"I figured she'd said "effed." I do that sometimes in the company of younger people."
Oh yeah, I'm familiar with that. Every time I've seen it written though, it's always been spelled "effed". :P I mostly being a smartass.
"Zoey not believing that something is wrong with Neferet COULD be good if it was because, simply, Neferet was nice to her. Nobody wants to believe that someone, especially of a higher authority than they, who spoke kindly to them or told them they were special is really a terrible, evil person."
And that's where the wonky writing screws things up. The Cast ladies really were setting up for Neferet to be like a surrogate mother to Zoey, empathizing with her and everything, but we really get very little development of that. If they had bothered to show more of what we're told, it would go much further. And in my opinion, it would be even better if Neferet *did* really like Zoey and had some "we can rule together" thing planned. If she figured Zoey would react to family abuse the same way she did, it would explain why she wasn't trying to discredit her.
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O_o I'm surprised that hasn't come up sooner.
"I figured she'd said "effed." I do that sometimes in the company of younger people."
Oh yeah, I'm familiar with that. Every time I've seen it written though, it's always been spelled "effed". :P I mostly being a smartass.
"Zoey not believing that something is wrong with Neferet COULD be good if it was because, simply, Neferet was nice to her. Nobody wants to believe that someone, especially of a higher authority than they, who spoke kindly to them or told them they were special is really a terrible, evil person."
And that's where the wonky writing screws things up. The Cast ladies really were setting up for Neferet to be like a surrogate mother to Zoey, empathizing with her and everything, but we really get very little development of that. If they had bothered to show more of what we're told, it would go much further. And in my opinion, it would be even better if Neferet *did* really like Zoey and had some "we can rule together" thing planned. If she figured Zoey would react to family abuse the same way she did, it would explain why she wasn't trying to discredit her.