/lit/ - Literature

>>9868651
>that scene
Here we go. This has been debated back and forth over 100 /m/ threads and here's roughly where we're at. Nobody's entirely certain but what's clear is that Lhadatt was feeling crestfallen. He'd lost faith in his cause and his country and his brief and productive surge of manic productivity has come crashing down. Obviously his first response is to go back to where it all started and his life began to turn around to see if he can find more help so he goes to Riquinni. He finds her in the Red Light District where they first met and her response to seeing him appears to be at first apprehension and shame. He helps her with her not-Christianity missionary work and then they go back to her place. He doesn't seem great but doesn't necessarily seem worse either. Now here's the kicker.

Money falls out of her shoe. Why did she keep money in her shoe? The conservative answer is that this is just her being prudent/savvy and avoiding getting mugged, but a few wild mavericks like myself take this further. I think that it's quite possible that the implication behind the money in the shoe and Ladhatt's extreme reaction is that we're meant to infer that Riquinni has been working as a prostitute. We know that she's been in rather desperate financial straits for some time and has a kid to take care of with no man in her life, yet all we see her do is hand out flyers, in a red light district of all places. At the end of the movie we see her working in a field but this can't provide much and if it were steady income I don't see how she'd justify constant trips to the city or let her finances get so poor. Not only is it technically plausible, I think that it's also thematically fitting. Up until here Laddhat has been losing faith in every little external spook that had been driving him out of his ennui since the beginning of the movie, I think that the first and strongest motivator, Riquinni, being completely 180d is such a strong way really drives this part of the movie home and works nicely with the ending. I like the idea of him accepting this but not in a cuck way, and instead of using her presence as an emotional crutch respecting her for what she is and finding strength within himself to get himself over the line.

>>9868656
Fuck off Malazan-fag. We don't hate your meme-series because it's complicated (it's not), we hate it because it's shit.

>>9585796
Maybe you aren't watching the right anime.