when everyone's life literally depends on you but you're just a girl
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Always thinking about how TLT is in so many ways about cycles of abuse.... Mercymorn has spent 10,000 years being too emotional and too sensitive and wearing her grief on her sleeve (the feminine expression of grief versus Augustine's masculine repression of it) and she spends those 10,000 years being ridiculed for it. "Unlovable Mercymorn, critical Mercymorn" -- John denigrates her in front of her inferiors on the Erebos, Augustine has a constant, painted on expression of dismissal, etc until the point where Mercymorn herself just accepts it.
And then here comes Harrow, 17 years old and grieving just like her, and Mercymorn has a chance to help. She has spent 10,000 years as a live wire of grief, and she's given this broken baby who has torn apart her own brain, in many ways a mirror of Mercymorn's own grief, and she has the chance to help. But what does Mercymorn do?
She ridicules Harrow. She dismisses her. She perpetuates the violence that she herself has faced, and the cycle continues
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I have acquired several dusty tomes (books) from the ancient archives (college library) with which to perform evils (research paper writing).
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I forgot to post my politic lawyer wife sorrryyy
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an au where remus gets to be a professor and sirius gets to be a nuisance and they live happily ever after
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