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AlaïaArcana
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18 | 🏳️‍⚧️ | Writer, general nerd | MDNI |
YO!!! THIS WAS LITERALLY A QUESTION WE WERE ASKING!!!
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
full of pestilence
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hi.
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I'm in your head. That's good enough for me.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Giving me ideas.
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
YEAH!!!!!!!!! GODDD
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Felt, yeah. It's a hard read, but still good. We love the way this hurts.

Glad to hear it, and same here. :)
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
times because the way Sartha shuts down and goes quiet when she's put under pressure or gets like, yelled at hits very, very close to home.
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Same!! I just love when people do serious literary analysis. Genuinely so nice to see that people put active thought into the literature they consume nowadays.

I think the reason why Sartha speaks to me is the same reason she speaks to you. I genuinely got quite upset reading RESCUE HOUND at
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
These thoughts were somewhat inspired by your analysis of SHOWHOUND on Patreon :D
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I would write more, and I'm probably going to write more when we see more of Amynta. Just some thoughts before we do!
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
body. Whatever made her like this has scarred her to her most primal extent. She is the hit dog that bites.
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the tables are turned. She's the hit dog that growls.

Amynta is hard to talk about because there's not much of her Hound yet, but from what I've read it feels like her response to her trauma is constantly lashing out at the world around her. Constant anger, violence threatening to burst from her
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
out, verbally.

She's constantly angry and bitter to some level. Always number two, always the second in line for someone's attention. That anger is encouraged and weaponized, but has its limits. She dares not speak against her Handler the way she speaks to Kione at the end of RESCUE HOUND before
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
telling. She's the hit dog that cowers.

Leinth is scared, but also angry, Very, very angry, and with an edge on her that has been preserved even through her brainwashing. In contrast to Sartha's compulsive tendency to try to appease others when under stress, Leinth is not afraid to let her emotions
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
herself again, of being broken, of just *being her*. She dissociates and complies because the alternative hurts so, so much more than just giving in. She struggles so hard to advocate for herself, and the way she freezes in terror when she's put under even the slightest amount of pressure is
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
May her appearances be many, and her girlfailures new, amen!
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I'M NOT DISAGREEING!!!
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
She's so horrible, God. What an astoundingly good way to tie in the fact that Kione doesn't call her by her name in RESCUE HOUND.

The way she treated Leinth in Afterthought already made me realize that her cruelty was far more overt than Handler's. Poor Amynta.
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Oh, I *SO* need to reread HUNTING HOUND to compare what happens to Leinth vs Amynta.
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
sadly, she does not fuck Hounds :(
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM