#all things considered- the Mayor and LBD had a co-dependant relationship

[amazingdeadfish]

i got curious

In your animatic "The Killing Kind",what exactly were they argue in this frame?

It's a scene from Chapter 19 in Winter Mornings, Summer nights (Blue and Violet) but here's the general jist of it (fore-warning, I rambled quite a bit):

Macaque wants Blue to admit that Lady Bone Demon isn't perfect, that she is flawed in her logic. He doesn't care if Blue still loves Lady Bone Demon, he knows that's something he can't change. All he cared about is wanting Blue to stop being so narrow minded and blindly following Lady Bone Demon's logic (when even they themselves are contradicting it day by day). He is so sick and tired of listening and watching Blue live out their existence, watching them change ever so slowly and yet their brain can't even identify what's happening to them because they're stuck in the past. Macaque, desperately, just wants Blue to wake up.

As it stood then, during and prior to that argument, Blue believed that their Lady's destiny was absolute, and yet they believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. A contradictory statement. Macaque wants Blue to not only admit that they are a hypocrite, but why.

On Lán's side of things, they refused to believe that the Lady Bone Demon is imperfect. They don't want to believe Macaque's words (which they know he only says in order to "win" the argument) any more than they didn't want to believe their Lady's words. For centuries, they had believed Lady Bone Demon knows all. She is the supreme judge. Her opinion is final and can never be argued against. And they owe her everything.

So how could they let a traitor tell them otherwise? It's ridiculous. Centuries of beliefs can't go away just because they know deep down how manipulative she is- they love her unconditionally. Centuries of admiration and genuine good memories with her can't make them think any differently of her. In truth, Lán can't just forgo the very basis of their beliefs- thinking of Lady Bone Demon as the highest supreme being who knows all and knows right is one of the last things they know is the purpose of their existence because time and time again their Lady had praised them for simply existing and complying to her directive and orders to the best of their ability- regardless of how they aren't perfect because the one thing they are good at and always have been good at is listening to her.

I think at its very core, the argument is more or less about how there's a difference between loving someone, and devoting yourself to someone blindly.