Hafs' Mythology

[MadGastronomer]

I just had a moment of I knew that, but I hadn't really thought about it.

I'm still on my reread. When TUE posted early, I wasn't done yet, cuz I still had all kinds of I-have-to-be-at-work-but-have-nothing-to-do time on my hands, and then after it posted, I slowed down. So I'm just rereading Wind-up Boogeyman, and damn if it wasn't right there, staring me in the face.

There was too much coincidence, and she didn't believe in coincidences.

F$ck. There's that thing we don't believe in again. That's where it started. Dammitall, the Thing broke her with the Team's own mythology.

Waaaaaaah!

Somebody should tell Stephen Reyes. Not that he could've prevented it -- the Bug can break someone with anything, if it can do it at all -- but he ought to be aware.

ETA: Aaaaaand the corollary just hit me. If "Coincidence: That's that thing we don't believe in again" cracked Hafs, then "There are no fates worse than death" saved her. Nnnggnggg.

[Bunny M]

ETA: Aaaaaand the corollary just hit me. If "Coincidence: That's that thing we don't believe in again" cracked Hafs, then "There are no fates worse than death" saved her. Nnnggnggg.

That's our tricksy PTB, all right. Spend ages lingering on the sharp, pointy, dagger on the mantel-place, only to then smack you in the back of the head with the wrench that's been visibly sitting next to it all along. ECR: awed, puzzled, pleased and exasperated all at once.

[miminnehaha]

Yeah, MG-- I am waiting to see how the season reveals just what conspiracy Hafs was blaming Notaboy's death on, and how the PTB are going to weave it into active cases, and how creative Sol's consulting may become, and how much the "church" is going to... well, anyway! 

[YuriPup]

I just had a moment of I knew that, but I hadn't really thought about it.

I'm still on my reread. When TUE posted early, I wasn't done yet, cuz I still had all kinds of I-have-to-be-at-work-but-have-nothing-to-do time on my hands, and then after it posted, I slowed down. So I'm just rereading Wind-up Boogeyman, and damn if it wasn't right there, staring me in the face.

There was too much coincidence, and she didn't believe in coincidences.

F$ck. There's that thing we don't believe in again. That's where it started. Dammitall, the Thing broke her with the Team's own mythology.

Waaaaaaah!

Somebody should tell Stephen Reyes. Not that he could've prevented it -- the Bug can break someone with anything, if it can do it at all -- but he ought to be aware.

ETA: Aaaaaand the corollary just hit me. If "Coincidence: That's that thing we don't believe in again" cracked Hafs, then "There are no fates worse than death" saved her. Nnnggnggg.

Ok, either I am slow or haven't re-read recently enough, but I am not making the connection you are here. Small simple steps maybe?

[MadGastronomer]

Um, have you read The Unicorn Evils? Because "there are no fates worse than death" is part of the logic of not killing her at the end there.

[Felicia1066]

My verson of the small simple steps:

The WTF likes to say they don't believe in coincidence. Erik's death was a random accident, a coincidence - except Hafidha doesn't believe in coincidences, and if it wasn't a coincidence, it must've been part of a pattern. Ergo, someone killed him and then covered it up to make it look like an accident. Enter paranoia. Aaaaand the first step down that slippery slope has been taken. Next stop: killing an unarmed suspect. Then you have to go on the run, because everybody's out to get you...

Grief is a big crack all by itself. Add paranoia to that, and you have a beta who's ripe for being converted to gamma. (If that is indeed what happened to Hafs.)