Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-146.135.19.252-20181116034422/@comment-2606:A000:1128:4169:5469:752C:67D7:EEA0-20181121161856

@BlackSwanSMR

Yes, i totally agree!! And i definitely think Shannon's going to try and hold off on contacting Tam as much as possible....*sigh*

IN all honesty, i wouldn't be surprised either...because you can't be surprised if you're dead. And you're right, i was never worried about Keefe, and there was a definitely a reason Shannon revealed Tam's hesitation with joining the Black Swan. But Keefe had Sophie on the other side, and Tam has Linh. But i could definitely see him starting to believe in the cause, especially with what they claim they're trying to accomplish. It's just...Tam has grown to see everybody (even Keefe) as his family. Maybe Linh is still a little above them, but he's afraid of hurting any of them. When he was trying to help Sophie with the shadow thoughts and he ended up hurting her, it said "''two silver flecked eyes were staring into hers, filled with such anguish and horror it stole the air from her lungs." The way he reacted to Linh being theatened: "Tam wobbled like he'd been punched in the gut"'' was like someone physically hit him. It hurts him just as much, if not more when people he loves get hurt, even though he tries to hide it. He knows joining permanently would cause them a lot of pain, and no matter how wrong it felt, i feel like he'd go back to them.

And we both know Tam is incredibly selfless. On several occasions, he's said something along the lines of "I don't care about me." and proceeds to say something about Linh. If he joined the Neverseen permanently, he probably thinks (or knows, in his mind) the others will hate him. He'd lose the only family he has left. I don't know if he could handle that. If he lost Linh and the others, i think he'd feel like there was nothing left to live for.

But of course, the points you made were spot on. Tam has no love for the council, and he only joined the Black Swan to make Linh happy. He's never been the trusting type. He's been looked down upon his entire life, for his power and for being a twin. He's bitter, and he's angry, and that seems to be a common trend with the Neverseeen members. But he's also the kind of person that doesn't choose sides. As long as the people who hurt him and his family are on the other side, he's fine with anything--and theyre not. And his parents...well, we know he hates proving his parents right, or making them happy. He joins the Neverseen, and doesn't it kind of prove them right in their opinion about everything they said about twins? I mean, Tam would be the nly one of the group to join, and he's a twin, and a Shade. And he'd also hurt Linh's newly built reputation.

I guess what i'm trying to say is you're right, it could go both ways. He'd do anything to protect Linh: 1. He'd be trying to build a better world for her, and everyone else, and maybe he can manage the Neverseen to make sure she doesn'g get injured. 2. He knows joining the Neverseen would hurt her, and he can't live with that.

He doesn't have the same connection with the others as Keefe did, and therefore he thinks it will be harder for them to forgive him: 1. he'll do everything he can to earn back their trust. 2. if they're not going to forgive him anyway, what's the point of going back?

He's going to have to choose, and honestly, idk what will happen in the end. I just hope he sees reason. (And kudos to you if you made it all the way down here, that probably made no sense at all)

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