So, from what we know about Melinda so far, her dichotomous feelings for Damian stem from her loving him as her son and hating him as Donovan's son. She seems to feel deep hatred towards her husband, and it spills over towards her son(s?).
And I feel like Melinda is genuinely happy that Damian is making friends and getting a social support system outside of his father's influence. She wants Damian to stop obsessing over getting his father's approval and turn more and more similar to the man she despises.
I have the feeling that Demetrius did not turn out the way she wanted, and is following his father's path. With Damian, she sees a chance, because he is becoming friends with a little "peasant" girl at school.
This also gives me hope that if Damian does stop trying to win Donovan's approval so hard, and continues growing into a different direction from the path his father has set for him due to the emotional support system he's building at school with his classmates and teachers... that there might be a chance for the relationship between Damian and his mother to improve.
What if... Doomed by the narrative: Han Yoojin vs Han Yoohyun?
who's more doomed? neither. both. as in, don't separate them, but also.
yoojin had no choice but to love yoohyun and so doomed himself. yoohyun had no choice but to reciprocate that love and so doomed himself. by loving each other they also doomed the other.
because of his nature, han yoohyun would have been "doomed" from the start, although in a different way than he is now. burning up everything, and in the end, himself too— although not an ending anyone else would be happy with, living like that, as was in his nature, he would have died alone and without regrets. but loving and being loved so deeply by han yoojin changed him, until he had no choice because he loved yoojin so much— so he died in a dungeon, before his time should have come, having repressed himself for years, in order to protect yoojin. from himself, as well ^^
and if yoojin had gone against his own nature and rejected yoohyun from the start, like everyone else, he could have lived a normal life with his parents— could have graduated and gotten a normal job, would have lived fine even after the dungeons appeared. since it was his inferiority complex that pushed him to awaken to begin with ^^ he could have lived a very ordinary existence, i think, and wouldn't have ended up rewriting the entire world in order to bring his brother back, starting the story altogether.
because sctir is a love story, it makes sense that being doomed by the narrative is equivalent to being doomed by love ^^ but since the love was there— and since love is the point— i don't think the han brothers are very doomed at all actually 💜💜💜
“Back in the day, when somebody went missing, you used to put up flyers, or put stuff on milk cartons,” Damien said, tipping his head back to thunk quietly against the wall. “None of this, fuckin’… hunt em down and hope the ride doesn’t kill you, bullshit.”
MacCready chuckled quietly. “I mean, there’s nothing stopping us from putting up flyers nowadays,” he said. “Good luck finding the paper for it, though.”
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the conversation between martin and basira in mag 88 is goddamn hilarious to me like martin’s trying to be nice, he’s under a lot of stress with jon on the run, but then this exchange happened:
BASIRA: I actually thought I misjudged him. Hell, I liked the guy.
MARTIN: Right, yeah, ‘cause I don’t actually… I don’t actually think he…
BASIRA: I just, I mean he was good company. Y’know, when he wasn’t being a paranoia machine. He was funny, you know?
MARTIN: What, Jon?
BASIRA: Yeah.
MARTIN: I don’t think I’ve ever heard him tell a joke.
BASIRA: Maybe you weren’t listening.
and from there martin gave up on civility, went full bitchy jealous mode with her the change is so funny and so immediate i really can’t with martin kartin blackwood
Having a witchy/dungeony, but funky and endearing vibe with the two ideas for the first part - I wanted to try to have two ideas for a second part that would be the inverse - brighter and ethereal but with enough teeth to work my way back.