Why? You didn't even have someone like Eda to help motivate you, and you've done pretty well for yourself! Your magic has gotten better, and you own a business! If anything, I'd say you've done pretty well for yourself!
I did sort of stumble into that a bit myself, but that was after dying and losing people in Deerington so. I feel like somewhere in the transition between Deerington and Trench I could have used some therapy.
[In other words, it felt like Luz had sort of fast forwarded some of her gradual development, so now she just thought that she was sort of fragmented a little there].
It was different. There were literal monsters in Deerington, but they didn't hide what they were. The Zealots are different. They have the ability to reason and think, and they still do what they do and don't think they're monsters.
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[It wasn't like Luz didn't note that Lysithea was imperfect back in Deerington: she'd been pretty blasé about her impending death and she'd been persnickety at times, but ultimately, she'd been a really great friend and the two of them had managed some pretty impressive magic together]!
I did sort of stumble into that a bit myself, but that was after dying and losing people in Deerington so. I feel like somewhere in the transition between Deerington and Trench I could have used some therapy.
[In other words, it felt like Luz had sort of fast forwarded some of her gradual development, so now she just thought that she was sort of fragmented a little there].
It was different. There were literal monsters in Deerington, but they didn't hide what they were. The Zealots are different. They have the ability to reason and think, and they still do what they do and don't think they're monsters.
It makes them scarier than monsters, honestly.