I think the pale-haired half-dragon beauty characters, up until Tellius, were meant to represent some kind of unearthly feminine ideal. (I'm just beginning to think about this topic right now so I don't have it pinned down, but that's my gut feeling.) The conversation that made me think that was her reunion with Alvis, where she tells him that she never resented him and he was an excellent father. We don't know how Alvis did, but then -- I realized that Julia/Diadora/Ninian/maybe Sophia (but I don't recall) have this deal going on where they squish all over the important people in their lives, and never display anger on-screen toward anyone1 despite all the suffering they've had.
Never. Not even when Ninian's staring at a portrait of her parents from long ago.
1 Other than a Definitely-Evil-Person-Who-Is-Presently-Oppressing-Both-Them-And-The-World. On the other hand, forgiveness is cheap, and resentment after the fact is absent.
So there's some kind of weird idealized passivity here I think. (Until Micaiah. She has to ask for others' forgiveness. I wonder if that counts as an inversion of the trope.)
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Date: 2013-05-31 12:06 am (UTC)Never. Not even when Ninian's staring at a portrait of her parents from long ago.
1 Other than a Definitely-Evil-Person-Who-Is-Presently-Oppressing-Both-Them-And-The-World. On the other hand, forgiveness is cheap, and resentment after the fact is absent.
So there's some kind of weird idealized passivity here I think. (Until Micaiah. She has to ask for others' forgiveness. I wonder if that counts as an inversion of the trope.)