I guess there really is gold in these thar hills!

Hero and Partner Week day 5: Travel / Flowers / Memory

Welcome home, Hero. Do you remember this place?

Yeah good for her

GOOD FOR HER!!!

wrt serenoa's family, i think destra is a major factor in this reading, at least narratively... there's the unspoken implication that because serenoa looks nothing like regna, that she must look almost exactly like her mother. and then benedict is constantly comparing the two of them both in liberty route and his duel in morality route. ("All I wanted, more than anything, was Lady Destra's good favor... To hear her tell me I'd done well..." "You've done well, Benedict." <- can anyone hear me. i feel fucking insane)

there's also a lot there wrt destra's lack of autonomy and how it compares to serenoa's lack of autonomy (and if i had the capacity to make this answer a mile long, how this compares to frederica and orlaea's lack of autonomy. this game makes me crazy over mothers and daughters it seems). destra's entire life after her encounter with king regna was completely taken out of her control. after that night, she lived and died according to the whims of regna, house wolffort (particularly symon, but idt benedict is entirely free of fault), and the royalists. she was a political pawn, at most.