Anyone else feeling like Scar has paid for his past?
Selkie’s mom condemned him to a life of incredible disability. Considering how vigorously healthy he was, she would have been kinder to kill him outright.
But despite what we’re learning now about his weakness, he’s willingly come to help people who probably still consider him a monster.
He would probably disagree, but it says a lot about his strength of character.
Probably one of the possible reasons WHY she didn’t just outright kill him.
#1. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. So if killing him was the merciful thing, maiming him like this would be the REAL punishment she intended. (Scary, but plausible).
#2. She could still love him too damn much, so she just gave him a learning opportunity, not knowing how much damage it did to his pshyche.
#3. A combination of 2 and 1: She wanted him to learn a lesson, so killing wasn’t the option, and she just didn’t care how much it’d damage his psyche. (Less scary, more likely).
Agreed, and that’s one reason I took such an intense disliking to Ghien still holding that over him to force him into doing things he wasn’t sure were a good idea (tinker with Selkie’s locket in an attempt to ‘fix’ her Echo capabilities)
Yes, he was a monster — but the fact that he didn’t try to make excuses or euphemisms when he explained how he’d become “the old farmer”, just gave his reasons and acknowledged that they were bad ones and that they don’t excuse his actions goes a long way in mellowing me out towards him.
He’s not looking for forgiveness because he doesn’t believe he deserves any – especially since most of the people he wronged aren’t around to forgive him in the first place – and he’s not looking for redemption either.
He’s just getting through day to day trying to help where he can, and taking the fear, hate and distrust he keeps getting from everyone who knows him as his just due. And he’s been doing that for as long as Selkie has been alive.
Darn it, now I want to hug him.
Anyone else feeling like Scar has paid for his past?
Selkie’s mom condemned him to a life of incredible disability. Considering how vigorously healthy he was, she would have been kinder to kill him outright.
But despite what we’re learning now about his weakness, he’s willingly come to help people who probably still consider him a monster.
He would probably disagree, but it says a lot about his strength of character.
Probably one of the possible reasons WHY she didn’t just outright kill him.
#1. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. So if killing him was the merciful thing, maiming him like this would be the REAL punishment she intended. (Scary, but plausible).
#2. She could still love him too damn much, so she just gave him a learning opportunity, not knowing how much damage it did to his pshyche.
#3. A combination of 2 and 1: She wanted him to learn a lesson, so killing wasn’t the option, and she just didn’t care how much it’d damage his psyche. (Less scary, more likely).
Agreed, and that’s one reason I took such an intense disliking to Ghien still holding that over him to force him into doing things he wasn’t sure were a good idea (tinker with Selkie’s locket in an attempt to ‘fix’ her Echo capabilities)
Yes, he was a monster — but the fact that he didn’t try to make excuses or euphemisms when he explained how he’d become “the old farmer”, just gave his reasons and acknowledged that they were bad ones and that they don’t excuse his actions goes a long way in mellowing me out towards him.
He’s not looking for forgiveness because he doesn’t believe he deserves any – especially since most of the people he wronged aren’t around to forgive him in the first place – and he’s not looking for redemption either.
He’s just getting through day to day trying to help where he can, and taking the fear, hate and distrust he keeps getting from everyone who knows him as his just due. And he’s been doing that for as long as Selkie has been alive.