And what about the sisters he was supposed to babysit? What horrible fate will they face? I guess we'll never know...
Heartless? yes.Telling their son with the least amount of chances at success to leave and live on his own is actually insane.
Thanks for the insight !To everyone asking, I read alot of the novel (and skim the rest).
Apparently the lord of where they live sucks, and is obsessed with magical creatures, specially powerfull ones like the protagonists has. The father and the brother bother him un purpose, so he would leave without atachments and also so they wouldn't be blamed of "helping him scape" when they went there to take his beast from him. They didn't say it per se, but it was undestood that this way they could say "nah, he runaway, we didn't help him, everybody knew we didn't like him" and they would not be blame (because it would be the truth), and the protagonist can go away kind of whitout regrets because the brother and the dad were mean. They knew he would be targeted because of the beats.
This also explain why the brother and the dad "never learn" their lesson and keep bothering him and getting peck. They weren't stupid, they did learn, and they kept doign it on purpuso for the act.
I think they paralysed his braincells by mistake.I think the brother has been pecked one to many times, what is he imagining the future would be like, without his paralysing curing brother, if he left those cockatrice's behind![]()
Oh, that's... interesting. I thought they were the usual type. Thanks for sharing!To everyone asking, I read alot of the novel (and skim the rest).
Apparently the lord of where they live sucks, and is obsessed with magical creatures, specially powerfull ones like the protagonists has. The father and the brother bother him un purpose, so he would leave without atachments and also so they wouldn't be blamed of "helping him scape" when they went there to take his beast from him. They didn't say it per se, but it was undestood that this way they could say "nah, he runaway, we didn't help him, everybody knew we didn't like him" and they would not be blame (because it would be the truth), and the protagonist can go away kind of whitout regrets because the brother and the dad were mean. They knew he would be targeted because of the beats.
This also explain why the brother and the dad "never learn" their lesson and keep bothering him and getting peck. They weren't stupid, they did learn, and they kept doign it on purpuso for the act.
The story is trying to come up with reasons for a 10 year old to run away from home while maintaining the cozy, fluffy vibes, and it's just falling flat.Huh? I was waiting to see why he'd decide to run away from home, if it was already agreed that he was going to become independent with his family's support in a few years anyway, but he just wanted to? Was it really just because of his brother telling him to leave the chickens behind? Were we supposed to take that as a binding command, or something? What was stopping him from just saying "Lmao no get pecked" and walking out normally? Why this midnight flight? Would the rest of his family really have backed up his brother's selfish demand? His parents seemed pretty apathetic about how greedy his other siblings had become, but they hadn't exactly been neglecting him or forcing him to obey them. This whole thing seems wildly unmotivated.
If they wanted to give him a deadline for running away, why not make it so that his whole family had decided they would need to eat or sell the chickens, since he hadn't gotten a profitable skillset? That would be a pretty reasonable thing for a poor family to do, and a pretty reasonable motivation for him to leave. This just seems weirdly overdramatic.