#enderverse

ender's game fanart without the ender

Orson Scott Card (via his books about humanity and understanding everything different from you as worthy of love and respect) “No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

in ender’s shadow, they write ender like he’s going to die before he can save humanity and i think this take is like . the most apparent if u read it before eg. bro is a walking death flag he’s this leader held up so high by everyone but he’s ridiculously mentally tortured underneath everything and all bean thinks about is being his second, being his backup, being there in case What The Adults Almost Seem To Be Planning For happens. and then you read enders game and you realize no those aren’t death flags, but he’s definitely ill in the head and it’s worse for him to keep him alive and tortured so that’s what the story will do.