im one of the biggest aranea fans out there. i love her. have been for years. BUT.
i do often toss around the idea of araneas role being replaced with feferi, who i think couldve served this role for several reasons...
feferi has probably the closest thematic ties with the dream bubbles, both helping create them and being our first real exposure to the afterlife. she could have easily remained relevant in the story as a ghost.
act 6, esp early act 6, is about the condesce. yes we get plenty of meenah but she doesnt actually do much outside of the intermission. i think having the three iterations of peixes in major character roles wouldve been! interesting!
then theres feferis classpect. witches are among the most powerful classes, and feferi as a witch of life (even an unrealized one) would have massive potential over the outcome of the new timeline and the new universe.
feferis coddling and slightly manipulative nature (YES she does have flaws and i love her for it) could easily be exacerbated by circumstances to manifest as a savior/god complex for the new timeline. paaarticularly if the horrorterrors are getting killed left and right by lord english.
just. agh agh agh. feferi you have so much potential you are like an egg to me.
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it's so significant that they meet when one of them is slowly dying
Stede uses his ostentatious wardrobe as a defense mechanism, he buries himself under layers of lace and bright colours, uses it to dazzle and distract, to appear confident and invulnerable. If you are hurt, over and over, there are two ways to deal with it: become invisible, try to blend in to make them forget you're even there. Or do the exact opposite, become extremely visible, become so flashy it's off-putting. Don't eat me I'm poisonous, the language of bullied kids everywhere. Confidence is practice, so practice.
It's a shield for him to hide behind. He is clamped up and closed-off, he is very guarded around others, around himself. He doesn't share his feelings and he keeps his physical body wrapped up and out of view - even in his nightclothes he's dressed in layers. He never willingly shows more than his face and hands (except once, right at the end). Hide yourself for long enough, and you believe it is imperative. There's something rotten at his core that he must take great care to conceal from the world; there is something wrong about his body that no one may ever see.
Ed though. Ed sees him like no one else has before. Sees him bared and more vulnerable than he has ever been, physically, emotionally. Sees him delirious with fever, speaking without any control over what he says, sees him unclothed and unguarded.
Nobody was ever suppose to see Stede like that. And had he had any say in that, this isn't how he would have met Ed the Pirate, and certainly not how he would have presented himself to Blackbeard.
He doesn't get any say in it this time, though. He's forced to let his guard down, something he can only do when he's unconscious; he's too terrified of the horrible, repulsive truth that will surely jump out at the first opportunity.
And then - nothing happens. Because here's the truth: There's nothing wrong with him. There's no great, terrible secret for Ed to uncover.
He's just a guy.
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just finished s2 of de volta aos 15 after forgetting of its existence for a whole year and my only takes are that im SO glad joel got upgraded to deuteragonist this season bc hes my favorite boyfailure and also if anita and fabricio or whatever his name is are endgame i will literally huff paint and then kill myself in front of the writers he is her worst love interest. theres nothing wrong with his character i just do not care in the slightest about their dynamic
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