Lisandro... "had two little ones of his own." She raped him and possibly broke up his marriage. Lisandro, like a lot of people in this series, can't possibly be hanging out with Anita for the fun of it. I wonder if Anita is aware on any level that JC is (probably) paying her 'guard friends' to 'hang out' with her. If JC ever stopped paying/blackmailing her way through the world, Anita would have a terribly rude awakening.
Matthew grabs her hand and Nathaniels', and asks what they're reading tonight. THE GROOMING! AGAIN WITH THE CHILD-GROOMING!
Anita does this with her favorite lovers - Nathaniel and Micah - and noticeably refuses to do it with JC or any of the others to my knowledge. The fact that Peter Pan was the first book that she, Micah, & Nathaniel read together after they solidified their creepy-as-fuck relationship rings those child-grooming warning bells. The story itself is innocuous but the meaning imbued in the book by Anita and Co makes it FAR less so in the context of this narrative. (And I wish they'd leave Peter Pan out of this because I LOVED that story as a kid.) Matthew is LITERALLY filling the role of a Preferred Harem Member - he gets mouth-to-mouth kisses from her, he gets to read the "special" book with her and her harem-whips, and he's probably sleeping in her bed when he visits since I've yet to hear of Anita's place possessing a guest room (even though it logically should. Maybe it's filled with accumulated pets who aren't worthy enough to sleep on the floor of her bedroom? Oh geez! IS THAT WHERE CYNRIC IS SLEEPING?!) Worse, his age allows him to demonstrate the behaviors and thought-processes that Anita finds particularly appealing and indeed lobotomizes her men to achieve.
And, I admit, I haven't read her other series but isn't there a childlike, uh, thing named Kitto that is about Matthew's physical age? And doesn't he behave like a young child?
*shudders*
The only thing part of the Anita--Preferred Harem Member dynamic that Matthew isn't fulfilling is the sexual component, thank goodness. (At least, I certainly hope that isn't happening!) He is, however, getting exposed to enough of an "education" that I'm sure he's telling SUPER interesting stories at preschool and drawing SUPER graphic pictures, both of which will require the teacher to contact the proper authorities.
Peter Pan
As I remember it, Peter can certainly feel and understand pain, death and loss. The problem is that to remain an eternal child, Peter has to forget things that would rob him of that eternal innocence. Thus, things he's learned, hurts he's suffered, victories he's won, and friends he's lost must all be forgotten. Every triumph and every hurt is his first. It is literally impossible for Peter to grow or change over the long term for the better or the worse.
After Tink dies, Peter certainly grieves and mourns her loss but eventually he forgets that he ever knew her because she's been gone from his day-to-day life for too long. He even forgets his part in the events of the story and it all becomes a wonderful tale that people tell him from time to time about adventurous-people-that-aren't-him.
As a kid, I thought the mermaids wanted to drown Wendy because that's what mermaids did.
And no, I don't think Peter Pan was particularly sexist for the time period in which it was written.
Besides, brown beats light-colored eyes genetically. Didn't Anita used to angst about how her half-siblings were blond-haired and blue-eyed? Those are both recessive traits inherited from both parents which means that not so deep down, Anita carries the genes for both traits. Her child COULD be blond/brunette with lavender or blue eyes rather than brown. The child wouldn't necessarily look anything like Anita. (AND WOE BETIDE THAT CHILD FOR BEING BLONDER AND LIGHTER-EYED AND PRETTIER THAN HER!)
Also, that last line was stupid, pointless, and had nothing to do with the "story."
All in all, you're a rat-terific trooper for having made it through this book. Even sporked, there were chapters that were just too horrifying to look upon. You are amazing!
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She raped him and possibly broke up his marriage. Lisandro, like a lot of people in this series, can't possibly be hanging out with Anita for the fun of it. I wonder if Anita is aware on any level that JC is (probably) paying her 'guard friends' to 'hang out' with her. If JC ever stopped paying/blackmailing her way through the world, Anita would have a terribly rude awakening.
Matthew grabs her hand and Nathaniels', and asks what they're reading tonight.
THE GROOMING! AGAIN WITH THE CHILD-GROOMING!
Anita does this with her favorite lovers - Nathaniel and Micah - and noticeably refuses to do it with JC or any of the others to my knowledge. The fact that Peter Pan was the first book that she, Micah, & Nathaniel read together after they solidified their creepy-as-fuck relationship rings those child-grooming warning bells. The story itself is innocuous but the meaning imbued in the book by Anita and Co makes it FAR less so in the context of this narrative. (And I wish they'd leave Peter Pan out of this because I LOVED that story as a kid.) Matthew is LITERALLY filling the role of a Preferred Harem Member - he gets mouth-to-mouth kisses from her, he gets to read the "special" book with her and her harem-whips, and he's probably sleeping in her bed when he visits since I've yet to hear of Anita's place possessing a guest room (even though it logically should. Maybe it's filled with accumulated pets who aren't worthy enough to sleep on the floor of her bedroom? Oh geez! IS THAT WHERE CYNRIC IS SLEEPING?!) Worse, his age allows him to demonstrate the behaviors and thought-processes that Anita finds particularly appealing and indeed lobotomizes her men to achieve.
And, I admit, I haven't read her other series but isn't there a childlike, uh, thing named Kitto that is about Matthew's physical age? And doesn't he behave like a young child?
*shudders*
The only thing part of the Anita--Preferred Harem Member dynamic that Matthew isn't fulfilling is the sexual component, thank goodness. (At least, I certainly hope that isn't happening!) He is, however, getting exposed to enough of an "education" that I'm sure he's telling SUPER interesting stories at preschool and drawing SUPER graphic pictures, both of which will require the teacher to contact the proper authorities.
Peter Pan
As I remember it, Peter can certainly feel and understand pain, death and loss. The problem is that to remain an eternal child, Peter has to forget things that would rob him of that eternal innocence. Thus, things he's learned, hurts he's suffered, victories he's won, and friends he's lost must all be forgotten. Every triumph and every hurt is his first. It is literally impossible for Peter to grow or change over the long term for the better or the worse.
After Tink dies, Peter certainly grieves and mourns her loss but eventually he forgets that he ever knew her because she's been gone from his day-to-day life for too long. He even forgets his part in the events of the story and it all becomes a wonderful tale that people tell him from time to time about adventurous-people-that-aren't-him.
As a kid, I thought the mermaids wanted to drown Wendy because that's what mermaids did.
And no, I don't think Peter Pan was particularly sexist for the time period in which it was written.
Besides, brown beats light-colored eyes genetically.
Didn't Anita used to angst about how her half-siblings were blond-haired and blue-eyed? Those are both recessive traits inherited from both parents which means that not so deep down, Anita carries the genes for both traits. Her child COULD be blond/brunette with lavender or blue eyes rather than brown. The child wouldn't necessarily look anything like Anita. (AND WOE BETIDE THAT CHILD FOR BEING BLONDER AND LIGHTER-EYED AND PRETTIER THAN HER!)
Also, that last line was stupid, pointless, and had nothing to do with the "story."
All in all, you're a rat-terific trooper for having made it through this book. Even sporked, there were chapters that were just too horrifying to look upon. You are amazing!