It's a great day when you get to go buy 50 new books for your library

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Including a beautiful, shiny KoA. And, in honor of fabricalchemist, Kingdom Hearts graphic novels.

caroline_k and I had similar thoughts about Megan's answer re: Gen's tendency to poke/provoke.


"Yeah, Gen does have a tendency to provoke eveyone, thats what makes him so entertaining, lol.But it seems to me he knows just where to draw the line too, or mostly he does. I'm thinking about that scene in KOA where Gen tells Teleus and co. to invoke Hephestia in front of Attolia so she would spare him. To me, he just went a little too far there- I mean, he knows she loves him, but to remind her of such a painful memory was a little...tactless maybe? I just think that wasn't the way in which he should have reminded her about it. The 'slap' scene was chilling, but I kinda thought Gen deserved it (and the make-up scene was beautiful; really fleshed out their relationship)

Gen knows the polite attention will unsettle Relius.

Speaking of Relius, I was personally touched to see his almost religious devotion to Attolia in this book. From reading Qoa I was under the impression that no one was really that loyal to her, and they served her out of fear. To quote KOA:
" If I were imprisoned for fifty years (...) I would crawl, if that was all I could do, to her feet to serve her."

Thats some pretty powerful loyality!(he actually seemed sort of .....dare I say it... in LOVE with her, almost!) So I'm wondering then, why Atotlia needs a neutral party to unite her country, when she is capable of commanding such loyality herself? Or wait, maybe Relius is like her 'godfather' in the sense that he taught her everything she knows. I guess I personally think Attolia could unite Attolia , but given the history and mentality of the people, this isn't realistic. (Eddis is the woman power! sort of queen, lol)

Sorry to go off on so many tangents, everyone; I hope this hasn't been discussed already."


Megan's answer gave me a lot more insight into why Gen does the things he does. I knew this about him (he especially pokes people in Thief), but never thought about it while reading KoA.


I don't think Gen went too far by giving Telius the "magic words". He only had a few minutes to decide what to do and was trying to save several people. I think he really blamed himself for his injury since he hadn't had the gardens secured. I didn't think Gen deserved the slap, especially in front of other people. OTOH, I thought he did deserve the slap in QoA when he called Irene a puppet queen.

I wondered whether Relius might be in love with Attolia, too. What do you all think? And how else has Gen provoked people in KoA?

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When she muses in QoA that she's content to have her life in Teleus's hand, it seems cool because she's thinking that he hasn't been captain long enough to be corrupted. But she really trusts him; she just can't conceive of that trust in any other way because she's learned to trust no one. It's Gen who makes her see that she's worthy of love, and she is loved, and that she loves in return.

That was very well put. I agree.