I love âPain doesn't make people; it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential; it's love that saves them.â Itâs an amazing moment. It was important that Caduceus said it. It was an important answer to Trent, to all the people who claim that pain builds character and is helpful, or even necessarily for growth. Itâs important to speak against that mindset, against the abuse that Trent perpetuated in the name of the greater good.
Taliesin is playing Ashton now. And everything hurts. Always. And there is pain, and there is strength. There is strength, and there is pain. And the pain is not âinconsequential.â It is invisible, but it is pervasive. It matters.
And though I donât think Caduceus would ever call Ashtonâs pain inconsequential (he was definitely using that word specifically in reference to Trentâs claims that abuse and pain made Caleb a great wizard,) Cadâs rarely comfortable sitting with painâhis own or others. Cad is a healer, after all. A gardener and a comforter of mourners. Love saves people, and Caduceus embodies that.
But I think itâs significant that now, Taliesin is playing a character with chronic pain. Pain that no words or magic can soothe. Pain thatâthough it doesnât make them better or strongerâis an undeniable part of who he is.
The pain is not inconsequential.
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