keyofjetwolf:Gabby’s caught by a thirty foot cyclops, and since the farthest she’s ever been from he
keyofjetwolf:Gabby’s caught by a thirty foot cyclops, and since the farthest she’s ever been from her village was when the bad guys dragged her out of it a couple days ago, this is almost certainly the first monstrous creature she’s ever seen.At minimum, it’s the first she’s ever been captured by.First thing she does though, once the initial “OH SHIT WTF” rapidly fades?“Immortal father, Zeus in heaven, curse this brute if he eats me! Torture him with the slain serpent’s blood and the crow’s droppings!“It doesn’t WORK, but she TRIES, and I feel that the effort is the key component.What’s more, when it fails, she immediately tries again.“I know Xena, the Warrior Princess!”Then when she gets “I HATE Xena the Warrior Princess!” in reply, she instantly moves to “YEAH ME TOO THAT’S WHY I’M HUNTING HER DOWN TO KILL HER.”All Gabby’s got right now is her mouth, and it’s such a joy to see her using it as early as FUCKING IMMEDIATELY to get herself out of trouble. (And perhaps into trouble, but that’s another thing again.) Even as she’s failing persuasion roll after persuasion roll, she doesn’t give up. One of Gabrielle’s greatest successes and failures is her unfailing certainty that SHE IS RIGHT, and I love getting to see how it works for her as much as against her.Though more importantly in this scene, we have all these indications (again, as early as immediately) that Gabrielle already has it in her to do whatever she wants. Despite her youth and inexperience and outright naivety in places, in the larger sense, really Gabrielle never needed Xena. It’s always been Xena who needed Gabrielle. -- source link
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