Character discussion: Visser One

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

...That's the first Visser One. I found it interesting how she started playing politics against Visser Three after she got her position yanked, and the Anis were kinda in the middle...she didn't tell about them because of the intent to use it against Visser Three, but there was a lot of deception and trickery by the group to keep her from the free Hork-Bajir while at the same time trying to stick one to the Visser.

What I don't get, why didn't she drop out of Eva earlier and go for the Kendrona when she was being executed? Would she have been stomped if she had?

Comments

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

see idk, I read it more as Edriss rationalizing it that way, but I think the Yeerk enjoys it just as much as the host.

Though I will admit there's a lot of discrepancy between just how much of a host's experience the Yeerk has to also experience. Wasn't there some line about them being able to quiet the pain or something? idk I feel like it changed in the middle at some point.

[lisacharly.livejournal.com]

"I could not cut myself off entirely from the pain my host felt. Not without releasing my host altogether. She felt the pain, and so did I." is the direct quote. I guess they feel a little less of the pain the host feels? That's the way I tend to write it.

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

okay. so they do have some degree of control, but not entirely. interesting, thanks for finding that