06-25-2025, 01:44 PM
- what about the rest of his people
Yup. The others are hunted and enslaved and treated as pets.
It's important that Raf mentions he only gets captured if he wants. There will be other instances where he'll show how quick he is at freeing himself, and how he wants to be caught by MC and it's the only reason she can actually get to him. A slippery fish, if you will.
- (we have GOT to kidnap us an artist)
We really do. We need to start recruiting
- "Now I'm fully satisfied"
I interpret it as being a direct sequel to MC's "Is this how you avenge yourself? Because I learned of your secret? Petty." because it doesn't make sense otherwise. It is indeed an odd sentence in an odd place.
- MC in this myth
I've always read her more bratty and definitely naive in that sheltered princess way than straight out mean. She's bitter because she knows she's being taken advantage of because of her heart, so nobody actually cares about her (maybe Natasha, to an extent), but she's definitely an entirely different personality compared to the other myths. In GoT she's just as sheltered but way more pragmatic in her survival skills, in Romirro she's raised to be a ruler and is more intentional in her anger toward the people who betrayed her one second and adored her the next. MC in present timeline is more independent, extremely bratty/teasing with Raf, but she's also the most lost we've ever seen her. In all other instances she has a clear role to fill in, whether she likes it or not, whereas in present timeline she's still being swept by the current.
But consider that when MC dreams of Abysswalker during the GoT myth, she describes Raf as a "teen". Unless that's a translation mistake, it means she's just as young. Hence the stupidity.
- "Your words ring true." /stows dagger "Yet what if the legends are incorrect?"
This is why I think Raf doesn't actually remember. He feels the bond with MC, but doesn't have all his memories from GoT, definitely not the Ceremony and what happened after it (nor Romirro), because he's technically working with what the prophecy (and Amund) states, which is that she stole his heart and doomed Lemuria.
- The island
In my opinion it's still coherent with GoT background before that MC met that Raf. She was raised as a sacrifice isolated from everyone else, waiting to die. Whether they're talking about the island of songs or not, I am of the idea they're talking of pre-Philos, which means Earth. It just makes sense if we think of Philos and Earth being the same planet. Otherwise we would have to imagine that in their past, 30k years earlier, before the seas dried up, MC was on that island waiting to die.
- Considering what happens when "divinity" (let's call it that) enters Raf both in GoT (right after the Ceremony) and in Land of Secret Flames, I'd say his godly instincts are entirely tuned toward killing MC because that's what he needs to do as a god in order to properly gain his power. As the sea god he's completely aligned with the Deep Sea, which is why not sacrificing MC angers the Deep Sea and it's mirrored in how angry he is in land of secret flames. She didn't sacrifice herself, which makes her a traitor per Lemurian and ocean's rules.
"but she sacrificed herself in Romirro and returned the heart?" you might say. Yeah, and it's entirely possible that the bond they have ensures this exchange is never properly done. Raf will always choose her over Lemuria and over himself, and while in Romirro she managed to make him a full god, it clearly didn't solve the issue, because if we take the witch of the abyss as the next reincarnation, then Raf dies instead of ascending to godhood.
There are two layers of betrayal:
one is the God and Deep Sea thinking she's a traitor because she refused to give her heart (and that one time she actually did doesn't solve all the other instances where she didn't)
one is Raf taking her sacrificing herself or sealing him away for his safety as a betrayal because he views abandonment as a betrayal. It doesn't matter if he dies, so long as he spends all his time with her. Separation and abandonment is where he feels like his feelings and their bond are being ignored.
Considering how the God of the Sea when he first appears is all power and instinct, he will always clock their bond and thus crave MC's heart, and will always consider her life as a betrayal. She should be dead already. If she's not, it's because she's a traitor, there's no other reason.
It's only with Sea God Raf in Romirro that we can see how that instinct can be tamed as he matures into himself. He never loses control, even after regaining most of his memories.
Yup. The others are hunted and enslaved and treated as pets.
It's important that Raf mentions he only gets captured if he wants. There will be other instances where he'll show how quick he is at freeing himself, and how he wants to be caught by MC and it's the only reason she can actually get to him. A slippery fish, if you will.
- (we have GOT to kidnap us an artist)
We really do. We need to start recruiting
- "Now I'm fully satisfied"
I interpret it as being a direct sequel to MC's "Is this how you avenge yourself? Because I learned of your secret? Petty." because it doesn't make sense otherwise. It is indeed an odd sentence in an odd place.
- MC in this myth
I've always read her more bratty and definitely naive in that sheltered princess way than straight out mean. She's bitter because she knows she's being taken advantage of because of her heart, so nobody actually cares about her (maybe Natasha, to an extent), but she's definitely an entirely different personality compared to the other myths. In GoT she's just as sheltered but way more pragmatic in her survival skills, in Romirro she's raised to be a ruler and is more intentional in her anger toward the people who betrayed her one second and adored her the next. MC in present timeline is more independent, extremely bratty/teasing with Raf, but she's also the most lost we've ever seen her. In all other instances she has a clear role to fill in, whether she likes it or not, whereas in present timeline she's still being swept by the current.
But consider that when MC dreams of Abysswalker during the GoT myth, she describes Raf as a "teen". Unless that's a translation mistake, it means she's just as young. Hence the stupidity.
- "Your words ring true." /stows dagger "Yet what if the legends are incorrect?"
This is why I think Raf doesn't actually remember. He feels the bond with MC, but doesn't have all his memories from GoT, definitely not the Ceremony and what happened after it (nor Romirro), because he's technically working with what the prophecy (and Amund) states, which is that she stole his heart and doomed Lemuria.
- The island
In my opinion it's still coherent with GoT background before that MC met that Raf. She was raised as a sacrifice isolated from everyone else, waiting to die. Whether they're talking about the island of songs or not, I am of the idea they're talking of pre-Philos, which means Earth. It just makes sense if we think of Philos and Earth being the same planet. Otherwise we would have to imagine that in their past, 30k years earlier, before the seas dried up, MC was on that island waiting to die.
- Considering what happens when "divinity" (let's call it that) enters Raf both in GoT (right after the Ceremony) and in Land of Secret Flames, I'd say his godly instincts are entirely tuned toward killing MC because that's what he needs to do as a god in order to properly gain his power. As the sea god he's completely aligned with the Deep Sea, which is why not sacrificing MC angers the Deep Sea and it's mirrored in how angry he is in land of secret flames. She didn't sacrifice herself, which makes her a traitor per Lemurian and ocean's rules.
"but she sacrificed herself in Romirro and returned the heart?" you might say. Yeah, and it's entirely possible that the bond they have ensures this exchange is never properly done. Raf will always choose her over Lemuria and over himself, and while in Romirro she managed to make him a full god, it clearly didn't solve the issue, because if we take the witch of the abyss as the next reincarnation, then Raf dies instead of ascending to godhood.
There are two layers of betrayal:
one is the God and Deep Sea thinking she's a traitor because she refused to give her heart (and that one time she actually did doesn't solve all the other instances where she didn't)
one is Raf taking her sacrificing herself or sealing him away for his safety as a betrayal because he views abandonment as a betrayal. It doesn't matter if he dies, so long as he spends all his time with her. Separation and abandonment is where he feels like his feelings and their bond are being ignored.
Considering how the God of the Sea when he first appears is all power and instinct, he will always clock their bond and thus crave MC's heart, and will always consider her life as a betrayal. She should be dead already. If she's not, it's because she's a traitor, there's no other reason.
It's only with Sea God Raf in Romirro that we can see how that instinct can be tamed as he matures into himself. He never loses control, even after regaining most of his memories.
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