#i think a lot about that scene in ditw when he's observing how his mother seduces men
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does anybody else think about how all of the darkling’s survival techniques were taught to him by a woman experienced at surviving in a man’s world?
#aleksander morozova#the darkling#shadow and bone#grishaverse#sab#baghra morozova#general kirigan#myramblings#im sorry but *everything* about the way he views men and his oppressors and operates within the system is so incredibly similar#to how women navigate through life#and how they navigate power structures with their oppressors#i think a lot about that scene in ditw when he's observing how his mother seduces men#i find it fascinating#like obviously he's still a 'man in power'#and his privilege as a man is unmistakeable#but i think any analysis of his character as a 'man in power' only is wholly incorrect#especially when it comes to his relationship with the royal family#and baghra tries to teach him how to operate as a man in a man's world#especially with that speech about being a leader of men and reading the relationships between the elders in camp really well#but even that coming from baghra is SO incredibly 'you need to be able to read the power dynamics between men'#so you can learn to navigate them the way i do - as a woman#because that is all she really knows#and the way she teaches him to accept all of the trauma he will inevitably suffer#and instead only teaches him how to mitigate it#how to turn even the worst atrocities committed against him to his own purposes#it is all so VERY#oooauuughh#i think some of the WORST anti character analyses for him#come from people who ignore baghra's influence on him as a parent#in every way
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