women of the underworld
Dec. 15th, 2018 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opensummer*rolls up to this fandom with coffee, two to ten years late depending on your perspective*
So you know what just occurred to me, watching this show? Elena is the heir.
Jeremy watched his father murder his mother, once she had ‘served her purpose’. He was certain then that there had to be a better way. Thirty years later he’s still certain, still searching. (This, incidentally, is the reason Jeremy doesn’t have a blood heir.) In between he had Clay, his son in all but blood and he thought for a while that that would be enough. Clay would be a tyrant but he would see the Pack safe, their enemies conquered.
It hurts Jeremy when Clay doesn’t out grow his impulsiveness. When Clay can’t make himself fit.
And then- Elena.
Elena is the culmination of his failure and the proof of thirty years of conviction. There’s a better way.
She’s it.
So you know what just occurred to me, watching this show? Elena is the heir.
- Clay’s a strong right hand, useful and willing, but not a leader of men, not an organizer. His perspective is too limited, he doesn’t think long term. (It might have been him, before Elena. But Jeremy is too pragmatic to not recognize the way things change. Clay proved his unworthiness when he chose to bite her.)
- Antonio was too weak and proved it when he stepped aside for Jeremy. He’s a good advisor and a loyal friend but he refused power when it was offered. He knew it would slip out of his hands if it was given to him.
- Nick is Antonio’s son with all his weaknesses, magnified in some ways, minimized in others. He’s charming, good with people but he’s Clays friend first
- Pete doesn’t want it. He never has and even if he did the years he spent outside the pack and his experiences have made him an outsider. He couldn’t hold the Pack if he led it.
- Logan could. Theoretically, maybe. He’s the got the history, a trueborn son of the Pack, grown among his brothers. He thinks in the ways Jeremy approves of. But in a challenge (and it would come to a challenge because Logan’s spent years baring his throat to Clay) he would lose. And every member of the pack knows it.
Jeremy watched his father murder his mother, once she had ‘served her purpose’. He was certain then that there had to be a better way. Thirty years later he’s still certain, still searching. (This, incidentally, is the reason Jeremy doesn’t have a blood heir.) In between he had Clay, his son in all but blood and he thought for a while that that would be enough. Clay would be a tyrant but he would see the Pack safe, their enemies conquered.
It hurts Jeremy when Clay doesn’t out grow his impulsiveness. When Clay can’t make himself fit.
And then- Elena.
Elena is the culmination of his failure and the proof of thirty years of conviction. There’s a better way.
She’s it.
