good day !!
✦゜ANSWERED: I'm gonna need you to be a bit more quiet.................
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