#chadok

Chadok's prior relationship with Dika adds extra dimension to both characters, but it doesn't in any way negate Chadok's role as the primary villain of the story. Because while Chadok is a member of an oppressed community and he's grieving his lost love, we know that he has consistently made the wrong choices since his own school days, and he didn't let anything--neither love nor grief--change him. He never removed himself from the principle's influence. He never fully accepted his own sexuality. He never put Dika's wellbeing before his own fear of exposure. And worst of all, he either didn't realize or didn't care that he was pushing his students down the same tragic path that he and Dika walked, and that Akk in particular was in danger of breaking the same way Dika did.

Chadok is a tragic figure, but he brought that tragedy on himself and then pushed the next generation to make the same disastrous decisions he did. He learned nothing from Dika's influence or his own mistakes. He was so committed to the system that everything else, even his own happiness, was secondary to it.

I don't find that inconsistent. Quite the opposite. Chadok has been brutally, painfully consistent since he was a prefect. He's an object lesson in the costs of unreserved compliance and conformity. He has lost everything but Suppalo, so Suppalo is his everything, and he demands that it become everything to Akk and the other students too. If Suppalo's rules and traditions are called into question, he will be forced to question his own actions in her service, and that can only lead to grief and regret. 

Okay so for the past however many episodes since I started watching The Eclipse I have successfully kept my mouth shut because I have work to do and Tumblr scrolling is a lot more time efficient. However, ever since watching episode 11, I HAVE THOUGHTS and I’m about to make them everybody’s problem.

THUA. I am hoping that the show pulls an episode 6 on us and gives us more info on what went down between the whole drama at Suppalo and Suppalo: The Drama. I’m going to wait until episode 12 is out and I’ve fully digested it because a) I’m going to put my trust, which might be unfounded, in the show to figure this whole mess out and b) there is only so much rage I can have and still get my work done.

There have been a lot of posts about people either vehemently calling out what Thua did and people letting it slide or saying it’s as bad as what another character did (popular choices are Akk, Ayan or both). For me personally, I think what Thua did was way worse, solely based on his intentions for doing it.