Loving The Raw Dark of the Soul
This post doesn't really have any point, but these things have been swirling around my head. I had hoped that the thing I'd feel compelled to write on was the construction of women among the fandom, but it was not to be. I need to write this one down lest I obsess the whole day. And I have better things to do. Oh, and before I forget - True Blood ( Read more... )
I think the fact that Eric routinely called him a "boy" and that he would always look like a boy, that this is the essence of a boy. Certainly he hadn't matured beyond 13 in body or in mind - he was just a boy for a lot longer than the rest of us. Paedophiles don't routinely stick only with children in real life though - so choosing Eric doesn't make him not one - and the fact that Eric has a pat answer as to what age a boy is considered a man tells me that Alexei is not the first. I'm sure Eric has heard Appius' justification before to hand it so readily to Sookie. And the system of Roman soldiers using boys is called "Pederasty" - a system of socially sanctioned use of boys, rather than the paraphilia we know today.
It does seem understandable to me too. I think it's one hell of a price to pay for immortality, and I wonder if he knew what he would have to do, would Eric as a human man with children of his own, have been happy with choosing to survive? I think taken as a lump experience, then, no. But over time, there was incident after incident where he just chose not to die. Appius is very much like the abusive parent - and he's had a lot longer to indoctrinate Eric than your average bastard. I don't think Eric could have stayed the white knight and stayed sane and alive.
Lol. I doubt that anything she's read in Bon Temps is quite that bad, but I'm sure she's been privy to the dark thoughts. It just leads me to hope that Eric will choose to fight to stay with Sookie - he'll never get a chance like this again to be so loved and accepted that the dark bits of him are okay.
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My poorly expressed point about the paedophilia was more that it seems to be about the power he has over his children, whether actual children or not. Another interesting thought - a 13 year old in the Viking age would probably be moving into adulthood; I'd read the references to the boy as not being about physical age as much as emotional age.
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:D I think though that Appius has more control over his vampire children than any parent ever has over an actual child. So it's not just as easy as a parental human relationship. And certainly, I think Eric has shown that he can change enough to see Alexei as a boy now, when he wouldn't have in his own time.
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