I felt highly uncomfortable when I first read that part where Galbatorix mentally attacks Eragon. It's like in my old spork of Chapter 64 when I described this to be a 'godawful metaphor':
Eragon felt a blade of thought stab into his mind as the enemy magicians began to chant in the ancient language...
Though I guess that one was just the beginning of an obsession with describing Eragon's mental battle with Galby as an actual physical battle - blades and all.
And unfortunately - whether it's my dirty mind on full throttle or simply just that obvious a comparison after all - yes, this whole excerpt sounds to me highly rapey. Which is just full-on disturbing.
TV Tropes even mentions this in its 'Mind-Rape' page:
The less said of the things that are created when this trope meets Rule 34, the better.
So I kinda hope that when you mention having a laugh it was maybe perhaps due to Paolini not at all realising the obvious double entendre, not because Eragon was being mind-raped or thinking about Eragon actually being raped. Like, he's a prick of a character, but...
(I could have a wry smile and chuckle to myself if I chucked on another highly-headcanon layer to this scene and imagined it played out as consensual dom/sub roleplay between them - hey, it could explain the laughable cliched dialogue)
Well it does not help that apart from all that stabbing, twisting, and turning, Paolini actually uses the words "savage joy", "perverse pleasure", "probing", "Sumbit," the king whispered, almost lovingly."
Eragon felt a blade of thought stab into his mind as the enemy magicians began to chant in the ancient language...
Though I guess that one was just the beginning of an obsession with describing Eragon's mental battle with Galby as an actual physical battle - blades and all.
And unfortunately - whether it's my dirty mind on full throttle or simply just that obvious a comparison after all - yes, this whole excerpt sounds to me highly rapey. Which is just full-on disturbing.
TV Tropes even mentions this in its 'Mind-Rape' page:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindRape
The less said of the things that are created when this trope meets Rule 34, the better.
So I kinda hope that when you mention having a laugh it was maybe perhaps due to Paolini not at all realising the obvious double entendre, not because Eragon was being mind-raped or thinking about Eragon actually being raped. Like, he's a prick of a character, but...
(I could have a wry smile and chuckle to myself if I chucked on another highly-headcanon layer to this scene and imagined it played out as consensual dom/sub roleplay between them - hey, it could explain the laughable cliched dialogue)
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