#ezmia

Ezmia I love you 🫶

What I find interesting about Ezmia's backstory is how the offenses of the people who wronged her get less severe as the list goes on, but her reaction escalates in spite of that. The first two did genuinely horrible things to her, then the next two were still bad but much less severe, and the last one literally just friendzoned her and she's more angry about that than she was about the guy who physically abused her. I like how it kind of implicitly shows her mental state getting worse over time so the evilness doesn't feel out of nowhere.

rereading the land of stories bc i was obsessed with it growing up and damn do i understand why. It’s marketed towards kids but it doesn’t baby them and the lessons are true and transcend age and the characters are amazing? Also I kind of love Ezmia as a villain and character and person. I’m reading the enchantress returns and everything she says is so… True? Like yeah. Yeah keep talking queen. I’m so fucking mad she didn’t get the redemption arc she deserved.