So I'm thinking. Can we choose later on whether Romanus was scared of Neia, or are they always gonna be scared at the beginning? 🤔 Like, maybe feeling shocked because oh, isn't she supposed to be like, dead?
The visage of Neia, the Dawnseeker, standing where she shouldn't stand, with a dead man's blood on her sword is a vision straight out of Romanus' worst nightmare.
You are more than scared, you're close to terrified — and the text doesn't leave that interpretation on purpose.
How you respond to that fear, is up to you. You can recover quickly, even fight her, but you will always feel dread when you first lay eyes on Neia.
Romanus' fear of her and, especially, of the Inquisition, is something intrinsic to their character and not decided by the reader. But, as Ned Stark once said: "The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid."
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Did you see the part where Meg was annoyed that only dogs can be qualified to be service medical dogs? lol guess she's mad a bird can't be a service cardic arrest animal. Once again pulled up the "people think only DOGS can be trained to do this!!! How dare they!!!" *grumbling about mammalian bias* argument. I'm sorry Meg but your fucking bird or a rabbit cannot be a service animal for the blind or anything that dogs have be bred to do
me when they won’t let my service crocodile into Walmart:
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here's the difference between my ex and my current bf:
my ex tried to initiate stuff while i was sleeping even though i had explicitly told him i didn't feel comfortable yet (that was the end of our relationship)
i fell asleep in my current bf's bedroom, and got woken up bc he was trying to roll the two of us into a blanket burrito
like, this is the type of tomfoolery bullshit i want in a relationship
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Perhaps the greatest contradiction in our lives, the hardest to handle, is the knowledge 'There was a time when I was not alive, and there will come a time when I am not alive.' On one level, when you 'step out of yourself' and see yourself as 'just another human being', it makes complete sense. But on another level, perhaps a deeper level, personal nonexistence makes no sense at all. All that we know is embedded inside our minds, and for all that to be absent from the universe is not comprehensible. This is a basic undeniable problem of life; perhaps it is the best metaphorical analogue of Gödel's Theorem. When you try to imagine your own nonexistence, you have to try to jump out of yourself, by mapping yourself onto someone else. You fool yourself into believing that you can import an outsider's view of yourself into you... though you may imagine that you have jumped out of yourself, you never can actually do so.
― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid p 146 (1979
[Robert Scott Horton]
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i love hunter very much it’s clear he’s an incredibly powerful witch in his own right, he’s a tough kid & he did walk of an assassination attempt that one time so it’s clear not a lot phases him but i truly believe that any joke about “what modern day invention would kill at 18th century peasant” applies to him as well. luz tries to introduce him to human things because being cloned from a wittebane means in some weird way he’s half human now so she gives him soda & it immediately gives him the hiccups & he assumes he’s been poisoned
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