User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/The Ocean's Echoes/@comment-2142396-20160605202545/@comment-7662967-20160605232255

Indigo? Hmm .. you mean Windswirl (Wind) right? The hare slave? Yes .. When I wrote that line I got near the same picture in my head. Clecky will get more than one cold glare from Wind .. :P Yea, I do want to draw Wind, I've sketched her five times or so, just never got her colored *facedesk* I imagine as she becomes a more prominent side character I'll get one done of her. Soon I hope :)

Hood is indeed a voice of wisdom .. I think you'll grow to like him even more .. his awkwardness around Val is sooo cute and funny :D

Hehe .. sort of. You see, Ublaz is using his vast reserve of power to give unintelligent creatures artificial intelligence. That intelligence has to come from somewhere .. it's his. That's why they do whatever he says without question, they're extensions of him. However. The regular Monitor he doesn't put much work into. A few hours worth of his life perhaps. But with Lask, he's put more effort .. more power .. more of himself into the lizard .. to the point Lask is really starting to think on his own. Ublaz thought the smarter Lask was, the more effective he'd be as a clone .. but as more and more aspects of Ublaz were put into him, he developed the will to defy. What does Ublaz want more than anything? The pearls .. therefore his lizard self wants it too .. so much he's beginning to rebel against his master. It's a complex idea .. we might think a clone of ourselves might do whatever we would .. and truthfully, that's what Lask is doing. He's doing just what Ublaz did years ago. (Spoilers, sort of)

Haha yes ;P Well, he's studied Holt Rudderwake history, mostly with the pirates. In the book, Rudderwake seemed fairly new, and I never understood why almost every island they landed on in the Redwall series hadn't been a nation very long. Peace Island, Ruddering, Terramort, Sampetra .. I mean .. really? Green Isle was about the only one with a distinct culture and history. *shrug* I never really understood it. Sooo .. yea, I changed that. :P (XD Yea, he can't understand how she can flick her tail over her back like that .. for an otter, it'd be broken)

Yes, pretty much the point there .. they really aren't that different. The biggest difference is the vermin's messed up ideals and view points on right and wrong. Though of course, Wallyum really doesn't have the right to sink their ship, but he's not taking it as far as Romsca. And he has a point .. though there are some things he doesn't know.

Essentially, Sayna has reached her breaking point. She's saying some things she might not say in any other case .. I'm trying to point out her flaws. She's no angel of light ;P Sayna is tired of living, tired of bothering, tired of hearing Durral talk about peace and friendship. Her place in the world is Defender. War is her purpose. She may have friends here and there, but because she becomes deeply attached to those she comes to love, she doesn't allow herself to become attached very much. She could not live at Redwall permanently, it would break her entirely to watch her friends slowly fade away, over and over. Her temper is resurfacing in those moments because she feels like Durral is being willfully blind in cases, and she's venting it out on him a little. Eventually, Sayna will regret what she said and apologize. Her emotion is very complicated to write .. in truth, she is not against Durral being peaceful and friendly. Most of all she wants Romsca to repent, not try to reform herself. She's watched the misery of many who've attempted this, and it breaks her heart, because she knows no matter how hard they try on their own, it won't be enough .. she does not want Romsca to do this. Durral is looking mostly at Romsca's actions, Sayna is looking at her soul, and he really pricks a nerve when he suggests her own deeds can save her. (This has to do with 'The Challenger') However she's too harsh toward Durral and is stepping out of line, something she will later come to see. After all, he has every reason to look at Romsca's works, it'd be hard not to :P Though the ultimate problem is the soul behind those deeds, because if the soul is dark, so is what comes from it.

Nah, it's fine. ;) I like how you look deeply into this story and see the meaning, whether you agree with it or not. After all, I find your view point interesting :) If anything I'm afraid you will be offended by my views (which I don't mean to press upon anyone .. I can't make anyone believe something other than they do, and I wouldn't want to. There is nothing nice about having someone try to change your viewpoint, and really, all it does is cause problems in the end. Everyone has their own choice about what to believe, and I personally think they should have the right to make that choice on their own without people forcing anything on them.) So it's totally good with me when you have differing thoughts, in fact, sometimes it makes me think "Did I present that right, or was it too vague? Can it be read the wrong way, did I actually accomplish the opposite of what I intended?" So honestly, it's very good for me. ;D I won't ever shy away from discussing the themes of this story. They are very close to me, deeply important to me, and more than anything, I want them to correctly express my thoughts. Muddled ideas in my head sometimes come across wrong on paper (well in this case, in type) and it's the last thing I want.

(but to clear all doubt, Sayna is in the wrong for insinuating Durral is not a follower and is any way lesser than she is because of his ideals. She's speaking in anger and fear, she wants the best for both him and Romsca, she just has a bad way of going about it. Something she'll be forced to own up to later and ask forgiveness for.)

Yep, exactly. Honestly, with how things turned out, he'd have probably died anyway, but he brought it about sooner. And you can't totally blame him either, Romsca's been acting pretty crazy. Yea, she went too far there, but she also knows the crew was mostly siding with him because they wanted the pearls, and she wanted to make sure they wouldn't try anything. But it was in truth, a villain's move. She will pay for it.