I’m thinking we are about to see a repressed memory overload… With a potential personality split. The Selkie we know and then the Nei Li who is the repressed memories unleashed.
That’d be a bit too fantastical in regards to the setting – otherworldly powers? Absolutely. The trite “personality split due to trauma” trope? I don’t think Dave would take that route due to the potential offensive nature of such an arc.
Oh sweetie 🙁 I bet she’s worried that Todd will ‘give her up’ for being too much just like her mother did. So she feels it’s important she stays out of the way and quiet now.
We the audience know that isn’t the reason Plo Quar put her into the human’s child services maze. But an 8 year old doesn’t quite have that depth of reasoning yet.
She needs some hardcore reassurance and love.
Actually; *Do* we know that isn’t the reason? Plot Quar left Selkie alone for five years and hasn’t come back even after the political situation became public and the land dwellers officially granted Sarnothi asylum. What if she really was just simply in over her head as a parent?
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I’m thinking we are about to see a repressed memory overload… With a potential personality split. The Selkie we know and then the Nei Li who is the repressed memories unleashed.
That’d be a bit too fantastical in regards to the setting – otherworldly powers? Absolutely. The trite “personality split due to trauma” trope? I don’t think Dave would take that route due to the potential offensive nature of such an arc.
Todd, regardless of what she said, the answer to your question is “yes”. Time for some Painful Parenting™.
Oh sweetie 🙁 I bet she’s worried that Todd will ‘give her up’ for being too much just like her mother did. So she feels it’s important she stays out of the way and quiet now.
We the audience know that isn’t the reason Plo Quar put her into the human’s child services maze. But an 8 year old doesn’t quite have that depth of reasoning yet.
She needs some hardcore reassurance and love.
I think Todd will recognize this, having been dumped himself ad a kid.
“Alright. I want to talk though. is it alright with you if we do?”
Actually; *Do* we know that isn’t the reason? Plot Quar left Selkie alone for five years and hasn’t come back even after the political situation became public and the land dwellers officially granted Sarnothi asylum. What if she really was just simply in over her head as a parent?
^This was supposed to be a reply to BMused. Ah well.