#wames

I reread dark rise/dark heir and noticed something unnerving. I’m starting to think more and more that the Light has some kind of control or influence over Will. Like he has some compulsion to serve them.

In Dark Rise when Will meets the Elder Steward he is oddly desperate for her approve of him, to please her.

“Now it was as though his very self was being weighed by the Elder Steward, and he was suddenly desperate not to be found wanting…only knowing that her approval was important to him.”

Then, in Dark Heir, Will thinks about his mother and how he wanted to please her.

“Will supposed his mother had been beautiful too, but it was not his main impression of her. He remembered…He remembered most of all how much he had wanted to make her happy.”

When Violet sees Will caring for James after he drains his power, she says, “you were like this with Katherine too.” Both of them were (at least originally) on the side of the Light.

In the past when the Lady asks Sarcean why he came even though he knew it was a trap he says, “you asked me to.”

It’s the same thing James says to Will under the influence of the collar.

I did a post on how I thought Eleanor had control over Will. That being the reason she kept him alive and why he may be unable to harm her daughters.