PSA: SAID IS NOT DEAD. Said is not an overused word you need to cull out of your drafts. Said is not the devil. Said is a dialogue tag that your reader's eyes glaze over, barely noticed, allowing your dialogue to shine. Allowing your characters to speak without the narration overshadowing them. Said is doing a wonderful, thankless job! Said is not dead, you take that back—
Being on this website is fun because you can absolutely tell when a blorbo clicks in someone's brain. You're scrolling, and suddenly out of nowhere there's like 12 posts about the same character back to back reposted by the same person, and you just know "oh. They're a permanent part of their psyche now." and honestly it's a vibe go off king
so this may be me voicing to the void, since i don't really visit the more social discussion places, but Lady I is using information she gets in the khert to plan things out right, or am i misinterpretting her hoarding of memories? and if so... is it possible, due to non-linear method of things in there, for Sette to destroy a memory that, if the bird had access too, would change the course of her plans, but due to it's absense "earlier / later" she's in the dark?
Yes. And yes, you got the correct interpretation. Lady Ilganyag has scavenged memories in order to deduce the future and massage it towards certain ends she wants.
But she doesn't have complete pictures. The khert is a chaos of scattered lives. She's found pieces, but she's also missing huge chunks, and even huge people from the narrative.
One important thing to note is that Sette can't destroy memories. She can rip them out of herself or others, shred them smaller, move 'em around like a cat batting moths, but she can't destroy them. Only Ruck's venom can break down memories.
see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck