Magellan

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   Xel Unknown

   August 16, 2019, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

   I do agree & hope she at some point becomes self-aware & works to fix her Kaycee Jones hate-boner… Like don’t think they’ll ever be full allies in most contexts, but would enjoy the one-sided dislike would end. Is a baggage that they’d be way better setting down.

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     VileTerror

     October 17, 2022, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

     Yeah, but with later chapters going the way they do with Charisma and Kaycee’s relationship . . . and given the foresight we have based on Miasma, I have a feeling Maya is still in the running for “big bad” of the final chapter or two.
     She has a righteous fire in her, and given the parallels of the Magellanverse with the real world, the source of that rage is understandable. I don’t know if it’s been Grace’s intent to use that subtext so well, but it certainly feels deliberate. If, in the chapter leading up to Maya becoming the main antagonist, we also get to see the systemic issues of injustice that no doubt existed prior to her enrolment in Magellan, then I think we’ll see the trajectory of her anger quite clearly. Especially considering Maya’s from the u.s., which is a country notorious for historically enshrining racism to such an extent that even with efforts to undo that evil, it’s deeply internalized and institutionalized there. Not that other countries around the world have defeated their own racist histories or that there aren’t still institutional injustices being perpetuated in other countries, but with the u.s.’ cultural zeitgeist of “never apologize,” the roots are hellishly more difficult to rip out there, coupled with the culture of celebrating violence, trying to stop racism often turns violent.