#evalinashryver

Thinking about how Emrys was friend with Evalin Ashryver; AKA Aelin’s mom; but we don’t see him again in the series.

I’ve been ranting about this on and off for literally an entire week lmao.

When is comes to spousal abuse, everyone - and I mean everyone - always believes it is the man’s fault first. Unless there are visible physical bruises or scars on the man’s body, the husband is always believed to be the abuser in a relationship and that is just terribly fucked up.

I’m actually really really proud of CRWBY for daring to deviate from such an expected trope and instead twisting the trope on it’s head and making the reverse true - the wife is the villain of the relationship rather than the man. Not very many writers dare to try doing that, I think, for this exact reason: the fans of the series will automatically latch onto the male character as the bad one, call him weak and spineless for not fighting back - which Oz actually did, but only in self defense and to defend their kids (which is definitely a ‘woman’s role’ in this particular story!) - and claim he was in the wrong for trying to escape the abuse.

I thought this initially - when I was reading, I thought, but…. the whole shock-value of the end of EoS relied on the reveal of this sacrifice and the idea that Aelin is not going to make it out alive because her heritage and her power has singled her out to lose everything. There was this complex history that Aelin was unwittingly a part of, and so the tragedy was that no matter what she did, Aelin was going to be the victim of fate. That’s what made us sad. That’s what we knew needed to be resolved in KoA.

(The fact is that the gods in ToG are petty af (as many gods are, in other mythologies), and we sorta forgot that somewhere along the way.)

But now I’m thinking… it’s more about this idea where Aelin has a lot of power, but that power doesn’t define who she is or what she can do. It was really quite cleverly done on Sarah’s part, to make it seem as if this is the thing that defines her, when really Aelin (and all of the other characters) are more than the sum of their parts. I’m going to have to write an entire post on this because I’m having a lot of thoughts about it. (Also I’m seeing a ton of parallels to the seventh season of Buffy.)

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