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listen i love deanna o'lykos but i will say i think it's weird how many people take her opinion of eo as like absolutely objective gospel irt what eo was really like and not, you know, as subjective and deeply personal opinions that are probably strongly colored by having spent the last four years genuinely thinking her son was actually killed specifically because of eo. deanna's assessment of eo is most likely about as objective and accurate as darrow's assessment of eo is in book one—which is to say, not at all.

every time discussions pop up comparing eo and mustang as wives on reddit i get so unbelievably defensive of eo. “mustang is a better wife to darrow” well she’s also not a starving enslaved sixteen-year-old girl, i don’t know if you’ve noticed. and why exactly are we measuring eo’s worth by how “good” (read: submissive) of a wife she was to darrow anyway.

(wotm/sotf spoilers) Vis guiltlessly condemning Relucia to a sapper as punishment for all the innocent people whose deaths she had a hand in causing and then immediately going on to rescue Ulciscor, a man who has for years actively served in the military apparatus that just recently finished killing potentially thousands of innocent people in its violent conquest of their homelands. ok.

sometimes i’m randomly reminded that PB couldn’t even be bothered to give Quinn a canonical surname despite her being central if not pivotal to the arcs of three (3) of Darrow’s best friends and then i get annoyed all over again

0 days since the RR subreddit last pissed me off 🫶

i love canon dassius but this world also desperately needs more red!darrow dassius AUs. or red!darrow anything AUs quite frankly