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i’m back from the void because i desperately want to talk about narrative parallels.
prerequisite warning: these are my opinions, your reading of the text is fine and valid even if you don’t agree with me, and we’re all here to have a good time with a fun story so no worries all around. also, i’m still watching episode 5 perspectives, so as of writing this i have only seen scott, avid, and part of legundo’s perspectives.
SO. avid and owen are character foils.
let’s talk about that!
as of the revelations from this episode about avid’s past, we now know that they share MANY interesting qualities:
spent most of their life covering painful, unhealing wounds with bandages/linens
had a partner they trusted completely with the truth of themselves
said partner offered a solution to resolve the pain of the wounds
the last point for avid was his partner going and fighting monsters to help him research a cure for whatever curse he was afflicted with, and owen obviously was offered vampirism as a cure for his condition.
then we get our next parallel:
their partner dies in pursuit of that solution
they set out to destroy the entire group responsible for killing their partner
owen succeeds. avid doesn’t, because he didn’t know for sure what happened to his partner to make her attack him, but he had enough of an inkling that he sought out vampires specifically.
as the story has progressed, owen and avid have both been confronted with direct evidence to counter their preexisting notions of what their enemy is like. owen has met good humans— he even openly admitted legundo is a good man— and avid has met vampires who are resolute in their refusal to feed on unconsenting humans, or even humans in general.
owen’s views on humanity don’t seem to have shifted. he still views the entire species as rotten and unsalvageable. legundo is an exception, but owen’s opinion hasn’t wavered.
avid’s views on vampires have shifted dramatically. he’s openly struggling to work out how he feels, and by the end of episode 5, he ends up making functionally the same choice owen did: accepting vampirism to save him from his illness. and it’s incredibly important that he specifically goes to shelby for this, because she’s the person whose vampirism shook his worldview to its core and forced him to reevaluate and accept that he was wrong about a lot of things.
i’m really interested to see how avid and owen interact now that they’re on equal footing, because i think a big part of why they seem to particularly hate each other is that they both see their worst anxieties reflected in the other.
avid sees someone who lost a loved one in cruel and unfair circumstances and retaliated with unspeakable violence. he sees the culmination of what he himself came to oakhurst to do. it’s his plan realized, and it forces him to confront that he could have easily ended up just like owen if things had gone just a bit differently. in a way it’s lucky that avid had to actively try to convince people that vampires were even real, because if they were a commonly accepted part of reality, i don’t think he would have had so much trouble getting his vengeance started.
owen sees someone else who was unfairly afflicted with a painful curse, found a partner who saw past it and loved him anyway, and then had that partner ripped away from him in an awful, traumatic way, then swore vengeance against the group upon whom he placed the blame. he sees that his circumstances weren’t uniquely tragic, and he sees how he must look from an outside observer: bitter, violent, and fanatical. sure, he’s more composed than avid, but on the inside, his thoughts mirror the kinds of things avid says a lot more than he’d probably care to admit. it makes sense that he wants to torture avid and maximize his suffering before killing him; avid is just like him, and owen seems to hate pretty consistently in that regard.
owen and avid have a lot of parallels in their characters and i’m super interested to see how things develop now that avid’s a vampire. i’m gonna go finish legundo’s perspective and then watch owen’s so i might come back and add to this later if owen’s ep adds anything that feels relevant to this discussion!
also i can’t wait to find out if legundo actually turned or if he’s just lying to help protect cleo and drift from any impulsive actions from the town like holy shit this is massive
so like…. vampires smp martyn directly stated (when talking to himself) that he was lying about being a rich boy, right? but when he spoke with legundos about how medicine should be used and who deserves healthcare, martyn said the kind of stuff that strongly suggests being raised in an environment of privilege. could he just be lying through his teeth about his beliefs for the sake of keeping up appearances? sure. but he could also be someone from a severely underprivileged background who grew up hearing that kind of rhetoric— someone who was, perhaps, a child servant to a rich family.
so my current theory is that martyn is a former (indentured) servant who has assumed the identity of his employer’s son. any number of things could have led to this outcome, including:
martyn saw his opportunity and killed the son and the father while traveling and is now using the son’s identity as cover for his crimes (would explain why he’s so tense around apo and lowkey avoided introducing himself to drift)
the son and father were killed by something else (wolves, the undead, etc.) and martyn decided to take up a new identity and try for a better life
martyn and the son went off together to stretch their legs and either martyn killed the son or something else did and martyn took off because he doesn’t want to be (potentially falsely) blamed
martyn’s episode 2 showed him being a clever, methodical thinker who caught on to small things that the others missed (tracking scott’s whereabouts, connecting separate incidents where he seemingly vanished or suddenly appeared, using his holy word ability to test people, eavesdropping, following groups that seemed to be acting suspiciously, etc.)
it also showed him being brave to the point of recklessness by doing things like charging into an unexplored cave by himself to tail someone he suspected of being a man-eating monster, running to confront said monster with very little backup, and generally being willing to put himself in harm’s way for the sake of gaining information. his risk assessment is a bit lacking, but he’s an otherwise astonishingly tactical thinker for someone who’s trying to present himself as spoiled and naive.
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joel sees martyn standing frozen at the edge of the battlefield. a wither and a warden have rampaged the land and the threat is very much still alive, but it’s so much. too much to process all at once. the sounds and screams and blood and wither rose petals scattered across the rubble— it’s a cacophony, and martyn is trapped Watching.
but joel sees him. joel cries out.
“Martyn— stay away, Martyn! We can’t lose another person!”
martyn can’t listen. joel maneuvers himself between martyn and the wither until the death blow is dealt and the danger passes.
grian and etho recount the tale. they laugh. they laugh. all of them, while martyn stands numb with shock and thinks of a chest with three bones inside and nothing more. nothing ever again.
all that remains of his fellow reds are grayed out names on a tab list.
martyn closes his eyes and makes a silent promise.
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joel is no fool. he loves lizzy but her decision to ostracize herself and make enemies spelled doom long ago. meanwhile, joel has done what he rarely ever succeeds in: making allies that last longer than a few days in this wretched place. scar turned on him the moment he fell from grace in last life. etho’s attachment was artificial from the beginning in double life. the bad boys were a true bond, though he knew better, even then, than to ever trust grian completely. and jimmy—
—he can’t think about jimmy.
now, he has the mounders. pearl, and bdubs, and… mumbo. right. someone should go back to his base, collect his things before the scavengers come sniffing about. make a memorial, maybe. sideways. he’d like that.
but that just leaves pearl and bdubs, and joel can feel their eyes prickling the back of his neck. waiting. watching. an opportunity is all it will take for them to turn; pearl made her preferences clear, and joel can’t grudge her for it. he was a late addition to the mounders, after all. but that still leaves him cast out and alone in a server full of paranoid lunatics armed to the teeth.
he couldn’t let martyn join the ranks of the dead. it was too much. one more roll of thunder may have split joel’s mind like overripe watermelon and left him dripping and scattered all over the server.
maybe— maybe there’s room, up in that doghouse, for an ally. maybe martyn will take him in and let him rest somewhere he won’t have to keep one eye open. martyn could surely use the extra protection as he adjusts to being the only red for the first time in his existence.
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