ppl keep talking about Nuada bieng so romantic and shit but I'm on chapter 8 and he's still a fucking dick. What is up with him? Why does Dylan fall in love w/ him? Why does she put up with his shit?
What is up with him? Well, besides the fact that he comes from an oppressed people that have been butchered over countless centuries by her people, the fact that the monarchs responsible for protecting his people refuse to do anything about it (even just talk), that her people have massacred countless numbers of his loved ones and comrades, and that he’s been abused himself in serious horrible ways and has vicious PTSD that he’s getting no help for because his father essentially won’t let him…
On top of all those things, he’s also kind of a douche at the beginning.
And she doesn’t put up with his crud. She calls him on it. But she’s not going to trivialize or invalidate his anger and pain, either. She understands pain and oppression and anger and fear. She has PTSD and she’s a psychiatrist. She knows what to do with him. She cares about him because he’s in pain and he saved her life but she’s not letting him abuse her. When he tries, despite the fact that he’s magical and could squash her into people-pulp, she still goes toe to toe with him to make him stop getting in her face and forces him to acknowledge that she doesn’t deserve the anger that isn’t her fault.
They’re not together in chapter 8. They’re not together in chapter 18 or chapter 28 or even chapter 38. Give it some time. They’ve both got a lot of trauma and prejudice and grief to work through.
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