Family Ties

Posted on 25 February 2011

Chapter Eight is alive, ALIVE! (and actually very free of Frankenstein allusion)

I am actually going to start with a complete aside on wordpress. See, I just updated my wordpress last night (well, tonight/right now as I write this, whatever) like a good little boy, and then when I did a preview of a page, or when I was just on the site in general, there was this ugly gray tool-bar thing on top of the site. It made me nearly have a minor heartattack over worrying that I now had to figure out how to get rid of it. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to try logging out first, and sure enough it disappeared for the “normal visitor” and only stays for me when I’m logged in. So I’ll suffer the ugly gray bar while the rest of you get the site as is.

Now then, my actually post about family ties (and yes, there are spoilers to the chapter, as always):

Family is an oddly important thing to me. Well, I guess not oddly, but in this day and age it seems families are broken and segmented and half hating each other at the drop of a hat. Now, I’m not going to say my own family is perfect and ready for a sequel to “Leave It to Beaver”, but we are fairly close knit, and I have a strong feeling of loyalty to anyone who shares some genetics with me. The bonds of blood, as it were.

As such, Kira’s blind-sided idiocy in this chapter of insisting on talking to Douglis is not completely a “dur, wha?” to me. I mean, in her shoes, despite having common logic say that he has probably been completely broken or mutated by growing up in that house, to know that the only family you really loved is still around and suddenly back in your life is enough to make a person hold the idiot ball. I hope that if I ever estrange from my family for a period of time, I don’t come back to find them semi-sociopathic power-crazed manipulative nobles. Unless they offer me huge wads of money too. Maybe then, I’d get over it. Sadly, just saying (that is for my cousin-in-law, if she is reading.)

And Markus and Megyn . . . dude, she’s kind of dark, isn’t she? I am personally still up in the air about her point. It is basically the super-hero argument, a la Batman. Granted, he doesn’t kill, but Punisher does, right? Trying to apply sofa-morality to a near dystopian setting is kind of hard, isn’t it?