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conulyYou remember how as El and Orion are just about to exit the school for good, all of a sudden Patience/Fortitude suddenly emerges from nowhere, causing Orion to turn back and stay?
And you remember how El is super resentful about how much the school obviously favors Orion over her because it gives him super-duper easy assignments and she gets super toughies?
Well, at that point she doesn't know his dark origin story, but I'm thinking that if I was the school, even if I had no grudge against Orion per se I still wouldn't want to hand an even more powerful weapon back to my enemy, the woman who slaughtered so many of my kids at once. I'd want to keep him half-trained or, even better, never let him go at all, keep him trapped with all the other mals who wander into the graduation hall and can't find a way out or a reason to leave.
You think maybe the sudden arrival of an unexpected mawmouth wasn't totally a surprise, not to the third person in the room? Literally the room, I mean?
This may be my new headcanon, seriously. It's probably just as well for Orion that El was the one to come to his rescue. It's entirely possible his mother would not have been nearly as successful in that endeavor. (It's just too bad that the school doesn't have a better way to communicate to the students other than homework assignments, falling panels, and dramatic lighting. Seriously, somebody ought to give the poor thing a monitor and a set of speakers. LOL, then again, they might not actually want their school and their enclaves to talk to them!)
And you remember how El is super resentful about how much the school obviously favors Orion over her because it gives him super-duper easy assignments and she gets super toughies?
Well, at that point she doesn't know his dark origin story, but I'm thinking that if I was the school, even if I had no grudge against Orion per se I still wouldn't want to hand an even more powerful weapon back to my enemy, the woman who slaughtered so many of my kids at once. I'd want to keep him half-trained or, even better, never let him go at all, keep him trapped with all the other mals who wander into the graduation hall and can't find a way out or a reason to leave.
You think maybe the sudden arrival of an unexpected mawmouth wasn't totally a surprise, not to the third person in the room? Literally the room, I mean?
This may be my new headcanon, seriously. It's probably just as well for Orion that El was the one to come to his rescue. It's entirely possible his mother would not have been nearly as successful in that endeavor. (It's just too bad that the school doesn't have a better way to communicate to the students other than homework assignments, falling panels, and dramatic lighting. Seriously, somebody ought to give the poor thing a monitor and a set of speakers. LOL, then again, they might not actually want their school and their enclaves to talk to them!)
