it’s 3am so it’s time for Octo’s Bannerfall Doomed Siblings Ramblings :] (I’m so Normal about them)
Two birds on a wire with Katie being the bird that flies away is just so. So to me. Because she did, she left her past in Blue kingdom behind and ‘flew’ to Red, with birds commonly representing freedom, which she found there. Freedom to be herself, to be her own person. The freedom that gave her the opportunity to become brave, to become strong, to refuse that final deal from the Creaking King.
Yet Nom couldn’t do the same. Couldn’t let go of his past like the bird on wire. Clinging to it with bloodstained and guilty fingers that would hurt to pry away from it, now that he’s held onto it for so long, that it defines him. As an oathbreaker, as a traitor, as a murderer, as a monster. As what pushed him to take the resin, after betraying 4C because he told Katie about his past. Because that is what he is, according to his past. A man who will do whatever it takes to do what, in his mind, is the right thing. Kill 15 to save an innocent person. Eat the resin and face the consequences to ensure he’s strong enough to protect his family.
Katie is free, flying away. Nom is imprisoned by his past, refusing to let go because that’s all he knows himself to be.
