anon · 1mo
I know that the general consensus about Kaveh's mom is that she wasnt that Bad but ngl, to know that You can enter the Akademiya at 13 changed my perspective about her leaving for Fontaine because there's almost no chance that Kaveh was an adult when that happened and that's kinda fucked up, Idk what to tell you. And if we add the fact that she didnt seem to communicate her thoughts (she just put them in a journal that Kaveh read literal decades later), well...She wasnt that Bad, but Idk if I can defend her anymore
Oh yeah same anon, I've said this a lot but I truly don't advocate for calling Faranak a good parent. Disregarding the fact that she left her young teenage son alone in a country just to escape her own source of grief, i think the fact that Kaveh feels as if he is burdening her by simply talking to her about a DIARY says enough. you have to realise that at this point Kaveh truly doesn't even consider her family, evidenced with Alhaitham mentioning that Kaveh also had 'no familial attatchments'. I will never understand people who call her a good mother. I'm not saying their relationship isn't salvageable or that Faranak's grief isn't valid ofc not, I'm saying that that doesn't take away from the fact that she's traumatised her son DEEPLY, adding onto his self-destructive and altruistic tendencies. Kaveh has never known a home since he was a toddler, his mother did not make him feel at home once his father was gone. You're completely right.
