User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/The Ocean's Echoes/@comment-2142396-20160804180913/@comment-7662967-20160805055021


 * answers from the bottom up*

Well, at first I thought I might kill Kage off there, but I decided to keep him around for several reasons.

Uhm .. well, he never married Kia. He married somebeast else, Qi and Tia's mother. That's one reason Kia is so spiteful against nobles, cause Xzaris's father was a real louse ... likely he made her believe that he cared about her enough their social classes didn't matter ... then he dumped her. Once Kia realized she was pregnant, she tried to force him to stay with her, but there was nothing she could do ... he just denied it, and nobeast really cared what happened to a commoner.

Therefore Kia hates everybeast. Especially Xzaris, who is a constant reminder of her mistakes, also, he's no use to her. She couldn't teach him a trade, and didn't want pay to apprentice him to anyone, captains don't normally take cabin boys under thirteen. So she was stuck with him. If he'd been a girl, she'd just have taught him to be a barmaid. But he wasn't. So ... he was fully despised.

He pretended to justify laws at first, he doesn't bother to anymore. Ublaz is very level headed, and not prone to sudden outbursts of pride, but when he gets what he wants for an extended amount of time ... he starts to push the boundaries of logic now and then. Also, he believes it to be 'justice' ... he's rather sick about his definition of justice, as you'll really see in his conversation with Grath. In his mind, Sampetra dared to rebel against his rule, so it is only justice they pay ... and pay and pay. True, he raised the taxes before they rebelled ... but he's only made it harder.


 * Haha* Aren't Barranca and Arashi great? I love writing their interactions ^^ True ... he's still selfish in a sense, but it's a depressed selfishness. Watching his brother die and seeing Romsca grow up the way she did, always feeling like he really wasn't raising her the way he should ... that sort of shattered his feeling of total control. Arashi on the other paw has been surviving on her own on a desert island for the last twenty years, her reaction is mostly regret, and while she feels the sting of all that happened ... she didn't see it. So the tables have turned.

Romsca really doesn't understand Durral ... she understands reluctance in the face of danger, but to her, he just seems to be overreacting. Sayna knows where he's coming from, and all it does is remind her of Abbot Mortimer (aka her philosophical mortal enemy) She struggles to cut Durral the slack she knows he deserves because of this. (Also, Durral is her descendent (Gustav's line) And he looks a little like Timbal (his eyes) This doesn't help Sayna's view of Durral on bit ... essentially, she finds it hard to give him his own identity and respect his feelings accordingly (something she does explain to him later on) As for Durral, he is lost and doing all he can to make the best of a terrible situation.


 * Snicker* You might pay attention to this Romsca ... really, she doesn't mean harm by it, to her, it's kind of like his title. After all, he insists on being referred to as 'Abbot this' or 'Abbot that' and she picked up that he liked the term 'Abbot'. Therefore she sort of mixed that with what she'd been calling him before (mouse) and coined the term. In their current situation, she's preoccupied with everything else and is not hardly aware of it. Later on, Durral's like ... "Um ... Captain .. I haven't complained, but my name isn't really 'Abbotmouse'"

"Wull yer title was Abbot somethin', right?"

"Yes ... well it's Abbot Durral. Or Father Abbot. But it's not Abbotmouse."

(I'll continue this soon :3 )