delisha talking about malice at the palace is fucking GOLD
"candace you better bend your damn knees"
"i'm a mother"
"girl don't nobody care you a momma, we fighting right now"
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An important and fascinating theme in The Underland Chronicles is the question of whether or not Fate actually exists and whether the prophecies are real or just nonsense the Underlanders are using to dictate and then make sense of their actions. That's why the ambiguity in "The Peacemaker" is such a good device.
On soft feet, by none detected,
Dealing death, by most rejected,
Killed by claw, since resurrected,
Marked by X, two lines connected.
Finally, they intersected,
Two lines met, one unexpected
You could read the Peacemaker as Ripred like the Underlanders did. But I think it's almost certain that Collins intended an alternate interpretation of Gregor as the Peacemaker.
Line 1: Gregor was always thought to be The Warrior. Despite constant attempts to act peacefully 'on soft feet,' nobody ever saw him as The Peacemaker. Even at the end of the story nobody detected that interpretation.
Line 2: "Dealing death" is obvious. He was stuck in many situations where killing was his only option. But his many attempts at peace were rejected by everyone who thought war and hatred was inevitable. You could also interpret "rejection" in the sense that he belongs in neither Underland nor Overland by the end of the story.
Line 3: He was nearly killed by The Bane's claw, he was prophecied to die, but ultimately survived. He also "killed" The Warrior by breaking Sandwich's sword, and then "resurrected" himself as Peacemaker.
Lines 4 and 5: His initial arrival in the first book connected the Overland and Underland in a way they had not been joined since Sandwich's initial arrival. It's also Gregor's act of standing up for peace as the better option that finally joins the rats and humans, an intersection of unlikely allies to build a better tomorrow.
Line 6: The two factions will still have difficulty trusting each other as the peace is established - to the rats, the humans are the unexpected party to keep the peace, and to the humans, the rats are.
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i didn't even dare to think about [playing for another team] because i didn't even imagine myself playing somewhere else. and the moment i had to start thinking about it was one of the hardest times because in my head, it was like, difficult to just think about the idea of leaving. and that's no disrespect, just like, i never thought about it. it never crossed my mind, because i thought i would be a raptor forever.
pascal siakam | toronto forever #PS43 | 01.19.2024
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I am literally so excited for this upcoming update. Your blog is always the highlight of my day even if it's just answering asks becausei love the world building aspect of crcb so fucking much
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Awww anon y'all are gonna kill me with all these compliments 😭
Thank you anon, you're so kind omg.
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anyone else find themselves suddenly in pieces over the last tomshiv scene or, after three seasons of chanting “divorce!” at them, was that just me?
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