Hold Her to You, As She is Apart of You

ABOVE / BELOW (2020, mixed media on hot press paper)

I really love The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Deet is most certainly my favourite. She’s such a sweetie!

So this scene is where Seladon and Mayrin have their last real conversation before Mayrin dies and it’s a sad moment of realisation for Seladon.

It’s the sad realisation that no matter how hard she tries, her mother will never see her or recognise her. 

Before this moment, Seladon’s conversations with Mayrin revolve around Seladon begging Mayrin to recognise her, ”I’m here. I’m  always here” and “but you need me, let me stay and help”. All Seladon wanted was for Mayrin to see her and the way she had become everything she was raised to be as a loyal servant of the lords of the crystal. 

And then Mayrin appears to instantly rebuke everything she had taught Seladon. That’s when Seladon realises Mayrin will never see how hard she worked to be everything that was expected of her, Mayrin will literally back down from everything she has believed her entire life before she just sees Seladon as being good enough.

Funnily enough, after this conversation we have Mayrin showing real concern for Seladon for the first time in the series, she demands to know what Aughra does with her daughter when Aughra sends her out of the dreamspace, she tells the Skeksis to get away from her daughter. In her final moments, Mayrin realised just how hurt and lost Seladon was, as well as the fact that Mayrin’s emotional distance meant that Seladon didn’t have a real parental figure to properly guide her, she just relies on her unwavering faith in the lords of crystal because that’s all she really has.