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Don’t let the lines fool you, he’s actually shorter than her.
As @curly-cottage-girl and @lilaccatholic requested, here’s Irene and Eugenides in the Barbie meme
“What a piece of work he was. I don’t know why I like him as much as I do.”
-Kamet, being everyone who has ever met Eugenides
The thing about Queen's Thief is that the reveals that come with Gen's trickster type, don't just reveal that he is smarter or more skilled than the people around him (or the readers) thought, but also that he is more good than they originally thought. Gen's goodness is a part of the twist.
This is probably most prominent in King of Attolia where his surprising mercy is a huge part of the plot (and his genuine love and friendship). But it happens over and over again.
In The Thief we are led to believe that he is motivated primarily by self-interest and we are surprised by the depths of his loyalty, the generous affection that comes out for the Magus, and by the fact that he is actually primarily motivated by duty and love for his queen/favorite cousin/reigning bestie.
In Queen of Attolia the twist is that his actions which looked like generalized mischief and political power plays actually all spring from love, and that love arose initially from empathy with a girl's loneliness.
Or when he becomes king, and then it's revealed that yes he got what he wanted but actually this is an act of self sacrifice (for the sake of Irene and Hellen and Eddis).
And on and on.
The pettiness and the pride and the mischief for its own sake are all still there, but they coexist with this deep undercurrent of loyalty and duty and love and mercy and kindness. And when push comes to shove that undercurrent will always win out and its that which makes the twists so triumphant and satisfying.
Eugenides, right? But what if, for Gen and Irenes anniversary or something, he has a set of wine glasses made that say "you've been poisoned" at the bottom. These glasses will only be used on particular occasions, for instance, when gen and Irene have private dinners, just the two of them; private dinners with Helen and sophos; or dinners to welcome new ambassadors
Eugenides? In the megaron? It’s more likely than you think
Gen is so feral like imagine you wake up in the dead of night and your little cousin is like two inches in front of your face, and your attendants in the SAME ROOM are still asleep, and he just goes “hey, can I borrow some of your soldiers and also a chariot? Gonna go blow up the navy of the country next door”
Don’t let the lines fool you, he’s actually shorter than her.
As @curly-cottage-girl and @lilaccatholic requested, here’s Irene and Eugenides in the Barbie meme