OKAY WAIT THERE'S MORE COMPLEX SUFFERING TO BE HAD LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THAT.
"MORE" IS MOSTLY ABOUT ERIDAN. YOU SEE FEFERI IS RELATIVELY UNCOMPLICATED. SHE WAS A FRIEND OF KANAYA'S WHO DIED AND DID NOT GET BACK UP. (ERIDAN KILLED HER ACTUALLY. AS YOU CAN SEE ALREADY HE IS THE CENTER OF A COMPLICATED EMOTIONAL NEXUS.) KANAYA WILL BE HAPPY INDEED TO SEE HER AGAIN.
Eridan though??? Eridan is a RATHER UNPLEASANT PERSON. Though I tend to emphasize the intimacy of their long-lasting acquaintanceship and common status as members of the species survival squad, day-to-day Kanaya absolutely could not stand him. In an ironic gesture, she made him this wand, he was very excited about it which she found pretty endearing. He takes off his cape. THEN. WITH THE WAND THAT APPARENTLY HAS MURDERPOWERS. HE MAIMED FEFERI'S BOYFRIEND. HE KILLED FEFERI. HE DESTROYED THE SPIKY BALL. KANAYA TRIED TO KILL HIM AND HE KILLED HER AND SHE BECAME A VAMPIRE. SHE HAD TO WRAP HIS CAPE AROUND THE STILL-BLEEDING WOUND. AND THEN SHE FOUND HIM, SNAPPED THE WAND IN TWO AND KILLED HIM FOR GOOD. this was the only time she successfully killed anyone before murder manor!!!! She had strange emotions about it that were not regret. All this was like two years ago, five years ago now, so she had pretty much moved on, the trauma was all in her past. Right???
BUT. Eridan comes into Craven Castle with his cape. This means one of two things: Costume department fucking with Kanaya, not impossible by any means, but given the limited items allowed to be brought in, very unlikely. The second possibility (which according to Zilon's intro is in fact the truth): Eridan comes from before he took off the cape. This asks several painful questions: Does Eridan still think of her as a friend, or had he never felt any genuine loyalty? Is he going to murder more people???? (HE'S IN MURDER MANOR, SHE KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS YES UNLESS SOMEONE GETS THE DROP ON HIM LIKE WEEK 1.) Is he going to cooperate with the producers? And even if against all odds they reunite and he's remotely amicable towards her, Kanaya is like 40% older than him by now. She's a married woman. Turning into a rainbow drinker was very much the end of her childhood. All of this bullshit comes flooding back.
Basically, imagine that in eighth grade you were in class with this one sweater-happy guy who was your crush's ex or whatever six degrees bullshit, and had a bitter bond over that. During final exam week, you give him this cool knife you found at a garage sale because you think he'd appreciate it ironically in all his hipster glory. He shows up at school the next day in a button-down and stabs your mutual friend in the throat after slicing out her boyfriend's eyes. You see this and before you can intervene he slices up your final exam papers. Stunned, he gets away before you tie his sweater around your waist and run after him, tackle him to the ground, steal the knife, and start beating him to a pulp. When the authorities arrive, he is taken away, you get serious detention for your actions and your exams are disqualified. You have to attend a public high school away from almost all your friends. at the end of sophomore year you take an opportunity to cheat off of a girl; she is found out instead of you and goes to juvie. You have to change schools again. Here you make friends and things are hard but you make it through together. You are in your first year of college now and things are looking up. You think you might finally be off probation.
THEN YOU FIND OUT THAT GUY SURVIVED THE BEATING AND HAS BEEN IN JUVIE THE ENTIRE TIME AND JUST GOT OUT. Wow that wasn't a TL;DR at all I'm... so sorry, I thought it would be clearer but then it got so graphic.
Okay bonus round your turn to TL;DR: gimme Craven Castle Chizuru stuff
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"MORE" IS MOSTLY ABOUT ERIDAN. YOU SEE FEFERI IS RELATIVELY UNCOMPLICATED. SHE WAS A FRIEND OF KANAYA'S WHO DIED AND DID NOT GET BACK UP. (ERIDAN KILLED HER ACTUALLY. AS YOU CAN SEE ALREADY HE IS THE CENTER OF A COMPLICATED EMOTIONAL NEXUS.) KANAYA WILL BE HAPPY INDEED TO SEE HER AGAIN.
Eridan though??? Eridan is a RATHER UNPLEASANT PERSON. Though I tend to emphasize the intimacy of their long-lasting acquaintanceship and common status as members of the species survival squad, day-to-day Kanaya absolutely could not stand him. In an ironic gesture, she made him this wand, he was very excited about it which she found pretty endearing. He takes off his cape. THEN. WITH THE WAND THAT APPARENTLY HAS MURDERPOWERS. HE MAIMED FEFERI'S BOYFRIEND. HE KILLED FEFERI. HE DESTROYED THE SPIKY BALL. KANAYA TRIED TO KILL HIM AND HE KILLED HER AND SHE BECAME A VAMPIRE. SHE HAD TO WRAP HIS CAPE AROUND THE STILL-BLEEDING WOUND. AND THEN SHE FOUND HIM, SNAPPED THE WAND IN TWO AND KILLED HIM FOR GOOD. this was the only time she successfully killed anyone before murder manor!!!! She had strange emotions about it that were not regret. All this was like two years ago, five years ago now, so she had pretty much moved on, the trauma was all in her past. Right???
BUT. Eridan comes into Craven Castle with his cape. This means one of two things: Costume department fucking with Kanaya, not impossible by any means, but given the limited items allowed to be brought in, very unlikely. The second possibility (which according to Zilon's intro is in fact the truth): Eridan comes from before he took off the cape. This asks several painful questions: Does Eridan still think of her as a friend, or had he never felt any genuine loyalty? Is he going to murder more people???? (HE'S IN MURDER MANOR, SHE KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS YES UNLESS SOMEONE GETS THE DROP ON HIM LIKE WEEK 1.) Is he going to cooperate with the producers? And even if against all odds they reunite and he's remotely amicable towards her, Kanaya is like 40% older than him by now. She's a married woman. Turning into a rainbow drinker was very much the end of her childhood. All of this bullshit comes flooding back.
Basically, imagine that in eighth grade you were in class with this one sweater-happy guy who was your crush's ex or whatever six degrees bullshit, and had a bitter bond over that. During final exam week, you give him this cool knife you found at a garage sale because you think he'd appreciate it ironically in all his hipster glory. He shows up at school the next day in a button-down and stabs your mutual friend in the throat after slicing out her boyfriend's eyes. You see this and before you can intervene he slices up your final exam papers. Stunned, he gets away before you tie his sweater around your waist and run after him, tackle him to the ground, steal the knife, and start beating him to a pulp. When the authorities arrive, he is taken away, you get serious detention for your actions and your exams are disqualified. You have to attend a public high school away from almost all your friends. at the end of sophomore year you take an opportunity to cheat off of a girl; she is found out instead of you and goes to juvie. You have to change schools again. Here you make friends and things are hard but you make it through together. You are in your first year of college now and things are looking up. You think you might finally be off probation.
THEN YOU FIND OUT THAT GUY SURVIVED THE BEATING AND HAS BEEN IN JUVIE THE ENTIRE TIME AND JUST GOT OUT. Wow that wasn't a TL;DR at all I'm... so sorry, I thought it would be clearer but then it got so graphic.
Okay bonus round your turn to TL;DR: gimme Craven Castle Chizuru stuff