Starting with how Bea made these conscious choices in her life to sharpen her skills (whether in way of language or martial arts) just to justify her value. To compensate for what she was taught were flaws (likely ingrained through her parents). And then we have this incredible character arc (with the help of Ava and her other Sisters), where Bea gradually accepts that her value is innate, and is not contingent on her skills or accomplishments and that she no longer need to prove her value, to justify her queerness. And that’s why she leaves the OCS.
This entire journey resonates with me (and I’m sure many others) on an insane level because we’re so hard on ourselves, to be skilled, to be accomplished, just so others (particularly our Asian parents) would see our value and see us more than just queer. I’m honestly still walking that journey so to see Bea successfully close that chapter of her life and start an entirely new one is incredibly satisfying.
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Don’t turn your patron saint into mine.
What’s worse; A father’s eye, ever disapproving
or a mother’s eyes, ever closed?
I was a child, Spock.
Do you really think I never cried?
Transcript:
“You should not speak ill of our mother.”
Spock, may I ask you something?
If Sarek is as horrible as you paint him, and Amanda as good as you believe - why didn’t she help you?
I think you know something about that doesn’t make sense - through logic or emotion. But you’re frightened and you’re guilty. Because you love her and this is the only way you allow yourself to show it, this constant forgiveness.
Fine. I’m not Sarek, I’m not here to judge you.
I only want to be left alone.
You can have your mother, Spock.
Mine died a long time ago.
+ Tags of my original post which tumblr error messaged to hell
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URGENT QUESTION WHAT SHIP DOES MY TEARS RICOCHET BELONG TO
HAHAHAH THIS QUESTION GENUINLY STRESSED ME OUT BC I WAS SO UNSURE BUT I THINK MAYBE EVRET AND LEVANA???!?!? BUT IN THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE
OK SO
the whole song is about the death of a relationship i know evret and levana barely even qualifies as a relationship as its so one sided but u get me
ok so pretend this whole thing is from evrets pov
'and if im on fire youll be made of ashes, too'
ok first thing i noticed here is the reference to fire bc thats a recurring theme in tlc and more specifically in fairest, and that lyric is about how the people on both sides of the relationship are hurting eachother - levana hurting evret by manipulating him, forcing him to marry her, stealing evrets dead wife's face, etc etc,, and on evrets side, he hurts levana by not loving her back (what a king i love him sm)
'even on my worst day, did i deserve, babe, all the hell you gave me? cause i loved you, i swear i loved you, 'til my dying day'
a huge huge part of evrets character is that he has a big sense of duty and devotion. so when levana forced him to marry her, regardless of his lack of love for her, he did everything he could to make her happy, because thats what he felt his duty as a husband was to do, and throughout fairest, they keep mentioning the vows 'i vow to love and cherish you for all our days' 3 times i think (?)
so relating back to the song, its like hes saying, i loved you and cherished you as promised (or did everything an actual loving husband will do) and yet she gave him hell (the reasons stated in the paragraph above ^^^^^ and more) even though he was kind to her LITERALLY UNTIL HE DIED???!?!??!??!? WHICH SHE PLANNED?!??!??!???!?!?! fairest is so wild omg
'and i can go anywhere i want, anywhere i want, just not home'
this ones simple, evret literally cant go home back to his normal life with just his daughter to mourn his wife's death because levaNA FORCED EVRET TO MARRY HER RIGHT AFTER
'and you can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you would still miss me in your bones'
theres 2 ways you can take this, the literal way :
bc levana got evret assasinated, she literally did aim for his heart and go for blood in a murdery way, but i think the more metaphorical interperatation works better:
levana aimed for his heart, as in, she aimed for the one alive person evret cared about the most, aka winter. by killing evret and leaving herself as winter's only family, levana is hurting winter, and this hurts evret (but like hes dead so he doesnt know that but it still works)
this also relates to the last line of the bridge 'and when you cant sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies'
winter being the stolen daughter, the daughter she took from evret and solstice, aka the 'stolen lullaby' :
and all throughout winter (the book not the person), its like levana is haunted by evret through winter's (the character) existence, as she looks so much like evret and reminds levana of him AND because winter is more beautiful than levana without needing glamour, so when levana sleeps at night, she'll be thinking about her jealousy of winter (when she cant sleep at night shes hearing evret's stolen lullabies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
i'll admit this one was kinda a stretch but it works in my head
the pendent that evret gives levana on her 16th birthday is a metaphor thats talked about multiple times in the book
at what levana thought was the start of their 'relationship'
when she realises evret never loved her and the pendent (the sympathy and gesture) was evret's wife SOLSTICE'S idea (his one true love <333333 i love sol sm)
the pendant thing is summed up here ^^^^
the pendent is also present in evret's death scene, so the line in the song 'you wear the same jewels, that i gave you as you bury me' are literally true
anyway this is easily the most incoherent post ive ever written so sorry about that ~~~~
this has been a levana hate post !!!!!!! and there probably are many more to come
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