Maddalena Damanis

Randomly went missing on a hunting trip with Maglor and Maedhros, and M&M were just like “okay, guess he’s gone now” and went home

Found the Men and stalked them for a little bit because why not

Waited until they all fell asleep before walking into the middle of their camp and singing at them

Was so pretty and good at singing that the Men just accepted his presence in their camp and didn’t question it for a second

Showed back up in his Kingdom after a questionable period of time with some hairy thing that gets more wrinkles every year and just picked his life back up but now with a Man hanging around

- fëanor: comprehends it out of spite. goes mad. possibly becomes an incomprehensible horror himself

- fingolfin: comprehends the horror. walks with the knowledge of horror for a century or so, quietly going mad. the day he snaps the land is aflame and he's riding to challenge the devil to duel

- finarfin: refuses to comprehend the horror out of spite. walks away from the horror. returns a century later to give the horror a beating, still refusing to comprehend it

- finrod: is so interested in the cultural background of the horror he forgets to comprehend it. possibly spends a year just chatting it up

- beren: comprehends the horror, walks away forever changed by the knowledge which he can't quite remember but which will forever haunt him, never speaks of it.

- luthien: uno reverse. the horror comprehends her

but i do think it’s interesting that every other main girl character is involved in sex work of some kind and then she’s a virgin. like those are the only two choices: youre either a slut or a prude. lexi is smart and an introvert and is the only one with a ‘normal’ life and who isn’t over sexualized so that means she must be a virgin?? also her response of “it’s better than getting herpes” perpetuates the idea that having sex makes you dirty. ALSO herpes isnt just spread through sexual activities!!! signed, a girl who has gotten cold sores (aka a form of herpes) since i was a toddler!!!!

like i do think it’s an interesting contrast to Cassie—how she is doing OF and has been over sexualized her whole life and used sex and male attention as a means to feel loved. and then there’s Lexi who is choosing to not have sex. it shows how people react differently to the same traumas/childhoods, but i don’t think that’s why Sam Levinson wrote it that way. especially because it’s not as if Lexi doesn’t want to be desired, we saw from her play that she WANTS to be wanted and seen as a sexual being.

like why does sex have to be some crazy big thing that like owns women and controls their life. why must it be something that is a indicator of who they are or a reflection/result of trauma, why can it not just be something we do or don’t do. none of the characters have a healthy, normal relationship with sex—that’s not me saying you can’t participate in like crazy sex or something, i just mean, they are all interacting with sex as if it’s something that owns them or rules their lives. the idea that by taking power over their sexuality (Jules being a sugar baby, Cassie doing OF, maddy managing OF models) they can take power over their trauma or something. even Lexi not having sex is like not necessarily a personal choice, but a result of her watching the people around her (cassie, jules, kat, Maddy) be negatively affected by sex & relationships. idk im bad at explaining things.