#fics where moryo is anti kinslaying give me LIFE

[feanorianethicsdepartment]

Hi! So...Moryo as the nicest Fëanorian? (I completely agree with you I just was wondering as to your validation for it)

i’m not sure i’d call moryo the nicest one, but i’d definitely call him the least awful person of the brothers hellspawn. i tend to define awfulness as partially a function of murders commited, so mags and mae are automatically worse than the twins are worse than the middle kids, with the possible exception of amrod if you assume he got out when the going was relatively good. like i said in a tag once, the fëanorians just get worse and worse until they’re all dead, and the longer they live, the less there’s anything left but their very worst possible self

why’s moryo better than the himlad idiots? tbh caranthir kind of has the vibe of a bog-standard jerk in a family of psychopaths. if you cut out the stuff they all have in common (by which i mean the kinslayings) the worst he’s ever done is yell at people. i tend to go with the idea that he’s a lot better at working with others and making connections than the text is willing to admit, so while he is kind of brusque at the best of times beneath it he’s a pretty reliable guy, which is more than you can say for most of them. he doesn’t have the patience for anything, including the overcomplicated villain shenanigans his brothers get up to

there’s also - these things scale, of course, but out of all the fëanorians moryo is probably the least demonic. murder isn’t something he revels in, even against the orcs; it’s something you do because it needs to be done and you’re too angry for anything else. there’s something almost mannishly grounded in the way he views the world, a pragmatism that even at his worst keeps him from going full hellbeast, and can also pass for altruism sometimes? he’s the leader of the ‘maybe let’s not burn down doriath you fucking morons’ high command faction, and while a lot of his justification therefore is ‘morgoth’s balls we cannot afford a two-front war especially not now’ part of it is ‘didn’t we decide that alqualondë was awful???? i’m not the only one who remembers that right??????’ he does still join in with the murder, that is a black mark on his record, but he probably comes the closest to realising they could just. leave the silmaril alone. caranthir’s the least worst, at least partially, because he fell the least. ‘s what i think anyway

(the ‘nicest’ fëanorian, in an interpersonal sense, is probably either maglor or celegorm, depending on how bro-y you are? they would both rip anyone in their outgroup to shreds if they thought it served their purposes though. the one with the most ethical backbone in a pinch is probably amrod, and there’s probably some kind of epic tragedy in how he went from ‘guy who snuck back onto the boats in direct defiance of his entire family’ to ‘guy who allowed sirion to happen’)

#ask #caranthir #house of feanor #fics where moryo is anti kinslaying give me LIFE #you go evil logistics guy you tell em #i need to write more about amrod #and my conceptions of the twins more generally #amras is probably the feanorian i'd want to hang out with #he tries to do the same thing as mags and tyelko #y'know acting completely friendly up until they stab you #he's just way worse at hiding his actual intentions #caranthir on the other hand can't be bothered #with him what you see is what you get #niphredilien