The dam finally broke and now here is the Percy meta that…None of you have really been waiting on, but which has been inevitable for at least two weeks. Most of this is probably like…obvious af, and I’m well aware I’m late to the party but also I feel good about my present state of Revelation so like, deal with it.
This ain’t gonna be short. At all. This ain’t even gonna think about being short. Y’all have been warned.
For a little bit now, I’ve been struggling somewhat between the slight chasm between the way the audience (and me) respond to Percy, and the way Taliesin seems to respond to Percy, mostly in terms of the way they judge/see him, and Taliesin has said several times that he considers Percy to be a bad person which was something my tiny, protective little brain couldn’t wrap its head around. But I think I get it, and I think it has almost 100% to do with the way that Percy sees the world around him.
Percy sees the world in terms of its potential.
Most people see a lump of black powder; Percy sees bullets. Most people see steel and wood; Percy sees a gun. Most people see things as they are; Percy sees them for what they could be.
This is something that drives…A huge amount of his life tbh. All of his tinkering projects emerge from this way of seeing the world. The wheels are always spinning, and he’s always thinking of ways to reinvent the wheel. And then what else he can do with the wheel. And what he can do with that and on and on and on.
I think Percy wanders around a world in which everything he comes across is a raw material. It’s something he can use to make something else, something bigger, something cleverer, something better.
But I ALSO think that this way of thinking is what makes up his sense of morality, as well as his view on the world, and his view on himself.
[Please now venture beneath the cut to continue listening to me cry rivers about Percy de Rolo and his ‘you need a therapist, child’ psychology]
Hi, hello, yes, that was wonderful. It is also consistent with later actions his character takes, and helps explain something a lot of people took offense with, but I’m not going to spoil that for you.
Also lots of thoughts about Perc’ahlia, but again, not gonna spoil it.
I will note, however, that it is very strongly implied that Ripley tortured Percy and his siblings during the take-over. We later learn in the campaign wrap-up (so not as part of the story, hence why I don’t consider it a spoiler) that she was kicked out of her old home because she did human experiments. I think it’s save to assume that her torture methods are creative enough to instill in Percy the understanding of her immense destructive potential, even before the guns come into play.
That also makes the scenes with them in Whitestone a lot more interesting, and supports your theory. Percy was willing to temporarily kind of work with the person who tortured and maybe experimented on him and his siblings, because it had the potential to help him find his sister and apprehend the Briarwoods.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 