Traumatized people traumatize each other. News at 11.
Hey. You know what's against the Geneva Convention?
You know who's gotten solitary confinement?
If you said Dream you'd be right but thats not who I was going to say.
I was going to say Lucienne.
Lucienne was abandoned - one by one - by every single one of the dreams and nightmares, with the exception of the OG Murder Brothers until she was alone. In the wreckage of the castle. She lost her books. That's torture too.
If you do not think a century of that wasn't torture? I dont know what to tell you.
So yes, absolutely, she was behaving in a way that was not thoughtful or careful here. She's DAYS off the most catastrophic trauma she's ever experienced. Just like Dream. All she's thinking is "What if he gets lost again? What if I cant find out what happens to him?" She is in no way thinking about boundaries. She's thinking about physical health and wholenss of Dream and the Dreaming over anything as ephemereal as limits or emotions.
Because traumatized people traumatize people.
You can acknowledge that it makes sense without thinking it's good that it happened. See, thats what's fun about fiction, in my opinion, that uncomfortable and upsetting things can play out but make total sense given the circumstances of everyone involved. Everyone was having a bad time. And everyone's choices made sense. And so, we got exactly the outcome we did.
Everyone here is straight up not having a good time.
Great character writing. You love to see it.
