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Spoilers: doom.
It is... generally consistent with my headcanon I guess, although apparently young Raven was more of a womanizing asshole and less of a general failure than I was imagining. >->;
I do like a lot of the stuff with Canary (that is, Casey, in the English version). Especially: Looking at Canary, he asks her how he can atone for his past misdeeds. Canary tells him that, as punishment, he must become her right hand man. And more generally, her being his superior officer (she's a captain and he's her lieutenant) which I had assumed but I don't think was explicit before.
And the bit with Alexei trying to get him to lead a brigade after he's died was actually really well done, I thought - I felt like Alexei in the game was very flat and megalomaniacal, and he was very clearly manipulating Raven upon threat of death, by then, which made Raven's lines that he was actually a great idealist who wanted to reform the Knights sort of unbelievable. But here it sounds much more morally dubious, like he's straddling the line between idealism and ends-justify-the-means revenge.
On the other hand, there are a few things I kind of want to just ignore. Women skilled in weaponry were rare baaaaaaah I realize technically canon supports this (Canary and Estelle and Judith are all exceptions!) but I want to ignore it anyway. More centrally, I am not sure how I feel about the love confession. It definitely adds a new dimension to Raven+Yeager, but I honestly kind of liked it better believing Raven admired her a lot first and loved her, eventually, but never told her that and she never returned his feelings. The way the book sort of implies his crush on her makes him into a decent human being and then he ~wins her over~ icks me a little. So. I will have to think about it more.
I think the only thing I will definitely need to retcon from threads is why Raven joined the Knights - he didn't do it willingly, he was forced into it by his father to try to shape him up, or at least send him somewhere less embarrassing. My headcanon was ironically a lot more in line with why Canary joined (i.e. storybook knights and idealism). :|a I forget who he has talked to about this! It's possible that he's talked about it when he was Schwann, in which case he might very reasonably have lied and given Casey's reason instead of his own, so that's fine. But if Raven ever said he joined the Knights willingly... pretend that didn't happen I guess!
More comments later maybe!
Spoilers: doom.
It is... generally consistent with my headcanon I guess, although apparently young Raven was more of a womanizing asshole and less of a general failure than I was imagining. >->;
I do like a lot of the stuff with Canary (that is, Casey, in the English version). Especially: Looking at Canary, he asks her how he can atone for his past misdeeds. Canary tells him that, as punishment, he must become her right hand man. And more generally, her being his superior officer (she's a captain and he's her lieutenant) which I had assumed but I don't think was explicit before.
And the bit with Alexei trying to get him to lead a brigade after he's died was actually really well done, I thought - I felt like Alexei in the game was very flat and megalomaniacal, and he was very clearly manipulating Raven upon threat of death, by then, which made Raven's lines that he was actually a great idealist who wanted to reform the Knights sort of unbelievable. But here it sounds much more morally dubious, like he's straddling the line between idealism and ends-justify-the-means revenge.
On the other hand, there are a few things I kind of want to just ignore. Women skilled in weaponry were rare baaaaaaah I realize technically canon supports this (Canary and Estelle and Judith are all exceptions!) but I want to ignore it anyway. More centrally, I am not sure how I feel about the love confession. It definitely adds a new dimension to Raven+Yeager, but I honestly kind of liked it better believing Raven admired her a lot first and loved her, eventually, but never told her that and she never returned his feelings. The way the book sort of implies his crush on her makes him into a decent human being and then he ~wins her over~ icks me a little. So. I will have to think about it more.
I think the only thing I will definitely need to retcon from threads is why Raven joined the Knights - he didn't do it willingly, he was forced into it by his father to try to shape him up, or at least send him somewhere less embarrassing. My headcanon was ironically a lot more in line with why Canary joined (i.e. storybook knights and idealism). :|a I forget who he has talked to about this! It's possible that he's talked about it when he was Schwann, in which case he might very reasonably have lied and given Casey's reason instead of his own, so that's fine. But if Raven ever said he joined the Knights willingly... pretend that didn't happen I guess!
More comments later maybe!