revenge of the sith - matthew stover
sometimes I wonder what's happening to the Jedi Order.
sorry i haven't read your fic yet it's been in my open tabs for 8 months
! I made an interesting realization just now in the shower! On a couple of occasions, Eragon and Nasuada suggest that Murtagh should act in the way Tornac would have as a way to change for the better and, ultimately, change his true name to free himself from Galbatorix and fight for them instead. Eragon insinuates this without directly mentioning Tornac: "Look at someone whom you admire but who has chosen paths other than your own through life and model your actions upon his." But in the context of Murtagh's backstory, this advice strongly evokes Tornac. And Nasuada outright names him: "Ask yourself: what would Tornac have wanted you to do?"
But that's a very curious demand for them to make because Murtagh is already emulating Tornac. Consider what we know about him. Tornac served Galbatorix, he would have had to for the king to entrust him with Murtagh's care. They lived in Uru'baen together as Murtagh grew up with Tornac raising him and he would have had to be in Galbatorix's service for all that time. Yet, he had no love for the king given that, when Murtagh wanted to abandon the Empire and flee, he was immediately ready to join him and help him leave that very same night. So he served the Empire for many years even though he had no true desire to be support them or the king, in order to provide the care and protection that Murtagh needed, until Murtagh was ready to make his own choice and take his own risk and Tornac turned his back on the king for him without hesitation.
That's exactly what Murtagh is doing. By yielding to Galbatorix and complying with his commands, Murtagh is doing the same thing for Thorn. He's bowed to this broad, great evil so he can look after the needs of an individual when no one else is willing nor able to. He does what he does to prevent Thorn from being tortured, to keep him from being broken, helpless against the king were Murtagh to abandon him. So he doesn't, the same way Tornac never abandoned him. And in the end, they rebel in a very similar way too. When Thorn is ready to carve his own path and fight for the right to claim his own life for the first time, and Murtagh wants to reclaim the life he desired but thought lost, they stand by each other and break free from Galbatorix.
For him to act the way that Tornac would requires that period of reluctant subservience so he can save the one he loves most. They ask Murtagh to follow Tornac's example, ignorant to the fact that the actions they so disapprove of are doing exactly that. And I wonder if this is a root of Murtagh's defining anger, an anger at Eragon and Nasuada's implication that the compromises that saved his own life and provided him much needed love and support through his childhood- the compromises that saved Thorn, the partner of his heart, when no one else (certainly no one from the Varden) would have helped him- were wrong. That they were immoral, they were not worth while, they were not enough, they fell short, they were wrong. Because such an implication is really a dismissal of Murtagh and Thorn's wellbeing- arguably of their lives.
Spitting FACTS as ALWAYS!!!!
Especially with that last line- I am refraining from talking about Nasuada at the moment until I have reread Inheritance, but with Eragon at the very least, their lives are TOTALLY disregarded in lieu of the greater good which like. Do I really expect Eragon or anyone else to really help them out? No, not really. They are, in the most physical literal sense, on opposite sides of this war. But Eragon adopts this weird existentialist morality that he tries to impose on Murtagh, telling him that he needs to take responsibility for freeing himself by fundamentally changing who he is at the core of his being at the drop of a hat, indirectly but HEAVILY implies that his continued enslavement is his own fault by not being able to do that, and then L I T E R A L L Y telling Murtagh and Thorn to kill themselves if they want to like """prove they're still good""" or whatever the fuck because it's the ~✨only way✨~. It really just feels like Eragon wanted an excuse to feel justified in his emotions in hating/feeling betrayed by Murtagh, and when it's pretty glaringly obvious that, in spite of the unfortunate circumstances of them having to fight each other, Murtagh is still doing the literal best he can, he just has to invent some reason- ANY reason- to justify his feelings so he doesn't have to sit around and examine them any further!!! Murtagh's whole fucking existence has been defined by people just, like, systematically refusing to see his humanity and failing to lend him any amount of grace, or support, or compassion, and blaming him for not being perfect when everyone and every power in the world seems to want to crush him under their heels, and the ONLY two people who never failed him like this are Tornac, who died (not his fault obviously), and Thorn, who... Well, means the absolute world to him, but it sounds like there is a lot of trauma wrapped around just, you know, Thorn hatching for him and their relationship as a whole, which I can only imagine is what we'll spend a lot of time exploring in Murtagh. Paolini implied as much anyways at the book signing that I went to...
many people have said this before me but it’s literally crazy how eragon goes from ”murtagh betrayed me and he’s an awful person now and not my brother” in inheritance to ”omg murtagh!!!!!! come visit us i miss you” in tftwtw lmao like. baby girl he was a name slave
Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Murtagh Morzansson & Tornac the Servant, Murtagh Morzansson & Eragon Shadeslayer, Roran Garrowsson & Murtagh Morzansson, Brom & Murtagh Morzansson, Brom & Eragon Shadeslayer, past Brom/Morzan (Inheritance Cycle), past Brom/Selena (Inheritance Cycle) - Relationship, Brom/Tornac the Servant, Garrow Cadocsson & Eragon Shadeslayer, Garrow Cadocsson & Roran Garrowsson, Garrow Cadocsson & Murtagh Morzansson, Saphira & Eragon Shadeslayer, Roran Garrowson/Katrina, Katrina & Murtagh Morzansson Characters: Murtagh Morzansson, Brom (Inheritance Cycle), Eragon Shadeslayer, Roran Garrowson, Garrow Cadocsson, Tornac the Servant (Inheritance Cycle), Tornac the Horse (Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (Inheritance Cycle) Additional Tags: why is that tornac’s character tag, i know the horse one is my fault but like. seriously, anyway, Found Family, Old Men Flirting, (with each other), Unconventional Families, Past Relationship(s), Past Child Abuse, oh boy there’s gonna be a lot huh, Brotherly Affection, Fatherhood, Selena’s Boys™, Tornac is a Selena’s Boy now, No he’s never met her and never will but that! doesn’t! matter!, I’m not tagging all the platonic relationships. y'all get the picture., Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Selena’s dead and she’s haunting the narrative, Morzan too probably but who cares about that deadbeat, Brom has a type and it’s Murtagh’s parents Summary:
A father, who should be dead, and a son, questioning his mother’s past, arrive in Palancar Valley. More than just answers await them—love, and belonging, and family.
Or, Tornac survives the flight from Uru'baen.
Source: archiveofourown.org
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Tim Curry as William Shakespeare in the ABC mini-series Will Shakespeare, 1978.
Leia Organa x Florence + The Machine
Too much is never enough // What the water gave me // Free // Landscape // Third eye // Dog days are over // Various storms & saints // Nameless // 100 years // Long & lost
reasons why murtagh is an actual cat(boy):
- fiercely independent but extremely loyal to a very select few people - described as lean, lithe, graceful and cat-like
- a bit decadent, used to luxuries and fine goods - very concerned with cleanliness:
- will have run-ins with werecats in the coming book, meaning that they probably accept him to some extent - cat. boy.
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When did they change the amount of time between ESB and ROtJ? Back in my day, Han Solo spent the better part of two years in carbonite.
It’s always been six months. Or at least since BBY-ABY has been in use, which I think was 1994.
“Han squinted up at the dim form above him. can't see ... What's happening?" He was, under- standably, disoriented, after having been in suspended animation for six of this desert planet's months.”
This is from the ROTJ novel, which came out in 1983!
funny when, in inheritance, there’s a moment when saphira tries to help eragon by lending him her power, and he says she can’t help him because it’s “his mountain to climb”. she tries to argue but he replies with “besides, if i were flying, it would be on borrowed wings, and i would gain nothing by it other than the cheap thrill of an unearned victory”
i totally agree with the sentiment and i’d think it’s great of him to say so, if it wasn’t for the fact that that’s exactly what the blood oath celebration has done for him. i understand that, narratively speaking, the main reason for making eragon into an elf is because, otherwise, it would’ve been insanely hard for him to acquire the abilities necessary to defeat galbatorix, but i sitll think it’s a very cheap way of making him get the upper hand, or, if not that, a chance to win. i mean, in the end, paolini makes his own villain so impossible to defeat that he needs to fundamentally alter his main character in order to allow the story’s climax to take place.
and then the fact that having eragon say this now makes him into a bit of a hypocrite. like, he has such a problem with saphira helping him now, “because it just wouldn’t be an earned victory” but he didn’t seem to mind when the elves made him look like them and have their abilities, even though he obviously hadn’t worked to achieve them by himself in the first place. i’m the first one that finds the whole “eragon gets a few months of learning x and suddenly he’s really good at it” a bit annoying, but i’d rather have that than him being an elf for all intents and purposes.
#like. the books try oh so hard to make eragon seem like murtagh's swordfighting equal#or at least very close to his talent#i can accept it after eragon has trained with the elves but before?#murtagh was raised as a warlord. tornac was the best swordsman in the empire. he'd been teaching murtagh since he was a kid#that can't be comparable to brom teaching eragon for a few months#regardless of how talented eragon is. it's just not really all that plausible#BUT i'd rather keep this idea that eragon is just intrinsically good at things#like sworfighting. reading. learning the ancient language. suddenly he's well-versed in inner turnings of politics#to have him turn into the biggest deus ex machina of all time#because there's no other way to call his turning into an elf#fes reads inheritance#you can tell i have a big issue with the blood oath celebration lmao#it's just that i hate it :)#i think it was a mistake for a varied number of reasons#and tbh i think the elves get away with too much in terms of the story and the narrative
Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Tangerine
— BULLET TRAIN (2022) dir. David Leitch
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