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11.12 DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
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11.12 Don't You Forget About Me
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We did the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding earlier this year and I thought it would be fun to post the cutscenes in honor of our irl anniversary 💖
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My birthday is at midnight 🥳🍾
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Finished arc 11. While it had a lot of high points (some of the best stuff in the text), the broader setup is frustrating me. Namely, I don't like Cradle or Love Lost as antagonists. Being motivated by an all-encompasing need for revenge can work for a point-of-view character, but it's harder to make interesting for their adversary*. And as much as I'm a sucker for trolley problem stories, this whole process of making Love Lost and Cradle more depraved and having them do more fucked-up shit, emphasizing how dangerous it would be to let them exist even isolated in the margins of society—its all a bit too well set-up to make killing or mega-siberianing them the only reasonable way of dealing with them. We've had stuff like this in the past, there were plenty of characters in Worm who got killed or petrified or time-prisoned that I didn't have a problem saying "yeah that's horrible but it was really the only decision that could've been made." But did we need to have Rain's clustermates suddenly start acting like the Slaughterhouse Nine?
It feels too cartoony and too real-world at the same time. Cradle and LL are not acting like fully realized characters; the story's need for them to be obstacles that can't be met without removing from the board entirely has reduced them. But also, the fact that its peacekeepers who are steeling themselves for the moral necessity of killing criminals, going so far as to have a lawyer look at scenes of child dismemberment so that she would agree that killing such morally depraved people was what needed to be done—what are we doing here? We're mixing utilitarian ethics with retributive justice, we're framing fantasy situations in the language of police and soldiers. It feels less like an elaborate trolley problem and more like reskinned propaganda.
I don't think that was WBs intention, to be clear. I think he was trying to set up a situation where it was believable that Victoria's normal moral's would slide. That's what he does with most of his protagonists, after all. But he was perhaps too concerned with putting her in the right, not concerned enough with making the force pushing her believable, and ended up with something a bit too close to the inciting incident of a Call of Duty game.
*Especially compared to Colt. The "running from a shit homelife, having no place to turn but the people who got you out, misplaced loyalty pushing you onwards and shame fencing you in" stuff is great. Or even Lord of Loss' need to follow self-imposed rules to direct his behavior since he doesn't trust his own decsion-making, that echoes Victoria in a way I'd love to see the text deal with. Its kind of weird to see those very interesting and well-characterized motivations next to "I'm gonna mutilate a bunch of kids because I hate this one dude."
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