They were quite a way from each other with Niobe, and then his eye caught the sight of the boy.
But the boy's on the ground floor - Lucius doesn't even SEE him until after Niobe is already dead. (Yes, he comes in and says "Where's your son?" but Niobe is the one he's confronting with the knife in his hand.) And in the end, I have to go with what he believes himself - that he was, at that moment, ready to kill her.
These are just words. I know they are not just words, but really they are not that big deal for me.
For me, I have to approach this from THEIR mindset. For us, they're just words - for Vorenus and for his children, they have so much more weight because they believe in this religion and he quite specifically cursed them. And consider that after all, his curse more or less came true - he damned them to Hades, and they end up in a place that is truly hell - so for the children and for Vorenus, I think they strongly see cause and effect here. It's not a mindset that we, the modern audience, share, but it is a very powerful thing for the characters.
I know! I always thought that Niobe went to the countryside to have a baby.
But her neighbor knew the whole story including that it was Evander's kid - and she can't have been the only one. So ... why was she so good about keeping quite? Heh!
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Date: 2007-02-08 02:36 pm (UTC)But the boy's on the ground floor - Lucius doesn't even SEE him until after Niobe is already dead. (Yes, he comes in and says "Where's your son?" but Niobe is the one he's confronting with the knife in his hand.) And in the end, I have to go with what he believes himself - that he was, at that moment, ready to kill her.
These are just words. I know they are not just words, but really they are not that big deal for me.
For me, I have to approach this from THEIR mindset. For us, they're just words - for Vorenus and for his children, they have so much more weight because they believe in this religion and he quite specifically cursed them. And consider that after all, his curse more or less came true - he damned them to Hades, and they end up in a place that is truly hell - so for the children and for Vorenus, I think they strongly see cause and effect here. It's not a mindset that we, the modern audience, share, but it is a very powerful thing for the characters.
I know! I always thought that Niobe went to the countryside to have a baby.
But her neighbor knew the whole story including that it was Evander's kid - and she can't have been the only one. So ... why was she so good about keeping quite? Heh!