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queensthiefNonetheless...
(Apologies in advance if I am blatantly repeating stuff you've all figured out years ago. I've looked about and not seen much, but that doesn't mean it's not there.)
Ok, so I've been thinking rather excessively about Gen's family lately, particularly his mother. I think it would be amazing to get to know her a bit; I get the impression that a lot of Gen's characteristics might be hers (aside from skill with swords, etc., although who knows?) and that she would have the same...fierce but fascinating personality. Not that I think Gen is excessively fierce, but he can be scary.
Enough babbling. As a result of my aforementioned thoughts about Gen's mother, I've been thinking about her death, which was reportedly from a fall out of a window in the palace when Gen was young. He says (to Sophos, I think) in The Thief that she had been dancing on the roof of the palace and slipped coming back in.
Fast forward to KoA, where Gen tells Attolia that he learned to dance square dances from his mother. He says, "We danced them on the rooftops of the Megaron. According to legend, the Thief and any partner the Thief chooses will be safe." (p100 in the hardcover KoA).
Obviously, since his mother wasn't the official Thief, the safety rule didn't apply. However, I'd always wondered why she'd been dancing on the roof anyway. I mean, all right, if Attolia can dance in the kitchen gardens, Gen's mother can dance on the palace roof. But it seems logical to me, knowing what we know now, that she would have been dancing with someone. Like her son?
I feel like we might have heard more about Gen's mother's death if he had happened to be around, but it may be worth a thought. I'll probably wake up tomorrow and think about this in a completely different way, though, so who knows?
Go ahead. Tell me I'm reading things into the text that aren't there, and that I should stop trying to make Gen a tragic hero. (Hero he is, tragic...hardly. Anyone who can make me laugh that hard can't be tragic.)
(Apologies in advance if I am blatantly repeating stuff you've all figured out years ago. I've looked about and not seen much, but that doesn't mean it's not there.)
Ok, so I've been thinking rather excessively about Gen's family lately, particularly his mother. I think it would be amazing to get to know her a bit; I get the impression that a lot of Gen's characteristics might be hers (aside from skill with swords, etc., although who knows?) and that she would have the same...fierce but fascinating personality. Not that I think Gen is excessively fierce, but he can be scary.
Enough babbling. As a result of my aforementioned thoughts about Gen's mother, I've been thinking about her death, which was reportedly from a fall out of a window in the palace when Gen was young. He says (to Sophos, I think) in The Thief that she had been dancing on the roof of the palace and slipped coming back in.
Fast forward to KoA, where Gen tells Attolia that he learned to dance square dances from his mother. He says, "We danced them on the rooftops of the Megaron. According to legend, the Thief and any partner the Thief chooses will be safe." (p100 in the hardcover KoA).
Obviously, since his mother wasn't the official Thief, the safety rule didn't apply. However, I'd always wondered why she'd been dancing on the roof anyway. I mean, all right, if Attolia can dance in the kitchen gardens, Gen's mother can dance on the palace roof. But it seems logical to me, knowing what we know now, that she would have been dancing with someone. Like her son?
I feel like we might have heard more about Gen's mother's death if he had happened to be around, but it may be worth a thought. I'll probably wake up tomorrow and think about this in a completely different way, though, so who knows?
Go ahead. Tell me I'm reading things into the text that aren't there, and that I should stop trying to make Gen a tragic hero. (Hero he is, tragic...hardly. Anyone who can make me laugh that hard can't be tragic.)
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Date: 2/12/09 04:05 pm (UTC)Re, ceremony: hmm... I wonder? One would think it would be 'official,' if it's a life-long title and not necessarily an active role.