I love wikipedia and Google searches, but I hope what I've done with Melidoul's exam is all right. I don't have a vet friend to consult ;x
Jossi's comments on the blog and on her review for DS made me think that I had failed to represent how Fanelia sees Hitomi now, and that I need more info on Van's side of things. Hmm, it would fit rather well into Leal's section in ch5, so thanks, Jossi <3
I already covered Van's section yesterday, so let's talk about Hitomi's reception in Fanelia.
Beside the now-trite reason of 10 years, I feel Hitomi's and Van's actions on the Fate Alternation Machine is known only to their group of friends. There would be rumors, of course, especially about the green light and Van's flight to Zaibach interpreted as a flying white dragon. But most people, even in Zaibach, shouldn't know at about the machine or about Dornkirk's true identity. Basram's energist bomb and Van's fight in Escaflowne would make much more impression on the general population more than anything else, because all people really care is their old lives back.
Fanelia's people were exiled from the capital, but the surrounding countryside and countries like Asturia should have sheltered them. Zaibach borders are a long way from Fanelia, and from what Millerna said about visiting Fanelia when Folken was still there, people in Gaea probably don't typically travel much beyond their country's borders. Thus, everything Fanelia heard about the Gaea War would be secondhand, and distant and distorted rumors, at that.
Most people in Fanelia probably didn't even know what Hitomi looked like. Van's coronation must have been soon after his return, and when the war was over, she didn't seem to stay very long.
Today's sentence is from slim pickings ; ; Ch5 has a lot of potential spoilers.
Nothing could summarize the ruthless destruction of the Gaea War better than Basram’s energist bomb, and although it curtailed Zaibach’s large armies and led to the triumph of the Alliance, its moral and political implications still threatened to topple the society and men that had created it.
2 comments:
so the reason people are someone "cold" towards her is cause they see the relationship she somewhat has with the king?
Do you mean Hitomi's uncomfortable feelings as she and Merle waited around for Van in ch4? If so, no. Van should have at least talked to his closest advisors about Hitomi's stay in order to have her stay in the castle, so at that point the rumors were only between the vassals and their staff, and were about her only.
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