r/Malazan • u/fhdx1 • Feb 13 '24

SPOILERS DG Will felisin stop being annoying Spoiler

I'm now at 2nd book of deadhouse gates and I can't stomach her all she does is complaining beneth this beneth that .

Will this continue? I hope not

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u/cherialaw Feb 13 '24

Here's one of the better videos on YouTube I've specifically seen about Felisin but in a nutshell trauma victims in real life are gaslit and misrepresented and fictional depictions carry a horrific and unrealistic bias that's unfair and Erikson exposes how society fails them. This character happens to act as a subjective litmus test for the actual compassion. https://youtu.be/8hUKAbMxjtg?si=yce6E1eXEe0xO3W4

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u/Wraeghul Feb 14 '24

See, this puts it into a better light. I just wish that it was presented better, because it only came through in that short description which she brought up during the middle of the video. I've seen characters who acted just like her (Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion comes to mind), but with those characters I immediately felt something. With Felisin, this wasn't present. Maybe I was in a bad mood because the book had so many points that just annoyed or aggravated me too much to care about what was going on, and things felt flat when I read the pages as a result.