also, you know. gonna be breaking down all the angst of this episode for days, it's hardly top of mind right now
but i do feel sorry for occtis whenever he discovers what actually happened with koral
not just that julien killed him after occtis asked him like three times not to, but because he was so hoping to have a sibling on his side. any of them, he doesn't care, after how much he read into petra and ryah's letter he'll take any crumb of evidence that someone in his family didn't want him dead
(and rip to that on two fronts with primus this episode confirming he was planning to kill occtis for treachery regardless, the deva vindicta was just a convenient way to do it)
but no, the reason your brother was also locked up by the rest of your family is because he fell to a fairy curse while destroying the golden orchard. nothing to do with defending you at all. (honestly, given how at home you felt in the orchard, the opposite). the list of people, among your entire massive family, that you haven't confirmed were on board with killing you drops to three
and that's assuming your mother is still alive
