I think most people would put Neve with the Hanged Man card, and I'm totally one of them, especially for this bit:
The Hanged Man in some decks is Odin, who hung on the world tree for nine days and received the runes. The tree is Yggdrasil, the living World Tree (notice the living branches), rooted in the underworld and supporting the heavens
Because at her core, the underline bits are precisely who Neve is and are fundamentally what her driving motivations are. Neve is not the keeper of Heaven who flies around blissfully-- she carries that load on her back much as Atlas did, a burden she refuses to shed because it is she's earned it, damn it, and it isn't YOURS to shoulder. There is an almost religious undertone to this, which is why if there was any sort of a wandering clergy in Arcadia, I could see Neve finding her way into it. She's just too broken to settle down as a 'norm,' and if Sin goes, the whole piracy trade is going to become the new villain, and Neve wants no part of that. Better to be the lesser of two evils and flourish on the in betweens than be the new bad people focus on. I could see her developing into a sort of ascetic mystic, living on the backcliffs of Icarus in a cabin by herself, finding some sort of piece while people wander in for aid.
And what is clear about Neve is while she functions perfectly fine in a community setting on the surface (she's been a part of the crew of the Raiders for half of her life, after all, and she'd have been tossed out if she couldn't relate to people on all sorts of levels), at her core she's really a person who draws her strength from herself. This is why she's survived yet hasn't thrived. If she'd found her way to Icarus and hidden out in the backcliffs like Taavi suggested she do at 17, Neve would have been an entirely different sort of character, far more put together, less of the walking dead.
But that part of Neve is gone, there's no spiritualism to Neve at all, just the grueling pursuit of survival and piecing each broken part back in, jury-rigging some way to make it stay functioning, a movement towards the future just so something of those she lost would continue on.
If there was a way to ping the hope/enlightenment of Star with the completion/integration of World, that would be Neve's development. Because a big old emotional bandaid isn't going to fix Neve. She needs to find her redemption, and the only way I can see it is if she lives long enough to either put Phoebe on the throne or be the one to sacrifice herself for Phoebe if Sin lobs an attack her way. Because without Phoebe, there was no heart in Neve's chest, but now that the Princess is alive, for the first time in years there is hope. Because there's a reason now, a meaning for a revolution, and not a hopeless fight against a superior force. Now there is justice and redemption and a clear way to succeed, and maybe, just maybe, if she can restore Phoebe she can finally claim her rest, lay down that burden of the heavens she carries, and be at peace.
So basically, Neve is the Tinman who just needs a heart (hope). Don't ask me why I hadn't figured this out before XD
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sforzinda
no subject
Date: 2010-05-14 01:43 pm (UTC)I think most people would put Neve with the Hanged Man card, and I'm totally one of them, especially for this bit:
Because at her core, the underline bits are precisely who Neve is and are fundamentally what her driving motivations are. Neve is not the keeper of Heaven who flies around blissfully-- she carries that load on her back much as Atlas did, a burden she refuses to shed because it is she's earned it, damn it, and it isn't YOURS to shoulder. There is an almost religious undertone to this, which is why if there was any sort of a wandering clergy in Arcadia, I could see Neve finding her way into it. She's just too broken to settle down as a 'norm,' and if Sin goes, the whole piracy trade is going to become the new villain, and Neve wants no part of that. Better to be the lesser of two evils and flourish on the in betweens than be the new bad people focus on. I could see her developing into a sort of ascetic mystic, living on the backcliffs of Icarus in a cabin by herself, finding some sort of piece while people wander in for aid.
And what is clear about Neve is while she functions perfectly fine in a community setting on the surface (she's been a part of the crew of the Raiders for half of her life, after all, and she'd have been tossed out if she couldn't relate to people on all sorts of levels), at her core she's really a person who draws her strength from herself. This is why she's survived yet hasn't thrived. If she'd found her way to Icarus and hidden out in the backcliffs like Taavi suggested she do at 17, Neve would have been an entirely different sort of character, far more put together, less of the walking dead.
But that part of Neve is gone, there's no spiritualism to Neve at all, just the grueling pursuit of survival and piecing each broken part back in, jury-rigging some way to make it stay functioning, a movement towards the future just so something of those she lost would continue on.
If there was a way to ping the hope/enlightenment of Star with the completion/integration of World, that would be Neve's development. Because a big old emotional bandaid isn't going to fix Neve. She needs to find her redemption, and the only way I can see it is if she lives long enough to either put Phoebe on the throne or be the one to sacrifice herself for Phoebe if Sin lobs an attack her way. Because without Phoebe, there was no heart in Neve's chest, but now that the Princess is alive, for the first time in years there is hope. Because there's a reason now, a meaning for a revolution, and not a hopeless fight against a superior force. Now there is justice and redemption and a clear way to succeed, and maybe, just maybe, if she can restore Phoebe she can finally claim her rest, lay down that burden of the heavens she carries, and be at peace.
So basically, Neve is the Tinman who just needs a heart (hope). Don't ask me why I hadn't figured this out before XD