Heal, heal, heal.

love when an absolute nightmare of a character is introduced and all you can think is "jesus christ buddy what the hell is your problem" and the narrative gives you a hot minute to stew before explaining Exactly what is Their Problem. and you just sorta sit back in your metaphorical rocking chair and think "huh. yeah okay fair. that would do this to a person, yes."

continue to do as you like with this post but I'm exercising my authorial intent #myauthorialintent to say that to me this is primarily about characters who are Heinous. characters who appear to just be straight up evil for no reason in a way that is simply puzzling and perplexing at first, not your most annoying coworker. yes armand, harrow, and val, less so jon, santos, and ilya. the latter three are also in their toils but they aren't completely unhinged.