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Can you tell us more about your mother?

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Pomni Eats A Banana - Animatic

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Squirrelflight and Leafpool

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i've posted about this before ; ragatha's avatar gives off the vibes of a Toy that's been thrown around before being discarded . like i do not get the vibes of a loving owner that's attached to their old doll - i get the vibes of a reckless owner who does not care if their doll was dirtied or damaged in any other way , as long as they can still Fix It Up .

now with the facts in place , it's like . yep . imagine being pushed around your entire life , being pressured to do things you don't want to do , being forced to survive in a toxic environment . and then you become a Ragdoll , a shabby , fragile toy . you would be so terribly easy to pick up , and it's just as easier to push you to the ground . you're a doll . something to play with . why does its feelings matter ? it's meant to dance for you ! and it Doesn't Complain . can you tell by the near-permanent smile sewn onto its face ?

and that's not even getting into the levels of irony regarding how ragdolls are a toy that's meant to be coddled and held . this is having the scars of your trauma deeply etched onto your body and being paraded around everytime you walk . fucking maddening .

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this is going to be long . but at this point what else do you expect from me .

i've always had a Feeling that ragatha might've gone through abuse since the pilot , and the feeling got stronger with each new episode . her lines employed a lot of passive voice ; which speaks to how astronomically Low her self-esteem is without actually saying it . on top of that , her behavior blared those alarms for me . constantly blaming herself ? people-pleasing ? emotional repression ? they're hallmarks of the fawn response . you know ... one of the four f's of Trauma Responses .

now knowing that aspect of her backstory it ... Sadly makes sense . did i see it coming ? yes . do i still find it sad how it puts so much of her behavior into perspective ? also yeah .

just taking notes from her present behavior and the tiny hints given of her home life , i imagine she grew up in an overly-controlling , repressive environment deprived of love and affection . the perfect incubation chamber for one , fully fucked-up child , basically . it's no wonder that ragatha's desperate for companionship and validation — because it's something that was never given to her all her life . there's a pit where a mother's love should've filled .

with no mention of her father or any other relative , it paints ... a very bleak and isolating picture . like , no wonder she misses her horses , i think the animals were the Only thing that brought her joy in that farm . either her dad is absent OR if we consider how traditionally feminine ragatha is ( being demure , modest and passive ) , it could be a conservative household that's patriarchal ... or maybe she's a child of divorce . idk which one i prefer lol .

either way , she Might've had ... Zero Support ! i can't believe we've gotten to a point that i could confidently say i was a lot Nicer to ragatha than gooseworx was . like the implications here are Not pretty . it could explain why she's desperately grasping for Any strand of companionship she could have in the circus .

obviously , fawning comes from appeasing to The Threat , and you can make an argument that by appeasing to a non-existent threat in the circus , she thinks she's avoiding The Scenario™ .

but something is telling me that she was taught all her life that love is to be Earned . that you have to Prove that you are worthy of being Loved . and of course , not being able to meet her mother's impossible expectations , she didn't really ... get it . and now being in an environment where there's people that actually Cares for her , she's Grasping . she's keeping them Pleased because It's All She Has . seeking warmth in a dwindling fire kind of thing .

BUT THAT'S JUST MY INTERPRETATION . i'm not really completely with it but ! it's what i came up with . whatever interpretation you can come up with , it adds a level of tragedy into ragatha's increasing distance from the others . her pleasing works for Avoiding Conflict , not for Creating A Deep Connection . which is why i like that one line where gangle thanks ragatha for teaching her softball . ragatha sharing her interest instead of giving empty praise made them bond , yay !

so yeah ragatha needs to be spoiled and pampered lovingly this post is already long enough i'm going to drink water

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this is going to be long . but at this point what else do you expect from me .

i've always had a Feeling that ragatha might've gone through abuse since the pilot , and the feeling got stronger with each new episode . her lines employed a lot of passive voice ; which speaks to how astronomically Low her self-esteem is without actually saying it . on top of that , her behavior blared those alarms for me . constantly blaming herself ? people-pleasing ? emotional repression ? they're hallmarks of the fawn response . you know ... one of the four f's of Trauma Responses .

now knowing that aspect of her backstory it ... Sadly makes sense . did i see it coming ? yes . do i still find it sad how it puts so much of her behavior into perspective ? also yeah .

just taking notes from her present behavior and the tiny hints given of her home life , i imagine she grew up in an overly-controlling , repressive environment deprived of love and affection . the perfect incubation chamber for one , fully fucked-up child , basically . it's no wonder that ragatha's desperate for companionship and validation — because it's something that was never given to her all her life . there's a pit where a mother's love should've filled .

with no mention of her father or any other relative , it paints ... a very bleak and isolating picture . like , no wonder she misses her horses , i think the animals were the Only thing that brought her joy in that farm . either her dad is absent OR if we consider how traditionally feminine ragatha is ( being demure , modest and passive ) , it could be a conservative household that's patriarchal ... or maybe she's a child of divorce . idk which one i prefer lol .

either way , she Might've had ... Zero Support ! i can't believe we've gotten to a point that i could confidently say i was a lot Nicer to ragatha than gooseworx was . like the implications here are Not pretty . it could explain why she's desperately grasping for Any strand of companionship she could have in the circus .

obviously , fawning comes from appeasing to The Threat , and you can make an argument that by appeasing to a non-existent threat in the circus , she thinks she's avoiding The Scenario™ .

but something is telling me that she was taught all her life that love is to be Earned . that you have to Prove that you are worthy of being Loved . and of course , not being able to meet her mother's impossible expectations , she didn't really ... get it . and now being in an environment where there's people that actually Cares for her , she's Grasping . she's keeping them Pleased because It's All She Has . seeking warmth in a dwindling fire kind of thing .

BUT THAT'S JUST MY INTERPRETATION . i'm not really completely with it but ! it's what i came up with . whatever interpretation you can come up with , it adds a level of tragedy into ragatha's increasing distance from the others . her pleasing works for Avoiding Conflict , not for Creating A Deep Connection . which is why i like that one line where gangle thanks ragatha for teaching her softball . ragatha sharing her interest instead of giving empty praise made them bond , yay !

so yeah ragatha needs to be spoiled and pampered lovingly this post is already long enough i'm going to drink water

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wait……. the parallels……….

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For what it's worth, I don't think Ragatha is going to abstract in Episode 6.

I know that Gooseworx has stated that Episode 5 was the "silly before the storm" and that Episode 6 is gonna be a real gamechanger, plus this last episode had Ragatha at her absolute lowest so it would make sense if they went that direction...

...but I don't think they will. Because it's just too easy.

It'd be so simple to just have her abstract and have everybody dealing with the guilt that comes from that. But abstraction is essentially death and if she abstracts, her story comes to an end. She can't grow or change, can't get better or worse, she'd just be gone, reduced to nothing but kindling for someone else's character development. And while I can't say for certain which way the story is gonna go, I don't think that's what they want to do with her, I think she still has more of a story to tell.

Is this cope? Maybe! But I just don't think the creators would throw her out just so everyone else could be sad for a bit.

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this is a real exchange from the episode trust me

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What's your favorite horse breed?

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Maybe she should have a skip limit idk

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Not Anymore.

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This blurry teaser is killing me lmaooo

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nerdicat for the few nerdicat fans And also myself. tjhis time featuring an extremely pedantic detail (actially functional cape that also goes over the wings( except nobody but me would care about it

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Faded like frost come springtime