#the shakespeare complaining is about phebe and silvius in particular

[cozcat]

so i am unable to think about anything besides moiraine/siuan thinking a lot about how wot on prime will handle some of the romances

this is from the perspective of being halfway through the fifth book, having not yet read new spring, but having heard enough in the way of spoilers to get the impression that the relevant forthcoming romances in the books have all the finesse of shakespeare writing a tertiary couple in act five of a comedy (that is to say - badly done, out of left field, and honestly almost offensive towards the characters in question, particularly the women)

(my tag block list is thorough but not gonna lie, kinda glad i've been spoiled, because it feels less like a spoiler and more like a warning)

but my thought is: if they're still wanting to have those in-book romances as endgame (or at least a forthcoming goal, idk how alive ongoing they are by the end and don't want to), they had no need to make moiraine/siuan ongoing as well as canon

they could have easily gone the direction of openly stating that they had a relationship in the past, said that loud and clear, even implied that the emotions are still there, but that the relationship isn't

but they didn't - instead, their goodbye could not have felt more like unfinished business

and it does make me wonder (ie: aggressively hope) that it means they're going for a different endgame too, because otherwise, why set it up the way they did, when there were alternatives that could have made them canon without setting it up as being current?

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