#wrt: Charis and the larger scheme of the Greco Persian war

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okay but i'm still LOSING my MIND over the fact that in theogony james literally killed a man for lily’s sake like. not to save her life bc she wasn’t in danger anymore but just because he could see how tortured she was over the possibility that she’d done it. i feel like it’s such a great parallel with chapter 8 where we see him thinking about war and the innocence of the young boys who were fighting for the first time. he saw her in shock over the possibility that she’d taken someone’s life and just to relieve that burden from her he was the one to kill the man like WHAT!!!! it’s devotion to the max it’s love taken to it’s most extreme form like i would kill a man for you just to keep you steady what the fuck!!!! he is so !!!!!!!!! i have no words you are so insane for this i’m literally incoherent

"I would kill a man for you just to keep you steady" well I didn't prepare myself for HOZIER to enter my ask box today that's for damn sure!! certainly was not prepared to be bowled over by a blithe little sentence in an anon ask today!!!!

#ask #anon #theogony #theogony spoilers #like ok poet!!! #but seriously thank u so much this warmed my cold dead heart <3 #here is my essay about that scene (in tags so ppl can avoid it if they choose): #that was something I knew was going to happen p much from the jump yeah #I went back and forth a lot about who should do the respective saving in that scene #and to what end I could even give Lily agency in a situation where she's in objective and imminent peril #so when you see her yelling at them and unleashing all of this anger and vitriol #it was sort of the only way for her to reclaim any sense of personhood or choice #so then upon liberation from that the question became 'what are the consequences of her choices and how can she deal with them' #and then with James's involvement it's not only 'how can I help her here' but also #'will I confront (in front of her) the fact that I am capable of the thing that she thinks is so horrific' #bc he's just reckoned with his place as a soldier in the last chapter #wrt: Charis and the larger scheme of the Greco Persian war #and you see him sort of continuously grapple with his own violence versus what he thinks she deserves in a partner #aka “I am not kind!!!” #so there was a lot going on in his head at that moment I like to think #except it was all sort of superseded immediately by this very pressing and very mounting desire to just alleviate whatever pain of hers he #could #and there u go! #<3 #but again THANK YOU this is really so so sweet it absolutely knocked me flat