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fell first vs fell harder is so boring what about i killed your brother first but you killed my brother harder
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It's poetic that this image applies to the fanbase just as much as the characters
#1 damencel #1 damenhead #1 damen boymom #1 damen defender #DAMEN #KUYA #1OA #PRINCEKILLER #MYKINGLIVES #SEVENHOURS
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it has maybe my favorite instance of laurent acknowledging damen’s feelings when damen himself doesn’t. damen won’t think of the man he had to kill beyond logistics, because he won’t admit to being distraught. laurent identifies that, and pushes it into the light
damen and laurent’s fireside conversation in prince’s gambit is top 3 scenes in the series for me #confession
hi my name is laurent i am Twenty years old and i am going to lay down my life for the guy who murdered my brother because he's been really nice to me since i met him Three Months ago
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Still mad abt this btw
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for all i post about damen’s practicality and level headedness, i like how freely damen gives himself to emotions that he’s subconsciously categorized as virtuous. you’re allowed to (and you SHOULD) be driven by emotion, but those emotions must be sincere and honorable
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“I lack,’ said Laurent, ‘the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with,’ you could see him pushing the words out, ‘a lover.’
‘You lack the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with anyone,’ said Damen.”
— Book II, XIX ½
appending this to say that i don’t think laurent thinks particularly kindly of himself at a younger age, but he does feel a tremendous sense of injustice and rage (if often misdirected) that manifests itself in (but is not the only reason for) his protectiveness towards nicaise
Replying to @arlogosleep
and on the point of laurent’s feelings towards nicaise and aimeric, laurent is kind to the version of himself that is helpless, the version that does what little he can to protect himself, the version he sees as endangered NOT as a result of his own failings
laurent certainly mourns the person he was not allowed to be and all that he used to have, but i wouldn’t necessarily characterize that as a perfect or accurate understanding of how the things that happened to him were never his fault
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