Lost in the Woods

god they really should

both are people who clearly dont want their emotions to burden or hurt those around them, especially when both have had instances of letting go of said emotions and accidentally hurting someone (physically or not)

scott even said on today's stream that legs reminded him of himself before everything (aka before starting repressing his emotions I GUESS) and how he apparently used to go off to PUNCH TREES AND ROCKS WHEN HE WAS ANGRY? BARE FISTED?? (why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot )

How much of his own bones did he break and his own blood did he spill against stone and wood after the incident with the bandits I wonder? Angry at just how unfair life was and how cruel other people could be. Angry that he survived when the others did not. Angry at himself for hesitating and having to come home to the screams and wails of mourning families because he couldn’t move when he needed to. Just so, incredibly angry and the only thing he could think to do to deal with it was to put himself in pain until the day he could strangle his own negative emotions down deep into his soul and hold them there.

It’s no wonder he’s a force of nature in a fight, since that’s the only time he feels it’s appropriate to actually let himself feel negative emotions. Other than that he tries to maintain control of his emotions as best as he can, to not perfect results. He mentioned that when he did let go he had accidentally killed AJ, feeling guilty over letting his emotions go the way they did. This instance probably reaffirming his not so healthy “stuff everything down into my soul” mentality.

I think he feels that he physically cannot allow himself to feel strong emotions anymore freely. His magic started to encroach into his being and room whenever he was in distress about Pyro, he accidentally killed AJ when she lit just the right match to ignite the fuse, overwhelming fear caused him to freeze up in the most perilous situation in his life up to that point with the bandits during the supply trip. Every incident continues to reaffirm this severe repression of his emotions because every time he’s felt something that strongly something bad happened/was happening. It’s an incredibly unhealthy and cruel thing to do to yourself, and I feel sad that he probably feels like it’s his only option.

like is there fighting going on somewhere? legs' hometown is at the border right? is that where the fighting is?

I understand that the corruption may have come from the realm of storms, and I suppose that counts as biological warfare. But it's not armed conflict or anything. You don't need soldiers to cure a plague.

or is it more like the realm of summer is anticipating fighting? like they expect the realm of storms to attack later (maybe if the corruption doesn't wipe out the realm of summer on its own)? or maybe the realm of summer is planning on invading the realm of storms (in retaliation?) and that's why they need soldiers? for their own attack?

Since then the Summer government has dedicated a lot of effort into villainizin the Storm Realm through propaganda, orchestratin literal book burnins for texts like “Symbiosis” that depict the storm ravens as natural allies of dragons and unrelated to the corruption, and then later defamin them as “carriers” of the corruption and all Storm Realm civilians as “mad cultists that worship the corruption” despite Juniper’s first-hand testimony against that

The “War” that Summer keeps insistin about is really just an attempt at recolonizin the Storm Realm, but they know that won’t sell to prospective soldiers, so they instead sell recruits on “fightin the corruption” and then synonomize in their minds the corruption with the Storm Realm, which is why they’re so insistent on callin the corruption issue a “war” and not the “disaster” it is, they’re tryna normalize militaristic beliefs and decision-makin among new recruits

yeah, them

TRUST ME !!! I’ll be the one to fight for you when things went wrong!