And it also Men's Mental Health Awareness Month

hello queer community i’m officially coming out as a devin x karmo shipper,,, please do not throw stones at me it would make me very sad 👎

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Alright let me get started with the same format we all know and love. It was a short chapter, but I'll try to get as much out of it as I can- I might get a bit out of it because I'm on my desktop right now so I write a bit more than on my phone.

It was... surprisingly a Devin chapter. I did not think he'd be returning- but then again, I thought Abby from that same chapter will be returning, so I might have gotten the authors wrong a bit lol- either way, I didn't think we'd see Devin ever again, but here we are- and with the chapter being titled "Bile" I could only expect one thing.

First of all, I like how he was scared- he was scared of the dark and that spider, it shows that he's... you know. A kid. That gets scared. It's not exactly a thing people think about when talking about characters they dislike, I think. I like the way the authors show that the people we may not like, are people too. They're diverse characters, and I like that a lot.

Next thing, him asking if it'll hurt and Zerif (because of course it's Zerif) just... ignores it. Discards it- like it doesn't really mean anything. "Does it matter?" to a scared child isn't really a good way to calm them down. It really is just sucky- but I wouldn't expect anything more from Zerif.

Him saying the name "bile" is a joke, and just straight up manipulating Devin, making him think he's some special boy and such, just trying to make him think he's doing the best thing for history he could ever do. Making his 'failure' into something he could use to get him to his side. Manipulating a child... I'm sure he's going to get indoctrinated into their ideology or whatever they've got going on.

And the way after he tasted it he just felt... different. It being described as "he no longer felt terror, instead he felt like someone who could create terror" or something along these lines- something about that makes me really worried for what happened to him during that ceremony.

Also do his parents know he's doing this or is he trying to surprise them or what is happening there lmao

Who gets sent after Conor and the other heroes to blackmail and threaten them into giving up the iron boar talisman? It's Dawson Trunswick...

Which means the Earl sent his AT MOST 10-year-old (probably still 9 tbh) son on a wild fucking boar chase, ALONE, with absolutely zero backup and an ominous note, to terrify another literal CHILD so much so that he'd forfeit the trust of his new friends and make their entire perilous journey all for naught-

Like DAMN, I know your firstborn was majorly disappointing and your ex-indentured servant made him look a fool (which Devin did to himself, really) but this is kinda getting ridiculous. You're going so far, endangering your last remaining heir, and for what?? To say you got the last laugh over a PRE-TWEEN??? My guy, you have got to reevaluate some of those priorities.