Was there something I don't recall that would have prevented Euchre and Mary from fleeing the Human Kingdom or living in rural seclusion with Raine? Euchre clearly had freedom of movement and remained with Trace. I've always read the scene where Trace turned Mary into a keidran as him releasing her to suffer whatever ill befalls a keidran found unexpectedly in the Grand Templar's chambers, not as him transforming her and then imprisoning her on top of it. Whatever the case, she ended up free eventually and then made the pact with Ephemural.Technic[Bot] wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 3:20 amHonestly I am of the opinion they are not really that bad parents. Specially Euchre, I mean they are not good parents by any means, but they are still a notch over those people who sell their babies for some crack money...TheMouse wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 9:18 pm Is it nice and gentle? No. Nice and gentle is what should have happened if Euchre and/or Mary were worth a damn as parents. But Rose has to break a lifetime of misunderstandings and fear, and in very short order. If you want to blame anyone for this mess, and how Rose is trying to handle it, blame Euchre. He's clearly known where Raine is this whole time, he knows how to control the talent, he's able to project himself wherever he pleases. He could have been teaching her at any point instead of leaving it up to his cousin to un [censored] the mess he made.
That did not sound that well let me ellaborate:
As Raine once told [Missing foreing key] her mother had "ample" opportunity to get rid of Euchre and by extension her without causing much ruckus. But for whatever reason she decided to let the former live and give birth to the later. Also Mary seems to care for Raine in her very own weird and ineffective way. Yeah she send Raine to the middle of nowhere probably to spend her entire life with only her caretaker. However the Order she presided is not particularly fond of Keidran. Just imagine what they would do with a shifting hybrid? And as Trace pointed out a couple years later, she had no lack of enemies, the kind that would hurt her child in a hertbeat, hybrid or not. Of course a better solution would have been to actually teach her to control herself, so Raine would never need to look like a Keidran if she did not wanted to, besides considering her magic potential had she been trained i suspect Trace coup would not have lasted long. On the other hand Euchre has had little agency on the matter, after his secret was discovered he was banished by Mary and her daughter sent to god only knows where to spend her life most likely against his wishes, hell maybe Mary did not bothered telling him she was carrying their daughter. And the come Trace & co blackmailing Euchre into helping in exchange for his ex-partner and daughter life. We know that former Trace was a dangerous genocidal depressive monster with enough magic to make a dragon fell for him so going against him was a pretty bad idea. Yet Euchre freed both Mary an Raine after they were sold to slavery, he took a risk for them.
They strike me as two ambitious people who put their ambitions above the welfare of their daughter, who was a source of obvious social shame for them both and who they sent away to live in isolation away from them and away from society that might learn of their shame. Euchre found the time to become a father figure to Flora, then a random keidran slave living on the outskirts of Edenmire. He did not find the time to be a father to Raine and still has not despite any possible threat from Trace having completely disappeared. Trace is more of a friend and protector to Raine at this point than Euchre.