You do have a point there and if that’s the case that was really rather ham-fisted in the execution. Presumably Abel and Seth might have got along pre-Lilith’s death but after that I could see his tendency to extremes translating into a general sort of hatred for her as an offshoot of Contra Mundi.
Seth’s very much a study in the sort of defences that children who are ostracised for their academic skills build up. Nobody tells them that their academic ability/intelligence/whatever else it may be isn’t the same as their ability to form interpersonal relationships so they think that because they’re doing well at school easily enough they ought not to have to work at building friendships either. Thus they end up telling themselves that they’re being ostracised not because their interpersonal skills are lacking but because they’re ‘better’ than everybody else. Seth is ‘better’ in so far as she was designed to be the academic genius and of the remaining siblings she’s not let either guilt or madness consume her but at the same time she’s also the most stunted in her personal growth. Even Cain who is arguably a madman has extended himself beyond his original capacity where as Seth simply hasn’t and there in lies her failure.
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Date: 2008-10-09 05:21 pm (UTC)Seth’s very much a study in the sort of defences that children who are ostracised for their academic skills build up. Nobody tells them that their academic ability/intelligence/whatever else it may be isn’t the same as their ability to form interpersonal relationships so they think that because they’re doing well at school easily enough they ought not to have to work at building friendships either. Thus they end up telling themselves that they’re being ostracised not because their interpersonal skills are lacking but because they’re ‘better’ than everybody else. Seth is ‘better’ in so far as she was designed to be the academic genius and of the remaining siblings she’s not let either guilt or madness consume her but at the same time she’s also the most stunted in her personal growth. Even Cain who is arguably a madman has extended himself beyond his original capacity where as Seth simply hasn’t and there in lies her failure.