Sep-05-2012, 05:17 AM (UTC)
I have about one minute and I'm the world's slowwwwwwwwwest typist!
I don't believe that Kennit specifically has had an issue with any particular female in the past that then has caused this trait. Rather, he extends that to all. Argh, so much to pull apart (I'll have to come back!!) but his distain, for starters, is his armour. No matter if they were male, female, a liveship, an Other, a Satrap...he distained them to cloak and protect himself after what took place with Igrot. For his own purposes he was able to set this aside for brief moments (say, with Vivacia, who he needed to woo so that he could possess her and thus venture up the Rain River, or even to also fill his base need to be linked to a liveship as he believed Paragon gone etc) but, essentially, he placed himself on a pedestal and distained all to save himself.
Vulnerability was a weakness to Kennit and was a chink in his armour he did not wish to have - he did, after all, choose to have his own, much-loved liveship destroy himself - a number of times! - to ensure the removal or deletion of his weakest moments. This distain of weakness is, of course, unless the show of such weakness advanced his purposes.
As an aside, it's interesting to note that, through his charm, some of his signs of vulnerability that he would not otherwise have shown (the example of the poem which made Etta cry and love him all the more) proved to actually advance his situation. In this, his charm couldn't stand him but still cared enough about those around him (Etta particularly) to want to make Kennit appear like a much better person than he really was.
An afterthought that I may come to regret because a) it has nothing to do with anything and b) I haven't thought about it (!)...in a way, Kennit's charm acted somewhat like a reservoir of knowledge/memories in similar-ish fashion ('thul beings, I didn't say 'similar'!
) to the Rooster Crown and other memory stone/wizardwood objects...bringing back much of what he'd wanted to rid himself of.
More soon...I think I may have overused my 'minute'! o_O
I don't believe that Kennit specifically has had an issue with any particular female in the past that then has caused this trait. Rather, he extends that to all. Argh, so much to pull apart (I'll have to come back!!) but his distain, for starters, is his armour. No matter if they were male, female, a liveship, an Other, a Satrap...he distained them to cloak and protect himself after what took place with Igrot. For his own purposes he was able to set this aside for brief moments (say, with Vivacia, who he needed to woo so that he could possess her and thus venture up the Rain River, or even to also fill his base need to be linked to a liveship as he believed Paragon gone etc) but, essentially, he placed himself on a pedestal and distained all to save himself.
Vulnerability was a weakness to Kennit and was a chink in his armour he did not wish to have - he did, after all, choose to have his own, much-loved liveship destroy himself - a number of times! - to ensure the removal or deletion of his weakest moments. This distain of weakness is, of course, unless the show of such weakness advanced his purposes.
As an aside, it's interesting to note that, through his charm, some of his signs of vulnerability that he would not otherwise have shown (the example of the poem which made Etta cry and love him all the more) proved to actually advance his situation. In this, his charm couldn't stand him but still cared enough about those around him (Etta particularly) to want to make Kennit appear like a much better person than he really was.
An afterthought that I may come to regret because a) it has nothing to do with anything and b) I haven't thought about it (!)...in a way, Kennit's charm acted somewhat like a reservoir of knowledge/memories in similar-ish fashion ('thul beings, I didn't say 'similar'!
) to the Rooster Crown and other memory stone/wizardwood objects...bringing back much of what he'd wanted to rid himself of.More soon...I think I may have overused my 'minute'! o_O
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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