#look everything else in act 1 set asides mel and ambessa make me so fucking ill

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before my internet cuts off for the day i am thinking of how ambessa acts towards/about mel during the entirety of act 1. panicking and tender and possessive when she finds her daughter in the aftermath of the attack, stroking her neck and cheek. then not even one day later challenges mel on her own field and starts manipulating her fellow council members openly, staring directly at mel as she does so. cutting off mel's contacts and scaring her infiltrators and completely taking over piltover's political scene for her own ends. but when asked, shouldn't mel be informed? ambessa responds "she is safer as our enemy" which is such an insane line—you exile your daughter for being too soft and let her build her own empire her own way, and then you show up to reap her spoils, but also out of love you want her to hate you and to stay far away from you and the horrors that are right at your door. they took your son, and you'd rather your daughter curse your name than risk her life. you'll take everything other than her life, though, because you still own her. she's yours and yours alone, your family. and then when anybody badmouths her you choke the lights out of them, because again mel is yours. it doesn't matter that you cast her asides because your feelings for her terrified you, it doesnt matter that you are destroying all her work and everything she holds dear, it doesnt matter that you are purposefully alienating her for what you call her own safety—you own her and nobody gets to touch or harm her! you use another woman's daughter to accomplish your wicked deeds because you believe your own daughter is too soft and that the further away she stays from this and the more she hates you the safer she'll be. you know what's best for her wherher she likes it or not. and yet it doesnt matter because she's gonna get involved anyway! she cant let you do what you've done your entire life—take and swallow whole and burn down to the ground! and as such she isn't even safe from the enemies you vowed wouldn't touch her! what a mess you've created. what a daughter you've ruined