05-16-2025, 09:13 PM
After watching Ebb & Flow, I am pretty convinced that the section about kidnapping and whipping probably actually happened. Its way, WAY too specific even the the main character is technically just pulling it out of her ass. If it didn't happen to Rafayel, it probably happened to somebody he knows - maybe the mermaid that Raymond pulled out of the water.
Even though its her saying it, it just rings too much like a real thing, you know? Maybe she's channeling another life - and that Rafayel immediately offered to 'play along' with his whispered 'Master'(?). Yeah, that's something all right. The further conversation about how he could be killed, how weak he is, that there's nothing he can do all kind of plays with that.
I mean, I'm not saying that the main character really was a terrible person in another life, but honestly, it comes across that way to me. Rafayel's responses are too... I want to say deprecating because I suddenly can't find the word I want. Too weary, maybe, that undercurrent of ".. it's been done (you've done it) before."
Maybe he did set a trap for a sailor. Maybe he was the one caught and put in a cage and forced to sing for his life.
I assume there's a card (likely a Myth?) that gives more insight into the actual fall of Lemuria.
Harkening back to a different story/Anecdote, that mermaids can choose to die and that when they do, they revert to foam is a lovely touch. The first version of "The Little Mermaid" I ever read as a child, she loses the prince, changes to foam and her sisters cry in the sea and cause unending storms to batter the land in grief. It's stuck with me ever since.
Even though its her saying it, it just rings too much like a real thing, you know? Maybe she's channeling another life - and that Rafayel immediately offered to 'play along' with his whispered 'Master'(?). Yeah, that's something all right. The further conversation about how he could be killed, how weak he is, that there's nothing he can do all kind of plays with that.
I mean, I'm not saying that the main character really was a terrible person in another life, but honestly, it comes across that way to me. Rafayel's responses are too... I want to say deprecating because I suddenly can't find the word I want. Too weary, maybe, that undercurrent of ".. it's been done (you've done it) before."
Maybe he did set a trap for a sailor. Maybe he was the one caught and put in a cage and forced to sing for his life.
I assume there's a card (likely a Myth?) that gives more insight into the actual fall of Lemuria.
Harkening back to a different story/Anecdote, that mermaids can choose to die and that when they do, they revert to foam is a lovely touch. The first version of "The Little Mermaid" I ever read as a child, she loses the prince, changes to foam and her sisters cry in the sea and cause unending storms to batter the land in grief. It's stuck with me ever since.
