Griffin's similarities with Lovell make me sick. He sounds like his father more often than not. It's almost like he looked upto his father at some point of his life. But that's the point right? The world needed both their qualities at the end. The world needed both Lovell's self centred, logical mind and Griffin's violence and Robin had to carry both their qualities in his softer heart to carry on. The process of Lovell leaving a mark on Griffin and then Griffin leaving a mark on Robin is almost prophetic. Robin almost transformed info Griffin in his last days. It's a complete cycle.
Just finished Babel and was thinking about Griffin and Robin and... Wow, everything RF Kuang does... I mean, wow, griffins are really big, vicious birds and robins are seen as small and timid ??? Its literally perfect???
Because there is something so utterly precious about Griffin Lovell/Harley. Like this boy probably did everything he could and was not able to satisfy his mentor/father despite it all for something that wasn't even his fault. Something that probably tore at his insides because despite being raised in an English and Hindi surrounded area, I am still Telugu and I can't think of not knowing it. And yet, I don't dream in it like my father does and that really makes me feel like an absolute outsider in my own house so imagine being Griffin.
Imagine being taken from ur motherland for something and then not being able to accomplish so you don't really belong to where u were taken but also don't belong to ur motherland because u were taken too early. And imagine when he realised this. Think of how much grief he had to deal with, he is lost. He has no shore, no anchor. And isn't that really a scary asf thought??
And maybe this ideology he shares with Hermes is his anchor? The only thing keeping him afloat? But imagine finding out u have a baby brother that prolly went thru all u did but turned out successful while u were just a failed demo? Imagine how shitty that must have felt?
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Lois Griffin was walking around holding her hair up. She walked up to me and said, "Normally I don't freak out about my hair, but maybe this time-" and then she popped her hair off and mushroom cloud exploded.
we're collectively glossing over one of the best-written, most heartbreaking parts of babel (huge spoilers ahead):
"He would never know, for instance, that there was a time when Griffin, Sterling, Anthony, and Evie had thought of themselves as a cohort as eternally bonded as Robin's did; or that Griffin and Sterling had quarrelled once over Evie, bright and vibrant and brilliant and beautiful Evie, or that Griffin truly hadn't meant it when he'd killed her. In his retellings of that night, Griffin made himself out to be a calm and deliberate murderer. But the truth was that, like Robin, he'd acted without thinking, from anger, from fear, but not from malice; he did not even really believe it would work, for silver responded only sporadically to his command, and he didn't know what he'd done until Evie was bleeding out on the floor. Nor would he ever know that Griffin, unlike Robin, had no cohort to lean on after his act, no one to help him absorb the shock of this violence. And so he'd swallowed it, curled in around it, made it a part of himself – and while for others this might have been the first step on the road to madness, Griffin Lovell had instead whittled this capacity to kill into a sharp and necessary weapon."
You can love a character and still admit when they are wrong. I love Griffin Lovell but I acknowledge his flaws (None. He is perfect) and can hold him accountable for his wrong doings (He has never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out on his actions (Which are always right).