i am wondering tho, if lucia knew she would never return norrix’s feelings by the time he confessed? maybe it only crystalized afterwards, and she could voice it by the time modeus himself asked about what is love (baby don’t hurt me)
(i know she wasn’t aware of norrix’s feelings for her, but. did she know of her own feelings for norrix, whether they would also be firmly platonic or maybe grow into something romantic.)
like. if that is the case, that she knew at the time, then i don’t think she should have been like tell me how you made modeus.
sure, if norrix had admitted how, that would have given lucia the excuse to be like well i don’t date men who kill humans (and possibly fairies)
but like. you should have shut him down quicker and rejected him in that moment, instead of being like modeus tho
trying to leverage yourself as a bartering chip in order to get more info on modeus
is just. hm. how far were you planning on taking it? change your mind the next day?
it’s no use being speculative, ig, but i wonder all the same about the possibilities. i know it’s prolly an indicator of lucia’s feelings for modeus, but at the same time, modeus isn’t part of their conversation when it’s meant to be just norrix and lucia, and i wish she’d just said sorry i’m interested in someone else. or just i don’t feel the same way instead of it maybe being kind of bullshit we just don’t trust each other, and maybe raise norrix’s hopes that way.
god, idk. i find lucia’s manipulative streak so interesting, and people are able to throw it back at her to mixed success, with mixed justification, but i also find it frustrating, but is that in part bc lucia doesn’t want to admit things, and/or genuinely doesn’t know herself. it makes for a multifaceted character, but it does annoy me at the same time, bc i don’t know the author’s intent or i don’t know where the story/her arc is going.
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