Hm why I feel like those hilarious decapitations during fel and shaxx’s confrontation is parallel to the citan fight?
It was clearly stated that “Citan wanted to knock it clean off the Iron Lord's bony shoulders. He could do it with a single punch”, but BEFORE he could get close to felwinter and use his punch, felwinter did a clean perma kill (jump/blink knee -> neck snap -> shot the body and ghost before it can get revived).
As we all know whatever felwinter did in the remembrance lore was trying to gain shaxx’s trust (using hth combat and solar + helping shaxx’s people + all those talking while he is not a chatty character etc) cuz he knew how stubborn a titan can be, it’s interesting to see how he controlled the whole situation in two different yet similar scenarios: both fighting warlord titan, both close quarters engagement, both using melee…but since he got very different intentions, the execution and outcomes varied.
I interpret the comparison between these two as the representation of his obsession over maintaining control and extreme caution (so basically is whether he ALLOWS something to happen; and yeah even his own death can be used as a tool to achieve the desired outcome…’operational necessity’ like he said). It’s already been discussed a lot by other ppl but still: if felwinter plans to erase the existence of his opponent, he is very unlikely to give them opportunity to fight back or even get close to him, since he understands exactly what he’s capable of and whats not.
(guess thats why his shotgun built like a sniper 💀)
(just imagine…he decides to kill you and put a fking bomb inside a snowball during the snowball fight)
The shoulder patting scene at the end of their encounter is also very clever (and almost looks like mocking somehow).
//btw shaxx mentioned this fight again in falling guillotine lore, and noticeably:
1. he used ‘carper’ to describe felwinter, not something like liar (which is the most well-known trait of him)…implying he probably still didn’t know
2. he mentioned this fight for ‘bravado’, which is more than interesting to me
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…OK NOW WHAT I TRULY WANNA SAY IS: I’m so in love with how the end was done (whoever wrote this lore? Bravo).
Numbness, head spinning, and almost killed (his probably best human friend) without planning? This is (as what I can remember) the only time I see felwinter act that way, and it’s such a brilliant contrast to previous content: He lost control over things (and was CONTROLLED by his feelings/thoughts like an actual human being) for probably the first time (the lore is pretty straightforward for this: “It was good; it made Felwinter feel like he was still in control.”), and even he himself was surprised by that.
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(also love how the writer used this one to show the truth behind fel’s weird behavior in that old lore (timur’s grimoire card) and further detailed the dynamics between him and timur (ok im very normal abt this (no im not
oh and “Felwinter followed his lead. He didn’t know where they were going.”??? ooooooooohhh this is..mmmmmmmmmm…delicious…….
