My thoughts about this dream…
Selkie is both characters obviously. In the past she has seen her self more as Terrorhammer and seen evil as a game (hence Terrorhammer’s comment). After hearing what Skar did, she doesn’t feel the same way about it, and now she is confused and trying to develop a new imagined identity to help express and resolve this confusion.
The power of Kids’ imagination is very pale compared to reality of war… I’m both happy and sad for her. I’m glad she’s working it out. She’ll bring joy to everyone around her happy when she grows up.
Interresting note: neither of her personalities uses “pluralses”. That means she thinks in proper English. That makes her speech pattern even more peculiar.
Observation: This is Selkie’s unconscious mind imagining what she will look like as an adult. In this imagining, she sees herself having pronounced breasts like a human female, and similarly lacking the facial markings of her species’ adults. I think being raised in human society for so long without any Sarnothi contact or role models maybe affecting her body image of what she will be and ‘should’ be when she grows up, on a subconscious level
Similar to how many teenagers, and, let’s face it, adults today face body image issues from the constant bombardment from childhood of thin, white, heavily made-up actresses being presented as ‘the ideal.’ In ads, in TV shows, in movies, in cartoons. on social media, in the toy selection at stores.
My thoughts about this dream…
Selkie is both characters obviously. In the past she has seen her self more as Terrorhammer and seen evil as a game (hence Terrorhammer’s comment). After hearing what Skar did, she doesn’t feel the same way about it, and now she is confused and trying to develop a new imagined identity to help express and resolve this confusion.
Well put.
Hey, Dave, there’s a typo.
When Terrorhammer says ‘And you think to stop it’s unrelenting future now’, it should be ‘And you think to stop its unrelenting future now’.
Common typo.
Perfectly personalized internal morality debate.
I love it.
The power of Kids’ imagination is very pale compared to reality of war… I’m both happy and sad for her. I’m glad she’s working it out. She’ll bring joy to everyone around her happy when she grows up.
She’ll bring joy to everyone around her, and be happy when she grows up.
Interresting note: neither of her personalities uses “pluralses”. That means she thinks in proper English. That makes her speech pattern even more peculiar.
Observation: This is Selkie’s unconscious mind imagining what she will look like as an adult. In this imagining, she sees herself having pronounced breasts like a human female, and similarly lacking the facial markings of her species’ adults. I think being raised in human society for so long without any Sarnothi contact or role models maybe affecting her body image of what she will be and ‘should’ be when she grows up, on a subconscious level
Similar to how many teenagers, and, let’s face it, adults today face body image issues from the constant bombardment from childhood of thin, white, heavily made-up actresses being presented as ‘the ideal.’ In ads, in TV shows, in movies, in cartoons. on social media, in the toy selection at stores.