Just re-read from chapters 1 to 29 'cause I feel like the story is too fast-paced and I feel like I'm missing something. I still feel the story's progressing too quickly, but I do appreciate that BWAT consciously brings up the cultural/upbringing differences between Tei and Shuraka in a believable way. I wished the story was slower paced to really give room for these differences to be discussed, because now I feel like there's so much more to the story and I'm only given just a glimpse of it.
Nontetheless, I am curious to see how things develop. I just noticed during the re-read that Tei uses Zhars's mask in Atura, and I didn't quite make the link between his use of the mask initially with the story he tells Shuraka on the human that saves a God (to be fair I read the chapters weeks apart). Tei does mention Zhars in the Atura chapter very briefly, which does symbolise a bit of a mindset shift?
As a Leracalian, he's grown up in an environment that believes strongly in taking things in your own hands as a human over relying on divine intervention. When he's confronted with tackling his feelings(?) for Shuraka, a daunting task for him, he finds himself looking to Zhars which is why he uses the mask of Zhars in the Atura.
Just re-read from chapters 1 to 29 'cause I feel like the story is too fast-paced and I feel like I'm missing something. I still feel the story's progressing too quickly, but I do appreciate that BWAT consciously brings up the cultural/upbringing differences between Tei and Shuraka in a believable way. I wished the story was slower paced to really give room for these differences to be discussed, because now I feel like there's so much more to the story and I'm only given just a glimpse of it.
Nontetheless, I am curious to see how things develop. I just noticed during the re-read that Tei uses Zhars's mask in Atura, and I didn't quite make the link between his use of the mask initially with the story he tells Shuraka on the human that saves a God (to be fair I read the chapters weeks apart). Tei does mention Zhars in the Atura chapter very briefly, which does symbolise a bit of a mindset shift?
As a Leracalian, he's grown up in an environment that believes strongly in taking things in your own hands as a human over relying on divine intervention. When he's confronted with tackling his feelings(?) for Shuraka, a daunting task for him, he finds himself looking to Zhars which is why he uses the mask of Zhars in the Atura.