#reading comprehension time: him and sinnafain love each other deeply and continue to in the cc trilogy. both try to cope with wtf happened

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one of these days I'll just do a "Cutter explained" post because it's my duty as an actual, unironic Tos'un stan atp to counter the "so what, he got zero development and was evil after all?" takes I've seen on like. reddit. lmao but truly I think it bears explaining how fucked up that sword is... and how effective it is on someone with overall weak emotional intelligence in two instances of being completely helpless and wracked by grief it's literally not comparable to Drizzt or Catti or Dantrag or whoever else wielding it because all people are different, having their own strengths and weaknesses (this is a dnd spinoff series) the tragedy Khazid'hea wrought was just by landing on somebody who never should have touched it but proceeded to do so... and make it his whole personality after his earlier personality of "I love having friends" stopped being relevant through them all brutally dying... then in Cutter he loses one child at the hands of the other, knowing it's indirectly all his own fault and knows that they'll never be able to live normally again - and then he holds that sword again... supercharged by Doumi killing many many people. like what's not clicking

edit: in one of the CC books (I forgot which one) he's hugging Doumi while she has Khazid'hea on her hip and it just immediately halts all of his self reflection, grief and regrets at the moment. it's in the text and it's even more blatant than earlier on

#reading comprehension time: him and sinnafain love each other deeply and continue to in the cc trilogy. both try to cope with wtf happened #in comrades at odds khazid'hea was literally like oh this guy is so easy to manipulate unlike drizzt like it's. in the text #and he did “master it” compared to the new baenre guy who never touched it in his life like if that's the metric lol #he bonded with it in a fucked up way that mostly benefits the sword and no one else. it's a completely imbalanced relationship #and this is just my own reading but khazid'hea was stewing in resentment for sinnafain because the first and then second time he disobeyed #was when they first met and when he disarmed her to run away. both times he explicitly disobeyed the sword wanting to kill her #because she'd shown him mercy first. comrades at odds made me cry. but anyway that sword knew what it was doing #in cutter the chapter that ends with him... well cutting her the whole point before that is to show how much they love and trust each other #khazid'hea hates that. because it's the nastiest fucker ever contained in sword form idk what to tell you. great character (?) though #realms tag