#@bagleocity is right: imogen is down bad

[kingofterrors]

‘That’ Dusk / Imogen Conversation

Listen, I am already melting down about all the Imogen / Laudna / Dusk character dynamics we got through this episode, but I just wanted to point out one more heartbreaking misunderstanding which comes in the middle of ‘that’ conversation.

Dusk asks if Imogen and Laudna are ‘romantically entangled’. Imogen’s response is... at best an obfuscation, at worst a straight lie. Because sure, she may be speaking the literal truth. The relationship between her and Laudna is not explicitly romantic, but that is far from being the whole truth. It’s complicated. Imogen doesn’t want to talk about the complicated nature of that relationship with this person who she’s just barely met and is wildly jealous of, so she dodges the question. With a marked lack of grace, it has to be said.

But it’s immediately followed by another misunderstanding.

Dusk is relieved. “Good,” they say. “Because I was, y’know, kinda getting some vibes and everything, and I kinda..., you know...”

And what she means and what Imogen hears are totally different.

Here’s what she means: “Good! Because I was kinda getting some vibes between the two of you, and I didn’t want to walk into the middle of something.”

And what Imogen hears?: “Good! Because I was kinda getting some vibes between her and me and wanted to follow them up guilt-free.”

When Imogen responds, “I could see it,” she means between Dusk and Laudna. But Dusk hears that as, “I could see why someone might think that about Laudna and I.”

Dusk is being straightforward and honest, and isn’t trying to read between the lines at all. Imogen on the other hand... is setting a net for her own feet, and it’s only a matter of time before she falls into it.

Time for our dissembling purple-haired sorceror to start getting honest for a change...