06-08-2025, 02:44 PM
i don't know if i'd go so far as to say Caleb is my "main" because honestly, the love interest i love most is the one that's currently on screen, but his particular brand of unhinged SPEAKS to me.
very good point about the contrast between Sylus and Caleb in their respective.. maturity is the wrong word, really, but comfort level? confidence? Sylus is settled in his power, in his skin. he's tested it, molded it, built on it, used it to shape the world around him and now he's just waiting for us to fall into our rightful place beside him. he knows it going to happen, he can afford to wait and he can also simply enjoy the process, as it were, even if (i assume) he's going to do what he needs to do to speed it along.
Caleb is, I think, just as strong but raw with it. he doesn't have a confirmed place, he has no faith that he'll be accepted where he wants to be, even as he works to make it happen. he comes across not as inexperienced necessarily, but definitely on more shaky ground and he's aware of it even as he ignores it. the difference between the raw brilliance of the apprentice versus the sure and steady hand of the master, i guess would be a way to put it.
i like that the bigger motivations are still cloaked. the shape of it has really come together as more details have come up, but the grand plot is still missing some rather lovely holes. if they're stripping this!earth for future!philos, why? is it what it is, because time is immutable and it has already happened, so it must always happen?
but if so, why is Xavier fighting his former crew, who would have launched their ship with the same goal, only to fragment into factions on landing? or was Xavier against the mission, but used it to get to where he wanted to be to try and affect it? Zayne and Rafayel seems tangential to the main plot so far - Zayne might have been the catalyst for EVER's research, Rafayel may have been captured by them as well, but neither seem to be involved and Sylus is completely outside of it as best i can tell.
i mean, my fevered brain has come up with WILD suppositions.
very good point about the contrast between Sylus and Caleb in their respective.. maturity is the wrong word, really, but comfort level? confidence? Sylus is settled in his power, in his skin. he's tested it, molded it, built on it, used it to shape the world around him and now he's just waiting for us to fall into our rightful place beside him. he knows it going to happen, he can afford to wait and he can also simply enjoy the process, as it were, even if (i assume) he's going to do what he needs to do to speed it along.
Caleb is, I think, just as strong but raw with it. he doesn't have a confirmed place, he has no faith that he'll be accepted where he wants to be, even as he works to make it happen. he comes across not as inexperienced necessarily, but definitely on more shaky ground and he's aware of it even as he ignores it. the difference between the raw brilliance of the apprentice versus the sure and steady hand of the master, i guess would be a way to put it.
i like that the bigger motivations are still cloaked. the shape of it has really come together as more details have come up, but the grand plot is still missing some rather lovely holes. if they're stripping this!earth for future!philos, why? is it what it is, because time is immutable and it has already happened, so it must always happen?
but if so, why is Xavier fighting his former crew, who would have launched their ship with the same goal, only to fragment into factions on landing? or was Xavier against the mission, but used it to get to where he wanted to be to try and affect it? Zayne and Rafayel seems tangential to the main plot so far - Zayne might have been the catalyst for EVER's research, Rafayel may have been captured by them as well, but neither seem to be involved and Sylus is completely outside of it as best i can tell.
i mean, my fevered brain has come up with WILD suppositions.
